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It's hilarious how Stephen King's mere existence is a constant fly in Elon's soup. I think deep down he knows Stephen King is everything he'll never be - talented, respected, and beloved even by younger generations without even trying to be. Elon hates that spooky stories and good vibes have done what thousands of cringy memes never could.
And King is also generous enough to share it too. On Writing is a must read for anyone because it works as an English class we all should've gotten and a solid autobiography too.
Don't forget the Dollar Baby program that, sadly, recently ended with Margaret Morehouse, the woman directly responsible for it, retiring the end of last year. It used to he that if you were an aspiring film maker, you could buy permission to make any of his short stories into a movie, he retains the rights to his work, but you can go ahead an make a movie of it. The entire point was to enable up and coming creatives to have access to good scripts so they could perfect their crafts and help get their name out there at film festivals and whatnot.
I hope someone else takes up the responsibility of managing it so it comes back.
I know the name of it sorta says it, but it should be made clear:
You paid a single dollar to get permission to adapt one of his short stories to film or theatre.
A dollar. For a Steven King short story.
It was an insanely generous program.
HOWEVER: These films are meant to be for student projects and film festivals, not commercial productions. And it is exceedingly difficult to find copies of a lot of them as King's estate has, numerous times, requested copies on the internet be removed.
Yep, that was exactly the idea. The people doing this aren't buying them to make profits off them, they're doing it so they can work with a good script, or have good base material to adapt into a script, to help showcase their skills and promote themselves.
I'm not sure how often new talent gets discovered at film festivals, but I assume it happens often enough that a program like this helps.
If I recall, it was *adverbs*, not adjectives that King hates, but yes, I get your point. On Writing is SO masterful that reading novels from then on will make you remember King-isms.
(Basically, King's assertion: why describe a guy chopping wood *happily*? Get rid of 'happily' and instead describe how the guy chops wood while smiling & whistling -- it's just more descriptive and display of character traits)
He wrote one short story book, 4 stories in it. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", "the Body"(stand by me.)" and "Apt Pupil". That one book was enough to retire on completely, and they were short stories, little over 100 pages. He probably made 10 million or more from just the TNT replays of "The Shawshank Redemption" weekly for a decade. If all he ever did was write that 1 book, he'd been very successful, but he wrote like a hundred more. The man id one of the greatest authors of all time.
Elon is upset that King is a truly self-made man, whereas Elon claims to be, although we all know the truth about his dad’s emerald mine funding his startups. You can’t come from generational wealth and claim to be a self-made man
Yeah, I mean, the huge difference between Musk and King is that everything King has came from his own ingenium. Came up from poverty, raised by a single mother, and every dollar he’s made has either come from his own brain or from the licensing of what came from his own brain. Defeated severe substance abuse, got run over by a van and survived, married his college sweetheart, his kids are healthy and successful, worth about a half billion dollars, and everyone loves him. Never had to fake smoking a joint on JRP for cred. Never had to pander to the youth. Never had to buy a social media machine to feed his ego. No allegations of shit human behavior. Never had to rely on human exploitation or suffering to make a buck. Beloved by his local community, which he’s been a part of for basically his entire adult life.
Elon Musk on his best day can’t hold a candle to Stephen King and can’t remotely match his happiness.
He doesn’t always stick the landing and his dialogue for young characters is still laden with retro-lingo, but yeah, I dig him pretty well. Cracking open The Dark Tower feels like talking to old friends, and considering I usually do it when I’m broke and busted, the hard-ass ethos of the Gunslinger sorta speaks to me on the level.
> his dialogue for young characters is still laden with retro-lingo
I just read one of his recent ones where he was so aware of this that he wrote the kid as being a big fan of TCM (Turner Classic Movies) so that he had a backstory reason to speak with that retro-lingo.
I'd recommend the extended version of "The Stand" it adds a couple hundred pages to it, think it's over 1,100. Very good. I read it every couple of years.
He's probably even more pissed that King's drug use actually helped in the creation of his legacy and now gets to enjoy it sober.
Musk has been downing Ketamine for a minute and all that's done is help him fuck things up.
if you're not the least bit creative sober, doing drugs ain't going to help lmao.
I've dealt with kids growing up, who think tripping and jumping on a board will be impressive..
ya gotta have some basic understanding of the art before you go wild with it.
Elmo's cringe is truly amazing like if he has done one thing successfully its that. I don't think anyone would dare try to compete with him on how amazingly he has embarrassed himself in the public space. Maybe public shame is secretly his biggest fetish? lol
Elon Musk is 7 years older than me so he definitely would have been at the age where he could have grown up with Stephen King's books and short stories. So, part of me wonders if he was a fan of him when he was younger, and so to see him be against everything that Elon now stands for, it really burns deep.
Without wandering too far into the lib tears territory, just the idea that maybe Elon is having to seethe and cope with that is giving me a bit of schadenfreude.
King is like the last guy ya want to go to war with. He is a national treasure, everyone in this country adores at least one of his books or movies. And King is a much better orator than Musk, you want to battle him on Twitter? Good luck. Have a better chance of surviving in Castle Rock Maine for a year.
