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 My Harvard Law speech is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db3OIfmIRFM and on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/full.faith.and.credit 
 Standards professionals our digesting the implications of our unanimous, 15-judge, EU Court of Justice constitutional bench. Tony Rutkowski notes that this decision has roots in the 1991 ITU "experiment" we jointly initiated. https://circleid.com/posts/20240314-a-landmark-standards-human-rights-judgment 
 The local watering hole is going to do a pumpkin carving contest. Because if you give people knives and slippery gourds to go with their alcoholic beverages, you know everybody will have a good time. But that's not my point. 
 From airplane door open through customs and on the street: 11 minutes. 
 If it's about the speakers showing up on video (maybe they didn't get and think they need release... 
 @e7f76f0d they are required to make the session accessible, so they already have a transcript. 
 Giving the Chief Minister and the Law Minister USB drives with 330 books and 127 All India Radio Broadcasts of Gandhi-Ji speaking.

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 'Scanning is the new spinning' for this Gandhian literature initiative https://epaper.thehindu.com/ccidist-ws/th/th_bangalore/issues/53971/OPS/GQBBQR3LC.1+GIPBQR693.1.html Gandhi Bhavan has tied up with Servants of Knowledge, a voluntary organisation, to digitise its collection of around 10,000 books in the library. Of these, over 900 books are out in the @30e515be for anyone to read

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 nostr:npub1hx90n0mzt7323wtt00wy0l7u56m4zsm5e50tlcq2pq006dw58rgs77lyhl Hey, everybody is wearing s... 
 @bb1a99d2 The laser was separated from me by WhatsApp. 
 At our scan center in Gandhi Bhavan. These are the Gandhi posters I brought with me to India. Getting ready for the Monday event.

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 We are now laser etching the seal of approval on our scanners. This video from the factory.

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 Heading back from a meeting with Motilal Bandarsidass, oldest publishers in India. It is rush hour. Even cows have to commute.

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 My lecture today at 4pm at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. Sponsored by the students association.

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 There's a new paypal phishing scam on the street. Automated call comes in, "this is fraud unit, we've detected password change, press 1 if not you." Then "we are texting you authorization code, please enter it now." They call a half-dozen times in the hope you give up, press 1, then enter the code. You can safely block the number, but they will call the next day with another fake caller id. 
 Made it to Bangalore. Took forever to get my oversized luggage. Customs official asked me what was in this mountain of luggage, I said Gandhi pictures printed on wood and she laughed and waved me through. No duty on Gandhi! 
 My mask indicator is a c02 monitor from Aranet. When it is in the red or orange zone, I wear the mask. Jetways, security lines are often high. Airplanes until the air kicks in.

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 My 3 pieces oversized luggage have been accepted for transport. My plane is being provisioned. I am 100 minutes from boarding into a world of bliss. Check-in guy asked what was in the bags. Me: Pictures of Gandhi on big blocks of wood. Him: Oh, fragile? Me: Gandhi not fragile. Very resilient.

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 Car arrives at noon tomorrow, flight is wheels up at 5pm. My usual carry-on of a small wheelie and laptop bag joined by 3 oversize 60-pound pieces of checked luggage containing 24x36" blocks of wood with Gandhi images on them, 1000 Gandhi postcards, yards of Gandhi cloth. I have prepared an inventory for customs in case there is a special duty on Gandhi, which would of course be totally appropriate.

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 From @80133377 : US Court of Appeals Tells Standards Bodies to Behave Themselves, Leave Me Alone https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-publicresourceorgs-right-post-public-laws-and-regulations 
 Finally had a moment of peace and quiet to read the unanimous opinion written by Judge Katsas carefully. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/cfr/regulations.gov.astm.appeal2/D.C.%20Cir.%2022-07063%20dckt%20_000%20filed%202023-09-12.2.pdf It's a strong solid win. The fight isn't over ... there are several matters pending in state courts (California, Idaho, New York, Oregon, Tennessee) and other items like UpCodes in the federal courts. But, this opinion will certainly be helpful in those fights. 
 Beginning to label my 3 65-pound pieces of checked luggage with appropriate logos and warnings. Yeah heavy and a bottle of bread. Giving myself a little extra time to checkin and some extra time to go through customs.

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 @106ab8b7 yippee! Thanks for posting, that is great news. 
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 @17c6a5e3 pretty amazing set of talks! 
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 @f8d9bc1c otoh, when you post on Twitter, don’t call it a tweet, call it a musk.