190731

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190730.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Brexit: mess with Good Friday and we’ll block UK trade deal, US politicians warn - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/31/brexit-mess-with-good-friday-and-well-block-uk-trade-deal-us-politicians-warn #brexit going well, I see…

Boris Johnson: EU must scrap the backstop to avoid a no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/johnson-varadkar-clash-over-irish-backstop-phone-call-brexit this is the same old - incredibly stupid - blackmail: give me want I want or I will blow my legs off…

Boris Johnson’s threat of a no-deal Brexit will not break EU unity - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/31/boris-johnson-eu-no-deal-brexit-uk-government-backstop EU unimpressed with @BorisJohnson’s threat to shoot ourselves in both feet

Eyes in the sky will soon see everything – even what happened in the past; is it too late to worry about #privacy? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/eyes-in-the-sky-will-soon-see-everything-even-what-happened-in-the-past-is-it-too-late-to-worry-about-privacy/ er, yeah, probably…

A modest proposal to solve no-deal Brexit: insure all losses with the pensions of Brexit supporters - https://boingboing.net/2019/07/31/thinking-in-bets.html seems totally fair to everyone

190730

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190729.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

The New Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: A Critical Look - http://infojustice.org/archives/41470 “the Directive denotes a normative preference for private ordering over public choice in EU copyright law”

What can we learn from Palantir’s secret user manual for police users of its big data software? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/what-can-we-learn-from-palantirs-secret-user-manual-for-police-users-of-its-big-data-software/ it’s easy - too easy #surveillance #privacy

A Trump trade deal with Britain will unleash a bonfire of regulations - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/29/trump-trade-deal-britain-bonfire-regulations-liz-truss-brexit “wants Britain to allow food produced in enormous animal factories, pumped with steroids, hormones and antibiotics, into our markets”

PM warned of ‘absolutely catastrophic’ result of no-deal Brexit ahead of a visit to Wales - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/stop-playing-russian-roulette-sheep-industry-johnson-told " I suspect there will be protests"

Stop Lydian’s toxic attack on democracy - https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/stop-lydian’s-toxic-attack-democracy appalling bullying of small, poor country - using #ISDS, of course. at risk is the main water supply for the nation and much else

Support for united Ireland growing, even amongst unionists, because of Brexit, claims Sinn Fein - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/30/boris-johnson-prime-minister-brexit-news-warned-no-deal-brexit-could-lead-to-farmers-blocking-roads-in-protest-live-news?page=with:block-5d4024198f08cf92bb779ab9#block-5d4024198f08cf92bb779ab9 #MRDA, but still…

Trump's threat to tax French wines labelled 'completely moronic' - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/30/trumps-threat-to-tax-french-wines-labelled-completely-moronic well, trump made it, so…

Brexit will be 'catastrophic', first minister tells Boris Johnson ahead of his visit to Wales - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/30/boris-johnson-prime-minister-brexit-news-warned-no-deal-brexit-could-lead-to-farmers-blocking-roads-in-protest-live-news "Under WTO trade rules, without a trade deal, the EU could not drop tariffs for meat imports from the UK without dropping them for everyone else."

Cambridge Analytica did work for Leave. EU, emails confirm - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/30/cambridge-analytica-did-work-for-leave-eu-emails-confirm oh…now, where is my surprised face…?

Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into actual sentences - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/30/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-actual-sentences good news for the paralysed; not so sure for the rest of us…

“at Heathrow, customers walking up to Travelex desks on Tuesday morning were being given just €0.91 for each £1, while if they wanted dollars the rate had collapsed to just $1.01.” - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/30/pound-holidays-prices-sterling-brexit but remember: there are no downsides to #brexit, only upsides

Court: No Immunity For SWAT Team That Hurled A Flash-Bang Grenade In The General Direction Of A Two-Year-Old Child - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190725/14363942655/court-no-immunity-swat-team-that-hurled-flash-bang-grenade-general-direction-two-year-old-child.shtml well, that’s, er, good…

Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/30/boar-wars-how-wild-hogs-are-trashing-european-cities fascinating feature; great headline; majestic, if problematic, beasts

No-deal Brexit: how likely is it and what would be the impact? - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/no-deal-brexit-how-likely-is-it-what-would-be-impact “With meat farming, there would be an immediate WTO 40% tariff on exports to the EU, which could instantly wipe out many farming businesses”

No-deal Brexit would endanger rural life, says Welsh leader - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/no-deal-brexit-would-endanger-rural-way-of-life-says-welsh-leader “he took very seriously the risk of civil unrest in the countryside if farmers’ livelihoods were lost.”

