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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 180110 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2018/01/180110.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Switzerland rules lobsters must be stunned before boiling - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/11/switzerland-rules-lobsters-must-be-stunned-before-boiling damn right - of course they feel pain. everyone should follow suit.

Victoria police say Daily Mail provoked African ‘gang flare-up’ scuffle - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/11/victoria-police-say-daily-mail-provoked-african-gang-flare-up-scuffle Daily Mail spreading hatred and dissension again

now you’ve all read Hawking’s PhD - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171024/08014338467/good-news-you-can-download-hawkings-phd-free-bad-news-it-took-50-years-to-make-it-happen.shtml - you can read, er, mine - https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270427

City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source - https://itsfoss.com/barcelona-open-source/ “City of Barcelona will start outsourcing IT projects to local small and medium sized enterprises.”

In Keeping And Improving News Comments, The Intercept Shows Websites What Giving A Damn Looks Like - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180102/09541738909/keeping-improving-news-comments-intercept-shows-websites-what-giving-damn-looks-like.shtml

Giant squid and sexed-up druids: is Britannia Jez Butterworth’s mad masterpiece? - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/11/mackenzie-crook-druids-britannia-jez-butterworths-mad-masterpiece-tv-series sounds, er, intriguing

“Wir sollten die Presse gegen die digitalen Riesen verteidigen” – https://www.ksta.de/29401040 #copyright already does this: article 11 unnecessary; article 13’s upload filters will just chill creativity and censor free speech #EU

“330 investors from Germany and 7 other countries showed ~ 80% would not invest in online platforms that make user-generated music or video content accessible if #copyright law were tightened and startups were held liable for infringements.” - https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Miele-letter.pdf

EU to hold Britain to fishing quotas during #Brexit transition - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/11/eu-to-hold-britain-to-fishing-quotas-during-brexit-transition “UK would also have no role in deciding the total catches in EU seas after Brexit.”

EU Launches $1.2 Billion Supercomputing Plan, Without U.K. - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/eu-launches-effort-to-catch-u-s-china-japan-in-supercomputing #brexit

Trump Doesn’t Understand #Surveillance Powers; House Votes To Give Him More Of It - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180111/09493638985/trump-doesnt-understand-surveillance-powers-house-votes-to-give-him-more-it.shtml

No-deal is a disaster. The government must tell us the truth about #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/11/no-deal-disaster-government-truth-brexit-sadiq-khan “geographic inequalities across the UK would widen even further, rather than narrowing”

‘No deal’ #Brexit threatens ‘bleak future’ for Welsh farmers - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/no-deal-brexit-threatens-bleak-future-for-welsh-farm... "Welsh agriculture sector was already suffering from a loss of seasonal labour."