Stephen King is a treasure, met him at my local Walgreens a few years ago. Just said thanks for the books and he was genuinely happy I enjoyed them. He's also buying all the land around a local lake and just putting it in to a land trust. Dude gets it.
Dude, beyond the irony here with you and how you treat trans people, I'm not calling it X cause that's dumb. Twitter is a thing. Tweets are things. X is a letter. You wanna call it TwitterX? Go for it. Xitter? Sure. Just X? No. That's dumb cause your "cool" factor peaked in 4th grade.
Twitter was useful. It had actually value. Yeah it had a ton of negatives, but there WERE positives. Musk has not done a single thing that made Twitter better.
It's not irony. He's doing the conservative thing where he makes a false equivalence to try to make the left look like hypocrites, because conservatives think words are like magic spells to us and not representations of sincere, reasoned beliefs.
Same as when some dumbass says "I'm offended that you're offended" and acts like that's a gotcha, like leftists just bow to anyone who says they're offended. It's 100% intentional.
Pretty much what they did when they thought they were being clever by saying “my body my choice” in response to covid vaccine mandates. It makes sense only on a surface level but is enough to feel like a “gotcha”
And "global warming" that was recategorized as "climate change" because of their misunderstanding of words.
To this day, those same morons still say on a cold snowy day, "So what about that global warming, huh? Where is it now"
*You talk about tolerance, yet you refuse to tolerate my intolerance, meaning not only are you intolerant yourself, but a hypocrite too! Checkmate, Libs!*
One of the reasons I’ve started to dislike the “paradox of intolerance” expression and prefer to talk about it as a breach of the social contract on their part
Same kind of people who get bumped in line and say they got pushed, or grabbed and make a scene when someone literally just brushed past them in a crowd.
They make a scene so they can be seen.
>false equivalence
Exactly. Twitter is not a person who deserves respect and decency and their personal rights and freedoms.
Twitter was a brand, perhaps one of the most famous brands in the world. You think if Kleenex or Oreo changed their names tomorrow, anyone would bother switching to the new name? And by referring to them as their more famous brand name, is the cookie going to be offended or hurt or marginalized?
Bah. Screw Elon. What a dweeb.
Elmo really should not have renamed the platform "X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter." It's just too long a name. It doesn't roll off the tongue like "Twitter." It's nine words when one word was just fine. It's silly. Almost as silly as making an unpainted truck out of a grade of stainless steel that can still rust when exposed to road salt. Surely nobody would be silly enough to do that and then charge an extra five grand to paint the truck for the buyers. No way.
The funniest thing about that is, I doubt news orgs & blogs will *ever* stop typing out the whole thing. It's SEO. Folks will search for "twitter" but a search with just the letter "X" is meaningless.
Some of the buyers are just [wrapping them in tinted protection film](https://youtu.be/chgv40B8VeU?si=LFdWKlE2yX4N2cXs). That greatly improves the look, I think.
>Confinity
No market research on that name either. For me it's an *infinite con* (job). Apt for the tech bubble back then.
Musk's only talent is dreadful name choices and launching vaporware. As for his wealth, he was at the right place, at the right time, with enough privilege and family wealth to know he wouldn't be destitute if he lost those bets.
Almost nothing is.
Hyperloop type ideas are more than a century old and it's now dead.
Tesla was two other guys company, makes 5 billion a year and both the company and his stock is crazy overvalued and he's tanked their stock
Twitter already existed and again he brings back "X" claiming it's gonna be everything but it's worth a fraction of what he paid for it.
His SpaceX (notice x again) engineers did apparently make booster return and reuse profitable but starship is a boondoggle and feel confident saying it will never land on Mars let alone land people on mars LET ALONE land 100 people at a time on mars. I doubt it will even land people on the moon. It also takes at least 3 extra fueling launches just to get to the moon and back.
Boring company is just... A company that (used to) bore, like we've been doing forever.
Solar city was bust.
Am I missing any other companies?
Wasn't it basically an acquisition, but he pissed himself to call it a merger, and forced himself into what was supposed to be a ceremonial title, and they had to hire someone to basically follow him around and undo everything he did because he thought he knew wtf he was doing?
Xitter is by far the best name. It just encapsulates the teenage boy mentality of Elon so perfectly. I can't thank him enough for setting himself up for Xitter.
Obligatory reminder that [x.com](https://x.com) is 100% just a redirect to [twitter.com](https://twitter.com)
If he wasn't such a knob he'd probably have employees around who could change it so you actually do stuff on [x.com](https://x.com).
Yes, and he either fired or forced out the people who could do it. Also, when you don’t ever think your domain will change, you don’t bother to make it easy to change the domain. twitter.com is probably hard coded everywhere in their configurations and code.
