2y ago

'X' logo installed atop Twitter building, spurring San Francisco to investigate permit violation

abcnews.go.com

San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter

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Why did they use an image that cropped out the subject of the article??
- Here ya go
  
  It looks pop-up Spirit Store quality what the hell
  
  I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, but that looks like absolute shit.
  
  Lmao thanks for this. It somehow looks even worse than I imagined.
  
  I don’t know what I was expecting but this is somehow worse.
  
  Is it finished?
  
  Now I am nostalgic for Erector sets.
  
  That must be why there were a couple helicopters flying above it a few days ago.
- I spent way too long searching for the X. Is it hidden in the Twitter lettering or one of the windows?... God I'm a dumbass
  
  Shhhh, you are not an idiot.
  It's not visible in the article.
  Be nice to yourself.
- This was my exact feeling.
  Then I thought "I remember when news was easy and available to search on Twitter"
  And then the answer was here. So thank you.
I bet the people who work at SpaceX and Tesla are having a really nice year, just getting on with their work unbothered while Musk is focusing all of his dumb energy on Twitter.
- Everyone at Boring Co just hoping he forgets they exist
Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.
- Plus the fact that X is already trademarked in many countries.
  All of which they’d know if their dumbass CEO — er, I mean their CTO who definitely isn’t running the company because they have a CEO who is a different person — had bothered to look into it.
- On iOS I only just yesterday finally got a suggested app update so the icon could change. It’s been the bird still all week. Not exactly prepared, were they.
- I guess they must count graphemes instead of bytes — "𝕩" is four bytes.
  
  “Great, can’t wait to open up my U+1D54F app and send off a bunch of U+1D54Fs!”
  —Musk, probably
Interesting that Musk has money for this, but somehow can’t pay any of twitter’s other bills.
- I don't know that he has money for this. It appears to be fashioned out of plastic coat hangers they had lying around.
  
  Literally looks like he went to a scrapyard and stole some metal poles.
Elon’s “Move fast, break stuff” philosophy includes municipal codes.
I don’t get why he’s so allergic to getting permits.
- That would imply an authority higher than Elon that he must submit to, and that just isn't possible.
- He's a spoiled, self-congratulatory, masturbatory narcissist who has never experienced even basic levels of hardship.
I've largely been using mastodon since twitter just looks like garbage.
Wonder if it'll light up and glow at night, it's already pretty tacky so I wouldn't be surprised tbh
- Probably even animated, maybe it pulses every time Pedon tweets one of his brain farts to make sure the whole neighborhood knows about it
Before you know it he will change his name to Exon Musx Xquire
- The X stands for xociax medix.
Now I know who xxlegolasxx was… what a noob
City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
OK but this is pretty ridiculous too
- Why? You don't want that crap to fall on people's heads.
  
  Permit doesn't prevent that.

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