Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 4th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

We've said before that Elon owns the thing,

so if he decides to change the Twitter logo to a

sheba you know why not Apple kind of sort of bites the bullet on layoffs

what's going on with the Apple Weather app? Do we want universities to call the use of

chat gpity plagiarism and data on the corporate takeover of AI development?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

I think I used this joke recently, but the dream of 2021 is alive at Twitter, because as much as things have changed since the Go-Go-Go-Go-Coa-times, I guess some things remain the same.

Dogecoin's price spiked more than 25% after Twitter replaced its bird logo with a doge image,

quoting Tech Runch.

The particular dog image, a sheba inu,

corresponds with the logo of the doge coin,

blockchain, and cryptocurrency.

Normally the swapping out or addition of an icon inside an app is not news.

In this case, cryptocurrency investors sent the value of

doge coin sharply higher in the wake of the inclusion of its logo in Twitter's app. In short, the

social media services update has led to a pump. The greater context for this

latest bit of Twitter silliness is that the owner of the social media service

Elon Musk is in court over Dogecoin looking to dismiss a massive suit relating

to the cryptocurrency. In that suit Musk's lawyers recently called Dogecoin, quote, a legitimate

cryptocurrency that continues to hold a market cap of nearly $10 billion, end quote, arguing that

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