Elizabeth Lopatto

This heart-breaking story on the digital surveillance of long-haul truckers is worth your time — because trucking is a place where worker surveillance is being tested.

Intel has been firing staff — and now, it’s instituting pay cuts, too. But don’t worry, the CEO will continue using cash to offer a dividend, because I guess paying off shareholders is the most important thing.

Founders Alex Mashinsky and Daniel Leon also sold the token while this all was going on, according to a court-ordered report on Celsius. If you don’t have time for the full filing, Reuters summarizes its results.

If you enjoyed this Curbed article about RealPage Revenue Management Software and its effect on the New York rental market, you will also enjoy this blog about its training deck. Among the slides? In ‘“Manage Lease Renewals for Property Managers,’ you can walk through how to jack up a long-time resident’s rent from $1,188 to $1,5976, roughly a 34% increase.”

“Bankman-Fried’s use of Signal to reach out to the current general counsel of FTX US, who is a witness, was ‘merely an innocuous attempt to offer assistance in FTX’s bankruptcy process and does not reflect misconduct that warrants the restriction the Government proposes here,’” Bloomberg reports.

An all-time lede on this one: “Colin Mortimer knew there was trouble when his dog Sassy started beeping.” The rest of the story is pretty great, too.

We’ve talked a little about Elon Musk’s ambitions for turning Twitter into a “super app” (and his history with risk management at PayPal) — and it looks like Musk is serious. Twitter desperately needs fresh revenue streams as advertisers flee, and the Financial Times says the hope is to complete licensing for payments “within a year.”

Bennett Tomlin of Crypto Critics Corner takes you through it and uh, it’s maybe not great. “Their entire claimed segregation of client crypto assets depends entirely on Binance having perfect, or very, very good internal accounting records,” Tomlin says.

The White House has noticed the crypto shenanigans of the last year, and presumably its denizens are not especially pleased about them.

This post, about working as a social media manager for creators who work on “the pre-eminent marketplace for digital sex work,” is both fascinating and deeply depressing. It’s beautifully-written, and after reading it, I needed to go outside and touch some grass.