“However,” Uber said, “while this decision did not determine the driver’s status, we stand ready to work with the commonwealth to modernize our laws, so that independent workers receive new protections while maintaining their flexibility.”
[Emphasis mine]
I read that as, “The laws are not being interpreted in our favor. We’ll disrupt help you with that, too.”
That is good news. How Trump can say with a straight face that he’s a “friend” to the LGBTQ community while at the same time pulling this bullshit is just beyond comprehension.
They awarded the Hugos (hosted remotely by a still un-imprisoned on a volcano island George RR Martin!):
Definitely going to order the Martine book soon. It looks good.
A Memory Called Empire was excellent. The only novel nominee I haven’t read yet is The Ten Thousand Doors of January. I have the ebook on hold at the library.
I also really loved This is How You Lose the Time War
To add to that, the Library of Congress has a phenomenal online archive of virtually every newspaper ever published in the U.S. (there are still a few holes here and there that they fill in if they get access to the source material). It’s a researcher’s wonderland:
It’s a good thing, but you know Moscow Mitch will not allow that anywhere near the Senate floor. It’ll die with all the rest of the Democratic bills at the end of the session.
I love that this was uploaded on July 4th, 2020.
Good work, Comedy Central!
NSFW (has expletives in it):
A woman who coughed on a brain-tumour patient in a viral video has been charged with assault, police say
… and he’s in this one too:
