You’re thinking like a techy, put yourself in the layman’s shoes.

The Kindle was a pretty big deal as the first widespread e-reader. My tech-challenged mom got one and she loves how easy it is to get a book and have it there.

Given that this change won’t really affect her, she probably doesn’t care. There’s a lot more people like my mom than you or I.

It’s almost as if fusion is a significantly more difficult problem to solve than powered flight

Buzzfeed News was half decent but it doesn’t make up for how trash the rest of Buzzfeed was at the same time…

12 Ways Buzzfeed Made The Internet Worse

There’s no hard evidence that he’s actively pursuing it nor that he’s abandoned it, no.

Trying to make sense of his obsession with making an American WeChat is a fool’s errand

It’s been his dream since before Paypal. Now he has a leg-up on the competition and his hands in the treasury

I am an unabashed Twitter (not X.com) fan who continued to use it for a bit after he bought it and I feel like non-users don’t fully understand how fast it changed.

It wasn’t a slow shift to the right, it was nearly instant. I saw the first rightwing shit on my apolitical timeline literally days after he bought it. I stopped using it when I started seeing straight up Nazi shit.

As if I needed any more reason to hate them, Elon Musk, and to a lesser extent Donald Trump, ruined my favorite social media website.

Agreed but something being unpopular never stopped him before

It won’t but he still wants it bad enough to cling to it

Altman sucks but that’s a hilarious burn

Wrong. He’s definitely deadset on X.com being Da Everything App.

Buzzfeed was instrumental in making the internet a worse place with their slop content “listicles”

Sears Tower

Staples Center

6th Avenue

Gulf of Mexico

I don’t give a shit who thinks it should change, I’ll use the original names forever

It’s a shitty blurry photo with indistinguishable apendages