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!

Do you have a template for new issues? If so, you could write a GitHub Actions workflow that looks for certain values or info and applies some labels automatically… but probably only basic stuff, to avoid false positives.

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