180220

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 180219 - https://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2018/02/180219.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Trees for Trump: one million plants pledged to offset U-turn on climate change - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/20/trees-for-trump-one-million-pledged-offset-climate-change a great start, but we need 10 billion at least…

Why The #Copyright Directive Lacks (Artificial) Intelligence - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/eu-reform/why-the-copyright-directive-lacks-artificial-intelligence/ #AI will never flourish in EU unless the right to read is the right to mine #article3 #TDM

petition to help keep UK coal free - https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/revoke-planning-for-bradley-opencast-coal-mine insane idea for a new open-cast #coal mine

NSA Exploit Now Powering Cryptocurrency Mining Malware - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180204/12595039153/nsa-exploit-now-powering-cryptocurrency-mining-malware.shtml

Wired’s Big Cover Story On Facebook Gets Key Legal Point Totally Backwards, Demonstrating Why CDA 230 Is Actually Important - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180216/16165239254/wireds-big-cover-story-facebook-gets-key-legal-point-totally-backwards-demonstrating-why-cda-230-is-actually-important.shtml why we need @mmasnick

Facebook ‘Security’: A New VPN That’s Spyware And Two-Factor Authentication That Spams You - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180214/10252739234/facebook-security-new-vpn-thats-spyware-two-factor-authentication-that-spams-you.shtml symbolic much?

Tory MPs' hard Brexit letter to May described as 'ransom note' - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/20/tory-mps-sign-letter-to-theresa-may-outlining-hard-... "full regulatory autonomy" = race to the bottom, since we could already race to top if we want; we didn't, and will utterly trash environment, health, safety, employment regs after #brexit

here’s what US will demand as price of FTA with UK: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-tory-trump-plan-to-kill-food-safety-with-brexit-chicken-6faa9fbff0c1
"Exposed: The Tory-Trump plan to kill food safety with Brexit chicken"; no #brexit chicken, no US FTA. no US FTA, no brexit economy.

Farmers tell Gove: lack of migrant workers now ‘mission critical’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/20/farmers-tell-gove-lack-of-migrant-workers-now-mission-critical oh look: just as we warned… #brexit