“a very successful shellfish industry that has been built up over the last 20 years and more,” he said. “It leaves fresh, it arrives fresh, there are no impediments to trade. That 20-year investment could be over in three weeks in a no-deal Brexit.” #wales #brexit

“I think the union that is the United Kingdom is more at risk today than at any time in my political lifetime." #wales #brexit

‘Five Eyes’ nations discuss backdoor access to WhatsApp - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/30/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption still clueless; and Patel’s comment totally gormless…

Former Tory minister warns Johnson against no-deal Brexit strategy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/stephen-hammond-boris-johnson-warn-against-no-deal-brexit "In a coded warning to the new prime minister, Hammond said he should not underestimate the strength of feeling on the Tory backbenches."

EU must give way over backstop, says Johnson after rebuff by Varadkar - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/johnson-varadkar-clash-over-irish-backstop-phone-call-brexit why on earth should EU give in? it’s the UK that’s leaving: it takes what it gets. he’s acting like a selfish 7-year-old: “just give me what I want, you rotters”

190729

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190728.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Johnson told no-deal Brexit will crush domestic policy plans - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/28/boris-johnson-ifg-no-deal-brexit-crush-domestic-policy-plans “hard Brexiters predictions of a “clean break” from the EU will not materialise.”

Getting good trade deal from EU could be ‘much easier’ after no deal Brexit, Raab claims - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/29/brexit-boris-johnson-prime-minister-news-latest-dominic-raab-suggests-boris-johnson-wont-reopen-talks-with-eu-this-summer-until-it-agrees-to-abandon-backstop?page=with:block-5d3ea9f28f08d0b6ca539ada#block-5d3ea9f28f08d0b6ca539ada he’s totally clueless if he believes that…

Johnson rejects Gove’s claim that government now assuming no deal Brexit most likely outcome - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/29/brexit-boris-johnson-prime-minister-news-latest-dominic-raab-suggests-boris-johnson-wont-reopen-talks-with-eu-this-summer-until-it-agrees-to-abandon-backstop?page=with:block-5d3eeccd8f08cf92bb77915a#block-5d3eeccd8f08cf92bb77915a welcome to the clown car, aka UK government…

‘People are dying’: how the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jul/29/guatemala-climate-crisis-migration-drought-famine IOW, if trump weren’t such a moron over the #climatecrisis, he wouldn’t have a migrant problem…

Brexit: Don’t underestimate Boris Johnson, EU warned - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49152261 er, warned by the man paid to be Boris Johnson’s EU barker…credible much…?

EU officials reject Dominic Raab’s ‘easier’ no-deal Brexit claim - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/29/eu-officials-reject-dominic-raabs-easier-no-deal-brexit-claim “Who wants to deal with the country who doesn’t pay its bills?” is that so hard to understand?

Ethiopia plants 250m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/ethiopia-plants-250m-trees-in-a-day-to-help-tackle-climate-crisis this is fab; if every country did this, we’d have 50 billion more trees to help fight the #climatecrisis

What Vote Leave leaders really said about no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/29/what-vote-leave-leaders-really-said-about-no-deal-brexit they lied, lied and lied, like #brexiters did for the entire campaign

What can we learn from Palantir’s secret user manual for police users of its big data software? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/what-can-we-learn-from-palantirs-secret-user-manual-for-police-users-of-its-big-data-software/

190728

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190727.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Hammond plots with Labour to kill Johnson’s no-deal Brexit plan - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/27/hammond-plots-with-starmer-to-kill-no-deal-brexit let’s hope the adults in the room can stop the blond schoolboy nutter

Boris Johnson’s key adviser must face sanctions, demand MPs - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/28/dominic-cummings-must-face-sanctions-demand-leading-mps and how

Amazon gold miners invade indigenous village in Brazil after its leader is killed - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/amazon-gold-miners-invade-indigenous-village-brazil-leader-killed just sickening; what a disgusting criminal #bolsonaro is…

Belgium: government source code is public information - https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/open-data-directive “In 2016 France approved its law for a Digital Republic (République Numérique) extending the country’s principle of “open data by default” to cover source code.”

“Corbyn: I’m ready to fight Boris Johnson in a general election” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/28/corbyn-worried-boris-johnson-election-labour-brexit maybe you are ready; but: “party would not necessarily campaign for remain in a second referendum”, which means you won’t win power, and won’t even win many seats this time…

190727

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190726.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Why A ‘Clever Hack’ Against Nazis Shows How Upload Filters Have Made #Copyright Law Even More Broken - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190725/01225042649/why-clever-hack-against-nazis-shows-how-upload-filters-have-made-copyright-law-even-more-broken.shtml #uploadfilters #article13/17

EIB plans to cut all funding for fossil fuel projects by 2020 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/26/eib-plans-to-cut-all-funding-for-fossil-fuel-projects-by-2020 welcome, but should have happened years ago