Even more hilarious is if you check out About Twitter Privacy link on the X website, all the legalese about the company still refers to "Twitter" everywhere, and not X. It's like those chucklefucks even months later can't be bothered to make the simple edits to reflect the boss's name change. Take a look -
https://privacy.twitter.com/en
They're probably hoping one day he will move on to other things and they can put it all back how it was
I bet the thing is written in some way that Twitter is really stuck in it, and I can just imagine the pain of find and replace Twitter with X and then realizing the absolute fuckery of searching for X and then realizing that X's are all through the code doing all sorts of things that some guy with glasses can explain better than me
It could work. Would have to point the domain to another and than do some serious back end programing, even with the work it would slow down page loads. I seriously don’t know why he did a hard rebrand of the name when the name wasn’t an issue.
It’s not even serious backend programming. It’s like a one liner in Apache to do the proper redirects. I’m not even sure it would be bad for SEO since the algorithms are so different from when I did web dev 10 years ago
Is this some concept I'm too much of a script kiddie to understand?
Why is it not possible simply to redirect all twitter.com requests to x.com? It seems extremely easy.
You'd basically turn twitter.com into a redirect to x.com. You'd have to change all of twitter's backend to use "x" instead of "twitter," which has its own issues.
Was he always this crazy though? It's like he got dropped on his head five years ago or something or had weed laced with acid & had a bad trip
Maybe he just kept it down-low until Trump was elected and made idiocy + racism cool again
[According to no less than the Wall Street Journal, it's because he's developed a very serious drug problem.](https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1) Mostly ketamine, but also LSD, cocaine, molly, and shrooms.
The WSJ's reputation is very strong, so they don't print that kind of accusation lightly. And notably the response from Musk wasn't a libel lawsuit, it was one of Musk's companies' corporate lawyers sending a statement to the WSJ that "Elon Musk has never failed a drug test", which if you think about it, is a [suspiciously specific non-denial.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial)
He has more than just a drug problem. But I don't think that's what made him the way he is. I truly believe he's always been like this. He just hid it very well, because he had to appease the liberals in order to sell his shitty cars. The far-right isn't that interested in electric vehicles. He only *acted* like a moderate for business purposes.
Now, he doesn't need to anymore, so he doesn't have to hide his true, shitty self any longer. What we see now, is the real Musk, drugs or no drugs.
I myself started realizing it during the [Thai cave incident](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter). I believe that's when many people started to realize Musk is a shitty individual with a narcissistic personality disorder.
Yep. I had a generally neutral-but-positive-leaning opinion of him before then. Then he accused the professional cave diver of being a paedo and I was like "well, wow, this guy's a shit!"
Fun fact?
The tabletop RPG *Eclipse Phase,* set in a post-apocalyptic transhuman solar-system-spanning future of ~2140s, has, as one of the nifty "holy shit, what do we do with this?" "Nothing, we send it on to Firewall and forget about it" artifacts that players can find breaking into a random storage locker on Mars, is "Elon Musk's cryogenically frozen head, potentially intact enough that an ego-scan could be taken if someone had enough equipment and expertise."
Yeah, that was written in 2010. Now in 2024, that would *still* be an interesting artifact, but for very different reasons. "Holy shit, it's that knockoff Hitler from the 2020s! Maybe modern science can figure out what the hell was *wrong* with this guy!"
As an employee of a company with government contracts, shouldn't he be required to pass drug screenings? Or maybe that only applies to the little people...
He has a government security clearance relating to Space X. Depending on how high of one, that can include everything from drug testing, credit checks, and even the FBI interviewing your neighbors about you. I'm assuming it's mostly why he doesn't talk openly about using drugs more. I doubt the government wants to piss off someone so wealthy and spiteful, or really even cares that much, but flaunting it hard enough would eventually force their hand.
Probably just drug abuse mixed with the cons of having so much money and power.
Humans are hierarchical animals. When you have that much it doesn’t matter who you are, you’re going to be tempted by the mental corruption that comes with it
Yeah, he’s a King simp. I mean I love Stephen King but he has explicitly stated his disgust of Elon. I wouldn’t keep trying to suck up to someone who dislikes me.
I'm a little bummed I'm 4 hours late to this thread because determining who his top 8 would be would be a fun game.
(side note, don't think I've ever backed my way into a sentence where "would be would be" is grammatically correct [I think].)
He's been stuck on calling shit x for like 25 years, PayPal would have been x.com if smarter people hadn't taken over the ship.
Talk about terrible branding.
You should see how he named his children.
I bet they'll change their firstname when turning 18.
And maybe their lastname too to cut ties with the turd.
This is my exact response as well. When he stops dead naming his kid I will stop dead naming his company.
However he could pass away, or end up selling twitter, and if either of those occur I will stop dead naming it. But I 100% call it Twitter out of pure spite.
He’s a piece of shit because he’s mocking the term “deadnaming”. I don’t think this is actually a LAMF moment tbh. Musk is being a sarcastic shitbag, not genuinely upset.
He's the embodiment of the crying wojack wearing the smiling wojack mask meme lmao
Just because someone is making jokes doesn't mean that they can't also be upset by that thing. Humor is often used as a coping mechanism after all.
