Today is closing arguments in the Elon Musk "funding secured" lawsuit, and Elon is apparently helping with some IT troubles before the jury is brought in?

https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1621551656046559232

"This case ultimately it's about whether the rules that apply to everyone else should also apply to Elon Musk," plaintiff attorney Nicholas Porritt states in his closing argument

big hyperloop news today: two employees of Virgin Hyperloop rode in one of the company’s pods today, traveling 100 mph down a 500-meter tube, in the first human test of the ultra-fast system theverge.com/2020/11/8/2155… Virgin Hyperloop CTO Josh Giegel and head of passenger experience Sarah Luchian were the two guinea pigs. Earlier today they strapped into the gleaming white and red hyperloop pod, dubbed Pegasus, transferred to an airlock as the air inside the enclosed vacuum tube was removed.

good morning the @verge just published a huge, deeply reported, sprawling, multi-faceted project on police brutality, technology, and the protest movement that’s changing the world theverge.com/21355121/new-c… @verge this project would not have been possible w/out the tireless work by @bijanstephen @nycmariya @billiamjoel & nearly every staff member at the verge.
this is what it looks like when a team of dedicated journalists & graphic artist knuckle down on something really important

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is about to be interviewed by @karaswisher & @profgalloway

guy-rubbing-hands-together-and-licking-lip-dot-gif @karaswisher @profgalloway Uber/Lyft/DoorDash have committed $100M to pass Prop 22 to allow it to bypass AB5. Union-backed groups have raised around $866K.
"we're absolutely going to be outspent by astronomical proportions,” says Vanessa Bain, co-founder of Gig Workers Collective.

This could get ugly. Lyft and Juno just filed a lawsuit against the city of New York to block the first-in-the-nation driver pay equity rule, set to go into effect Feb. 1st theverge.com/2019/1/30/1820… The law requires ride-hail companies to use a nifty formula to raise drivers’ take-home pay to $17.22 an hour, an increase of 44%! Lyft (and Juno, which is also attached to the suit) says this will make it harder to compete with Uber.