190113

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190112.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

If May stays at No 10, I’m starting Project Hope, the positive case for remain - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/13/eu-brexit-referendum-positive-case-remain-sadiq-khan @SadiqKhan leads the way…

England’s schools face staffing crisis as EU teachers stay at home - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/12/schools-staff-crisis-eu-teacher-applications-fall so that’s health and education will be devastated by #brexit; who’s next to admit it…?

Taking back control? Brexit seems to offer exactly the opposite - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/13/taking-back-control-brexit-seems-to-offer-exactly-the-opposite well, at least the #brexitchaos has produced that great pic…

Tencent Unveils a Siri-Like Digital Assistant for WeChat - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/tencent-unveils-a-siri-like-digital-assistant-for-wechat-users #xiaowei

US envoy startles German diplomats threatening Nord Stream 2 firms - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/119497 clearly time for EU to threaten US companies with sanctions in retaliation…

this spells out why #brexit means total, abject submission to the US; not just eating dirty US meat - https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants - but also includes banning boycotts against Israel by anyone in the UK… #bds

People start to wake up to the pervasive third-party tracking that comes with 90% of Android apps - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/01/people-start-to-wake-up-to-the-pervasive-third-party-tracking-that-comes-with-90-of-android-apps/ but rather late, and slowly… #privacy

EU preparing to delay Brexit until at least July - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/13/eu-preparing-to-delay-brexit-until-at-least-july hugely important if confirmed: seems that brexit doesn’t mean brexit…

'Cornish embassy' would continue to represent county in EU - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/13/cornwall-council-eu-cornish-embassy-brussels-brexit "It had been on course to receive about £350m for the next round of funding from the years after 2020." #brexitchaos

190112

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190111.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

People start to wake up to the pervasive third-party tracking that comes with 90% of Android apps - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/01/people-start-to-wake-up-to-the-pervasive-third-party-tracking-that-comes-with-90-of-android-apps/ #privacy

190111

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190110.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

PLOS ONE Topic Pages: Peer-Reviewed Articles That Are Also #Wikipedia Entries: What’s Not To Like? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190107/09074141348/plos-one-topic-pages-peer-reviewed-articles-that-are-also-wikipedia-entries-whats-not-to-like.shtml

‘If you enter a camp, you never come out’: inside China’s war on Islam - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/if-you-enter-a-camp-you-never-come-out-inside-chinas-war-on-islam global pressure must be maintained in #china over its muslim concentration camps #xinjiang

Japanese bank blames Brexit for move to Amsterdam - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/11/japanese-bank-blames-brexit-for-move-to-amsterdam #brexitchaos

‘Total success’: China broadcasts new images from far side of moon - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/11/total-success-china-broadcasts-images-far-side-moon-chang-e-4 has anyone asked the #uyghurs what their views are…? #xinjiang

The tech world’s best CEO? Microsoft’s Nadella, hands down. - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3331853/microsoft-windows/the-tech-world-s-best-ceo-microsoft-... not so. nadella is just running in his corporate hamster wheel better than others.  the best CEO is Linus, who invented an entirely new management methodology…

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that quotation exception is not limitless and that there is no fair use in the EU - https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/01/ag-szpunar-advises-cjeu-to-rule-that.html clearly time to bring in eu #fairuse, then…

How China’s Big Overseas Initiative Threatens Global Climate Progress - https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-big-overseas-initiative-threatens-climate-progress important analysis; suggests that #OBOR could be an environmental disaster

#China Targets Prominent #Uighur Intellectuals to Erase an Ethnic Identity - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/world/asia/china-xinjiang-uighur-intellectuals.html not even hiding the fact that they want to extirpate the #uyghurs as a race; this is culture genocide, pure and simple #xinjiang

Even Mordor was less toxic than Brexit Britain - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/11/brexit-britain-john-bercow-car-sticker “As for that self-styled Frodo, David Cameron, we are still unable to quantify how wrong his plan to destroy the ring has gone, other than to say the Shire is now primarily a vast Orc brothel.” fab

190110

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190109.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits out at ‘disgusting’ media publishing fake nude image - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hits-out-at-disgusting-media-publishing-fake-nude-image let’s hope she’s as strong as she seems - she will need to be to withstand the onslaught of lies that’s coming

No-deal Brexit would be catastrophic for food supply, say UK farmers - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/10/no-deal-brexit-would-be-catastrophic-for-food-supply-say-uk-farmers isn’t it strange how all that “Project Fear” turned out to be “Project Fact”…? #brexitchaos

