190120

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190119.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Deep fakes: how immutable blockchain-based life logs could combat them, and the implications for #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/01/deep-fakes-how-immutable-blockchain-based-life-logs-could-combat-them-and-the-implications-for-privacy/ tricky stuff

Jeremy Corbyn expected to back move to block no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/20/corbyn-to-back-no-deal-brexit-block well, that’s a good start… #brexitchaos

How Orkney leads the way for sustainable energy - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/20/orkney-northern-powerhouse-electricity-wind-waves-surplus-power-hydrogen-fuel-cell

May planning to reject calls for cross-party consensus on Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/20/theresa-may-cross-party-consensus-brexit-backstop-tory-split not good with that consensus thing, are we theresa? and yet you expect people who voted remain to just roll over… #brexitchaos

We Have Met the Problem. Guess Who? - https://buzzmachine.com/2019/01/20/we-have-met-the-problem-guess-who/

190119

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190118.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Verhandlungen zur Urheberrechtsreform ausgesetzt - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/verhandlungen-ueber-upload-filter-und-leistungsschutzrecht-ausgesetzt-a-1248869.html “Die Verhandlungen mit dem EU-Parlament finden nicht wie geplant statt, und die Zeit wird knapp.” Que la bête meure… #article13 #article11

Kennzeichenerfassung: „Massenüberwachung unter dem Deckmantel des Umweltschutzes“ - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/kennzeichenerfassung-massenueberwachung-unter-dem-deckmantel-des-umweltschutzes/

Евросоюз видит «положительные импульсы» в переговорах по Карабаху - https://www.ekhokavkaza.com/a/29718951.html let’s hope…

So, referendum results are sacred? Except when they’re not - https://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2019/01/18/26511 yeah, strange that…

Copyright negotiations hit a brick wall in Council - https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/copyright-hits_wall/ “does make an adoption of the copyright directive before the European elections in May less likely” keep up the pressure on your govs, EU people… #article13 #article11

Brexit: Labour ‘must keep open’ option of second referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/19/brexit-labour-must-keep-open-option-of-second-referendum “either instruct the government to negotiate a close economic relationship with the EU based on a customs union, or campaign for a further public vote”

Deep fakes: how immutable blockchain-based life logs could combat them, and the implications for #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/01/deep-fakes-how-immutable-blockchain-based-life-logs-could-combat-them-and-the-implications-for-privacy/ no, really…

The EU’s plan to impose mandatory copyright filters is on life-support and may die - https://boingboing.net/2019/01/19/axel-voss-hostage-freed.html but it’s not dead yet, so people should still contact their govs if possible, please… #article13

‘It’s like hell here’: Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/19/australia-swelters-as-relentless-hot-weather-smashes-records when is the australian government going to stop lying about the seriousness of #climatechange, and work with others to tackle it? #Australia

Ministers agree to consider Lib Dem plans for new referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/19/ministers-second-brexit-referendum-lib-dems it’s probably a trick, but interesting nonetheless…

190118

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190117.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Structural Violation of “Right to Access” and #GDPR Complaints against Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube and Apple filed - https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PA_st_EN.pdf more great work from @maxschrems

World’s biggest animal drugs company stops marketing antibiotics as growth promoters in #India - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-01-18/worlds-biggest-animal-drugs-company-stops-marketing-antibiotics-as-growth-promoters-in-india but: “still selling the products for this purpose.”

#Armenia and #Azerbaijan agree to prepare populations for peace - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/119638 that would be good

#Article11: Negotiations Did Not Bring Any Improvement So Far - https://ancillarycopyright.eu/news/2019-01-18/article-11-negotiations-did-not-bring-any-improvement-so-far it’ll be a disaster, just as it was in Spain and Germany when they brought in ancillary copyright

#Artikel11: Verhandlungen Führen Zu Keiner Verbesserung - https://leistungsschutzrecht.info/news/2019-01-18/artikel-11-verhandlungen-f-hren-zu-keiner-verbesserung “Die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen wird zurückgehen und die Attraktivität der Europäischen Union als Innovations- und Investitionsstandort wird weiter sinken.”

The new EU Copyright Directive is almost upon us and here’s what you can do to stop #Article11 and #Article13 - https://openmedia.org/en/new-eu-copyright-directive-almost-upon-us-and-heres-what-you-can-do-stop-articles-11-and-13 “if passed, will turn the Internet into a censored pay-to-play ghost town.”

A dangerous political void - https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-dangerous-political-void.html “That will mean that in ten weeks’ time we will face severe economic and social dislocation, with the probability of food and medicine shortages, troops on the street, disruptions to travel and much else.”

Shocked diplomats suggest EU would extend Brexit deadline - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/18/shocked-diplomats-suggest-eu-would-extend-brexit-deadline this is clearly emerging as the only way forward: delay, then reconsider… #brexitchaos

Latest EU #Copyright Directive Still Demands Internet Companies Wave Magic Wands - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190117/16525641415/latest-eu-copyright-directive-still-demands-internet-companies-wave-magic-wands.shtml demanding the impossible is irresponsible law-making; shame on EU #article13

The Internet is for the people - https://reform.communia-association.org/ “we take apart the new #Copyright Directive, to see how nine different issues either empower or hurt users and creators in the digital age” #article13 #article11

Boris Johnson condemned after falsely saying he did not make anti-Turkish claims in #Brexit campaign - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/jan/18/brexit-latest-news-boris-johnson-merkels-probable-successor-and-other-leading-germans-urge-uk-to-change-its-mind-and-stay-politics-live he can’t stop lying, can he? he should resign - or be thrown out, if the tories had any decency…

#Copyrightweek – Drifting Away From Safe Harbors To The Internet’s © ‘Bermuda Triangle’ - https://copybuzz.com/copyright/copyrightweek-drifting-away-from-safe-harbors-to-the-internets-bermuda-triangle/ “where content will disappear with no one understanding what’s just happened.” #article13

#Copyrightweek – Filterfail: The Hall Of Shame - https://copybuzz.com/copyright/copyrightweek-filterfail-the-hall-of-shame/ here’s the proof that upload filters won’t work #article13

more on dirty, unhealthy US food (see https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants) coming to UK thanks to #brexit here: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/01/18/us-agribusiness-lobby-calls-on-trump-to-target-uk-food-and-environment-rules-in-brexit-trade-deal/

190117

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190116.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut - https://nb.sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in the best short analysis of modern #China that I have read

How Illegally Harvested Timber Is ‘Greenwashed’ in #China - https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003369/How Illegally Harvested Timber Is ‘Greenwashed’ in China @FSC_IC needs to investigate urgently

More than 170 business leaders join call for second Brexit referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/more-than-170-business-leaders-join-call-for-second-brexit-referendum #PeoplesVote

Checks on both sides of Irish border ‘mandatory under no-deal #Brexit’ - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/checks-on-both-sides-of-irish-border-mandatory-under-no-deal-brexit “Customs expert says extra costs and delays will harm small businesses and WTO rules would ‘kill UK farming’”

No-deal Brexit would be catastrophic for UK farmers, warns NFU - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/04/no-deal-brexit-would-be-catastrophic-uk-farmers-warns-nfu but destroying farming and manufacturing in UK small price to pay for blue passports, no…?

‘More animal than ever’: Europeans find joy in John Bercow - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/17/more-animal-than-ever-europeans-find-joy-in-john-bercow rightly so; he should be made PM… #brexitchaos

On Saturday the UK turns remain. Parliament must force a second referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/17/saturday-uk-remain-parliament-force-second-referendum “The true “will of the people” looks considerably more questionable if it turns out to be the will of dead people – not the will of those who have the most life ahead of them”

Kentucky newspaper removes criticism of Trump from woman’s obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/kentucky-newspaper-removes-criticism-of-trump-from-obituary if only there were a word for this sort of thing…

“Nous encourageons les Belges à agir, à dire à leurs représentants de porter un coup en faveur de l’équité, contre la concentration et la censure du marché.” - https://boingboing.net/2019/01/17/belgium-say-no-to-article-13.html #article13

“Vi behöver få svenskar att agera och lägga tryck på sina politiker att utdela ett slag för rättvisa och mot marknadskoncentration och censur.” - https://boingboing.net/2019/01/17/sweden-and-you-can-sa.html #article13

“Die Deutschen haben hier eine besondere Rolle zu spielen, da Ihre Abgeordneten und Ihre Zeitungsriesen die Agenda in einem hohen Maß vorantreiben und beeinflussen. Da Wahl schon bald stattfinden wird, ist es wichtig, dass Sie JETZT handeln!” - https://boingboing.net/2019/01/17/resist-censorbots-2.html

