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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 198 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 111 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

God damnit I read this in his dumb voice

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[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

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[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 22 points 4 days ago

Extremely desperate

[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Maybe he used a public library PC?

(/s, obviously)

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 126 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Then his stunt double sucks at the game too.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 100 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dashi@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days 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!

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So are we not doing perjury anymore?

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (3 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...

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days 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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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 3 days 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?

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

And someone in the courthouse trolling him for it.

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Meh, doesn’t use his brain either.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A liar's lying lawyers lying? Inconceivable!

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 13 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Doesn't use his brain either.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They clearly have no idea what a computer is.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 13 points 4 days ago

You mean the amount of bribery makes them have "no active memory" of Elon using a computer

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All Tesla cars have computers inside.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

"It's all computer"

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Disbar these lawyers. Disgraceful.

[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This just struck me, this is the key. They can argue that a phone is traditionally thought of as a phone. Even though technically it’s a computer, in common parlance it is called a phone. Then by extension, he wasn’t streaming on a computer, he was streaming on a laptop. So they will argue a computer is desktop.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Maybe he means like one of those women at NASA.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 6 points 3 days 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.

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