"There's no glass ceiling.... just a thick layer of men" - Helen Clarke, former Prime Minister of NZ, 2018.
In awe of some people's nerve.
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The US government spent billions building a chip embargo and cyber fortress around Nvidia.
Her name was Alice Huang (Huang Le).
She walked into a Taipei whiskey bar, got close to CEO Jensen Huang, and routed $4.8 billion of Nvidia AI hardware through a Singapore firm in 20 months.
This is the story of Alice Huang and how a 5,000-year-old human exploit bypassed a $3.5 trillion tech giant that's guarded like a military base.
2023 - June 2024
- Chinese mobile gaming firm 7Road spins out a new data center startup in Singapore called Megaspeed
- Alice Huang, a former TV reporter in China with no family relation to Jensen Huang, steps in as managing director
- during the June 2024 Computex conference in Taipei, she bets tech executives at a whiskey bar that she can get the Nvidia CEO to show up
- shortly after 12:00 AM midnight, 63-year-old Jensen Huang walks in wearing his black leather jacket and sits right beside her for the rest of the night
June 2024 - February 2026
- while Washington blocks H100 and B200 chip exports and bans ASML EUV lithography machines from China, Megaspeed becomes a massive buyer
- trade records tracked by The New York Times show Megaspeed and its Malaysian sister firm buy $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia AI hardware
- at least $2 billion in advanced chips flow through Malaysia into Indonesian data centers where Chinese tech giant Alibaba rents the compute capacity
May 2025
- Jensen Huang and Alice Huang are photographed leaving the San Liu Shi Fu restaurant in Taipei on May 23, with Alice walking right behind him in a pink dress holding a glass of red wine
- after monitoring Alice Huang for over 1 year, US intelligence agencies circulate a classified assessment concluding she was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security (MSS)
- when intelligence officers unmask the American citizen on her intercepted phone calls, the name comes back as Jensen Huang
October 2026 - Today
- Nvidia initially dismisses federal probes in the US, Singapore, and Taiwan by calling the meetings "completely normal and not unusual"
- on November 8, 2026, after The New York Times and Financial Times expose the romantic relationship, Jensen Huang emails 30,000+ employees admitting he was unfaithful to his wife of 43 years: "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry."
To this day, Nvidia's Board of Directors is investigating whether its own CEO was compromised by a foreign spy operation, while Kalshi prices a 20% chance he steps down before 2029.
You can spend billions locking down silicon wafers, export controls, and enterprise firewalls.
Across 5,000 years of espionage, when encryption becomes unbreakable, the biggest zero-day vulnerability on the planet is still human biology.
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Jon Ossoff was 16 when he finished reading John Lewis’s memoir and wrote him a letter. He asked if he could interview him, spend some time with him, anything that would let him learn from the man whose book he had just read. He didn’t expect an answer. Lewis wrote back and invited him to work in his congressional office.
There was something about that letter Lewis would have understood. He had written one himself at 17. A college near his home in Alabama had never answered his application, and Lewis wanted to challenge its segregation. He wrote to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without telling his parents or his teachers. King did not just write back; he sent Lewis a round-trip Greyhound ticket to Montgomery so they could talk in person.
Oh my!
The first time Lewis and Ossoff sat down for a meal, Lewis spent about an hour and a half telling him about the rabbis and Jewish activists who had marched alongside him in the South. Ossoff was a Jewish kid from Atlanta. He knew from the book what had happened to Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where a state trooper fractured his skull during a march for voting rights. Now Lewis was telling him who had walked beside him.
The internship lasted a few months. The friendship lasted 17 years. In 2017, when Ossoff ran for Congress and lost, Lewis was there on election night. A reporter saw him sitting in a small room next to the party, looking out into the room. Later that night, Lewis came out and told the crowd how glad he was that he had answered the letter Ossoff sent him in high school.
Lewis died in July 2020, six months before Ossoff won his first Senate race. When Ossoff took the oath of office, he had copies of two old passenger lists in his jacket pocket. One recorded his great-grandfather Israel’s arrival at Ellis Island in 1911. The other recorded his great-grandmother Annie’s arrival two years later. In his hand was a book of Hebrew scripture that had belonged to Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, who led the Atlanta synagogue where Ossoff had his bar mitzvah (this is a Jewish coming-of-age milestone for a boy, usually at age 13).
In 1958, white supremacists had bombed that synagogue. Rothschild and his wife, Janice, grew close to Martin and Coretta Scott King in the years afterward. Janice lived long to see Ossoff take the oath with her late husband’s book
This week, Georgia reelected 39 year old Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate. At his victory speech in Atlanta, he thanked his wife, Alisha, and their daughters, Eva and Lila. Then he talked about a conversation he expects to have when Eva is older. He imagined her asking what he did when people were losing their health coverage and voting rights were under threat. He told the crowd what he hoped he would be able to say to her.