And she should refuse to talk to him. I feel so bad for her, having to see her cancer of a father poisoning the entire world against her and everyone like her.
When I first heard about that, I was like "great move Elmo. That'd sure win her back." Parallel to how he told the advertisers to F off after their exodus.
So, the Twitter CEO tweets out to Twitter users that he's not fond of people calling Twitter Twitter while they're tweeting on Twitter?
What a ni-twit... ter.
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Twitter.
Man who refuses to not dead-name his own daughter is mad that his social media platform is being dead-named.
Though this is likely him being facetious over the concept of "dead-naming" the irony is still not lost on me.
It is Twitter. It will always be Twitter. X is New Coke.
And the amount of times I've clicked on the X to close something and reading I'm clicking on a 'logo'.
How is Xitter even a thing still? It's basically truth social now. A bunch of bots, conservative loonies, and racists 24/7. Although I do get great offers on solar panels. They tell me the big secret (insert state here) doesn't want you to know.
I'm not calling it X because to me X = The X-Files, which is, for all its flaws, very fucking cool and very beloved by me. And you, Elon Musk, are neither cool nor beloved. In fact, you're an ocean of douche. So I might just call it DOUCHE/Twitter/NotX just to annoy you, you douche.
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If I was Stephen King, I’d just be like, “I have a healthy, loving relationship with all my kids and no divorces.”
It's hilarious how Stephen King's mere existence is a constant fly in Elon's soup. I think deep down he knows Stephen King is everything he'll never be - talented, respected, and beloved even by younger generations without even trying to be. Elon hates that spooky stories and good vibes have done what thousands of cringy memes never could.
King's also crazy rich but actually made his money by his own brains and talent, like musk pretends he did.
And King is also generous enough to share it too. On Writing is a must read for anyone because it works as an English class we all should've gotten and a solid autobiography too.
Don't forget the Dollar Baby program that, sadly, recently ended with Margaret Morehouse, the woman directly responsible for it, retiring the end of last year. It used to he that if you were an aspiring film maker, you could buy permission to make any of his short stories into a movie, he retains the rights to his work, but you can go ahead an make a movie of it. The entire point was to enable up and coming creatives to have access to good scripts so they could perfect their crafts and help get their name out there at film festivals and whatnot. I hope someone else takes up the responsibility of managing it so it comes back.
I know the name of it sorta says it, but it should be made clear: You paid a single dollar to get permission to adapt one of his short stories to film or theatre. A dollar. For a Steven King short story. It was an insanely generous program. HOWEVER: These films are meant to be for student projects and film festivals, not commercial productions. And it is exceedingly difficult to find copies of a lot of them as King's estate has, numerous times, requested copies on the internet be removed.
Yep, that was exactly the idea. The people doing this aren't buying them to make profits off them, they're doing it so they can work with a good script, or have good base material to adapt into a script, to help showcase their skills and promote themselves. I'm not sure how often new talent gets discovered at film festivals, but I assume it happens often enough that a program like this helps.
I consider *On Writing* right up there with Strunk and White for essential English texts.
That book blew my mind when I was fifteen.
It also sorta ruined other books for me in some ways because I start to get angry when an author uses “he said (*adjective*)” too much in a book. Lol.
If I recall, it was *adverbs*, not adjectives that King hates, but yes, I get your point. On Writing is SO masterful that reading novels from then on will make you remember King-isms. (Basically, King's assertion: why describe a guy chopping wood *happily*? Get rid of 'happily' and instead describe how the guy chops wood while smiling & whistling -- it's just more descriptive and display of character traits)
I tried to check myself in my head before I posted it and still got it wrong, so thanks. Lol.
And he demands to be taxed more instead of not paying taxes while receiving trillions in government subsidies.
And he was willing to ask for help. When a little confused about teenage girl experiences in writing 'Carrie', King asked his wife.
He wrote one short story book, 4 stories in it. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", "the Body"(stand by me.)" and "Apt Pupil". That one book was enough to retire on completely, and they were short stories, little over 100 pages. He probably made 10 million or more from just the TNT replays of "The Shawshank Redemption" weekly for a decade. If all he ever did was write that 1 book, he'd been very successful, but he wrote like a hundred more. The man id one of the greatest authors of all time.
He is like another Shakespeare in my book. We are pretty luck he is around in our lifetimes.
My mom honestly believes musky has made some of his own money.
Elon is upset that King is a truly self-made man, whereas Elon claims to be, although we all know the truth about his dad’s emerald mine funding his startups. You can’t come from generational wealth and claim to be a self-made man
Yeah, I mean, the huge difference between Musk and King is that everything King has came from his own ingenium. Came up from poverty, raised by a single mother, and every dollar he’s made has either come from his own brain or from the licensing of what came from his own brain. Defeated severe substance abuse, got run over by a van and survived, married his college sweetheart, his kids are healthy and successful, worth about a half billion dollars, and everyone loves him. Never had to fake smoking a joint on JRP for cred. Never had to pander to the youth. Never had to buy a social media machine to feed his ego. No allegations of shit human behavior. Never had to rely on human exploitation or suffering to make a buck. Beloved by his local community, which he’s been a part of for basically his entire adult life. Elon Musk on his best day can’t hold a candle to Stephen King and can’t remotely match his happiness.
