Sunday 30 December 2018

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#Brexit is full of hysterical self-pity’ - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/29/fintan-otoole-the-books-interview-brexit-english-nationalism "I’m increasingly convinced that there will be a second referendum.The Sherlock Holmes principle is always a good one: you eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution."

“Thus #Japan will have earned itself intense global opprobrium without bringing itself any benefits at all. It will have harpooned itself in the foot.” - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/observer-view-japan-resume-commercial-whaling arrogance and stupidity #whaling

#Romania to take over EU presidency amid fears for rule of law - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/30/romania-to-take-over-eu-presidency-amid-fears-for-rule-of-law “One proposal being closely watched is an amnesty to protect politicians from prosecution for corruption” what could possibly go wrong? #2019 is clearly going to be fun…

Vladimir Putin sends new year greetings to Donald Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/30/vladimir-putin-sends-new-year-greetings-to-world-leaders-donald-trump-assad-may presumably containing coded instructions for #2019

#Google wants to spy on everything you do at home, in every room (including the bathroom), to help “improve” your family - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/google-wants-to-spy-on-everything-you-do-at-home-to-help-improve-your-family/ how about no? #privacy #surveillance


Thursday 20 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181219.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Japan to resume commercial #whaling after leaving IWC – report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/japan-to-resume-commercial-whaling-after-leaving-iwc-report clearly time to organise global #boycott of japanese cars, electronics etc etc. that will concentrate their minds…


The LibreRouter project aims to make mesh networks simple and affordable - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/the-librerouter-project-aims-to-make-mesh-networks-simple-and-affordable/ great; we need more meshes #opensource

Land Swap With #Chechnya Causes Mass Protests in #Ingushetia - http://www.cacianalyst.org/publications/analytical-articles/item/13551-land-swap-with-chechnya-causes-mass-protests-in-ingushetia.html excellent analysis of important developments in north caucusus

Trump shocks allies and advisers with plan to pull US troops out of Syria - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/us-troops-syria-withdrawal-trump what a nice holiday present for #iran

Vladimir Putin tells Theresa May to ‘fulfil will of people’ on Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/20/vladimir-putin-theresa-may-brexit-fulfil-will-of-the-people so if vlad wants it, do people really think this is going to be good for the UK, EU, and the West…? #brexitchaos



Wednesday 19 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181218.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

British economy forecast to fall in GDP rankings - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/19/british-economy-forecast-to-fall-in-gdp-rankings ah, so “brexit means…losing global economic clout”. got it.

The Brexiteers’ idea of how WTO rules would work is pure fantasy - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/19/wto-brexit-trade-uk-economy because #brexiters are immune to cold facts, and prefer the warm bath of their delusions…

Wooden sleeping pods offer privacy to London’s homeless - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/19/wooden-sleeping-pods-privacy-shelter-london-homeless-deptford shameful that these are necessary in #london in #2018

Antibiotic use plummets on US farms after ban on using drugs to make livestock grow faster - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-12-19/antibiotic-use-falls-on-us-farms-after-ban-on-using-drugs-to-make-livestock-grow-faster this is good news - #kudos to US farmers for acting quickly

Europe issues a deadline for US’ #PrivacyShield compliance - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/europe-issues-a-deadline-for-us-privacy-shield-compliance/ but a pretty weedy one #gdpr

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/ correct



“The environment secretary, under questioning by MPs on the environmental audit committee, attempted to reassure farmers that there would be no mass slaughter of sheep in queues at UK ports such as Dover” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/19/no-deal-brexit-will-raise-food-prices-says-michael-gove perfectly normal statement from Gove…



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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181217.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Human rights body calls on US school to ban electric shocks on children - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/18/judge-rotenberg-center-electric-shocks-ban-inter-american-commission-human-rights “use of electric shocks on severely disabled children” wut??? #murica

