I'm still looking for the best taco in the DC metro area. Like most of you, I am a fan of Taco Bamba: who could bring you a better taco than a Cuban Peruvian chef who calls his establishment, literally, "fake" taco. On the western lands of Loudoun County, Señor Ramon will give you a great taco in Leesburg, Sterling (inside a brewery!) and Reston. Run by an Argentinian family who also owns Melt (the grilled cheese place), it's a perennial favorite.
High honors also go to Surfside and their fish tacos in DC. I do ask, as a personal favor, that you send your taco recommendations. The future of tech and TechFreedom is in your hands.
On with the update:
Social Media. Corbin was quoted in an unflattering profile of Gov. Ron DeSantis that ran in the St. Augustine Record and the Sarasota Herald Tribune. “He certainly is doing good politics,” Corbin said, “but I don’t mean that as a compliment.” (This is Corbin’s opinion of most politicians most of the time.) Read our critique of the governor’s crackdown on social media.
“Meet the Judge Whose Anti-Media Dissent Caused a Stir,” was the headline of a Law360 Pulsepiece on Judge Laurence Silberman that ran this week. In an article that contained the views of law professors, lawyers who have argued before Silberman, and former Silberman clerks, Corbin was quoted eight times, including the article’s first and last quotes. “He’s a very respected jurist, and it’s just really unfortunate to me that he wrote this,” Corbin said of Silberman’s recent diatribe against the media. For more, see Corbin’s piece last week in The Bulwark.
Space. Jim Dunstan appeared on a video podcast discussing NASA’s recent price hikes for commercial activities on the International Space Station. Those increases are the result of Congressional underfunding and a mandate that prohibits NASA from subsidizing activities involving advertising, entertainment, or overt commercial activity. As Jim points out, but for advertising and entertainment, the Internet as we know it couldn’t exist, and by effectively banning those economic engines in space, we’ll slow the development of a true space economy by years if not decades. Jim should know, having worked on the first (and only) commercial shot on the ISS for RadioShack in 2001.
Privacy. On the latest Tech Policy Podcast, Corbin spoke with Lydia de la Torre, an inaugural board member of the new California Privacy Protection Agency, and Alan Friel, a partner at Squire Patton Boggs. Lydia and Alan discussed the history of privacy policy, the growing influence of European privacy principles, and the new privacy laws we are seeing, or can expect, at the state and federal levels here in the United States.
In tacos,