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Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has a problem:
The Ukrainian president is struggling to find someone of sufficient influence to represent Kyiv to the Trump administration,
with prospective candidates proving reluctant to take on the grueling assignment at a critical moment in the war,
according to two former senior Ukrainian officials and four lawmakers.
The need to replace the previous envoy, Olga Stefanishyna, helped trigger Zelenskyy’s still-incomplete government reshuffle.

The job Zelenskyy can’t fill: Ukraine’s envoy to Trump’s Washington 
The dismissal of Kyiv’s previous envoy to the U.S. triggered a government reshuffle that has roiled the country’s politics.

AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezo…

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.

Regarding Hong complaining about Thanksgiving (or any holiday) I saw a comment that said "No shit! She was a service industry worker. We all hate the holidays!" and like, yeah... I started to hate certain holidays when my job involved mandatory "all hands on deck" events where I got assigned to do shitwork, so I get it.
And yeah, Thanksgiving does have colonialist roots!

A report by LA officials estimates that the Paramount-WBD deal places about 2.5K jobs in LA and 6K jobs globally at risk due to duplicative roles (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bu…

Stark Picture Emerges of Paramount-Warner Bros. Job Loss Risk In L.A. County
A new estimate by local officials who are in the process of assessing the impact of David Ellison's $111 billion merger places 2,500 jobs "at potential risk" in the area and 6,000 more globally.

Did you see the sound? A Bayesian assessment on cross-modal perception in low vision #multisensory

College credit only for hospitality majors & you have to PAY $350 before you find out what role/job you've been assigned? 🤣
▶️ Disney College Program: EXPOSED
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sr6VbGqswNo&si=4Da2AQ_IdTc825Gn

Anthony Scaramucci,
— who lasted about eleven days as Donald Trump's communications director in 2017,
says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy
— thanks to the man he once worked for.
In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the president's fitness,
writing that Trump "is not well and he's probably too old for the job."
Sc…

'I get it now': Anthony Scaramucci reveals epiphany he had thanks to 'not well' Trump
Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted about eleven days as President Donald Trump's communications director in 2017, says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy — thanks to the man he once worked for.In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal ...