The rise and fall of Generation X, the world’s first Xtreme and Xcellent generation, as told by products that highlighted it.

Malcolm X (1992) - Film with cool marketing hats.

The X Men (1992) - Saturday morning cartoon based on comic book with countless spinoffs during the 90s, also film franchise by end of the decade.

The X Files (1993) - Hit TV show that started the generation’s taste for conspiracy theories.

XCOM (1994) - Strategy computer videogame. Not to be confused with 90s dotcom-bubble company founded by Apartheid-diamond heir.

The X Games (1995) - Excuse to sell Xtreme merchandise and Surge soda.

Mr X (1998) - Boogieman of hit videogame Resident Evil 2.

OS X (2001) - Software that ran some hip translucent machines that started the transition from the 90s X to the 00s i.

Xbox (2001) - Basically, Microsoft’s version of the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids” meme with Steve Buscemi.

The X Factor (2012) - Reality show that announced to the world this generation has long officially left the 35-year-old limit of valued advertising market.

I was never fooled the purchase of Twitter was about freedom of speech, it was all about trying to control the narrative. Musk also has some disturbing ties to Vladimir Putin and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was behind it the whole time.

Not all of this is bad. Honestly, I fear this protocol is just an Ukrainian POW getting his head chopped off going viral on it to become unpalatable for most people.

The Wild West of decentralized, impossible-to-stop censorship is an invitation for illegal activity and bad actors. I watched the Daniel Pearl video at the time social media was still young and we didn’t know any better, and I think a kid or a sensitive person shouldn’t be exposed to that, at least not with ease.

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You can watch any news source as long as you are educated about their intended narrative. This is why every school should teach media training, specially in the US.

Journalistic integrity doesn’t pay the bills anymore.

The public media model is still the most trustworthy (Wikipedia runs on this model and it’s the most informative site on the Internet), which reminds me Elon going to war recently with public-funded news.

But what if there’s a valid impersonation, like a satire account?

That crypto label is coming, eventually.

Just out of curiosity, can AI do this, and how accurate could it be?

Just setting up my nostr