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Two is Enough

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Nvidia board is intending to remove Jensen Huang from the company now that a second affair, this one with an Nvidia executive who reports to him, has surfaced.

The Nvidia board is reportedly planning to oust CEO Jensen Huang amid reports he engaged in two extramarital affairs, including one with a Chinese businesswoman and alleged spy and another with an executive at his tech company.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the board was preparing to meet as soon as Wednesday to determine Huang’s future with the technology giant he founded.

On Sunday, Nvidia said that its board launched an independent investigation “in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.”

The development on Wednesday comes after The New York Times reported nearly two weeks ago that Huang had “a close relationship” with an alleged Chinese government agent, identified as Alice Huang, a top executive at Singapore-based data company Megaspeed. He later admitted in an internal statement to Nvidia staff that he had been “unfaithful to his wife.”

Amid the fallout from the allegations and the letter, The Times reported on Wednesday that Huang also allegedly had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia executive who allegedly reports to him. The outlet, citing sources within the company, reported that Huang and his colleague were allegedly captured on video being affectionate at a hotel during an Nvidia conference in March. The New York Times said it had not seen the video.

I somehow doubt that all of this news coming out right now is unrelated to the upcoming trilateral summit between the USA, China, and Russia. It’s pretty clear that none of this behavior is unknown to the intelligence agencies, but they don’t act upon the knowledge until it’s of some potential use to them.

All I can say is that I am so very happy that something happened to inspire this video. It is conclusive proof that AI is good and for the material benefit of Mankind.

UPDATE: A press release published Thursday following a late Wednesday night board meeting announced Huang’s resignation as CEO, president, and board member, effective immediately, with current CFO Colette Kress appointed interim CEO.

Buckle up, looks like bumpy weather ahead.

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Now Do Walliams

Katherine Ryan confirms that she was talking about Russell Brand when she referred to a sexual predator in the UK entertainment industry:

Katherine Ryan has said she feels a mixture of ‘grief and relief’ after Russell Brand was convicted of rape and faces up to ten years in jail. Ryan was one of the first celebrities to publicly raise concerns about Brand’s sexual behaviour and the first star to confront him to his face, almost a decade ago. The comedians were both judges on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in 2018, when Ryan repeatedly called him a ‘sexual predator’ on camera. But the remarks were cut by producers and never broadcast, and Brand left the show after six episodes.

In 2022, she spoke out again and claimed in an interview with Louis Theroux that she knew of a ‘predator’ working in the entertainment industry and that it was an ‘open secret’ who it was.

She said she could not name the male comic because it would be a ‘litigious minefield’, but indicated she had called the individual a ‘predator’ to ‘his face’, prompting widespread speculation she was referring to Brand.

Meanwhile, no one is doing or saying anything about David Walliams even though everyone appears to know he is the “suicidal celebrity” who filed a failed lawsuit to prevent the direct accusations about his allegedly illegal behavior from being reported. Or about the dozens of others in Hollywood and Silicon Valley whose behavior is even worse.

The thing is, the defamation laws everywhere are an absolute joke. How many times have I, or practically everyone to the right of a Rockefeller Republican, been called “a Nazi” despite never having supported or had anything to do with anything that can be reasonably described as National Socialism or the German National Socialist Workers Party? Wikipedia ensures that false accusations are made public and easily referenceable for decades.

But, for some reason, we’re supposed to believe that publicly accusing something of someone they have actually done, which everyone around them knows, and which they even “joke”about in public, is massively risky.

Color me dubious.

