Month: July 2023

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"Wtf is X" was trending Monday morning as the Twitter app logo on devices everywhere suddenly changed from the blue bird to a black-and-white X.

Many of the social media platform's users have criticized the company's flashy new logo as the app rebrands from Twitter to X. But more disastrous than the mad dash to rebrand the app is the company's seemingly impulsive move to change the signage on its headquarters in San Francisco without proper permits. While the app's users have joked that its digital rebrand has been harmlessly sloppy—for example, the app still prompts users to "search Twitter" and "tweet," rather than post Xs on desktop—the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has raised more serious concerns offline. The city is currently investigating the Twitter building's signage changes, some of which have already been deemed unsafe.

There are currently two active complaints that the city is investigating. The first has been labeled a clear safety violation, where an investigation "revealed an unsafe condition at the building."

Of all the various TV spinoffs of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki was perhaps the most popular, largely thanks to the winsome bantering chemistry between stars Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. The much-anticipated second season is set to debut this fall, and we finally have an official trailer. Good news: S2 promises to be just as much fun as the first, if the trailer is any indication.

(Major spoilers for the first season below.)

It has been a couple of years, so let's briefly recap. As reported previously, the launching point for Loki S1 was that scene in Avengers: Endgame when a 2012 version of Loki snagged the tesseract containing the Space Stone and vanished through a portal. Our trickster soon encountered a team of armed guards who "arrested" him on behalf of an entity known as the Time Variance Authority (TVA), the "custodians of chronology" in the MCU, monitoring violations of the Sacred Timeline. Catch the TVA's attention by trying to change history, and you just might meet the wrong end of the Retroactive Cannon (Ret Con) and have your entire history deleted from the historical timeline.