@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 22:44:28
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…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-08-20 09:51:31
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.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-07-20 09:44:17
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…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-19 16:55:05
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-09-19 00:46:34
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in ithaca, the JGB’s 1st birthday & last stop in ithaca before cornell ’77. surprisingly decent sound for a gym. late summer ’76, show #4. https://archive.org/details/jg76-09-18.020100.jgb.fob-sony.unknown.sc…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-08-20 12:44:12
One of the ways AI has made my work worse and I mean worse in an absolutely unenjoyable way is that when I do image search for "cyclops phallus" I now get at least 50% AI slop, despite using DuckDuckGo's NoAI search, and it just sucks the joy right out of everything. I do image search regularly and it used to be such a fun part of my job. Now I dread it. AI slop is THAT BAD. A plague on everyone who added theirs to the huge pile of shit everyone now has to wade through online.
@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 21:24:50
Scientists discover mystery molecule on Pluto and Saturn's moon Titan: 'We cannot say what it is' | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/scientists-disco…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-19 15:18:34
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…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 16:47:49
More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-20 02:47:04
For years Natalie Harp has only been a minor character in the Trump Cinematic Universe.
But all that changed this week when Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender,
accused Trump in a campaign speech of wanting to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” instead of doing his job.
The remark triggered a tsunami of online speculation about the precise nature of the relationship
and a furious backlash.
On Monday Trump lashed ou…
