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lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 个月前

I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.

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I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.

lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 个月前
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  • billwashere@lemmy.world
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    7 个月前

    Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯

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      Because it’s text.

      There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance (日本語の例え)

      In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and 𝕏 is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.

      Basically, it’s just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
      That’s also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it’s just a letter, after all!

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        As a sidenote, looking up what the mathematical symbol actually means gave me this gem

        𝕏 redirects here, for the social media, see Twitter

        Even the Wikipedia community refuses to acknowledge this!

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        • Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.world
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          see the talk page of twitter

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            There is no concencus, slightly more people oppose to rename the page, but only sightly.

            I hope they keep it up, to avoid confusion, and to spite their current, dickhead CEO

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      It’s a distinct ascii character

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        not in ascii!!! in unicode!!!

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      unicode!

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