{"id":31815,"date":"2018-03-18T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31815"},"modified":"2018-03-18T08:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T15:04:50","slug":"open-thread-3-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/18\/open-thread-3-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WWWendy will be here in about an hour.&#160; Today we plan to fix the wheels on my power chair, and assuming that goes smoothly, go out for lunch.&#160; This will be today&#8217;s only article from me.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:36 (average 6:03).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-18-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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V48t_A5fPVw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Anderson Cooper White House Turmoil Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/V48t_A5fPVw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">No matter how they try to satirize Trump Reich t5urmoil, their satire is way too sane to approach reality. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5RiRUJuvEgI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump&#8217;s Stock Buyback Bamboozle<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5RiRUJuvEgI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We all agreed, before the Republican Tax Scam passed, that this is what would happen. Outlaw stock buybacks! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/17\/us\/politics\/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The firm had secured a $15 million investment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/robert-mercer-donald-trump-donor.html\">Robert Mercer<\/a>, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior. But it did not have the data to make its new products work.<\/p>\n<p>So the firm harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former Cambridge employees, associates and documents, making it one of the largest data leaks in the social network\u2019s history. The breach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump\u2019s campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>An examination by The New York Times and The Observer of London reveals how Cambridge Analytica\u2019s drive to bring to market a potentially powerful new weapon put the firm \u2014 and wealthy conservative investors seeking to reshape politics \u2014 under scrutiny from investigators and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When I quit Facebook in protest several years ago (8-10), I warned that Facebook had started selling companies the capability to mine people&#8217;s personal data without their knowledge or consent. To be truthful, I had envisioned that capability&#8217;s use as a tool for serving up mountains of SPAM, but now I see how much deplorable it became. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0318Cartoon\" 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=\"0318Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0318Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWWendy will be here in about an hour.&#160; Today we plan to fix the wheels on my power chair, and assuming that goes smoothly, go out for lunch.&#160; This will be today&#8217;s only article from me. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:36 (average 6:03).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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