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Maybe they should have changed the name to "Ex"
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Old 07-30-2023, 07:20 PM
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Ahaha, SF has really strict sign laws and Musk’s strip club almost certainly breaks them, so lump on whatever fine the city asses onto his other non-payment of millions.

Flashing, glowing, blinking signs are verboten, the few that exist are either lit by old school incandescent style lights or carefully planned with the city like the top of the sales force tower or the Bay Bridge lights. Even with all the tech boom money it’s one of the few things the city heavily enforces, the idea of becoming a blinking sign bladerunner hellscape just does not appeal for some reason.
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New municipal persecution in the works, clearly
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Phony Stark is my new fave nickname for elon.
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. . . and, it's been removed.
Giant glowing ‘X’ sign atop Twitter office in San Francisco removed | San Francisco | The Guardian
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I encourage all woke to boycott X

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The only downside is so many people still announcing how they are leaving, but keep posting about it over and over.

The irony of using Twitter to announce how Twitter is broken is beyond any parody possible to imagine
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It’s amazing how quickly a Blue Check has become the new MAGA hat, I think we should all be grateful that Musk can’t run for president. Many temporarily embarrassed millionaires willing to pay $8 a month to have the richest man in the world justify to them that they don’t have to be good, nice, reasonable, introspective people to get those millions they so deserve. Just be a big bully.

Musk sues non-profit for saying hate has only increased on his watch. Unrelated, anti-semite Kanye West has been reinstated to twitter.

CNBC The suit, against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, focused on research the organization published in June. In one report, the CCDH looked at 100 different accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue and found that Twitter failed to act on 99% of hate posted by users. The group also questioned whether Twitter’s algorithm boosts “toxic tweets.”

Other CCDH research indicated that Twitter failed to act on 89% of anti-Jewish hate speech and 97% of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform.

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lol. Trump drops half a bil so far on his own Twitter clone and Musk basically steals his whole concept.
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"Intelligent Life" gets into the act.
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More martyr complex:



A slightly more eloquent Trump.
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Wolfgang Lucht: "Dear followers here on mastodon, ever since MurX …" - Mastodon ðŸ˜

A thread.

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I'm not doing X. I'm not a commodity.

A thread.

1/ Twitter has been an important source of information for me for years.

I also made acquaintances that I value a lot. Thank you - to all of you!

But I'm also done with the corporate freewheeling, the treatment of users as fodder, the rampant verbal violence, the direction.
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Users can now hide their blue check mark of shame, but don’t worry they will still have their posts boosted in the rankings just like you would expect from a free speech absolutist.

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