In 2030s and 40s there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self abasement;
There will be no loyalty except loyalty to the party;
But always there will be the intoxication of power;
Always at every moment there will be the thrill of victory;
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
🇨🇳China is investing heavily in drone technology, with firefighting drones serving as an excellent example.
These drones are now deployed in urban areas and forests, significantly reducing risks to firefighters. By handling dangerous reconnaissance and monitoring, they minimize the need for firefighters to climb tall ladders or enter smoke-filled buildings.
Many are AI-controlled and can carry dry powder extinguishers, compressed air foam, or water-based suppression payloads.
This is the future!
China just took AI infrastructure underwater.
The country has reportedly launched a wind-powered underwater data center near Shanghai, designed to cool AI servers using seawater instead of traditional cooling systems 🌊🤖 Around 2,000 servers are said to be sealed inside submarine-grade modules, helping reduce land use, water consumption, and cooling energy.
The project is powered by offshore wind and built for AI workloads, big data, and large-scale computing. Why it matters?
AI is creating massive demand for electricity, cooling, and infrastructure. If underwater data centers prove reliable, they could become a new way to scale AI while using less energy.
But the challenge is huge: corrosion, maintenance, sea conditions, and long-term reliability still need to be proven.
Locust farms are expanding rapidly due to their wide range of benefits — from being a rich source of protein and minerals, to their use in producing feed for fish and poultry, as well as their high‑protein value for humans.
They are also used in medical and cosmetic industries, and their fast reproduction and low farming costs make them highly economically viable.
Say goodbye to dust and noise!
China is using massive air domes over construction sites to contain pollutants and reduce disturbance to nearby residents by up to 90%.
Alucinante este vídeo time-lapse de Beheira, en Egipto.
Las tierras agrícolas se comen literalmente el inmenso desierto del Sáhara en pocos años.
Todo gracias a las monumentales infraestructuras hídricas y el megaproyecto del Nuevo Delta.
Históricamente, más del 90 % del territorio egipcio ha sido árido, confinando la vida al estrecho valle del Río Nilo.
No obstante, la urgente necesidad de seguridad alimentaria ante la superpoblación y la dependencia de importaciones de cereales ha forzado una colosal transformación tecnológica de sus arenas.
Hoy en día, extensas áreas del desierto occidental de Beheira han dejado de ser dunas estériles para convertirse en campos circulares altamente productivos.
Em motor de este cambio radical no es la lluvia, sino la reingeniería y el reciclaje del agua a gran escala.
Se basa en los ríos artificiales y en los acuíferos subterráneos.
Se ha construido un canal artificial masivo de más de 100 kilómetros de longitud para desviar agua del brazo de Rosetta del Nilo hacia el desierto occidental.
Además, encontramos la planta de Al Hamam, considerada una de las mayores plantas de tratamiento de agua del mundo, que purifica diariamente millones de metros cúbicos de agua de drenaje agrícola y aguas residuales urbanas para hacerlas aptas para el riego.
De los acuíferos subterráneos se extrae agua de la profunda roca arenisca de Nubia, un recurso fósil milenario utilizado con tecnologías de riego de precisión.
Para cultivar en un entorno tan hostil, la agricultura tradicional basada en inundaciones ha sido completamente descartada.
Las empresas y cooperativas operan en Beheira mediante sistemas de pivote central de riego por goteo y aspersión, maximizando la eficiencia de cada gota.
Además, los agrónomos emplean mejoradores de suelo orgánicos e hidroretenedores para estructurar la arena suelta y retener la humedad en la zona de las raíces.
El uso de biofertilizantes y la selección de variedades de trigo y cebada resistentes a la salinidad permiten que los cultivos prosperen donde antes solo había arena.
Si bien la ganancia de tierras agrícolas ha permitido mitigar la escasez de trigo y generar miles de empleos directos e indirectos, la comunidad científica internacional observa el proceso con cautela.
La dependencia de acuíferos fósiles no renovables y el riesgo de una salinización acelerada del suelo representan amenazas latentes para la sostenibilidad a largo plazo.
Beheira se ha convertido en el laboratorio global más grande de la lucha contra la desertificación, demostrando que la voluntad política y la ingeniería pueden redibujar los mapas geográficos, siempre y cuando se respete el equilibrio de los recursos hídricos finitos.
Five years ago, Chinese cities were drowning in trash - Beijing was surrounded by giant landfills, a crisis known as "garbage siege."
Today, China runs over half of the world's waste-to-energy plants, with processing capacity surpassing traditional leaders like Japan.l.
The first time I saw an American refrigerator, I stopped moving.
In Japan, a refrigerator stores food.
In America, a refrigerator governs supplies.
It was not a fridge.
It was a white castle with cold air.
I opened the door and felt like I had entered a small grocery store.
Milk had its own territory.
Sauces had a government.
Leftovers looked like they were paying rent.
My friend said,
“It’s just a normal fridge.”
Normal?
In Japan, my fridge asks,
“What do you need?”
In America, the fridge asks,
“How many people are you planning to survive with?”
I closed the door slowly.
A samurai does not fear a refrigerator.
He simply bows to the cold kingdom.
✨🇨🇳Xi Jinping:Development is the top priority, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. If China does not take the path of innovation-driven development and the old and new growth drivers cannot be smoothly transformed, it will never become truly strong; it will only be big but not strong. Becoming strong depends on innovation, and innovation depends on talent.
Can AI think? Does it have genuine intelligence?
"According to a criterion for intelligence proposed by the mathematician Alan Turing, if a machine could, in response to questions, produce answers that were indistinguishable from those a human being might give, then we would have every reason to judge that it was literally intelligent.
Philosopher John Searle rebutted this claim in his Chinese Room Argument.
Imagine that Searle, who knows no Chinese, sits in a room with a set of Chinese symbols and a rulebook in English telling him which combinations of symbols to give out in response to written questions slipped to him through a slot in the door. The rulebook does not tell him what the symbols mean; it simply allows him to mimic the behavior of a person who does.
What Searle would be doing in this scenario, he argued, is essentially what a computer does: manipulating symbols according to the rules of an algorithm. The resulting mimicry, no matter how convincing, would not yield genuine understanding of Chinese.
Likewise, what computers do can never amount to the operations of true intelligence, but only a simulation of it."
--Edward Feser, "The Common Sense of John Searle"
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
Ever wonder why traditional Japanese tea rooms have such a tiny entrance, the nijiriguchi?
It forces everyone to bow as they enter, a reminder that respect begins with humility.
����🇵 Japanese side of X, feel free to share more about this beautiful tradition.
Many young men in china couldn't get married because they don't own a car or a house which is the bare minimum demand of chinese girls even in rural areas.
Many chinese men criticize this as greedy behaviour as it's not possible for men so young to buy a house and car so early in their career but the counterpoint by women is that the parents of boys should have prepared a house and car for their marriage if they loved them.
Marriage in china is now more about money than love if you don't have rich parents or hit a career lottery early forget getting married in your twenties.