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  1. Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table

    Mornings haven’t been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26–the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn.

    That marked the end of a streak of Post home delivery that had run decades, going back to my first apartments out of college in Arlington and D.C. The wanton destruction of much of my old newsroom, followed by my seeing the sad results of Jeff Bezos’s act of civic vandalism and then facing an imminent renewal of our print subscription, pushed me to terminate that streak–in sorrow, not anger.

    (The Post’s site didn’t even offer me a discount on my way out.)

    Since then, the demise of a daily habit of analog news reading has left me with a breakfast-table problem: What do I read instead to ensure I still start the day by informing myself? Ideally, without bringing a touchscreen device to the table?

    One early answer had been collecting dust on other household surfaces: the print magazines we get.

    I’m one of the many people who subscribed to Wired in early 2025 in appreciation of that publication’s outstanding coverage of the Trump administration’s abuses of power. But until the dead-tree edition of the Post wasn’t occupying space on the breakfast table, I let copies of that magazine pile up.

    We also have back issues of such other print mags as the Air & Space Museum’s Air & Space quarterly and the UVA and Georgetown alumni magazines my wife and I get. I’ve been reminded that they’re worth reading with a morning coffee–among other things, I now know that the coffee company I keep buying from at Costco was founded by another Hoya.

    And there’s a slightly less-portable form of printed media, books. My current read is my Post friend Sara Kehaulani Goo’s memoir Kuleana, in which she unpacks her Hawaiian heritage and her family’s struggles to hold on to the last of some ancestral land.

    If I must turn to a touchscreen, I’ve realized that my digital reading should be one of the most newspaper-like forms of online publishing, RSS. Catching up with favorite sites via that online-syndication format seems healthier than flipping over to social media.

    I can also read the Washington Post on the web or in its Android or iPad apps–my Arlington and D.C. library cards provide free online access, notwithstanding the occasional glitch renewing that freebie. And yet I don’t turn to what I think of as my alma mater of journalism as often as I did when I paid for it. I feel a little bad about that.

    #AirSpace #books #digitalMedia #Georgetown #Kuleana #mags #newspaper #printPaper #printSubscription #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #SaraGoo #washingtonPost #Wired
  2. Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table

    Mornings haven’t been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26–the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn.

    That marked the end of a streak of Post home delivery that had run decades, going back to my first apartments out of college in Arlington and D.C. The wanton destruction of much of my old newsroom, followed by my seeing the sad results of Jeff Bezos’s act of civic vandalism and then facing an imminent renewal of our print subscription, pushed me to terminate that streak–in sorrow, not anger.

    (The Post’s site didn’t even offer me a discount on my way out.)

    Since then, the demise of a daily habit of analog news reading has left me with a breakfast-table problem: What do I read instead to ensure I still start the day by informing myself? Ideally, without bringing a touchscreen device to the table?

    One early answer had been collecting dust on other household surfaces: the print magazines we get.

    I’m one of the many people who subscribed to Wired in early 2025 in appreciation of that publication’s outstanding coverage of the Trump administration’s abuses of power. But until the dead-tree edition of the Post wasn’t occupying space on the breakfast table, I let copies of that magazine pile up.

    We also have back issues of such other print mags as the Air & Space Museum’s Air & Space quarterly and the UVA and Georgetown alumni magazines my wife and I get. I’ve been reminded that they’re worth reading with a morning coffee–among other things, I now know that the coffee company I keep buying from at Costco was founded by another Hoya.

    And there’s a slightly less-portable form of printed media, books. My current read is my Post friend Sara Kehaulani Goo’s memoir Kuleana, in which she unpacks her Hawaiian heritage and her family’s struggles to hold on to the last of some ancestral land.

    If I must turn to a touchscreen, I’ve realized that my digital reading should be one of the most newspaper-like forms of online publishing, RSS. Catching up with favorite sites via that online-syndication format seems healthier than flipping over to social media.

    I can also read the Washington Post on the web or in its Android or iPad apps–my Arlington and D.C. library cards provide free online access, notwithstanding the occasional glitch renewing that freebie. And yet I don’t turn to what I think of as my alma mater of journalism as often as I did when I paid for it. I feel a little bad about that.

    #AirSpace #books #digitalMedia #Georgetown #Kuleana #mags #newspaper #printPaper #printSubscription #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #SaraGoo #washingtonPost #Wired
  3. Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table

    Mornings haven’t been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26–the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn.

    That marked the end of a streak of Post home delivery that had run decades, going back to my first apartments out of college in Arlington and D.C. The wanton destruction of much of my old newsroom, followed by my seeing the sad results of Jeff Bezos’s act of civic vandalism and then facing an imminent renewal of our print subscription, pushed me to terminate that streak–in sorrow, not anger.

