It’d be a real hoot if all the people who registered decided to vote for Harris.
Now a company called Wiwynn is suing X for an order placed by Dorsey’s Twitter for bespoke equipment. Musk has not paid the bill, and they are seeking sixty million for their product. It seems to be kind of a complicated situation.
Some of my coworkers insist on referring to a parking space as a “park.” (As in, “I saw someone took your park this morning!”). They are not British, and to my knowledge have never been to any countries that use this terminology.
And if they’re self-driving cars, they can go to the car park on their own.
“Okay, you can go out and play, but I want you home before you need to turn on your headlights! And no playing ‘Honk Honk Ditch It’, understand?”
I’m guessing Tim is a little pissed off at Musk at the moment, what with the fake video Musk has been circulating.
Justice Department to Elmo: your lottery is probably illegal and you’re looking at up to five years in prison.
His “Kamala will put me in jail if she’s elected” claim is gonna be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I hate to admit his political trollery could ever be right, but I will reluctantly make an exception for just that one.
My (extremely layman’s) understanding is that the law in question requires awareness that the practice of offering a reward for voting or registering is illegal. So the DoJ is now making sure Musk can’t claim he “didn’t know” if he persists in this.
More legal trouble!
Short version: Musk holds his Tesla cybercab event on the Warner Bros backlot. The two Blade Runner movies were released by WB, so Musk apparently believes the franchise belongs to WB and he can freely use its imagery, and he builds some of his presentation around it. At the last minute, they discover that Blade Runner is entirely owned by a different company called Alcon Entertainment; WB was just the distributor and has no rights to it. With hours to go before the event, they ask Alcon for permission to use media from the movie. Alcon turns them down flat. And then, during the presentation, Musk shows images that aren’t actually from the movie but are clearly derived from it, probably constructed in the eleventh hour with AI tools, and he explicitly references the movie in his remarks while showing those images.
Alcon is now suing him for infringement, and their complaint is a thing of beauty.
Musk is “defending” himself by saying none of this happened, and if it did happen it doesn’t prove anything, and either way the movie sucks so who cares.
What a pathetic, pathetic little man he is.
Musk hates one of my favorite movies? I feel like a better person today.
j
Elmo has cancelled his illegal giveaway.
Contrasting
In response to the lawsuit, Musk took to X to post … , “That movie sucks” on a post calling out Alcon’s lawsuit as “absurd.”
to what he said earlier
“You know, I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future,” Musk said at the event.
combined with his desire to copy the imagery for his advertising event, leaves me in doubt that that his claim that it sucks have anything to do with its artistic merits.
Doesn’t this leave him open to a class action law suit by those people who signed his petition under the impression that they would have a chance at a million dollars? Finally even if he reneged on the payment, isn’t just making the offer enough to violate the law? If I tell 100 people I’ll pay them $50 to vote for Harris, I’m pretty sure that’s a violation even if pull a Trump and refuse to pay them after they voted.
I certainly hope so.
Aw. Now I feel like a worse person again.
j
Sorry, but I just couldn’t live with my self if I allowed you to have self-esteem under false pretenses.
But hey, at least you aren’t Elon Musk!
Gee thanks.
j
I’m curious, but not curious enough to go to the Xitter site: if Musk had notices of his Million-Dollar Giveaway all over the site before today … are they all still there? You know, so that the rewards of inducing people to register and then to give all their personal info to Musk can keep flowing in?