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When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas,
she guessed what they might be after.
She quickly donned her puffy winter jacket, then slipped a manila envelope inside it.
“Thank God the weather was cool,” she said — the jacket didn’t raise suspicions.
Then, she said, she was instructed to leave the room while eight to 10 guards lifted up …

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Does anyone here have experience with #bcache (not the bcachefs filesystem!) the #Linux kernel's block layer cache?
Apparently it allows you to use SSDs in front of HDDs for performance.

Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…

My son's school, and the school my wife works at have both closed for tomorrow in case of Storm Chandra ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c5y2l538dw5o )
In the meantime,

Storm Chandra: UK braces for wind and rain as weather warnings issued
Chandra is the third major storm to hit the UK this month, after Goretti and Ingrid caused widespread damage and destruction.

Raiders, 49ers, Commanders could have interest in Colts $70 million cut candidate https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-49ers-commanders-interest-colts-70-million-cut-c…

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
DAYNA: There's nothing else. We just don't want to go back, that's all. We're not criminals; we're not hiding. We stay here because we want to.
SERVALAN: You mustn't let me upset you. It's just that I'm fascinated by your life here. I'm so grateful to you. I don't know what I would have done without you up on the surface. You saved my life. And that's a debt I want to repay. So, [caresses Dayna's ch…

Heute endlich das wunderbare Buch von @… aka Heino Falcke "Zwischen Urknall und Apokalypse" zu Ende gelesen. Ich kann es nur empfehlen und habe viel daraus gelernt und finde wunderbar, dass man sich als Wissenschaftler so viele Gedanken zum Glauben macht. Und den vorbildlichen Wunsch nach einem Kommentar im

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/13/metro/rural-students-face-funding-and-enrollment-challenges-in-ma/?s_campaign=sharetool_copypaste_view

Massachusetts rural schools struggle: 30% enrollment decline and funding issues
Rural school leaders and other local officials have repeatedly warned Beacon Hill lawmakers that their schools are sliding into a deepening fiscal crisis.