180929

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180928.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Thanks To Streaming Fragmentation, Bittorrent Traffic Is Suddenly Rising In Traffic Share - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180926/10321340720/thanks-to-streaming-fragmentation-bittorrent-traffic-is-suddenly-rising-traffic-share.shtml interesting…

Indian Supreme Court Rules #Aadhaar Does Not Violate #Privacy Rights, But Places Limits On Its Use - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180926/07444240718/indian-supreme-court-rules-aadhaar-does-not-violate-privacy-rights-places-limits-use.shtml disappointing… #india

No-deal #Brexit could trigger 14 days of road chaos, Highways England reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/28/uk-no-deal-brexit-lorry-traffic-plan-could-leave-kent-in-chaos-for-14-days “It means teachers can’t get to schools, domiciliary care workers can’t get to the vulnerable, consultants and doctors visiting patients or performing operations are all hit.”

Canada and EU add climate clause to trade pact - https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/canada-and-eu-add-climate-clause-to-trade-pact/ welcome for its symbolic importance, if nothing else…

‘May’s totally betrayed us’: Tory grassroots’ Brexit tension boils over - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/28/theresa-may-tory-grassroots-brexit-tension-boils-over the #brexit knuckledraggers are unbelievably thick…still

US groups raise millions to support rightwing UK thinktanks - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/28/us-groups-raise-millions-to-support-rightwing-uk-thinktanks #brexiters taking back control? being taken for mugs, more like… this is the real treason

Study Shows Facebook’s Still Miles Away From Taking Privacy, Transparency Seriously - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180927/08163440726/study-shows-facebooks-still-miles-away-taking-privacy-transparency-seriously.shtml

180928

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180927.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Indian Supreme Court Rules #Aadhaar Does Not Violate #Privacy Rights, But Places Limits On Its Use - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180926/07444240718/indian-supreme-court-rules-aadhaar-does-not-violate-privacy-rights-places-limits-use.shtml disappointing #india

Thanks to #Brexit, the British voice counts for less at the UN - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/27/theresa-may-un-iran-brexit-analysis “brexit means brexit means global decline…”

“For the first time in decades, Britain will find itself as a non European Union member, forced to justify its claim to be one of the five permanent members of the UN security council” indeed, clear UK will have to give this up after #brexit - no justification for it now…

No-deal Brexit could result in Northern Ireland blackouts, leaks reveal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/27/no-deal-brexit-could-result-in-northern-ireland-blackouts-leaks-reveal “could see electricity bills rise by up to £200.” you know, I don’t remember reading any of that on the side of a bus… #brexitshambles

Study Buried For Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180924/18174740705/study-buried-four-years-shows-crime-lab-dna-testing-is-severely-flawed.shtml no surprise, but good to have it confirmed…

“In this paper we propose new method for proving of existence of global solutions for 3D NavierStokes equations.” - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.10081v3.pdf big if correct…

“The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For Germany the economy is an instrument in a much wider issue of stability in continental Europe.” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/27/brexiters-failed-to-grasp-significance-of-single-market-to-eu-says-brussels-chief-frans-timmermans #BrexitShambles

Orca ‘apocalypse’: half of killer whales doomed to die from pollution - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/27/orca-apocalypse-half-of-killer-whales-doomed-to-die-from-pollution NB: cleaning up PCBs is one area where US doing much better than EU: well done, muricans…

Netanyahu claims Israel has found Iran’s ‘secret atomic warehouse’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/27/netanyahu-claims-israel-has-found-irans-secret-atomic-warehouse yeah, right, just like the last time…do give it a rest

180927

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180926.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

“Beijing Silvermine is an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the last seven years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.” - http://www.beijingsilvermine.com/ this is a fabulous project #china #photography

Satellite images show ‘runaway’ expansion of coal power in China - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/satellite-images-show-runaway-expansion-of-coal-power-in-china bad #china #dirtycoal

Customs delays of 30 minutes will bankrupt one in 10 firms, say bosses - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/26/no-deal-brexit-minor-port-delays-30-minutes-bankrupt-1-in-10-uk-firms #brexiters will doubtless say it’s a price worth paying for those blue passports…

#Firefox Hardening Guide 2018 - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/09/firefox-hardening-guide/ this is long & thorough; worth passing on to your firefox-using friends… #mozilla

Twelve Rules For Not Being A Total Free Speech Hypocrite - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180923/22385240700/twelve-rules-not-being-total-free-speech-hypocrite.shtml handy list to cut out and keep…

Gorgeous 30-day timelapse captures what it’s like to be out at sea - https://mashable.com/video/30-days-at-sea-timelapse-video/ fabulous

180926

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180925.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Hard Brexiters’ new plan gets A+ for idiocy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/hard-brexiters-new-plan-gets-a-for-idiocy “they had found a second economist who was tremendously enthusiastic about Brexit.”

Brett Kavanaugh: third woman expected to make accusations of sexual misconduct - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/24/brett-kavanaugh-third-woman-expected-to-make-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct and that was just monday…

#Brexit chisels away any right Britain had to the Parthenon marbles - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/brexit-parthenon-marbles-greece-heritage good point

Ex-UN chief Ban Ki-moon says US healthcare system is ‘morally wrong’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/25/ex-un-chief-ban-kioon-says-us-healthcare-system-is-morally-wrong #nhs

Power to the Preprint: An Update - https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2018/09/power-to-the-preprint-an-update/ #preprints are the future

Demons and armageddon: details emerge in naked kidnapping case - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/25/canada-details-emerge-naked-kidnapping-case I can’t wait for the film of this…

America cooks up its flavor of GDPR – and Google’s over the moon - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/25/us_government_data_privacy/ “the DoC has ruled out the introduction of law or fines”: a chocolate teapot, IOW…

Theresa May rules out an autumn general election before Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/25/theresa-may-rules-out-an-autumn-general-election-before-brexit look what happened last time she said that…

180925

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180924.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Top court rules UK mass interception of fiber-optic cable traffic violates the right to #privacy: a victory, but how big? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/09/big-win-top-court-rules-uk-mass-interception-violates-the-right-to-privacy/ #humanrights #surveillance #gchq

New York Times Sues FCC With Eye On Bogus Russian Net Neutrality Comments - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180921/08271540687/new-york-times-sues-fcc-with-eye-bogus-russian-net-neutrality-comments.shtml

UK-EU flights could cease in event of no-deal #Brexit, says government - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/uk-eu-flights-would-cease-immediately-in-event-of-no-deal-brexit perfectly normal…

also: "pet owners – those with dogs, cats or ferrets – who want to take holidays in the EU would have to prepare for travel “at least four months ahead in advance of the date they wish to travel”." #brexitshambles

#China Actively Collecting Zero-Days For Use By Its Intelligence Agencies – Just Like The West - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180921/09121740688/china-actively-collecting-zero-days-use-intelligence-agencies-just-like-west.shtml moral high ground, what moral high ground…?

Glyphosat soll Ursache für Bienensterben sein - http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/glyphosat-soll-ursache-fuer-bienen-sterben-sein-a-1229816.html “#Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees” - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/18/1803880115

180924

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180923.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Climate study ‘pulls punches’ to keep polluters on board - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/23/scientists-changing-global-warming-report-please-polluters stupid: appeasement never works, just tell US & Australia to get knotted…

Leave no dark corner - http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278 great use of digital technology to warn about dangerous uses of digital tech… #china

Top court rules UK mass interception of fiber-optic cable traffic violates the right to #privacy: a victory, but how big? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/09/big-win-top-court-rules-uk-mass-interception-violates-the-right-to-privacy/ #surveillance #gchq

180923

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/09/180922.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Archaeologists and curators leaving UK over #Brexit fears - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/sep/22/archaeologists-and-curators-leaving-uk-over-brexit-fears “Brexit had already affected tourism to the UK, with a slowing down in bookings from long-haul markets, such as China, Japan and the US.”

Rotterdam prepared for worst when Britain crashes out of EU - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/22/rotterdam-prepared-for-worst-after-brexit this shows why #brexiters are clueless idiots

Tom Watson tells Corbyn: ‘We must back members on new Brexit vote’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/22/tom-watson-corbyn-members-brexit-vote-second-referendum-labour-party-poll interesting… #PeoplesVote

Crashing out of EU may hasten breakup of UK, ministers warn - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/22/hard-brexit-risks-breakup-uk-conservatives-warn “Senior Conservatives fear diplomatic disaster ‘on scale of Suez crisis’ is brewing”: they’re wrong; this is much worse than Suez… #brexitshambles