Abudho

I try to do good each day; I make small changes that create big impact...

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

For those who are not faint of heart, the latest CFSv2 run shows the Nino 3 region peaking at 4.92°C above the 1991-2020 baseline in December.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Temperatures hit as high as 43°C (109°F) in France today as the fifth major heatwave of the year has arrived in Europe. Hundreds of cities and towns across the continent experienced their hottest August temperatures ever recorded.

This is getting ludicrous.

[CTO ROBOTICS Media @ctorobotics]

This isn't science fiction anymore. 🧲

The Chinese University of Hong Kong researchers developed a magnetic slime robot that can be remotely controlled to move, squeeze through tight spaces, and even grasp objects.

One potential application? Removing objects accidentally swallowed inside the human body without traditional surgery.

Soft robotics is opening doors that rigid robots simply can't.

Would you trust a robot made of slime inside your body?

🎥 Media: @newscientist , Li Zhang and The Chinese University of Hong Kong

⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.

#Robotics #SoftRobotics #MedicalRobotics #Engineering #Innovation #FutureTech #Science

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@FitnessEmpiree Never taken any of those stuff. I only do 100% natural foods.

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@SamuelAtandi Awesomeness Mhesh. Memories.

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

Iran develops bladeless wind turbines that capture seven times more energy

The new design replaces traditional blades with a magnetic-levitation rotor and an intelligent 360-degree wind-guidance system — capturing wind energy without the need for complex yaw mechanisms.

🔸 Multiple units can be stacked vertically — up to ten on a single tower

🔸 The bladeless design is quieter, more compact, requires less maintenance, and reduces safety risks associated with rotating blades

🔸 The turbine can operate at wind speeds as low as 2.5–3 m/s, making it suitable for areas where traditional turbines struggle

🔸 The system can also be paired with solar panels for hybrid renewable energy setups

The technology is now entering the prototype stage.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇫🇷 A French startup built a 40-gram drone that hunts mosquitoes mid-air, IDs them by their wingbeat, and leaves every other bug alone.

Tornyol's founders say a small fleet could clear a square kilometer and cut mosquito-control costs by up to 100x.

Their real target is malaria, and this flying bug zapper might just save a million lives a year.

Writer: Julie

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@ThecharacterofG @Nganga_one True!

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@MrCleanKE @Nganga_one Incorrect. There are cases of snakes attacking people unprovoked at night. There are recorded cases of the Red spitting Cobra (Naja pallida) found in the drier northern parts of Kenya for instance, is known to bite people who are asleep ... Check it out.

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@bungomaduke African giant pouched rat. They're very clever and have successfully been trained and used to perform difficult tasks such as detecting unexploded mines.

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

He who constructs his 'ladder' from 'chaos' convinces himself that he will rise to dominion over men. Yet he remains blind to the first and most inevitable truth: the maker of chaos is always its primary victim.

The man who finds no value in honouring his obligations or preserving peace, but instead prospers through discord, deception, and perpetual strife, condemns himself to an exhausting and Sisyphean labour. Each day he must ignite a new fire merely to feed the old. He is not the master of crisis, but its prisoner; and no prisoner, however imposing his shadow, can ever be called truly powerful.

The fomenters of strife are, in truth, not architects of power but captives of the very forces they unleash. For once awakened, such forces do not discriminate between ally and enemy, nor between the hand that summoned them and the lives they devour.

Their final humiliation arrives the moment they realise that the weapon they forged to subjugate others has slipped its leash and now possesses a will of its own. In that bitter awakening lies the true poverty of their power—and the beginning of their inevitable downfall.

[Abudho @DAAbudho]

@0chibo_ Mycotoxin binders and specialized biological enzymes are used to neutralize such toxins in animal feed production.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Japan, children clean their own schools.

Every day. After lunch.
About twenty minutes.

Classrooms.
Hallways.
Toilets.

Not because the schools are too poor
to hire someone.

Because in 1947, this country decided
that cleaning your own space
is part of becoming a person.

The cleaning rag
is on the school supply list.
Right next to the pencils.

Egypt teaches it now.
So does Indonesia.
So does Mongolia.

Think about the last time
you watched a seven-year-old
mop a floor without complaining.

Japan does that
in every elementary school
in the country.

Not as punishment.

As education.

[Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW]

Very little in the Six Week War - capped off by the Desert Two debacle in Isfahan - could be considered a "tactical success" at all.

We got stiff-armed by a well-prepared regional power, ran out of ammo, and the Chinese are once again about to win by doing absolutely nothing.⬇️

Let's actually assess this in a rational manner, working my best guess as to what our objectives actually were during this operation - which is in and of itself a difficult thing to figure out given they seemed to change daily because nobody at the Pentagon was willing to impose any kind of strategic discipline on Trump.

So, uh, let's break this down by lines of effort because there were several.

Line of Effort 1: Strategic neutralization of Iran as a threat vector to Israel and other US interests and forces in the Middle East

OBJ 1.1: Regime change
- FAILED. Iranian government as currently constituted ("regime") consolidated power; "Khamenei replaced with Khamenei". No significant anti-regime protests recorded.

