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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.” ― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

Astonishing renewables muscle-flexing from China. Its new binding 5-Year Plan targets +2,000 TWh of NEW renewables by 2030, up 53% vs. today >By 2030, China's clean power ALONE will be 32% larger than the entire US grid THREAD

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Health insurance killed Alec Raeshawn Smith in 2017. He was 26. Worked full-time as a restaurant manager in Minnesota. Made $35,000 a year. He had Type 1 diabetes. He needed insulin to live. Not optional. Biological necessity. When he turned 26, he aged out of his mother's health insurance. That's the law. His job didn't offer insurance. His $35,000 salary was just high enough to disqualify him from Medicaid. The insurance he could buy on the marketplace: $450 a month premium with a **$7,600 deductible.** He'd be paying for insulin out of pocket anyway. So he made a rational decision. Pay for insulin directly instead of a useless insurance plan. Then the pharmacist told him the price. **$1,300 a month.** For insulin and supplies. On a $35,000 salary. He couldn't afford it. So he did what one in four diabetics in America do. He rationed. Stretched the doses. Tried to make it last until payday. On June 27, 2017 — **three days before payday** — his mother got the call no parent wants. Alec was found dead alone in his apartment. Diabetic ketoacidosis. The insulin pen he used to inject himself was empty. He was 27 days off his mother's insurance. Insulin costs $30 to manufacture. Its inventor sold the patent for **$1** because he believed it should belong to the world. In America, it cost Alec his life. He wasn't lazy. He wasn't reckless. He worked full-time and did the math. The math just didn't include a way to survive.

What if Claude had data from 135M YouTube channels? Now it does.

zoom out, and the acceleration in model releases becomes clear we've gone from waiting years between launches to seeing them almost every month, and if this continues, the gap will soon shrink to two weeks, and eventually just a few days

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"Rods from God" is the informal name for Project Thor, a concept for a space-based kinetic weapon. Instead of using explosives or nukes, you put heavy, ultra-dense tungsten rods into orbit. When you want to hit a target on Earth, you de-orbit a rod and let gravity do the work. By the time it slams into the ground at Mach 10, the kinetic energy creates an impact as powerful as a tactical nuclear warhead—crushing deep subterranean bunkers with zero radioactive fallout. This isn't a new idea either. The history goes back to the late 1950s during the Cold War, when researchers at the RAND Corporation and Boeing first calculated the physics of orbital kinetic impacts. Science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle actually helped formalize "Project Thor" while working at Boeing, pitching it as a way to strike earthbound targets from space without relying on nuclear warheads. The Air Force continued evaluating the concept over the decades, even releasing a formal study on it in 2003, meaning the foundational architecture has been sitting in defense contractor vaults for well over half a century. The X-37B is an uncrewed, reusable military spaceplane that looks like a miniature Space Shuttle. It gets launched on a rocket, stays in orbit on classified missions for years at a time executing secret payload operations, and then lands on a runway autonomously. The theory is that platforms like this could have been used to quietly deliver and park kinetic weapons in orbit under the cover of dark budget programs. Mainstream skeptics write this off immediately. Their argument comes down to numbers: the standard spec for a Rod from God calls for a solid 20-foot tungsten pole weighing 12 tons, while the X-37B's internal payload bay is only 7 feet long and carries roughly 1,000 pounds. Based on those standard specs, critics claim it is physically impossible for the spaceplane to carry those weapons, writing the whole thing off as a theoretical dead end. That rejection relies on a lazy assumption: that the weapon has to be a single, monolithic stick of metal launched all at once. In reality, modular engineering completely flips that argument. Tungsten rods can easily be built as threaded, interlocking segments or stacked modular slugs that fit inside smaller payload bays and get assembled or aligned in space. Spreading modular components across multiple long-duration X-37B missions completely bypasses those size and weight limits, meaning the capability could easily exist regardless of what official narratives claim.