Brexit: key strands of British policing ‘in jeopardy’ because of no-deal risk - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/nca-harvesting-eu-databases-owing-to-risk-of-no-deal-brexit UK police know that “no deal” #brexit will make us less safe, with more criminals roaming and operating freely in UK

‘Roman Biro’ – complete with joke – found at London building site - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/27/joke-on-roman-souvenir-bloomberg-building-site-city-of-london amazing what is still lurking beneath the streets of #london

Boris Johnson yet to make a phone call to Irish PM Leo Varadkar - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/27/boris-johnson-yet-to-make-a-phone-call-to-irish-pm-leo-varadkar boris johnson really is the master of the art of dealing with people…

190726

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190725.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

James Dyson reported to have bought second ultra-luxury Singapore home - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/james-dyson-reported-to-have-bought-second-ultra-luxury-singapore-home leading #brexiters backs UK in his own special way…

The Death Of Ownership: Educational Publishing Giant Pearson To Do Away With Print Textbooks (That Can Be Resold) - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190716/17335842600/death-ownership-educational-publishing-giant-pearson-to-do-away-with-print-textbooks-that-can-be-resold.shtml this is really bad; expect it to become the rule…

‘He wants to destroy us’: Bolsonaro poses gravest threat in decades, Amazon tribes say - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/26/bolsonaro-amazon-tribes-indigenous-brazil-dictatorship this is sickening: it’s their damn country - #bolsonaro and his people are just colonisers

Why A ‘Clever Hack’ Against Nazis Shows How Upload Filters Have Made Copyright Law Even More Broken - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190725/01225042649/why-clever-hack-against-nazis-shows-how-upload-filters-have-made-copyright-law-even-more-broken.shtml #uploadfilters #article13/17

#Brexit deadlock as No 10 insists EU must scrap backstop before talks - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/brexit-deadlock-as-no-10-insists-eu-must-scrap-backstop-before-talks this is tantamount to saying johnson wants to leave without any deal

Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190726/00143342658/copyright-troll-richard-liebowitz-may-have-cost-his-client-ton-money-set-expensive-precedent-copyright-trolls.shtml nice…

190725

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190723.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

EU moves to tackle deforestation caused by chocolate and other products - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jul/25/eu-moves-to-tackle-deforestation-caused-by-chocolate-and-other-products excellent - more leadership by the EU

US Attorney General demands encryption backdoors at all costs and for you to just accept it - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/us-attorney-general-demands-encryption-backdoors-at-all-costs-and-for-you-to-just-accept-it/ just grotesquely stupid #crypto

people in the UK should be watching and using this important site: the Facebook Ad Library - (link: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/) facebook.com/ads/library/ tories have already started using it to prepare for General Election. Where is @uklabour here? if they don’t start using social medium, they may as well go home

190724

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190723.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Deutsch-britischer Handel schrumpft deutlich - https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/brexit-deutsch-britischer-handel-schrumpft-deutlich-a-1278694.html but remember: they need us more than we need them… #brexitlies

Far-right leaders join Trump in welcoming Boris Johnson to No 10 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/far-right-leaders-join-trump-in-welcoming-boris-johnson-to-no-10 which really tells you all you need to know about @BorisJohnson

Civil society calls for a proper assessment of data retention - https://edri.org/civil-society-calls-for-proper-assessment-of-data-retention/ “European Commission is conducting informal dialogues with different stakeholders to research about possibilities of data retention legislation that complies with the rulings of CJEU & EctHR”

Implementatiewetsvoorstel Richtlijn auteursrecht in de digitale eengemaakte markt - https://www.internetconsultatie.nl/auteursrecht go for it #article13/17 #uploadfilters

‘A new nadir’: EU papers on Boris Johnson’s ascendancy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/24/a-new-nadir-eu-papers-on-boris-johnsons-ascendancy nice word, “nadir”…

Make environmental damage a war crime, say scientists - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jul/24/make-environmental-damage-a-war-say-scientists-geneva-convention great idea; the impunity must end

The smell, the noise, the dust: my neighbour, the factory farm - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/24/the-smell-the-noise-the-dust-my-neighbour-the-factory-farm

Summer’s second heatwave set to break records across Europe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/summers-second-heatwave-set-to-break-records-across-europe " the second extreme heatwave in consecutive months to be linked by scientists to the climate emergency."

