America & the World V: DOGE Business

[Lebowski]

That's a great episode! The two Vice journos they have on really give you the full view of the guy who the Sound of Freedom is based on (Tim Ballard), too.

If you can't get enough of reading what about what a shady guy he is, here's a 2021 account of someone who got involved with his organisation and actually went on one of his 'raids' as a participant:

https://slate.com/human-interest/202...-railroad.html

this is the most shocking revelation of that article

Aftercare wasn’t really their focus, I was told, but they partnered with people who did it well.

the people that did it well

In 2014, after OUR’s first operation in the Dominican Republic, a local organization called the National Council for Children and Adolescents quickly discovered it didn’t have the capacity to handle the 26 girls rescued. They were released in less than a week.

So the girls they rescued where sent back to their family's who had trafficked them in the first place not one of the 26 that they rescued had any lasting effect on their situation, or after care. Yet here we are the myths of what their doing enshrined in a film with more and more people brought into the grift that their doing gods work, when all it really is is a way to stroke Tim Ballard's ego.

[wakka]

Exactly - and Ballard and his organisation completely misrepresent anti-trafficking work as being about kicking in doors and 'rescuing' kids when the truth of it is far more complex, far harder work, and far less glamorous. He is achieving the square root of **** all in terms of battling trafficking, but successfully burnishing his own reputation amid QAnon-associated anxieties among American conservatives about rampant child kidnapping.

[Neon Ignition]

Elon Musk reveals the new Twitter logo X | Twitter | The Guardian
Musk has revealed a new logo for Twitter which seems to prelude a move to abandon the Twitter brand altogether and tweet tags. He will instead use X, a move that would overnight erase the brand power of the site completely

Greece wildfires: firefighters tackle blazes on Rhodes, Corfu and Evia – live (theguardian.com)
Wildfires are raging through Corfu and Rhodes, the Tories have refused to suggest it might be best for tourists to stay away

[Lebowski]

Elon Musk reveals the new Twitter logo X | Twitter | The Guardian
Musk has revealed a new logo for Twitter which seems to prelude a move to abandon the Twitter brand altogether and tweet tags. He will instead use X, a move that would overnight erase the brand power of the site completely

If you even needed anymore evidence that the American Dream is real you need to look no further than Musk, thats someone so stupid can get so far is an amazing feat, the ultimate post turtle. You know he didn't have the ability to get there himself, he has no idea how he got there or what he's doing, he has no natural ability to accomplish anything from there, and you can't help but wonder what idiot put him there. You can only pity him, for the injuries he'll receive when he falls from that post.

[fuse]

You can only pity him

I beg to differ.

[Protocol Penguin]

Hang on, that Twitter logo is basically the logo of the X Window System, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

[Cassius_Smoke]

Pretty sure one of the keys to marketing is brand recognition. It's why Nike and Coka Cola havent changed their logo.

[briareos_kerensky]

Or if they did, they wouldn't have used the most generic logo, name, and colour scheme you could possibly find.
Not to mention drag the brand's previous recognition through the mud for months, let one of you direct competitors steal half of your subscribers, and change brand recognition at the drop of a hat.

[Neon Ignition]

Apparently for online social forums Microsoft own the patent to sites named X

And Musk didn't bother checking


Our survey says

[MartyG]

Musk is trying to bankrupt the company so he won't have to pay his loans back to the Saudi backers, it seems.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Apparently for online social forums Microsoft own the patent to sites named X

And Musk didn't bother checking


Our survey says

Is that true? Please be true

[Dogg Thang]

Apparently for online social forums Microsoft own the patent to sites named X

And Musk didn't bother checking


Our survey says

I can’t find any articles on this. Where did you see that?

[kryss]

X (1992) on the GameBoy, published by Nintendo.

[Dogg Thang]

I can’t find any articles on this. Where did you see that?

And now it’s everywhere: https://www.reuters.com/technology/p...me-2023-07-25/

[fishbowlhead]

Musk is trying to bankrupt the company so he won't have to pay his loans back to the Saudi backers, it seems.

Penny drops.