Notices by Carl Malamud (carlmalamud@official.resource.org)

Remember how ISO sued the European Commission, saying they improperly disclosed ISO standards (despite the fact that the European Court ordered the EC to do so)? The Commission has struck back. https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/publications/digitalisation-and-alignment-common-specifications_en "Common specifications" is EuroSpeak for the Commission writes the standards, not ISO, IEC, CEN, or CENELEC. As AOC once said, "The girls are fighting."

My 29 kg shipment of pickles, masalas, and namkeens from India have arrived in Cincinnati and cleared customs and immigration. They're going to overnight there, perhaps see some sights and have some chili, then tomorrow will fly to the Bay Area. Monday morning, they'll take a DHL van to my house.

The thing about one hour in Bangalore traffic is there is always something to see. Always long, never dull.

India's Banu Mushtaq wins the Booker prize for her short story collection "Heart Lamp." https://www.thestatesman.com/india/indias-banu-mushtaq-wins-the-booker-prize-for-heart-lamp-1503435292.html

He says he doesn’t necessarily think his brother is “woke.” His brother, being the pope, the apostle of St. Peter, the keeper of the keys of heaven, the rock of the church. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/louis-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-brother.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk8.tMbp.tm1lKCPgjjhH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare He reminds me of Billy Carter.

I live in America, a country of opportunity, where just about anybody can become the librarian of congress, even if they've never actually been in a library in their entire life. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395879/trump-todd-blanche-librarian-congress

This was part of a project we did with David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/technology/15fedflix.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.2fHk.3zvTl13WNoMz&smid=url-share Loads of fun. We posted 6,000 videos, the channel has 410,000 subscribers and over 130 million views (and since everything is clearly marked no rights reserved, a huge multiplier effect as other people copied the videos to their own channels).

Air raid drills tomorrow throughout India. For my friends over there, here's a classic film from the U.S. government on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOXMIZ7MpY

All state and federal regulations current as of March 31, 2025, formatted in XML, are now available for download. https://archive.org/download/state.regulations.bulk/2025.Q1/ We now have 5 years of quarterly releases online in case your LLM needs a snack.

My new office is up and running for the first time and I’m more than just a little bit happy.

@evacide I too will accept $2 billion in funding and will release the compiled laws of the world immediately, even if god sends me a DMCA notice. You have my word.

thinking about, I could do this for a billion. Low low price, this is my final offer.

Delightful meeting with Kovid Goyal, developer of the incredible Calibre. One more meeting this afternoon, then India's a wrap, will board the teleporter back to the United States late this evening.

Bookstore next to the notary public’s office.

Back at the Supreme Court. Friday’s a zoo, they announce the cause list. Security confiscated my nail clipper.

Standing outside my hotel waiting for a special delivery of pickles so I can bring them to Delhi to give to the former Chief Justice of India. Special Andhra red chili pickle, drumstick pickle, amla pickle.

Today’s edition of The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/servants-of-knowledge-digitises-over-33000-books-in-nlsiu-library/article69247239.ece# Jai Gyan!

There is a strong movement inside the Union of Unelected Bureaucrats to boot Elon Musk from our membership. I voted for the boot. He's an embarrassment.

I leave for India on Saturday. This is my luggage so far. 40 SSDs with 0.5 petabytes gross capacity. 7 pounds deadweight, so it fits in a small suitcase. 1,503,193 objects (e.g., "books"). 309 tbytes of actual data. Will take me 28 hours to fly to India which means 24.52 gbps throughput. I will be flying Emirates so there will be tasty snacks and drinks.

My back kitchen counter is starting to come together. Putting the art work in place.