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pretty sure I just made history
first photo of a cybertruck taken on a blackberry curve 9330
I mean this should be a serious scandal with serious ramifications in the months ahead. Not sure that’ll be the case.
Those people refusing to vote, the other side wouldnt be playing these games for you not to do so.
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For those curious:
- Our lowest 3 smash are
- 2.4 for the Elon Musk poll
- 2.7 for the charles III
- 4.6 dor Ellen Degeneres
- Our highest 3 smash are
- 95.5 for the second Sigourney Weaver poll
- 93 for the Appalachian Moutains
- 92 for the type 30 rotary phone
makes perfect sense
The funniest thing about this situation is that Elon Musk is so pissed off at not getting to do something illegal and get away with it by being a billionaire for once in his life that he has been -and I’m 100% serious here- making photo edits of our Supreme Court minister dressed as fucking Voldemort. Literal little kid taping a picture of someone they don’t like to a dartboard kind of behavior.
Brazilian Supreme Court: Hey, uh. Just letting you know that what you’re doing is a crass violation of Brazilian law and if you don’t remedy it on the next 24h we’ll shut your website down in Brazil.
Elon Musk:
Sorry, I just looked it up and it turns out I got it slightly wrong: Elon Musk didn't photoshop a picture of Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court minister into Voldemort. Pretty silly of me to think someone like him would put in the effort to actually edit a picture himself.
What ACTUALLY happened was that Elon Musk first compared Alexandre de Moraes to Voldemort, then posted an Al generated image of him behind bars and told him to "mark his words because it'll happen for real someday", then posted another Al generated picture of him as a roll of toilet paper and then, finally, posted a picture of him photoshopped into a Sith Lord that he claimed had been generated by that shitty Grok Al thing they came up with, just to eventually admit that it was actually some random edit someone else had made he took from Google Images because "Al made him look too badass". In this order.
Well, it’s a little bit of a convoluted story, but remember the US capitol invasion by Trump Supporters in January 2021? Brazil was being governed by our own far-right asshole back then as well, Jair Bolsonaro. When he was running for president, his political party orchestrated a large misinformation campaign, speeding fear mongering rumors about the left through social media and instant messaging apps to try and sway people into voting for them. A bunch of these rumors were, unsurprisingly, about how “the left is teaching your kids to be gay in school.” Even after he Bolsonaro was elected, there still were lots of people and communities in these platforms dedicated to spreading rumors in his favor.
Bolsonaro, however, did such a shitty job handling the COVID pandemic and was responsible for (and very indifferent about) so many people losing their lives that it irreversibly soured his popularity. As a result, he wasn’t reelected in 2022 and lost to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist party candidate. So, in January 2023, two days after the anniversary of the US capitol invasion, Bolsonaro’s remaining supporters were called to arms through these misinformation spreading platforms to storm Brazil’s Supreme Court building, the congress building and the presidential palace to try and stage a coup and reinstate Bolsonaro as president. They weren’t successful, thankfully, but they caused a lot of damage to the buildings and hurt people in the process.
Ever since this happened, the Brazilian supreme court has been trying to properly identify and bring every person responsible for this attack to justice, including the people who were behind the scenes spreading rumors and organizing the whole thing. So it was ruled that the social media and messaging apps that were used to spread misinformation and organize this attempted coup should hand the information they had about these people over so they could be properly investigated and prosecuted, and ban them from using their services. Not doing so was, by very definition, obstruction of Brazilian justice and therefore a criminal act. Twitter, at the time not ran by a conservative dipshit, was cooperative at first.
Enter Elon Musk, known conservative dipshit, who takes over Twitter, changes it to X and refuses to cooperate with the investigation, saying that it is a “violation of the free speech of the accused”. Upon being told by our Supreme Court minister, Alexandre de Moraes, that he was breaking Brazilian law, he got all pissy, ordered all of the X offices in Brazil to be closed down, accused Alexandre de Moraes of “just wanting his political opponents to be silenced”, threatening to unban everyone involved who had been previously banned before he took over X and calling him “not even a real minister because he wasn’t elected” Yeah, no shit, dumbass. Ministers get appointed by the president over here.
Anyway, due to being a dumbass, Musk didn’t realize that closing down X’s offices in Brazil wouldn’t really change the fact that he was still breaking Brazilian law and, in fact, was just more obstruction of justice. So, Alexandre de Moraes gave him until the 31st to send or appoint a new legal representative for X in Brazil to handle the court proceedings or X would be shut down in all of Brazil until he did. That’s when Musk started the Voldemort shit and made it clear he would NOT do that and saying that Alexandre de Moraes should be the one sent to jail for… I don’t even know. Wanting people who committed crimes to face the consequences of it?
