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Ars Staff comment: > Just a random bit of trivia, Gene has a photo credit on Ars. We're casual friends who know each other through pinball. We'd run into each
by petee 3y ago
Ars Staff comment:
> Just a random bit of trivia, Gene has a photo credit on Ars. We're casual friends who know each other through pinball. We'd run into each other at shows where he was always shooting photographs. He kindly let me use some of his photos when I wrote up my piece on the Museum of Pinball.
> Very nice guy, very chill, it's super lame that he had the name he's used for so long just outright stolen over a billionaire's ego. I had at least hoped he'd get paid off
- WheatMillington 3y agoIt was a dormant account. He was squatting on it.
- petee 3y agoDoesn't matter. Once he started posting to the account, the UserAccount==Identity in todays world. And Elon being a child, simply wanted another toy, no other reason. What if he had been in the hospital and couldn't log in? What if he was taking a year off social media? None of that justifies stealing an account. What about all the previous tags and replies, do they all now point to random Twitter support posts?