190723

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190722.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Boris Johnson warned by Tory rebels: ditch no deal or face fight for survival - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/22/senior-tories-warn-boris-johnson-over-no-deal-brexit #brexit madness continues

Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson’s entry into No 10 – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/jul/22/nicola-jennings-on-boris-johnsons-entry-into-no-10-cartoon

The Great Hack review – searing exposé of the Cambridge Analytica scandal - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/23/the-great-hack-review-cambridge-analytica-facebook-carole-cadwalladr-arron-banks #brexit

190722

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190721.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#China denies Uighurs’ Turkic descent and says ‘hostile forces’ trying to split country - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/22/china-denies-uighurs-turkic-descent-and-says-hostile-forces-trying-to-split-country yeah, sure; still, rather strange they speak a turkic language, and are genetically related to other turkic nations…

EU farm chief struggles to dispel concerns over #Mercosur trade deal - https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-farm-chief-struggles-to-dispel-concerns-over-mercosur-trade-deal/ that’s probably because it’s a terrible deal, especially for the amazonian forest…

Large companies fail to disclose impact on deforestation - https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/large-companies-fail-to-disclose-impact-on-deforestation/ “Among those who failed to provide information were major food companies like REWE Group, Auchan Holding, Oetker-Gruppe, Parmalat and Louis Dreyfus, but also furniture maker IKEA”

Canadian cities take wooden skyscrapers to new heights - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/22/canadian-cities-take-wooden-skyscrapers-to-new-heights " massive beams and columns are created from the aggregate of many smaller pieces, mimicking many coveted characteristics of old-growth wood with a fraction of the ecological damage."

Europäische Union plant europaweite Abfrage von Gesichtsbildern - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/europaeische-union-plant-europaweite-abfrage-von-gesichtsbildern/ not good

“Blackjewel is the third large US coal company to declare bankruptcy since May 2019, despite promises from Donald Trump that he would save the coal industry and its jobs.” - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/22/blackjewel-mines-shut-down-layoffs-future shut them all now #dirtycoal

UK must look after its own ships in the Gulf, says Pompeo - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/22/uk-must-look-after-its-own-ships-in-the-gulf-says-pompeo that #brexit UK-US special relationship really working well again…

Leonardo DiCaprio flooded with requests to save Siberian lake - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/22/leonardo-dicaprio-baikal-lake-siberia-instagram-appeals-to-save I’m disappointed vlad isn’t doing more to save #baikal

SJ: “H.O is perfectly capable of having large, complicated tasks, requiring big projects, using new technology, and making it work.” what, like this, you mean?
“Home Office criticised over £830m ‘failed’ borders scheme” - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34988913 eight years late, too…

Video of uncontacted Amazon tribe highlights threat from illegal loggers - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/uncontacted-tribe-video-amazon-rainforest-awa-people more people that #Bolsonaro wants to murder

190721

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190720.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community #surveillance systems - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/amazons-collaborations-with-local-police-turn-its-ring-doorbell-cameras-into-blanket-unsupervised-community-surveillance-systems/ this is an appalling development #privacy

Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/21/foreskin-reclaimers-the-intactivists-fighting-infant-male-circumcision interesting development

Keir Starmer seeks alliance against no-deal Brexit with Tory ex-ministers - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/20/keir-starmer-seeks-alliance-against-no-deal-with-tory-ex-ministers the grown-ups finally start to get organised…

#Bolsonaro pick for Funai agency horrifies indigenous leaders - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/21/bolsonaro-funai-indigenous-agency-xavier-da-silva this is sickening #brazil

MPs must find the courage to stop a mindless no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/mps-stop-no-deal-brexit-british-public-economic-shock “each member will have to explain a no-deal Brexit to the mother in their constituency whose child is suffering or even dying because lifesaving drugs cannot get through”

190720

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190719.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Why Carl Malamud’s Latest Brilliant Project, To Mine The World’s Research Papers, Is Based In India - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190718/02430642607/why-carl-malamuds-latest-brilliant-project-to-mine-worlds-research-papers-is-based-india.shtml fab project, ridiculous that it had to be done this way. #scihub #tdm

Lyme disease: is a solution on the way? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/20/lyme-disease-is-solution-on-way incredible: we would probably have a safe, effective treatment for #LymeDisease if it weren’t for stupid, selfish #antivaxxers

Donald Trump in new attack on Sadiq Khan with Katie Hopkins retweet - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/20/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-katie-hopkins-tweet further proof that trump feels totally inadequate in the presence of an effective & popular politician like @SadiqKhan

Trump’s arch-hawk lured Britain into a dangerous trap to punish Iran - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/20/britain-lured-into-deadly-trap-on-iran-by-trump-hawk-john-bolton #brexit has made the UK the US’s mug

Why The Appearance Of A One Terabyte microSD Card Means The War On Unauthorized Music Downloads Is (Almost) Over - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190717/09425442604/why-appearance-one-terabyte-microsd-card-means-war-unauthorized-music-downloads-is-almost-over.shtml Moore’s Law still powering away…