Роздягали, били струмом, зачиняли в "кам'яному мішку" та засудили на 18 років: історія Наталії Власової, яку росія відірвала від дитини. .... Напередодні Нового року 11-річній Юлі запропонували вибрати будь-який подарунок. Вона відповіла: "Хочу маму". Її мама, Наталія Власова, вже 7 років у російському полоні. Бойовики "ДНР" захопили її ще в 2019-му, звинувативши у шпигунстві. Далі - тортури, сфабрикований суд і 18 років в'язниці. Наталія - одна з двох тисяч українських жінок, яких незаконно утримує Росія. Майже кожна з них пережили сексуальне насильство та тортури. Її доньці на момент розлуки було 4 роки. За 7 років полону вони говорили по телефону лічені рази. Одного разу колишня в'язниця передала Юлі мамину кофту. Дівчинка носила її та нюхала - це був єдиний спосіб для неї відчути маму поруч. А потім дзвінки припинилися. У "Ізоляції" Наталію роздягали, зв'язували скотчем, обливали водою та били струмом. Вона казала: "Розплющую очі - а в мене обличчя у запеченій крові". Її закривали в "кам'яному мішку" - крихітному приміщенні без можливості сісти, де від холоду німіли ноги. Їй вибили зуби та виривали волосся. Але вона не плакала й трималася. Наталія - психологиня, у камері малювала, займалася йогою й підтримувала інших. Умови були нелюдськими: 10 квадратних метрів на 14 осіб, бетонна підлога, металеві нари та відсутність вентиляції. Вода - раз на три дні, баня - раз на два тижні. У камері кишіли клопи й таргани. Годували водою з гнилою капустою. Медичної допомоги не було - максимум аспірин. Людмила Гусейнова, яка сама пережила три роки полону й заснувала ініціативу "Нумо, сестри!", б'є на сполох: жінок вивозять углиб Росії та переміщують між колоніями. Зв'язок із Наталією майже втрачено. Під час суду в Ростові вона свідчила про тортури й насильство, казала, що просила застрелити її, але їй відмовили. Імовірно, саме за ці свідчення їй винесли 18 років. Організація Гусейнової опікується Юлею, але не може замінити маму. Дівчинка чекає щодня. І коли їй запропонували подарунок до свята, вона відповіла: "Я хочу маму". Гусейнова наголошує: потрібна політична воля та міжнародний тиск. Їхня організація передала списки майже 40 жінок до Офісу Президента, Координаційного штабу, Омбудсмена, Папи Римського та Білого дому. Але про це досі говорять недостатньо голосно. Ми не маємо права забувати про цих жінок. Бо за кожною історією - чиєсь дитинство без мами, роки болю й щоденне очікування.

I don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks I went on a 4 hour hike yesterday. Through the northern California redwoods. Got more work done in those 4 hours talking to Voice through my AirPods then I do in 8 hours at my desk Work can be done ANYWHERE now 45 minute drive back using self driving? Now 45 minutes I can talk to Voice and work on side projects 20 minutes in the cafe? I can sit and talk to Voice and when I get home I have drafts on my computer for my newsletter for the next month Being able to just use your voice to talk to a super intelligence that controls your computer is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before I don’t even care that the voice sounds human like, or you can interrupt it, or any of the wild advancements they made to the tech It’s the fact that it can control my computer, meaning all I need to get incredible work done is talk through my AirPods anywhere in the world that is the major game changer for me I don’t think people truly understand the implications of this yet Why even have a desk or monitor anymore. Work can be done ANYWHERE now The key is your set up: 1. Choose one device (preferably an always on desktop) as your main “headquarters” device all your work gets done on 2. Get the ChatGPT app on all your other devices (iPhone, iPad, laptops, Mac Minis) 3. Set up ‘connections’ in your settings so that all your ‘node’ devices can control your ‘headquarters’ device 4. Go legit anywhere in the world. Turn on Voice. Ask it to brief you on your projects, give you a recommended next step, then spin up new threads to do work I really don’t think work looks the same moving forward.

Ukrainian Firepoint FP-5 Flamingo missiles just smashed the Avitek plant in Kirov, Russia (July 24 and 25) — and the biggest hit is to SA-15 Tor production. Here are the facts and why it matters On July 24th and 25th, Ukrainian Firepoint FP-5 Flamingo Missiles hot the Vyatka Machine-Building Enterprise Avitek plant in Kirov, Russia. While many a producer of many components, the one linked ot the production of thr SA-15 Tor missile systems will have the most impact. The Avitek facility makes fuses for the Tor missile system pictured below. Fuses are required to start missile ignition and cause the missile warhead section to explode. Surface to air systems like the Tor rely on warheads that explode when in proximity to a target so fragments damage the target aircraft and missiles. The Tor system is designed to counter lower altitude high subsonic speed threats like cruise missiles and attack aircraft like the A-10 Warthog. It is one of the longest range if not longest range air defense organic to a Russian battalion. The curve below is the altitude versus range chart of the missile showing the engagement envelope.of the missile, units in kilometers. As you can see the altitude and range focus is more lower altitude. This and the upgraded 2K12 Kub SA-6 missiles likely are thr air defense missiles best suited to hit FP-6 missiles and provide area air defense against them. Any slow down in the production these could greatly improve the prospects of FP-5 performance over time. Other reports state that ejector systems for cruise missiles are produced here. While plausible given production of aircraft ejector seat systems, I could not find any proof. As always, sources are on the reply.

