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🗓️ 2 June 2023

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A check-in with Elon and Twitter sees things pretty much as they’ve been for about a year now. Is Amazon about to release a low-cost cell phone plan for Prime members? Airbnb is suing New York City over a new law it sees as an existential threat. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: The Traceroute Podcast Links: Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned (Reuters) Elon 'The Dogefather' Musk Accused of Insider Trading (Gizmodo) Russia accuses US of hacking thousands of Apple devices to spy on diplomats (The Record) Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members (Bloomberg) Airbnb sues NYC over new rules requiring hosts to register their homes as short-term rentals (Gothamist) Planned Layoffs Have Quadrupled So Far This Year in the US (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How a $13 Billion Fintech That Angered Jamie Dimon Won Over Banks (Bloomberg) A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom (NYTimes Magazine) China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into the Earth (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, June 2nd, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.6	A check-in with Elon and Twitter sees things pretty much as they've been for about a year now. Is Amazon
0:14.2	about to release a low-cost cell phone plan for Prime members?
0:18.0	Airbnb is suing New York City over a new law it sees as an existential threat and of of course, the weekend long rate suggestions.
0:24.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:26.7	Been a while since we checked in on Elon and Twitter. How's that going?
0:38.0	Well, Twitter's Vice President of Trust and Safety, Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company.
0:44.3	Erwin joined Twitter in June 2022 and took over the Trust and Safety Roll
0:50.4	when Yol Roth resigned, so there's that, quoting Reuters.
0:55.7	An email to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.
1:00.0	Erwin declined for their comment and Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
1:04.4	Fortune earlier reported that Erwin's internal Slack account appeared to have been deactivated, end quote.
1:10.3	So, looks like things are pretty much the same over there.
1:14.0	Though this is a new wrinkle for Elon Musk personally,
1:18.0	a proposed class action lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of insider trading by manipulating Doge coin.
1:25.8	Musk allegedly sold around 124 million dollars in Doge after Twitter's logo change,
1:31.7	quoting Gizamoto.
1:33.1	On Wednesday, the folks suing the multi-company exec for $258 billion over his efforts
1:37.9	to inflate the price of Doge coin, now say Musk had prior knowledge of Doge's ups and downs and even had a fiduciary relationship with the
1:46.2	meme coin. The lawsuit was originally brought by investors of Musk's companies including Tesla,
1:50.9	SpaceX, and Boring Company.
1:53.2	They've been arguing since last year
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