Earlier quoted context omitted.
because elon renamed twitter to "x corp", bought the x.com domain and shoved this character on it.
The bird is a lot more recognizable, no? Maybe even beautiful?
Yeah, but not kewl enough.
Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it's trendy to hate on Elon.
If he stopped making egregiously terrible decisions in public, the attention would stop.
Thus far there is a positive correlation between “egregiously terrible decisions” (ETD) and attention. From a naive perspective the attention is caused by ETD. However it may be worthwhile to test the alternative hypothesis that ETD are attempts to increase attention. Maybe ETD fit within a larger set of “Attention Seeking Behavior” (ASB).
To the degree that ASB is “rewarded” with any feedback at all, even negative, then it will be reënforced.
Enjoying the attention of others is socially acceptable in some situations. However, an excessive need for attention can lead to difficulties in interpersonal relationships. However, as a tactical method, it is often used in combat, theatre (upstaging) and it is fundamental to marketing. One strategy often used by teachers and behavior analysts to counter various types of attention-seeking behavior is planned or tactical ignoring.
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#223You can also access x.com when using the Unicode Character https://xn--971h.com (𝕏.com)
Also https://xn--u1a.com is for sale (where х is a Cyrillic letter, see [0]). Would be funny to buy it and make a redirect to threads.net. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kha_(Cyrillic)
i thought all non-latin punycode domains were forbidden for purchase on .com?
edit - i looked up the whois, just because it's parked at godaddy doesn't mean it's for sale
Name: XN--U1A.COM
Internationalized Domain Name: х.com
Registry Domain ID: 106236037_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Domain Status:
clientDeleteProhibited
clientRenewProhibited
clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bird is a lot more recognizable, no? Maybe even beautiful?
It sounds like Elon had the domain and it was burning a hole in his pocket. That's the only explanation, honestly. Twitter as a brand becomes less valuable the more he alters it, since he's such a polarizing figure, so changing the brand to break continuity seems pretty counterproductive. It just reminds people that Elon is still fiddling with it.
> It sounds like Elon had the domain and it was burning a hole in his pocket. That's the only explanation, honestly.
I think he just thinks he’s getting his revenge and that everyone will see how his terrible idea of x.com was actually genius back in the day. Like a particularly expensive midlife crisis. A bit like some dudes who start playing guitar because they could not back in the day, when it was a useful tool to make friends and look cool.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I think you missed the point: the domain has not been in Musk's control that whole time, as I had thought. His company X.com had it, then PayPal got it when it was created in the merger of X.com and Confinity, and PayPal kept it after Musk left, but then Musk got it back.
This doesn't contradict what you're saying, but note that the company was only re-branded to PayPal after Musk left it. I think it was just named Confinity after the merger.
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#226This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…
> I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It's the new symbol for and domain name of the social? network formerly known as twitter.
Not to mention the X.org logo.
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#227Oh the Accessibility hawks at accounts like MathAbuse ( https://twitter.com/MathAbuse ) fighting Unicode 'fancy text' are gonna love this
It's strange they think computers don't have the ability to read text just because it looks fancier.
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#228Musk can seem to do no right atm, I see a lot of hate out there with this name change and planned product expansion but I can’t quite understand why. He’s taking an underperforming social network and trying to make it work. It might prove fatal, but it would have died a slow boring death in its old form. Perhaps its just that people don’t like his personality, which shouldn’t come into it. Fwiw even prior to his defu…
> Fwiw even prior to his defunding moderation it felt like one of the meanest places on the internet, I don’t see much of a change.
The meanest place on the internet is EJMR, the forum economists use to find job offers. Not joking.
The reason for this is unclear except that it's the most conservative social science.
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#229This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…
They are an accessibility nightmare. I read a comment here recently from a blind person that had to give up on math education entirely due to all of the symbols not being supported by screen readers. It was pretty sad.
I avoid using oddball Unicode characters for this reason,[1] but I also feel like at this point the can of worms has been unleashed, and the screen reader authors are going to have to adapt to a more hostile environment.
It seems like one approach might be something like this, assuming none of them are doing it already. If this is TLDR, the key feature relating to the topic at hand is the point about handling mathematical symbols, so skip everything except that one.
* Pre-parse the entire page and count the number of characters that would be read using a multi-word description. While doing this, create sub-counts of characters that fall into each Unicode script (Latin, Cyrillic, mathematical notation, etc.).
* If the number of characters that would be read using a multi-word description exceeds a user-specified threshold, prompt the user for how to proceed.
* First, tell the user how many different Unicode scripts (and blocks if necessary[2]) are contained on the page. For each set, prompt using the following logic if the user hasn't already set a default:
** If a script/block/whatever consists of abstract symbols, like the mathematical set, offer to read it using the closest approximation in the character set it's derived from. e.g. for 𝕏, read it as "X" instead of "mathematical double-struck capital X". Read both 𝜸 ℾ as "gamma" instead of their lengthy "mathematical..." descriptions.
** If a script/block/whatever represents a spoken language, offer to do one of the following:
** Read it as if spoken by someone fluent in the language.
** Precede it with "the following [n] [script name] characters" and read each one individually, without any leading per-letter indicators, e.g. for "ΑΒΓΔ", "the following four Greek characters: alpha, beta, gamma, delta". Optionally include per-letter capitalization indication, but only if the user has previous enabled that option.
** Replace it with a count and the script name, e.g. "five hundred characters of Chinese script". Provide a way for the user to interrupt the narration and expand that section instead of omitting it.
* Allow the user to store all of the prompt answers as defaults and not prompt them again unless the user resets the option. e.g. "always read mathematical symbols as the closest Latin letter approximation".
* Maybe remind the user that it is an option in edge cases like "this entire page would be read as 'a series of 53,198 symbols you've suppressed reading'".
[1] One of my first full-time jobs, decades ago, was doing UI development with a focus on accessibility.
[2] Pretty unbelievable that the Unicode consortium has taken the position that an apparently unlimited number of stylistic variations on Latin letters should get their own Unicode renditions, but that basically every other culture's character sets gets merged into one style of character even if there are extensive historical reasons to have different renderings, and also has the time to keep adding corner-case emojis, but can't be bothered to provide a single way to easily differentiate "Cyrillic" from "Latin" as well as differentiate "mathematical notation" from "Latin".
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it's about the renaming of Twitter. [0] https://nitter.net/elonmusk
So it’s about Musk’s son name
Given that Musk's obsession with the "X" moniker goes back to the 90s at least, I imagine it would be more accurate to say his son's name and this rebrand are both branches from the same tree (see: x.com -> paypal, SpaceX, Tesla model X)