To sum it up… X is almost definitely going to close down indefinitely in Brazil because Elon Musk can’t stop himself from acting like a petulant toddler whenever he’s told to do something he doesn’t want, is dying on the hill of “protecting the of free speech” of far-right criminals and the social media website he was forced to buy in order to not be charged of market manipulation that he has been steadily fucking to shit ever since is going to lose around 21 million users overnight. Masterful gambit, sir!
#Luke Skywalker voice: what a piece of JUNK#*closes door a little too hard* whoops looks like the entire thing spontaneously combusted#100k dumpster on wheels#well actually at least a dumpster is able to perform its job as intended#tesla cybertruck#cybertruck#cybercuck#tesla#elon musk#anti elon musk#anti musk#elongated muskrat#cars#vehicles#whistlindiesel#tiktok#tik tok#video
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They are horrible people. But trust me, we do not want the precident set by prosecuting speech like this. "Oh, they said something mean about us" is never a thing that doesn't end up hurting the poor and disadvantaged. It is apallingly easy to fuck up someone's life by just opening a terrible slander/libel suit, even meritless.
Also, America has some of the best (if not the best) free speech laws in the world and we need to tell England to fuck right off with telling us what we can say.
Civil liberties are meaningless unless they also protect people we find detestable. Because I basically guarantee that all of you are detestable to somebody.
But the issue here isn't that they said something mean. It's that they said something libellous.
You can call somebody an asshole. But if, say, you publicly declare in the press that someone is a murderer, you had damn better be able to prove it.
(That's the whole reason journalists always say "the alleged criminal allegedly did" even when everybody knows he is guilty)
Now, obviously there is nothing wrong with being trans.
But
a)that athlete is Algerian, one of the most homephobic countries in the world, where homosexuality is criminalised and the punishment is years in jail. Accusing her of being trans very legitimately puts her life in very serious danger.
b)given the rules of the competition, she'd get disqualified and lose her medal.
we need to tell England to fuck right off with telling us what we can say
I have a question here. Does @necarion think Paris is in England?
The charges are happening under French law. French libel law is NOT like US libel law. (Most of the world's libel laws are broader than the US - they have sharper limits on what's allowed to be said in public.)
Odds of getting prison sentences are low.
Odds of enforcing prison sentences are even lower. Neither the UK nor the US is going to ship these people off to France to go to prison.
I have no idea what the odds of a fine are, but that would be easier to enforce. Especially against Musk, since Xitter does business in France.
France has laws that protect privacy that go beyond the provisions of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. If London has been called “the libel capital of the world” because of its “notoriously claimant-friendly environment in which to sue” – the words of the lawyer Mark Stephens – it could be said that Paris is the privacy capital of the world. French privacy law is notably protective of the rights of individuals, including their rights to their own image, which prevents the publication of unauthorised photographs. This is why, for example, newspapers blur the faces of bystanders in photographs.
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Remember Tesla Cybertruck's oversized windshield wiper? The one that appears too large to exist, at least not without malfunctioning in some way? Well, it turns out that it is.
"On affected vehicles, the front windshield wiper motor controller may stop functioning due to electrical overstress to the gate driver component," the recall report says. "A non-functioning windshield wiper may reduce visibility in certain operating conditions, which may increase the risk of a collision."
This is not the Cybertruck's first recall rodeo. The company recalled all of the Cybertrucks it sold in April 2024 due to accelerator pad issues. Unlike many of Tesla's other recalls, which were easily solved with a software update, these Cybertruck recalls required a visit to a service center. All in all, Tesla has issued four Cybertruck recalls since the car went on sale in November of 2023
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Musk's lawyer from the Ben Brody defamation case is being sued for practicing law without a license. I just can't anymore, you are one of the richest people on earth, why in the world would you hire a lawyer that legally can't represent you?! I know Musk is just unironically stupid, but there must be a limit.
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I mean he does have a license, just not in texas
Can't get one of the thousands of lawyers that actually prescribe Texan law. What an absolute clown
Sometimes you reblog something because you can't not have it on your blog
Sometimes you relog something because there's just no fucking other way to scroll past it
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OUTSTANDING
This can't be real life.
Nicknamed "Project 42," the initiative is believed to involve a purchase of millions of dollars in special glass — large enough that it drew attention from employees last year. Limited liability firms linked to Musk and executives are also known to have bought large volumes of land in the area.
Commence Glass Onion jokes now.
