Hints and tips:
...Some noted her absence from the rebranding announcement to users from Musk last month when he said Twitter would lose its well-known bird logo and become “X”....
...“Windmills rust, they rot, they kill the birds,” the former president said....
...The Hollywood trip comes just days after Musk announced a radical overhaul of the Twitter brand, changing its name and logo to “X”, and abandoning the bird logo that has been associated with the platform...
...“For [then chief executive Jack] Dorsey and Twitter, it was an embarrassing and costly introduction to dealing with Trump,” writes Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner in his new book Battle for the Bird....
...And with it has gone not just the familiar bird logo, but also a whole lot of Twitter vocab: the tweet has become the much more generic “post”. Gone, too, are the retweet and quote-tweet....
...A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty Faber, £16.99, 368 pages...
...As with those series, Flipping the Bird is pacy and polished, with an irreverent tone....
...Both now also refer to X Corp in the listing....
...Musk has already made significant changes to Twitter since he bought the company last year, changing its name to X Corp in filings as part of his plans to create an “everything app” under the brand “X”....
...Will Hooker has left Pallas Partners, the law firm launched last year by a group of former Boies Schiller lawyers, to join US firm Alston & Bird as an arbitration partner in London....
...“Rupert is an odd bird. A cold fish, but a wet noodle — it’s pathetic — around those kids. They’re always stomping off and giving the poor guy the finger,” was the Ailes verdict on his former employer....
...Job moves Pearson’s chief executive Andy Bird is leaving after three years at the helm of the education group and will be replaced by Microsoft executive Omar Abbosh....
...If you’ve been on the formerly-bird-themed hellsite today, you’ll have noticed something of a rebrand has occurred....
...Kananginak Pootoogook’s nearby bird’s-eye painting of a boiling pot of berries is more idyllic in sensibility....
...No machine learning happens within the camera itself, but it already knows what certain things look like – specifically humans, animals, insects, birds, trains, planes and automobiles – and prioritises them...
...Sign up here for an early bird discount....
...Corporate security staff still have the little blue bird sewn on to their black polo shirts; the guest WiFi password is avian adjacent. Like the platform, this is a site in flux....
...Having vastly overpaid to free “the bird”, Musk will face an uphill battle to keep Twitter in the air financially....
...The Bird The Bird is one of the most iconic sculptures of the mid-to-late-stage capitalism cycle....
...Bird & Blend Tea makes herbal tea blends that are as pretty as pot-pourri (they’re also certified B Corp, carbon-neutral and significant donors to charity)....
...Elon Musk wants Twitter to become a lot more than a bird logo and a blue check mark. The self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” wants to transform the social media platform into a super app....
...That is why European commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted: “hi Elon Musk, in Europe, the bird will fly by our EU rules #DSA” in response to “the bird is freed”, which was Musk’s first tweet after becoming...
A timely global outage for the no-longer-$44bn valued blue bird
...Tweets per day show that bird-app addiction had subsumed Musk’s personality by 2019, having first become problematic in around 2014....
...“[T]he bird is freed,” he wrote hours after the deal closed, having already changed his public profile to “Chief Twit”....
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