The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/20/the-great-hack-cambridge-analytica-scandal-facebook-netflix the film they don’t want you to see; so please spread the word about it… #brexit

Amazon’s collaborations with local police turn its Ring doorbell cameras into unofficial community #surveillance systems - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/amazons-collaborations-with-local-police-turn-its-ring-doorbell-cameras-into-blanket-unsupervised-community-surveillance-systems/ a subtle but terrible development

190719

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190718.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Why The Appearance Of A One Terabyte microSD Card Means The War On Unauthorized Music Downloads Is (Almost) Over - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190717/09425442604/why-appearance-one-terabyte-microsd-card-means-war-unauthorized-music-downloads-is-almost-over.shtml films next…

Philip Hammond signals he could vote to bring down Boris Johnson - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/philip-hammond-signals-he-could-vote-to-bring-down-boris-johnson-no-deal-brexit good: seems like sensible tories are starting to admit they are sensible…

#Bolsonaro declares ‘the Amazon is ours’ and calls deforestation data ‘lies’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/19/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation what an evil, stupid man…

Why Carl Malamud's Latest Brilliant Project, To Mine The World's Research Papers, Is Based In India - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190718/02430642607/why-carl-malamuds-latest-brilliant-project-to-mine-worlds-research-papers-is-based-india.shtml #scihub #tdm

190718

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190717.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

"May’s de facto deputy David Lidington told Panorama that the commission offered to put the Brexit process on ice for five years and “see how things go”. - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/boris-johnson-no-deal-brexit-threat-risks-being-ignored-by-the-eu-michel-barnier stupid to turn this down

EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190716/08123442594/eu-looking-to-regulate-everything-online-to-make-sites-proactively-remove-material.shtml you thought #copyrightdirective was bad, just wait for EU’s new Digital Services A - it’s bad #EUDSA

‘Abusive’ woman billed for £85,000 after RAF scrambled to escort plane - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/abusive-woman-billed-for-85000-after-raf-scrambled-to-escort-plane seems fair

#Garuda Indonesia bans in-flight photos after being mocked for handwritten menu - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/indonesian-airline-bans-in-flight-photos-after-being-mocked-for-handwritten-menu and blame the person for pointing out their incompetence

Gordon Brown: ‘Boris Johnson could be UK’s last prime minister’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/gordon-brown-boris-johnson-could-be-uk-last-prime-minister- striking headline…

MPs pass amendment seeking to thwart no-deal Brexit prorogation - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/mps-pass-amendment-seeking-to-thwart-no-deal-prorogation good to see so many MPs putting country before party - it’s the only way forward

Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions over party in Lebedev mansion - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/18/boris-johnson-refuses-to-answer-questions-over-party-in-lebedev-mansion hardly acceptable for a future PM…

‘Despicable’: Democrats condemn Trump over rally’s Ilhan Omar chant - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/ilhan-omar-send-her-back-chant-trump-condemned-democrats “send her back”, “lock her up”: it’s clear that trump supporters can’t manage sentences with more than 3 words…

Reform Of EU Online Platform Regulation: It’s About Our Digital Habitat - https://www.patrick-breyer.de/?p=589187&lang=en

Drug Prices Are So Insane That The NY Times Is Recommending The US Gov’t Just ‘Seize The Patents’ - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190712/00382242577/drug-prices-are-so-insane-that-ny-times-is-recommending-us-govt-just-seize-patents.shtml do it

190717

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190716.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Another Way In Which Patents Contributed To The Opioid Crisis: Hospitals Ordered Not To Use Better, Less Problematic Medicines - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190712/00244942576/another-way-which-patents-contributed-to-opioid-crisis-hospitals-ordered-not-to-use-better-less-problematic-medicines.shtml #patents kill

New Study Points Out What A Boon Sports Streaming Piracy Could Be To Leagues - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190711/10063142568/new-study-points-out-what-boon-sports-streaming-piracy-could-be-to-leagues.shtml

Seven Concerns Open Source Should Worry About - Part 1 - https://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articles/seven-concerns-open-source-should-worry-about-part-1 it's very important to consider this question

A 1TB microSD card is as insane as it sounds, but wait for it to get cheaper - https://mashable.com/review/sandisk-extreme-1tb-microsd-card-review/ soon, it will be possible to store every song ever recorded on an SD card as MP3s or equivalent; after that, every film…

EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190716/08123442594/eu-looking-to-regulate-everything-online-to-make-sites-proactively-remove-material.shtml you thought #copyrightdirective was bad, just wait for EU’s new Digital Services Act… #EUDSA

Which #VPNs evade the Chinese Great Firewall? We got inside to find out - https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/china-vpn/ not many, it seems

