Elon Musk's Twitter

Twitter Inc has been merged into X Corp and no longer exists. The company is currently being sued by right wing pro-vacatour Laura Loomer, but accused of violating federal racketeering laws when it banned her account. As the defendant, Twitter had to submit corporate disclosure statements to the court. See, not only has Elon ruined Twitter, he has ruined the letter X. You know, X used to be cool. Now, X is Elon. I think we need to stage a revolt.

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The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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