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.

“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. They will grind you down, and in the process, they’ll tell you to be civil about it.”

The Death of the Rude Press @ New Republic

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

I am grateful for magic. Happy Halloween!

Sommer, Ann, Sofia—Three generations

Enjoying the new Lamb album, very much

Dear political advertisers,

I believe none of you. Please stop.

Sincerely,

A Voter

Beautiful day for a walk. Lovely to find the wild peaking out in between the manicured spaces.

Status: listening to Elizabeth Fraser while enjoying coffee and reading alternate takes on history

¯_(ツ)_/¯

A favorite way for me to learn more about artists, more deeply, is via the passions of friends

A cool thing on Apple Music is that you can subscribe to playlists from individuals in addition to those that Apple provides

If you do the Apple Music thing, I share playlists there as “Hjalm”

There is more beautiful music than will ever be played on the radio, more than I will ever hear

Have paid notice to this word. Heard it a lot in a single podcast recently.

Notice how and when you hear it.

Preparing her projectile launcher #dinnerdate #culvers #waiting

My favorite Eddie Money song was Think I’m in Love from his 1982 album No Control

I told a colleague, yesterday, that change will never again be as slow as it is today.

And that statement has held true.

There is much to be done.

That feeling when trying to recall my new passphrase (that I have already used dozens of times per day) and I draw a complete blank

“It is expected that work of all kinds will be generally suspended, and that the wage workers of the whole city will enjoy the holiday.”

Minneapolis Tribune, 1894

/via HCLib

Ear Worm of the Moment:

Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer

As performed for the soundtrack of The Sting

One bar of reception is a lie

My brain and I have a difficult relationship

Breakfast

I mention culture because I fear the contribution I can make as an individual isn’t enough. Or, worse, that the ideas I have about peace, love and understanding aren’t real. That’s not who humans are. We should not aspire.