171206

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 171205 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/12/171205.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Weinstein’s Complicity Machine - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html what a disgusting human being weinstein is…

Google Says It Can’t Filter Pirated Content Proactively - https://torrentfreak.com/google-says-it-cant-filter-pirated-content-proactively-171202/ another reason why #articel13 in EU #copyright directive must go

“Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested that regulatory divergence was a must after #Brexit.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/05/pressure-grows-on-theresa-may-as-dup-reveals-brexit-shock that has to mean downward - there is nothing stopping EU membvers raising standards…

Boost your shield against violations of #digitalrights - support European Digital Rights (@edri ) - https://edri.org/donate/ needed more than ever these days…

Trump’s Jerusalem statement is an act of diplomatic arson - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/06/donald-trump-jerusalem-statement-capital-israel-middle-east “only way to resolve the Jerusalem issue is for it to serve as the capital of both states”

US government report finds steady and persistent global warming - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/dec/06/us-government-report-finds-steady-and-persistent-global-warming every graph shows bad news #climatechange

Hammond says the cost to the country of having a “less favourable” #Brexit deal - ie, a no deal Brexit - would dwarf the cost of what the government is expecting to pay when it leaves (around £50bn, according to some reports.) - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2017/dec/06/david-davis-questioned-by-brexit-committee-about-impact-assessments-politics-live?page=with:block-5a27ff0b5483ae06cb81bed0#block-5a27ff0b5483ae06cb81bed0 dwarf

Dutch government publishes large project as Free Software - https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171206-01.en.html nice #nl

Labour leadership in UK has antisemitic views, says Israeli minister - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/06/labour-leadership-in-uk-has-antisemitic-views-says-israeli-minister-gilad-erdan time to fight this tired old trope that “anti-israel government” = “anti-semite”. it doesn’t, so don’t fall for it.

(Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other “voice assistant” product - https://boingboing.net/2017/12/06/can-you-hear-me-now.html agreed; never understood their attraction, personally…

Appeals Court: Forcing A Teen To Masturbate So Cops Can Take Pictures Is A Clear Violation Of Rights - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171205/16092838751/appeals-court-forcing-teen-to-masturbate-so-cops-can-take-pictures-is-clear-violation-rights.shtml er…

The Wikipedia Competitor That's Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy - https://www.wired.com/story/everipedia-blockchain/

UK has 48 hours to agree potential deal or #Brexit talks cannot progress - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/06/uk-has-48-hours-to-agree-potential-deal-or-brexit-talks-cannot-progress this is fine

#Climatechange already costs us all money, and it’s going to get worse - https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/weve-all-managed-to-end-up-paying-the-costs-of-climate-change/