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The icing on the cake: Microsoft owns a trademark for X. So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand.

  • temptest [any]
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    1 year ago

    hexbear: no unicode character

    𝕏: has unicode symbol

    nuff said, nerds.

    Bonus: and you thought SEO and finding search results for a name like "X" would be worse than Element and Matrix? Well now you can just type 𝕏 instead!

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      𝕏

      Everybody's google results are different and I watch a ton of movies but when I googled that - this horror movie was on the first page...

      X (2022) - IMDb

      In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

      I wonder if the movie gets a bump from Elon brain genius behavior.

      • temptest [any]
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        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Everybody's google results are different

        Yep so even beyond that personalization, I don't know the details of how each search engine works (I don't even default Google) but many will just interpret it literally as a normal 'x', especially if you don't write something like "unicode" or "blackboard bold" after it. Many search engines will 'normalize' the text to prevent things not showing up because you wrote naive instead of naïve, or 𝕩 instead of 𝕏.

        I wonder if the movie gets a bump from Elon brain genius behavior.

        There is a notable theory that Berkshire-Hathaway stock keeps getting bumped up by news-scanning and social-media scanning speculation bots whenever Anne Hathaway movies came out.

        Maybe bots will think that people are horrified by X and disinvest.

        • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          melon was actually just trying to extend the natural numbers (blackboard bold N) to include infinity, but his dumb ass skipped analysis and he didn't know ordinals already existed.