Monday afternoon and the days are shorter

From around now through the middle of October, the days get noticeably shorter, with the sun setting 2 minutes earlier each day around the equinox. Fall is almost here—less than 8 days away, in fact. But that also means cooler weather, lower electricity bills (because of the cooler weather), and lots of rehearsals and performances.

Before any of that happens, though, I'll read these:

• Damon Linker warns that "there is no happy ending to America's [XPOTUS] problem."
• Anthony Fauci has announced he'll retire at the end of 2022.
• The Post describes algorithmic redistricting with some pretty decent animations.
• Chicago will consolidate election precincts for the upcoming midterms, reducing the total number by 40%.
• New Republic argues that President Biden should weaponize existing laws the same way Stephen Goebbels Miller did during the last administration.
• Chicago Magazine divides Chicago into 15 "sub-cities," including "Upper Caucasia" and "Obamaland." (They also incorrectly place US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel's house in North Center, when actually he lives in Lakeview.)

Finally, some ace developers at Hyundai secured one model's in-vehicle infotainment system with an encryption key published in a programming example in many online tutorials of how to use that particular kind of encryption.