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Elon Musk’s lawyers claim he ‘does not use a computer’ (www.wired.com)
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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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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 111 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"What's a computer?"

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

God damnit I read this in his dumb voice

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

But I thought that everythings computer?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I was thinking it would be more about “use.”

[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

No its not, I play it on PS5.