True to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 8 months agoTwitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placementboingboing.netmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down10
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minus-squareAndrewlinkfedilink15•8 months agoI’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.
minus-squareThe_DecryptorlinkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoHis personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.
I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.
Same with the Hitchhikers stunt.
His personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.