Facebook and surveillance
Consumer Reports released a paper last month detailing how many companies track the average Facebook user:Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports...
View ArticleRepublicans care more about their religion than your rape
Between the Dobbs decision allowing states to enforce or enact medieval restrictions on women's rights, an estimated 59,000 pregnancies resulted from rapes in states where women could no longer...
View ArticleSinn Féin takes premiership in Northern Ireland
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. When I first visited London in 1992, a bobby at Victoria Station explained that they didn't have bins there because "they tend to explode." I supported President...
View ArticleRavinia Brewing vs Ravinia Festival
I first visited Ravinia Brewing early in the Brews & Choos Project, and liked it. In fact I have gone back several times, most recently a week ago Friday. I haven't yet visited their Logan Square...
View ArticleOh, baby, you are so talented...
Fifty years ago today, Mel Brooks inflicted upon the world a comedic masterpiece that no one will ever surpass: Blazing Saddles.No one will ever surpass it, of course, because most of the funniest...
View ArticleHe's a damn good president, actually
In light of the report from special counsel Robert Hur that James Fallows calls "tendentious," Republican pollster and Lincoln Project member Stuart Stephens wonders why Democrats don't crow more...
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Houseguest leaving today
Dogs adapt very quickly to new environments when they're comfortable, as Cassie and Butters have done these past few days. Butters has appropriated both of Cassie's beds just as Cassie appropriated my...
View ArticleBut her emails!, 2024 edition
I really have a hard time understanding why so many news organizations have trouble covering the substance of politics rather than the game of it. The general reporting on Special Counsel Robert Hur's...
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What's going on with our e-bikes?
Divvy, Chicago's bike-share program, seems to have some issues lately. For about two weeks now, almost no electric bikes have shown up on the app. This one, for example, clearly needs some TLC, and...
View ArticleMore info about the Divvy situation
After posting this morning about all the injured and lame e-Divvy bikes around Chicago, a Daily Parker reader just sent me this story from last November, reporting that Divvy planned to (and presumably...
View ArticleUkrainian engineering
With the news this morning that Ukraine has disabled yet another Russian ship, incapacitating fully one-third of the Russian Black Sea fleet, it has become apparent that Ukraine is better at making...
View ArticleHappy late-winter milestone
My team works in the downtown office 3 days a week. Given Cassie's daycare pickup deadline and the Metra schedule, I leave at almost exactly the same time every day: 5:20pm. That makes the...
View ArticleFun international work meeting
I learned this morning that I have a meeting at 6am Wednesday, because the participants will be in four time zones across four continents. Since I'm traveling to Munich later that day, I'll just...
View Article$350 million in fines
New York Justice Arthur Engoron just handed the XPOTUS a $350 million fine and barred him and his two failsons from running a business in New York for years:The decision by Justice Arthur F. Engoron...
View ArticleReading list for this week
As I'm trying to decide which books to take with me to Germany, my regular news sources have also given me a few things to put in my reading list:Jamelle Bouie points out that the XPOTUS "owns Dobbs...
View ArticleJust have to pack
The weather forecast for Munich doesn't look horrible, but doesn't look all that great either, at least until Saturday. So I'll probably do more indoorsy things Thursday and Friday, though I have...
View ArticleBefore I pack up my Surface
Just noting these things to read later, as I have just a few minutes before boarding:Wisconsin assemblywoman Greta Neubauer (D) explains how she led the effort to defeat the Republican gerrymander of...
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Today's field trip
I'll have more and better-finished photos when I return to Chicago. Here are three quick phone edits from today.The Neue Rathaus in Marienplatz, near my hotel:The main gate to the prisoner camp at...
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Vrooooom
Since I learned how to drive a car, I've wanted to pick up a BMW in Munich. The European Delivery program allowed Americans to buy a made-to-order car at their local dealer, pick it up in Munich, drive...
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Walk around the neighborhood
Finally recovered from jet lag, our hero takes a 6-kilometer walk along the Isar and through Glockenbachviertel:As the sun set, it found a gap in the clouds which I hope means tomorrow it'll come out...
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