Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[a_chap]

 

[two sheds]

Now this is a puzzle

 

[DaveCinzano]

Now this is a puzzle

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THAT'S NOT A PUZZLE

 

[Storm Fox]

Now this is a puzzle

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See also 'The NWO are killing antivaxxers with Covid '

 

[two sheds]

Yes, an INVENTED disease

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yes, an INVENTED disease

In contrast to the harmful gases Trump himself has outvented in the courtroom

 

[Yossarian]

 

[BigMoaner]

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[two sheds]

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves

Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars “have full self-driving hardware.”…

arstechnica.com

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Tesla must face a lawsuit alleging that it committed fraud by misrepresenting the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles.

California resident Thomas LoSavio's lawsuit points to claims made by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk starting in October 2016, a few months before LoSavio bought a 2017 Tesla Model S with "Enhanced Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving Capability." US District Judge Rita Lin in the Northern District of California dismissed some of LoSavio's claims but ruled that the lawsuit can move forward on allegations of fraud:

 

[Chz]

Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves

Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars “have full self-driving hardware.”…

arstechnica.com

Tesla Lawyer - “Sir, the whole case hinges on us proving you are batshit crazy and that no reasonable person would believe anything you say”

EM - “No jury is going to buy that”

Lawyer - “We won. It wasn’t even close”

 

[edcraw]

The Twitter algorithm seems to be pretty fuck lately - getting loads of fat right content. Going to give Threads another go.

 

[hitmouse]

Interesting article, not primarily Musk-based but worth a read, although I hate beyond words the fact that the writer chooses to quote a chatbot in the opening paragraph:

How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal

Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People

www.theguardian.com

 

[BigMoaner]

would love to know what it would be like for someone who lived in teh 1940s to read a sentance like this fromt eh article lol: "Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People"

 

[kabbes]

would love to know what it would be like for someone who lived in teh 1940s to read a sentance like this fromt eh article lol: "Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People"

I think they’d have got the hang of it. They had a few problems with conspiratorial right-wing extremism in the 1940s as well, you know…

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Unrelated, but I think Musk is unquestionably the least (intentionally) funny human being to ever exist

 

[Raheem]

would love to know what it would be like for someone who lived in teh 1940s to read a sentance like this fromt eh article lol: "Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People"

Can easily imagine Orwell coming up with something like that.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

"Grok" is such a fucking shit word.

 

[Chz]

"Grok" is such a fucking shit word.

Heinlein is a bit out of favour these days, but it's got strong roots in geek culture. I'm not sure how much it was picked up due to RH's Libertarian stance and how much it was just a good word.

 

[Rob Ray]

It's very irritating that he took a word fairly beloved by RPG nerds and hijacked it for his shitty take on AI.

 

[Rob Ray]

Man accidentally slits own wrist on Cybertruck while inspecting damage on delivery. Just a reminder, this is the flagship product of a company with a market cap more than ten times' higher than Ford.

 

[BigMoaner]

just another thing on "enshittification" processes - i recently bought disney + for the kids, and wow what a pile of underwhelming b movie, "Shark Attack!", fillers. It really wasn't supposed to be this way, was it? netflix the same. i definitely think somethign weird is happening to the internet and these huge companies. This is a good episode about the absoloute cess pit that facebook passes for both as a site and a company (meta) and how they are working hard to make facebook unuseable, except for bots, misinformation merchants, lunatics, and scam artists.

 

[BigMoaner]

still think reddit is holding up well. probably my natural home after urban. i like the way it seems to have a left wing/liberal bias as a general mood (that could just me beign wrong though). the upvoting/downvoting thing encourages more thought, i think, too.

 

[ska invita]

just another thing on "enshittification" processes - i recently bought disney + for the kids, and wow what a pile of underwhelming b movie, "Shark Attack!", fillers. It really wasn't supposed to be this way, was it? netflix the same. i definitely think somethign weird is happening to the internet and these huge companies. This is a good episode about the absoloute cess pit that facebook passes for both as a site and a company (meta) and how they are working hard to make facebook unuseable, except for bots, misinformation merchants, lunatics, and scam artists.

There's going to be consolidation between the different streamers, I've heard people speculate, capitalisms natural mode is to monopoly

 

[Santino]

There's going to be consolidation between the different streamers, I've heard people speculate, capitalisms natural mode is to monopoly

Superficially that actually sounds good. I don't want to pay for half a dozen different apps to watch all the main telly and films that everyone else is watching.

Why couldn't there be a Spotify for TV?

 

[Artaxerxes]

still think reddit is holding up well. probably my natural home after urban. i like the way it seems to have a left wing/liberal bias as a general mood (that could just me beign wrong though). the upvoting/downvoting thing encourages more thought, i think, too.

Reddit is terrible but a few boards make it worth it, generally the more specialised less public traffic ones

 

[two sheds]

Not seen the terrible side but I don't look at subreddits.

 

[ska invita]

Superficially that actually sounds good. I don't want to pay for half a dozen different apps to watch all the main telly and films that everyone else is watching.

Why couldn't there be a Spotify for TV?

My parents have Sky and their all in package seems to have has every streamer plus internet... God knows what it costs....Their TV is on 16 hours a day though.... Plus turned up to 11

 

[Chz]

still think reddit is holding up well. probably my natural home after urban. i like the way it seems to have a left wing/liberal bias as a general mood (that could just me beign wrong though). the upvoting/downvoting thing encourages more thought, i think, too.

You're just self-curating. Reddit is a favourite of the gun tooting MAGA crowd just as much as it is for the people they hate.

 

[krtek a houby]

just another thing on "enshittification" processes - i recently bought disney + for the kids, and wow what a pile of underwhelming b movie, "Shark Attack!", fillers. It really wasn't supposed to be this way, was it? netflix the same. i definitely think somethign weird is happening to the internet and these huge companies. This is a good episode about the absoloute cess pit that facebook passes for both as a site and a company (meta) and how they are working hard to make facebook unuseable, except for bots, misinformation merchants, lunatics, and scam artists.

Agree with you on fashbook. It's awful stuff. It wasn't always that way but now... it's almost as much of a toilet as twitter is.

 

[Dogsauce]

Facebook is fine if you just want to look at train groups and buy second hand Lego on marketplace, I see very little idiocy although the usability is getting worse (stuff like comments being curated as ‘top comments’ by default rather than in a chronological order so you can follow conversations). But if you just use it solely to look at groups you’re interesting it doesn’t really resemble a cess pit,

Twitter is much worse imo, but that stuff was all there before Musk and already pretty annoying before he came along and boosted the worse sort of shite. I think Covid also played a part, and that platforms managed to create large opposing groups on the back of this, when simple stuff like a vaccine really shouldn’t have been contentious in any way.