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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. [...]


Archived: https://archive.is/5Bg9m

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours 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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

He doesn't use drugs either

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Bebopalouie 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meh, doesn’t use his brain either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I bet he's got at least one, in a jar or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

hey leave us organ collectors out of this

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So are we not doing perjury anymore?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On an account that he paid someone to grind up

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Then his stunt double sucks at the game too.

[–] [email protected] 200 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

God damnit I read this in his dumb voice

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Extremely desperate

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Doesn't use his brain either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Disbar these lawyers. Disgraceful.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Time to plug into a WIRED subscription.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Fair enough. I just Reader Mode it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Didnt he have a big thing about getting bigger monitors in the white house so he could game?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A liar's lying lawyers lying? Inconceivable!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The lawyers are taking a big risk to their licenses for lying to the court.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They clearly have no idea what a computer is.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All Tesla cars have computers inside.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

"It's all computer"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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