orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

also fun fact. I made a dummy Twitter account solely for the purpose of crossposting Twitter screenshots. Twitter is a bad website, of course, but when I was filling out what I *thought* was my @ handle, it turned out to be my display name, and it automatically generated a handle based on that, leaving me with, uh

The floor is alive.

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

"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."

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/uber-hit-with-650-million-employment-tax-bill-in-new-jersey

#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 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-admin-wants-raise-costs-become-u-s-citizen-83-n1082286

@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.

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