@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-04 14:31:02
The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-06-04 21:35:39
Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
https://www.
@compfu@mograph.social2025-06-05 17:44:44
Final episode of #Andor's 2nd season was the one I liked most. That droid looks amazing and is the comic relief that I needed. There's also a feeling that the clock is running out. This is something the season has lacked in my opinion. Every other episode starts with "One Year Later"...
VFX were consistently great except for some reason I didn't like the corn field plane…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-05 15:01:20
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week rises to highest level in eight months (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-795ec07804ed3f35eb702af27c4983d0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p53#a250605p53
@jonippolito@digipres.club2025-05-05 13:04:28
I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-06-04 00:20:38
Calamus 22 Passing stranger!
An absolutely smoldering poem of unfulfilled desire from a casual encounter. It is delicious for its clear and direct explication of a very complicated emotion. The hottest line:
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass
The poem manages to capture three things in just ten lines.
Whitman is generously pan-gender but the text still feels queer-coded to me. Specifically in how the desire is kept secret: "I am not to speak to you... I am to wait". Combined with the street-cruising scenario (a theme in previous poems) and I can definitely relate to my gay experience.
@Barbarian@social.linux.pizza2025-05-06 08:02:18
There's a lot of fear and panic here in my social circles in #Romania. Very much feels like a rerun of December. I'm actually feeling a bit more optimistic and less afraid than last time. Just a bit though.
There is a path to victory for Nicusor Dan. It relies on expanding the voting base. Not all is lost yet, the sky isn't falling, just need as many Romanians as possible th…
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-05 07:29:32
High-pressure Induced Phase Transition and Laser Characterization Response of MAPbBr$_3$ Thin Films
Xin Tang, Ruilin Li, Shuaiqi Li, Dingke Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03499 …
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-06-04 18:57:59
"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-02 21:44:09
Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-takes-down-sanctuary-city-list-following-law-enforcement-ba/