When Elon Musk’s social media platform X, recently rolled into xAI, got bought by Musk’s space company SpaceX, it was becoming part of what’s now being considered a trillion-dollar empire. I mean, who are we kidding? It was owned by the world’s richest man in the first place. It’s the personal playground of Grok, an AI model so supposedly-advanced that it can also-supposedly probe the nature of reality itself. It’s a fount of Citizen Journalism. It’s flush with so much cash that it can give away a million dollars to a random edgelord for making a popular post. Must be some website, huh?
Not exactly. Earlier this week, users were first puzzled, then outraged, when they discovered that the site’s dark blue “dim” theme had suddenly disappeared for web browsers. Now, only two options remained: have your eyeballs seared by an assault of all white, or be met with the strain of reading text on a background of all black. And aesthetic qualms aside, some users with astigmatism complained that “dim” was the only mode that was tolerable for them.
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