190716

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190715.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Grieve: senior Tories may have to vote down Johnson government - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/grieve-senior-tories-may-have-to-vote-down-johnson-government the more extreme the #brexiters become, the more likely that #brexit will be rescinded as a direct result of that…

Russian Spy Discovers The Hard Way How Much His Smartphone’s #Metadata Reveals About His Activities - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190712/03391842578/russian-spy-discovers-hard-way-how-much-his-smartphones-metadata-reveals-about-his-activities.shtml even worse for us #surveillance

“Mulan” is a masculine, non-Sinitic name - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43642 fantastic exploration of the name and the myth #linguistics

I’d take no deal over no Brexit, says Labour’s Sarah Champion - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/16/id-take-no-deal-over-no-brexit-says-labours-sarah-champion why does she hate poor people outside London so much, since thy will suffer hugely more than the rich and Londoners under no deal…?

July on course to be hottest month ever, say climate scientists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/july-on-course-to-be-hottest-month-ever-say-climate-scientists you’ve got to be pretty stupid not to be able to read that graph…

Ursula von der Leyen elected first female European commission president - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/16/ursula-von-der-leyen-elected-first-female-european-commission-president narrow majority means European Parliament likely to be tough for her

Gab, #Mastodon And The Challenges Of Content Moderation On A More Distributed Social Network - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190715/00244442587/gab-mastodon-challenges-content-moderation-more-distributed-social-network.shtml fascinating stuff

190715

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190714.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Israelis call for education minister to resign over gay conversion remarks - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/15/israelis-demand-education-minister-resign-gay-conversion-therapy-rafi-peretz “he compared intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews to a second Holocaust”. clearly a lovely chap

Amazon is listening to your kids and visitors, warns German parliament report - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/amazon-is-listening-to-your-kids-and-visitors-warns-german-parliament-report/ these are surveillance devices; the question is who is in control of them? not you…

EU agriculture chief slams ‘misinformation’ on #Mercosur trade deal - https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-agriculture-chief-slams-misinformation-on-mercosur-trade-deal/ “guarantees Brazil’s pledge under the Paris climate agreement to reforest the Amazon by 12 million hectares”, no, it doesn’t, because there are no penalties for non-compliance…

UK to order ships with zero emission technology from 2025 - https://www.euractiv.com/section/shipping/news/uk-to-order-ships-with-zero-emission-technology-from-2025/ bit late, but welcome

Irish parliament calls on government to thwart EU-#Mercosur deal - https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/irish-parliament-calls-on-government-to-thwart-eu-mercosur-deal/ resistance to this bad trade deal is growing

Hunt and Johnson: the backstop is dead and can’t be in any EU deal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/15/hunt-and-johnson-the-backstop-is-dead-and-cant-be-in-any-eu-deal this is simply an admission that it won’t be possible to come up with a trade deal that avoids a hard border, which would make the backstop irrelevant…

Boris Johnson on 'kamikaze' mission if he pursues #Brexit without fresh referendum, warns cross-party report - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-brexit-second-referendum-no-deal-parliament-tory-leadership-mps-prorogue-a9005861.html it's the only way out - for everyone

190714

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190713.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

The week Trump said jump – and Johnson asked 'How high?' - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/donald-trump-boris-johnson-kim-darroch-ambassador "Trump wants Brexit." that alone should tell you that #brexit will be disastrous for UK…

‘Just a matter of when’: the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solar - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/just-a-matter-of-when-the-20bn-plan-to-power-singapore-with-australian-solar such a great idea for #australia - and the world

"the major transformation that makes the farm possible is the advent of high-voltage, direct-current submarine cable, which he describes as the “greatest unsung technology development”. Sun Cable’s underwater link to Singapore will run 3,800km."

Johnson failed Kim Darroch abysmally. He doesn’t deserve to choose his replacement - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/13/boris-johnson-failed-kim-darroch-abysmally-he-does-not-deserve-to-pick-next-us-envoy “Theresa May should appoint another civil servant, not a politician, before she leaves office”

Reporter who Boris Johnson conspired to have beaten up demands apology - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/journalist-stuart-collier-boris-johnson-phone-call-darius-guppy-demands-apology maybe we should demand that @BorisJohnson never becomes PM…

190713

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190712.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Trump administration to approve pesticide that may harm bees - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/bees-pesticide-trump-epa-approves-sulfoxaflor “EPA says the studies it considered, most of which were sponsored by industry, found the chemical is not dangerous for the pollinator” riiiight

Kim Darroch’s fall from grace casts chill over Washington ambassadors - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/kim-darroch-washington-ambassadors-trump-administration “deplore the lack of support from Boris Johnson for their UK counterpart” boris the coward

Here’s why #Google thinks you should trust it with unprecedented quantities of your city’s “urban data” - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/heres-why-google-thinks-you-should-trust-it-with-urban-data/ should you? #surveillance

‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/13/aruanas-brazil-amazon-rainforest-drama-marcos-nisti great idea #brazil

Ruining a country near you soon: the beta males who think they’re alphas - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/12/country-beta-males-alphas-latin-president-tweeting-enemies splendid stuff, as ever…

Google #whistleblower launches project to keep tech ethical - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/13/google-whistleblower-launches-project-to-keep-tech-ethical we certainly need this

190712

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190711.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

US philanthropists vow to raise millions for climate activists - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/12/us-philanthropists-vow-to-raise-millions-for-climate-activists well done them; strange @billgates isn't joining them, he could probably spare a few quid to help save the planet…

Ermittlungsverfahren gegen CORRECTIV-Chefredakteur eingestellt - https://correctiv.org/in-eigener-sache/2019/07/12/ermittlungsverfahren-gegen-correctiv-chefredakteur-eingestellt hooray - quite right too

Boris Johnson claims his remarks were ‘misrepresented’ to Kim Darroch - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/12/boris-johnson-claims-his-remarks-were-misrepresented-to-kim-darroch I just knew that @BorisJohnson would try to rewrite history in this way…

Here’s why Google thinks you should trust it with unprecedented quantities of your city’s “urban data” - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/07/heres-why-google-thinks-you-should-trust-it-with-urban-data/ but should you?

Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/12/facebook-fine-ftc-privacy-violations ah, yes: the two companies that helped the #brexiters to cheat in the referendum…

190711

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190710.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Indonesian Court Convicts Woman Of Criminal Defamation For Recording Her Boss Trying To Harass Her Into An Affair With Him - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190707/16393942533/indonesian-court-convicts-woman-criminal-defamation-recording-her-boss-trying-to-harass-her-into-affair-with-him.shtml astonishing #indonesia

#Kenya's first coal plant construction paused in climate victory - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jul/11/kenya-first-coal-plant-construction-paused-climate-victory shameless US on the wrong side of history yet again

“Das schlimmste Unternehmen der Welt” - @cargill - https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/agrarkonzern-cargill-das-schlimmste-unternehmen-der-welt-a-1276654.html stopping this company’s destructive activities must be a priority

Cargill Announces Support for Deforestation, Defying Customers - http://www.mightyearth.org/cargill-shocks-customers-with-pledge-to-continue-driving-deforestation maybe time for a boycott of @cargill’s products

Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently - https://boingboing.net/2019/07/10/creepytech.html

Mit Open-Source-Saatgut gegen Monopole und Klimawandel - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/mit-open-source-saatgut-die-landwirtschaft-befruchten/

Tory MPs condemn Boris Johnson over Kim Darroch resignation - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/11/tory-mps-condemn-boris-johnson-over-kim-darroch-resignation

.@BorisJohnson criticised over Kim Darroch: 'The most craven and despicable act of #cowardice’ – video - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jul/11/boris-johnson-criticised-over-kim-darroch-the-most-craven-and-despicable-act-of-cowardice-video

190710

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/07/190709.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190709/07271142541/once-again-russian-internet-propaganda-efforts-shown-to-be-much-bigger-than-originally-believed.shtml everyone does it, but the russians are the best…

How a vaccinated woman’s death exposes the threat of anti-vaxxers - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/10/vaccines-measles-outbreak-immune-system the death of this young woman shows why #antivaxxers are murdering scum

Judge rules that EFF’s #DRM lawsuit can proceed! - https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/sosumi-2.html

Trump Doral resort to host golf tourney run by strip club, dancers auctioned off as 'caddy girls' - https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/trump-doral-resort-to-host-gol.html I'm sure it's perfectly normal for the leader of a country to be selling woman to the highest bidder

David Attenborough says it’s ‘extraordinary’ climate deniers are in power in #Australia - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/10/david-attenborough-says-its-extraordinary-climate-deniers-are-in-power-in-australia

‘Siberian Maldives’ is actually a toxic dump, Instagrammers warned - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/10/siberian-maldives-are-actually-a-toxic-dump-instagrammers-warned they go there anyway: #darwinianselection at its finest…

Kim Darroch resigns as UK ambassador to US after leaked Trump comment - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/kim-darroch-resigns-as-uk-ambassador-to-us-after-leaked-trump-comment sadly inevitable given his impossible position; question is, will they now appoint an experienced civil servant or #brexit know-nothing?