Brexit: 3,500 troops on standby to help in event of any no-deal crisis, MPs told - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/dec/18/brexit-latest-theresa-may-cabinet-no-deal-planning-tory-pro-europeans-more-likely-to-abandon-may-in-confidence-vote-than-brexiters-claims-rees-mogg-politics-live perfectly normal - exactly what people voted for in the referendum… #brexitchaos

Brexit putting thousands of ski resort jobs at risk for British workers - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/18/brexit-thousands-ski-resort-jobs-at-risk " leaving the EU will lead to a 31% increase in the cost of the British package holiday, whether skiing or summer camping." ah well, will of the people and all that… #brexitchaos

Carmakers criticise ‘unrealistic’ EU plan to slash vehicle emissions - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/18/carmakers-criticise-unrealistic-eu-plan-slash-vehicle-emissions after the industry’s lies and deception over diesel emissions, they can jolly well shut up and get on with it.

YouTube’s $100 Million Upload Filter Failures Demonstrate What A Disaster #Article13 Will Be For The Internet - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181214/17272041233/youtubes-100-million-upload-filter-failures-demonstrate-what-disaster-article-13-will-be-internet.shtml great analysis; #eucopyright is on course to be the worst #copyright law in history…


Monday 17 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181216.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

“The case for the public being given the final say is becoming so overwhelming that people from all parties, and of none, now recognise that this is the best way forward for our country.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/16/brexit-pm-to-urge-parliament-not-to-break-faith-with-the-people #peoplesvote

Chickens freezing to death and boiled alive: failings in US slaughterhouses exposed - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/17/chickens-freezing-to-death-and-boiled-alive-failings-in-us-slaughterhouses-exposed “fuelling concerns about standards in a post-Brexit trade deal” you bet - this is what top #brexites want on our plates

Theresa May pushes forward £2bn no-deal Brexit preparations - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/17/theresa-may-pushes-forward-2bn-no-deal-brexit-preparations yeah, sure - after all, we’re rolling in money, #amirite…?

Business leaders warn against plan to slash EU immigration to UK - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/17/business-leaders-warn-against-plan-slash-eu-immigration-uk-sajid-javid tory bigots don’t even care about their business supporters any more… #brexitchaos

Carol Vorderman and Liam Gallagher back campaign against trophy hunting - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/17/carol-vorderman-and-liam-gallagher-back-campaign-against-trophy-hunting “cruel, immoral, archaic and unjustifiable” damn right it is

Netherlands PM uses Britain’s Brexit ‘chaos’ as cautionary tale - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/netherlands-pm-rutte-uses-briains-brexit-chaos-as-cautionary-tale well, at least our suffering will be a warning to others…


Sunday 16 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181215.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Facebook doesn’t care about your #privacy, it just wants to farm your personal data – these confidential documents prove it… - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/facebook-doesnt-care-about-your-privacy-it-just-wants-to-farm-your-personal-data-heres-the-proof/ #surveillance


Senior Tories urge free vote on second referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/15/senior-tories-cabinet-urge-free-vote-second-referendum more and more people realise this is the only way out of this #brexitchaos


Jaguar Land Rover to ‘axe up to 5,000 jobs’ - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/16/jaguar-land-rover-to-axe-up-to-5000-jobs “job cuts in new year as part of drive to combat #Brexit and falling sales”

Giuliani: Trump interview with Mueller would happen ‘over my dead body’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/16/rudy-giuliani-trump-robert-mueller-interview OK, we accept your terms, Rudy…

No 10 denies making plans for second Brexit referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/16/no-10-denies-making-plans-for-second-brexit-referendum and in doing so, makes it much, much more likely… #peoplesvote


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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181214.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Legal plastic content in animal feed could harm human health, experts warn - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/15/legal-plastic-content-in-animal-feed-could-harm-human-health-experts-warn another reason not to eat meat

Miss USA apologizes for mocking rivals’ English-speaking skills - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/14/miss-usa-apologizes-mocking-fellow-competitors no doubt she speaks vietnamese and cambodian fluently…



