@andybaio *fascinating* and depressing.

@andybaio the internet is on the case!

@andybaio holy shit lmao

@andybaio Truly, the internet is the printing press of our times. With all the advantages, disadvantages, and bewilderments that come with it.

@andybaio Waiting for the article arguing that Steve Jobs is now actually in the Bitcoin ether attaining sentience on the blockchain and is controlling the weather and inflation

@andybaio I was thinking this exact same thing earlier today. It is kind of amazing how it has transformed into this mess.

@andybaio This is so very dumb.

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Uhhhhhh…. DARPA did it 👉

@andybaio steve jobs is bitcoin

@andybaio This is like a perfect storm for the likes of BusinessInsider, the publication that seems never to actually get inside a business and can only guess what businesses are doing, and often does guess, especially if it leads to maximizing clicks, eyeballs, and ad impressions...

@andybaio omg

@andybaio Satoshi Nakamura is an anagram of Steve Jobs loves bitcoin, if you squint

@andybaio Satoshi has not spent any of the 1.1 million Bitcoin in the wallets known to be his. Steve Jobs has also not spent any of the 1.1 million Bitcoin in the wallets known to be Satoshi's. Case closed.

@andybaio lmao

@andybaio Hell of a leap.

I've been known to use the Communist Manifesto as boilerplate text when mocking up websites.

If a digital archaelogist finds that on some abandoned hard drive in future years, will the press assume Marx was actually a semi-competent web developer in the 00s or something?

@andybaio Steve Jobs bit a coin

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And this is why we can't have nice things.

@andybaio in late 2008, he was being treated for pancreatic cancer while running Apple. Not quite sure he had the bandwidth to invent bitcoin.

He was dead almost 7 years when Mojave was released, the first version of macOS with the paper.

SEO knows no shame.

@andybaio the (sad) state of news 😭

@andybaio Nice job misdirecting to keep them off your trail, Satoshi.

@andybaio Whoa.

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@andybaio @cstross Just imagine what's going to happen when Apple add a copy of the actual Steve Jobs to that folder in a future release.

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ChatGPT will fix this...

It will mutate MUCH faster

@andybaio this must be the plot for the third silly Moon Nazis film series (Iron Sky) lol. The second had Steve doing all sorts of weird and people joining his religion "Jobsism".

@andybaio damn, i cant believe you found out singlehandedly that steve jobs created macs just for bitcoin and is actually still alive inside the blockchain

@andybaio If I had to invent a class of easily manipulated monied rubes, bitcoin fans would be better than I could ever write.

@andybaio Except Steve’s not a coder/engineer. The Woz did all the real work.

@andybaio for curiosity, I read the article in your last screenshot. The headline asserts “Steve Jobs created bitcoin”, but the text of the article admits it’s “an unlikely theory” which “sounds absurd” with a “remote” probability of being true.

We all know these articles get shared on social media and most users will see the headline without reading the article. To write that headline is just breathtakingly irresponsible.

@andybaio @fasterthanlime coin in french means corner, the new apple building has no corner as it is a doughnut, bit can mean small/little/a part, so bitcoin means "no corner"!!! It's the building!!!

@andybaio weird fandom crossover

@andybaio This is the kind of thing I like to show my kid about the internet.

@andybaio good grief this is depressing

@andybaio He actually found out about bitcoin, after a tour of Xerox-Parc in the 80s.

@andybaio proof of job.

@andybaio So glad that Steve Jobs invented Google News, so you can follow this important story as it evolves.

@andybaio@xoxo.zone peak journalism ☕