#Elsevier / $RELX «said on Thursday annual revenue could fall as much as 210 million pounds short of costs in its exhibitions business, as it suffered from coronavirus-driven halts in major events this year.»
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-relx-outlook/relx-points-to-hefty-annual-losses-for-exhibitions-business-idUKKBN2770PJ?il=0
Stock price courts the minimum of 6 months.
From birdsite
RT @Europarl_EN
🌍 🌡 Parliament has voted in favour of the EU climate law and is calling for the 2030 emissions reduction target to be increased to 60% >> http://eptwitter.eu/quaJ
USA move to adopt China's economic system:
«The deal, which must still gain formal U.S. approval, would create a new U.S.-based company, #TikTok Global, in which #Oracle, an American software maker, and #Walmart would own 20 percent».
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/technology/trump-oracle-and-tiktok.html
A joint vecture with local capital becomes a requirement for doing business in #USA, as in #China.
Let's see what's next in line for copying. Maybe a nice cultural revolution? #nt
1990
"Il neocapitalismo è stato bravo ma supererà la porta ecologica?"
https://archive.org/details/unita_1990-08-24/page/n1/mode/2up
Giovani per il "rispetto ovunque dei diritti umani e delle sostenibilità ecologiche"
https://archive.org/details/unita_1990-09-15/page/n9/mode/2up
"Onorevole, la smetta di interrompere i colleghi"
https://archive.org/details/unita_1990-09-15/page/n7/mode/2up
Certe cose non cambiano mai... Un paese pietrificato.
«Under the proposal, #Oracle will be ByteDance's technology partner and assume management of #TikTok's U.S. user data».
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-bytedance-tiktok-oracle/bytedance-drops-tiktoks-u-s-sale-to-partner-with-oracle-sources-idUKKBN265002
Finally all that juicy personal data will be able to be matched to the rest of the #AdTech and #surveillance databases.
I'm also curious to see whether Washington will continue to decry as protectionism the #privacy requirements for data localisation in EU #GDPR, India etc. #nt
Qui a #Helsinki ho appena votato per il #ReferendumCostituzionale. Un pensiero in meno. Grazie all'ambasciata che ha usato buste ecolabel e alle poste finlandesi che mi hanno rintracciato al nuovo indirizzo!
From birdsite
Flag competition: Porthania 6 – Kansalliskirjasto 0.
#HelsinkiPride
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RT @helsinkiuni
This week we celebrate diversity! 🏳️🌈
Promoting equality requires deeds, especially in every-day life. We are dedicated to working toward a university, which is a safe work and study environment for every member of the university community.
#HelsinkiPride #WeAreHelsinkiUni
https://twitter.com/helsinkiuni/status/1302909559229616128
Disturbing reports that Google Play is threatening to kick out Mastodon apps. See:
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104765191594914330
App stores have a track record of acting capriciously & are also easy targets for gov't censors (including Trump). This is why alternatives like @fdroidorg are so important for user freedom.
If unfamiliar: F-Droid is a free & open source app you can use to install other Android apps, with focus on free & open source software. Get it here:
Gotta love (gratis) #OpenAccess on #Wiley. Instead of a link to an actual PDF, we now get an Adobe-encumbered JavaScript mess which also happens to load a full-page #advertisement.
doi:10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00298.x
«The five research hubs are each led by the Energy Department's Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi, Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories»
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-quantum-funding/u-s-to-spend-625-million-in-five-quantum-information-research-hubs-idUKKBN25M0Y9
Sadly only some of the DoE laboratories are "federal enough" to have #PublicDomain output as US government works (#PDUSGov). How much of these 600 M$ will support #openaccess works? #OAintheUSA #nt
#Wikipedia (in English): possibly the only place where «applying a liberal dose of high explosives as appropriate» is a sentence I support wholeheartedly, with a smile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Medicine&type=revision&diff=975016440&oldid=975012691 #nt #copyediting
«Householder and four others were accused of taking $60 million to pass the bill that provided taxpayer money to bail out the state's two nuclear power plants, which were owned by a unit of FirstEnergy. FirstEnergy had said that without some form of subsidy it would have to shut the reactors.»
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-nuclearpower-firstenergy-idUSKCN24P1UH
I'm so surprised. #Nuclear concentrates power and therefore also opportunities for corruption. This one was just more obvious than the average. #nt
«Frantic negotiations on Friday between the White House, ByteDance and potential buyers of #TikTok, including #Microsoft».
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-tiktok-bytedance/trump-says-will-ban-tiktok-amid-pressure-on-chinese-owner-to-sell-idUKKCN24W2Q7
Things get started in the publishers v. #InternetArchive lawsuit.
«For this purposes of this action only, the Internet Archive admits that venue is proper in this District.»
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.33.0.pdf
"Interest in [Wikipedia] articles about sports, games, and mathematics is skewed towards men, while interest in articles about broadcasting [e.g. TV shows], medicine, and entertainment is skewed towards women"
Tallinn-Warsaw-Berlin-Brussels would probably be nicer (less gas burnt on ferries) but that's probably not going to happen at least until 2024 if #RailBaltica succeeds.
https://www.railbaltica.org/rail-baltica-receives-next-round-of-funding/
The next 4 years in #EU internet legislation are going to be a nightmare with #DSA and #ecommerce directive aka #copyright maximalism by the backdoor.
But at least in 2022 I'll be able to easily go to #Brussels by train from #Helsinki via #Stockholm and #Malmö. (Should be feasible in two nights, one for the Turku-Stockholm ferry and one for the final night train.) Thank you, Sweden!
https://www.euractiv.com/section/railways/news/swedens-night-train-to-brussels-to-debut-in-2022/
Look, #Slack suddenly likes competition.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-slack-tech-microsoft-eu/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft-idUKKCN24N1VZ
I can't wait for #Microsoft to play the #Facebook card, tell #EU #antitrust "we're actually a very small business, our product is under siege by many ruthless competitors".
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
Trollish official photos from #EUCO: Special European Council: Backstage (2020-07-19, Bruxelles).