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Draft of SpaceX's confidential IPO prospectus: Elon Musk increased his stake in SpaceX last year by purchasing $1.4B of stock from current and former employees (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-bought-1-4-bi…

SpaceX Gives Musk Incentive to Hit $6.6 Trillion in Market Cap
Elon Musk increased his stake in SpaceX last year by purchasing $1.4 billion of stock from current and former employees, part of a series of moves leading up to the company’s initial public offering that increased his sway over the company. The large secondary stock purchase was made through the ...

"Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option"
#Scotland #Environment

Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option | The Optimist Daily
Scotland is now the first country in the UK to offer alkaline hydrolysis as a legal alternative to burial or traditional cremation.

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites #Atlantic

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites
A paper published in the journal Science Advances is adding to the growing body of research showing that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening. In this new study, instead of relying mainly on computer models, scientists used two decades of direct ocean measurements to confirm the decline.

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Ásgeir:
🎵 Against The Current
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Évidemment...
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2026-02-20/tuerie-de-tumbler-ridge/openai-etait-au-courant-d-activites-inquietantes-de-la-tireuse-depuis-des-mois.php

After my repeated posts / boosts arguing that in OSS we’ve overemphasized licenses and underemphasized community, governance, and sustainability…I actually have a license question:
What’s the current thinking on licenses that lay the legal groundwork for action against people using OSS source code for LLM training without seeking permission or offering compensation?
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"Society functions like a hive, where no single actor directs the whole, yet a coherent pattern emerges from the interaction of countless parts."
"This does not mean that leadership, institutions, or strategy are irrelevant. It means that they are not sufficient to explain historical outcomes on their own."
"History…It is made in the accumulated choices of ordinary people, acting within the constraints and possibilities of their own lived realities.&quo…

The Tolstoy guide to history that Trump and Netanyahu didn’t read
How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would show “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” the message…

It's a bit hard to find, but Dutch PBL Agency (@leefomgeving.bsky.social) estimates that the new coalition agreement has a positive effect on greenhouse gas emission reduction. Current policies would lead to -65% by 2040, and the new policies would bring that to -70 .. -75%.
However PBL doesn't tell us whether we'll catch up on the -55% goal for 2030 in the Climate Law; last year, it estimated that we're on a course for -50% (-45 .. 53%).

Sam Altman says currently "the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous" and that it is "not something that's going to matter at scale this decade" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman

Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous'
While in New Delhi on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "there will come a time" for orbital data centers, but it won't be anytime soon.