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It’s sad but he’ll probably forever now be remembered as “that guy who got publicly fired on Twitter by Musk” rather than Iceland’s person of the year 2022 and all the great philanthropy he’s done :(

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No, he won't. Things like this are "hot news this week" while the other things are accomplishments in life. He'll surely be remembered for the much more important things he has done and the much more important things he'll do in the future.

He was already a celebrity in Iceland. So much so that he acted in the end of year comedy show (which is the nr. 1 television event in Iceland) despite not being an actor (which is rare; kind of like appearing in the Superbowl for Americans, or Eurovision for Europeans [although now I wouldn’t be surprised to see him there also next May]). In one recent event he had the president come and vandalize a poster for his ramp project with a spray can, striking out 1000 ramps and spraying 1500 rapms over it.

Internationally he might be most known for this, but in Iceland he is known for far more. I have no doubt people will laugh with him in the next end of year comedy show about this incident, and then continue supporting him in his disability activism.

I wonder if that will be the new badge of honor

It already is, in some people's opinions.

Personally, I just learned about a really interesting new person to follow. (Too bad he’s not on Mastodon.)

I dunno, "Publicly fired by Elon!™" is a strong resume flex.

Icelander here, we're all a bit chuffed at the moment that the world is recognizing what a cool individual he is. We already knew it here.

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