OBJ 1.2: Secure US/Israeli air supremacy over central Iran
- FAILED. Coalition remained dependent on standoff weapons for strikes outside border regions; only apparent attempt to fly massed air sorties into central Iran resulted in lost aircraft and near-disaster. Most Coalition air assets withdrawn to inconvenient bases far from Iran due to missile threat and reliant on extensive tanker support to operate at low sortie rates.

OBJ 1.3: Coerce existing regime to align with US strategic interests
- FAILED. Iranian hardliners empowered by perceived victory against the United States and Israel; more moderate factions have aligned with hardliners.

OBJ 1.4: Isolate Iran from great power support (Russia/China)
- FAILED. Russia and China continue to provide substantial economic and military support to Iran.

Line of Effort 2: Destruction of the Iranian WMD program

OBJ 2.1: Seize Iranian enriched uranium stockpile
- FAILED. Attempted SOF raid ended in debacle.

OBJ 2.2: Destroy Iranian uranium enrichment capability
- FAILED. Iranian enrichment capability is in extremely hardened underground facilities which do not appear to have sustained significant damage from Coalition attacks.

OBJ 2.3: Destroy Iranian industrial pipeline to manufacture nuclear warheads
- UNKNOWN. Little data exists here outside of raw speculation.

Line of Effort 3: Destruction of Iranian means of coercion against Israel and US interests in the Middle East

OBJ 3.1: Destroy Iranian missile force
- FAILED. Iranian ballistic, cruise, and drone capabilities very much intact.

OBJ 3.2: Destroy Iranian aerial forces
- FAILED. Iranian tactical aviation intact; transport and logistics aircraft destroyed on the ground by Coalition forces were of limited tactical utility.

OBJ 3.3: Destroy Iranian naval forces
- FAILED. IRGCN mosquito fleet currently the dominant naval power in the Persian Gulf; naval balance of power in the key Persian Gulf and Hormuz region has shifted AGAINST the United States and allies.

OBJ 3.4: Destroy Iranian regional proxies
- FAILED. Iranian regional proxies in Iraq and Lebanon showed resilience well beyond that expected by analysts.

OBJ 3.5: Prevent capture of Coalition aircrew by Iran
- QUALIFIED SUCCESS. Thanks to strategically ruinous expenditures of standoff weapons, exposure of Coalition aircraft to Iranian air defenses was minimized, preventing Iran from taking POWs.

Line of Effort 4: Protect Israel, friendly Gulf Arab regimes, US military forces, and broader US interests from Iranian retaliation

OBJ 4.1: Secure oil shipment through Strait of Hormuz
- FAILED. Iran secured control of the Strait of Hormuz and continues to export oil despite attempted blockade.

OBJ 4.2: Disrupt Iranian retaliatory strikes
- FAILED. Coalition strikes did little to nothing to disrupt Iranian missile and drone launches.

OBJ 4.3: Degrade Iranian retaliatory strikes on Coalition military assets in theater
- FAILED. US forces withdrew to bases at operational standoff from Iran rather than contest positions inside SRBM range, ceding influence over the strategically critical Persian Gulf to Iran rather than risk friendly casualties. Iranian drones and MRBMs caused painful if not decisive losses to Coalition assets throughout the war.

OBJ 4.4: Prevent Iranian counter-value coercion against friendly Gulf Arab regimes
- FAILED. Iran struck countervalue targets in the Arab states at will and continues to hold them at great risk; Qatar (previously home to a massive US presence) appears to have given Iran a massive tributary payment rather than face further attacks.

OBJ 4.5: Prevent Iranian strikes against Coalition proxies in theater.
- FAILED. Iran effectively struck Iraqi Kurdish militias being positioned as a proxy force, leading to the Kurds concluding a separate peace with Iran and withdrawing from the conflict despite extensive claims in Iranian territory.

OBJ 4.6: Prevent second-order economic effects of the war in the United States
- QUALIFIED SUCCESS. Stock market apparently unable or unwilling to believe magnitude of ongoing energy supply disruptions; jawboning and frequent false reports by the Trump Administration of imminent peace and successful negotiations reduced market turmoil at the cost of the long-term credibility of the US government.

In summary: Deep failures across all lines of effort and very few objectives accomplished.

[Ⓝⓖ'ⓞⓡⓞⓡⓘⓔⓣ🐐🇰🇪 @baroswahjr]

This road was designed, the drawings were reviewed, and they were approved by Kenya National Highways Authority engineers. I have a simple question: do you believe those engineers approved drawings with an open drainage channel right next to a highway?

After construction, the road was inspected and certified for payment. Another question: do you believe the as-built drawings submitted to KeNHA showed an open drain running alongside a live carriageway?

If we assume it was only the resident engineers who was “seen” by the contractor to turn a blind eye to this obvious hazard, are we also saying that none of the directors at KeNHA have used this road or noticed the mistake?

There is nothing as destructive as corruption. It is a cancer that quietly takes lives, all for the sake of a few extra coins. And those who have the power to act but choose not to ,whether corrupt or simply indifferent ,are part of that harm.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I wish people would learn from this. This war served NO ONE. Iran has been destroyed. The US has been humbled. Israel has been bombed and lost support in the US. The Gulf States have been damaged. The global economy has been hit. Who needed this? War is never the answer.

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🌍⚡️– The first high-resolution image of Planet Earth captured from the Artemis II mission.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor