190427

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/04/190426.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Home Office investigated over English test cheating claims - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/27/home-office-investigated-over-english-test-cheating-claims @ukhomeoffice not fit for purpose; and guess who the Home Secretary was that drove this fiasco? Her name begins with M…

"The Home Office concluded that around 34,000 of the 58,458 students who had taken the test between 2011 and 2014 had definitely cheated, that a further 22,600 had “questionable results”, and that only 2,000 had definitely not cheated." yeah, riiiight

Farage’s Brexit Party spends big on Facebook ads - https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/farages-brexit-party-spends-big-on-facebook-ads/ “Facebook’s data also shows that ads for the Brexit Party have been geared towards men over the age of 45.” farage going for the stupid old bigots again…

Uranium miner coaxed government to water down extinction safeguards - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/27/uranium-miner-coaxed-government-to-water-down-extinction-safeguards of course it did

US farmers count cost of catastrophic ‘bomb cyclone’ in midwest - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/27/us-farmers-count-cost-of-catastrophic-bomb-cyclone-in-midwest which is precisely why it is cheaper to address #climatechange now; the losses will only increase if we don’t

How to use a FreedomBox running #opensource software to regain control of your online #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/04/how-to-use-a-freedombox-to-regain-control-of-your-online-privacy/ forget #facebook, distributed computing is the future