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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/06/180625.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

“Cantonese is one “variant of Mandarin,” which Song claims for the Chinese ethnic group as a whole.” - https://chinachannel.org/2018/06/26/mother-tongue/ what utter tosh #linguistics

Time Is running Out to Defend User Rights Online - http://infojustice.org/archives/40106 #article13 must be stopped: pleas start writing to your MEPs

When Lies Are Told…Or How The Meme Illustration Shows Its Merits - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/when-lies-are-told-or-how-the-meme-illustration-shows-its-merits/ getting the facts on #article13 of EU #copyrightdirective

European regulators report sharp rise in complaints after #GDPR - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/26/european-regulators-report-sharp-rise-in-complaints-after-gdpr hardly surprising, and probably good

Palm oil ‘disastrous’ for wildlife but here to stay, experts warn - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/palm-oil-disastrous-for-wildlife-but-here-to-stay-experts-warn obvious solution is to make it synthetically - we need a global project to research this

‘Toxic garbage will be sold here’: Outcry as #Brazil moves to loosen pesticide laws - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/toxic-garbage-will-be-sold-here-outcry-as-brazil-moves-to-loosen-pesticide-laws really bad news

RUC told to put intelligence before arrests, reveals secret MI5 report - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/26/special-branch-ruc-put-evidence-before-arrest-walker-mi5-report-northern-ireland presumably this approach will be coming back after #brexit…

Another Police Accountability Miracle: Five Officers, Zero Body Cam Footage, One Dead Body - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180624/18081640105/another-police-accountability-miracle-five-officers-zero-body-cam-footage-one-dead-body.shtml amazing

“Several countries with which Britain has an FTA via the EU have indicated they would like better terms when moving these agreements onto a bilateral basis than they were able extract from the EU.” good, detailed analysis of the big #brexit blunder

#article13: paragraph by paragraph analysis of what the JURI text means - https://edri.org/files/copyright/20180626-ReDeconstructing_Article13.pdf get the facts, not the copyright industry’s fiction…

France and Germany will block May’s single market plan, says Spain - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/26/france-and-germany-will-block-mays-single-market-plan-says-spain “They are quite angry with the United Kingdom. Because of all this mess, all the trouble created, all this time lost on negotiations.” #brexitshambles

“car lobby told the government it needs “as a minimum” to remain in the customs union with a deal that delivers “single market benefits”.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/26/brexit-uncertainty-putting-860000-jobs-at-risk-warns-car-industry “employing 186,000 people directly and more than 800,000 across the wider manufacturing industry” #brexitshambles

I Helped Design The Election Simulation ‘Parlor Game’ Rebekah Mercer Got, And It’s Not What You Think - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180626/11162540111/i-helped-design-election-simulation-parlor-game-rebekah-mercer-got-not-what-you-think.shtml stranger than fiction