For the past two years on Techdirt we've referred to X as ExTwitter, which got across the point of what it was. But I'm now calling it X. Because Twitter is well and fully dead. X is purely a personal propaganda platform of Elon Musk that has nothing to do with what Twitter once was. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Twitter Is Dead, X Is Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering Last week, Elon Musk's Grok AI started s...
EU is demanding that every site use age verification technology, while insisting it do things it cannot do, and behave in a manner it cannot behave. This is not policy making. This is wishful thinking, with a side of "we'll just blame the tech companies for not waving their magic wand." RE:
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Euractiv (@euractiv.com)
Commission’s guidelines for online child safety target platforms of all sizes http://dlvr.it/TLvqCV
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Over the weekend Elon admitted that Grok basically had two modes: "woke libtard cuck" or "mechahitler" and he couldn't figure out how to make it anything else. I guess he turned the dial towards mechahitler again. RE:
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The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com)
Days after praising Hitler and calling for a new Holocaust, Elon Musk’s chatbot is back at it, writes @matteowong.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4lv...
Randomly impressed by comment spammers who sign up for a Techdirt account six months ago and then suddenly pop up now to try to spam our comments (yes, we still catch them and delete them, usually before any spam is visible to visitors, but still, weird that they sign up and wait so long).
An exciting moment. If you backed our One Billion Users card game, the cargo ship with all the games arrived in Long Beach, CA today. Will still take some time, but getting closer to shipping them out... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreih5juy4i3ztjjxa4vm7ve4dq2ehy635w4svrmrdxagn7zwtrsfuou
Saying "you guys did you see this" is how you shine light on the behavior and remind people this is not normal, and this is the thing we need to pushback against. GTFO with "you're not doing anything helpful in pointing out these things." RE:
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Glaxton T. EnoughWolf (@8stringandsushi.bsky.social)
The sooner people realize that laws, norms, and all that are out the window the better. None of this is normal, and “you guys did you see thiss...
So... he had his xAI (powered by chips he took from his public company, Tesla) buy X to cover his losses there and now he's having his SpaceX give money to xAI. Sorta feels like a shell game to prop things up. [www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-...](https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-elon-musks-xai-413934de ) [Exclusive | SpaceX to Invest $...](https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-elon-musks-xai-413934de?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAhsLZ4TlKnsI_jE8YylK5tvaTehGSjUHWkJhLid5-QxTqgRUPHUIRqZWATY4Lk%3D&gaa_ts=68736879&gaa_sig=jOQrB0D_Ikk02iaB4m419f_37rfJxMnpHTeZYxdedOAHMAdc8HbOHuAqNQXX_exQ94GK7FXiiVmsr9EbY--Q2w%3D%3D )
Saturday night music post. Too Many Zooz has released a video of their (somewhat funkier) cover of the jazz standard Caravan. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Bx...]( ) [Too Many Zooz - “Caravan” [Off...]( )
Latest [@syskpodcast.bsky.social](
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Stuff You Should Know (@syskpodcast.bsky.social)
The best darn podcast in the land! https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episodes/
 ) is all about SixDegrees, the very first social network (which I used!). So many people forget that it existed, so nice to see the coverage. I'd link to it, but SYSK's website doesn't seem to have ways to link directly to episodes
This is a great list that keeps getting better as more get added. RE:
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Keith (@mosheroperandi.bsky.social)
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabu...