Musk has owned x.com for many years. It goes back to paypal days.

First of all by saying “the PayPal days” shows you have very little idea what you’re talking about and I’m not going to elaborate.

Second of all, so what? What does that have to do with him just picking a Unicode character at 4am on a Saturday?

Your argument was this logo change was planned.

Okay, so he’s planning on turning it into a finance platform, and you’re saying it was “part of his master plan” to pick a logo at 4am that can’t be trademarked (because it’s just a Unicode character), such that any one can setup a login page for using the logo, to harvest X.com credentials, and they can’t do anything because they don’t own the trademark?

Brilliant plan.

I don't understand the vitriol. Why do you care? It's like half the internet has Musk derangement syndrome.

Because you’re defending a grifter, claiming “this was all part of a plan” when it’s clearly either a manic episode or him on drugs.

> him on drugs.

Hey isn't he still majority owner of SpaceX (Jesus, there's the X again, somehow that hadn't dawned on me yet)?

Doesn't a huge proportion of their income come from government contracts?

Aren't there... you know, some laws about that exact thing?

Oh who'm I kidding, only the peons have to sweat about their lives being ruined by getting high on the weekends. Rich people are too good for that, of course.

Besides, he's probably got bullshit prescriptions for most of it.

I believe the WSJ reported that his security clearance is being reviewed over his ketamine usage

Absolutely. He's been open, even evangelistic about that, and anyone familiar with drugs can quickly recognize that it's a WHOLE other thing beyond your basic Joe Rogan bakemind routine. Elon has gone full Syd Barrett. It's not going to get better.

I remember back in 2018/ 2019 in SF, when "microdosing" ketamine and/ or LSD started becoming big with tech folks. It was (and still is) always painfully and embarrassingly obvious when someone is "microdosing".

> embarrassingly obvious when someone is "microdosing".

Maybe because of the placebo effect. Chances are that if you were actually microdosing but didn't knew about it you wouldn't even notice it.

I really don't see how it's any different than having a drink every day....

Which by definition makes one an alcoholic.

You’re acting as if Musk’s actions don’t affect anyone. Ask the two decapitated individuals who died at the hands of Tesla auto pilot how they feel about Musk’s poor decision making. People had communities they liked on Twitter and Musk destroyed them ruining careers and upending lives in the process.

And he did it all so capriciously. There still doesn’t seem to be any reason for it.

Seriously, fuck that guy.

(As a fly on the wall, I’m sorry you had to experience this side of HN. There are better threads. Keep remembering that.)