Thought of this DuckDuckGo search earlier, sort of put me off using the search engine a bit, also adds a new layer to the other famous search engines famous motto that I hadn’t seen before duckduckgo.com #

"Don't be evil" motto predates DuckDuckGo foundation by around 8 years en.wikipedia.org #

Starting to think that eventually people will all just talk via the mediums of bugs and pull requests rather than actual conversation, for the record I quite like the old fashioned mouth based way of communicating help.github.com #

Techdirt piece that seems to agree with my observation that the EU copyright reforms might be a controlled demolition of the internet as we know it, they suggest by the big media companies - The reality is that either way, we need a system that can support and sustain a lot more people than in the past, more participation, more variety techdirt.com #

Jeff Jarvis - "Journalism’s mission is to convene communities into civil, informed, and productive conversation" buzzmachine.com #

Chasing That Feeling - Business Of Dreams businessofdreams.bandcamp.com #

Spike Lee on Liam Neeson racism row - 'It's bad all around' bbc.com #

Paris seeks $14 million from Airbnb for illegal adverts reuters.com #

US military equipped with tiny spy drones - Black Hornets are nano-drones able to perform reconnaissance during combat operations. zdnet.com #

Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are now available to civilians and are being bought up by casinos, schools, car parks, but also housing associations and just about anyone that wants one (including criminals), and they are being networked together creating secret monitoring networks that have no government oversight qz.com #

Our Brains Aren’t Designed to Handle the Trump Era nytimes.com #

Journalism should be free - The piece explores some options that people are finding to fund journalism to make it accessible to larger numbers of people theoutline.com #

Brigitte Nielsen on giving birth at 54 - ‘I was trying until there were no embryos left’ - All day yesterday I was dealing with an IP address that ended in .54, this modern world and all it's strange co-incidences theguardian.com #

Noticed that Google Chrome is still force logging me in periodically, so I tried to use Firefox, first site I open was broken, the button I needed was greyed out and unclickable, back on Chrome it's clickable - Choice is a wonderful thing, when you can get it google.com #