lol at, "the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter." I love how this is journalism is handling this switch.
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Even Twitter can't avoid it. Anytime an email comes to my mailbox it's "X, Formally known as twitter"
Heavy vibes from Ƭ̵̬̊, the artist formerly known as Prince.
Wonder if they're just casually owning it with pride.
I wonder if this will be used as a metric ever. When switching a prominent company name, how long it takes to fully adopt.
It feels like the most stupid rebrand ever. Since it isn’t a name but a random letter elon thinks is cool, it always requires some clarification in conversations, or even in text form because it might as well be a typo or something. If it ever takes root before the platform sinks into obscurity is a really open bet.
It would be really nice if everyone just ignored the rebrand and kept calling it twitter.
It’d be nice if people left so Elon could sell it at a huge loss and we could get it back
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They’ve all been doing this. Probably because they anticipate it will revert back to Twitter at some point.
hang on, so Nature is trying to kill a bunch of people who went out in the desert to celebrate a Burning Man, and she's gonna do it with a rainstorm that might satirically cause them to die of thirst.. man somebody has a sense of humor or something..
...all of which was announced via social media, which implies that despite shortages of food and water the people there have constant access to the Internet. Cyberpunk is now. Unless a thunder from the thunderstorm fries a cell tower nearby of course.
Imagine being able to afford metafood in the metaverse but not real food in the realiverse
😞
who says there's no poetry in the world.. the Blind, that's who..
I used to experience mild FOMO reading about burning man and now it just feels like I’ve passed an annual intelligence test with apathy.
I don’t need 80,000 people, weeks worth of planning, shit weather, a long boring drive, and 1000s of dollars in expenses to have fun doing drugs with my friends. The entire thing seems so inefficient and unpleasant in achieving its purpose.
And I’ve always found the art of burning man to be simply bad, no matter how impressive it is in scale.
That said, I want humans to celebrate and have fun; there’s worse things people can do.
I feel like burning man and other fests were not better, but at least cognitively different before they went corporate. / Feels like the difference between clubs and raves (if the latter even still exist any longer)
gold
It was cool 25 years ago when I first went, but it was lame 10 years ago, when I last went. Hollywood, tech bros and instagram posers ruined it.
uhhhh, seems bad
I've always wondered who, this bunch of rich yuppie fucks, think the man being burnt is supposed to represent?
i think it might be their dignity
The squares
Well at least now they can experience the real disconnection from society.
hunger games in 3...2....1....
The regular folk bring their own water in.. this is only for the rich fucks taking a vacation there.
I got stuck at a festival once the same way. We were stuck for 3 days. It was pretty fun. Everyone just piled all the food and booze in a pile and shared.