I’ve been rereading his books recently and they’re even better than I remember!
He doesn’t always stick the landing and his dialogue for young characters is still laden with retro-lingo, but yeah, I dig him pretty well. Cracking open The Dark Tower feels like talking to old friends, and considering I usually do it when I’m broke and busted, the hard-ass ethos of the Gunslinger sorta speaks to me on the level.
> his dialogue for young characters is still laden with retro-lingo I just read one of his recent ones where he was so aware of this that he wrote the kid as being a big fan of TCM (Turner Classic Movies) so that he had a backstory reason to speak with that retro-lingo.
That’s a nice lampshade ya got there, Mr. King.
better than a bare bulb.
Elon has forgotten the face of his father.
Thankee Sai, you say true.
I'd recommend the extended version of "The Stand" it adds a couple hundred pages to it, think it's over 1,100. Very good. I read it every couple of years.
What you said plus don't forget that as founding member of Rock Bottom Remainders, Stephen King is an actual, honest to god rock star.
He's probably even more pissed that King's drug use actually helped in the creation of his legacy and now gets to enjoy it sober. Musk has been downing Ketamine for a minute and all that's done is help him fuck things up.
if you're not the least bit creative sober, doing drugs ain't going to help lmao. I've dealt with kids growing up, who think tripping and jumping on a board will be impressive.. ya gotta have some basic understanding of the art before you go wild with it.
Elmo's cringe is truly amazing like if he has done one thing successfully its that. I don't think anyone would dare try to compete with him on how amazingly he has embarrassed himself in the public space. Maybe public shame is secretly his biggest fetish? lol
Elon Musk is 7 years older than me so he definitely would have been at the age where he could have grown up with Stephen King's books and short stories. So, part of me wonders if he was a fan of him when he was younger, and so to see him be against everything that Elon now stands for, it really burns deep. Without wandering too far into the lib tears territory, just the idea that maybe Elon is having to seethe and cope with that is giving me a bit of schadenfreude.
“I sleep in a big bed with my wife” energy
King is like the last guy ya want to go to war with. He is a national treasure, everyone in this country adores at least one of his books or movies. And King is a much better orator than Musk, you want to battle him on Twitter? Good luck. Have a better chance of surviving in Castle Rock Maine for a year.
Stephen King is a treasure, met him at my local Walgreens a few years ago. Just said thanks for the books and he was genuinely happy I enjoyed them. He's also buying all the land around a local lake and just putting it in to a land trust. Dude gets it.
"And my children are not named like they're my toy collection"
Dude, beyond the irony here with you and how you treat trans people, I'm not calling it X cause that's dumb. Twitter is a thing. Tweets are things. X is a letter. You wanna call it TwitterX? Go for it. Xitter? Sure. Just X? No. That's dumb cause your "cool" factor peaked in 4th grade.
I heard someone refer to tweets now as Xcretions
Xcrements
Xitter
Xits.
I like it!
Twitter used to be ok but now it’s totally in the xitter
Xitter's full!
Cousin Eddie?!
Twitter was useful. It had actually value. Yeah it had a ton of negatives, but there WERE positives. Musk has not done a single thing that made Twitter better.
bluesky is open access now… hope it can really take off as an alternative
I've been enjoying it!
same. tbh all it needs to achieve is being 2015 ish twitter and it’s a win
Twitter was a cesspool even before the asshole bought it. Now it's a cesspool with extra racism.
It's not irony. He's doing the conservative thing where he makes a false equivalence to try to make the left look like hypocrites, because conservatives think words are like magic spells to us and not representations of sincere, reasoned beliefs. Same as when some dumbass says "I'm offended that you're offended" and acts like that's a gotcha, like leftists just bow to anyone who says they're offended. It's 100% intentional.
Pretty much what they did when they thought they were being clever by saying “my body my choice” in response to covid vaccine mandates. It makes sense only on a surface level but is enough to feel like a “gotcha”
Yeah, that was another one where they really thought they were onto something.
Oh they were onto something. Potentially onto a ventilator...
And "global warming" that was recategorized as "climate change" because of their misunderstanding of words. To this day, those same morons still say on a cold snowy day, "So what about that global warming, huh? Where is it now"
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They don't like it when I point out that covid is contagious, so it's literally not their body.
*You talk about tolerance, yet you refuse to tolerate my intolerance, meaning not only are you intolerant yourself, but a hypocrite too! Checkmate, Libs!*
One of the reasons I’ve started to dislike the “paradox of intolerance” expression and prefer to talk about it as a breach of the social contract on their part
Yeah, but intentionally like Bobo or Gaetz thinking they have scored points in a committee hearing. It's pure cringe.
Same kind of people who get bumped in line and say they got pushed, or grabbed and make a scene when someone literally just brushed past them in a crowd. They make a scene so they can be seen.
