Friday Memes!

Scandal A-Poppin'...

Almost a trillion dollars of corporate valuation has gone up in smoke thanks to the burgeoning scandals surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Word is out now that not only was he boinking a Chinese spy, but also he was allegedly dipping his pen in the company inkwell by sleeping with Nvidia's vice president of health care, a position that would report directly to Huang. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure they discussed fraternization between employees and their bosses being a no-no in the very first job I had in high school.

"But Tam", you say, "Doesn't, like, Elon get up to all kinds of wack shit like artificially inseminating B-list celebs and naming his twelfth kid 'Mechazoid Invictus' or whatever?" and I say "Yeah, sure, but no physical product manufactured by any of his companies is as key to the global economy as the GPUs made by Nvidia. Musk makes stock market hype for gullible investors who believe him every time he says we'll have rocket-powered self-driving data centers on Mars by 2019, Huang makes the chips that power half of everything."

Buried beneath all the salacious cheating gossip is the more disturbing news that Nvidia chips were likely being funneled through shady front companies straight to China.

BONUS: The ten largest US companies by market cap now account for 37% of the entire value of the stock market. It hasn't been that concentrated since the Great Depression.

BONUS BONUS: Huang has resigned effective immediately.

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November 11th Miscellany

• For Veteran's Day, Sean M. Smith's book Rank Absurdity: An Irreverent Military Memoir is on sale.


• It's the hundredth birthday of the U.S. highway system.


• The Great Blue Norther of 1911 saw many midwestern cities set record highs and lows on the same day.

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"Sir, this is a Wendy's."

Online ragebait merchant Jake Lang stormed into the lobby of the Sea-Meow convention in Seattle like Carrie Nation into a Kansas saloon. Hilarity ensued.

"You guys are indoctrinating the youth with homosexual and transsexual ideas. This furry stuff is not for children," said Lang, gesturing at attendees and a pair of greeters who happened to be wearing full-body cat costumes. "These people are sexualizing children! They're inviting children in. Look at this. This is sexualization of children ... what are you guys doing here? These people here, they dress up in these outfits, and they have sex with each other in these orgies every single weekend. Now they're inviting the children to come to their furry convention!"

"This is a convention for cats," said one of the staff.

Golf clap.

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Lesser-Known Holidays

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate!

Happy Birthday USMC!

On this day in 1775, the first guy to make his X on the paper at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia turned and looked at the guy behind him in line and said "Things were different in the Old Corps."

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Tab Clearing...

• Huang honeypotted by hottie?


• The Fridge-Hacking Spree is an Internet-of-Things Wakeup Call.


• The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin

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"Is It Monday Again, Already?" Memes!

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Noped Out.

I was gonna go photograph the Monumental Marathon this morning but it was 34℉ out when I should have been leaving the house and it was eighty degrees just the other day.

I am not yet seasonally acclimated. At any rate, the Drumstick Dash is in just a few weeks, so I punted. By then I'll be a little more cold-tolerant.

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Automotif DCXLII...

An eye-catching 911 Carrera droptop snapped with a Nikon D4 and a 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G VR zoom lens. Click to greatly embiggenate.

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