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It seems likely that a bright #fireball on the morning of the 12th dropped #meteorites in #Bavaria, says the Czech analysis https://meteor.asu.cas.cz/cz/post/bolid_2026_02_12/ based on data from special cameras: the body came in slowly and at a very shallow angle, so the potential strewnfield is huge and thus a systematic search not viable, and one can only hope for discoveries by chance.

A quiet but significant expansion of the US surveillance apparatus is taking shape inside DHS — built from travel databases, biometric systems, location data markets, AI analytics, and tools like Palantir’s ELITE platform.
In this report, I trace how investigative reporting from Mother Jones, Wired, and 404 Media reveals the architecture of a system capable of tracking Americans’ movements, identities, and digital lives.
Available to Metacurity paid subscribers.

The Homeland Security surveillance machine
A series of press investigations reveal how DHS has quietly assembled a system capable of tracking Americans’ movements, identities, and digital lives.

Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.
So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.
And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.
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Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/e

Exclusive: Ex-Google DeepMind Researchers Raising $100 Million to Build ‘World Models’
Embo, an AI startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind research scientists, is in talks to raise a seed round of more than $100 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The startup’s founders, Danijar Hafner and Wilson Yan, are developing world models—which process images, video, and audio to approximate the physics of real-world

"‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth?"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Why scientists want to build a wall along the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already contributes four per cent of annual sea level rise, but can the consequences of climate change be barricaded off?

In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks,
the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to
expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create
what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls 
“a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.”
On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle,
once v…

US military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.

Mutter und Kind tot - Tragödie in Kitz: Rätsel um Motiv, heute Obduktion #News #Nachrichten

🕯️ Modder builds all-in-one console with PS5, Xbox Series X, & Switch 2 in a single system — "Ningtendo PXBOX 5" powered by a shared 250W power supply mounted inside a lost-wax chassis

Modder builds all-in-one console with PS5, Xbox Series X, & Switch 2 in a single system — "Ningtendo PXBOX 5" powered by a shared 250W power supply mounted inside a lost-wax chassis
An "AIO" that you have to build yourself.

While working through another last rites slew, I was thinking that back in the day there were a number of developers who believed they should add a lot of packages to #Gentoo, in the name of giving users a choice. Like, they were projects whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to find every piece of software that roughly fit a specific topic, get it to build and package it for Gentoo.
Of course, the long-term effect of that is that there's a lot of unmaintained, often broken packages. "The choice" doesn't really work. Sure, users have a lot of packages to choose from — but they have to actually figure out which of these packages are actually useful (if any).
A few years ago attempting to remove packages also faced some verbal opposition. You shouldn't remove unmaintained or outdated packages, because they still work. You shouldn't remove packages that sometimes fail to build, because some flag combinations still work. You shouldn't remove packages that don't build at all, because the user can visit Forums and find some workaround to make them build 🤦. Or they'll have an ebuild handy to start working on it. And anyway, you shouldn't be removing stuff at all, but fixing it instead.
Sometimes the arguments were straight dishonest too: people literally said we need more packages to lure new users in. Like, it didn't matter to them that the packages didn't really work and that the people trying to use them will get a nasty surprise. They wanted people to say "hey, Gentoo has this software we need, let's start using Gentoo".

There’s a lot of software out there where either (1) the users are captive users, or (2) actual outcomes don’t matter, and the important thing is to check the box, to have officially pretended to build the thing.
That’s the sort of software where development costs are especially painful for the MBAs, and where pushing the frontiers of the “fast build, low quality” quadrant for may be a killer market — even if it’s just fast and not so cheap.
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