• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzOP
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    12 hours ago

    X is used in maths to describe the unknown in equations. It entered pop-culture representing the unknown/mysterious or the different.

    Musk uses it to symbolise difference or breaking from the past, which is ironic as he is becoming the modern embodiment of failed ideologies.