Re:Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
by steve_adams_86 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:25PM
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I'm not a Jackson fanatic, but everything Musk is doing could have (and very likely would have) been done by someone else in a relatively close timeframe. I won't claim Jackson couldn't have had a similar counterpart on an alternate timeline or there won't be more like him, but there are remarkably few artists and performers who are so prolific and talented to such a degree that they noticeably shift the direction of popular culture for decades. If Musk went away today, frankly I don't think many people would think of him within 5 years or so.
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Re:Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
by vanviegen on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:53AM
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> everything Musk is doing could have (and very likely would have) been done by someone else in a relatively close timeframe
Why do you think that? As far as I can tell, both electric cars and reusable rockets technically could have been done decades earlier. But for all this time nobody was crazy enough to go all-in on it, until Musk did.
Re:Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
by steve_adams_86 on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:26PM
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I’ll concede that I can’t prove anything in one direction or the other. Years ago I did admire Musk for these things though, and yet the more I learn the less confidence I have that he truly was instrumental in these developments in a way that meaningfully changed the course of history (sorry determinists).
His individual actions certainly bumped things forward. I suppose what I doubt is that no one else would have done that, or that steady gradual adoption wouldn’t have been as far off as we imagine.
I should add a disclaimer here that I don’t feel very strongly about this stuff, and I’m pretty comfortable with being wrong. I also don’t have any major hang ups about Musk; he has undeniably done some great work.