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The fact that Elon didn't also announce who the CEO will be is very telling.

Given his sense of humor I bet he hired an AI to be CEO.

I think one of the Twitter execs is the CEO. This entire exercise is to allow him to distance himself from the dumpster he set on fire.

It's not him kidding. Also his "humor", stolen memes aside, 9/10 times only used to mask unexpected turn of events behind the scenes (such as being sued about something he said, or something turning out really, really wrong).

Stolen memes? What an odd concept.

Normal people would retweet someone's content or quote it, unless they want to change it in some way that requires posting it as their own. Or moving it to a media where it can't be directly shared with attribution.

That's what normal people do. This is, in fact, why when Musk posts a meme, that tweet gets thousand of retweets. Ever thought about how if "stolen meme" was an odd concept, then the retweet count would be 0?

It's an odd concept by just the traditional definition of the term; being copied and redistributed (regardless of attribution) en mass is just the way that memes propagate to begin with.

Zooming in on both the twitter use case, and how most users of those platforms see meme ~= funny image or OC, a stolen meme is more akin to stealing a joke.

So "stolen memes" is a phrase that makes zero sense for the broader definition of the word meme, but makes complete sense for the more specific definition.

His sense of humour is so cringe, he is trying so hard to be in touch with Gen Z humour.

I saw one article that quoted him as saying 'she' will be starting... my first thought was that it will be Grimes. Doing something like that seems totally in-keeping with Musk's style.

My first thought was Shivon Zilis. Elon seems to like to keep his inner circle tight.

> I saw one article that quoted him as saying 'she' will be starting...

The tweet reads:

> Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!

Wasn’t there a child protection activist, somewhat related to the Trump-sphere, that used to court him during the first months of his tenure?

I hope he hasn’t taken that bait…

Meet . . . ‘Elona’!

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