Elon Musk

Robotaxi unveil on 8/8

hmm well played sir epic 8/8 haha

plenty of time to invent the robotaxi

Will the robotaxi dance like the Charleston like his “android” announcement?

PULL OVER SAFELY vehicle shutting down
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PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY unable to drive
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Wait, is "Exiting and re-entering vehicle may restore operation" actually a real thing lol

Kind of gives a new take on blue screen of death.

exit and re-enter, when come back bring dust-cloth

Brings new meaning to the word "crash." Or I suppose, in this case, potentially brings back the old meaning.

lol @ exiting and re-entering the vehicle, surely the "turn the router off and then on" of vehicle repair.

Saw a Cybertruck in the wild today. Well, not "the wild": downtown Kalispell, MT, pulling out of a Starbucks drive-thru. It really does look silly and fake in person, like a bad movie prop, and every dimensional plane (height, length) seems off somehow. The driver, a bro in his mid-thirties, I'd guess, saw my wife and me observing him and smiled sarcastically and waved. We nodded back.

I saw my first one locally the other day too. Yup, looked dumb.

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/disassemble/

During his deposition, Musk admitted he has a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit against him, said he thought Brody’s attorney was the one suing him, and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X.

Musk also made broader admissions about his failures with X — which has plummeted in value since his takeover in 2022 — saying he “may have done more to financially impair” the social media site than help it. Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

he shd stick to role-playing as his toddler self

I read through part of that transcript and felt like I aged several years. It’s just so tiring

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lol even he says "formerly known as Twitter"

I mean, he's wrong!

the ending where his lawyer is like “yeah this isn’t going to be released, right?” and the plaintiff’s attorney is explaining you need to set up the protective order BEFORE the deposition is great

yeah that's as good as it gets for law stuff

Musk also confirmed that he once used a burner account on X seemingly to role-play as his toddler son.

Drove down the block, stashed the burner in the bushes
Stepped to nursery with the Huggies for the tushes

and revealed he did no research in determining whether Brody was involved in the brawl after seeing the accusations on X

Not surprising, but that is not good when you are trying to defend a defamation claim.

xp 10/10

except "drove part way down the block, system fault required me to exit the vehicle, stashed the burner in the bushes"

tweets from elon’s burner account, a thread: pic.twitter.com/82Y0Kx1QJ5

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) April 25, 2023

it starts like someone trying to be cute with a test account but gets real weird and cringey fast

theres a second burner

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“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” Musk testified.

This coming from the giant man-baby who shut a guys account down for posting about where his planes would land because he said it was a *threat to his family*!!!!

Well yeah - he means "it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on me, the only verifiable human"

wow @ this exchange

Elon is being deposed in a lawsuit saying he made slanderous claims about someone he doesn't know, and immediately does the same thing to the lawyer deposing him pic.twitter.com/zrq7VfERlw

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) April 9, 2024

Can't Elon just use the "I was high when I said that" defense

I don't think it can be understated how often you're talking to lawyers for some reason or another when you're involved in that many binding legal entities (corporations, boards, whatever else) and despite it being a commonplace thing, Elon's immediate thought is "lawyers only exist to take my money" regardless whether it's someone else's or his own

Elon's statements there aren't slanderous, they're just dumb.

stupid sexy slanders!

He doesn't think he harmed Ben Brody despite knowing nothing about him because social media rarely leads to people being harmed. Just shocking arrogance.

Thr case is weaker than the Alex Jones case as Musk's comment was somewhat couched. But the case will bring up more embarrassing material and he might settle to avoid that.

Also the lawyer he brought wasn't admitted pro hac vice so I don't know if his objections will have any weight in court. Brody filed a motion against Spiro today.

hes only asking for a million dollars musk should just give it to him sorry bout that mate

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https://bsky.app/profile/jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social/post/3kpsbugs7n32h

Mr. Tesla

mr tesla, the king of space x

I always see those emojis as hamburgers

can't believe that's a real one, I remember seeing it and thinking someone faked it. fucking yikes

But isn't it supposed to be Elon's kid tweeting? Why not "I hate you Mom. Why did you leave Mr. Jackpots? Helllllllllll-ooooooooooooo."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAb3J7WONhE

its fake sorry https://bsky.app/profile/fullslack.bsky.social/post/3kpsvckl7vr2f

it’s him pic.twitter.com/E0YPvf1Ies

— full slack (@full_slack) April 25, 2023

The end of 2020 was drawing near, and Andrea Turley, a 36-year-old self-employed hairdresser, had to figure out how to afford gifts not only for her two daughters’ birthdays but also for Christmas. She came up with a solution: a job working on the floor of Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. It paid about $20 an hour.

Turley’s grandparents had worked at the same plant when it made cars for General Motors. She knew what working on an assembly line would entail and hoped to stay; her grandparents had worked there for decades. “I don’t have a problem with doing hard labor,” she told me.

“The problem was the sexual harassment. It was the racism,” she said. “It’s the constant disrespect.”

On her second day of training, Turley noticed the phrase “Black bitches need to go home” written on the bathroom walls. Once she started working on the line, she heard her white male lead—the person who supervised her on the floor—use the N-word and other racial slurs like “coon,” according to a legal complaint she filed later. He also frequently used the words “bitch” and “cunt.” He “used just about every awful and offensive word I can think of,” Turley said in the filing. It wasn’t just him; other white coworkers also often used the N-word around her and her fellow Black coworkers. She frequently saw the word “bitch” written on the bathroom walls alongside the N-word and “KKK.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/

Jesus fucking Christ.

What a rotten company, starting from the top

This video is hilarious, even if you don't speak Russian. Some Russian rapper is driving around L.A. in his Cybertruck and just getting angrier and angrier about the shitty quality of basically everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Nmb7UTAjQ

you can get some pretty bad auto generated translated captions on there if you want fyi

Lmao

How the fuck are these things legally on the road pic.twitter.com/iqDKDVHpRm

— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) April 14, 2024

jesus christ