In October 2022 Musk said "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".

If someone says "I'm going to throw orange paint on the Mona Lisa", I don't actually get upset until the Mona Lisa is orange.

Oh, lovely. Just like the Chinese “everything app”? With the social scores?

There are a lot of people that might try to do that this year in the name of climate change, for some reason, probably because they think it was printed on paper.

Can you give an example of somebody who has thrown orange paint on any painting (i.e. not on a piece of glass in front of a painting)?

While I’m not aware of any of the incidents actually having caused damage to the master pieces (all have been on the protective glass), these acts are not without cost to the wrong organizations and people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/arts/design/climate-prote...

No doubt the analogy was overwrought, but please don't break the site guidelines like this. It only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There is no way you are serious, it’s just a website. You can’t compare it to one of the most famous works of art.

Seeing as Art is riddled with subjectivity, you absolutely could. And calling twitter “just a website” is disingenuous as it facilitates real-time global communication and a scale not previously reached by humans. I personally never used twitter, but I still respect what they built.

There is no way you are serious, it's just a piece of paper. You can't compare it to one of the most famous websites.

It can pretty easily go both ways. The Mona Lisa have been a cultural icon for a long time, but Twitter has had a massive influence on culture since it's inception.

You are misinformed, canvas is not paper.

I don't think it matters for the point I was making.

The Mona Lisa was painted on a wood panel, not paper or canvas.

So much for me being smarty-pants...

There are other similarities with Elon’s Twitter too. It’s hard to tell where the Mona Lisa is looking or what’s going on with her. There is a strange fog in the background and some scorched earth.