Notably, Larry (the lawnmower?) and Elon appear to be on good terms and aligned on the twitter thing, judging by this text exchange where Larry offers $1B to help secure the Twitter deal and upgrades to $2B with no compunction after a gentle prod from Elon:
Elon: I would like to understand the technical details of the Twitter codebase. This will help me calibrate the dumbness of my suggestions.
Parag: I wrote heavy duty software for 20 years
Parag: I used to be CTO and have been in our codebase for a long time.
Parag: So I can answer many many of your questions.
Elon: I interface way better with engineers who are able to do hardcore programming than with program managero/ MBA types of people.
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Elon: Crypto spam on Twitter really needs to get crushed. It's a major blight on the user experience and they scam so many innocent people.
Bret: It sounds like we are confirming 7pm at a private residence near San Jose. Our assistants reached out to Jehn on logistics. Let me know if either of you have any concerns or want to move things around. Looking forward to our conversation.
Parag: Works for me. Excited to see you both in person!
Elon: Jehn had a baby and I decided to try having no assistant for a few months
I run little snitch and block all outgoing connections from my mail client except the imap/smtp ones. It shocked me that my company’s HR emails included tracking to see if I opened them!
Just playing dumb might not be enough of a reason if you actually open it.
I guess the trick is instead of saying "no," say nothing so you can play dumb. "Must have been marked as spam."