Why not both?
Tesla has been shedding executives ahead of its Robotaxi event, with four of Elon Musk’s direct reports saying they’d left the company over the past week.
Translation: We don’t want to be subpoenaed over the fraud this is.
Or: We know we’re going to end up being subpoenaed over this, and we’d rather be subpoenaed as “Witness number 7” than as “Defendant number 12”.
and require speed limiters on vehicles that weigh more than 3.5 tonnes when full.
Never mind speed limiters: this weight means that it needs a commercial truck driving license to be driven!
On Monday, former Fox News host and right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson released an interview with billionaire and X owner Elon Musk. At the 19-minute mark of the 108-minute-long interview, Carlson takes a break to talk about one of the show’s paid partners, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. Carlson then goes on to describe something that sounds suspiciously like Project 2025, the Foundation’s highly controversial road map for a second Donald Trump presidency.
Knowledge Fight has a subseries called “Tucker, The Man and His Twitter”, and I really hope they do an episode on this interview.
Elon Musk’s “help” comes in two flavors: magnanimously inviting people to buy his products, and talk about vaporware made up for the occasion. As easy as it would be for him, he still will not give a penny to actually help anyone.
Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based on how many verified users see ads in replies to their posts. But the company announced today that creators are instead going to be paid based on “engagement with your content from Premium users.”
Put another way: the more people that subscribe to X Premium and engage with content from other Premium subscribers, the more money they all make. In theory.
Based on past Tesla events, don’t expect Musk to follow through on all his promises.
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