Oh absolutely money laundering. Or just clandestine interactions in general. My guess is ol' musky is trying to get his ketamine dealer to be beholden to him.
The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor
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The money sits in an actual bank, so this is just banking with extra steps. In my not entirely unprofessional opinion, when there's extra steps, you're probably looking at money laundering.
Something occurred to me recently. Since X hasn't been officially called Twitter or used the name in any capacity for a few years now, isn't it no longer legally trademarked? I googled it and Gemini said a trademark can lapse after only three years of disuse, and literally the source it cited specifically namechecks Twitter as a brand this can apply to.
Now, obviously, that doesn't mean they have to forfeit ownership of the domain, which I'm sure they'll never do, and probably should never do lest a billion links and embeds scattered across the internet break forever. As funny as it would be for Jack Dorsey and Co. to just snatch it up again and rebrand Bluesky. So what I think we should do instead is turn "twitter" into a lower-case genericized trademark like "aspirin" or "escalator", meaning any form of microblogging. Example: "My twitter is @ so-and-so on bluesky" "Mine is whats-her-face at blahblah dot social".
Now, obviously, that doesn't mean they have to forfeit ownership of the domain, which I'm sure they'll never do, and probably should never do lest a billion links and embeds scattered across the internet break forever. As funny as it would be for Jack Dorsey and Co. to just snatch it up again and rebrand Bluesky. So what I think we should do instead is turn "twitter" into a lower-case genericized trademark like "aspirin" or "escalator", meaning any form of microblogging. Example: "My twitter is @ so-and-so on bluesky" "Mine is whats-her-face at blahblah dot social".
There is but it uses AI to "fact" check every post you make.
bsky.app
Jeff Gerstmann (@jeffgerstmann.com)
So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.
bsky.app
Of all the AI models right now, Grok is the most likely to become the real deal if it isn't there already. If you're going to launch a twitter clone (with that name or not) why in the hell would you make a bad AI your most distinctive feature?
This is why twitter and YouTube competitors never take off. There's an opening, but for some reason the people that do it seem to be on a mission to come up with the dumbest possible UI designs. We want what we had before these sites were made worse for no reason, not something that's worse but just in different ways.
This is why twitter and YouTube competitors never take off. There's an opening, but for some reason the people that do it seem to be on a mission to come up with the dumbest possible UI designs. We want what we had before these sites were made worse for no reason, not something that's worse but just in different ways.
I dunno, "literally the thing that's already popular but worse" is how I'd describe Twitter compared to LiveJournal when it launched. Or TikTok compared to YouTube. Or Reddit and Discord compared to forums. Depending on which cases you cherrypick, it does seem to be the play. I can count on one hand the sites that caught on because they were actively trying to be better versions of what was already out there, rather than just different at best.
I'm still pretty happy with BlueSky, myself. If it's not as popular as Twitter used to be, that's probably a feature, rather than a bug, as it means that the posts I see are actually posts I'm more likely to WANT to see.
I just haven't used Twitter in 15 years.
Same with my Mastodon account on meow.social. Since there's no algorithm it's got the extra friction of having to find what you want to follow yourself, but that works fine for me. I've just gradually added artists I've liked as I've found them and it's mostly just an art feed at this point of actual artists, with a few exceptions(therians I knew from other platforms mostly) and I still gradually get other additions if an artist boosts an artist friend whose stuff I end up liking.
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> Tesla put its breathtakingly ugly Cybercab on Austin streets Thursday: it has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no door handles. Tesla published an emergency guide on its website telling first responders the robotaxi can be pushed to clear a lane, but warns that pushing it over 5mph risks...
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Tesla says emergency responders may need to push new Cybercab with no steering wheel
Tesla’s emergency guidance tells first responders the robotaxi “can be quickly pushed” to clear a lane but warns that doing it incorrectly risks electric shock and overheating the motor.
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So it's a deliberate and malicious threat to first responders and commuters, is what I'm reading.
Wow.
Also, I had to google what a Cybercab was.
en.wikipedia.org
I haven't kept up with Tesla for the past couple years, so I had no idea that this thing existed.
Tesla Cybercab - Wikipedia
I haven't kept up with Tesla for the past couple years, so I had no idea that this thing existed.
Wow. I was half thinking they couldn't get worse than the Cybertruck, but there it is.
It's Texas, and Edolf funds Republicans, so the Republicans in charge will be happy to pretend that any laws that would be applicable don't actually exist.
And then in the same breath laud themselves for saving the state from the Democrats (who haven't held power there for decades).
And then in the same breath laud themselves for saving the state from the Democrats (who haven't held power there for decades).
Also, I had to google what a Cybercab was.
Tesla Cybercab - Wikipedia
I haven't kept up with Tesla for the past couple years, so I had no idea that this thing existed.
Am I the only one who thinks this looks kinda like G2 Bumblebee?
Part of me wonders if this was originally going to be the Model 2 that was supposed to be a cheap electric 2 seater car. And then they ruined it by doing this.