Saturday 15 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181213.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Facebook verbannt mit neuer Regel allen Sex von seiner Plattform - https://netzpolitik.org/2018/facebook-verbannt-mit-neuer-regel-allen-sex-von-seiner-plattform/ probably doesn’t matter, since only old peoplel use @facebook these days - the cool kids have moved on…


Branson: You can’t prepare for a hard Brexit - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/branson-you-cant-prepare-for-a-hard-brexit/ “companies would be left reeling like boxers if Britain left the European Union without a deal to smooth its exit” #brexitchaos

Top EU Court’s Advocate General Says German Link Tax Should Not Be Applied – But On A Technicality - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181213/09355841217/top-eu-courts-advocate-general-says-german-link-tax-should-not-be-applied-technicality.shtml this won’t stop #article11, so we must…

“For the EU on the other hand, at the end of this wild week, it is a great success. British politics is shattered into a myriad parts; the EU is more united than ever.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/14/brexit-fatigue-has-set-in-what-the-european-papers-say so #brexitchaos has accomplished that, at least…

Courts preparing for Brexit surge in cases, top judge reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/dec/14/courts-preparing-for-brexit-surge-in-cases-top-judge-reveals #brexit dividend strikes again…


Thursday 13 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181212.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Climate change talks lead to renewed pledge to cut emissions - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/un-chief-antonio-guterres-attempts-to-revive-flagging-climate-change-talks “EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C” kudos

School Boots Professor Off Campus After He Exposes Its Complicity In Predatory Publishing Schemes - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181209/14574841190/school-boots-professor-off-campus-after-he-exposes-complicity-predatory-publishing-schemes.shtml



Wednesday 12 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181211.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

McDonald’s to curb use of antibiotics in its beef supply - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/12/mcdonalds-to-curb-use-of-antibiotics-in-its-beef-supply this must be effective, not token, and everyonen else must follow suit - this is a huge emergency

Four million Europeans’ signatures opposing #Article13 have been delivered to the European Parliament - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/four-million-europeans-signatures-opposing-article-13-have-been-delivered-european EU politicians must listen if they want people to take the European project seriously #copyright

How Bike-Sharing Services And Electric Vehicles Are Sending Personal Data To The Chinese Government - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181211/02563441198/how-bike-sharing-services-electric-vehicles-are-sending-personal-data-to-chinese-government.shtml anything online can be subverted for surveillance #privacy

Shadow rapporteurs take stand against Parliament’s handling of #copyright directive - https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/shadow-rapporteurs-take-stand-against-parliaments-handling-of-copyright-directive/ too important to rush through…

How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/how-native-american-tribes-are-bringing-back-the-bison-from-brink-of-extinction rare good news

Urge Ecuador’s New Oil-Friendly Environmental Minister to Reject Yasuní Oil Drilling - https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/urge-ecuadors-new-oil-friendly-environmental-minister-to-reject-yasuni-oil-drilling

EU public says enough is enough on tobacco control - https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/eu-public-says-enough-is-enough-on-tobacco-control/ no: a small sample with skewed majority (66%) of smokers and ex-smokers say that to misleading questions. in real-life, we want lots more control, please…


Canal+ commits copyfraud, gets Banksy’s painting-shredding video removed from Youtube - https://boingboing.net/2018/12/12/notice-and-staydown.html this will be much easier with #article13 #uploadfilters - no penalties for false claims

TV, Sports & Movie Companies Still Freaking Out That EU Copyright Directive Might Include A Safe Harbor For Internet Platforms - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181212/07323441206/tv-sports-movie-companies-still-freaking-out-that-eu-copyright-directive-might-include-safe-harbor-internet-platforms.shtml #article13


Tuesday 11 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181210.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat? - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/11/mysterious-allergy-to-meat-alpha-gal-lone-star-tick ticks. are. Evil.

