I went a little way down the rabbit-hole, reading NYT stories about the NVIDIA/Jenson Huang scandal.
I notice the stories fit the time-tested NYT format for advancing the CIA's agenda. I'm surprised "Curveball" hasn't cropped up. A small number of anonymous sources. An allegation that doesn't make much sense to anyone who reads global media, but does fit the generally-agreed-upon domestic US narrative.
I don't know what the agenda is; they don't tell me; but I see the outlines of something familiar.
My conspiracy yarn-chart theory: Jenson Huang favors open-source AI. Anyone can have the code and do whatever they want with it. Which would include buying a lot of NVIDIA chips, broadening and deepening NVIDIA's hold on the market.
Of course he wants to sell chips to China. He's complained that NVIDIA's market share in China has gone from 95% to 0%. His main complaint is that the Chinese government won't allow NVIDIA chips in. China wants the Chinese to buy chips made by Huaweii and another company I can't remember. There are hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA H200 chips stuck in Hong Kong because the Chinese government won't let them in.
His girlfriend has bought a lot of chips, perfectly lawfully, for her Malaysia-based company. She's been putting pictures of herself and Huang on her LinkedIn page for over a year. If she's a spy, she's the sloppiest spy since James Bond. Everybody knew who he was; hell, they were expecting him.
I think those who don't want open source AI have gathered together and shanked Huang, to replace him with somebody who also doesn't want open source AI. Proprietary AI would almost certainly be more to the liking of Empire. Just as China doesn't use Microsoft products because of the all the US Intel backdoors built in, I'm sure they don't want to use US proprietary AI (for the same reasons).
At least, that's what it looks and smells like to me, if only from the structure of NYT reporting.
Call me crazy and I won't disagree, but I've seen this movie a lot of times.
Lower than missing the attack all together? Lower than encouraging settlers into the West Bank? Lower than denying food and healthcare into Gaza? Lower than letting a 20 foot wall surround Gaza? Sorry, there is no low for Netanyahu.
“The tomb is considered to be one of the most solemn and revered war memorials in the U.S., being the final resting place of unidentified soldiers from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. It has been guarded around the clock — rain or shine — by a soldier from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as “The Old Guard,” since 1948.”
And again—please, someone ask Hegseth what was so hilarious? We already knew y’all were taking cute snaps in front of a solemn memorial, containing remains of people who fought for us and never returned to their families, but we all love a funny joke so let’s hear it.
The humiliating failure of Hackneyed Jeffries, your "inevitable" Dummycrat House Majority Leader gets worse the more you read about it. Oh, and let's not forget the disgraceful AWOL Eleven.
This impeachment was one Republican's last gasp for relevance. If it had passed, Mike Johnson would have assigned the prosecution team. There will soon be a better opportunity to throughly impeach Whiskey Pete.
I'm sorry to tell you that the NYT refuses to let me read a gift link "for free" unless I log in to their site, which I refuse to do because of their weakness for fascism.
Fully expecting that soldier who did his duty and told that asshole Hegseth and his asshole friends to shut the fuck up and show some goddamned respect, to be dishonorably discharged today.
Also in the "so much to do, so little time" I am interested in just...various ways to move towards universal healthcare while we're not in Full Overhaul numbers. Medicaid expansion is obvious. Breaking up overly integrated healthcare companies is another good one (CVS having pre-split thinking it's coming down the pipe anyway is a good sign). Reigning in PBMs and all their weird secret pricing bullshit could help too, and that's at least a bipartisan area of annoyance at the moment.
Plus getting inspections back on all the places NOT FUCKING DOING THEM when making meds. Given that's becoming a bigger issue.
DEFINITELY need to reign in private equity pillaging healthcare in general. Think that's mainly been Blumenthal's area? Warren's too, obviously, but iirc it was Blumenthal from the healthcare side and her from the monetary one...
"The explicit “tradwife” emergence online is frequently dated to around the mid-2010s, when the “alt right” were building internet communities around explicit misogyny."
There’s going to be a glut of those “don’t be like me”-type videos, like during COVID, when these dumbasses’ husbands trade them in for newer models in their 40s.
That flat critter in the gif is a slipper lobster. Find out about ‘em here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/slippery-slipper-lobster
Also, your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/31177e22-7515-4337-a718-f5437b4ddaaf?r=angu9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=share
Lobster, or Mitch McConnell?
"I can't tell the difference between Whizzo butter and this Mitch McConnell!"
Somebody went under a dock
and there they found a sock
But it wasn't a sock.
Slipper lobster or mutated cockroach ? You be the judge.
These slippers are made for walking
Gah! But does it taste any good?
Apparently, it does!
Like toe cheese
I like funky cheeses but..Eeeeeewwww!!!111!!1!!1!1
You can’t fool me, that is a…Rock Lobster!
Certainly not a Bikiniwhale.
You know I have to link to an actual rock lobster now :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiny_lobster
Ha! It looks like your common lobster except much prettier.
Down! Down! Down!
I went a little way down the rabbit-hole, reading NYT stories about the NVIDIA/Jenson Huang scandal.
I notice the stories fit the time-tested NYT format for advancing the CIA's agenda. I'm surprised "Curveball" hasn't cropped up. A small number of anonymous sources. An allegation that doesn't make much sense to anyone who reads global media, but does fit the generally-agreed-upon domestic US narrative.
I don't know what the agenda is; they don't tell me; but I see the outlines of something familiar.
My conspiracy yarn-chart theory: Jenson Huang favors open-source AI. Anyone can have the code and do whatever they want with it. Which would include buying a lot of NVIDIA chips, broadening and deepening NVIDIA's hold on the market.