Jaguar Land Rover may cut up to 5,000 jobs - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/10/jaguar-land-rover-job-cuts just the start of that #brexit dividend…

Tech developer quits UK saying #Brexit has ‘killed’ his business - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/10/tech-developer-quits-uk-saying-brexit-has-killed-his-business " didn’t want to be ‘trapped on an island descending into mindless tribalism’"

Sea Shepherd Ship Attacked Inside Vaquita Refuge - https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/sea-shepherd-ship-attacked-inside-vaquita-refuge-2019-01-10 appalling action by contemptible poachers

Our Cellphones Aren’t Safe - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/cellphones-security-spying.html missed this before (V @schneierblog)

US will expel every last Iranian boot from Syria, says Mike Pompeo - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/10/us-expel-every-last-iranian-boot-syria-mike-pompeo boots? does he have a foot fetish, or something?

Google Still Says Our Post On Content Moderation Is Dangerous Or Derogatory - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190108/00410741352/google-still-says-our-post-content-moderation-is-dangerous-derogatory.shtml bonkers

190109

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190108.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Natural gas is now getting in the way; US carbon emissions increase by 3.4% - https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/natural-gas-is-now-getting-in-the-way-us-carbon-emissions-increase-by-3-4/ not good

‘It’s complete chaos’: Brazilian state overwhelmed by rash of gang violence - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/brazil-ceara-violence-fortaleza-gangs-bolsonaro you can see why people might vote for bolsonaro; but this is fuelled by drugs - legalise them to disempower the criminals #brazil

1MDB scandal: #China denies it offered to bail out Malaysian fund - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/1mdb-scandal-china-denies-it-offered-to-bail-out-malaysian-fund #OBOR loses yet more lustre…

German police cast doubt on details of attack on rightwing politician - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/german-police-cast-doubt-on-details-of-attack-on-rightwing-politician-frank-magnitz curiouser and curiouser…

The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of the Kingdom of Bicycles - https://macropolo.org/the-rise-fall-restoration-of-the-kingdom-of-bicycles/ detailed & fascinating #china #bicycles

“when a 29-year-old child of Puerto Rican migrants and former bartender beats a senior Democratic leader of the House, and then proceeds to set the political agenda during her first week in office, it’s more than a cute social media story.” - https://www.wired.com/story/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shapes-new-political-reality/

FSFE is hiring: Fundraising Manager - https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190108-01.html “will work 35 hours per week with our team in the Berlin office, being in charge of the FSFE’s individual and corporate fundraising.” #freesw

190108

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190107.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#China Starts Using Facial Recognition-Enabled ‘Smart’ Locks In Its Public Housing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190103/08421941324/china-starts-using-facial-recognition-enabled-smart-locks-public-housing.shtml what could possibly go wrong?

Galápagos island gets its first iguanas since Darwin after mass-release - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/08/galapagos-island-gets-its-first-iguanas-since-darwin-after-mass-release rare good news that deserves celebration

Labour grassroots step up anti-#Brexit pressure on Jeremy Corbyn - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/08/labour-grassroots-step-up-anti-brexit-pressure-on-jeremy-corbyn #peoplesvote

Impossible Burger 2.0 tastes like beef. Really - https://www.cnet.com/news/impossible-burger-2-0-tastes-like-beef-really/ I’ve tried the current version; it’s really impressive, and i don’t even like burgers…

Cross-party alliance of MPs tells May: we will stop no-deal #Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/08/cross-party-alliance-of-mps-tells-may-we-will-stop-no-deal-brexit a glimmer of hope that sane MPs will take control of the process finally

Hampshire motorway ‘may become lorry park after no-deal Brexit’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/08/m3-near-portsmouth-may-become-lorry-park-after-no-deal-brexit perfectly normal

190107

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190106.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

May says the ‘danger’ is ending up with ‘no Brexit at all’ - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/may-says-the-danger-is-ending-up-with-no-brexit-at-all/ that’s a feature, not a bug…

Oil Fail - https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/01/06/Oil-Fail "electricity is the new oil"

Labour backs cross-party amendment to block no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/07/labour-backs-cross-party-amendment-to-block-no-deal-brexit well done, @UKLabour…

Dutch eco initiative halves energy bills in first UK homes - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/07/dutch-eco-homes-idea-arrives-in-uk-and-cuts-energy-bills-in-half-nottingham-energiesprong great approach - it’s a good job the UK has EU support for this - oh, wait… #brexitshambles