#Brexit is a failed project. Labour must oppose it - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/11/brexit-labour-second-referendum-vote-remain-paul-mason it must indeed if it wants to retain any political credibility for the future… #brexitchaos

Copyright Directive: how competing big business lobbies drowned out critical voices - https://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/2018/12/copyright-directive-how-competing-big-business-lobbies-drowned-out-critical very thorough exploration of how the playing field is completely tilted in favour of big business and big money in the world of #copyright legislation

Facts not fakes. Do not kill neighboring rights - https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/facts-not-fakes-do-not-kill-neighboring-rights shameful piece by a journalist who ought to know better; wants to make facts subject to #copyright - something that has never been the case for 300 years… #article11

“Occasionally he may risk his life” - https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/facts-not-fakes-do-not-kill-neighboring-rights this constant appeal to emotion underlines the fact that the author knows the facts are not on his side: #article11 will not bring in more money for journalists, or even publishers - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/eu-reform/article-11-driven-by-rhetoric-not-by-arithmetic/

The EU says it wants Europeans to engage with it: now that 4 MILLION of them have opposed mass censorship through #Article13, will they listen? - https://boingboing.net/2018/12/11/kill-article-13-now.html nope #article13

Dover checks ‘would take eight hours per lorry’ in no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/11/dover-checks-would-take-eight-hours-per-lorry-in-no-deal-brexit Road Haulage Association warned: “plans for no-deal Brexit were “dire” and the sector faced a catastrophe on 30 March.”

US accused of obstructing talks at UN #climatechange summit - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/us-accused-of-obstructing-talks-at-un-climate-change-summit disgraceful that it should come to this…


Monday 10 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181209.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Tackle climate or face financial crash, say world’s biggest investors - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/10/tackle-climate-or-face-financial-crash-say-worlds-biggest-investors they may not be the world’s most caring people, but they are certainly rational: they know failing to address #climatechange will be a disaster for us - and them

Brexit: UK can unilaterally revoke article 50, says EU court - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/uk-can-unilaterally-stop-brexit-process-eu-court-rules so now we know what to do to end this #brexitchaos

“prominent Brexit supporters have made significant bets against companies exposed to the British consumer including big high street names.” - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/10/hedge-funds-make-big-bets-against-post-brexit-uk-economy feel like mugs, #brexiters…?

The ‘innovation principle’ trap - https://corporateeurope.org/environment/2018/12/innovation-principle-trap this is a not-so-subtle attack on EU precautionary principle and on regulations in general; bin it

Armenian parliament election: Pashinyan wins, Sargsyan destroyed - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/118535 “Pashinyan’s bloc ‘My Step’ has received 70.43% of the vote during the Armenian parliamentary elections”

New leftwing coalition urges Labour to reject Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/new-leftwing-coalition-urges-labour-to-reject-brexi... come on, @UKLabour, you know it's the right thing to do


ToxicDocs Levels the Playing Field for Efforts to Prevent Toxic Exposures - https://news.columbia.edu/toxicdocs “database of some 20 million once-secret industry and trade association documents concerning the health hazards of toxic chemicals” #fab


EU figures rule out concessions as May postpones Brexit vote - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/10/eu-figures-rule-out-concessions-as-theresa-may-postpones-brexit-vote how many times does this have to be said? #brexitchaos


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No hope of success and no plan B – but the PM won’t blink - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/08/theresa-may-brexit-meaningful-vote-defeat this should be her epitaph

Open Science Means Open Source–Or, at Least, It Should - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-science-means-open-source-or-least-it-should Why #opensource was actually invented in 1665.

