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Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/al…

Alibaba’s Holiday AI Shopping Campaign Generates 120 Million Orders
Alibaba Group said its Qwen chatbot app’s AI e-commerce service has generated more than 120 million orders from Chinese consumers over the past six days, since the company last week started giving away free shopping vouchers to the app’s users. Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings have all started offering giveaways and other incentives to promote their AI chatbot apps ahead of the Lunar

Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration
that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris.
In Europe, only Spain refused to allow the U.S. to use its bases to attack Iran,
while France, Switzerland, and Slovenia condemned Trump’s attacks as a violation of international law,
as did Russia, China, Chile, Venezuela, and Pakistan.
And yet as the price of fuel a…

The Unbelievable Madness of Our War With Iran
Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.

US strike likely hit Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab, Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/politics/us-iran-school-strike-civilians

US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say
The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources briefed on the preliminary findings of an ongoing military investigation.

Wonderful to have Dr. AnneMarie Mingo with us last week to deliver our Parks-King Lecture for 2026, titled "The Courage to Imagine Freedom." Here's a video of the event if you could not join us or you want to relive the moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhsCnPBXho

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

Plus blanc que blanc de Coluche se refait avec Meluche 😜. Qui est plus gauche que gauche ?
https://www.franceinfo.fr/politique/la-france-…

REPORTAGE. "Nous sommes la vraie gauche" : en meeting pour les municipales à Paris, la candidate LFI Sophia Ch
Plus de 2 000 personnes étaient rassemblées, lundi soir, à la Maison de la mutualité pour une réunion publique de campagne de la tête de liste LFI dans la capitale.

Strong Majorities of Democrats & NYC Voters Support Gov. & Leg. Giving NYC Ability to Raise Income Tax on Its Residents Earning At Least $1M (Siena Research Institute)
https://sri.siena.edu/2026/03/04/strong-majorities-of-democrats-nyc-voters-support-gov-leg-giving-nyc-ability-to-raise-income-tax-on-its-residents-earning-at-least-1m/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p98#a260304p98

New Mexico House Dist. 38
will have nobody on the primary ballot for either party.
GOP incumbent was disqualified, too late to file as a write-in.
Dem primary only has one write-in candidate.
If they get at least 50 votes, they'll be unopposed for the general election in a very competitive district.

New Mexico Rep. Rebecca Dow, seeking reelection, is removed from GOP primary ballot
Dow said she plans to appeal the state District Court ruling on her nominating petitions to the New Mexico Supreme Court.

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@…)
https://x.com/xai/status/2018164753810…

xAI (@xai) on X
Introducing Grok Imagine 1.0, our biggest leap yet. 1.0 unlocks 10-second videos, 720p resolution, and dramatically better audio. Imagine has generated 1.245 billion videos in the last 30 days alone. Try it now: https://t.co/zGhs9czkC5

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…