Elle s’appelait Wafaa Akila.
Elle s’apprêtait à reprendre l’école.
Elle a été assassinée avec son père aujourd’hui par l’armée israélienne à Gaza.
Plus personne n’en parle ici en France : le génocide des Palestiniens, et en particulier des enfants, se poursuit.
America has officially lost the plot.
A former White House official is openly calling for Washington to prepare espionage, cyberattacks and even military strikes against Chinese data centres if China gets too close to achieving AGI first.
Read that again.
The country that lectures the world about rules, peace and fair competition is discussing bombing its competitor because it might win a technology race.
China is not being accused of attacking America. Its crime is advancing too quickly.
This is not national security. It is technological terrorism dressed up as policy.
For years, Washington told us competition drives innovation. Now China is competing successfully, the response is sanctions, sabotage and threats of military force.
Imagine the global outrage if a Chinese official suggested bombing American data centres to stop OpenAI from reaching AGI.
The hypocrisy would be deafening.
This tells you everything about the so called rules based order. The rules apply only while America is winning. The moment another country threatens its dominance, the mask comes off.
If your technological leadership depends on destroying your competitor's infrastructure, you are not leading. You are panicking.
Another great example of everyday Chinese efficiency we just experienced.
We got the RV stuck (again, see quoted post below 👇) but this time it's completely not our fault: at the end of a one-way road a height restriction barrier had collapsed. It was meant to block trucks over 3m in height but, due to it collapsing, it was standing at maybe 2m50 and our RV is 2m80 so 🤷♂️ And since it was a one way road we couldn't turn around and drive against traffic: forbidden and too dangerous.
So we called the police. They arrived in exactly 3 minutes which they told us is actually their official KPI for time to intervention. I repeat: the official KPI for the police here in China is that when someone calls, they need to be on-site within a maximum of 3 minutes 🤯
They did two things: first, they immediately called the local village chief, which in the Chinese system is the person accountable to get the height restriction barrier fixed. The guy arrived in less than 2 minutes!
Second, they escorted us to drive back on our one-way road, so we could pass by the bike lane on the side which was large enough for our RV and wasn't affected by the barrier (see 3rd video).
To summarize: in the space of a mere 5 minutes after calling them, the police had arrived, the guy in charge of fixing the barrier was on-site, and we were safely escorted back on the road. Problem identified, accountability assigned, solution executed. Five minutes.