Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Josquius]

I can't find the story right now but this all reminds me of just the other week I recall reading of a British millionaire moaning about the state of the US court system and how it's only because he's rich he was able to prove his innocence when a US tech firm came after him.
Anyone else saw it?

[Gups]

You mean the Lynch/Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy saga?

[Josquius]

You mean the Lynch/Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy saga?

That sounds right yeah.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng14j5vqpo.amp

[grumbler]

You mean the Lynch/Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy saga?

That sounds right yeah.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng14j5vqpo.amp

He didn't note that he'd been found guilty in a British court civil case over the same issues.   Waaaa!

[Gups]

You mean the Lynch/Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy saga?

That sounds right yeah.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng14j5vqpo.amp

He didn't note that he'd been found guilty in a British court civil case over the same issues.   Waaaa!

Or that the CFO has been found guilty. Impossible to know the truth for a layperson, apparently the jurors were having real trouble staying awake.

[Sheilbh]

Doesn't sound a million miles away from the Jubilee fraud case. Juries struggle with very complex corporate fraud cases.

[Syt]

So this is a letter from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton to Musk/X:



To which Musk replied:






Just as a reminder that he was slightly more deferential to the Turkish government:

[Syt]

Also, the Musk/Trump interview on Twitter Spaces went about as well as the De Santis one ... and Musk blames DDOS attacks.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Probably hoping to get a cabinet position in a Trump administration. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Probably hoping to get a cabinet position in a Trump administration. 

Drug czar.

[Zanza]

Just as a reminder that he was slightly more deferential to the Turkish government:

Deference to other right-wing strongmen seems to be in character. Trump also shows that.

[Syt]

Probably hoping to get a cabinet position in a Trump administration. 

Probably hoping to get a cabinet position in a Trump administration. 

Drug czar.

Actually ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-x-us-election-latest-updates?page=with:block-66bab9268f083e5b7b48443e#block-66bab9268f083e5b7b48443e

The conversation took a chummy turn after Musk brought up establishing something called a "government efficiency commission".

The Tesla CEO is clearly among the ranks of those who think that Washington overspends and under-delivers, and has gently prodded Trump to do something about that, if re-elected.

"I think it would be great to just have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just ensures that the taxpayer money, the taxpayers' hard earned money, is spent in a good way. And I'd be happy to help out on such a commission," Musk said.

"I'd love it for you. You're the greatest cutter," Trump replied, in an apparent reference to Musk's penchant for pushing out staff at companies he's taken over, including X.

Someone online called ex-Twitter "Xchan", and I love that

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Also, the Musk/Trump interview on Twitter Spaces went about as well as the De Santis one ... and Musk blames DDOS attacks.

Nope, nothing to do with firing or running off everybody who actually knew how to run the infrastructure.

[Sheilbh]

So this is a letter from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton to Musk/X:
[...]
To which Musk replied:
[...]

The rest of the Commission have distanced themselves from Breton's letter today.

I had issues with the last time Breton did this. I think it does capture the use of Twitter in politics and journalism that he has now twice loudly announced he was pursuing Twitter - on Twitter - to far greater attention than the press releases investigating Meta or TikTok (and Musk's response probably helps that).

As I said last time - I think it might be a great way for a Commissioner to announce their new regulatory power to the world and get everyone's attention about it. I'm not convinced it makes for good enforcement (I can't imagine that Twitter won't be claiming bias).

Edit: Again I'd draw a bit of a contrast with the EU's most successful regulations with teeth - competition. This is broadly not how Vestager does stuff, but she's very effectvie.

[Sophie Scholl]

Looks like Elon has been named along with JK Rowling in a suit filed by Imane Khelif the boxer who they repeatedly called a man. It couldn't have happened to two more deserving people. I wish Imane all the best and the largest award possible.   

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jk-rowling-elon-musk-imane-khelif-lawsuit-1236105185/