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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

Former Weekend Editor

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    ”I love Elon… I just don’t want him to dump his poop in the river.”

    The Washington Post reports regulators have hit Elon Musk’s Boring Company with multiple complaints over careless, unpermitted work in Bastrop County, Texas.

    Elon’s “Snailbrook” plans to build a private community around his SpaceX and Boring Company facilities — as well as local unease about the effects of Elon’s “move fast” ethos on the countryside — have been reported by The Wall Street Journal and the San Antonio Express-News.

    From the Post:

    Amy Weir, a local property owner, said Musk’s companies have “no doubt done amazing things,” but that there was no need for them to “reinvent wastewater treatment” when the city was ready to handle the job. The penalties for violating the permit were far too low, she added. “The owner of these companies spent $44 billion on Twitter, and it had no impact on his ability to continue to build these businesses,” she said.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Almost every US state is suing a telecom company for allegedly enabling 7.5 billion robocalls.

    Attorneys general from nearly every US state are suing Arizona-based Avid Telecom, accusing it of illegal robocalls, said a CBS News report, where we first saw the story.

    A press release from Arizona AG Kris Mayes alleged the company made 7.5 billion robocalls. Verizon blocked Avid from its network entirely after warning it in late 2020, according to an Ars Technica report.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    Max’s film credit kerfuffle is gonna take a while.

    Max lumped several categories into a ‘Creators’ label not out of grumpiness about the WGA strike, but because Warner Bros. Discovery’s IT people didn’t have time to do it right, says a new report in Deadline (via AVClub).

    So they just smashed them all together, and the executives didn’t know until it happened. Untangling it could take weeks. Ah, Hanlon’s Razor.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    EU commissioner says Twitter has left its Code of Practice on Disinformation.

    One of the EU’s commissioners, Thierry Breton, tweeted last night that Twitter has left the governing body’s Code of Practice on Disinformation. The voluntary code is intended to set forth standards for curbing weaponized disinformation.

    Twitter and several other companies agreed to the rules in June last year.