{"id":37125,"date":"2019-07-20T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37125"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:52:52","slug":"open-thread-7-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/open-thread-7-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/20\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m moving into a heat wave, here in the crappy old CatBox for the next several days, but nowhere nearly as bad as what you guys in the East and Midwest will get.\u00a0 Please take care!\u00a0 For the next two days, please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a WWWendy day to destink the rancid TomCat, and we&#8217;re going to the shiny new CatBox.\u00a0 Monday, I have to go to TriMet for lift bus recertification.\u00a0 I need to prove that I have not grown a new leg and that my power chair has not mutated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:07 (average 5:23).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gg5Ncc9GODY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/span>Watch Neil Armstrong&#8217;s first steps on the moon<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gg5Ncc9GODY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The only thing they could have done better is to give the honor to be first on the moon to a cat. Ah\u2026 the memories. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sT6caoxjqc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/oregoniannews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregonian Channel<\/a>):<\/span>Portland protestors throw fake blood on street in front of ICE headquarters<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sT6caoxjqc4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kudos to the protestors! Oregon leads the way! Put ICE on ice! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/15\/technology\/duckduckgo-private-search.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. An optometrist has an office downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Weinberg\u2019s company, DuckDuckGo, has become one of the feistiest adversaries of Google. Started over a decade ago, DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused alternative to Google\u2019s search engine.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s share of the search engine market is still tiny \u2014 about 1 percent compared with Google\u2019s 85 percent, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/about\">StatCounter<\/a>. But it has tripled over the past two years and is now handling around 40 million searches a day. It has also made a profit in each of the last five years, Mr. Weinberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Weinberg, 40, is among the most outspoken critics of the internet giants. DuckDuckGo\u2019s chief executive has repeatedly called for new privacy-focused legislation and has warned at hearings and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/19\/opinion\/facebook-google-privacy.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspaper opinion pieces<\/a> about the problems that big companies can cause by tracking our every move online.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I often use DuckDuckGo for research and recommend it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0720Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m moving into a heat wave, here in the crappy old CatBox for the next several days, but nowhere nearly as bad as what you guys in the East and Midwest will get.\u00a0 Please take care!\u00a0 For the next two days, please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/20\/open-thread-7-20-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37125","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\/37125","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=37125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}