For a period (maybe still?), Twitter would lock any account that namechanged to "Elon Musk", but apparently they still haven't figured out how to do Unicode normalization to match homographs…
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Pinboard: "Someone said something on the internet I don't like!"
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I don't understand this zinger. This is a flat-out scam that's been happening for a while
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Why you gotta be trying to blow up my business model man? Just tryin to make a living here
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It's a victimless crime though -- coiners richly deserve this
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My worry is that the people who fall for this scam will end up making money as the bubble inflates more.
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Wait - the real Elon Musk is tweeting things like "I am a business magnet"?
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What I don't get is, image classification isn't that hard. It's a constrained problem space. If I worked on Twitter abuse, I'd just block replies from similar icons to Elon's. Not rocket science.
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