Scott Gibson
scottgibson.bsky.social
Scott Gibson
@scottgibson.bsky.social
🇮🇪/🇫🇷Reluctant computer knower. Cork, Ireland.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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In case you still think Elon Musk ever cared about climate change and the environment.
Tesla is sued over air pollution from factory operations in Fremont, California
A California nonprofit has sued Tesla over what it calls the company's "ongoing failure to comply with the Clean Air Act" at its Fremont assembly plant.
www.cnbc.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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"I frankly wouldn’t pay any attention to anything that Elon Musk puts on that cesspit of his called X. He was the guy who advocated getting Donald Trump elected," says Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary. "He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but he's still an idiot."
Elon Musk is an idiot: CEO of Europe’s biggest airline says after dismissing claims of offering Starlink on its flights, Tesla CEO responds - The Times of India
Tech News News: Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has publicly called Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk an ‘idiot’. O’Leary’s remarks came after Europe’s biggest airline servi.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool
Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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I just tested this in the UK without a VPN and it all seems to work exactly as it did before.
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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Thanks Google! I hate it, how do I remove it? as.ft.com/r/7cd779d3-e...
Google taps emails and YouTube history in push for personalised AI
[FREE TO READ] Tech group plans to leverage its span of popular products to gain an advantage over rivals
as.ft.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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"The very first thing he did is launch Trump Coin and it just felt like the extractiveness has now been institutionalized"

Area crypto guy is *so close* to getting it. The whole damn thing is extractive, you numbnuts

www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...
Cardano's Charles Hoskinson slams Trump’s crypto policy as 'extractive,' warns of industry fallout
Cardano founder says Trump’s actions have politicized crypto and alienated half the country.
www.coindesk.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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If I was advising the EU—and I 100% should be—my advice is that you prepare three sets of sanction packages:
1. Deliberate targeting of personal/corporate assets of Trump, Musk, Andressen, Sacks, etc like they’re Russian oligarchs by doing stuff like seizing Gigafactory Berlin. This gets used first.
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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I cannot stress how distrubing it is to find out just how many peoples’ perfect partner is anything that can never disagree with them
The first point here is she isn't his girlfriend; she's a sycophantic computer programme he's set up to praise him.

We need to stop indulging this
January 11, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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ladies, it's ok because only paying subscribers can make/distribute deepfake porn of you and your children now www.ft.com/content/c24d...
Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images
Start-up limits use of image generation system to paid users following spread of deepfakes and child sex abuse material
www.ft.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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One reason I feel like I'm going mad is, even if Musk did immediately halt Grok and issue a grovelling apology - rather than PAYWALLING IT - he should *still* be prosecuted and his website banned. Very obviously! You don't get out of CSAM charges by just stopping. AND HE STILL HASN'T STOPPED.
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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11 days from now marks one year since this guy got away with doing a Nazi salute on live TV. Since then, he - the world's richest man - has gutted govt programmes causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children and turned his microblogging website into a child porn generator. Consequences!
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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The relevant law allows for significant fines for companies, and for fines and up to 14 years in prison for directors or officers of companies that commit offences with their consent, connivance or neglect. There's no gap in the law here. X needs to be subject to criminal investigation.
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Ireland collecting tax revenue from US tech firms: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Ireland dealing with SV’s reactionary turn and contempt for laws: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!
January 8, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI chatbot Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says
Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)

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January 8, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)

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January 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM