Can’t find it now, but originally it was reported that Elon got the logo from someone who replied to his tweet and that it was the lid logo for someone’s unsuccessful podcast.
Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
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Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#92Ah so that's how we're supposed to Google for tweets now. "𝕏 something something".
No, you're supposed to go to X and search on there. And consume ads.
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#93Musk 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…
> He’s taking an underperforming social network and trying to make it work.
Few would argue that it works better now than before
> Perhaps its just that people don’t like his personality, I suppose it's more complicated:
- he promised "freedom of speech" and Twitter has rather become "freedom of hate"
- he is taking constantly controversial political positions, usually favoring dictators, and this doesn't resonate very well in the western world
Maybe people just wish he would have stayed the way he was: a sort of fascinating "Doc Brown" rather than yet another average billionaire pushing political ideas through his wealth and popularity.
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#94It's actually time for someone to adopt this character [1] at the gold level ($5,000), which is only allowed for the single entity and doesn't expire---so that X.com doesn't have a chance to sponsor the character at the same level. [1] https://home.unicode.org/adopt-a-character/about-adopt-a-cha...
>All sponsors are acknowledged in Sponsors of Adopted Characters and our public Twitter feed and will receive a custom digital badge for their character.
Wait, do they mean their public X feed?
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#95It's actually time for someone to adopt this character [1] at the gold level ($5,000), which is only allowed for the single entity and doesn't expire---so that X.com doesn't have a chance to sponsor the character at the same level. [1] https://home.unicode.org/adopt-a-character/about-adopt-a-cha...
Who cares if x.com sponsors it? In fact they should because emojis are so popular on it and Unicode could use the fund. Why should someone try to get this? What is their benefit?
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it
Is this like when that Roman emperor named his horse as a senator, or are we not quite there yet?
The most sane interpretation is that Elon Musk was payed to dilute or destroy Twitter. I can't think of anything else that would make sense.
Throwing 44 billion dollars on a company and then gutting it for everything that was valuable including a unique brand that had even its own verb?
But the sad reality is probably that a 12 years old narcissist edgelord in the body of a billionaire wanted a vanity plate.
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#97It makes typesetting easer, pretty genius really! /s We're going to see a trend of companies using Unicode characters for their logo now aren't we?...
I am not sure you can trademark the Unicode mark though. Doesn’t this preclude trademarks then?
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#98This 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…
The "bb" in "mathbb" isn't for "math, baby" (although accurate), but short for "blackboard bold". These letterforms don't originate with blackboards though, using outlines for thick verticals goes back centuries. They're sometimes called open face.
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#99You can also access x.com when using the Unicode Character https://xn--971h.com (𝕏.com)
Are you sure? When I type https://xn--971h.com in it doesn't work, but clicking the link in your comment does because HN has made the href x.com. The browser converts 𝕏.com to x.com before going there too. Moreover, X and 𝕏 are treated as equivalent characters in this context, so whois 𝕏.com looks up x.com, and 𝕏.com's punycode encoding is x.com: https://www.whatsmydns.net/idn-punycode-converter?q=%F0%9D%9... who…
HN automatically converts these urls to punycode, maybe this is a bug and it automatically converts everything to punycode even though it doesn't make sense?
Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
#100[flagged]
That’s a swastika for anyone who doesn’t particularly want it to show up on their screen in a public place