Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8
My favorite part:
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”
His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.
If people actually follow Musk when he gets to Mars, that’s going to be their planetary overlord. He’ll just take their oxygen and they’ll thank him.
No way he ever gets people to mars.
He’ll rename Mars to Z before he gets there. When they inevitably won’t get there, he’ll declare that their craft is actually the thing called Z.
So that’s why he started that Optimus robot project. It’s going to turn out like Westworld, isn’t it?
Apparently it’s just called Xygen™ when on Mars.
“10x the cost for a tenth of the oxygen as normal air!”