Twitter is no longer the bird app, changes icon to dogecoin doggo

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Twitter's traditional bird icon was booted and replaced with an image of a Shiba Inu, an apparent nod to dogecoin, the joke cryptocurrency that CEO Elon Musk is being sued over https://t.co/5iIl6H6yew
- CNN (@CNN) April 3, 2023

• ICYMI, local man replaced Twitter's iconic blue bird logo yesterday with the Shiba Inu dog from Dogecoin.


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[violue]

'why is there a doge on Twitter' cause musk is getting sued for 258 BILLION over crypto profiteering and he wants to bury search results
- Calvin Wong Tze Loon 黃子倫 🇲🇾 (@ithayla) April 3, 2023

[therearewords]

Oopsie.

[violue]

it makes me so MAD bc that's actually clever as fuck and i don't want to give him credit for it

[therearewords]

I'm sure he didn't come up with it.

[scriptedending]

I genuinely miss when Twitter was functional.

[kamikashi]

man one of the biggest annoyances is how fucked up twitter video functionality is siiiigh

[therearewords]

It's so annoying, why should I press play on anything?!

[pi_lady]

My laptop crashed last night when I clicked play on that viral couple at the TSwift concert video.

[asnindie]

I hope he loses the lawsuit

Also Twitter is abit of a disaster. The search function is broken.

[ishi_chan]

Honestly I stopped using it and it was one of the better decisions I've made in the last decade

[gillenvillain]

Same. I don't miss it. I don't miss IG either and never joined TT.

[sandstorm]

If he had to posture about buying a shitty website, I wish it had been LinkedIn instead.

[azn_trang]

ugh linkedin the worst. all i get are bots or creepy men hitting on me and trying to get my number or it's full of stories about working 80 hr weeks for the grind

[rose_of_love]

Honestly. I have had to revamp the Linkedin page for our company and the way my eyes roll back to Ancient Egypt when I scroll through my feed, istg. It's Facebook for MBA bros and 100% hustle culture wank.

[pseudonygma]

I hate it for that exact reason. It's nothing but an echo chamber for upholding greedy capitalist companies. Hustle culture we should be criticising, not praising. Nobody should feel the need to work several jobs on top of their full time job just to keep up/survive.

If companies are paying their staff accordingly and not hoarding all the profits for CEO perks, people wouldn't need to juggle so many jobs. Companies should take pride that their employees can afford whatever luxuries they want solely on the income said company is paying them. I know raises can be a touchy topic in times of economical uncertainty but there's nothing stopping companies from handing out bonuses every few months.

[pikapika217]

He literally could've just bought it and.....let it run as it had been?! The need to be self important has cost him LITERAL BILLIONS of dollars, what a mess 😂

[sarahvma]

I'm not normally a huge conspiracy theorist, but I think there's an added layer here of trying to "prove" that creative jobs have no value because he was a co-founder of the AI company that created ChatGPT. So much of his early ranting/gloating/joking was about how creative jobs were just a waste of time and space with (lbr, primarily female) employees swanning around with their Starbucks and not doing much.

tl;dr it's at least partly an attempt to convince people that only engineering/tech jobs are "real" and that everything else is fluff that AI can replicate.

[ishi_chan]

Aren't a lot of tech jobs endangered by AI?

[sarahvma]

I mean, the vast majority of jobs are endangered by AI unless we either put more safeguards in place or give in and go UBI.

But I find it curious that there's so much talk around "AI can paint and write!" given that it's application would clearly be better suited to coding, for instance.

If people wanted to be smart (rather than just greedy), they'd accept that AI is a tool that people can use, but that it shouldn't be used to replace people. But we tend to be greedier than we are smart.