I've had a busy day. I finally solved the token-authentication problem I've been working on all week for my day job (only to discover another flavor of it after deploying to Azure), while dealing with a plumber ($1600 repair!), an HVAC inspector ($170 inspection!) and my buyer's mortgage appraiser (not my problem!). That left some reading to do tonight:
- Support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has waned somewhat as Ukraine continues to kick Russian ass.
- Michael Dobbs warns that Putin has taken all the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis and done exactly the opposite.
- Julia Ioffe interviewed a Chechen journalist who explained how bad things have gotten in the areas from where Russia has drawn most of its troops.
- Josh Marshall believes Saudi Arabia aligning so visibly with Russian interests may have finally put paid the lie that they were ever our allies.
- Republicans in Georgia are sticking with their scandal-plagued candidate Herschel Walker because they have to.
- Molly Jong-Fast calls bullshit on the far right's "fake feminist gambit."
- A WWI German U-boat scuttled in 1922 to keep its secrets out of enemy hands was found last month.
- California has legalized jaywalking, a crime put on the books in the 1930s by the car industry.
- James Fallows sees the end of gas-powered leaf blowers soon. (I hope he's right.)
- A Divvy Bike (Chicago's bike-share program) wound up in Santa Ana Maya, Mexico, and no one knows why.
- Chicago has moved most of its in-person polling places, so not only will I have to vote at my old precinct on the 8th, I'll have to find it, too. (Oh, wait, it's even closer to both my old and new places!)
- Three board members of Chicago-based Green Thumb Industries resigned right before the news hit that President Biden will pardon thousands of low-level marijuana crimes.
Finally, despite the crashing temperatures outside my window right now (down 5.5°C in the past 2 hours), Illinois had a pretty dry and mild start to autumn.