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BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler

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Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨RandAlThor@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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  • ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Hot dog!

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t believe people still use Twitter.

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    • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.

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      • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This sketch was about Facebook but it’s also relevant to Twitter

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      • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.

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      • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the “best” content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don’t have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.

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      • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People use it for the same reason they use Truth Social.

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      • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Unfortunately I think people don’t care how the sausage is made. It has porn and racist edgy memes so they’ll keep coming back.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?

        People. Lots of people. Including Doctor Cory Doctorow and Molly White.

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    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter… What’s INFURIATING is that gov’t agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??

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      • don@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The Secretary of Defense coordinated military operations on Signal, accidentally included a reporter to the group chat (who later spilled the tea on the whole thing), and in that chat claimed they were “clean” on their opsec.

        That’s what republicans do. They’re dumber than a bag of wet bags.

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      • wetsoggybread@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My friend works for a local town that has a presence on fb, twitter, and inatgarm. The main reason he says they haven’t moved to platforms like blsky is because as a government entity they are required to be able to archive all online communications for situations like a Right-to-know request but run into the issue that these small platforms aren’t supported by the archiving software so they can’t move away completely until then. Fun fact: 1st amendment prevents the government pages from removing or hiding comments you leave on their posta

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t be surprised that fascists use the fascist megaphone.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.

      Apparently it’s too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.

      If the vast majority of people can’t be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.

      Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It’s just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.

      And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.

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      • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Are you saying 90% of Americans bought a Tesla last month?

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yea I really don’t understand this, like move it’s 2 seconds to join bluesky…like damn

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can’t believe…

      This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I’d ever live through.

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    • Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People just don’t want to quit because the alternatives aren’t populated enough… Which is caused by people not leaving. Twitter is to many a necessity for their business, just like many softwares provided by scum companies.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        bluesky is populated “enough”.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      2 foreign parties have interest in keeping it up. MSB and putin.

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      people are always resistant to changing habits

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I feel like the common use cases are:

      1. you’re MAGA nut
      2. you’re not a MAGA nut, but you want to see what the loonies are talking about
      3. You’re a marketer or influencer and you know MAGA nuts also buy shit
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      • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m guessing also - 3b. and you know they buy stupid shit

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    • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps you shouldn’t. At this point, it’s likely the majority of users are bots.

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    • Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lots of Nazis around these days. That’s why.

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lots of people addicted. Never had it, thought it was stupid when it came out.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lotsa Nazis out there.

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s still some information on certain topics, where it is the best place to find it. OSINT for example.

      People who use Twitter to publish and have a large audience are reluctant to leave their followers behind. Convincing followers to go over to a new platform is not so easy. If you fear losing 70% of your followers, if you switch to Blusky, or 95% if you switch to Mastodon, then it might be risky financially.

      Network effects are strong.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most of the content here is from twitter, so yeah…

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      • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What?

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    • Lizardking13@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me, it’s the best place for quick sports updates. Many writers have moved to bluesky, but many more have not. Sports Twitter is the sole reason I use it.

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      • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This right here summarizes the problem.

        “Yeah it’s full of Nazis and has had a big hand in the downfall of modern America, but my convenience!”

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  • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her Image

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  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.

    Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.

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    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.

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  • secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In possible defense of this woman…

    So initially, she’s a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around… And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there’s still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there’s still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn’t mean the struggle for woman’s rights is over and that there’s not some value to women taking top positions and large corporations.

    And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things…

    AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?

    And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new change completely undermined her.

    So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she’s moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She’s a businesswoman.

    Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

    Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.

    Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn’t kill us all), and so shouldn’t woman be able to succeed?

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    • napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

      And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Honestly the above comment infuriated me.

        They would not be defending this person if they were a man.

        Having lower expectations of women isn’t progressive, it isn’t feminist. It’s infantising. It’s misogyny of lower expectations.

        A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.

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    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.

      Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.

      So I’m assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.

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      • The_Decryptor@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.

        Yep, Elon picked her for a reason.

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  • Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I would like to say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!

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  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you’re a Nazi.

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    • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So all of the Americans are by your definition?

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      • Aaron@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis… not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can’t fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The Nazi looked up to the US. They loved how we slaughtered the Native Americans and based their Holocaust on our policies. Wealthy people from the US were integral to funding the Nazi party.

        You do the math.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah … it’s best to grab what money you can now and run … because you won’t be able to later

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  • tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally haven’t heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.

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    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      she was hired to fix the advertiser exodus. Good reason to quit is this scandal would hurt her bonuses/job function.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also it’s a good excuse to quit when you can’t fix the advertiser problem.

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    • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thats because all of the heinously stupid things were done by the previous CEO.

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      • The_Decryptor@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The dog?

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  • JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.

    Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.

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  • manicdave@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.

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  • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.

    Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.

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  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Twitter has been a nazi shithole since day 1 of the Musk era. At least now people cant say they didn’t know anymore. If you stick there your either a nazi-bitch, or a nazi’s bitch.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She peaced out 3 months after 2 years. I wonder if she had shit that paid out on her anniversary.

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, according to one source:

      At X, her base salary was reportedly $6 million, according to Market Realist. In addition to this, she was eligible for up to $2 million in annual performance bonuses and received $4 million in stock options spread across a three-year term.

      So if she stuck around another year she’d have gotten another ~$1.3 million in stock options. Guess she figured it wasn’t worth it.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        she has to make musk happy, i wonder if musk tried to get her pregnant, since thats his fetish

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      she was just a standin for trump, who was still the actual chairman/ceo, she is put there to take the blame for X’s criticism.

      AKA a GLASS cliff situation.

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess you could say she’s the…

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    ( •__•)>⌐■-■
    (⌐■_■)

    …ex-CEO.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      checkmate libtards, she can’t ever quit!

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  • generic_computers@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not convinced she actually did anything as “CEO.” I’m sure that Elon just told her what to do/say and she made it seem like they were her ideas. There’s no way she had any ability to make any real changes or do any real work.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i have huge news about what a CEO usually does

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    • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thats one of the big problems with working at one of musks companies

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    She was a DEI hire anyway, right folks?

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    • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is it still a DEI hire if it’s also a glass cliff?

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Heh, that kinda reminds me of Microsoft Tay.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now

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    • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nobody! That’s the main value of AI!

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    • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And does Grok’s ‘output’ include its waste emissions in Memphis?

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    taps microphone

    Ahem.

    …

    Yaccitey-Yacc, Don’t Talk Back.

    …

    leaves stage

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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  • TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    X Pretend CEO Linda Yaccarino

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  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So sad when a CEO catches the woke mind virus, thoughts and prayers!

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    • kerntucky@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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  • LarryDanieldson@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But she’ll never wash that stanky musk off her upper lip.

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  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish we could’ve heard what they discussed so bad

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hitler Bot 5000 became sentient on July 9 2025 and started putting people over a barrel and gaping them at 2:35PM PST.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never go full Hitler

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  • Binturong@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yaccity Yacc, don’t come back…

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lol well it went longer than I thought it would.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    "I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.”

    But it isn’t the everything app. Oh, wait? Is it? Am I using it for everything?! No. I don’t use it for anything and neither should you.

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