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Mike Masnick ✅LOL. Musk claims he's going to sue Microsoft for not paying $42k for the API.
Thomas@mmasnick Please. Do it.
2xfo
Warren Terra@mmasnick
Can you imagine being this guy's lawyer?
Can you imagine being this guy's lawyer?
Gregor Kalinkat@warren__terra @mmasnick not sure it’s worse than being an engineer at Twitter RN (it might be)
@gkalinkat @mmasnick
I assume the engineers are paid better and have a looser dress code and other rules. The engineers' hours are probably a lot worse, though, and the demands probably even stupider.
And at least the lawyers aren't trapped by an H1B visa at a time when there's a lot of laid-off software engineers.
Darrin West@obviousdwest @gkalinkat @mmasnick
There's a lot of speculation they're a lot of what's left.
I can't imagine anyone with a lot of options staying and putting up with his nonsense, while he berates them and cuts the perks and guarantees any equity they built is worthless.
But an H1B holder, if they quit, has to find a new sponsor within weeks. They have to do it while competing with tens of thousands of laid-off software engineers. If they look while still at Twitter, they might anger him.
@warren__terra @mmasnick Why did I just immediately think of Lionel Hutz from I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm.
Waterluvian@warren__terra @mmasnick I’d happily imagine it from my rooftop hot tub where I’m… where I’m… I’m enjoying gigabit symmetrical internet — sorry I really don’t know what normal people fantasize about if they were rich.
ChrisAshtear"Elon Musks Lawyer" would be a good fit for a college humor sketch. Like when they did nick cages Agent.
Raphael@mmasnick Does that company still have someone on the payroll who can hire and pay lawyers for lawsuits? Hasn't he fired everyone?
Viss@mmasnick on the heels of the biggest ever defamation payout in history. what great timing! i bet itll go swell :D
kkeller@mmasnick just to add some visibility, here's the link you provide to help journalists (and anyone else who needs to communicate with the public) migrate away from Twitter:
Steve's Place@mmasnick I dare him to sue Apple and their phalanx of attorneys. I double-dog dare him.
BunNICKula🇨🇦
Richard Higgins
joel b@mmasnick Trained Illegally is my screenplay about street-smart pickpocket who’s family is killed by corpo-fascist cabal and is taught brutal hand-to-hand combat by a disgraced Tibetan monk and returns to the streets of Neo-Mumbai to seek her vengeance.
Lawsuit time.
Probably Paul 🌍@mmasnick I'm increasingly convinced that Musk is actually quite mentally unwell. Doesn't mean I have any sympathy for him, but all that money ain't making him happy, that's for sure...
Chris Glass@BarrenPlanet @mmasnick His comprehension is definitely off the rails. This is more than just narcissistic behavior and -illionaire-isolation.
@TheChrisGlass @mmasnick Oh absolutely. Folks say Musk is manipulative and deceitful. While that's certainly true, there's also an aspect of him just having lost all touch with reality, and being someone who completely lacks both emotional intelligence and self-insight. I think he genuinely believes a lot of his own mythology.
@BarrenPlanet @mmasnick I know some of it is owed to being stupid enough to believe 4chan and 8kun junk. But I also think part of it is his brain snapping because some parts have been proven false. His reality is collapsing and the Chappelle booing accelerated that.
@mmasnick I have this strange feeling that Microsoft might possess a gun that fires extremely competent lawyers and has never stiffed anyone on a bill...
JohnW@the_Effekt @mmasnick there's a lot of criticisms that can and have been leveled at the beast of Redmound but they do seem to pay their bills
Elon Musk’s Horse Wallet@mmasnick We’ve reach the frivolous lawsuit phase of turning into trump
Mike Fraser@mmasnick Lol, Microsoft has far more cash in the bank and the only better legal department in the world is Disney. I would love to see him die on that hill.
Bricin@mmasnick Microsoft has had backdoor “firehose” access to Twitter for ever. This is just silly and performative.
Robert Thau@mmasnick Non-payment of the new API fees doesn't really make sense as a theory of the case - they weren't in effect when MS retrieved the data. Then again, I haven't got an interpretation of Musk's threat that makes any more sense than that.
Brian Dear@mmasnick You *subscribe* to Elon?
@brianstorms hell no. elon subscribes to that account he's replying to.
@mmasnick Lol. Whew. I was going to say! 😂
@mmasnick I wonder what desperation smells like in an old billionaire techie poser who's losing his shirt.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@mmasnick Boss move by the master of sixty-nine dimensional chess.
T Alex Beamish@mmasnick Microsoft was founded by the son of a lawyer. This lawsuit would be entertaining if it ever happens, but my guess is it's more bluster.
Shailesh Kumar 🇫🇯🇺🇸@mmasnick Satya Nadella may just pity “space Karen” and buy Twitter for a $1.
João Tiago Rebelo@Buddyz_FJ @mmasnick the one good thing would be that, like many others bought by M$, after cutting and gutting it, the musky bird site would be dead in the water and closed in about a year.
Doctor Biobrain@mmasnick Musk trained illegally using the farts I exhaust in my sleep. Lawsuit time.
phi1997@mmasnick
How many of Twitter's lawyers are even free at this point?
How many of Twitter's lawyers are even free at this point?
MeowMix64@mmasnick Looking forward to this. (and by looking forward I mean, expecting nothing to happen at all.😞)
Half Cocked Law@mmasnick Even Quinn Emanuel is probably going to decline to file that one.
@halfcocked was pretty sure he fired quinn. they're still representing him on some suits they can't get out of, but his more recent cases haven't been quinn.
Zorro Notorious MEB 😡@mmasnick He has a right to sue anyone he wants to sue. Microsoft will squash him like a bug in court and he knows it.
Darwin Woodka@mmasnick Musk can waste his time and money suing whoever he wants to I guess.
Maxx@mmasnick He’ll lose that one too.
Kris Sargent, MD@mmasnick This theory would seem to declare an interesting Class of Tesla owners from whom Tesla trained their FSD software without compensation...
barryzee@mmasnick Would pay more in attorney fees than he would gain with the fee. Prior Twitter management wanted everyone to have the API. Just an empty threat.
Nicole ParsonsRepublican donors are very keen on the concept of "captive consumers".
When does that switch from "captive consumers" to just plain "captive"?
The Gas and Oil Party is also crazy for captive markets and captive employees & captive vendors.
Especially captive markets for oil.
Republicans are creating the Company Store economy.
https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_race_poverty_law_journal/vol17/iss1/3/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_market
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/amazon-is-already-valued-like-monopoly-2022-09-19/
Sloan Studio@mmasnick Trained what exactly? The dumbest social network decisions ever?
podkaynelives@mmasnick There is not enough popcorn for this.
husbandpanda 🐼@mmasnick it's probably the most entertaining post I've seen out of him yet
Griff Ferrell@mmasnick Does anyone think he's had a moment of clarity and realized, oh s***, have I screwed up
@griff lol. not yet
cslinuxboy@mmasnick #Musk, if anyone has extended experience with lawsuits it's definitely #Microsoft. Good luck with that...
Patty Kimura@mmasnick Cap'n Elon stands on the deck of the Titanic screaming he's gonna lawsuit time the goddam Iceberg.
Elon, bro, it's more effective if you shake your fist while screaming.
Elon, bro, it's more effective if you shake your fist while screaming.
Wendy Lady@mmasnick did he contract foot-in-mouth disease or something?
Joe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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zeemeermin@mmasnick hahahahahaha what a PAB