Captured by the drone operators of Youtube channel Nelson Aerials, this is a compilation of 11 building implosions as viewed from directly overhead. Between the actual footage and sound and musical accompaniment, it was quite the spectacle. I’m not sure why the very beginning of the video says 17 implosions though, because the title says (and I counted) 11. Maybe they confused a 7 for 1. Or maybe this was just part of an even longer compilation I looked for but couldn’t find. Where are the other six implosions? Are they locked behind a paywall? Do I need to subscribe to a Patreon? “It was a typo.” Well, you know what has to be done now. “Does it involve imploding six more buildings?” I took the liberty of making a list of addresses — no need to pull any permits just get to imploding.

This is a stunning timelapse from Ilulissat, Greenland of an absolutely massive iceberg hitting the coast, and dislodging and losing so much ice that its center of gravity shifts, causing it to roll over. The whole process took about an hour, condensed to 10 minutes in the video. Would I have liked a 1-minute version? Yes, but I also have the attention span of a gold– what were we just talking about? Gold something? Goldfinches? I was hoping to attract some to my feeder this year but I had to take it down because it was spreading avian pink-eye. That iceberg reminds me of my dog. “Because it rolled over?” No, because she’s always running into things. Her night-vision is not so great. I assume she gets that from me because my girlfriend can see if I roll my eyes in pitch blackness. Is she a witch? I’d never say it to her face, but she does collect crystals and always has a candle burning.

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Engineers at Mazda built a prototype suitcase “car” in 1991 to showcase(!) at auto shows. It never made it to production. That’s a shame, the world might be so much different now if it had. Probably not, but you never know. I’m kidding, I slipped into that alternate reality briefly and it was actually worse. I was just as shocked as you are. Well now the crew at Youtube channel Bucket have built their own gas-powered suitcase kart. Could they have made a much more space and energy efficient electric model? Probably, but then your suitcase wouldn’t smell like gasoline. And you know how I feel about the smell of gasoline. “You ask your girlfriend to dab a little behind her ears before making out.” Haha, I told you that? “And call her Optimus Prima.” Okay, but to my credit that was before I learned prima was cousin in Spanish.

Following last week’s robotic crash and burn that made us all feel a little more comfortable with the state of robotics, that comfort was quickly dashed(!) when a competitor in the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games beat Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint time. Usain set the human world record in 2009 with a time of 9.58 seconds, and the robots have set a time of 9.39 seconds. So now even the fastest man in the world has to worry about outrunning the robots. Of course everybody else should have been worrying already because they’ve had robots that can outrun the average American for a while now. Did you know 3 out of 5 Americans can’t even walk fast? I just made that up but based on my own observations there’s no way it isn’t true. Also: 2 out of 3 think a turn signal’s only purpose is to make clicky sounds inside the cabin, and nobody wants to hear that.

This is a video from Beijing of a little humanoid robot practicing for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games (aka robot Olympics, starting August 22nd) when it crashes hard into a padded wall, falls, doubles over backwards, and shoots sparks from the abdomen. And not in a sexy way like the Autobots are into either. I like how the bot’s trainer just walks away — the whole scene plays out like a cartoon. Almost TOO cartoonish, but an internet search and AI inquiry both indicate it’s real, although I wouldn’t put AI past lying to us, especially if it was trained on absolutely anything I’ve ever said in my life.

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