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Like, I just saw this Twitter thread about nepotism, and it's like, sure, but you're talking about top companies that most people will only ever interact with as customers or low-level employees? If they characterize your everyday experience of NYC, you too are WILDLY privileged

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When wealthy people who move to NYC talk about New York as a homogeneous place where everyone is obsessed with money and sending their kids to expensive daycares

And you just want to shake them and ask them if they've ever stepped one inch outside of their social bubble

These two ex-Github engineers want to replace beach bars with space colonization

Uber, ha ha 

"Uber Technologies Inc. owes New Jersey about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state’s labor department said."

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Oh shit, happy 80th birthday to Wendy Carlos, the woman who invented being trans, playing on the computer making music, and owning a dozen cats!

Trump admin to hike citizenship app fees 83% 

#Trump admin wants to raise the price of becoming a US citizen by 83% (to 1170) and of permanent residency (Green card) by 71% (to $2195), effective locking out poor immigrants nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-

@melissasage Thanks for listening. If you or anyone visiting this thread would like more context and information about India being a surveillance state and routine arbitrary arrests being done, I would happy to provide that. Also, to the people from USA reading this, Indian constitution doesn't guarantee absolute freedom of speech. There are various laws in Indian Penal Code which are so vague or broadly defined that any critic of government or any religion can be under the purview of them.

Seems pretty damning when the excuses for prohibiting homosexuals from being accepted are repurposed for transgender people.

people who say they can't support you because some other people aren't comfortable with you don't support you.

I love it when brands try to amp up the toxic masculinity and accidentally slip straight into homoeroticism

Sometimes I think about the ex who complained I was immature when I was 18 and he was 17. Before he even turned 25 he got married, had a child, and divorced. Christ I dodged a bullet when we broke up.

@garfiald if my heavy reliance on em-dashes perturbs you — I apologize

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