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The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

[...] However, Musk has posted pictures or referred to his laptop on X several times in recent months, and public evidence suggests that he owns and appears to use at least one computer. [...]


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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Doesn't this guy regularly stream from a laptop in a desperate attempt to seem cool?

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

He has streamed path of exile 2 which is pc-only.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

this argument from his lawyer is probably going to twist the English language beyond obscene

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Ah, the Jordan Peterson defense. "That depends on your definition of 'have', 'used', 'a', and 'computer'."

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

God damnit I read this in his dumb voice

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Why not use the Clinton defence "That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is."

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Which gets made fun of a lot but it's not as vapid as it sounds. He said "There's nothing going on" with Monica Lewinsky because, at the time he was asked, there wasn't. He was accused of lying, and that was his defense, because interpreting "is" in the typical sense of referring to the present tense made his statement accurate.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No its not, I play it on PS5.

[-] NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He streamed himself playing a hardcore character that his minions sank hours into and proved he knows nothing about playing the game. So maybe it wasn't his laptop either.

https://youtu.be/FmEe3eUPWq4

[-] Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not just hours. Like 80 hour weeks to get to that rank.

It also died while he was live streaming nazi support to the AFD in Germany. So he was clearly not playing then

[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago

Extremely desperate

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

So are we not doing perjury anymore?

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

In America, perjury is inversely proportional to your financial value.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He live streamed himself playing path of exile 2 from his private jet.

[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

On an account that he paid someone to grind up

In this stream he kept failing on the tutorial boss, so I dont think it was his competency stand-in.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

You'd think he'd pay someone better to play

[-] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

He sat in front of a screen while his stunt double played.

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[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Meh, doesn’t use his brain either.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Well we all knew he wasn't the one playing the path of exile

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He was using Neuralink and is playing with 1% of his brain capacity at all times. Trust.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You can't tweet without a computer. It may be a mobile one, but even that is a computer. This is a stupid claim which could only fool an idiot.

So depending on the judge, we'll just see what happens...

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Most people draw a distinction between a phone/tablet vs a desktop/laptop. It's not a distinction that can be easily defined, but most people instinctively categorize them as such.

But regardless, the issue at hand has nothing to do with that definition. The discovery process requires them to process any applicable devices that might have info, potentially including all of the above (and more). His team said they already did his phone, but that the laptop in question is not used by him. His opponents say that he has not complied with the requirements of discovery.

The judge will rule on whether that laptop is included in the discovery order.

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[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 7 points 1 week ago

He doesn't use computers in the same way he doesn't abuse ketamine.

[-] Dashi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Hold on now! He posted those clean drug tests from his computer the other day. Clearly he would not lie about his drug tests!

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Psh, no way Musk could afford to fake a drug test. Fake urine costs like $30!

[-] Buske@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Disbar these lawyers. Disgraceful.

[-] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago

He doesn't use drugs either

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 week ago

So many comments from people who, if they read the article, would realize that the article already said that.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Time to plug into a WIRED subscription.

Woops, not reading this one. I'll go speculate in the comments with everybody else.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I forgot this was a thing with Wired articles (I don't read regularly enough for it to usually be a problem) - I'll add an archive link to the OP

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I just Reader Mode it.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Doesn't use his brain either.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That should be pretty easy to disprove with all of his path of exile streams.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He’s paying someone e else to do those. Except for the ones where he sucks.

[-] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'd love to see him say under oath that he paid someone to play his game for him.

[-] Drekaridill@feddit.is 1 points 1 week ago
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[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

All Tesla cars have computers inside.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They clearly have no idea what a computer is.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

So, Elon, you said that you totally legit play PoE 2, but you also said you didn't use computers. So which is it?

Which is it, Elon?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

All ridiculouness aside like him showing videos of him playing games, I was gonna be like, how do you suppose he sends emails or writes his posts on X?

But they counted his phone as something separate to a computer.

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