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Door Dash on Wednesday: “Hey Dashers! We're on your side! Don't let Government take away your money by regulating us!”
Door Dash on Friday: “Hey Dashers! You're great! Here's a coupon for a free catering bag ($22 value). Please pay $35 shipping, or only $113.97 if you'd like us* to deliver it “Priority”
*none of these options use door dash as a delivery of course...
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If software is paid with Public Money it should be Public Code.
https://publiccode.eu/en/

Puck, Semafor, and other news startups are finding success with a mix of revenue sources, as opposed to predecessors like Vice, which relied on investor money (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Sprouts of Hope in a Gloomy Media Landscape
A handful of digital start-ups are finding success — so far, at least — by learning lessons from their troubled predecessors.

If only there were a lifetime limit on filing bad-faith frivolous lawsuits. Or a cost. Here’s the world’s record holder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/nyregion/trump-hush…

Trump to Sue Judge in Last-Ditch Attempt to Avert Criminal Hush-Money Trial
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers indicated they would file an action asking an appeals court to delay the first prosecution of a former president. The move is unlikely to succeed.

Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/t…

Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.

I feel this strongly, as a dilettante #FOSS coder.
Modern mature software can be inherently complicated. PostgreSQL is a deep RDBMS that has been under development since the 80s. Writing new code for that is hard, especially in C. The only FOSS projects I‘m in at all active in are all Perl (i.e. ‘dilletante’) but they are also big and arcane. E.g. there are parts of

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Went to a Ramen restaurant last night that required QR code scanning to see the menu & order food. Plus it requested a tip before any service occurred while sitting at the table. It felt like persuading them to act in my favor by gift of money. Does that count as requesting a bribe?

I feel this strongly, as a dilettante #FOSS coder.
Modern mature software can be inherently complicated. PostgreSQL is a deep RDBMS that has been under development since the 80s. Writing new code for that is hard, especially in C. The only FOSS projects I‘m in at all active in are all Perl (i.e. ‘dilletante’) but they are also big and arcane. E.g. there are parts of

David French, Mary McCord and Ken White on the Trump hush money trial's likelihood of success.
🎁🔗:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/opinion/trump-trial-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE0.…

A great idea - which will save everyone money. Would be nice to other states implement this. I bet it wouldn't be long before the cost savings of all-electric convince the #Fossil Fool legislators to do the same.

The NY HEAT Act Seeks to Reduce Natural Gas Use. Here’s What to Know.
Legislators and activists are rallying to squeeze the NY HEAT Act into the state budget by the April 1 deadline.

A great idea - which will save everyone money. Would be nice to other states implement this. I bet it wouldn't be long before the cost savings of all-electric convince the #Fossil Fool legislators to do the same.

The NY HEAT Act Seeks to Reduce Natural Gas Use. Here’s What to Know.
Legislators and activists are rallying to squeeze the NY HEAT Act into the state budget by the April 1 deadline.

A look at Saudi Arabia's spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI (New York Times)
https://www.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

Trump right now:
1. I don’t have enough money left to disgorge my ill-gotten gains, as ordered by the Court.
2. Have mercy on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/nyregion/t…

Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Tries to Raise $454 Million Bond in Fraud Case
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing that he faces “insurmountable difficulties” as he tries to raise cash for the civil fraud penalty he faces in New York.

Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/tine

Tines taps $50M to expand its workflow automation beyond security teams | TechCrunch
Automation continues to be a major theme in the enterprise -- underscored not least by the rise of AI as a tool to help fix some of the more routine,

A look at the media diets of jurors and alternates in Trump's trial, based on a questionnaire; 13 of 18 get news from The NYT, 5 from Google, and 2 from TikTok (Charlie Smart/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

Where Jurors in Trump Hush-Money Trial Say They Get Their News
Prosecutors and defense lawyers tried to divine the political leanings of prospective jurors in the former president’s Manhattan criminal trial from their answers to questions about what media they consume.