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*Matt introduces himself and segment*

*Dave introduces himself and segment*

Matt

Tux the cat found!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/tux-the-cat-found-after-lyft-fiasco-dragged-on-for-days-lyft-to-pay-vet-bills/

• Tux the cat was finally found and returned to her owner after she was accidentally left in the back of a Lyft car.

• The owner ordered the Lyft to take Tux to the vet.
• The owner exited the car with the intention of going around to the other side to get Tux, who was in a cat carrier, out.
• The driver drove off with the cat and didn’t stop when the owner tried to wave him down.
• This kicked off a long fiasco of trying to find Tux and get her back to the owner (and the vet).
• The driver didn’t respond to texts on the app.
• Lyft tried to charge a $20 return fee.
• The owner went on X for help
• Tux was finally found 1.2 miles from the drop off location, outside and alone.

• Lyft’s team was able to track down Tux and returned her to the owner in a new cat carrier
• The original cat carrier was never found.
• How Tux got out of the carrier was never determined.

Another Elon Musk company has a racist problem.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/us-agency-sues-tesla-as-black-workers-report-swastikas-threats-and-nooses/

• US Equal Employment Opportunity commission (EEOC) sued Tesla.

• Alleges that Tesla violated the civil rights act of 1964
• Tesla subjected black employees to “to severe or pervasive racial harassment and created and maintained a hostile work environment because of their race.”
• "Throughout the Relevant Period, racial slurs, chief among them, [different variations of the N-word] as well as racist epithets and race-based stereotyping permeated Tesla's Fremont Factory subjecting Black employees to racial hostility and offenses,"
• Anonymous black worker: “I saw KKK epithets, a swastika, and the N-word all over the bathroom. It was so gross and racist I don't want to discuss it. It would say 'kill black people,' 'kill N-words,' 'hang black people,' 'hang N-words.'”
• Management at Tesla refused to intervene

Dave

There already was an X social media company, an ad agency

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/02/elon-musks-x-corp-faces-trademark-lawsuit-from-social-media-ad-agency/

• Company formerly known as Twitter faces lawsuit
• X Social Media LLC has been using that trademark since at least 2016
• X LLC claims that this causes market confusion and has cost them money

FEMA’s emergency alert test will happen Wednesday

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/2/23899467/fema-fcc-national-emergency-alert-test-october-4th-cell-phones-wea-eas-ipaws

• All cellphones within range of a tower will receive the alert
• It will happen at 2:20pm eastern time on Wednesday October 4th
• Conspiracy theorists are losing their friggin minds about this for no real reason

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