Brexit: Majority of country now think Britain should remain in the EU, new poll finds - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-theresa-may-uk-vote-economy-mps-remain-a8673926.html but small sample size

IFPI Slams Pirate MEP For ‘Lobbying’ Kids, Forgets a Decade of Rightsholders Doing Just That - https://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-slams-pirate-mep-for-lobbying-kids-forgets-a-decade-of-rightsholders-doing-just-that-181209/ the hypocrisy of the #copyright maximalists is nauseating…

US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/us-russia-ally-saudi-arabia-water-down-climate-pledges-un another reason to bring down the #saudi torturers’ tyranny

Trump ‘at center of massive fraud against Americans’, top Democrat says - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/09/donald-trump-michael-cohen-payments-impeachment-jerrold-nadler time to get rid of the #cimatedenialist

Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/09/eu-brexit-piketty-tax-google-facebook-apple-manifesto “huge levies on multinationals, millionaires and carbon emissions”



Saturday 8 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181206.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Africa cocoa industry failing on deforestation pledge – campaigners - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/07/africa-cocoa-industry-failing-deforestation-pledge-campaigners time to start boycotting chocolate makers that drive this

Trump to name former Fox anchor Heather Nauert as next UN ambassador - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/heather-nauert-un-ambassador-pick-trump “does not have prior political or policy-making experience.” - oh dear, poor #murica


nice: wind energy providing 30% of UK’s energy at the moment - http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ #renewables

Kent council leader warns no-deal Brexit would spread chaos across country - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/kent-council-leader-says-no-deal-brexit-would-cause-chaos-dover “at a cost of almost £1.75bn a week to the economy” #brexitchaos


revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march “broad array of non-British groups and individuals, including US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls”

Labour MPs in leave areas want government ‘globalisation fund’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/07/labour-mps-leave-areas-fund-globalisation-fund-day-of-action sounds like a good idea to me… #peoplesvote



Thursday 6 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181205.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

China demands release of Huawei executive arrested in Canada - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/05/meng-wanzhou-huawei-cfo-arrested-vancouver the morons in trump’s cabinet have obviously never heard of “face”…


Some EU Nations Still Haven’t Implemented The 2013 #Marrakesh Treaty For The Blind - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181130/02021641137/some-eu-nations-still-havent-implemented-2013-marrakesh-treaty-blind.shtml #copyright maximalists despise the blind

On Overcoming Pain - https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5429 typically insightful piece on an unusual subject

PLOS Authors Say “Yes” to #Preprints - https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/12/plos-authors-say-yes-to-preprints/ well done them - it’s the future of academic publishing


Wednesday 5 December 2018

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West Papua: conflicting reports surround attack that killed up to 31 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/05/west-papua-fears-of-spiralling-violence-after-attack-leaves-up-to-31-dead tkime for #indonesia to end its occupation of #WestPapua

“Virtually every poll in the sequence since the summer of 2017 has found a majority believing that the wrong decision was made in the EU referendum of 2016.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/dec/05/brexit-debate-pmqs-legal-advice-may-corbyn-government-to-publish-full-legal-advice-at-around-1130am-politics-live?page=with:block-5c07aa0de4b0de80e8972d40#block-5c07aa0de4b0de80e8972d40

Barclays customers ‘to leave en masse’ over #tarsands investment - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/05/barclays-customers-threaten-leave-en-masse-tar-sands-investment-greenpeace damn right; shame on @Barclays

“Parliament did not give the British public consultation." - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/05/liam-fox-accuses-mps-trying-to-steal-brexit-from-voters that’s explicitly what it did - it was an adivsory vote. had it been binding, a 60% threshold would have been reasonable, as elsewhere… #brexitchaos

Who is behind the push for a post-Brexit free trade deal with the US? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/post-brexit-free-trade-deal-us-rightwing-thinktanks “The things the US complains about and wants conceded include limits on pesticide residues and hormone-disrupting chemicals in food, nutritional labelling” #brexitchaos

EU’s dependence on dollar to be reduced under new proposals - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/05/european-union-dependence-on-dollar-to-be-reduced-under-new-proposals should have been done 10 years ago

Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/split-key-cryptography-is-back-again-why-government-back-doors-dont-work/ good background to #australia's foolish attempts to break encryption

McCluskey "urged MPs to hold their nerve as Labour’s alternative approach would deliver for the country.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/05/unite-leader-warns-labour-against-backing-second-eu-referendum IOW, he’s a clueless idiot too… #brexitchaos


