So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Musk has lost his case against OpenAI/Sam Altman, mostly just because he waited too long to sue.

He's likely to appeal, so see where it goes from there, but still, delighted for him. Not happy OpenAI won because f*ck AI, but currently happier that Musk lost because f*ck him even more.

The white, British director whose films have almost all had predominantly white main-character casts, cast a black woman in his new film which has a predominantly white main-character cast, and gets labelled an anti-white racist?

World's Smartest Man. Truly the most geniust genius of our time.

I just listened to Hugh Linehan describe Bluesky subscribers who jumped ship from Twitter as like being “stuck in a cabin” with each other.”

His interviewee Helen Lewis (a little more unkindly) described it as like being under the Chernobyl concrete containment dome and that being a good thing, because their extreme views aren’t leaking out to the wider political sphere as much as they used to. lol.

I might add there was a few things they touched on that I didn't agree with, but that's not for here.

As opposed to being stuck in twitter consuming military levels of automated bile ? Who wants to live like that.

If you could describe twitter to someone it would be the pink slime in Ghostbusters that lived off the negative vomit of the world.

Horrible place and should have been shut down by the EU years ago, it's the source of much of the political mess that's invested the globe.

I don't get why there are accusations that Bluesky is just an echo chamber when there is no obligation on people to use social media where you must be regularly exposed to different views or be challenged and have to defend everything you say. Not everyone uses social media for those purposes (and I'd say most who do have little else to be at).

It's not like Boards which is an actual discussion forum. Some people just use social media to get information/news, engage with things they like and with like-minded people, and don't want to deal with arguments and pedantry and abuse.

Personally I left Twitter because of Musk, and while I'm on Bluesky now, I use it in the same way I used Twitter; I follow accounts I like and never post or engage in anything on the site.

Horrible place and should have been shut down by the EU years ago

That's the real agenda here. Posters are saying they don't like and won't use it, which is all fine really. Wanting it shutdown is stopping other people from using it. Saying the quiet part loud really.