Last night..
Lansdowne House, Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4.
Given they were literally talks about talks, breakthrough last night was always unlikely, different story today if/when labour court invite them back in. https://t.co/kLissahiGa
— Ken Curtin (@kencurtin) January 29, 2019
Nurses’ strike still on as Labour Court reflects on union and management submissions (RTÉ)
Cope and Robbers – a graduation short by Florian Maubach dealing with the uncertainties of adolescence. To wit:
While playing Cops and Robbers with his friends, Daniel begins to realise that between catching and being caught there is something more going on.
Danny asks:
Leaflet left on my green bin last week from Panda Recycling. Surely “capturing and registering each picture to customer account” of green bin must violates some sort of privacy regulation. Boxes, packaging: brands, items you bough, labels, documents…?
Anyone?
The question of sex education
Has often caused great consternation
So now schools will warn
Of the dangers of porn
As they fear it may cause masturbation
John Moynes
Pic: Allstock
MORE to folly
“While we understand that Facebook’s proposal to integrate the Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram platforms is at a very early conceptual stage of development, the Irish Data Protection Committee (DPC) has asked Facebook Ireland for an urgent briefing on what is being proposed.
The Irish DPC will be very closely scrutinising Facebook’s plans as they develop, particularly insofar as they involve the sharing and merging of personal data between different Facebook companies.
Previous proposals to share data between Facebook companies have given rise to significant data protection concerns and the Irish DPC will be seeking early assurances that all such concerns will be fully taken into account by Facebook in further developing this proposal.
It must be emphasised that ultimately the proposed integration can only occur in the EU if it is capable of meeting all of the requirements of the GDPR.”
Data Protection Committee statement this afternoon
Facebook to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger (BBC)
new logo for @FineGael pic.twitter.com/AdYXze7HPU
— Bob Gale (@galeforcerob) January 28, 2019
Ah here.
Ron writes;
Inspired by Fyre Festival. Have you heard of Fyre Festival? If not, it was a festival in the Bahamas a few years ago, where people paid thousands to go to, it was meant to be very luxurious, yachts, models, etc., they even got Kardashians to post about it. It was a big fraud though, and when the guests arrived it was a total disaster. There was no music, no organisation at all, the tents were disaster relief tents, the cuisine was meant to be lobster etc. but just a slice of cheese on bread….
This afternoon.
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ted writes:
We’re 106 days away from Eurovision in Tel Aviv and the Semi-Final Allocation Draw just took place…
Ireland will be performing in the Second Semi Final. Very few songs selected but we’re mixed in with traditional heavyweights Russia, Sweden, and Norway.
I didn’t know this but there’s a Eurovision Host City Keychain that gets passed from city to city. Weighs over 15kg apparently…
