Sunday Open Thread: January 28th is Data Privacy Day
World History this day
1521 -- The Diet of Worms was convened to deal with Martin Luther's heresies
1573 -- The Warsaw Confederation established freedom of religion in Poland
1935 -- Iceland legalized therapeutic abortion.
1988 -- Canada's Supreme Court struck down all Canadian anti-abortion laws.
US History this day
1909 -- US troops finally left Cuba (except for Guantanamo)
1915 -- Congress created the US Coast Guard
Science & Technology this day
1724 -- The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded
1855 -- A locomotive went from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Canal Railway
1820 -- A Russian expedition discovered the Antarctic continent
1986 -- Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
The Arts this day
1813 -- Pride and Prejudice was published
1956 -- Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance.
1985 -- USA for Africa recorded We Are the World,
Misc. this day
Data Privacy is what we whould have if we had a functioning Fourth Amendment. If our devices and their content, and our papers and their content, and our messages, e-mails and phone calls could not be seized, intercepted, recorded and retained against our wills without a real (Non-FISA) warrant issued by a real (Non-FISA) court based upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. It is alleged that we once had such rights, but surely not after the rise of Jedgar, and less so after the Putriot Act and FISA and oh so many court cases deferring, on our behalf, to the prescience of our police overlords.
Birthdays of Note this day
1608 -- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, mathematician, physiologist and physicist
1611 -- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer
1622 -- Adrien Auzout, stronomer
1841 -- Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, found Dr. Livingstone
1853 -- Jose Marti, journalist, poet, essayist, revolutionary philosopher and political theorist
1884 -- Auguste Piccard, physicist, inventor, balloonist, etc.
1912 -- Jackson Pollock, painter
1922 -- Anna Gordy Gaye, songwriter and producer
1927 -- Ronnie Scott, saxophonist
1929 -- Acker Bilk, singer and clarinettist
1943 -- Dick Taylor, guitarist and songwriter
1948 -- Bob Moses, drummer
1951 -- Billy Bass Nelson, basist
1954 -- Rick Warren, hater of great reknown and political connectedness
1968 -- Sarah McLachlan, singer, songwriter, pianist
1980 -- Nick Carter, backstreet boy
Deaths of Note this day
1687 -- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer, it must've been his day
1903 -- Augusta Holmes, pianist and composer
1939 -- W. B. Yeats, poet and playwright
1947 -- Reynaldo Hahn, composer
1993 -- Helen Sawyer Hogg, astronomer
2005 -- Jim Capaldi, singer,songwriter, and drummer
2009 -- Billy Powell, keyboards player and songwriter
2016 -- Signe Toly Anderson, singer
2016 -- Paul Kantner, guitarist
Crew of the Challenger, died this day 1986:
Gregory Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
Ronald McNair
Ellison Onizuka
Judith Resnik
Dick Scobee
Michael J. Smith
So now some music
Elvis
Ronnie Scott
Acker Bilk
Dick Taylor
(Rakalam) Bob Moses
Billy Bass Nelson
Sarah McLachlan
Augusta Holmes
Jim Capaldi
Billy Powell
Signe Toly Anderson
Paul Kantner
Photo: Privacy, by EU Webnerd
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Good morning, enhydra
and everyone.
Not today, but a couple items from yesterday's date caught my eye. Interesting that the Challenger explosion and Apollo 1 fire happened on almost the same date, January 28, 1986 and January 27, 1967.
From Michael Beschloss' twitter. (More pics on his page.)
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC
Astronaut Gus Grissom, not in the above photo, also died in this fire.
[*yesterday]
Also yesterday, reminding us of John Kerry's question, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/957319970890928128
[*yesterday]
Thanks, O'linda. Since there are only 365 days to work with,
date coincidences become ever more and more common as the event universe grows. I got coincidence whacked writing this because:
Died this day ...
2016 -- Signe Toly Anderson, singer
2016 -- Paul Kantner, guitarist
Two co-founders of Jefferson Airplane, exact same day, deaths unrelated.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Jefferson Airplane
Oh wow, el. I didn't know their names, so didn't pick up on that! Freaky.
And, thank you for another interesting Open Thread.
Paul Kantner was the rhythm guitarist, Signe was the
original singer, later replaced by Grace Slick.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Data privacy day
Good comments on Data Privacy Day, el. I guess we celebrate Data Privacy Day by fondly remembering words on a quaint piece of paper. A day for reflecting and honoring a long gone idea.
Good morning, O'linda (forgot that above), thanks. I should've
put in a plug for the EFF, this is one of their battles.
EFF Home
The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
https://www.eff.org/
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
"cruelty as a way of life"
is a phrase quoted in Imperial Collapse Watch at https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/01/links-12818.html this morning. Here's a photo illustration where I live, meet Magenta and Ray the wheelchair couple I've mentioned in other comments. They stopped right outside my front door yesterday so how could I not go meet them?
