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Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals (Josipa Majic Predin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2

Jev Cuts AI Decision Costs 100x And Vercel, Cloudflare Rushed To Add It
TypeSafe’s Jev returns AI decisions in milliseconds for near-zero cost. Inside the $40M DCVC seed, the independent tests and how agent builders can use it now.

Clever, Denmark’s largest #EV charging provider,
is introducing dynamic pricing at all its public (and home) charging points: the charging price = spot energy price and time-varying network charges. A special subscription is required, so unfortunately it is not yet available on an ad hoc basis.

TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in reading, closing out a brief east coast run leading into the dead’s fall tour, opening 3 days later in north carolina. late summer ’76, show #5. audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg76-09-20.018745.jgb.shure.unk…

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

hey, mission of burma reunited (again) (briefly) last week! https://artsfuse.org/333113/concert-review-mission-of-burma-reunites-for-a-fenway-recordings-homecoming/

Concert Review: Mission of Burma Reunites for a Fenway Recordings Homecoming - The Arts Fuse
At Brighton Music Hall, Boston’s avant-punk legends capped Mark Kates’s label anniversary with a surprisingly potent four-song set and a tribute to the late Jeff “Monoman” Conolly.

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell

Hispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies,
according to recent polling
– indicating they may not be willing to support the president’s party in the midterm elections.
Despite a record number of Hispanic voters casting their ballots for the Republican president,
more than 65% said they are displeased with Trump’s handling of his job
and 78% said they would prefer to see the Democ…

Hispanic voters’ support for Trump wanes over economy and immigration
Polls show voters who helped elect president unhappy – and may be willing to vote Democrat in midterms