Checked in at APi Group


When you realize, after editing a web page, your additions belong on a different web page


APi Group.


A small amount of relief comes from TechCrunch:

A US federal court finds suspicionless searches of phones at the border is illegal


And this from Ars Technica

Google: You can trust us with the medical data you didn’t know we already had


Very scary to me: FBI Asks Congress To Permanently Reauthorize The Phone Record Collection The NSA Voluntarily Shut Down

via Techdirt


Our human climate-control sensibilities are so weird. During the cooling season, though I tend to run warm, I am chilled at my desk. Alternately, now that the heat is on in my building, I have a fan running at my desk because otherwise I’m uncomfortably warm. In either case, when I go outside I’m blasted with the extreme opposite.


The Death of the Rude Press

“In the elite press—on cable news, in newspaper opinion sections—you can say the most monstrous things imaginable, as long your language is polite. What you can’t do is rudely express a desire for a more just world…” “…If your local media has no place for people who voice contempt for your city’s police chief, say, or your state’s attorney general, or the publisher of your city’s largest newspaper, all of those people will feel more comfortable in abusing their power.

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New haircut. New glasses. And the cutest photo bomber in the world.


I am grateful for magic. Happy Halloween!