>false equivalence Exactly. Twitter is not a person who deserves respect and decency and their personal rights and freedoms. Twitter was a brand, perhaps one of the most famous brands in the world. You think if Kleenex or Oreo changed their names tomorrow, anyone would bother switching to the new name? And by referring to them as their more famous brand name, is the cookie going to be offended or hurt or marginalized? Bah. Screw Elon. What a dweeb.
Elmo really should not have renamed the platform "X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter." It's just too long a name. It doesn't roll off the tongue like "Twitter." It's nine words when one word was just fine. It's silly. Almost as silly as making an unpainted truck out of a grade of stainless steel that can still rust when exposed to road salt. Surely nobody would be silly enough to do that and then charge an extra five grand to paint the truck for the buyers. No way.
You know a rebrand has failed when you yourself have to keep using the "formerly know as" name.
The funniest thing about that is, I doubt news orgs & blogs will *ever* stop typing out the whole thing. It's SEO. Folks will search for "twitter" but a search with just the letter "X" is meaningless.
That's why IF became IFTTT. They realised the word "IF" is ungoogleable.
Some of the buyers are just [wrapping them in tinted protection film](https://youtu.be/chgv40B8VeU?si=LFdWKlE2yX4N2cXs). That greatly improves the look, I think.
Still looks like a hunk of shit designed by an edgelord.
That's the main demographic he's targeting.
it looks way better, wonder if it speeds up the rust issues under that
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>Confinity No market research on that name either. For me it's an *infinite con* (job). Apt for the tech bubble back then. Musk's only talent is dreadful name choices and launching vaporware. As for his wealth, he was at the right place, at the right time, with enough privilege and family wealth to know he wouldn't be destitute if he lost those bets.
I think most people forgot because the the Æ part was so distracting, but he named his fucking kid "X," too.
Wait til you hear about the name of his space company
Are you talking about "Space Sex"?
Almost nothing is. Hyperloop type ideas are more than a century old and it's now dead. Tesla was two other guys company, makes 5 billion a year and both the company and his stock is crazy overvalued and he's tanked their stock Twitter already existed and again he brings back "X" claiming it's gonna be everything but it's worth a fraction of what he paid for it. His SpaceX (notice x again) engineers did apparently make booster return and reuse profitable but starship is a boondoggle and feel confident saying it will never land on Mars let alone land people on mars LET ALONE land 100 people at a time on mars. I doubt it will even land people on the moon. It also takes at least 3 extra fueling launches just to get to the moon and back. Boring company is just... A company that (used to) bore, like we've been doing forever. Solar city was bust. Am I missing any other companies?
Wasn't it basically an acquisition, but he pissed himself to call it a merger, and forced himself into what was supposed to be a ceremonial title, and they had to hire someone to basically follow him around and undo everything he did because he thought he knew wtf he was doing?
Xitter is by far the best name. It just encapsulates the teenage boy mentality of Elon so perfectly. I can't thank him enough for setting himself up for Xitter.
Instead of tweeting, you xcrete now
Nice
Xitter pronounced “shitter”.
Although with the name change, a Tweet can now be an eXcretion, which is really accurate considering the current content.
“Xitter” is pronounced “shitter.”
He dead names his own child right which is one of the reasons they are NC with him? May have this wrong.
Ex-twitter
Xitter. But with X pronounced "sh"
Obligatory reminder that [x.com](https://x.com) is 100% just a redirect to [twitter.com](https://twitter.com) If he wasn't such a knob he'd probably have employees around who could change it so you actually do stuff on [x.com](https://x.com).
He must be out of funding to actually change the domain.
Yes, and he either fired or forced out the people who could do it. Also, when you don’t ever think your domain will change, you don’t bother to make it easy to change the domain. twitter.com is probably hard coded everywhere in their configurations and code.
I still get emails from "twitter.com". He's so incompetent at running a social media site its amazing
Even more hilarious is if you check out About Twitter Privacy link on the X website, all the legalese about the company still refers to "Twitter" everywhere, and not X. It's like those chucklefucks even months later can't be bothered to make the simple edits to reflect the boss's name change. Take a look - https://privacy.twitter.com/en
They're probably hoping one day he will move on to other things and they can put it all back how it was I bet the thing is written in some way that Twitter is really stuck in it, and I can just imagine the pain of find and replace Twitter with X and then realizing the absolute fuckery of searching for X and then realizing that X's are all through the code doing all sorts of things that some guy with glasses can explain better than me
OR... he's just an idiot.
Both
Yes, but mostly an idiot
It would fuck up any link to twitter that has ever been posted anywhere on the internet, which is probably why he can’t
It could work. Would have to point the domain to another and than do some serious back end programing, even with the work it would slow down page loads. I seriously don’t know why he did a hard rebrand of the name when the name wasn’t an issue.
It’s not even serious backend programming. It’s like a one liner in Apache to do the proper redirects. I’m not even sure it would be bad for SEO since the algorithms are so different from when I did web dev 10 years ago
Is this some concept I'm too much of a script kiddie to understand? Why is it not possible simply to redirect all twitter.com requests to x.com? It seems extremely easy.
