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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181202.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Armenia's ex-minister of nature protection accused of taking $14 million bribe - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/118342 poor armenia

Brexit backstop would be ‘practical barrier’ to trade deal, leaked paper says - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/02/theresa-may-in-battle-over-brexit-legal-advice-as-charm-offensive-begins which was pretty obvious #brexitchaos

Multiple threats from EU’s #GDPR to today’s corporate #surveillance and targeted advertising system - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/targeted-advertising-and-real-time-bidding-under-serious-threat-from-eus-gdpr/ here’s why that’s good

General rules on direct and indirect liability for copyright infringement instead of Art. 13 - http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/general-rules-on-direct-and-indirect.html what an utter mess #article13 is #eucopyright

GCHQ Propose A ‘Going Dark’ Workaround That Creates The Same User Trust Problem Encryption Backdoors Do - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181129/11090541132/gchq-propose-going-dark-workaround-that-creates-same-user-trust-problem-encryption-backdoors-do.shtml

Mehr als eine Million Menschen drängen auf zweites Referendum - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-mehr-als-eine-million-menschen-draengen-auf-zweites-referendum-a-1241744.html #peoplesvote

Insulin4All - https://citizenvox.org/2018/11/15/insulin4all/ “For Nicole Smith-Holt and her husband James Holt, Jr. whose son, Alec Rae Smith, died at 26 after rationing his insulin, the consequences of insulin prices are far too real.” #bigpharma greed kills

The Business of AI Startups - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3293275 “survey of commercial AI startups, documenting rich detail about their businesses and their impacts on their customers. firms report benefits of AI that are more often about enhancing human capabilities than replacing them.”

Time To Tell The Truth About #Article13 - http://copybuzz.com/copyright/time-to-tell-the-truth-about-article-13/ it’s not about the mythical “value gap”, which is actually an innovation gap… #eucopyright directive

Free Software Foundation receives $1 million from Handshake - https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-1-million-from-handshake #freesw

#OpenScience Means #OpenSource--Or, at Least, It Should - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-science-means-open-source-or-least-it-should so let’s do it

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181201.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Key Labour figures urge party to prepare for a new Brexit poll - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/01/labour-figures-urge-party-prepare-new-brexit-vote nearly there, @UKLabour #peoplesvote

Labour poised to move May confidence motion if she loses #Brexit vote - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/02/labour-poised-to-move-may-confidence-motion-if-she-loses-brexit-vote-keir-starmer “If May’s government were not deposed, he said, Labour would start seeking a second referendum.” #PeoplesVoteNow

‘Will I have existed?’ The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/02/kiruna-swedish-arctic-town-had-to-move-reindeer-herders-in-the-way why extractive industries are bad, part 28357

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/12/181130.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Sam Gyimah: second Brexit referendum best option for both sides - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/01/sam-gyimah-second-brexit-referendum-best-option-for-both-sides “There is a blocking minority in the House of Commons for almost every possible option which means that letting the people decide”

#Privacy is Personal - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/11/privacy-is-personal/

Met police push ahead with armed patrols despite backlash - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/01/met-police-push-ahead-with-armed-patrols-despite-backlash stupid, panicked move: replace “policing by consent” with “policing by machine guns”

Rightwing thinktank deletes offer of access to ministers for donors - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/01/rightwing-thinktank-deletes-offer-of-access-to-ministers-for-donors Adam Smith Institute “promising access to government ministers in exchange for donations”

Trump OKs seismic tests in Atlantic that can harm thousands of dolphins & whales - https://boingboing.net/2018/11/30/trump-hates-dolphins.html “emitting loud pulsing sounds every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day. These pulses are known to harass, harm, and even kill whales and dolphins.”

Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/01/dark-web-dealers-voluntary-ban-deadly-fentanyl #2018 strikes again…

Multiple threats from EU’s #GDPR to today’s corporate #surveillance and targeted advertising system - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/12/targeted-advertising-and-real-time-bidding-under-serious-threat-from-eus-gdpr/ that’s good

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181129.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Donald Trump Jr may face legal peril after Cohen admits lying to Congress - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/30/donald-trump-jr-may-face-legal-peril-after-cohen-admits-lying-to-congress I do hope so…

Coal is king at the climate meeting in Poland - https://corporateeurope.org/climate-and-energy/2018/11/coal-king-climate-meeting-poland you shame us, #poland… #climatechange

‘Comfort women’: anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/japanese-paper-sparks-anger-as-it-ditches-ww2-forced-labour-term cowardly, insulting and shabby behaviour from @japantimes

Berta Cáceres: seven men convicted of murdering Honduran environmentalist - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/29/berta-caceres-seven-men-convicted-conspiracy-murder-honduras “murder was ordered by executives of the Agua Zarca dam company Desa”