    (The Post’s site didn’t even offer me a discount on my way out.)

    Since then, the demise of a daily habit of analog news reading has left me with a breakfast-table problem: What do I read instead to ensure I still start the day by informing myself? Ideally, without bringing a touchscreen device to the table?

    One early answer had been collecting dust on other household surfaces: the print magazines we get.

    I’m one of the many people who subscribed to Wired in early 2025 in appreciation of that publication’s outstanding coverage of the Trump administration’s abuses of power. But until the dead-tree edition of the Post wasn’t occupying space on the breakfast table, I let copies of that magazine pile up.

    We also have back issues of such other print mags as the Air & Space Museum’s Air & Space quarterly and the UVA and Georgetown alumni magazines my wife and I get. I’ve been reminded that they’re worth reading with a morning coffee–among other things, I now know that the coffee company I keep buying from at Costco was founded by another Hoya.

    And there’s a slightly less-portable form of printed media, books. My current read is my Post friend Sara Kehaulani Goo’s memoir Kuleana, in which she unpacks her Hawaiian heritage and her family’s struggles to hold on to the last of some ancestral land.

    If I must turn to a touchscreen, I’ve realized that my digital reading should be one of the most newspaper-like forms of online publishing, RSS. Catching up with favorite sites via that online-syndication format seems healthier than flipping over to social media.

    I can also read the Washington Post on the web or in its Android or iPad apps–my Arlington and D.C. library cards provide free online access, notwithstanding the occasional glitch renewing that freebie. And yet I don’t turn to what I think of as my alma mater of journalism as often as I did when I paid for it. I feel a little bad about that.

    #AirSpace #books #digitalMedia #Georgetown #Kuleana #mags #newspaper #printPaper #printSubscription #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #SaraGoo #washingtonPost #Wired
  4. Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table

    Mornings haven’t been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26–the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn.

    That marked the end of a streak of Post home delivery that had run decades, going back to my first apartments out of college in Arlington and D.C. The wanton destruction of much of my old newsroom, followed by my seeing the sad results of Jeff Bezos’s act of civic vandalism and then facing an imminent renewal of our print subscription, pushed me to terminate that streak–in sorrow, not anger.

    (The Post’s site didn’t even offer me a discount on my way out.)

    Since then, the demise of a daily habit of analog news reading has left me with a breakfast-table problem: What do I read instead to ensure I still start the day by informing myself? Ideally, without bringing a touchscreen device to the table?

    One early answer had been collecting dust on other household surfaces: the print magazines we get.

    I’m one of the many people who subscribed to Wired in early 2025 in appreciation of that publication’s outstanding coverage of the Trump administration’s abuses of power. But until the dead-tree edition of the Post wasn’t occupying space on the breakfast table, I let copies of that magazine pile up.

    We also have back issues of such other print mags as the Air & Space Museum’s Air & Space quarterly and the UVA and Georgetown alumni magazines my wife and I get. I’ve been reminded that they’re worth reading with a morning coffee–among other things, I now know that the coffee company I keep buying from at Costco was founded by another Hoya.

    And there’s a slightly less-portable form of printed media, books. My current read is my Post friend Sara Kehaulani Goo’s memoir Kuleana, in which she unpacks her Hawaiian heritage and her family’s struggles to hold on to the last of some ancestral land.

    If I must turn to a touchscreen, I’ve realized that my digital reading should be one of the most newspaper-like forms of online publishing, RSS. Catching up with favorite sites via that online-syndication format seems healthier than flipping over to social media.

    I can also read the Washington Post on the web or in its Android or iPad apps–my Arlington and D.C. library cards provide free online access, notwithstanding the occasional glitch renewing that freebie. And yet I don’t turn to what I think of as my alma mater of journalism as often as I did when I paid for it. I feel a little bad about that.

    #AirSpace #books #digitalMedia #Georgetown #Kuleana #mags #newspaper #printPaper #printSubscription #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #SaraGoo #washingtonPost #Wired
  5. Newspaper withdrawal at the breakfast table

    Mornings haven’t been quite the same around the house since Feb. 26–the last one that started with a print copy of the Washington Post landing somewhere near our front walk, making less of a thud than it once did, sometime before dawn.

    That marked the end of a streak of Post home delivery that had run decades, going back to my first apartments out of college in Arlington and D.C. The wanton destruction of much of my old newsroom, followed by my seeing the sad results of Jeff Bezos’s act of civic vandalism and then facing an imminent renewal of our print subscription, pushed me to terminate that streak–in sorrow, not anger.

    (The Post’s site didn’t even offer me a discount on my way out.)

