Virgil Abt

New Zork Times puzzle winner

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@mmasnick @vijaya I saw this first-hand. A federal prosecutor got a ridiculous search warrant to unmask several accounts just because a rando responding to us insulted a cop. Twitter spent substantial legal bucks to get the warrant quashed, w/o us even having to ask.
https://t.co/41DYEcYrWD

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

Pleased to learn that a federal criminal grand jury's subpoena to Twitter to get my personal info was quashed by the judge, despite my association with sketchy accounts like @Popehat and @associatesmind, whom the court refused to do any favors.
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[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@EVTruths @TroyTeslike @bgrahamdisciple The recall reports actually state that for more than seven weeks Tesla sustained an average rate of 1,010 Cybertrucks produced per week, from April 4 to May 26. ((11383-3878)/(52/7))=1010.3
Then only 305 were produced in the next 11 days.

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@TroyTeslike @Antoine74591651 You may want to update your bio. "free. Early access on Patreon." makes it sound like your old model where all estimates were posted here a week after posting on Patreon. Perhaps "free at quarter-end. More frequent estimates on Patreon."

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@LorenCollins @DineshDSouza @DavidShafer Thanks. I've now realized that the exact comment cited by the judge was a slightly different one, and I still haven't found a datestamp for that one. But the avowed shitposterism is probably dispositive of the whole Is-this-anything? question anyway.
https://t.co/SBoHditUZq

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

And here's the post from "Michael Anderson" that set it off.

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@LorenCollins @DineshDSouza @DavidShafer Hi Loren, yours is the only screenshot I can find that shows the date and time of the Michael Anderson comment (May 29 at 4:39 PM). Thank you for making it before the comment was deleted! Can you tell me what timezone you were using?

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@garyblack00 @tugsb But note that the one time so far that a majority of votes have gone against the Tesla board on a proposal, the result wasn't announced until 6 days later, even though the margin wasn't close (57% to 43% on DEI reporting, Oct. 2021).
https://t.co/LD73MfMsNr

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@garyblack00 @MylozZZZ @KoguanLeo But Elon's $127 BILLION of $TSLA stock is "no incentive" for him to stick around and try to increase its value rather than tank it by leaving?

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@danahull @business Also newly omitted: all mentions of Tesla's DEI efforts.
https://t.co/s8xwTlYbDQ

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@TroyTeslike Do you plan to post your old April 28 estimate here sometime?
https://t.co/qiujHamJnA

[Troy Teslike @TroyTeslike]

Hi everybody. Tesla Delivery Estimates for Q2 2024 were as follows 12 days ago on Apr 16:

• My Estimate: 418,000
• Analyst Consensus: 479,000

I've just posted a new update on Patreon that includes new DMV VIN data: https://t.co/CMyGv4beqT

Also, feel free to check out my error rate here for the past 12 quarters: https://t.co/ehx8zxrhUu

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@TroyTeslike @climateyupa That transcript puts the paragraph break in the wrong place, but the next sentence (which clearly belongs to this paragraph) is “Note that the sales under this program are recognized as upfront revenue and reported within automotive sales.”

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@TroyTeslike @EVTruths @sokane1 Right, but deliveries also must have been less than 3,878, right? Unless they somehow manufactured a significant quantity of CyberTrucks before November 13 and delivered them in Q1.

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@TroyTeslike @EVTruths @sokane1 Thanks, Troy. So on 3/31 you were estimating 409,000 Q1 deliveries, 4,035 of them Cybertruck. And since the deliveries release you've lowered your estimates for most models, but CT has gone up to 4,245? But the recall notice now makes it clear it must have been < 3,878, right?

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@iblametom FYI, in the Forbes article, "selling" should be "buying".

Here's my Bluesky thread about the order, for anyone interested:
https://t.co/EF4JkOjoxp

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@iblametom Ah, found it. In re: 2703(d) application, No. 5:23-mj-05078 (https://t.co/Bfs5G1pcUk.)
It'd've been helpful if the article mentioned the case caption and that the order was signed a year ago. The lack of any filing by Google certainly suggests it complied.
https://t.co/lxINcOJSQW

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@iblametom I did find one case in which Google recently successfully opposed a warrant. Google moved to quash on Feb. 7, and the feds reported on Feb. 15 that it would be withdrawn.
In re: Search Warrant Application, No. 3:24-mj-70090 (N.D. Cal.)
https://t.co/s7x82OyIIy

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@danahull @mcbridesg Sorry, not March. Seems it was January 13, 2023 that "TBC - The Boring Company", Del. Corp. 6279803 (incorporated 1/11/2017), was succeeded by Texas Corp. 804898286. (March is when that fact was reported to Nevada.)

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@danahull @mcbridesg Dana and Sarah, are you aware Musk's Boring Company also ditched Delaware, reincorporating in Texas last March? So it looks like SpaceX is the only private one still incorporated in Del.. I wonder if he's trying to move it too, but getting pushback from some of the ownership.

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@Ugarles You're getting bowdlerized content, X stragglers!
Head over to https://t.co/rgP6GHEeo3 for the good stuff.
https://t.co/NBpMRm5yoN

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@OctoTrader @janewells Like a lot of folks in the photo, she's holding up the press credential that's on a chain around her neck. Most people's credentials are white or yellow, but if you look further back you can see a few other pink ones.

[Virgil Abt @abtnatural]

@mucha_carlos @ASFleischman And of course "the officer knows is doing business with the county" is much milder than the actual offense here, which is "the officer personally made the decision to spend county money on him".