Two pink-ticketed vehicles for backdrop, 'cause I took this before they moved 'em. Covered with more redwood tree pollen than dirt, they weren't hurting anything sitting there.
Back to Magenta, she is 83 wheelchair bound and lives in a tent near the river. "cruelty as a way of life". She's been in a tent four years, before that in hospitals. "cruelty as a way of life". Ray has diabetes and can't hear very well. He can only manage to get three shots of insulin a week if he's lucky, should have three a day. They both left a nursing facility after "elder abuse", couldn't take it anymore. I am not going to dig up the "cloverdale ground zero for elderly and opioid abuse" articles but they are out there. The Health Center is shitty service with a big bill for them, it's not just me thinking Medicare-For-All is a damned waste of time and energy, money. The Single Payer is broken right now! Aaargh! Where is Huffman, our D-Value rep.? Prepping his kabuki face for Tuesday I guess.
To prepare for Bern the Next, I really really need one of these: https://www.x8drums.com/cowbell-s/139.htm. All I have left is a House of Cards, it is a real wolken kuckucks haus from 1960.
WILL TRADE FOR BELL, any takers?
My aunt started stuffing culture inside my head before I even knew what it was, that is why I "own" objects from the MoMA gift shop, pre-banksy.
Nobody 2020
more cowbell!
world peace or bust!
Wow, eyo. Good morning. A pete Englehart rack and 2 foot bells
and you could really ring in the day - a cowbell carillon. Cruelty has become such a way of life here in the US that it is invisible and unconscious - "The Banality of Cruelty" is waiting to be written.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What a story
about the 2 wheelchair bound people. It seems to me that we as a society are going backwards with regard to how civil we were and how uncivil we are becoming. I could be wrong but it just seems we are getting more awful.
"Some ice cubes with hair."
Good morning, randtntx, thanks for reading and posting
the prine video.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good foggy morning
Nice day to film a monster movie here in my corner of the SE. We had about 0.2 inches of rain last night and it is soup out there today.
I looked up the nature of fog and found this mumbo jumbo
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0450%281986%29025%3C01...
One of the favorite tricks of science is to cloak findings with excessive vocabulary.
According to wiki...
The foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland, the meeting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the much warmer Gulf Stream from the south. Some of the foggiest land areas in the world include Argentia, Newfoundland and Point Reyes, California, each with over 200 foggy days per year.
Well onward through the fog. Hope you all have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. Now ya done it, there goes the
bandwidth for sure
not the same as
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks for the ot
and not the same as;
Heh, both members of the famous duet of
Flat and Russell. Gotta listen to that.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The many faces of fog
Being an ancient mariner, have had many foggy moments to contemplate the opaque. There is ground fog, Foghat, bug foggers, Foggybottom, and a few I forget. Navigating thru the surface mists require radar to discern what is where in relation to where you think you are. Hope that clears things up.
And last but not least, tule fog, absolutely mind bendingly
opaque can't see nuthin' until you walk into it fog.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hmmm
never knew about this pogonip character before. Hope to not run into him anytime soon.
Who would imagine that catnip would do that to an opossum?
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A bit of a stretch
but fog is basically water and so:
clear as mud
'er ...fog.
Sort like words for different kinds of snow. I heard the the indigenous peoples of the north have umpteen different words for snow, each is descriptive of different types of snow.
Here's what the ancient mariners of Scotland do with fog.
The natives of San Diego have but one word for snow,
covering all types & forms: "What??"
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
here is
a simpler definition of fog:
This is easily apprehended when you're a mountain-dweller. You wander around in what seems like fog, but people in the flatlands, down below, looking up, they see clouds.
Here is a song that references Elvis going on the television:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FM8ui2ByUI]
Good morning, hecate. thanks for the definition and the
music. When I was younger, I used to bicycle Grizzley Peak after work, stopping to admire the view (and catch my breath) when I got to the crest. Often I could see the evening fog rolling across the bay and breaking like surf along the bottom of the Oakland and Berkeley hills.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A cloud on the ground
Nearby is the community called Cloudland. It is always foggy there on the brow of the mountain. I always thought that was the source of the name. Wrong again. Should have known better. The community was develop by Mr. Cloud.
Hey you get off of my cloud! (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhPRuAve8k
Then there's this Celtic version
Hey MacLeod Get Off o'My Ewe by Gael Warning (5.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f2Do8SNIEk
Loved the Gillian and David piece.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
on this date
in 1568 – Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to freely elect their preachers in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
Cheers EL!
Good morning, QMS, thanks. All in all, a decent day for
freedom of conscience except for the wormy diet.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --