190311

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190310.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Disaster In The Making: #Article13 Puts User Rights At A Disadvantage To Corporate Greed - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190307/18013141762/disaster-making-article-13-puts-user-rights-disadvantage-to-corporate-greed.shtml “trying to shove in “user rights” as subordinate to the special privileges of a few giant industries is especially disgusting and corrupt.”

A million tiny eyes in the sky: how a new generation of nanosatellites pose a threat to #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/eyes-in-the-sky-how-a-new-generation-of-tiny-satellites-pose-a-surveillance-threat/ cool technology; but what happens when it’s turned against us?

“Ich bin kein Bot, nehmt mich ernst” - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/demos-gegen-upload-filter-ich-bin-kein-bot-nehmt-mich-ernst-a-1257129.html #artikel13

EU must align copyright reform with international human rights standards, says expert - https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24298&LangID=E "#Article13 of proposed Directive appears destined to drive internet platforms toward monitoring and restriction of user-generated content even at the point of upload."

It Sure Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren Wants To Bring The EU Copyright Directive Stateside - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190308/17593441768/it-sure-sounds-like-elizabeth-warren-wants-to-bring-eu-copyright-directive-stateside.shtml the #copyright ratchet always spreads its misery

190310

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190309.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System - https://kottke.org/19/03/stone-age-cave-symbols-may-all-be-part-of-a-single-prehistoric-proto-writing-system this is a mind-blowing possibility v @azeem

Brexit secretary met Labour MPs championing second referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/09/brexit-secretary-met-pro-referendum-labour-peter-kyle-phil-wilson it’s the only way forward out of this mess… #brexitchaos

Die Sozialdemokröte, Wappentier der Mutlosigkeit - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/warum-die-spd-staendig-gegen-ihre-ueberzeugung-handelt-podcast-a-1256758.html #artikel13

Zurabishvili’s statement during visit to Baku: a sudden turn in Georgia’s policy? - http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/121253 whoa, really? #ge #am #az

30 Verletzte auf Turkish-Airlines-Flug nach New York - http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/30-verletzte-auf-turkish-airlines-flug-nach-new-york-a-1257084.html presumably this will become more common thanks to #globalwarming increasing wind energy

Three-quarters of newly eligible voters would back remain in second poll - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/09/new-young-voters-want-peoples-vote-strongly-remain-survey this is the key: don’t waste time trying to explain things to stupid old bigots - they will never understand

‘They took everyone from me’: anger lingers 60 years after #Tibet crackdown - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/they-took-everyone-from-me-anger-lingers-60-years-after-tibet-crackdown poor tibetans, situation there worse than ever…

190309

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190308.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

The UK’s AgeID porn filters are a recurring April Fool’s joke with a dark punchline - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/the-uks-ageid-porn-filters-are-a-recurring-april-fools-joke-with-a-dark-punchline/ … such a stupid idea, guaranteed to fail…

How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/american-food-giants-swallow-the-family-farms-iowa & it’s these that engage in animal abuse on a massive scale to produce dirty meat: https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants coming here after #brexit if we don’t fight it

getting urgent now: This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP - https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2019/03/this-could-be-most-important-email-you.html EU people: we must stop the worst aspects of the #eucopyright directive becoming law. here’s why, & how to do it. please write to your MEPs today & RT #article13

A million tiny eyes in the sky: how a new generation of nanosatellites pose a threat to #privacy - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/eyes-in-the-sky-how-a-new-generation-of-tiny-satellites-pose-a-surveillance-threat/ amazing technology; but what happens when it’s turned against us?

Music Industry Asks EU to Scrap #Article13 - https://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-asks-eu-to-scrap-article-13/ come on, MEPs: everyone hates it - it will be a disaster. please remove it.

#ExtinctionRebellion activists throw ‘blood’ outside Downing Street - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/09/extinction-rebellion-activists-arrested-over-scottish-oil-protest if governments won’t listen, people will be forced to make them listen…

190308

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190307.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Urgent: This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP - https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2019/03/this-could-be-most-important-email-you.html EU people: we must stop the worst aspects of the #eucopyright directive becoming law. here’s why, & how to do it. please write to your MEPs today & RT #article13 #uploadfilter

European Parliament’s Pro-Article 13 Video Has Backfired - https://torrentfreak.com/european-parliaments-pro-article-13-video-has-backfired-190308/ disgracefully biased behaviour from @Europarl_EN, spreading outright lies about #article13

EU Parliament Paid News Publisher AFP To Create Bogus Propaganda Video In Favor Of EU Copyright Directive - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190307/16175941758/eu-parliament-paid-news-publisher-afp-to-create-bogus-propaganda-video-favor-eu-copyright-directive.shtml it’s still there: @Europarl_EN is still lying about #article13 heads should roll over this

Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA - https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/cookie-walls-dont-comply-with-gdpr-says-dutch-dpa/ this was inevitable under the #gdpr

Rio carnival turns political as ‘Barbie Fascists’ defend women’s rights - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/08/rio-carnival-turns-political-as-barbie-fascists-defend-womens-rights yes: resist #Bolsonaro in every way possible #brazil

Anti-English sentiment in Ireland had healed. But Brexit has brought it all flooding back - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/08/england-ireland-brexit-political-ignorance #brexit is destroying all the gains of the last 50 years…

Arron Banks ‘ignored deal to stop pro-Brexit ads’ after Jo Cox death - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/08/arron-banks-ignored-deal-to-stop-pro-brexit-ads-after-jo-cox-death of course: this is what #brexit really is…

Venezuela: ‘country has stopped’ as blackout drags into second day - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/08/venezuela-power-outage-maduro-schools-closed think this couldn’t happen in the UK after #brexit? think of how the government has handled things so far…does that inspire confidence the lights will stay on?

