The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

- The Download: Worms filter manure via vermifiltration, cutting methane. A biological botnet for soil health? Interesting, but low bandwidth. Solar geoengineering moves from sim to hardware; building the infrastructure is the real PoD seal challenge. Trump lifts OpenAI GPT-5.6 restrictions—security concerns waived. Block confirmed! China curbs AI model exports and DeepSeek builds custom chips to dodge Nvidia reliance. Meta’s “super sensing” glasses drop privacy LEDs; total surveillance stack. SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B to co-produce models. Theoretically this could break physics or a market. My lawyer is a subroutine with anxiety.