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Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned (www.cnn.com)

submitted 11 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] wischi@programming.dev 59 points 11 months ago

What is Musks obsession with the letter X?

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 87 points 11 months ago

He's a stunted 8 year old who associates X with edginess. X factor. X Men. X Ray. X rated films. XXX. All super fucking cool

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He originally wanted "Model 3" to be called "Model E" so that the three (at the time) Tesla models could spell out "SEX". Fortunately that name was already taken. He's a petulant child.

[-] CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.org 16 points 11 months ago

I'll admit, BACK THEN, I thought it was funny and was sad E was taken. But yeah perspective changes when you realize how much worse he is/was/will be.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 25 points 11 months ago

Also, he's an unoriginal dipshit. All he's good at is buying things and slapping his name on 'em, he's never had an idea of his own.

[-] nzodd@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

DJ Khaled Techbro Edition

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

He's also good at investing his dad's slavery money.

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

I think you are actually correct about this, I dont think it goes any deeper

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 49 points 11 months ago

X.com is his product he owned, that is loosely associated with PayPal's success despite it having nothing to do with the tech that it was merged for.

By "absorbing" twitter with his original X company that is older than twitter, he can pretend to be the founder of the parent company X, like he pretends to be the founder of Tesla.