Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.
Author: Chris Aldrich
📺 Chappaquiddick (2017)
Directed by John Curran. With Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern. Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
📺 "Cooks vs. Cons" Pumpkin Thumpin’ | Food Network
Directed by Luke Riffle. With Geoffrey Zakarian, Alex Guarnaschelli, Curtis Stone. Pumpkin is added as a surprise ingredient to the dishes; in round 2, judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Curtis Stone scrutinize dishes accented with ice cream toppings.
👓 Two Charts Show Trump’s Job Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama’s Presidency | Forbes
When you look at the numbers (and graphs) the gains in employment under President Trump are essentially a continuation from President Obama‘s last six years in office.
👓 I’ve just spent the day at IndieWeb Camp Berlin and it has been SUPER fun. | Charlie Owen
I've just spent the day at IndieWeb Camp Berlin and it has been SUPER fun.
📺 Meet the Press: 11/04/18 | S71 E7105 | NBC
Vaughn Hillyard, Morgan Radford, Catie Beck, Garrett Haake, GA Dem. Candidate for Governor Stacey Abrams, Sen. Chris VanHollen, Gov. Bill Haslam, Tom Brokaw, Cornell Belcher, Savannah Guthrie, Kasie Hunt and Hugh Hewitt
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— WordCamp Riverside (@WordCampRS) November 3, 2018
📺 Face the Nation 11/4/18: Pompeo, Warner, McDaniel | CBS News
This week on “Face the Nation,” moderator John Dickerson interviews Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Mark Warner, and RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. With just two more days until the crucial midterm elections, a new CBS Battleground Tracker previews what to look for on Election Day.
📺 The Facebook Dilemma (Part 2) | Frontline | PBS
A major, two-night investigation of the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
SEASON 37: EPISODE 4: The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? On Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, FRONTLINE presents The Facebook Dilemma. This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
I’m not quite sure what to label this particular type of failure. Tragedy of the commons? It’s painfully obvious that Facebook not only has no real idea how to solve this problem, but it’s even more telling that they don’t seem to have any desire or drive to solve it either. The more I watch what they’re doing to their product and their users, the more I think that they have absolutely no ethics or morality at all. In particular Mark Zuckerberg is completely tone deaf in these areas, and as a result the entire fish stinks from the head.
The only solution may be massive regulation. The sadder part is that with both their financing and lobbying power, not to mention their social influence power which could be leveraged completely via dark posts, they could have a painfully out-sized influence on elections to get their own way.
I’m really worried that things will get far worse before they get better.
👓 Why no one is laughing in Baltimore | Washington Post
The president of Baltimore’s police union didn’t find a “Saturday Night Live” sketch funny, but instead of just shaking his head and grumbling to the person next to him and moving on, he took a bold and very public step. He wrote a letter to the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels, expressing “great disappointment over the distorted representation of Baltimore Police Officers.”