So, the Tesla Robotaxi rollout is going great and they are following all applicable local laws to autonomously drive safely. /s

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    3 days ago

    I like that they still insist on using the name Twitter. It makes me sad when a media outlet gives up and starts calling it X.

    Going with something like “X (formerly Twitter)” seems like a reasonable compromise.

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      It’s Twitter, because otherwise the language makes no damn sense.

      What do you do on Twitter? You tweet your thoughts, as individual tweets.

      Like, I don’t call it X, because the branding has no internal logic, I don’t know the words for how to refer to things on X.

      Like, what would I do on X? I would X my thoughts as individual Xes? Axises? God, can’t say Axis on Twitter, you’ll get FAR too many neonazis liking your Axises. And if I want to close the window for X? I’ll click on the X in the top right hand corner of X – fuck, it’s so confusing!

      What the fuck – they took the most recognizable short-form blogging language on earth, branding so ubiquitous that everyone intuitively understood it and used it reflexively, and rebranded it into a pile of internally inconsistent shit.