Impossible!
That guy’s been dead for years!
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I probably still have an account on X, which I’ve had for 20 years and basically never use. I’ve never had the app on this phone, or the prior one. Probably not the one before that, either. Or seems like more tricky to delete than it’s worth.
I actually have a real Facebook account, though. I’ve only used it in the last few years when someone contacted me and says, “did you hear that so and so died? Such and such posted about it in Facebook.” Then i go to Facebook, read the obit, express condolences, and get sucked into scrolling around for a few minutes. It’s fewer minutes each time because Facebook has really gone downhill in content. I used to only see stuff from friends and friends of friends. Now it serves me all sorts of random garbage. (In addition to the actual ads.)
I probably ought to delete the Facebook account. But i also do want to read obits of friends. 
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@davidbflower.bsky.social
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i also reach out and wish folks a happy birthday! it’s not all deaths. (although in the last 2 weeks I have friends whose 1st birthday post death occurred.)
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There’s one guy who asks for selfies as a birthday present, and i used to post one for him. But i just haven’t been on Facebook enough to do that. No one texts me and says, x hey, did you notice it’s Sam’s birthday".
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It’s not really surprising that a white guy who grew up in Apartheid South Africa is kinda racist.
I think everybody should hold him to that. How long until there is only Musk left?
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Free speech absolutist at work, folks. The guy who once said something like the goal of a free speech platform should be to piss off folks on the right and the left equally.
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Community wants more nudity
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Well, naked Nazis would at least be pleasingly alliterative.
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can confirm, am part of community and want more nudity.
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I haven’t used Twitter in many months. I do use Blueskky, but haven’t been nearly as active there as I was on Twitter a few years back.
One thing I appreciate about Bluesky now is that I feel like I have a quality curated set of knowledgeable local political reporters/wonks. I can’t get this knowledge easily elsewhere.
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X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending
A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino has made comments that seemed like similar warnings in conversations with Interpublic executives, according to people with knowledge of those talks.
Interpublic leaders interpreted the communications from X as reminders that the recently announced $13 billion deal to merge Interpublic with rival Omnicom Group OMC 0.23%increase; green up pointing triangle
could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government, some of the people said. They also had a front-row seat to Musk’s continued criticism of advertisers that ditched X since he bought it in 2022, when it was known as Twitter.
Interpublic has recently signed a new annual deal with X for potential client spending, people familiar with the agreement said.
“We do not make spending commitments on behalf of clients to any partner or platform, and decision-making authority always rests with the client,” an Interpublic spokesman said. Yaccarino and representatives from X didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. Photo: Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Zuma Press
Days after the Interpublic-Omnicom merger was unveiled, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, launched a probe and said the tie-up raised anticompetitive concerns. Interpublic and Omnicom work with an ad trade group that the committee investigated last summer, and which the committee determined in a July report might have violated antitrust laws by withholding ad spending from social-media platforms and conservative media outlets.
X filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in August, accusing the World Federation of Advertisers, an ad trade group, and several big brands such as candy maker Mars and CVS Health, of coordinating an illegal boycott of X following Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the platform in late 2022.
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The trade group shuttered an initiative dedicated to safeguarding marketers from harmful content after the suit was filed. It has said that the lawsuit misconstrues the purpose and actions of its responsible media efforts.
X upped the ante in early January by alerting the court that it planned to add more names to the lawsuit, which left advertisers fretting for weeks over whether they would be next. On Feb. 1, X added about a half-dozen more advertisers to the litigation.
“Some of the advertisers we work with have expressed that they feel there is an implied threat from X that they could be added to the lawsuit if they don’t return to X,” said Ruben Schreurs, chief executive officer of Ebiquity, a consulting firm that works with advertisers.
That legal threat has hung over the industry, including in sideline conversations during CES in January, a major event that attracts top advertisers, agencies, and media and tech companies.
WPP offices in London. Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters
Yaccarino and her top staff met with executives from several large ad companies including Omnicom Group and Dentsu during the conference, according to people familiar with the matter. During a meeting with WPP executives, Yaccarino pushed the London-based firm to sign an annual upfront deal, according to people familiar with that meeting, and later sought for spending commitments above prior levels, one of the people said.
Ad companies often sign deals with media and tech firms to set annual spending targets, which enable them to secure better ad rates and perks for clients. The pacts typically allow for agencies to adjust if client demand drops. While advertisers control spending, the brands often follow agency recommendations on where to direct their money. Some agencies that had annual agreements with X let them expire after the client exodus in 2022.
WPP is still negotiating with X, a person familiar with the discussions said. Publicis Groupe, the world’s largest ad company by net revenue, is in the process of signing a nonbinding annual ad pact, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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I feel for her if this is legit.
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Based on his track record, I believe it.
Yeah I’m thinking like 90% this is legit, 10% it’s not. Disclaimer: I don’t really know anything about Grimes. A singer I think?
My assessment might go up or down as I inevitably learn more about her.