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can you imagine dying because you dropped detective conan early
A Japanese man says he escaped a sinking car by remembering a tip from Detective Conan.
His car was hit and went into a river after another driver reversed near a cemetery.
For the first 20 seconds he thought he was going to die, then a scene from episode 1078 flashed through his mind.
He waited for the cabin to fill so the pressure equalized, pushed the door open, and swam out.
A nearby resident helped him onto the bank. He wrote that he “can’t thank the creator of Conan enough.”
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Is Huang Xiaole (黄小乐) aka Alice Huang a 燕子 working for the CCP?
On a June night in 2024, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held court with several of his company’s major Asian customers at a bar in Taipei. Next to him was Huang Xiaole (黄小乐) aka Alice Huang, an executive of Megaspeed, a shady Singapore-based data center company.
Nvidia’s compliance team has looked into Megaspeed and determined it’s “wholly owned and operated by a company based and headquartered outside China, with no China shareholder.”
Megaspeed was created in 2023 when 🇨🇳 7Road, a gaming company with ties to 🇨🇳 state-backed investors, split off its overseas operation in Singapore and renamed it Megaspeed, which in early 2024 set up Speedmatrix, a subsidiary in Malaysia that quickly snapped up ~$2B worth of Nvidia’s most advanced chips. Most of those chips came from Aivres, the US subsidiary of 🇨🇳 Inspur, a major tech company added to the 🇺🇸 Entity List in 2023 for supporting 🇨🇳 military 👉🏻 Nvidia is barred from selling its technology to Inspur without a special license. But since Aivres is based in California and records sales as a US company, it can buy Nvidia chips freely.
Megaspeed has funneled those chips to data centers in Malaysia and Indonesia that appear to remotely serve customers in China. That is not necessarily illegal, but it can be found unlawful if it is done on behalf of a 🇨🇳 company. US officials have also been scrutinizing whether Megaspeed diverted some of those chips on to China, in violation of US law.
Megaspeed is also facing scrutiny from Singaporean police.
Megaspeed listed Alice Huang as its managing director for its first 8 months, and its current director James Tan is from Singapore but is based in Shanghai.
It’s not clear when Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, who are not related, first met. She was mingling with a crowd of tech executives just after midnight at the Taipei bar in early June 2024 when she offered to ask Jensen Huang to join them.
“I bet you guys I can get Jensen here,” she said, and shortly afterwards Jensen Huang arrived in his trademark black leather jacket and drank a whiskey shot with the group.
Jensen Huang and Alice Huang were photographed together again in May, exiting a restaurant in Taipei with an Nvidia aide after a business dinner with other AI suppliers.
Alice Huang spent much of her career in China, including working as a TV reporter for 🇨🇳 state media and as a private banker. Huang left Megaspeed in recent months. It’s unclear when and why she left and what she’s doing now.
Both she and 🇨🇳 7Road, the Chinese company that Megaspeed split off from, have close ties to a web of wealthy investors and tech companies with data center projects in China.
The owners of 7Road include 🇨🇳 central government and several local governments. Before joining Megaspeed, Ms. Huang was executive director for a Shanghai-based fund that had invested in 7Road and had ties to state-backed firms.
Reporters looking into Megaspeed’s opaque operation have tracked business listings that led to a Malaysian data center and shopping mall, a near-empty office in Singapore and a dilapidated storefront outside Kuala Lumpur.
It’s not clear where Megaspeed’s billions of dollars came from. But a few weeks after the gathering in Taipei last year, Megaspeed began receiving a steady supply of multimillion dollar shipments of some of Nvidia’s most advanced chips.
Over the next 3 months, Megaspeed bought a billion $ of Nvidia technology. Within the next 9 months, it secured roughly a billion $ more. The bulk of those advanced Nvidia chips were purchased from 🇨🇳 Inspur’s US subsidiary Aivres. The shipments went to Megaspeed’s Malaysian subsidiary Speedmatrix.
The registered address for Speedmatrix on the shipping records led to a dilapidated storefront outside Kuala Lumpur, where the sign out front advertised a construction company. No one was inside when a reporter visited the address in late Sep. Employees at the law firm next door said they rarely saw people in the office.
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He couldn’t see that coming no?
Professional fortune teller sues Vue cinema chain for £12.7million after being left with chronic pain when he was 'catapulted' from 'defective' seat while watching film trib.al/yDKVJV9
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Pablo Escobar’s cartel made an estimated $420 million a week. His son says that at the end, they were hiding with $5 million in cash and starving.
In the video below, he tells Michael Franzese what the last days with his father looked like.
Juan Pablo Escobar now goes by Sebastián Marroquín. He says he has spoken in almost 50 countries.
Everywhere he goes, teenagers tell him the same thing.
“He was so successful. He was so rich. He was so powerful.”
His answer: “He had all the money in the world and all the power, and he could never buy just a simple minute of peace for himself and his family.”
He says his father became a billionaire. Then he describes the end.
“We were hidden with $5 million in cash, and we were starving.”
His father was the most wanted man in the world. His men had left.
“We could have bought every supermarket in our town. But we were starving.”
“You cannot eat the dollars.”
He says that before “Narcos” was filmed, he offered Netflix family letters, home videos and thousands of photos. They weren’t interested.
The chapter he wishes the show had included: “Pablo starving, dying, no food, but full of money.”
Escobar was killed in December 1993. His son was 16.
$420 million a week. $5 million in a hideout. Nothing to eat.
The case for the fans: Escobar came from poverty and built one of the richest criminal empires in history. For years, no one could touch him.
The case for his son: he died hunted and abandoned, sitting on cash he couldn’t eat. Thousands of families were destroyed on the way.
So was Pablo Escobar a success story, or a man who had everything and could buy nothing?
