191008

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/10/191007.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Boris Johnson faces court challenge over no-deal Brexit from low-paid workers - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/boris-johnson-faces-court-challenge-over-no-deal-brexit-from-low-paid-workers keeping up the pressure

Why Navigation Apps, Working Properly, Can Make Traffic Flows Worse – And What To Do About It - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191003/09240543113/why-navigation-apps-working-properly-can-make-traffic-flows-worse-what-to-do-about-it.shtml

Thunderbird, Enigmail and OpenPGP - https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-and-openpgp/ " future Thunderbird 78 release, planned for summer 2020, we will add built-in functionality for email encryption and digital signatures using the OpenPGP standard." great news

EU-Mercosur Abkommen: Gewinner sind Südamerikas Rinderbarone - https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/folgenabschaetzung-zu-eu-mercosur-vertrag-geringe-gewinne-a-1290377.html “minimale wirtschaftliche Gewinne, dafür aber einen rasanten Anstieg der Fleischimporte sowie mehr Treibhausgasemissionen” madness; stop #mercosur now…

"demands for Northern Ireland to remain in a customs union made a deal look “essentially impossible, not just now but ever”. - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/boris-johnson-ready-to-give-up-on-brexit-deal johnson admits that we will never have a deal with the EU if he is in power. think about what that means… #brexitchaos

UK gov: “Organisations receiving personal data from the EU/EEA need to make alternative legal arrangements” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/travel-trade-phone-bills-and-immigration-no-deal-brexit-plan-released well, that wipes out vast swathes of the UK services industry at a stroke. well done, #brexiters…

“other sectors will be more affected” with, for example, tariffs of 65% on boneless beef and 53% on fresh bone-in lamb. - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/travel-trade-phone-bills-and-immigration-no-deal-brexit-plan-released no biggie, #amirite, UK farmers…?

The DOJ Is Conflating The Content Moderation Debate With The Encryption Debate: Don’t Let Them - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/00022343132/doj-is-conflating-content-moderation-debate-with-encryption-debate-dont-let-them.shtml

Boris Johnson failed to disclose meetings with Jennifer Arcuri in diary - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/08/boris-johnson-failed-to-disclose-meetings-with-jennifer-arcuri-in-diary “In total, #Arcuri’s companies were granted more than £126,000 in public money”

‘A masterpiece’: Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/08/stirling-prize-architecture-goldsmith-street-norwich-council-houses looks brilliant; should be the model for the rest of the country