The new BEAD NOFO (really, a PN) has dropped at www.ntia.gov/other-public...

My BEAD Large Time to Deployment business model: Claim to deploy fixed wireless. Charge $150/month for 100 Mbps and make sure that every location is covered by StarLink. Good news: no hassle with customers and profit!

Interesting post by @nickvsnetworking.bsky.social on how two faulty OneWeb satellites are making it hard to deliver mobile service on remote island locations. Eutelsat wasn't helpful, but an open API and some hacking showed the issue nickvsnetworking.com/its-not-rock...

New Dataset Reveals Impact of RDOF Defaults on Each State FCC data reveals how many locations will not be connected and how much investment each state will lose as a result of RDOF defaults

RDOF was an experiment in putting most of the capability evaluation after the auction. www.benton.org/blog/new-dat... shows that this caused significant delay in broadband deployment. But 95% of the defaulted locations were pre-authorization ("long-form"), so they will be covered by BEAD.

RFK, needless to say.

If a virus could hire a lobbyist, H5N1 would hire JFK Jr.

Job ad: "Protestant women wanted" "A Protestant with family" "A man with family will be preferred"

Job ads from Feltville, NJ, from the 1860s. Definitely no DEI, but saying the quiet parts out loud.

The same Trump voters deeply concerned that Obama was born in Africa seem to have no problem with a president-not-elect actually born there.

One of the "old media" advantages: You could go into your local library and likely find most mainstream magazines, from The Atlantic to National Review. Nexis gives access to newspapers. With Substack and Medium, it's death by subscription (or, likely, "not interesting enough").

YouTube video by KENS 5: Your San Antonio News Source Florida mom warning others after her twins suffocated in a toy box

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvI...

Girl found suffocated was locked in box as punishment Four adult relatives of an Arizona girl found suffocated in a storage bin have been arrested after investigators determined she was locked in the container as punishment for taking a popsicle without permission.

Never explain with stupidity what can be explained by evil: www.reuters.com/article/worl...

(Not that a warning label would have deterred this.)

EV in Germany, cont'd: Some apps are region-restricted - can't download them with a US-based phone.

EV in Germany, cont'd: Learned the hard way that chargers at the grocery store Lidl are only available during business hours. Most grocery stores are closed on Sundays. No food for humans, no electrons for cars. (They do seem to offer free charging, so this makes some sense.)

Europcar EV experience in Germany: Was upgraded from a VW ID.3 to a Mercedes EQA250+ - nice. Came with only 41% charge - not so nice. Quiet and great acceleration. Some chargers require their own app and setup (painful), others take credit cards.

Overpeck County Park

Overpeck County Park, Bergen County, NJ