Of course he wants to sell chips to China. He's complained that NVIDIA's market share in China has gone from 95% to 0%. His main complaint is that the Chinese government won't allow NVIDIA chips in. China wants the Chinese to buy chips made by Huaweii and another company I can't remember. There are hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA H200 chips stuck in Hong Kong because the Chinese government won't let them in.
His girlfriend has bought a lot of chips, perfectly lawfully, for her Malaysia-based company. She's been putting pictures of herself and Huang on her LinkedIn page for over a year. If she's a spy, she's the sloppiest spy since James Bond. Everybody knew who he was; hell, they were expecting him.
I think those who don't want open source AI have gathered together and shanked Huang, to replace him with somebody who also doesn't want open source AI. Proprietary AI would almost certainly be more to the liking of Empire. Just as China doesn't use Microsoft products because of the all the US Intel backdoors built in, I'm sure they don't want to use US proprietary AI (for the same reasons).
At least, that's what it looks and smells like to me, if only from the structure of NYT reporting.
Call me crazy and I won't disagree, but I've seen this movie a lot of times.
Weird part is, if it had been just this, Huang might have held on . . . it was the second revealed affair, with an employee, that finished him . . .
Sounds exactly right to me.
Of course . . .
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"Netanyahu’s January 6 Moment" –https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/11/netanyahu-election-denial-israel/689386/
"Disputing the results of an election is a new low for the Israeli prime minister."
Lower than missing the attack all together? Lower than encouraging settlers into the West Bank? Lower than denying food and healthcare into Gaza? Lower than letting a 20 foot wall surround Gaza? Sorry, there is no low for Netanyahu.
“The tomb is considered to be one of the most solemn and revered war memorials in the U.S., being the final resting place of unidentified soldiers from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. It has been guarded around the clock — rain or shine — by a soldier from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as “The Old Guard,” since 1948.”
And again—please, someone ask Hegseth what was so hilarious? We already knew y’all were taking cute snaps in front of a solemn memorial, containing remains of people who fought for us and never returned to their families, but we all love a funny joke so let’s hear it.
Do it in your best schoolmarm voice. "Mr. Hegseth, would you mind sharing the joke with the rest of the class?"
Exactly. WTF were they talking about AT a fucking memorial honoring the deaths of those he leads that ended up in a VERY LOUD roar of laughter.
I'm not a Marine standing over a site of solemn remembrance, but I would totally have yelled "shut up, piggy" at those giggling assholes if I were.
The only real surprise is that Hegsdeath and crew didn't flip him the bird.
(They didn't, right?)
"Holy wow, The South!"
Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
As a big fan of the Confederacy, conceding defeat is nothing new to Cindy Hyde-Smith.
6:51 PM · Nov 11, 2026
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗴𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗮𝗿? ‘𝗗𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀’ 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗲
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/11/pete-hegseth-secretary-of-war-dopey-dangerous-midterms-impeachment?CMP=GTUK_email
Etta James’ recording of At Last is the best record of any song, at any time, ever. Period.
The humiliating failure of Hackneyed Jeffries, your "inevitable" Dummycrat House Majority Leader gets worse the more you read about it. Oh, and let's not forget the disgraceful AWOL Eleven.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/11/11/800126867/community/jeffries-leadership-looks-like-a-failed-impeachment-vote/
This impeachment was one Republican's last gasp for relevance. If it had passed, Mike Johnson would have assigned the prosecution team. There will soon be a better opportunity to throughly impeach Whiskey Pete.
It doesn't justify the Dems' behaviour. What a mess!
I'm sorry to tell you that the NYT refuses to let me read a gift link "for free" unless I log in to their site, which I refuse to do because of their weakness for fascism.
Same here. I refuse to create an account with the corporate propaganda rag that let Judith Miller endlessly lie us into a war that killed my son.
Which is why Memorial Day & Veterans Day are both hard days for me to get thru...
My info is not free.
Awesome Colom ad made by his twin brother!
https://youtu.be/yGG1tSCoNbk?si=2Z7cXKkmmHrBSSw8
Fully expecting that soldier who did his duty and told that asshole Hegseth and his asshole friends to shut the fuck up and show some goddamned respect, to be dishonorably discharged today.
FWIW:
𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘴’ 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳 — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦,” 𝘔𝘳. 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥. “𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/politics/hegseth-tomb-unknown-soldier-shout.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P1E.N1LX.eTEOzm0VG1Ul&smid=url-share
The secretary has always and will always honor military sacrifice except for this time…
Also in the "so much to do, so little time" I am interested in just...various ways to move towards universal healthcare while we're not in Full Overhaul numbers. Medicaid expansion is obvious. Breaking up overly integrated healthcare companies is another good one (CVS having pre-split thinking it's coming down the pipe anyway is a good sign). Reigning in PBMs and all their weird secret pricing bullshit could help too, and that's at least a bipartisan area of annoyance at the moment.
Plus getting inspections back on all the places NOT FUCKING DOING THEM when making meds. Given that's becoming a bigger issue.
DEFINITELY need to reign in private equity pillaging healthcare in general. Think that's mainly been Blumenthal's area? Warren's too, obviously, but iirc it was Blumenthal from the healthcare side and her from the monetary one...
I would love an option for employer-paid insurance through medicare in place of private insurance.
Guardian: Tradwifery may be in retreat but the damage these influencers wrought is here to stay [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/12/tradwife-influencers-in-retreat-lasting-damage-feminism]
"The explicit “tradwife” emergence online is frequently dated to around the mid-2010s, when the “alt right” were building internet communities around explicit misogyny."
Retreat faster, assholes.
There’s going to be a glut of those “don’t be like me”-type videos, like during COVID, when these dumbasses’ husbands trade them in for newer models in their 40s.
This is worse than that time the President was visibly excited to attend a Memorial Day observance.