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"I know that Elon claims he’s decided he might actually live up to what he
promised to do in the binding contract he signed to buy Twitter, but I still
wanted to discuss some of the text messages that became public last week as
part of the case, showing text messages between Musk and various famous people
about his plans for Twitter.
As a side note, I saw some in the media calling it a “leak” but there was no
leak. I’m actually a bit surprised they were released as such, as
most of the
time materials handed over in discovery usually remain secret, and only come
out when bits and pieces are used as actual evidence in the case. I originally
thought these texts were released as part of Twitter’s attempt to highlight how
Musk had been holding back messages he should have handed over in discovery,
but, as the excellent Chancery Daily notes, it was actually team Musk that
asked the court to make these public, somewhat oddly
challenging their own
redactions (read that thread for some speculation as to why).
And, look, let’s face it: for most of us, if most of our texts were all made
public, without the context that communications between two people who know
each other and have some kind of personal relationship and history have… I’d
bet a lot of them would be kinda cringey too. So, I get that aspect of it, and
think that the many, many articles talking about the “cringiest” texts from the
pages and pages of texts are a bit unfair. Let he who is without cringey texts
cast the first stone, etc. etc.
But, there is something more serious here, highlighted quite well by Charlie
Warzel over at the Atlantic, noting that these texts go a long way towards
“shattering the myth” that a lot of the leaders in Silicon Valley are
particularly insightful (or “geniuses”) when, really, it seems like they lucked
into some level of success and now think it’s because of their own
intelligence."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
