<story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Everything Musk does looks a lot like some of my high-level, successful, Mary-Sue-like RPG characters I had. Including desogn rooted in what influenced my childhood, in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi. Well, I never had the money to try that in real life, and anyway I outgrew it before I got my drivers liscense. Looking at it from that perspective, it is borderline pathetic and just sad.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;so Elon can use a domain he&amp;#x27;s sat on since &amp;#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it&amp;#x27;s the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service.&lt;p&gt;2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal.&lt;p&gt;Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>heyjamesknight</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don&amp;#x27;t care enough to have an opinion.&lt;p&gt;This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It&amp;#x27;s accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like &amp;quot;Tweet&amp;quot; into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, &amp;quot;Twitter&amp;quot; and its &amp;quot;Tweets&amp;quot; have been at the core of international discourse for a decade now.&lt;p&gt;Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he&amp;#x27;s sat on since &amp;#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Anybody who&amp;#x27;s read their Heinlein and is aware of Musk and his father&amp;#x27;s fandom of Heinlein books can see the obvious inspiration here. It&amp;#x27;s not just the private technological innovation, it&amp;#x27;s also the libertarianism, the obsession with interplanetary colonization and a relatedly natalist form of free-love.&lt;p&gt;edit: and in the case of Errol Musk, a very genetics-driven opinion on the morality of incest, see Heinlein&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Time Enough for Love&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/twitter-has-officially-changed-its-logo-to-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Everything Musk does looks a lot like some of my high-level, successful, Mary-Sue-like RPG characters I had. Including desogn rooted in what influenced my childhood, in Musks SpaceX case it seems to be th 50s SciFi. Well, I never had the money to try that in real life, and anyway I outgrew it before I got my drivers liscense. Looking at it from that perspective, it is borderline pathetic and just sad.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;so Elon can use a domain he&amp;#x27;s sat on since &amp;#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it&amp;#x27;s the domain of the company he co-founded (X.com), that merged with the company that became PayPal (Confinity), that led to him briefly being CEO before Thiel took over and pivoted to focus on the PayPal service.&lt;p&gt;2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal.&lt;p&gt;Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>heyjamesknight</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don&amp;#x27;t care enough to have an opinion.&lt;p&gt;This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It&amp;#x27;s accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like &amp;quot;Tweet&amp;quot; into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, &amp;quot;Twitter&amp;quot; and its &amp;quot;Tweets&amp;quot; have been at the core of international discourse for a decade now.&lt;p&gt;Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he&amp;#x27;s sat on since &amp;#x27;99 seems exceedingly foolish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Elon Musk is what happens when an 8-year-old boy is the richest man in the world. He builds cars and trains and tunnels and flamethrows and rockets.</text></comment>