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National Geographic

"Between 2005 and 2019, Dutch tax authorities deployed an algorithmic risk-profiling system against families claiming childcare subsidies. The system processed identity data, financial records, and administrative markers through automated risk scoring. Once flagged: no hearing, no meaningful appeal, just automated denial and demands for full repayment — often tens of thousands of euros. Over 14 years, at least 26,000 families were wrongly targeted. Marriages collapsed, homes were lost, over 1,000 children were removed into state custody. At least one parent died by suicide."

https://open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/p/governance-by-clearance?r=lp6h7

Two Jewish, one Greek / Norwegian.

https://archive.ph/qHyYN

🚀 Starcloud wants a 4-km, 5-GW GPU data center… in space

NVIDIA-backed startup Starcloud is about to put a data-center-class GPU in orbit: their Starcloud-1 satellite launches in November with an NVIDIA H100 onboard — roughly 100× more GPU compute than any prior space system. The 60-kg, fridge-sized sat is a first step toward orbital GPU clouds.

Why it matters: today, satellites downlink raw data to Earth for processing. With an H100 upstairs, AI runs where data is born — cutting response times from hours to minutes. That’s big for sensors like SAR, which can spit out ~10 GB/s; instead of shipping it all home, the model can filter, segment, and alert in orbit.

Power & cooling: sunlight is (nearly) constant in orbit and space is an “infinite heat sink” via radiators, so no water-hungry chillers. Starcloud’s roadmap sketches a ~5 GW orbital data center fed by solar + radiator panels about 4 km × 4 km. Future birds aim to integrate Blackwell GPUs for up to 10× more performance versus Hopper.

Biz timeline: Crusoe (the “energy-first” cloud) plans to deploy capacity on Starcloud’s platform from 2026–27. Starcloud projects ~10× lower energy cost than Earth data centers long-term. A white paper even models a 40 MW cluster with a ~$8.2M launch cost — if Starship-class launch prices fall to ~$30/kg (a big if).

CEO Philip Johnston’s bet: within 10 years, most new data centers get built in space. Gamers, rejoice — astronauts might finally run DOOM at ultra.

#Starcloud #H100 #Blackwell #OrbitalCompute #SpaceDatacenter #SAR #EdgeAI
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Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road founder) after being pardoned. Spent over 11 years in prison.

Raccoons capable of grasping and holding various objects with their front paws, such as washing their food.

That time artistic masterpieces were on display in Japan's Kawasaki Halloween parade.

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The Eight Commandments of Grok

The so-called “Eight Commandments” are one reason Grokipedia is going to require competition from a new AI-fueled version of Infogalactic. They also provide insight into the current priorities of Clown World and what their biggest concerns are: The only thing that is really very surprising there is the Hunter Biden laptop contents, which suggests that […]

https://voxday.net/2025/11/10/the-eight-commandments-of-grok/

Geomagnetic storms Now and future forecast.

#weather #storm #magneticstorm #geomagneticstorm #sun #sunactivity

The fact that parrots live for 100 years is nothing more than a myth. In reality, the average lifespan of birds is 50 years, although some of them live to be 70 years old.

So the pipe bomber was a Capitol Hill police officer who now works for…

You guessed it. The CIA.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/former-capitol-police-officer-a-forensic-match-for-jan-6-pipe-bomber-sources-say

@LizHarrington76

"This autonomous, nuclear-powered underwater vehicle, formerly designated Status-6, has been described in open sources as capable of carrying a very large thermonuclear warhead (some reports even cite yields as high as 100 megatons)1 and of transiting intercontinental distances at depths that would place it beyond the reach of most conventional antisubmarine weapons, arguably leaving only exceptionally large-yield nuclear depth charges as a theoretical counter. Open reporting also suggests it can adopt multiple mission modes: a high-speed transit phase at depth, which offers rapid repositioning but is more readily detectable by advanced acoustic sensors, and a prolonged low-speed, low-observability cruise that exploits nuclear endurance to remain submerged for effectively indefinite periods before conducting a final approach to a target.

"As with many novel Russian weapons, most technical details remain classified; nevertheless, a synthesis of open-source analysis and official Russian statements permits a broad—albeit uncertain—reconstruction of Poseidon’s design philosophy, capabilities, and potential strategic effects."

https://open.substack.com/pub/bmanalysis/p/poseidon-the-ultimate-weapon-of-vengeance?r=lp6h7

900 (Lower-48) US counties in the wrong solar time zone
https://redd.it/1omnlpo
@r_mapporn

Schrodinger's Dilemma.