190116

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190115.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

#Copyrightweek – What Does Ownership Mean To You? - https://copybuzz.com/copyright/copyrightweek-what-does-ownership-mean-to-you/ #copyright

‘It’s been like hell’: Australians on coping with the extreme heatwave - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/16/its-been-like-hell-australians-on-coping-with-the-extreme-heatwave & it will get much worse; maybe the australian government should do something about #climatechange…

Labour MPs declare support for second Brexit referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/16/labour-mps-declare-support-for-second-brexit-referendum getting there… #peoplesvote

#SaveYourInternet - #DeleteArt13: Big Businesses Fighting Each Other to the Detriment of Freedom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzigo9UWbpw&feature=youtu.be #copyright

In no man’s land: consumers in the copyright debate - https://www.beuc.eu/blog/in-no-mans-land-consumers-in-the-copyright-debate/ “If this proposal becomes law, many consumers might face unjustified obstacles when uploading their creations – made without any commercial purpose – due to copyright protection issues.” #article13

EU copyright directive nearing final form as Google tests stripped-down news search engine results - https://searchengineland.com/eu-copyright-directive-nearing-final-form-as-google-tests-stripped-down-news-serps-310494 #article11 will impoverish us all, for negligible benefits to publishers #article11

#Copyrightweek – At The Heart Of Creativity Lies The Public Domain - https://copybuzz.com/copyright/copyrightweek-at-the-heart-of-creativity-lies-the-public-domain/ find out what King Leir tells us about King Lear, #copyright and creativity…

190115

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190114.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems who cares about #brexit when this is happening…?

Ancient language of Babylonia is brought back to life - https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/news/ancient-language-of-babylonia-is-brought-back-to-life nice #linguistics

China’s Muslims fear crackdown in ancient city of Xi’an - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/15/china-crackdown-fears-xian-muslim-quarter sadly, they are likely to be next for the concentration camps, as in #xinjiang

‘One fish at a time’: Indonesia lands remarkable victory - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/one-fish-at-a-time-indonesia-lands-victory-tuna-msc #kudos to #indonesia; let’s hope this is the start of a wider respect for the environment

Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/immediate-fossil-fuel-phaseout-could-arrest-climate-change-study we must do this. we won’t.

‘No deal would be more Millennium Bug than Armageddon’, say Brexiteers - https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/no-deal-would-be-more-millennium-bug-than-armageddon-say-brexiteers/ only people who don’t understand technology could say that; millennium bug was handled with a decade of detailed, brilliant planning… #brexitchaos

Hollywood Asks EU To Drop Article 13 Entirely, Because It Might Possibly Have A Tiny Compromise For The Internet - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190115/10264041397/hollywood-asks-eu-to-drop-article-13-entirely-because-it-might-possibly-have-tiny-compromise-internet.shtml time to kill #article13

Even the rightsholders think Europe’s Article 13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations - https://boingboing.net/2019/01/15/breaking-ranks.html just kill #article13

current status: listening to Mahler 10 in Deryck Cooke’s completion. chords with all 12 notes of chromatic scale played simultaneously. seems appropriate. #brexitchaos

190114

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/01/190113.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Theresa May says Brexit could be halted if her deal is voted down - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/jan/14/brexit-latest-news-theresa-may-speech-liam-fox-claims-no-deal-survivable-as-may-launches-last-minute-bid-to-rescue-her-deal-politics-live er, that’s a feature, not a bug… #brexitchaos

Britons in EU may have to retake driving tests after a no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/14/britons-living-in-eu-new-driving-tests-no-deal-brexit yeah, but blue passports, you know… #brexitchaos

#Pakistan Demands Google Take Down Petition For Academic Freedom… Saying It Represents Hate Speech - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190111/16044241379/pakistan-demands-google-take-down-petition-academic-freedom-saying-it-represents-hate-speech.shtml

Obscure pro-Brexit group spends tens of thousands on Facebook ads - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/14/obscure-pro-brexit-group-britains-future-spends-tens-of-thousands-on-facebook-ads oh look: @facebook getting rich off undermining transparency and democracy again. just close it down now… #brexitchaos