According to X, […] Texas has jurisdiction because Musk resides in Texas and “makes numerous critical business decisions about X while in Texas.”
Really? This is the level of argument that we’re down to?
Sadly, there’s a not-insignificant chance that a Texas judge would fully accept that argument.
Never trust anything named “Grok.”
The noun form is definitely a bit suspect. Should have left it alone as a verb.
These days, I’m pretty suspicious of anything named after something in fiction. The example that immediately comes to mind is how US Robotics was named after the corporation in Asimov’s stories, and how the movie Bicentennial Man was asked to change the fictional company’s name so that it would not reflect poorly on the real comany. That’s a relatively benign example. With something like Palantir, the inspiration and the implementation are entirely too well aligned.
Wait 'til we hear that Torment Nexus has a contract with hundreds of police agencies…
And the totally trustworthy news continues…
“Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree,” Grok’s headline read in an AI-powered trending-tab post that has remained on X (formerly Twitter) for days. Beneath the headline, Grok went into even more detail to support its fake reporting:
In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.
Grok appears to be confusing a common basketball term, where players are said to be throwing “bricks” when they take an airball shot that doesn’t hit the rim.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s criticism followed Mr Musk using a meme to accuse his government of censorship.
On Tuesday, Mr Albanese told ABC News that Mr Musk “thinks he’s above the law but also above common decency”.
Musk appealed to the Supreme Court in December 2023, claiming the settlement he agreed to in 2018 forced him to “waive his First Amendment rights to speak on matters ranging far beyond the charged violations.” The SEC settlement requires Musk to get pre-approval from a Tesla securities lawyer for tweets or other social media posts that may contain information material to the company or its shareholders.
The Supreme Court decided not to hear the case, leaving an appeals court ruling against Musk intact. The top court denied Musk’s petition without comment Monday morning in a list of orders.
Ah… I thought I fell into an alternate universe there for a minute.
We truly live in the dumbest timeline.
“X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner’s right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users’ content,” Alsup wrote.
If X got its way, Alsup warned, “X Corp. would entrench its own private copyright system that rivals, even conflicts with, the actual copyright system enacted by Congress” and “yank into its private domain and hold for sale information open to all, exercising a copyright owner’s right to exclude where it has no such right.”
That “would upend the careful balance Congress struck between what copyright owners own and do not own,” Alsup wrote, potentially shrinking the public domain.
“Applying general principles, this order concludes that the extent to which public data may be freely copied from social media platforms, even under the banner of scraping, should generally be governed by the Copyright Act, not by conflicting, ubiquitous terms,” Alsup wrote.
This is a parody of the radios and what not from the time that would need 12 or 16 D cells. But, it’s prescient. Teslas are powered by banks of individual Li batteries. The Tesla S, for example, has more than 7,000 individual cells.
Musk could devote less time to Tesla if pay isn’t re-approved
Ok, but what’s the downside?
Well, that didn’t last long.
You have a choice: Him, or a Xenomorph face-hugger. Choose wisely.
