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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 180214 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2018/02/180214.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

What Are The Ethical Issues Of #Google – Or Anyone Else – Conducting #AI Research In #China? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180205/09271539157/what-are-ethical-issues-google-anyone-else-conducting-ai-research-china.shtml

Polen sollen antipolnische Äußerungen melden - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/polen-sollen-angeblich-antipolnische-aeusserungen-melden-a-1193581.html #poland goes full-on right-wing banana republic

Japan thinks #Brexit is an ‘act of self-harm’, says UK’s former ambassador - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/15/japan-thinks-brexit-is-an-act-of-self-harm-says-uks-former-ambassador “Japanese policy analysts are puzzled by British government rhetoric about global opportunities flowing from Brexit”; simple: it’s a desperate lie

Your Right to Fight Brexit crowdfunding now stands at £153,000 - https://www.gofundme.com/FightforYourRighttoFight judging by the recent comments, Boris Johnson’s appalling speech yesterday seems to have galvanised many into giving some dosh to stop the #BrexitShambles …

Offended by Koreans eating dog? I trust you’ve never had a bacon butty - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/15/korea-eating-dog-meat-animals-food-west “93% of pigs killed for meat in the UK are factory-farmed, and 60% of sows reared here are kept in metal crates just centimetres bigger than their body”. pigs are highly intelligent.

#Dubai‘s archipelago of 300 artificial ‘countries’ is back in business - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/feb/15/dubais-archipelago-of-300-artificial-countries-is-back-in-business-video who would be stupid enough to buy somewhere that will be under water in a few years’ time because of global warming?

EIFL supports joint letter calling for a better #copyright reform for education in Europe - http://www.eifl.net/news/european-educators-ask-better-copyright "signatories call on legislators to make good sense policy choices and to help support access to inclusive, fair education for all in the European Union."

Drug maker hikes price of 2-in-1 painkiller >2,000%—$36 drugs now $3,000 - https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/price-of-2-in-1-drug-spikes-to-3000-separately-the-two-drugs-cost-36/ why #pharma companies are scum, part 23598

FBI Director Still Won't Say Which #Encryption Experts Are Advising Him On His Bizarre Approach To Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180214/22141739238/fbi-director-still-wont-say-which-encryption-experts-are-advising-him-his-bizarre-approach-to-encryption.shtml