At a time when the FCC cannot even decide if it wants to keep open the 3650-3700 spectrum already set aside for non-exclusive sharing, Congress seems to be picking up the ball. Alas, I am swamped at the moment with work and visiting relatives, so I will refer you to this summary on boing-boing here.
Stay tuned . . . .
David Mandelbaum ’57 and Karen Mandelbaum have made a gift to the Center for Jewish Life (@PrincetonHillel) @Princeton in the #VentureForward campaign that will make possible renovation and expansion of the center’s main kitchen and dining facilities. https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/mandelbaum-dining-pavilion-center-jewish-life
Life has become The Onion.
Social media users have been sharing a false CNN headline that Rice Krispies mascot Pop is now a transgender woman. CNN did not report this, and Kellogg’s confirmed that it has made no such change. https://bit.ly/3wPCL2a
"Adjourns" not actually adjourn sine dyne so Biden can make recess appointments.
This is something Ds can actually do. So of course no one is even asking them to do it.
Senate adjourns for Memorial Day recess. Back June 6
Most definitely silly, and yet another example of how certain Dems in San Francisco can do things that make Dems in the rest of the U.S. want to yeet their Bay Area counterparts into the Pacific. https://twitter.com/normative/status/1529922830024032283
(1) This is sort of silly. It’s a French/Latin derived word first recorded in the early 1300s. Does anyone really hear “Chief Executive” and think of Native Americans?
(2) You may have to pick a new link shortener, SF Chronicle. https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1529612791522504707
What 11th Circuit did was more important, but much less analytical. 11th Circuit decided that Google was not common carrier by virtue of how it acts (correct, IMO), and elided over whether a state could ever declare a service common carrier.
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A ray of light! How welcome! Even here on Wetmachine, where I am the patron of darkness.
In other news, Harold, I’ll be out in my lonely hotel room in California this weekend and and and I plan . . . dare I say it. . . to type up the notes from the conversation you and I had about this topic during Worldcon way more than a year ago.