CombatWombat

It used to be that if someone was concerned the government was listening to their thoughts, they’d make a hat out of tinfoil to protect their thoughts from eavesdroppers, and it was an easy identifier they were not well mentally because obviously the government isn’t listening in on your thoughts. Now, if you wear a tinfoil hat to protect yourself, I know you’re mentally unwell because obviously the tinfoil isn’t strong enough to stop the government from listening to your thoughts.

Especially if you are from a country that has to pay the $15k bond. There is no way you’re getting that money back, and it is not worth it to attend a world cup. Just go to Brazil next year.

oppa mar-a-lago style

I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:

Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.

I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.

Ugh. Thanks for the heads’ up — I’ve definitely posted archive links without noticing they’re blocked before. PBS and NPR have really gone downhill with the budget cuts. ProPublica is great, but their coverage is pretty narrow, so there’s a lot of stories they don’t cover at all. It’s getting harder and harder to find a quality source.

I’m certain they’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and AI is a convenient way to justify it, rather than admitting they don’t want humans using it to circumvent the paywall. It does solidify for me personally that the LA Times is the paper of record for the United States going forward, rather than the New York Times.