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Spain set to slash work week to 37.5 hours
Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz has said her ministry will soon reduce the working week by two and a half hours, a decision which will improve the work-life balance of 12 million employees across the country.
https://www.thelocal.com/20240123/spain-set-to-slash-work-week-to-37-5-hours
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #Spain
In the last days of 2023, I embarked on a hiking journey to the Canary Islands.
Renowned as a destination for tourists and beachgoers, these islands are also a heaven for hikers, and boast an array of diverse ecosystems, from coastal dunes to pine forests to volcanic terrains.
My journey took me along the #GR131 route traversing #Tenerife and #GranCanaria.
#TravelPhotography #Backpacking #Spain #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors #Mountains #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
The Omar Metioui Ensemble has recorded a lot of #Maghribi #Sufi music from the medieval era, including this album of #Dhikr and Sama.
I'm not a great fan of #Sufi music, especially the type that involves grunting or snorting. I don't get the purpose. But there's something about this style and this recording that puts me into another place mentally, which is the whole purpose.
On this recording, you can really hear the similarities between this and #Catholic #Gregorian #Chant of the same time period. And... (almost) no grunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrguglbMRew
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
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Demonstration in Madrid, #Spain Supporting #Sahrawi Cause, Condemning Madrid Accords (it’s the 3rd anniversary of the resumption of Sahrawi armed struggle) @westernsahara
https://www.spsrasd.info/en/2023/11/12/1127.html
Demonstration in Spain Supporting Sahrawi Cause, Condemning Madrid Accords
Madrid, November 12, 2023 (SPS) - A demonstration gathering thousands of Sahrawis and supporters took place on Saturday in the Spanish capital Madrid to express their support for the Sahrawi cause and condemn the infamous tripartite Madrid Accords si…Sahara Press Service (SPS)
TODAY IN SPAIN!
The northern Spanish city of Zaragoza was inundated by a heavy downpour in less than 20 minutes. The fire brigade had to rescue desperate people from their cars.
#climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #Spain
Today, two open letters from academics on the scientific arguments against the current #CSS (client side scanning) initiatives have been released:
* The first (in English, internationally coordinated) one is online at https://tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsLetter and still open for additional signatures.
* The second (in German, by #Austrian academics) one is online at https://www.ins.jku.at/chatcontrol/ and explicitly includes law experts in addition to the arguments from a security, privacy, and AI perspective.
This debate is expected to gain new steam with #Spain taking over the EU council presidency, given recently leaked statements like "Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption" (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law).
Please boost on any channels you deem adequate. The discussion is still open, and we have little time to bring it to a more rational level.
#csam #law #eu #privacy #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #messenger #chat #chatcontrol #signal #whatsapp #telegram #threema #e2ee
Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”Lily Hay Newman (WIRED UK)
Recreaciones del 2 de Mayo parte 2: Batalla de La Alameda.
#Photography #Fotografia #Portraits #Retrato #StreetPhoto #Spain #España #2deMayo #Photomonday #Fotomontag
Recreaciones del 2 de Mayo parte 1: Plaza de Oriente.
Allon-sy!
#Photography #Fotografia #Portraits #Retrato #StreetPhoto #Spain #España #2deMayo #Photomonday #Fotomontag
Pues unas fotillos de Feria de Abril de hace tiempo para un photomonday tardío.
PD: ¡Ele! ¡Ele! (o como se diga 😅 ).
#Photography #Fotografia #Portraits #Retrato #StreetPhoto #Spain #España #Dance #Danza #Sevillanas #FeriaDeAbril #Photomonday #Fotomontag
This one might be known to some of you as the news has reached quite some peak in media outlets worldwide. Accessible Christmas was an app developed to let blind people enjoy the Christmas lights of Madrit through a geolocation-based audiodescription experience. The great thing about it was, you could also access these descriptions wherever you were. Many blind people do not have the privilege of worldwide mobility so bringing bits of the world closer to them is what I call an extension of accessible tourism. Describing the world you experience through textual blogs, social media postings, audio recordings and sharing interesting highlights of life in different countries is what you can do next year to make others travel even if they physically can't. If you're the one unable to travel, here are a couple of things that help me personally when I wish I could be elsewhere but can't:
1. Play a random radio station in a language you understand nothing of or find the music that you like coming from somewhere obscure or far away. I enjoy checking out local charts in other countries just to see how different languages fit into the music trends of today.
2. Try to find recordings of places on sites like Freesound or Soundcloud; close your eyes and imagine.
3. Read travel blogs, watch or listen to content on the Internet of others travelling where descriptions are abundant; research how topics that interest you are managed elsewhere.
4. Try to find penpals, somebody to exchange occasional packages with and simply make friends; if that's possible, try to find a local language conversation group, groups for people who have moved to your city etc. meet, ask questions but most of all, listen!
5. Maybe one day make your own advent calendar.
https://coolblindtech.com/this-app-allows-blind-people-to-enjoy-christmas-lights/
#Accessibility #Blind AdventCalendar #Spain #Travel #Tourism
This app allows blind people to enjoy Christmas lights - COOL BLIND TECH
The Human Language and Accessibility Technologies (HULAT) research group at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed and validated a mobile application that allows people with visual impairments to enjoy Christmas lights in the city …Nelson Régo (COOL BLIND TECH)