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denspier

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Facebook migrant, Google+ castaway, Twitter refugee. Found my forever home in the Fediverse.
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YoMamaYoMama, to tesla German
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Its time !
Lets kick Tesla out of Europe.

#union
#tesla
#brandenburg

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/24/business/elon-musk-tesla-sweden-strikes/index.html

denspier,
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@YoMamaYoMama Many Tesla workers are afraid to reveal their union membership. But this strike is about so much more than just Tesla workers- this is about the entire labor market.

If Tesla keeps getting away with this behavior, the model that has served businesses and workers well for decades may come to an end, forcing governments to regulate. More unrest and strikes would follow, damaging the economy.

Shall Tesla adapt, or whole countries?

ErickaSimone, to random
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Wow. Country demands that Spotify pay its artists a fair wage. So Spotify responds by shutting down all services in that country.

This is getting wild.
Shoutout to Uruguay for standing up.
https://mixmag.net/read/spotify-end-service-uruguay-copyright-law-change-artists-fair-pay-amendment-news

denspier,
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@ErickaSimone @joaocosta I think Uruguay is doing the right thing but in the wrong way. A better legal approach would have been a court verdict to invalidate contracts between artists and record companies, determining they don’t cover streaming rights. Without clarity of who to deal with, Spotify would not only risk having to pay twice, but potentially being sued by one part for paying the other.

colo_lee, to tesla
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Apart from the #evergreen fuck Musk and his piece of shit enterprises, I thought this was pretty interesting re Sweden.

#fuckMusk #tesla

"We don't have any min wages or laws for when you can or can't work in Sweden. We have frameworks. Apart from that, it is collective bargaining agreements that regulate the labour market," said Torbjorn Johansson, of the union umbrella org.

Around 90% of all employees in Sweden are covered by collective bargaining agreements, .

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/swedish-union-blocks-tesla-components-dispute-intensifies-2023-11-24/

denspier,
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@colo_lee In Sweden and other Scandinavian countries only the shadiest of companies refuse to negotiate a collective bargaining contract. This conflict is not only about Tesla employees, far from it, but about the entire labor market. If entities are not able to reach agreements, then the century old principle of “government hands off” from labor terms may have to end. This will very likely mean many more conflicts and strikes on what has been one of Europe’s most peaceful labor markets.
#Tesla

aslakr, to tesla Norwegian Bokmål
@aslakr@mastodon.social avatar

Gjelder dette òg fabrikkene i Tyskland? Eller USA?

https://www.di.se/nyheter/ordern-fran-elon-musk-tesla-far-inte-skriva-pa-nagot-avtal/

#Tesla #Musk

denspier,
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@aslakr Yes, #Tesla is clearly a shady company wherever they are doing business.

glynmoody, to random
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Elon Musk to file ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers desert X - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/18/elon-musk-to-file-thermonuclear-lawsuit-as-advertisers-desert-x <yawn/>

denspier,
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@glynmoody Musk claims that the right to “free speech” is absolute, “but for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable”. But he doesn’t want to grant Media Matters and other media watchdogs that right, nor does he want anyone to see or hear anything that he finds objectionable. 🤔
#Musk #Twitter

videnskabdk, to random Danish

Danske forskere opfordrer til boykot af israelsk forskningssamarbejde – »nazi-lignende«, siger DF-ordfører https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/danske-forskere-opfordrer-til-boykot-af-israelsk-forskningssamarbejde-nazi-lignende-siger-df-ordfoerer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

denspier,
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@videnskabdk ”[Man kan ikke] på nogen måde kan sammenligne situationen i Mellemøsten nu og situationen i Rusland og Ukraine.”

Really? There’s a war. There’s an occupier. There’s one big and one small side to the conflict. There’s atrocities and terror. There’s more civilian than military victims. There’s international condemnation. I’d say there’s more similarities than differences.
#Gaza #Ukraine

denspier,
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@polezaivsani @videnskabdk How could I do that, even if I had wanted to? I’m merely raising an eyebrow to an article that claims there’s not even a single similarity between the two wars.

denspier,
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@polezaivsani I am under no illusion that I could sway any opinions.

marthawells, to random

System Collapse, the next Murderbot book, comes out tomorrow November 14 and my book tour information is here: https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/637680.html

denspier,
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@marthawells Will it come as audio book, and will it be read by Kevin R. Free?
#Books #SystemCollapse #MarthaWells

euractiv_politics, to random
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Sweden’s radical left pins foreign minister over Israel comments https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedens-radical-left-pins-foreign-minister-over-israel-comments/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheCapitals

denspier,
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@euractiv_politics The Swedish Left Party can hardly be described as “radical left”.

