Absolutely love to see it
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https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1605612564376739840?s=20&t=F4DFz-D3PZEInMcMekawVQ
https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1605614963514413062?s=20&t=F4DFz-D3PZEInMcMekawVQ
https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1605912972123070464?s=20&t=F4DFz-D3PZEInMcMekawVQ
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Cut 50% costs
Cut 70% revenue
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Profit
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The invaluable Tech Dirt provides details. Elon doesn’t really seem like a “details” guy.
But this is a misreading/misunderstanding of how things work. This had nothing to do with any “influence campaign.” The law already says that if the FBI is legally requesting information for an investigation under a number of different legal authorities, the companies receiving those requests can be reimbursed for fulfilling them.
(a)Payment.—Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a governmental entity obtaining the contents of communications, records, or other information under section 2702, 2703, or 2704 of this title shall pay to the person or entity assembling or providing such information a fee for reimbursement for such costs as are reasonably necessary and which have been directly incurred in searching for, assembling, reproducing, or otherwise providing such information. Such reimbursable costs shall include any costs due to necessary disruption of normal operations of any electronic communication service or remote computing service in which such information may be stored.
But note what this is limited to. These are investigatory requests for information, or so called 2703(d) requests, which require a court order.
Yeah, so, now that I have space to talk again, I will say here that I genuinely believe that Elon Musk is Anthony Elonis, and that he “bought” Twitter in the typical sense in which “billionaires” (people who collect bills, many of them fraudulent, many of them based on illegitimate or imaginary debts) buy companies (via “hostile takeover”).
The eerie similarity of their names is notable, but the strongest evidence of this fact is Twitter’s insistence on not taking threats of violence seriously and rating bogus, “woke” moral offenses more seriously than violations of the federal threats statute. Which just so happens to be the exact statute Elonis was convicted of violating.
For anyone who doesn’t know, after SCOTUS issued its decision in the case, it was remanded to the Third Circuit, which held that it was harmless error for the jury to have been instructed on the wrong standard for assessing the defendant’s intent (the mens rea element of the crime).
I agree with both holdings, of course: from SCOTUS, that, under the federal statute, the state has to show that the defendant communicated the threat to the victim intentionally; with the Third Circuit, that the exact wording of the jury instructions doesn’t matter in Elonis’ particular case, because his explicit threatening verbiage and posting the messages on Facebook where his wife could easily see them (and he likely just threatened her again to ensure that she would) were so obviously threats of violence that any rational jury would have reached the same conclusion.
Meh I think he bought it just to shut down the jet kid
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Oh, please, that’s Chris Pratt in a costume. Elon paid him for the photo.
Rolling out a feature, an impression counter, and not having Twitter break, while having half the workforce. So far the mass firing hasn’t lead to the worst case scenario. knock on wood or maybe not.
Or maybe not
https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1606054185463517184
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You could always see your impression counts in your stats or whatever. Assuming they already track views on a per post basis, exposing it to the user might not have been that much dev work.
As someone who hasn’t been following FSD developments closely, a couple things here were lol-worthy
CEO Elon Musk promised shareholders a self-driving car from Tesla would be capable of a cross-country trip without human intervention by the end of 2017. That plan has been delayed.
It also sells additional features in a package marketed as Enhanced Autopilot or Full Self-Driving in the U.S., which costs $15,000 or a $199 a month.
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https://twitter.com/KennyGesserit/status/1605930553752035328?t=dE5nmM50CMy3rSi9sNBlaw&s=19
https://twitter.com/avstorm/status/1605830729060868096?t=wDESECMFAFq4DqsZwyF80Q&s=19
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Seems super nerve-wracking and not enjoyable at all to have teslas drive itself.
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Do you guys believe me that he’s just a moron yet?
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One good sign we are all just barely evolved monkeys is how long it takes to bring something to usability. Full AI driving is a good example. But plenty of other things were like that, flying, medicine past, present and probably future, cars you drove yourself that weren’t total death traps (took like 70 years and still isn’t great), and pretty much every anything else you can think of really.
We will eventually get to full self driving. It won’t be Elon but it isn’t a total fail in general it isn’t there yet. It will be the thing whether it is 5, 10 or 50 years.
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