“On top of that, despite having specifically requested that the consultants provide a style guide in an interactive and updateable format – rather than a PDF – Accenture kept providing the guide in PDF format only, Hertz complained. When Hertz confronted the consultants about the PDF problem, guess what the response was? Yep, it wanted “hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional fees” to cover the cost.“
Author: mfeilner
A Brazilian Parrot that was Used as a Canary Whistleblower has been seized by the Police…
Reality update: Police seize ‘super obedient’ lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers | World news | The Guardian … :
“Bird was taught to alert criminals to officers’ presence, according to reports: ‘As soon as the police got close he started shouting’”
(Thanks to FeFe)
Ships. Greece. Planners. Apps.
Our ship is twenty minutes late, says the App and the website… 🙂
Happy Easter, all my friends!
Outside of season. Levkas
Working for Open Source. We just rented an empty hotel’s reception hall for video conferencing. #onlyingreece
Futurist, Innovator, Technologist and Humanitarian: The Exponential World will Need Different Leaders.
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World … :
“Our Future Needs Exponential Leaders These roles—futurist, innovator, technologist and humanitarian—are interconnected and enhanced when knowledge and insights flow between them. The four pillars are a holistic system of learning to imagine, create, capture and scale hidden value in an increasingly complex and dynamic world.“
Lefkas, Greece, The Sahara is Coming over for a visit …
So sad women still have a hard time traveling alone – but read this great article.
Why it’s still difficult for women to travel world … :
“A recent New York Times story documents a rise in the number of solo women travelers, and chronicles incidents in which these women have been murdered, injured, or sexually assaulted. Such fearmongering is dispiritingly common, in the press as well as colloquially. The woman who went out walking after midnight and ended up in a ditch has become a mythology passed down from mother to daughter. Men, who also fall victim to attack, are assumed to learn courage and street-smarts from these negative experiences, while a woman will be forever damaged or traumatized—or worse.”
Another link worth reading, also from the article above:
Excerpt: How Amelia Earhart navigated the skies and society … :
“The traditional difficult woman is generally outspoken, opinionated, and headstrong. She likes to shoot her mouth off, and has little interest in avoiding conflict; indeed, she finds it stimulating. Apple carts? She lives to upset them. For those of us who wish to be difficult but are introverted and see no reason we shouldn’t keep our opinions to ourselves, Amelia Earhart is our girl. Gracious and somewhat shy on the outside, she was willful and independent on the inside: polite, yet freewheeling, a person who answered to no one. She took the position that adventure is a worthwhile pursuit in and of itself—a radical stance for a woman.“
Watch this! AOC’s Message from the future..
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … :
“THE INTERCEPT launches “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a seven-minute film narrated by the congresswoman and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.”
Carole Cadwalladr (Guardian): How the Big Internet Five Broke Our Democracy
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | UK news | The Guardian … :
“We can see the iceberg. We know it’s coming. That’s the lesson of TED 2019. We all know it. There are only five people in the room who apparently don’t: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey.”
Here’s the direct link to her TED video. Awesome. Spread the word. “We in Britain are the canary.”
Diapers at Work: Let’s not import American Autocracy (German)
Walmart, Apple and others… another reality update: Betriebskultur: In Windeln zur Arbeit (neues-deutschland.de) … (and don’t ask about tampon changeing rules):
“So verbietet die Supermarktkette Walmart ihren Beschäftigten, sich während der Arbeit zu unterhalten, selbst flüchtige Bemerkungen seien »Zeitdiebstahl«. Der Computerhersteller Apple durchsucht in seinen »Stores« vor Dienstbeginn die persönlichen Gegenstände der Angestellten, was diese bis zu einer halben Stunde unbezahltes Schlangestehen kostet. Der Schlachtkonzern Tyson erlaubte seinen Mitarbeitern in den Geflügelfabriken zeitweise nicht einmal, während ihrer Schicht auf die Toilette zu gehen: Drei Beispiele für den autokratischen Umgang mit lohnabhängig Beschäftigten in der US-Wirtschaft.”
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“Wie die Beispiele zeigen, ist das in Amerika noch viel stärker der Fall als in Europa. »Die Entmachtung der Arbeitnehmer ist eine Gefahr für die Demokratie«, warnt Anderson. Die Verhältnisse in vielen US-Unternehmen seien »Tyrannei«, eine »Diktatur«, so lautet ihre plakativ formulierte Kernthese. Die Mitarbeiter hätten kaum Chancen zur Mitsprache und Partizipation. Anders als Politiker, die ihr Handeln immer wieder in Wahlen legitimieren müssen, könnten mächtige ökonomische Akteure von oben herab autoritär ihren Willen durchsetzen und quasi »privat regieren«.”
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“Im Vergleich dazu erscheinen die Verhältnisse in Europa geradezu paradiesisch.”
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“Leider importierten die Europäer seit geraumer Zeit gerne »schlechte, neoliberale Ideen aus den USA – dabei sollte der Ideenaustausch eher andersherum laufen«.”
Generation Gier
Reality update: Manager – Die Generation Gier schwächt die Demokratie – Meinung – Süddeutsche.de … :
“Gerade in der Globalisierung wäre es nötig gewesen, die soziale Marktwirtschaft zu stärken, statt die Macht des ungezügelten Marktes anzubeten. Aber es kam anders. Wo Shareholder Value regiert und weniger das Interesse der Arbeitnehmer, ist der Gemeinsinn oft zerstoben. Die Generation Gier trägt ihren Anteil daran, dass die Kräfte, welche die demokratische Gesellschaft zusammenhalten, schwächer werden.“
Lefkada (Lefkas), Ionian Islands
Desimi Beach, Lefkas:
Wahlmanipulation – Sicherheitslücken der Demokratie
Always happy to help colleagues…
Parga. Epirus.
New climate models predict a warming surge – science
It’s so sad how we fail to do anything to stop this. #flogw
New climate models predict a warming surge
byu/christophalese inscience
AI: It all began a long time ago…
The Best Way to Shop for Apple Products…
… is surely this supermarket in southern Croatia:
Vlorë, in the morning. Entering Albanian Riviera
Nochmal Netzpolitik: Digitales Vermummungsverbot: Österreich will Klarnamen und Wohnsitz von Forennutzern – netzpolitik.org
Brilliant, der Name. Damn fuerchtet man sich doch gleich viel mehr!