There are a couple of radical left parties in Sweden but the Left Party are if not exactly mainstream so at least more “center left” than “radical”.
#Sweden

Motherboard, to tesla

After Elon Musk refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement, Swedish Tesla workers are on strike, and dock workers are refusing to let Teslas into the country in solidarity.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9jvn/tesla-strike-europe-elon-musk-uaw?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon

denspier,
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@Motherboard What Tesla doesn’t seem to get is that this is making them appear like a very shady company. Refusing to negotiate a standard collective bargaining agreement in Sweden - where the government traditionally doesn’t interfere in the market by mandating minimum wages - will deter buyers. “How can I trust that a company that won’t abide by the same rules and regulations as everyone else when it comes to something as simple this will honor safety standards and consumer rights?”
#Tesla

denspier, to sweden
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The pros and cons with working in Sweden and other Nordic countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/08/fika-four-week-holidays-and-zero-overtime-swedens-stunningly-healthy-work-culture
#Sweden #BusinessCulture

SirTapTap, to UX
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Can't recommend Consent-O-Matic enough for hiding those infuriating #GDPR popups

And it does it by ANSWERING them, per your own settings!! It does not just accept/reject all, it's all up to you.

You know, the way this poorly considered law should have been handled in the first place. Same with the stupid cookie law, call for a browser setting then punish people who don't respect it. Fuck popups.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/mdjildafknihdffpkfmmpnpoiajfjnjd

#UX #browser #chrome

denspier,
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@SirTapTap It’s not the law that is at fault, it’s websites’ behavior. Websites that apply no or only necessary cookies don’t have to request consent. Same if they honor the “do not track” browser setting (which they should according to recent court decisions).

Done right, consent pop ups should be a very rare thing.
#GDPR

europaulb, to random Dutch

Meta has started the roll out of their "Pay or OK" model for advertising. I fail to see how this will meet the requirements of the GDPR and the ePrivacy legislation, let alone how this does not interfere with everyone's fundamental rights to privacy and data protection.

The CJEU was quite clear in Meta v Bundeskartellamt: consent needs to be specific and granular, especially when it comes to personalised online advertising. I don't see any of this in the choices provided to me now.

Screenshot from Meta's new advertising choices screens (2)
Screenshot from Meta's new advertising choices screens (3)

denspier,
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@europaulb Meta can absolutely offer a paid for ad-free experience if they like. But users who don’t mind ads in exchange for free access must still be allowed to reject being tracked.

Meta is conflating the issue.
#GDPR #Meta

threemaapp, to random
@threemaapp@mastodon.social avatar

Nachrichten von WhatsApp zu Threema senden? 🤔 Unser CEO erklärt im Radio-Interview, wie wir zur Messenger-Interoperabilität stehen:

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/messenger-interoperabilitaet-ki-im-fotojournalismus-und-osint-sendung-dlf-kultur-9a960507-100.html

denspier,
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@threemaapp I absolutely do not want anyone on WA being able to connect to or message me on Threema.

randahl, to random
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If Israel is only at war with Hamas, how come Israel bombs a convoy of ambulances and WITHIN THE SAME DAY kills a Palestinian journalist and his family, according to Secretary General of the UN, Guterres, and Palestinian deputy observer to the UN Majed Bamya?

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denspier,
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@shekinahcancook @randahl Civilians are not allowed to leave Gaza, they are locked up in there packed like sardines, all 2 million of them. 800,000 of them are children. There is not a square meter to be found in Gaza where there’s not a “human shield”.
#Gaza

demi7en, to sweden

❔️ When did the #Swedish media first begin reporting about the existence of #nazi mass extermination camps?

#Sweden managed to remain non-aligned throughout WWII and traded with both the allies and the axis powers, but obviously wished not to invite aggression from the Third Reich already on its borders so a great deal of caution would be understandable.

Genuine question. I recently watched a Hannah Arendt interview (she had escaped into France in 1940 and then USA in 1941) and she mentioned first hearing about them in 1943 and initially refusing to believe such news could be true.

⚠️ What had in fact happened was that the nazis built some smaller concentration camps soon after seizing power in 1933 to incarcerate or dispose of German "undesirables".

