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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/05/190519.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

For a fair, free and open future: celebrating 15 years of the Open Knowledge Foundation - https://blog.okfn.org/2019/05/20/for-a-fair-free-and-open-future-celebrating-15-years-of-the-open-knowledge-foundation/ needed more than ever in a world of #article13/17 blocks and censorship

Google says its app store will continue to work for existing #Huawei smartphone owners - https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/19/google-says-its-app-store-will-continue-to-work-for-existing-huawei-smartphone-owners/

Why #5G is a huge future threat to #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/05/why-5g-is-a-huge-future-threat-to-privacy/ you think #surveillance is bad now? you ain’t seen nothing yet…

NDI: Почти 80% опрошенных поддерживают членство Грузии в ЕС - https://www.ekhokavkaza.com/a/29952141.html well, at least one country whose patron saint is St George gets it…

Brexit party’s funding must be investigated, says Gordon Brown - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/brexit-partys-funding-must-be-investigated-says-gordon-brown we had an illegal referendum in 2016, vitiated by #brexiters’ law-breaking: do we really want an illegal election now?

MPs have a duty to pass Theresa May’s Brexit deal, says Hancock - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/mps-have-duty-to-pass-theresa-may-brexit-deal-says-hancock what rubbish: MPs have a duty to scrutinise it and then do the best for the country, not just blindly accept it…

#BigPharma Companies Accused Of Conspiring To Inflate Prices Of Over 100 Generic Drugs By Up To 1000% - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190514/08453842205/big-pharma-companies-accused-conspiring-to-inflate-prices-over-100-generic-drugs-up-to-1000.shtml probably just a coincidence… #generics

Глава Адыгеи провел встречу с руководством Адыгэ - Хасэ - http://www.adigea.aif.ru/politic/details/glava_adygei_provel_vstrechu_s_rukovodstvom_adyge_-_hase “Дня памяти и скорби по жертвам Кавказской войны XIX века” - best way to honour that event is to teach #circassian in all the region’s schools as a matter of course

100 Proofs that the Earth is a Globe - http://www.mezzacotta.net/100proofs/index-of-articles these are good; shameful we even need them…

В Адыгее обсудили подготовку к запуску самого мощного в стране ветропарка - http://www.adigea.aif.ru/politic/details/v_adygee_obsudili_podgotovku_k_zapusku_samogo_moshchnogo_v_strane_vetroparka great idea; do it

Pro- and anti-Brexit parties neck and neck in EU election, says poll - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/pro-anti-brexit-parties-neck-and-neck-eu-election-poll if @uklabour developed a spine & got off the fence, this would be overwhelmingly pro-EU…

Forget #Huawei, The Internet Of Things Is The Real Security Threat - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190513/07525442197/forget-huawei-internet-things-is-real-security-threat.shtml very true; and it’s about to get much worse thanks to #5G: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/05/why-5g-is-a-huge-future-threat-to-privacy/ #iot

Electoral Commission to visit Brexit party offices over funding concerns - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/electoral-commission-visit-brexit-party-offices-funding-gordon-brown-paypal that’s nice. probably have a cuppa while they’re there. but then what…?

“It’s time to recognise air pollution as an occupational health hazard” - https://www.britsafe.org/campaigns-policy/time-to-breathe-air-pollution-campaign/research-the-case-for-action/ “36,000 early deaths in the UK every year from ambient air pollution”

Racism on the rise since Brexit vote, nationwide study reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/racism-on-the-rise-since-brexit-vote-nationwide-study-reveals of course

Turkey seeks extradition of UK barrister over Twitter activity - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/may/20/british-barrister-facing-extradition-to-turkey-over-tweets wut???