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Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.

The gate and airport into Black Rock City, a remote area in northwest Nevada, remain closed and no driving is allowed into or out of the city except for emergency vehicles, the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Do not travel to Black Rock City! Access to the city is closed for the remainder of the event, and you will be turned around,” one statement read.

The city is expecting more showers and thunderstorms on Sunday before 5 p.m. local time, organizers said in a weather forecast update.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

lol at, "the organizers said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter." I love how this is journalism is handling this switch.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even Twitter can't avoid it. Anytime an email comes to my mailbox it's "X, Formally known as twitter"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Heavy vibes from Ƭ̵̬̊, the artist formerly known as Prince.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wonder if they're just casually owning it with pride.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if this will be used as a metric ever. When switching a prominent company name, how long it takes to fully adopt.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like the most stupid rebrand ever. Since it isn’t a name but a random letter elon thinks is cool, it always requires some clarification in conversations, or even in text form because it might as well be a typo or something. If it ever takes root before the platform sinks into obscurity is a really open bet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be really nice if everyone just ignored the rebrand and kept calling it twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’d be nice if people left so Elon could sell it at a huge loss and we could get it back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

/s

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Artist formerly known as...

[–] astraeus 5 points 1 year ago

They’ve all been doing this. Probably because they anticipate it will revert back to Twitter at some point.