Автодорогу до Гергетского храма построили в Казбеги - https://vestikavkaza.ru/news/Avtodorogu-do-Gergetskogo-khrama-postroili-v-Kazbegi-VIDEO.html boring: the old road was much more fun (even if I nearly died on it…)

British student who took photo from plane faces Egypt spying trial - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/30/british-student-who-took-photo-from-plane-faces-egypt-spying-trial these trials are absurd, and the governments that carry them ridiculous

181129

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181128.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Ningxia learns from #Xinjiang how to fight terrorism - http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1129272.shtml the #uyghurs were just the start; #china will be rolling out its total #surveillance system everywhere…

London to lose €800bn to Frankfurt as banks prepare for Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/london-to-lose-800bn-to-frankfurt-as-banks-prepare-for-brexit "there is no downside to #brexit"… yeah, right

Climate change already a health emergency, say experts - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/28/climate-change-already-a-health-emergency-say-experts obvs

Arlene Foster says DUP would not back second Brexit referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/arlene-foster-dup-would-not-back-second-brexit-referendum luckily, nobody cares what you think

EU net migration to UK falls to lowest level in almost six years - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/29/eu-net-migration-uk-falls-lowest-level-almost-six-years but “Non-EU net migration was at its highest since 2004” - we’re just swapping people who share our european heritage for those that don’t… #brexitchaos

Past four years hottest on record, data shows - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/29/four-years-hottest-record-climate-change <slow handclap/>

Extending article 50 would invalidate Brexit deal, says May - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/extending-article-50-would-invalidate-brexit-deal-says-may she’s making this up as she goes along; ask Barnier - I bet he doesn’t say that…

Most UK businesses unprepared for no-deal Brexit, says Carney - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/most-uk-businesses-unprepared-for-no-deal-brexit-says-carney #ThisIsFine

“Jo Johnson says May’s Brexit deal could lead to 1997-style electoral defeat for Tories” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/nov/29/brexit-theresa-may-faces-questions-from-commons-liaison-committee-about-her-deal-politics-live?page=with:block-5bfff69be4b0de80e896f043#block-5bfff69be4b0de80e896f043 future tory leader…?

Linux and Supercomputers - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-and-supercomputers nice history

‘Botched Brexit’ could spark electoral wipeout for Tories, rebels say - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/29/botched-brexit-could-spark-electoral-wipeout-for-tories-rebels-say if @UKLabour are wise, they will start using this phrase…and go for #peoplesvote

Tokyo Olympics venues ‘built with wood from threatened rainforests’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/29/tokyo-olympics-venues-built-with-wood-from-threatened-rainforests time to boycott #Tokyo2020 …

The EPA has lost its mind - https://mashable.com/article/epa-climate-report-denial-debunk/ the @epa is just utterly pathetic; so sad to see how it has come down…

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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181127.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Labour could seize option of second Brexit vote, says McDonnell - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/labour-seize-second-brexit-vote-option-john-mcdonnell now we’re getting there… #peoplesvote

Police investigate racial attack on boy at Huddersfield school - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/28/police-investigate-racial-attack-on-boy-at-huddersfield-school I should hope so…

Chancellor admits UK will be worse off under all Brexit scenarios - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/chancellor-uk-worse-off-brexit-scenarios-philip-hammond that means less money for #NHS, more austerity - exactly what #brexiters wanted #amirite?

“Analysis produced by range of government departments suggests GDP could fall by as much as 10.7%” - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/28/uk-significantly-worse-off-under-all-brexit-scenarios-official-forecast-gdp bear in mind that trade deals typically produce fractions of a percent GDP boost, so there’s no way trade can make up that shortfall #brexitchaos

McDonnell says it is ‘inevitable’ Labour will back second referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/nov/28/brexit-pmqs-may-corbyn-hammond-economic-analysis-confirms-that-leaving-eu-will-make-uk-poorer-politics-live?page=with:block-5bfeaddde4b0de80e896e49d#block-5bfeaddde4b0de80e896e49d getting there, getting there… #peoplesvote

181127

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2018/11/181126.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

New #GDPR Ruling In France Could Dramatically Re-shape Online Advertising - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181123/09014141092/new-gdpr-ruling-france-could-dramatically-re-shape-online-advertising.shtml potentially big implications for EU and global online advertising methods

World must triple efforts or face catastrophic #climatechange, says UN - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/27/world-triple-efforts-climate-change-un-global-warming

Fresh row looms as No 10 refuses to publish full #Brexit legal advice - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/27/fresh-row-looms-as-no-10-refuses-to-publish-full-brexit-legal-advice a cynic might almost think they have something to hide - but surely not…?