Monday 3 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181202.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Armenia's ex-minister of nature protection accused of taking $14 million bribe - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/118342 poor armenia

Brexit backstop would be ‘practical barrier’ to trade deal, leaked paper says - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/02/theresa-may-in-battle-over-brexit-legal-advice-as-charm-offensive-begins which was pretty obvious #brexitchaos

Multiple threats from EU’s #GDPR to today’s corporate #surveillance and targeted advertising system - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/targeted-advertising-and-real-time-bidding-under-serious-threat-from-eus-gdpr/ here’s why that’s good

General rules on direct and indirect liability for copyright infringement instead of Art. 13 - http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/general-rules-on-direct-and-indirect.html what an utter mess #article13 is #eucopyright

GCHQ Propose A ‘Going Dark’ Workaround That Creates The Same User Trust Problem Encryption Backdoors Do - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181129/11090541132/gchq-propose-going-dark-workaround-that-creates-same-user-trust-problem-encryption-backdoors-do.shtml


Insulin4All - https://citizenvox.org/2018/11/15/insulin4all/ “For Nicole Smith-Holt and her husband James Holt, Jr. whose son, Alec Rae Smith, died at 26 after rationing his insulin, the consequences of insulin prices are far too real.” #bigpharma greed kills

The Business of AI Startups - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3293275 “survey of commercial AI startups, documenting rich detail about their businesses and their impacts on their customers. firms report benefits of AI that are more often about enhancing human capabilities than replacing them.”

Time To Tell The Truth About #Article13 - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/time-to-tell-the-truth-about-article-13/ it’s not about the mythical “value gap”, which is actually an innovation gap… #eucopyright directive

Free Software Foundation receives $1 million from Handshake - https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1-million-from-handshake #freesw

Sunday 2 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181201.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Key Labour figures urge party to prepare for a new Brexit poll - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/01/labour-figures-urge-party-prepare-new-brexit-vote nearly there, @UKLabour #peoplesvote

Labour poised to move May confidence motion if she loses #Brexit vote - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/02/labour-poised-to-move-may-confidence-motion-if-she-loses-brexit-vote-keir-starmer “If May’s government were not deposed, he said, Labour would start seeking a second referendum.” #PeoplesVoteNow

‘Will I have existed?’ The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/02/kiruna-swedish-arctic-town-had-to-move-reindeer-herders-in-the-way why extractive industries are bad, part 28357


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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181130.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Sam Gyimah: second Brexit referendum best option for both sides - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/01/sam-gyimah-second-brexit-referendum-best-option-for-both-sides “There is a blocking minority in the House of Commons for almost every possible option which means that letting the people decide”


Met police push ahead with armed patrols despite backlash - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/01/met-police-push-ahead-with-armed-patrols-despite-backlash stupid, panicked move: replace “policing by consent” with “policing by machine guns”

Rightwing thinktank deletes offer of access to ministers for donors - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/01/rightwing-thinktank-deletes-offer-of-access-to-ministers-for-donors Adam Smith Institute “promising access to government ministers in exchange for donations”

Trump OKs seismic tests in Atlantic that can harm thousands of dolphins & whales - https://boingboing.net/2018/11/30/trump-hates-dolphins.html “emitting loud pulsing sounds every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day. These pulses are known to harass, harm, and even kill whales and dolphins.”

Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/01/dark-web-dealers-voluntary-ban-deadly-fentanyl #2018 strikes again…

Multiple threats from EU’s #GDPR to today’s corporate #surveillance and targeted advertising system - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/targeted-advertising-and-real-time-bidding-under-serious-threat-from-eus-gdpr/ that’s good


Saturday 1 December 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181129.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Donald Trump Jr may face legal peril after Cohen admits lying to Congress - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/30/donald-trump-jr-may-face-legal-peril-after-cohen-admits-lying-to-congress I do hope so…


‘Comfort women’: anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/japanese-paper-sparks-anger-as-it-ditches-ww2-forced-labour-term cowardly, insulting and shabby behaviour from @japantimes

Berta Cáceres: seven men convicted of murdering Honduran environmentalist - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/29/berta-caceres-seven-men-convicted-conspiracy-murder-honduras “murder was ordered by executives of the Agua Zarca dam company Desa”

Автодорогу до Гергетского храма построили в Казбеги - https://vestikavkaza.ru/news/Avtodorogu-do-Gergetskogo-khrama-postroili-v-Kazbegi-VIDEO.html boring: the old road was much more fun (even if I nearly died on it…)

British student who took photo from plane faces Egypt spying trial - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/british-student-who-took-photo-from-plane-faces-egypt-spying-trial these trials are absurd, and the governments that carry them ridiculous


Thursday 29 November 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181128.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Ningxia learns from #Xinjiang how to fight terrorism - http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1129272.shtml the #uyghurs were just the start; #china will be rolling out its total #surveillance system everywhere…

London to lose €800bn to Frankfurt as banks prepare for Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/london-to-lose-800bn-to-frankfurt-as-banks-prepare-for-brexit "there is no downside to #brexit"… yeah, right


Arlene Foster says DUP would not back second Brexit referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/arlene-foster-dup-would-not-back-second-brexit-referendum luckily, nobody cares what you think

EU net migration to UK falls to lowest level in almost six years - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/29/eu-net-migration-uk-falls-lowest-level-almost-six-years but “Non-EU net migration was at its highest since 2004” - we’re just swapping people who share our european heritage for those that don’t… #brexitchaos

Past four years hottest on record, data shows - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/29/four-years-hottest-record-climate-change <slow handclap/>

Extending article 50 would invalidate Brexit deal, says May - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/extending-article-50-would-invalidate-brexit-deal-says-may she’s making this up as she goes along; ask Barnier - I bet he doesn’t say that…



Linux and Supercomputers - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-and-supercomputers nice history

‘Botched Brexit’ could spark electoral wipeout for Tories, rebels say - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/botched-brexit-could-spark-electoral-wipeout-for-tories-rebels-say if @UKLabour are wise, they will start using this phrase…and go for #peoplesvote

Tokyo Olympics venues ‘built with wood from threatened rainforests’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/29/tokyo-olympics-venues-built-with-wood-from-threatened-rainforests time to boycott #Tokyo2020

The EPA has lost its mind - https://mashable.com/article/epa-climate-report-denial-debunk/ the @epa is just utterly pathetic; so sad to see how it has come down…


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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181127.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Labour could seize option of second Brexit vote, says McDonnell - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/labour-seize-second-brexit-vote-option-john-mcdonnell now we’re getting there… #peoplesvote

Police investigate racial attack on boy at Huddersfield school - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/28/police-investigate-racial-attack-on-boy-at-huddersfield-school I should hope so…

Chancellor admits UK will be worse off under all Brexit scenarios - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/chancellor-uk-worse-off-brexit-scenarios-philip-hammond that means less money for #NHS, more austerity - exactly what #brexiters wanted #amirite?

“Analysis produced by range of government departments suggests GDP could fall by as much as 10.7%” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/uk-significantly-worse-off-under-all-brexit-scenarios-official-forecast-gdp bear in mind that trade deals typically produce fractions of a percent GDP boost, so there’s no way trade can make up that shortfall #brexitchaos



Wednesday 28 November 2018

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181126.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

New #GDPR Ruling In France Could Dramatically Re-shape Online Advertising - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181123/09014141092/new-gdpr-ruling-france-could-dramatically-re-shape-online-advertising.shtml potentially big implications for EU and global online advertising methods


Fresh row looms as No 10 refuses to publish full #Brexit legal advice - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/27/fresh-row-looms-as-no-10-refuses-to-publish-full-brexit-legal-advice a cynic might almost think they have something to hide - but surely not…?