Looking a little wrinkly in the parking lot this afternoon

 

And it's a three-day weekend: Drive carefully.

Untrack yourself

How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

This post explains the history of device ad identifiers and how they have enabled persistent tracking, identification, and other privacy invasions.

Snacks

 

No easy fix (or easy read)

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

What distinguishes Fog Reveal from other cellphone location technologies used by police is that it follows the devices through their advertising IDs, unique numbers assigned to each device. These numbers do not contain the name of the phone’s user, but can be traced to homes and workplaces to help police establish pattern-of-life analyses.

This…

 

…in New England, is called a whoopie pie.

I didn't buy it; it was given to me. And now I am honor-bound to eat it.

What, after all, are friends for?

Oh, come on, just say it

“Limited-edition Goldfish Dunkin’ Pumpkin Spice Grahams embody everything we love about this special time."

[From our Pacific Rim bureau:
Pumpkin spice Goldfish combines Dunkin’ and Goldfish for limited edition fall flavor.]

New to our Work Avoidance Hall of Fame

 Another Gallery of Rotating Food

This is really fascinating

 What's killing all those birds?

SPOILER: It's either the U.S. Department of Agriculture, wind turbines, Zuckerberg, Big Coal, the CIA, pesticides, who knows?, or cats.

Or you. Shape up.

Wrong

 The survey asked 1,500 residents of the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. to rank their city's rudeness level on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the rudest. Boston came in fifth, behind Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Memphis, Tennessee, and New York City, New York, and Las Vegas, Nevada.

New Yorkers are not rude; they're crowded.

Chicago is ranked neither among the most rude nor the most polite: That's right.

If we're not old enough to buy whipped cream, why are we old enough to vote?

Wanna buy whipped cream? Be prepared to show I.D.

In New York, the popular dessert topping has joined alcohol and tobacco products on the list of items age-restricted for purchase to those 21 and older, and proof of age is now required at the point of sale.

Let it all out

CLEVER INSULTS

Flummox your foes with the finest vocabulary

It's not Halloween, it's CVS

 

This has been lying around since April

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Press Release

The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 defines an improper payment as any payment that should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount. Improper payments are a pervasive and growing problem in regular programs across the federal government. For fiscal year 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reported that federal agencies had estimated about $281 billion in improper payments, which was an increase of about $75 billion from the prior fiscal year and approximately double the amount reported in fiscal year 2017.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.