UPS workers approve 5-year contract, with 86% of votes cast in favor (apnews.com)
Under the tentative agreement, full- and part-time union workers will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more in total by the end of the five-year contract. Starting hourly pay for part-time employees also got bumped up to $21, but some workers said that fell short of their expectations....
Jackie Likes Boxes (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ♻️ (lemmy.world)
Charles Martinet Will No Longer Voice Mario (twitter.com)
We have a message for fans of the Mushroom Kingdom. Please take a look....
Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented? (lemm.ee)
It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?...
ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it's smart, researchers found (www.businessinsider.com)
ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it’s smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT’s responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.
US publisher of pro-fascist books revealed as military veteran | South Dakota (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota....
world news?
A lot of the worldnews articles seem to be US centric, and I’m sick of Trump news. Would you please post on the News community instead and only post actual world news here?...
I hate Illinois Cardassians (i.imgur.com)
Irony of Brave Browser (lemmygrad.ml)
Lightyear, the Dutch solar car maker goes back in business after restructuring caused by bankruptcy (insideevs.com)
Andrea González picked to replace Ecuador’s assassinated presidential candidate (www.theguardian.com)
Villavicencio’s Build party, or Construye in Spanish, announced on social media that Andrea González was replacing the 59-year-old as its presidential candidate in the 20 August vote.
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 development continues (pointieststick.com)
Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)
original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”...
Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state?
Trying to gauge if I’m going crazy or a little too much “online.”...
My Money's on Chekov (ls.buckodr.ink)
Bandit likes circles (lemmy.ninja)
Played with it until he knocked it off and then napped in it.
TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia. (99percentinvisible.org)
Gonna be a whole generation of artists and musicians who think their art isn't good because of the way algorithms work online
Used to be that great art attracts great attention. However I see many bands who are amazing who get something like 2 plays on youtube, or their tweets sink without a trace. I wonder how many of these young kids are gonna give up their artform because of this?
Scientists Control Human DNA with Electricity (www.vice.com)
Researchers used electric stimulation to switch on exact genes involved in regulating insulin. Blood glucose concentrations of model mice returned to normal.
With Sales Dropping, Disney Will No Longer Sell DVDs And BlueRays In Australia And New Zealand (www.forbes.com)
Another reason why people across the globe will pirate instead of buying an expensive and limited subscription....
This Morning Cemented My Love for KDE Plasma
It is 5 am, I have not slept tonight, but what I have done makes me very happy....