Don’t forget this bit:

“It’s entirely possible that he was smart, I’m sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk’s direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he’s succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.”

It’s a little worse than ‘not going well’, is my point.

• Offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion
• Try to back out when Twitter says “ok lol”
• Get forced to complete the purchase
• Saddle Twitter with the debt you now have as a result of buying Twitter
• Invite all the previously-banned bigots and hatemongers back on the site
• Make your staff’s lives hell, including bullshit ‘performance’ stuff like checking how many lines-of-code they write, so most of them are either fired or leave on their own
• Raise API prices sky-high, get ridiculed
• Lock everything behind user log-in, logged-out users can’t see anything
• Rate-limit how many things logged-in users can do
• Break widgets
• Was once the public square of the internet, now weather services are moving to Mastodon
• “why are we still losing money >:(”
• Initiate a half-assed rebrand to “X” but the logo, 𝕏, is literally just a mathematical symbol. Who needs copyright on your billion dollar company’s brand identity, eh?

Whoa, be careful everyone, these are the slick moves of a master genius!

It’s entirely possible that he was smart, I’m sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk’s direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he’s succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.

It becomes a lot easier to understand when you remember that he might just be kinda stupid :)

This is a great thread, thanks everyone!

Definitely prefer the new logo. The old one looked like a wasp, and therefore infinitely more aggressive and vengeful.

Genuine question: how much of the marketing material did you see? I thought it was always clear that it was gonna be an exploration/puzzle game in a cyberpunk world with a baddie.

I had the opposite reaction, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the small things, like scratching a carpet!

I do hope you find something more like what you’re wishing for, though 🙂

And even then, you could still do that unique Pokemon idea without using a blockchain. Use unique identifiers in a good old database, or, heck, just tell the user with words, “there are many pidgeottos but this one is yours”.

A blockchain idea has to not only be a good idea, but also not possible with simpler technology for it to be genuinely worthwhile.

Okay… this is impressive