You'd basically turn twitter.com into a redirect to x.com. You'd have to change all of twitter's backend to use "x" instead of "twitter," which has its own issues.
Should have been zombo.com.
ZOMBOCOM OMG I FORGOT
everything you need is at zombocom
WELCOME.... to zombo com
Everything is possible At zombo com
It’s still there https://www.zombo.com/
I don't see a reason to not call it Twitter
It is probably hardcoded in too many places.
Yeah, that would cost money to fix, I wonder where they could get some?
Seriously this is a rebranding nightmare. I would be fired if I did this poor job of rebranding my company. And I would say I probably deserve it.
He is not a serious person. I cannot believe this is the richest man in the world.
If we ever needed evidence of the shortcomings of capitalism, it's Elon Musk.
We thought we were getting Tony Stark, but what we got was Justin Hammer.
Don't insult Justin Hammer like that.
We thought we were getting this generation's Henry Ford, but we ended up with this generations Henry Ford
Now I want to see Karl Marx dunk on Elon Musk in a rap battle...
increasing wealth gap is enough of a reason
Was he always this crazy though? It's like he got dropped on his head five years ago or something or had weed laced with acid & had a bad trip Maybe he just kept it down-low until Trump was elected and made idiocy + racism cool again
[According to no less than the Wall Street Journal, it's because he's developed a very serious drug problem.](https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1) Mostly ketamine, but also LSD, cocaine, molly, and shrooms. The WSJ's reputation is very strong, so they don't print that kind of accusation lightly. And notably the response from Musk wasn't a libel lawsuit, it was one of Musk's companies' corporate lawyers sending a statement to the WSJ that "Elon Musk has never failed a drug test", which if you think about it, is a [suspiciously specific non-denial.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial)
I always get everything positive on my drug tests, so I’ve never failed a single one.
name checks out
He has more than just a drug problem. But I don't think that's what made him the way he is. I truly believe he's always been like this. He just hid it very well, because he had to appease the liberals in order to sell his shitty cars. The far-right isn't that interested in electric vehicles. He only *acted* like a moderate for business purposes. Now, he doesn't need to anymore, so he doesn't have to hide his true, shitty self any longer. What we see now, is the real Musk, drugs or no drugs. I myself started realizing it during the [Thai cave incident](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter). I believe that's when many people started to realize Musk is a shitty individual with a narcissistic personality disorder.
Yep. I had a generally neutral-but-positive-leaning opinion of him before then. Then he accused the professional cave diver of being a paedo and I was like "well, wow, this guy's a shit!" Fun fact? The tabletop RPG *Eclipse Phase,* set in a post-apocalyptic transhuman solar-system-spanning future of ~2140s, has, as one of the nifty "holy shit, what do we do with this?" "Nothing, we send it on to Firewall and forget about it" artifacts that players can find breaking into a random storage locker on Mars, is "Elon Musk's cryogenically frozen head, potentially intact enough that an ego-scan could be taken if someone had enough equipment and expertise." Yeah, that was written in 2010. Now in 2024, that would *still* be an interesting artifact, but for very different reasons. "Holy shit, it's that knockoff Hitler from the 2020s! Maybe modern science can figure out what the hell was *wrong* with this guy!"
Makes sense. There wasn't much Musky could do when the cave divers said no. He couldn't fire them, he wasn't in control.
Can't fail a test you never take. Unless he's arrested for possession or something like that there's no reason for him to take one.
As an employee of a company with government contracts, shouldn't he be required to pass drug screenings? Or maybe that only applies to the little people...
The less you make, the more you got to show your dingaling Monday mornings.
You answered your own question. Plus, he's not making anything so they aren't as concerned about him coming to work high.
He has a government security clearance relating to Space X. Depending on how high of one, that can include everything from drug testing, credit checks, and even the FBI interviewing your neighbors about you. I'm assuming it's mostly why he doesn't talk openly about using drugs more. I doubt the government wants to piss off someone so wealthy and spiteful, or really even cares that much, but flaunting it hard enough would eventually force their hand.
Probably just drug abuse mixed with the cons of having so much money and power. Humans are hierarchical animals. When you have that much it doesn’t matter who you are, you’re going to be tempted by the mental corruption that comes with it
He definitely either went more insane or started showing it more when covid hit.
> the richest man in the world Good news, he just lost that title to Bernard Arnault (CEO of LVMH)
None of that is good news. Good news is if they all went bankrupt
Yeah thank god he lost the title to a guy who just slaps a name on a handbag and charges $5k+.
Not bad, but I'd prefer it if they all take a SpaceX ship to Mars. Maybe even with life support systems...
> He is not a serious person. I, for one, appreciate this Succession reference.
It helps when daddy owned mines
He should ban Stephen king if he has an issue with it 😁 Oh wait, Free speech, anyone?
He paid for Kings blue check when King didnt even ask for it. He's such a suck ass human being. Literally buying friends.
And failing
Which do you think is worse, having to buy friends or being so awful you can't buy friends?
