De-Muskifier: Firefox add-on to replace all instances of Elon Musk with raccoons

[headalgorithm]

If only we could replace the real Elon

[doright]

Imagine you had the superpower to cause a not-insignificant amount of people to start shouting about this or that topic at the mere mention of you-who-must-not-be-named. I would imagine you might feel pretty powerful being able to observe your legacy woven into so many corners of the Internet without having to go out and touch them yourself anymore.

[LightBug1]

He's still a knob though. The man who has to pretend he's a top gamer to ... well, I couldn't think of a reason why he'd make himself look so stupid.

Pathetic man-child who's lucky he has people like Gwynne Shotwell who are both excellent and don't seem to mind being out of the limelight.

Maybe that's his talent. Money and cloud cover for others to let their talent shine. The devils deal there though is that he'll never credit them either!

[LightBug1]

Excellent ... this is the internet I remember!

Add a few more aholes that we can select and that'd be just perfect.

Thanks!!!

[LightBug1]

>> Raccoons have been observed manipulating complex latches, even opening windows or pet doors. (addons.mozilla.org)

23 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments

[nelblu]

> No raccoons were harmed in the making of this extension.

That cracked me up!

[gunian]

Kind of surprised HN bashes Elon more than Zuck idk why lol

[pkphilip]

Right. I find that quite puzzling. Zuck hasn't produced anything apart from a platform with very questionable business practices and which serves as a surveillance tool but somehow he gets far less pushback than Musk.

[BoredPositron]

Because he gave us some llamas to play with. That aside he is just a beaten horse nobody takes meta serious. The only thing they do is acquire or copy/paste they had no internal innovation for nearly a decade.

[dmonitor]

Elon has been forcing his way into the headlines more often.

[DoctorOW]

HN is very engineer focused. A lot of us can relate to an incompetent executive taking credit for our work.

[serf]

because those of us that do not use social media can just about entirely ignore mark zuckerberg.

one cannot avoid seeing Tesla vehicles, and the sky is littered with Starlink constellations at night, and every media outlet in the world reports on just about every SpaceX launch.

Elon Musk isn't only quarantined to social media company he bought and the occasional congressional appearance.

p.s. isn't it weird how everyone is on a first name basis with Elon Musk, and gave Mark Zuckerberg the pet name 'Zuck'?

..Maybe people with mononyms or near-mononyms should just be avoided all together..

[mrguyorama]

If you don't want to see musk just get the fuck off twitter already.

Every single excuse is fake. No you aren't getting breaking news, you are getting literal propaganda and explicitly rage inducing lies, precisely because the blue check and payment system enforces it.

You are an addict.

[TheAceOfHearts]

A lot of artists are still using Twitter as their primary platform, especially in the Japanese community. Pixiv is an alternative, but the form of engagement and exploration is completely different.

What's really needed is better social media tools that allow you to follow specific creators regardless of what platforms they use. There's some ongoing work being done for that with video creators, but I'd love a generalized version for other media.

I also follow artists on alternative sites when they make an account available, but it's clear that for many creators the primary platform where they make big announcements is on Twitter.

[dimator]

Now that you mention it, it's striking how many other networks do not mention raccoon at all.

[tim333]

There's quite a lot of [racoon] off twitter also. Just glancing at todays headlines we have Germany poll, rocket explodes, will make money from UK EV policy, Trump inauguration and many more.