After the invasion of Poland in late 1939, jointly with Stalin as agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, first 'proto-type' camps purposely designed for mass extermination were built on Polish soil.

After Hitler's June 1941 betrayal of Stalin (Operation Barbarossa) the nazis quickly advanced to Ukraine and Belarus, and behind the frontline the nazis began building the mass extermination camps we all should know about from documentaries in late 1941 and early 1942 in occupied Poland. That is when the full scale #genocide and the mass transport of Jews and other "untermensch" from across nazi-occupied territories became an industrial scale effort...

#neveragain #holocaust

denspier,
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@demi7en August 20, 1942 German SS officer Kurt Gerstein leaks detailed information about the holocaust to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter. Not until January 1943 when von Otter is back in Stockholm does he report to the Swedish foreign ministry. They decide to neither go public nor forward the information to the allies. Not until 1955 did Swedish media learn that Sweden knew about the atrocities in detail in 1942.

A national shame. Plays have been written about this.
#Sweden #Holocaust

Stevenheywood, to random

"Etias would not be relevant if the UK was still in the EU. But the nation voted to leave the European Union and the British government negotiated for British travellers to be classified as third-country nationals – triggering extra red tape."

#Brexit

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/more-travel-red-tape-for-europe-trips-get-ready-for-etias-and-ees/ar-AAZWz6y

denspier,
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@Stevenheywood A stronger and more enforced external EU border is in fact one of the top three British achievements in EU, the other two being the expansion eastwards and the single market.
#Brexit #UKPolitics

denspier,
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@Stevenheywood The UK was probably more successful than any other member state in shaping the EU and getting what it wanted out of it. Looking at the EU today, it’s nothing like the French had hoped for at the outset, and everything the UK wanted. Ironically, despite its formidable success, it was the UK that decided to leave.
#Brexit #UKPolitics

kierkegaank, to sweden
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The difference between #Sweden 🇸🇪 and #Finland 🇫🇮

The Swedish title of Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film translates as Autumn Leaves are Falling. The original Finnish title translates as Dead Leaves.

denspier,
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@kierkegaank Swedish theaters are simply using the original Finnish-Swedish title “Höstlöv som faller”. Of course there are cultural differences between Finland and Sweden, but this is a case of cultural-linguistic differences within Finland. 🇫🇮

denspier, to sweden
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Researchers at Chalmers have come up with an efficient way to recycle metals from electric car batteries. The method recovers 100% aluminum and 98% lithium from spent electric car batteries, and minimizes the loss of valuable raw materials such as nickel, cobalt and manganese. No expensive or harmful chemicals are required in the process.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/17/efficient-environmentally-friendly-ev-battery-recycling-with-a-new-recipe/
#Chalmers #Sweden #Recycling #Battey #Cleantech

autogestion, to sweden
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https://www.industriall-union.org/swedish-union-warns-of-strike-at-tesla

: employees prepare as says negotiations not in their

has threatened workers with retaliation if they form . "Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting . Now he is taken on by one of our strongest . We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start."

denspier,
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@autogestion The collective agreement is central to Scandinavian labour relations model, and they are the sole reason Scandinavian countries does not mandate a minimum wage.

Companies that refuse collective agreements are generally seen - by other businesses, potential customers and employees alike - as rogue, and are often boycotted.

darnell, to cryptocurrency
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This seems more like a hit piece against #cryptocurrency (by linking them to #Hamas & #Russia 🇷🇺) than anything else. Yes, criminals use #crypto. They also use fiat currency too.

You can be skeptical about crypto’s relevance today (I am), but to associate the use of crypto with criminal behavior is a stretch.

👉🏾 The Crypto Exchange Moving Money for Criminal Gangs, Rich Russians and a Hamas-Linked Terror Group - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/garantex-russian-crypto-hamas-crime-sanctions-a3648357

denspier,
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@elforesto @darnell That’s unfair. Cryptocurrency is also great for Ponzi schemes.

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denspier,
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@Free_Press #AFP is the acronym of French news agency, l'Agence France-Press. To avoid confusion I suggest you find a different one for Aure Free Press.

scottjenson, to Futurology
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Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"

Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
#UXDesign #UX

denspier,
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@scottjenson Typing on mobile phones used to be a bliss with phones such as HTC Desire Z and Sony Xperia X10 Mini Pro, but then Google killed the physical keyboard. Software improvements can only ever hope to partially mitigate the lack of a real keyboard.

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