I fully agree with Andrew. I cannot imagine, under any circumstances, that Anthropic released Opus 5 without already having a better model for the "fable" tier in-house. The question, of course, is why it hasn't been released. Yet the answer is very simple if you open your eyes: the competition between OpenAI and Anthropic is fiercer than ever. GPT-5.6 was a resounding success, and Codex-with its current 10 million active professional users- is gaining increasing importance in a sector primarily dominated by Anthropic. Anthropic is holding off on the launch of fable 5.1 until OpenAI releases GPT-6, and that won't be long now. Axios reported that Sam Altman is briefing the White House on the new model next week, so it is essentially ready to launch.

50% of U.S. GDP growth is now coming from AI investment. Specifically, one category in the GDP report: Computers & Peripheral Equipment. This category includes AI servers and GPUs, and surged 72% YoY in Q1 2026. I don't believe we've ever seen anything like this, at least in the GDP data going back to the 1950s. This spending likely increased further in Q2 based on recent hyperscaler earnings reports, further increasing the U.S. economy's reliance on the AI buildout. However, at some point this growth will slow. It's not realistic to continue expecting 70% YoY AI spending growth, especially with hyperscalers like Google now negative on free cash flow. When the spending does slow, GDP growth will be adversely impacted, and the stock market could be as well. This chart makes you realize just how reliant the U.S. economy is on a very, very narrow slice of investment.

openai is hiring a “researcher, recursive self-improvement safety.” salary: $295,000–$445,000. the responsibilities are even crazier than the title. this person will help prepare for: • oversight that still works in “superhuman model capability regimes” • automated audits that find severe misalignment • reward hacking, sandbagging and scheming • the possible loss of chain-of-thought monitorability • “model organisms” of dangerous behavior not currently seen in production • verifying compliance with future AI-safety agreements • tracking progress toward automating openai’s technical staff • identifying blind spots in openai’s RSI safety case the listing explicitly says some of these problems “might not exist now.” so this is not proof that recursive self-improvement has already arrived. it is proof that openai considers the pathway credible enough to begin constructing the monitoring, control and institutional systems before it does. the transition probably won’t begin with a model announcing that it improved itself. it will begin quietly: AI automates more AI research → the next model arrives faster → that model automates even more → the loop tightens sam just said coding is strategically important to RSI. codex is the product everyone can see. the real question is what happens when codex begins shortening the time required to build the next codex. this isn’t a leak. it’s an official openai job description written like a roadmap.

1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed" Bonus clip, Neil Kinnock in 1989, "When is the Conservative government going to stop asset stripping the country?" Hi @andyburnham any answer to Neil KInnock's question? Are we renationalising water companies any time soon?

a major battle is going on right now at the front russians are trying to push through and getting whacked... 65+ tanks and at least 50 APCs in the last 5 days

i went through all 1,171 current job listings from OpenAI and Anthropic. this is the closest thing we have to a public AGI roadmap. Anthropic is hiring people to: • measure recursive self-improvement • study “self-improving, highly autonomous AI” • build an “AI scientist” and “scientific AGI” • train Claude to design silicon • create simulated “universes” for long-horizon agents • develop “superhuman epistemics” and superhuman science assistants OpenAI is hiring people to: • build persistent, proactive agents that operate computers and collaborate with other agents • turn ChatGPT into an “infinitely capable and personalized superassistant” • give consumer devices long-term memory and evolving user models • improve models through synthetic data, simulators and self-play • let agents operate Stargate infrastructure through closed-loop automation • build robots with “AGI-level intelligence” • defend OpenAI from future internal AI agents that could compromise it put everything together: AI designs better chips → trains inside simulated worlds → operates computers → performs scientific research → manages the infrastructure training its successors → helps improve AI research itself. and both companies are hiring people to measure when that loop starts accelerating. job listings aren’t proof these capabilities already exist. but they reveal exactly what future the labs are preparing for. we keep waiting for an AGI announcement. they’re building the self-improvement loop piece by piece.

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