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ValentineCtoday at 12:55 AM5 repliesview on HN

My @valentine got changed to @valentine_ without my consent.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150822195811/twitter.com/valen...

https://twitter.com/valentine_

(If any lawyers read this and feel up for taking this on contingency, I don't think I'm difficult to contact.)


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alasanotoday at 1:00 AM

Wow and it's not even used. I guess they took it to resell on their handle marketplace?

c-linkagetoday at 4:09 AM

He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.

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Culonavirustoday at 5:24 AM

> lawyers

Best I can do is pretend to be a lawyer and forward all of ur stuff to ChatGPT Free. U down?

handfuloflighttoday at 5:08 AM

Did you actually own it though, per their TOS? What title was granted, if so? Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure.

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4gotunameagaintoday at 6:02 AM

Turns out that when you are using some oligarch's platform, you don't own jack.

This is digital feudalism, and the billionaires have seized the means of communication.

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