Kim Darroch quits as UK ambassador to US ‘after Johnson remarks’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/kim-darroch-resigns-as-uk-ambassador-to-us-after-leaked-trump-comment in other words, this is entirely down to boris johnson’s cowardice; what a great PM he is going to make, bending over for the US at every moment…

“@BorisJohnson - a former foreign secretary and he hopes to be the future prime minister - has basically thrown our top diplomat under the bus” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/10/tory-leadership-latest-news-john-major-threatens-to-take-boris-johnson-to-court-to-stop-him-proroguing-parliament-for-no-deal-brexit-live-news?page=with:block-5d25d7618f08cf92bb76d08b#block-5d25d7618f08cf92bb76d08b “There are a lot of people in the Commons who are very, very angry” good; take the coward down

A green transition for Europe needs €1,100 billion in private and public investments. And it needs to be done now, not tomorrow. @CiolosDacian, tell Ursula von der Leyen to deliver a concrete plan for a #ClimateNeutralEU https://bit.ly/2L7bO3F

Kim Darroch: effectively sacked by Johnson on the orders of Trump - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/10/kim-darroch-effectively-sacked-by-johnson-on-the-orders-of-trump the fact that the tories are not up in arms over this has deepened my contempt for them as a party of power-mad cynics - like the republicans

Thousands of wild animals seized in smuggling crackdown - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/10/thousdands-wild-animals-seized-smuggling-crackdown-interpol good work by police forces; terrible it needs to be done

YouTube ‘Blocks’ Popular MP3 Stream-Ripping Sites - https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-blocks-popular-mp3-stream-ripping-sites-190710/ presumably proxy servers get around this

Politicians Queue Up To Make France’s Proposed Law Against ‘Hateful Content’ Far, Far Worse - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190708/09092142538/politicians-queue-up-to-make-frances-proposed-law-against-hateful-content-far-far-worse.shtml please don’t do this, #france…

One giant … lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were faked - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/10/one-giant-lie-why-so-many-people-still-think-the-moon-landings-were-faked it’s actually very simple: vast numbers of people are very stupid

“Emily Thornberry labels Boris Johnson ‘an obsequious weakling’” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/10/tory-leadership-latest-news-john-major-threatens-to-take-boris-johnson-to-court-to-stop-him-proroguing-parliament-for-no-deal-brexit-live-news?page=with:block-5d25feab8f08d0b6ca52de96#block-5d25feab8f08d0b6ca52de96 “just imagine Churchill allowing this humiliating, servile, sycophantic indulgence of American president’s ego to go unchallenged.” quite; we must constantly remind @borisjohnson of this

“35% saying Darroch should be replaced with someone more amenable to the Americans” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jul/10/tory-leadership-latest-news-john-major-threatens-to-take-boris-johnson-to-court-to-stop-him-proroguing-parliament-for-no-deal-brexit-live-news?page=with:block-5d2607a58f0845f89e30a7ba#block-5d2607a58f0845f89e30a7ba I am astonished - and ashamed - that a third of my fellow Brits are cowards and sycophants; I would never have expected this, even after #brexit…

Ursula von der Leyen signals she will not reopen Brexit talks - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/10/ursula-von-der-leyen-signals-not-reopen-brexit-talks-backstop “Nominee to lead European commission also says ‘precious’ backstop must be defended”

Sharing, Generosity and Gratitude - https://creativecommons.org/2019/07/10/sharing-generosity-and-gratitude/ “It seemed appropriate then, when the Mayo Clinic selected my liver donor, that it would be the person who helped train me in open education – David Wiley” #kudos

Voting Machine Makers Claim The Names Of The Entities That Own Them Are Trade Secrets - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190706/17082642527/voting-machine-makers-claim-names-entities-that-own-them-are-trade-secrets.shtml you can tell these people are totally trustworthy running the machinery of democracy

Boris Johnson blamed after Kim Darroch quits as UK ambassador to US - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/kim-darroch-resigns-as-uk-ambassador-to-us-after-leaked-trump-comment " Theresa May is understood to be considering appointing a new ambassador in her last week as prime minister" damn right - a condign punishment for johnson’s cowardice

"Conservative MP Sir Patrick McLoughlin agreed: “It is unedifying to see someone who wants to be prime minister failing to stand up for hard-working civil servants, who have done nothing wrong, under attack from foreign governments. Leadership involves standing up for your team.”

Northern Ireland civil service chief warns of Brexit threat to society - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/northern-ireland-civil-service-chief-warns-of-brexit-threat-to-society “report says 40,000 jobs are at risk in region” #brexiters don’t give a damn about Northern Ireland or its people…

Vegan Food Manufacturers Sue State Over Unconstitutional Law Banning Them From Using Meat Words - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190707/13032242531/vegan-food-manufacturers-sue-state-over-unconstitutional-law-banning-them-using-meat-words.shtml quite right too