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No clue if this is true but for argument's sake let's say it is.

Been a hoot if Musk shoved Bessent. Bessent regains footage, knocks Musk out and then starts to choke Musk with T cheering him on while everything was live streamed to X.

From DM. May not want to open with a phone.

 

Study reveals surprising trend among nearly half of Tesla drivers: 'More ... emotionally charged than they ever expected'​

Vandalism against vehicles has unfortunately been around for a very long time. From keyed door panels to slashed tires, it can become a costly ordeal for anyone who has even been victimized. And according to nearly 50% of Tesla owners, their electric vehicles have been targeted by vandals at an alarming rate.

In a recent study from Guardian Service, researchers surveyed 508 Tesla owners in the United States. This was done to "explore how vandalism, insurance hikes, and public perception are reshaping the EV ownership experience."

As noted by the researchers, 44% of Tesla owners reported that they received "intentional damage to their vehicle." This accounted for an average repair bill of $1,900 for owners. Not only do these acts of vandalism cost Tesla owners in the short term, but they may affect long-term insurance rates as well.

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Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring​

An Oregon man has been charged in a federal complaint today on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks beginning at least in 2021. Ethan Foltz has been accused of running Rapper Bot, also known as Eleven Eleven Botnet and CowBot, and using it to execute coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The complaint claims that Rapper Bot was used to target victims in more than 80 countries, and since April 2025, it has reportedly conducted more than 370,000 attacks against 18,000 unique victims.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...wn-x-this-spring/ar-AA1KP7M2?ocid=socialshare
 

Musk’s Starlink suffers global outage, affecting customers from US to Ukrainian battlefields​

Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service experienced a global outage early Monday morning, affecting tens of thousands of users spanning from the U.S. to the battlefields of Ukraine.

Starlink is an internet service provider created by Musk and operated by his company SpaceX. It uses low orbit satellites around Earth to connect and deliver internet to remote areas throughout the world. This also includes worldwide military conflict areas, such as Ukraine. According to multiple reports, Starlink has about six million subscribers around the world.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ian-battlefields/ar-AA1Mzmj6?ocid=socialshare
 
Some what related but this attack is more legal than physical.

Elon Musk’s X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children​

  • Elon Musk’s X faces regulatory probes in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot began generating deepfake explicit images, some depicting child sex abuse.
  • British media watchdog Ofcom also said it’s requested information from X concerning the Grok issues.
  • In the U.S., the National Center for Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is calling on the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the matter
Elon Musk’s X is being investigated by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot let users create and share AI-generated sexualized images of children and women.

British media watchdog Ofcom also said it’s requested information from X, which is owned by xAI, concerning the Grok issues. And on Sunday, a member of Brazil’s parliament said on social media that she’s asked the country’s federal public prosecutor and data protection authority to suspend use of Grok until an investigation is completed.

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I wonder if this may be the reason Muskrat is back to buddying up to T?
 

ELON JUST CALLED THE EU'S BLUFF - OPEN SOURCING X'S ALGORITHM IN 6 DAYS

@ElonMusk
is making X's entire recommendation algorithm public January 17th. Every line of code showing what posts you see and why.

Then updating it every 4 weeks with developer notes.

This is a direct response to France classifying X as an "organized gang," the same legal designation they use for drug cartels and mafia, so they could wiretap employee phones and demand algorithm access.

The EU wants control over what people see online. They fined X $140 million last month, launched probes into "algorithm abuse," and demanded researchers get data access. France wants "experts" to analyze X's code to "uncover the truth" about the platform.

Elon's response: "You want the algorithm? Here's the algorithm. Everyone gets it."

This is 4D chess. EU regulators wanted private access to modify and control.

Instead they're getting public disclosure they can't manipulate. Every competing platform, every researcher, every government on Earth gets the same code at the same time.

You can't secretly pressure someone to censor when the censorship mechanism is open source.

My prediction: EU loses its mind, threatens more fines.

Elon doesn't care. Other platforms forced to follow or look like they're hiding something.

If that's not a classic Elon, what is?

Source: ZeroHedge, Epoch Times
 
They got around to it, finally.

The InterWebZ are Transformed into a one-note conduit for the Party Line.

Dissenting voices not permitted. I expect Substack will be threatened into imposing censorship, very fast.
 
...I expect that Nick Shirley's work has a lot to do with this. These inconvenient truths, and the Deplorables exposing them...MUST BE DEALT WITH.
 
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