We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
🇨🇳 Arnaud Bertrand on X: It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project
It'll be by far the world’s largest hydroelectric facility, generating 3 times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam, 300 billion kilowatt-hours.
This dam project alone could power almost a quarter (21.6%) of all US households, since the average U.S. household consumes about 10,500 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity per year and there are 132 million households in the US.
It could also power the entirety of France and Italy COMBINED, since the average electricity consumption in France is 2 223 kWh per person per year, the scale is almost too unfathomable to believe.
Fascinatingly, part of the plan, as per China's “Eastern Data, Western Computing” initiative, might be AI
It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing, but also the fact that it's located in naturally cold Tibet with close to freezing water temperature - perfect to cool down data centers for free.
As Keji Mao - who worked as a Research Fellow at the powerful NDRC (the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking) - puts it: "China will transform industrial capacity into electricity, electricity into computational power, and computational power into ever higher levels of advanced productivity."
"In Russia, you would be arrested", von der Leyen tells a protestor as he's being arrested.
We live in truly bizzaro times.
EDWARD DOWD
Meet the Unitree A2 — The 'Interstellar Hunter'
Weighing in at 37kg (70lbs), the Unitree A2 can carry a full-grown human, run at 5 meters per second (11.8mph), and climb 1-meter-high (3.3ft) obstacles like it’s nothing. With LiDAR-powered 3D vision, insane balance, and a 20km (12.4 miles) range—this thing is built for real industrial work, not just cool videos.
"Industrial work".... right.
The militarization of robot dogs is on the rise. Even more disturbing is that some of these robots are receiving OpenAI’s ChatGPT upgrades that make them all the more intelligent.
Trump even has some robo dogs at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
The Black Mirror 'Metalhead' episode also comes to mind, check out clip HERE.
The ‘Skynet moment’ is upon us.
https://www.claudiofantinuoli.org/2025/08/07/when-microsoft-ranked-us-first-and-it-wasnt-good-news/
“Not-Us Syndrome” is alive and well.
As Richard Susskind noted in 2025, many professionals suffer from what he called the “Not-Us Syndrome” — the belief that automation can and will affect every profession except their own. Among the reactions to the Microsoft paper, this mindset is palpable. A significant share of the responses downplays the data, misinterprets the concept of task alignment, or dismisses the paper outright as irrelevant to their experience.”