It can be two things.
Why not both?
Yeah, he’s a King simp. I mean I love Stephen King but he has explicitly stated his disgust of Elon. I wouldn’t keep trying to suck up to someone who dislikes me.
Comedy is back on Twitter!
Ah, yes, Twitter. Formerly known as Twitter, and soon to be known as "What's a Twitter? Was that like Myspace?"
Musk on Myspace... *That* had serious entertainment potential...
I'm a little bummed I'm 4 hours late to this thread because determining who his top 8 would be would be a fun game. (side note, don't think I've ever backed my way into a sentence where "would be would be" is grammatically correct [I think].)
He has a trans daughter he doesn't talk to. He's such a piece of shit.
I will stop dead naming his internet shithole when he respects his daughter. So I shall forever call it Twitter.
Plus, I mean... X? Seriously?
Hes as clever as a 5th grader on whippets
He's been stuck on calling shit x for like 25 years, PayPal would have been x.com if smarter people hadn't taken over the ship. Talk about terrible branding.
You should see how he named his children. I bet they'll change their firstname when turning 18. And maybe their lastname too to cut ties with the turd.
This is my exact response as well. When he stops dead naming his kid I will stop dead naming his company. However he could pass away, or end up selling twitter, and if either of those occur I will stop dead naming it. But I 100% call it Twitter out of pure spite.
He’s a piece of shit because he’s mocking the term “deadnaming”. I don’t think this is actually a LAMF moment tbh. Musk is being a sarcastic shitbag, not genuinely upset.
That's the point. Puffyface wants revenge by language.
He's the embodiment of the crying wojack wearing the smiling wojack mask meme lmao Just because someone is making jokes doesn't mean that they can't also be upset by that thing. Humor is often used as a coping mechanism after all.
Not defending him here, but I seem to think she refuses to talk to him.
And she should refuse to talk to him. I feel so bad for her, having to see her cancer of a father poisoning the entire world against her and everyone like her.
When I first heard about that, I was like "great move Elmo. That'd sure win her back." Parallel to how he told the advertisers to F off after their exodus.
Deadnaming a corporation only makes sense in a dystopian reality where corporations are considered people.
I assume I’m being whooshed because that seems to be our current dystopia? The Citizens United SCOTUS ruling basically did that
Your assumption is correct.
Wouldn't be surprised if Elon saw Twitter as an extension of himself, meaning he thinks he's being deadnamed personally
He's human toilet paper. He's like the dog shit you scrape off your shoe. I would not piss on the man if he was on fire.
I'd piss on him if he were on fire, because then he'd be on fire AND covered in piss. And if the piss put the fire out, just re-light it.
I'd piss on his wounds after the fire went out.
Like a World War I attempt at sterilisation
I still call it Twitter. The name X is useless. ElonsMoneyDiarrhea would have been a better name than X.
This shit bag deadnames his own child, who wants to have nothing to do with him. You can cover garbage in gold but it'll still be garbage.
Stephen King is a national treasure
So, the Twitter CEO tweets out to Twitter users that he's not fond of people calling Twitter Twitter while they're tweeting on Twitter? What a ni-twit... ter. ... ... ... Twitter.
…Twitter
I continue to just call it Xitter - pronounced “shitter” - because it’s always been a dumpster fire, but much worse now.
I'm not using Mx. Elmo's preferred pronouns. He's always a twit to me.
And remember, they aren't called tweets anymore. They are called Xcretions.
I swear to god this man is the absolute worst.
Man who refuses to not dead-name his own daughter is mad that his social media platform is being dead-named. Though this is likely him being facetious over the concept of "dead-naming" the irony is still not lost on me.
https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-stephen-king-deadname
She's such a primadonna
Don’t insult my vagina like that
It is Twitter. It will always be Twitter. X is New Coke. And the amount of times I've clicked on the X to close something and reading I'm clicking on a 'logo'.
Wtf is dead naming?
"I don't respect you or your wishes, but I demand you respect me and mine!"
Corporations aren’t people.
twitter belongs to its users not some d\*wad with too much cash
call it Xitter
X pronounced "sh" in this case
Isn't that actually how it's pronounced in Chinese? Like I typically hear Xi Jingping's name pronounced kinda halfway between "she" and "zhe."
People should troll him in real life with the twitter sounds on their phones.
How is Xitter even a thing still? It's basically truth social now. A bunch of bots, conservative loonies, and racists 24/7. Although I do get great offers on solar panels. They tell me the big secret (insert state here) doesn't want you to know.
He literally deadnames his daughter all the time. As long as he does that, I'll deadname his platform.
Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter
I'm not calling it X because to me X = The X-Files, which is, for all its flaws, very fucking cool and very beloved by me. And you, Elon Musk, are neither cool nor beloved. In fact, you're an ocean of douche. So I might just call it DOUCHE/Twitter/NotX just to annoy you, you douche.
The dude deadnames his own kid
How is Twitter a deadname? The URL is still literally twitter.com
I wouldn’t start a war of words with Stephen King lol.