Boy spent 47 agonizing days in ICU with tetanus. Parents still refuse vaccines - https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/boy-spent-47-agonizing-days-in-icu-with-tetanus-parents-still-refuse-vaccines/ why do #antivaxxers hate their children so much?

190307

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190306.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic “Yes, antisemitism is growing. Yes, world leaders must fight it fiercely. But in the words of a great Zionist thinker, “This is not the way”.”

Revealed: Glencore bankrolled covert campaign to prop up #coal - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/07/revealed-glencore-bankrolled-covert-campaign-to-prop-up-coal these people are beneath contempt #climatedenialists

Swiss Supreme Court Refuses To Order ISPs To Block ‘Pirate’ Sites - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190228/11582441695/swiss-supreme-court-refuses-to-order-isps-to-block-pirate-sites.shtml #switzerland

Interview With Bernd Porr - https://copybuzz.com/copyright/interview-with-bernd-porr/ #AI expert spells out exactly why #article13's #uploadfilter will be a disaster in so many ways…

Major Labels Split On Support For #Article13; As Music Publishers Whine That They Can’t Make Money From Parodies - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190301/22225341713/major-labels-split-support-article-13-as-music-publishers-whine-that-they-cant-make-money-parodies.shtml

Backstop may threaten Northern Irish human rights, says Cox - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/07/attorney-general-geoffrey-cox-rejects-eu-brexit-deadlock-complaints wait: is that the sound of a barrel being scraped desperately…? #brexitchaos

Foreign Office grants Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/foreign-office-grants-nazanin-zaghari-radcliffe-diplomatic-protection at last… #iran

190306

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190305.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Food fight: doubts grow over post-#Brexit standards - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/06/food-fight-doubts-grow-over-post-brexit-standards “antibiotics per animal in US farming is on average a shocking five times higher than in the UK”

Britain urged to reject ‘backward’ US food safety standards - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/06/britain-urged-to-reject-backward-us-food-safety-standards “There is a general resistance to even acknowledging the existence of sentience in farm animals which is quite extraordinary.” #brexit

If the US insists on chlorinated chicken, it can forget a trade deal - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/06/us-chlorinated-chicken-trade-deal-agriculture says leading #brexiter: “We should use the power of the UK to project British values of kindness and compassion in any future trade deals.”

Now the Duchess of Sussex reveals fears over chlorine-washed chicken from the US as she wades into post-Brexit trade deal row - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6774985/Duchess-Sussex-reveals-fears-chlorine-washed-chicken-US.html "her unease about ‘industrial US food systems’ being ‘wrong’ " #brexitchaos

Police chief says rise in knife crime in England is national emergency - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/06/police-chief-says-rise-in-knife-crime-in-england-is-national-emergency “cuts in policing that have led to a 21,000 reduction in police numbers since 2010”; well, there’s your problem…

No-deal Brexit would plunge UK economy into recession – OECD - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/06/no-deal-brexit-would-plunge-uk-economy-into-recession-oecd and the poor will suffer the most #brexitchaos

Clash Of EU’s Poorly Thought Out Laws: German Data Protection Commissioner Warns That #Article13 Might Violate #GDPR - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190301/13450841706/clash-eus-poorly-thought-out-laws-german-data-protection-commissioner-warns-that-article-13-might-violate-gdpr.shtml

Northern Ireland civil servants fear targeting by paramilitaries - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/06/northern-ireland-civil-servants-fear-targeting-by-pa... #brexitchaos

“auch die #SPD verbaut sich mit ihrer erbärmlichen Mutlosigkeit jede Chance auf die Stimmen der Generation YouTube” - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/urheberrecht-die-alles-mitmach-partei-spd-a-1256527.html “Das Internet vergisst nichts. Jedenfalls nicht bis zur Wahl im Mai.” #artikel13

Trump’s tariff war pushes US trade deficit to 10-year high - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/06/us-trade-deficit-hits-10-year-high-as-trump-trade-wars-backfire just as experts warned would happen…

Support for EU nationals being able to work in UK has risen sharply since 2016, ONS says - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/mar/06/brexit-latest-news-pmqs-mays-offer-to-protect-workers-right-dismissed-as-worthless-by-labour-and-unions-politics-live?page=with:block-5c7feae2e4b052c45da0c715#block-5c7feae2e4b052c45da0c715 good to see people waking up to the #brexiters’ lies about immigration