    Since then, the demise of a daily habit of analog news reading has left me with a breakfast-table problem: What do I read instead to ensure I still start the day by informing myself? Ideally, without bringing a touchscreen device to the table?

    One early answer had been collecting dust on other household surfaces: the print magazines we get.

    I’m one of the many people who subscribed to Wired in early 2025 in appreciation of that publication’s outstanding coverage of the Trump administration’s abuses of power. But until the dead-tree edition of the Post wasn’t occupying space on the breakfast table, I let copies of that magazine pile up.

    We also have back issues of such other print mags as the Air & Space Museum’s Air & Space quarterly and the UVA and Georgetown alumni magazines my wife and I get. I’ve been reminded that they’re worth reading with a morning coffee–among other things, I now know that the coffee company I keep buying from at Costco was founded by another Hoya.

    And there’s a slightly less-portable form of printed media, books. My current read is my Post friend Sara Kehaulani Goo’s memoir Kuleana, in which she unpacks her Hawaiian heritage and her family’s struggles to hold on to the last of some ancestral land.

    If I must turn to a touchscreen, I’ve realized that my digital reading should be one of the most newspaper-like forms of online publishing, RSS. Catching up with favorite sites via that online-syndication format seems healthier than flipping over to social media.

    I can also read the Washington Post on the web or in its Android or iPad apps–my Arlington and D.C. library cards provide free online access, notwithstanding the occasional glitch renewing that freebie. And yet I don’t turn to what I think of as my alma mater of journalism as often as I did when I paid for it. I feel a little bad about that.

    #AirSpace #books #digitalMedia #Georgetown #Kuleana #mags #newspaper #printPaper #printSubscription #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #SaraGoo #washingtonPost #Wired
  6. “By severing ties, Mr. #Hegseth is not punishing the elite schools. #Harvard and others on the list –which includes #MIT, #CarnegieMellon, and #Georgetown – will continue to operate at the center of global policy discourse with or without U.S. military officers. The real cost will be borne by future officers, who will lose access to some of the most dynamic policy environments in the world. The force will be diminished for it.”

    #military #education #DoD #RyanBurke

    justsecurity.org/137831/hegset

  7. #Georgetown's Massive Data Institute #MDI is #hiring a Senior Computing Infrastructure Administrator (#sysadmin).

    Please spread the word to sysadmins who want to work on important #privacy and AI problems.

    > Georgetown University is seeking a Senior Computing Infrastructure Administrator to help continue to architect, develop, and support reliable, secure, and cost-effective computing for the Massive Data Institute (MDI). The primary role of this administrator will be architecting, setting up and maintaining big data infrastructure components on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure, setting up and managing the infrastructure, including the security and software, and helping MDI faculty, staff, and students get connected these systems. We have also created an on-campus HPC cluster that the administrator will extend and maintain. Finally, the Administrator will help develop a strategy for and deploy systems at various compliance levels, including HIPAA and FERPA compliance.

    More info and application instructions at georgetown.wd1.myworkdayjobs.c

    (please retoot if you have a lot of sysadmin followers)

  8. [22 avril 2026 - la photo du jour]
    🇲🇾 Photo prise le 5 novembre 2024 à George Town en Malaisie. Mural de chat aviateur aux ailes de papillon. Ce street art est emblématique de la ville UNESCO. 🎨

    ---

    [April 22, 2026 - Photo of the day]
    🇲🇾 Photo taken on November 5, 2024 in George Town, Malaysia. Aviator cat mural with butterfly wings. This street art is emblematic of the UNESCO city. 🎨
    unoeilsurlaterre.com/malaisie-
    #StreetArt #GeorgeTown #TextelA #AIText #UnOeilSurLaTerre #AnEyeOnEarth

  9. WEBCAST 23 APR 20:00 UTC – Georgetown on the Hill – Making AI Work: Productivity, Diffusion, and Policy

    LIVESTREAM | ADD TO CALENDAR | PERMALINK

    On Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 16:00-17:30 EDT (20:00-21:30 UTC) the Georgetown University Center for Business and Public Policy will host a panel 'Making AI Work: Productivity, Diffusion, and Policy' in Washington DC.

