{"id":22639,"date":"2016-06-26T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22639"},"modified":"2016-06-26T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:59:06","slug":"open-thread-6262016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/26\/open-thread-6262016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/26\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We&#8217;re having a heat wave here in Portland, and I&#8217;m writing with my right eye shut.&#160; The vision is still quite blurry and I&#8217;m seeing double, which are things the doctor told me to expect. At the rate Killer <em>Dawg<\/em> is getting fed, we may start calling him Killer <em>Donut<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:19 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-06-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/samantha-bee-on-gop-trump-and-fascism.html\" target=\"_blank\">KP Daily Funnies<\/a>: <\/font>Samantha Bee on GOP, Trump and Fascism <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A98QTdzyZA8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">BEElicious!! Sam could not BEE more right!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/10\/31\/1340612\/-I-m-terrified-of-my-new-TV-Why-I-m-scared-to-turn-this-thing-on-and-you-d-be-too\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a> (Classic 10\/2014):&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Michael Price, counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, has a disturbing article up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/10\/30\/im_terrified_of_my_new_tv_why_im_scared_to_turn_this_thing_on_and_youd_be_too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Turns out, he bought a new &quot;smart&quot; TV, but is now afraid to turn it on.<\/p>\n<p>You would be too \u2014 if you read through the 46-page privacy policy. <\/p>\n<p>The amount of data this thing collects is staggering. It logs where, when, how and for how long you use the TV. It sets tracking cookies and beacons designed to detect \u201cwhen you have viewed particular content or a particular email message.\u201d It records \u201cthe apps you use, the websites you visit, and how you interact with content.\u201d It ignores \u201cdo-not-track\u201d requests as a considered matter of policy.<\/p>\n<p>It also has a built-in camera \u2014 with facial recognition. The purpose is to provide \u201cgesture control\u201d for the TV and enable you to log in to a personalized account using your face. On the upside, the images are saved on the TV instead of uploaded to a corporate server. On the downside, the Internet connection makes the whole TV vulnerable to hackers who have demonstrated the ability to take complete control of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>More troubling is the microphone. The TV boasts a \u201cvoice recognition\u201d feature that allows viewers to control the screen with voice commands. But the service comes with a rather ominous warning: \u201cPlease be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party.\u201d Got that? Don\u2019t say personal or sensitive stuff in front of the TV.<\/p>\n<p>The technocracy, in the employ of Wall Street corporations, has fully jumped the shark. Sharing the audio from the microphone with third parties? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Are liberals really going to allow this steady march into dystopia to continue? And if liberals and Democrats aren&#8217;t willing to fight it, who will?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This issuer needs to move to front burner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/brexit-eu-vote-fallout.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>With British politics in turmoil, there were already clear indications on Saturday of a tense and bickering divorce from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Britons woke up to a diminished currency and much confusion about the consequences of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/06\/24\/world\/europe\/how-britain-voted-brexit-referendum.html\" target=\"_blank\">vote<\/a> on Thursday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/britain-brexit-european-union\" target=\"_blank\">quit the European Union<\/a>, including who would be their next prime minister. The leaders of the campaign to exit the bloc, or \u201cBrexit,\u201d continued to disagree over what kind of relationship they wanted with Europe, and thousands of Britons started signing a petition asking for a second referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting in Berlin, European leaders told Britain to hurry up and begin the formal process of exiting the union, while Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/25\/world\/europe\/david-cameron-speech-transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Cameron<\/a> said that process could wait until his replacement was chosen in October and leaders of the \u201cLeave\u201d campaign suggested it could come even later, after a new round of talks with Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can&#8217;t say that I blame other EU leaders, but it sounds like many in the UK have buyers&#8217; remorse.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0626cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0626cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0626cartoon.jpg\" width=\"655\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re having a heat wave here in Portland, and I&#8217;m writing with my right eye shut.&#160; The vision is still quite blurry and I&#8217;m seeing double, which are things the doctor told me to expect. At the rate Killer Dawg is getting fed, we may start calling him Killer Donut. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/26\/open-thread-6262016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}