What makes a boat smart, and why does it matter? - https://www.edf.org/oceans/smart-boats not sure about the name, but the idea is good

Russian parliament outlaws online ‘disrespect’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/russian-parliament-outlaws-online-disrespect "allows courts to jail people for online “disrespect” of government or state officials, including the president, Vladimir Putin." almost like soviet times…

Brexit is a ‘huge help’ to Irish republicanism, says dissident leader - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/brexit-is-a-huge-help-to-irish-republicanism-says-dissident-leader “Saoradh party’s chair believes exit from EU will fuel violent resistance to British rule” well, obvs… #brexitchaos will be bloody

190305

Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest https://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2019/03/190304.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

World’s rarest orangutan under threat in Indonesia after court battle against dam fails - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/worlds-rarest-orangutan-under-threat-in-indonesia-after-court-battle-against-dam-fails #china is destroying - and eating - the world

Hotels at centre of rape allegations promoted on #TripAdvisor - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/hotels-at-centre-of-allegations-promoted-on-tripadvisor big Internet companies behaving badly…again

This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP - https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2019/03/this-could-be-most-important-email-you.html EU people: we must stop the worst aspects of the #eucopyright directive becoming law. here’s why, & how to do it. please write to your MEPs today & RT #article13 #uploadfilter

Italy sees 57% drop in olive harvest as result of climate change, scientist says - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/05/italy-may-depend-on-olive-imports-from-april-scientist-says these kind of problems will be the norm now

Revealed: AmazonSmile helps fund anti-vaccine groups - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/05/revealed-amazonsmile-helps-fund-anti-vaccine-groups so Jeff Bezos hates science now…?

Wieder vor Gericht: Geheimdienstliche Massenüberwachung und das Menschenrecht auf Privatheit - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/wieder-vor-gericht-geheimdienstliche-massenueberwachung-und-das-menschenrecht-auf-privatheit/ #gchq

Rightsholders Can’t Sue Without a Copyright Certificate, Supreme Court Rules - https://torrentfreak.com/rightsholders-cant-sue-without-a-copyright-certificate-supreme-court-rules-190305/

Supporters Of #Article13 Briefly Tried To Move Parliament Vote Up Before Scheduled Protests; Now Deny Plan That They Clearly Had - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190304/15233741731/supporters-article-13-briefly-tried-to-move-parliament-vote-up-before-scheduled-protests-now-deny-plan-that-they-clearly-had.shtml & now they are again…

Spontane Demonstrationen gegen Uploadfilter in mehreren Städten angekündigt - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/spontane-demonstrationen-in-ganz-deutschland-gegen-uploadfilter-angekuendigt/ hurry hurry hurry #artikel13

Big Win For #OpenAccess, As University Of California Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions, Worth $11 Million A Year - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190304/09220141728/big-win-open-access-as-university-california-cancels-all-elsevier-subscriptions-worth-11-million-dollars-year.shtml academic publishing’s emperor has no clothes

The US negotiating objectives for the UK-US trade deal clearly put America First - https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2019/03/05/the-us-negotiating-objectives-for-the-uk-us-trade-deal-clearly-put-america-first/ “would be inconsistent with the UK in maintaining frictionless trade with the EU, including keeping the open border between the Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland”

eLife welcomes Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) as Editor-in-Chief - https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/5cc21558/elife-welcomes-michael-eisen-as-editor-in-chief this is excellent news #openscience

A Game of Chickens - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/brexit-transition-vote-depends-american-chicken/584041/ “Americans eat a lot of it with no documented negative effects.” sorry, just not true: US has 10x as many foodborne diseases as UK per million - https://www.theguardian.com/animals-farmed/2018/feb/21/dirty-meat-shocking-hygiene-failings-discovered-in-us-pig-and-chicken-plants #brexit

22 of world’s 30 most polluted cities are in India, Greenpeace says - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/05/india-home-to-22-of-worlds-30-most-polluted-cities-greenpeace-says #london still needs to do better here

Why Does MEP Axel Voss Keep Lying About #Article 13? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190301/21573541712/why-does-mep-axel-voss-keep-lying-about-article-13.shtml a classic debunking by @mmasnick

Panic grows among carmakers at prospect of no-deal Brexit - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/05/bmw-mini-cowley-no-deal-brexit-toyota and when they panic, thousands will lose their jobs

Explosive devices found at Waterloo station, Heathrow and City airports - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/05/suspicious-packages-found-at-waterloo-station-heathrow-and-city-airports “Republic of Ireland stamps found on packages”; but #brexiters say irish border is not an important issue…

High times: 76 tall buildings to join London’s skyline in 2019 - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/05/tall-buildings-london-skyline-2019 amazing activity despite #brexit; #london will be ok…

Tausende demonstrieren spontan in fünf Städten gegen #Uploadfilter - https://netzpolitik.org/2019/tausende-demonstrieren-auf-spontandemos-in-fuenf-staedten-gegen-uploadfilter/ well done, german people #artikel13