“The year you turned five, Georgia sent me back. Here is what we did with the time they gave us.”
Isitoshe,
After his win in Georgia, Jon Ossoff is now the prediction markets’ favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. He has the gift of gab and, some women are saying he is easy on the eye. But if he runs, the first test will be South Carolina, where Black voters helped turn Joe Biden’s campaign around in 2020. Ossoff will have to make his own case to those voters and when he talks about John Lewis there, he will tell them about the man who wrote back to him at 16, sat down with him over lunch, and was still in his corner the night he lost his first race.
May the day break
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This is why representation, compassion, and lived experience matter so much.
This young doctor survived childhood cancer. Now she’s treating children facing the same terrifying diagnosis she once faced.
Watch this one all the way through. ❤️
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After everything we’ve been through these past two years, too many voters STILL didn’t understand the assignment.
What will it take?!
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Dear American friends! I guess most of you are off to vote in the midterms about now. Here's a little guidance from brilliant Canadian conceptual artist Michael Kryton and his piece "The Mount Rushmore Quartet." 🙏👌🖤
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💫再ブレイクの予感‼️
ロシア🇷🇺の人気配信者SashaとシンガーのDianaが一緒に歌った「Dernière Danse」
Twitch配信から生まれたパフォーマンスとは思えないクオリティで、歌声が本当に綺麗。
😎特にDianaの低音な歌声に鳥肌が止まらないので、ぜひ聴いてください。👍
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#Election2026 #TexasTurnedBlue #Congress #Midterm2026
“The Senate race was the most expensive in [Minnesota] history, with $278 million spent on television and digital advertising. Dr. El-Sayed was outspent in both the Democratic primary and in the general election.”
But still won…
Voters Rebuke Trump nytimes.com/live/2026/11/03/…
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Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.
Please meet the President of the United States:
Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.
Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.
34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges.
Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.
6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.
5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty. He said "not for me" when asked to defend his country.
4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four
.
2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.
2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.
1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.
Even his charity was a grift.
Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.
Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.
Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.
Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.
Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.
First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point. HE PERSONALLY OWNS 30% OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.
Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.
Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.
Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.
ONLY PRESIDENT WITH THREE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS.
Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.
Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.
Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.
Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos.
Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.
At least 400 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.
His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.
Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.
Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone. Then bragged about lower crime rates in said states.
His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.
No more foreign wars.
Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One.
Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.
None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.
It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.
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Son: Hey Dad, what was your favorite song when you were in high school?
Dad: Son, let me take you back to 1995 for a minute. This will give you goosebumps.
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I promise you. This is one confessional from a Trump voter that is worth your time.
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By killing the VRA, John Roberts has set the stage for Black voting power to be wiped out at every level of politics.
Black people in affected districts will still technically have the right to vote, but no real ability to elect candidates they support and who represent their communities. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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WHY DID YOUR
ELECTRONICS CHANGE
THEIR POWER BUTTON
TO THIS SYMBOL?
IS THIS CONCERNING?
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In 1983, something happened that had never happened before: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, the three guitar legends who each led the Yardbirds, shared a stage for the first time.
The song they tore into together? Clapton’s “Layla.” Three of the greatest to ever play, in one place.
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Every morning in Port Arthur, Texas, a teenage girl walked into high school knowing what was waiting for her.
They called her pig and freak. Boys threw pennies at her in the hallway and laughed when she bent down to pick them up. In college a fraternity voted her Ugliest Man on Campus.
Seven years later that voice was the biggest sound in rock music. Her name was Janis Joplin.
In the summer of 1970 she sat down with Dick Cavett on national television with feathers in her hair and a drink in her hand, laughing louder than anyone in the studio.
In the video below, she tells him where she's going next. Home, to her ten year high school reunion.
The audience laughs because they think she's joking. She means it. She says they laughed her out of class, out of town and out of the state, and now she's going back. Watch her face when she says it. For a second the laugh slips.
She went. She walked into her old school in feather boas and pink sunglasses, with reporters following her down the halls.
One of them asked if she went to prom.
She smiled and said no. She didn't think anybody wanted to take her.
Seven weeks later she was found dead, alone in a Los Angeles hotel room. She was 27.
A few months after that, Me and Bobby McGee went to number one. It was the only number one hit of her life, and she never heard it on the radio.
In her will she left $2,500 for her friends to throw a party in her honor.
Did she go back to prove she'd won, or was she still the girl in that hallway, hoping someone would finally ask her to dance?
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In 2015, at the age of 92, pianist Menahem Pressler was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the ECHO Klassik ceremony. Upon receiving the award, he asked to sit at the piano and performed Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor.
Without the need for an orchestra or an elaborate stage—just a piano—Pressler delivered melodies that were profound and exquisitely nuanced. It was a simple yet unforgettable moment, as music flowed from a man who had dedicated his entire life to it.
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Stevie Wonder in 1973, performing “Superstition” during his guest appearance on "Sesame Street"
