So, Elmo, how’s the First National Bank of Twitter doing these days?
Musk’s mind is apparently 2.5 months away from being blown:
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said the company sees this becoming a “full opportunity” in 2024. “It would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year,” Musk said.
So, sometime in the 2030s for a buggy, unusable prototype going by his previous prognostications?
With an inexplicable subset of really avid customers!
The updated TOS now says that if you look at too many tweets in a 24-hour period, you owe Elmo $15,000.
I used to run APIs against Twitter (just for fun, running stats on various things), and I wonder if that’s some of what’s going on there…people selling info they’ve scraped from Twitter (much bigger APIs than I used, but I easily mined a million tweets in a single query).
Also, maybe some anti-AI-scraping protection from the AI man himself.
For sure the “full firehose” was a very expensive subscription back in the blissfully Muskless Dayes of Yore.
World’s richest man paints target on his back by promoting discredited Dominion voting machine conspiracy theory that cost Fox News $787 million.
He doesn’t give a shit about that. Even if they got it to trial, Elon’s got waaaaaay more money than Fox. A billion here, a billion there. Nothing to him.
I would like to know why Elon is doing a town hall, answering questions about issues from voters. Public appearances are one thing but town halls are not something surrogates do in a presidential campaign. Well, until now. I guess he’s serious about wanting a place in government.
He believes that if he can get his foot in the door he’ll be CEO of America within the year.
‘Ahem, Xmerica.’ ~ Elmo
Well, Elmo’s right about one thing. If trump and/or Elmo have their way, our country will be ex‑America soon enough.
From the link:
“The last thing I would do is trust a computer program,”
Says the man promoting universal use of self-driving cars.
Controlled by him.
New article on Wired. The main gist is about some dudes trying to skirt EU auto safety rules by importing Cybertrucks one at a time for individual use (which has different regulations compared to larger-scale manufacturer import).
It’s worth reading because along the way it has an excellent summary of all the features that make the Cybertruck problematic in the EU market (besides the fact that it sucks). And apparently, the angular design being dangerous for pedestrians isn’t the most significant problem. No — if the article is correct, then perhaps the biggest hurdle Tesla needs to overcome before they can bring the vehicle to market (which I wasn’t aware of before now) is that the Cybertruck weighs half a ton more than the maximum for general-use vehicles, which means you need a commercial-driver license to legally operate it on public roadways.
You would think, would you not, that Tesla should have thought about that in advance, and that they should have realized it would be a good idea to respect the regulations in this area. So either they somehow managed not to think about that, or they did think about it and Our Very Special Genius Boy thought he could ignore the limit and beg for an exception later.
Oh god, now I’m picturing Elmo in a room with thousands of monitors, and he’s watching every Tesla in real time, making adjustments on a whim, maybe actually taking over the driving of some random guy’s car.
The Ford F150 Lightning is in the same category weight wise. I’m sure there are others as well but the Lightening is the first one I heard of. Maybe even on these boards right here.
Nah, too much effort. Have an AI take care of it. Monitor each drivers twitter X account and if you find too many posts against Musk, lock the accelerator and disable the brakes.
That’s the beauty of punitive damages - I’m certain there are limits to them, but I’d think a good lawyer could argue that if the intent is to convince Elon to not do something like that again, then leaving him $1 billion (you know, enough to live on) should be sufficient.
ISTM that all the various weight limits in all jurisdictions will need some rethinking in light of EVs.
Manufacturers have always been free to build vehicles that run up close to weight limits for ordinary roads or ordinary operator licenses or ordinary registration taxes or ordinary [whatever]s. Now that EVs commonly weigh 1000# or more above and beyond an equivalent ICE vehicle, many of those limits need re-thinking.
Those that are related to structural issues like bridge weight capacities may not be updatable. But if the weight is just used as a convenient proxy for vehicle size or complexity, that probably needs a nudge upwards.