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Alright, I haven't heard him saying that one before, must be a new level of dementia...🤔

Parlamentul din Kosovo a reușit miercuri dimineața să aleagă o președintă, Justina Shiroka Pula, evitând la limită organizarea celui de-al patrulea scrutin parlamentar în mai puțin de doi ani.
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Lecția Kosovo: Alegeri anticipate evitate în ultima clipă. Parlamentul alege o președintă

(it's Friday my dudes)

Iata o destinatie de care nu stiam...

Asta se adauga, fireste la lista locatatilor cu nume shugubetze la Ro-ro:

• Clit → 🫣 - Suceava
• Fundu Moldovei → 🍑 - Suceava
• Sculeni → 🔨 - raionul Ungheni, Republica Moldova (nu județ)
• Cioca-Boca → 🐦👄- Iași
• Baicoi → 😏 - Prahova
• Madulari → 🍆 - Valcea
• Spermezeu → 😳 - Bistrita-Nasaud

Asa ca daca va aflati in vreun pelerinaj prin Nordul Moldovei, includeti in traseu.🤭

Opening day at Wanxiang Tiandi mall in Foshan apparently got a little too competitive.🥲

Hema/Freshippo staff in blue and Holiland bakery staff in pink clashed over the placement of queue barriers and how the huge customer lines were being routed in front of their stores.

Both stores were running opening promotions, the mall was packed, and what should have been two boring lines turned into an actual shoving match. The next day, the mall reportedly brought in a much heavier security presence around the area.

The skirmish became a hit on Chinese social media.

Next day: Mall cops in armored gear were deployed for crowd control.🤭

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On September 17, 2026, Tsinghua professor and Zhipu/GLM founder and chief scientist Tang Jie gave the first session of his newly reworked Advanced Machine Learning course.

The assigned classroom held 112 people and overflowed, with students standing in the aisles...

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Course repo, if interested (in Chinese🤷‍♂️)

Xi and even the ladies didn't flinch, only him and to make faces... during the anthem.🤦‍♂️

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out what it calls China’s most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia Corp. and underpin a massive expansion of data center capacity in coming years.

This announcement was made over the last hours, and caught headlines.

At Apsara 2026, Alibaba says it wants >20 GW of global data-center capacity by 2032, unveiled a new T-Head AI chip it describes as China’s most powerful, and Bloomberg’s live coverage says Eddie Wu discussed an ambition to train a 10-trillion-parameter model.

20 GW + proprietary silicon + Qwen + potential 10T model = Alibaba is positioning itself as one of the handful of vertically integrated AI hyperscalers.

So, Alibaba's hypothetical 175 TWh/year at full 20-GW utilization would therefore equal roughly 27% of the entire projected U.S. data-center load in that reference case.

What Alibaba announced

• New chip: T-Head’s Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator. Alibaba calls it China’s most powerful AI chip and says it delivers 3× the performance of its prior M890. Bloomberg reports it can be configured into training clusters of up to 500,000 chips.
• Cloud infrastructure: CEO Eddie Wu said Alibaba Cloud is targeting more than 20 GW of globally operated data-center capacity by 2032. The Chinese-language report frames this as a response to very strong customer AI demand.
• AI-model ambition: The Chinese report, citing Bloomberg, says Alibaba also plans to train a 5–10 trillion-parameter model. That figure should be treated as media-reported rather than formal company guidance until Alibaba publishes technical materials.

Story:
Alibaba Unveils AI Chip to Drive 20GW of Data Centers by 2032 - Bloomberg

This was a REK humanoid-combat event in San Francisco Friday night, and the interesting twist was robot vs. human, not just robot vs. robot.

A human fighter took real strikes from both a roughly six-foot EngineAI T800 and a Unitree H1-class humanoid. REK itself describes its format as full-contact humanoid fighting with human pilots, and its existing events have used VR/motion-control rather than autonomous AI deciding how to figh.

Happy Labor Day!~

This is streaming now on Peacock - British spy thriller series on par with Slow Horses - if not even better.😎

Plays on decent plot, cyber-warfare, complex personalities, etc.

Highly recommended for an action drama.👍

The Undeclared War Season 2 | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

A federal appeals court has blocked Trump’s $400M White House ballroom project, ruling that a president can’t unilaterally make a transformation this large to federal property without congressional authorization.

The problem is that the East Wing and surrounding historic grounds have already been demolished, so even if the administration ultimately loses at the Supreme Court, the old East Wing doesn’t magically come back. The likely result is a frozen construction site while Congress and the normal review process decide what can legally replace it: Trump’s ballroom with congressional approval, a redesigned compromise, a reconstructed East Wing, or something a future administration inherits.

Basically: the court can stop the project, but it can’t undo the demolition. 🤦

No official White House reaction yet. The appeals court stayed its ruling for 14 days specifically to allow the administration to seek Supreme Court review, so an emergency SCOTUS appeal/stay request is widely expected. Until then, the legal stop order itself is temporarily on hold.

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