Idiot signed an agreement saying he had no due diligence rights.
So much for Wharton.
Looks like Elon’s got Ken Paxton investigating twitter bots.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he is investigating Twitter over its reporting of how many accounts on the platform are from bots and fake users, saying the company may be misrepresenting the number to inflate its value and raise its revenue.
Twitter has claimed in its financial regulatory filings that less than 5% of its daily active users are spam accounts. But Paxton on Monday alleged that spam accounts could make up as much as 20% of users or more.
“Bot accounts can not only reduce the quality of users’ experience on the platform but may also inflate the value of the company and the costs of doing business with it, thus directly harming Texas consumers and businesses,” Paxton said.
So the TX AG is now Elon Musk’s personal attorney?
Also, how exactly do bots on Twitter harm TX consumers and businesses? The platform is free for people to use—or not use.
I actually follow a few bots-- fully knowing they’re bots-- because they’re fun. One serves up art from M.C. Escher; two more deliver quotes (one is devoted to Flash Gordon’s Vultan, the other provides life tips from Jean-Luc Picard.) They’re all clearly labeled as Automated, so there’s no deception involved. I’d say those bots are harmless, and I doubt they effect Twitter’s bottom line one bit. (The PicardTips bot is the largest with 184K followers, but even so, are a couple of automated advice posts a day enough to upset anyone’s applecarts?)
Spambots can be a pain, sure, but the ones I’ve seen weren’t that hard to recognize (and block.) It seems to me like all the complaining about bots is just a bunch of excuses by Musk to evade the financial responsibilities he agreed to fulfill.
Elon Musk is not a dumb guy. However hands-on he might or might not be as SpaceX’s “chief engineer,” the man knows enough about rockets to revolutionize commercial spaceflight, enough about batteries and materials science to revolutionize the electric vehicle industry, and enough about markets to earn the title of “world’s richest man” in doing both.
The white-hot hatred of many liberals toward Musk was always sort of silly, given that he might be the single most important individual driver of commercial renewable energy tech in the world.
(In fairness, liberals haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory in policing this information landscape, most notably in pushing for the censorship of legitimate stories about the incriminating content of Hunter Biden’s laptop.)
Hunter Biden’s laptop
“Everything those liberals said, which I denied at the time, turns out to be true, but I’m still right and they’re still wrong and anyway it’s their own fault”
So, this Derek Robertson is, like, Politico’s Popkin?
Oh, for fuck’s sake. 
Corrected:
Elon Musk Has Become More Obvious As The Villain That Liberals Always Knew He Was But I Was Too Busy Blissing On Rockets And Electric Cars To Notice
All these years that crazy people warned that Musk wanted to be an Evil Overlord, and it turns out to be true. What a coincidence!
Like one of those trick candles you can get for birthday cakes?
The system is designed to switch to a human once it knows there’s about to be a crash just to provide some legal cover to Tesla. I can’t believe it hasn’t been recalled yet.
Add to this, the autopilot feature is an option that you have to pay for when ordering the car. I doubt that Tesla will be giving any refunds if the software feature is disabled.
Full self grifting.
Is this a techbro “solution” or what?
Just call out “Jesus take the wheel!” and then he’s responsible for anything that happens afterward.
