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Twitter's giant glowing X was put up without a permit, say SF officials (www.theregister.com) similar stories update story
8 points by mikece | karma 35535 | avg karma 5.86 2023-07-31 11:47:05 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



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The strobing light really has to be seen to be believed. I doubt the people in the apartment building directly across the street have had any proper sleep since last week.

I've read a lot about how Elon Musk supposedly wanted to have a(nother) company called "X" for decades now. How can that be true when he did not appear to have a logo ready to replace the Twitter bird?

He didn't think about the details that deeply and the sudden move was a spur of the moment decision, unknown and unexpected by any designers Musk actually works with.

A more charitable idea might be that any old logo idea might quickly become outdated, so it makes more sense to commission something from the best of the best, with your massive wealth, just in time when you need it.


Yeah, one might almost think that Elon Musk is an impulsive man with little focus whose course of action changes on the drop of a hat.

Almost.

Anyway, it's not "supposedly", I thought there was some pretty convincing that the man wants an "X" product already. He literally used x.com commercially in the past, before paypal. One of the main models of Tesla cars is X. His most-successful business literally has the letter X at the end of the name.

The man's obsessed with the letter X, which is sad, because it's my favorite letter, too, and I don't wanna share it with him.


why do you need city municipal approval to install a sign on your own building? even if rented, even if owned, why? just why?

Have you seen a video of this sign? It’s glowing and flickering a harsh white and is situated exactly opposite a tall apartment building.

Quite right. Now that he’s had to take them down off the office, Elon will be around to set up his strobe lights outside your bedroom tomorrow.

Because that is what a municipality is!

It's kind of the whole point that you are agreeing to share the space you are in. If you don't want to share, go occupy an incorporated chunk of land.


Because when people took it upon themselves, they apparently secured it with sandbags, creating a serious hazards in high wind conditions.

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