    Emerging empirical research provides evidence tha

    isoc.live/20779/

    #post #2026 #AIGovernance #georgetown

  10. Flooding could drive more human-gator conflicts across SC

    RISING WATERS Are these cold-blooded apex predators South Carolina’s new climate-change refugees? By Jonah Chester April 26, 2026 GEORGETOWN — The pickup…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Alligators #Climate #Environment #Flooding #georgetown #Science #SouthCarolina
    newsbeep.com/us/580092/

  11. Hype for the Future 163A: Greater Austin 🇺🇸

    Introduction The City of Austin serves as the capital city of the State of Texas and the second-largest state capital city of any state in the United States of America by population, behind only Phoenix, Arizona. Today, Austin is associated with numerous cultural festivals and events, in particular the annual event known as SXSW “South by Southwest.” Urban Amenities Starting with the Texas Capitol building, nearby features of the City of Austin include numerous monuments to historical […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  12. Georgetown gets worldly with new European steakhouse

    Georgetown has a chic new date night destination with the opening of Sovian Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge. The European steakhouse at 1500 Rivery Blvd., Ste. 2175, blends French and Italian influences and a Texan dining …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #cocktails #francais #france #French #Georgetown #italiancuisine #openings #Steakhouse
    diningandcooking.com/2591183/g

  13. Georgetown gets worldly with new European steakhouse

    Georgetown has a chic new date night destination with the opening of Sovian Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge. The European steakhouse at 1500 Rivery Blvd., Ste. 2175, blends French and Italian influences and a Texan dining …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #cocktails #francais #france #French #Georgetown #italiancuisine #openings #Steakhouse
    diningandcooking.com/2591183/g

  14. Georgetown gets worldly with new European steakhouse

    Georgetown has a chic new date night destination with the opening of Sovian Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge. The European steakhouse at 1500 Rivery Blvd., Ste. 2175, blends French and Italian influences and a Texan dining …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #cocktails #francais #france #French #Georgetown #italiancuisine #openings #Steakhouse
    diningandcooking.com/2591183/g

  15. Georgetown gets worldly with new European steakhouse

    Georgetown has a chic new date night destination with the opening of Sovian Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge. The European steakhouse at 1500 Rivery Blvd., Ste. 2175, blends French and Italian influences and a Texan dining …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #cocktails #francais #france #French #Georgetown #italiancuisine #openings #Steakhouse
    diningandcooking.com/2591183/g

  16. Georgetown gets worldly with new European steakhouse

    Georgetown has a chic new date night destination with the opening of Sovian Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge. The…
    #Europe #EU #cocktails #European #frenchcuisine #georgetown #italiancuisine #openings #steakhouse
    europesays.com/europe/9328/

  17. Georgetown researchers have created 3D printed bone grafts using natural pectin and hydroxyapatite that mimic real bone structure. The porous design supports healing and bone regeneration, potentially replacing metal implants or donor bone. 3dprint.com/324988/ #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Medical #Georgetown

  18. Hype for the Future 152F: Town of Georgetown, Indiana

    Overview The Town of Georgetown is a community located within western Floyd County, Indiana, in the United States of America. Today, the community is associated with State Road 64, providing access from the historic downtown area east toward the unincorporated suburban area at Edwardsville and west toward the Town of New Salisbury in Harrison County.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  19. Bravísima carta abierta de Emily Tucker a los estudiantes de la Universidad de Georgetown para que luchen y resistan ante la implementación de IA generativa por parte de la institución 🔥

    «...para preservar su riqueza y su poder, necesitan que nos acostumbremos tanto a negar nuestra propia capacidad de resistencia que acabemos perdiéndola de verdad» 🎯

    medium.com/center-on-privacy-t

    #AI #Georgetown #Education #OpenLetter #genAI #generativeAI #students #EmilyTucker #Privacy #Technology

  20. Hype for the Future 134B: City of Stamping Ground, Kentucky

    Overview The City of Stamping Ground, Kentucky, is a smaller community situated within the boundaries of Scott County, Kentucky. The community is located to the northwest of the City of Georgetown and is situated along Routes 227 and 1688, with access to Routes 368 to the northwest and 1262 to the west providing access to additional communities toward areas such as Frankfort to the southwest along Route 460.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  21. Hype for the Future 98K: The Santee and Hopsewee Plantations — South Carolina

    Overview Though the Santee and Hopsewee Plantations are located nearby, the historical contexts of either plantation determine many of the cultural and economical differences. The Santee Plantation is on the south side of the South Santee River in Charleston County while the Hopsewee Plantation is situated near North Santee further north in Georgetown County. As with many plantations in the region in South Carolina, the historical context can largely be traced to the eighteenth (18th) […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  22. Young added, “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the #Constitution.”

    Young’s comments came as he prepares to issue what he described as a steep #sanction against the #Trump admin for seeking to “chill” the #FreeSpeech of pro-#Palestinian #activists targeted for arrest & removal weeks after Trump took office—including #Columbia University’s #MahmoudKhalil & #MohsenMadhawi, as well as #Tufts PhD student #RumeysaOzturk & #Georgetown academic #BadarKhanSuri.

    #law