UPDATE: I was wondering why the media kept talking about the woman who was “raped” at his house after having repeatedly having sex with him, given what an obviously weak case it was. The other guilty counts explains why:

  • GUILTY – Grabbed a woman’s breast area at a party.
  • GUILTY – Brand met a woman at a gig music venue, they both went back to his house later, she claimed they had anal sex.
    She left that evening. She never complained. They never dated. She never texted him anything negative after that. She never filed a police report. She has no DNA evidence. She had no bruises or injuries to show, no photos. She never told any of her close friends she was raped. She waited 16 years to file a police report.
  • GUILTY – 2004 or 2005, the accuser does not remember when, Brand grabbed her sexually at a radio station. She waited 21 years to make a police report.
  • GUILTY – 2009 at a TV station Brand put his head in woman’s lap and his nose was “near her vaginal area.” She waited 16 years to file a police report.

This was obviously some kind of political hit or psychological operation. It doesn’t change the fact that Brand used to be what he was, but if these are criminal offenses, then why isn’t Donald Trump, half of Hollywood, and everyone in the Epstein files in jail?

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Float Down the River

It is said that if you sit by the river long enough, eventually the bodies of your enemies float by. There’s a song about that.

Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication.

It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.

When Salon launched in November 1995, the web was a very different place. A small group of journalists set out to create something original: a publication with a strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways. They helped pioneer a form of journalism that would come to define an entirely new era of publishing.

Over three decades, Salon has brought together politics, culture, criticism and ideas in a way that was distinctly our own. Our journalism examined power and politics, questioned assumptions, surfaced stories that deserved attention and made room for perspectives that were too often overlooked. Our writers and editors helped shape conversations about the forces changing our lives. The work was never simply about keeping up with the news. It was about making sense of it.

The history of Salon is also the history of the people who made it. We are profoundly grateful to the journalists, editors, photographers, producers, designers, business teams and countless other colleagues who brought this publication to life across its many chapters. To the founders who imagined it, the staff members who built it, the contributors who gave it their voices and the alumni who carried its spirit into the world: Thank you. Salon’s legacy belongs to all of you.

I’m not going to lie, I thought Salon was already dead. But it’s nice to be able to celebrate its demise in a timely manner.

I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait for you to float down the river.

Yes, I’ll wait for you.

It’s not hate. It’s just faith in destiny

I will wait for you.

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File 770 Discriminates Against Hispanics

It’s so terrible to see the way that the science fiction community is full of hatred and discriminates against Hispanics. Mike Glyer of File 770 actually apologized for running a basic convention report about the recent World Fantasy Convention that just happened to be written by a gentleman of Hispanic descent.

How can I run a review by Paul Weimer and a week later post something by Jon Del Arroz, a writer who’s persecuted him? (Or ever?) That was a terrible choice. I apologize. And how can I do that to Cat Eldridge, who is closely associated with this blog but was completely blindsided by the post. He works with Paul all the time and absolutely would not want us to be hosting JDA. I apologize to Cat, too.

A good apology would stop there, I think. Which I say because some people want to know why I did this in the first place. And an explanation at this point in an apology is usually a backdoor justification which makes the apology worthless. All I can say is the explanation is part of my contrition.

File 770 doesn’t have that many commenters, so it often feels like I do a lot of work and all that matters is if I mention someone’s hot button topic they will jump in to reprimand me for failing their purity test. Most of the time my skin is not so thin that I react. Sometimes it is. Resentment is the issue that drives most of the problems I have in life, and when I yield to it bad things happen.

I was going through just such a season of feeling picked on when Jon Del Arroz sent me his convention report. I combed through it expecting to find takes I would refuse to publish but it was rather vanilla. Nothing to object to but the byline.

This is obviously nothing more than pure anti-Hispanic racism on the part of Mr. Glyer. There was literally nothing to object to but a Hispanic name in the byline; it was a simple and straightforward news report devoid of any political content whatsoever, as you can see for for yourself.

World Fantasy Con 2026 Friday Review
Posted on October 24, 2026 by Mike Glyer

By Jon Del Arroz: World Fantasy Convention opened Thursday at the Oakland MarriottCity Center, and Friday, the first full day, delivered the small, personal kind of gathering the convention is known for. I wasn’t able to attend Thursday because of having to get work done. Robert Silverberg was the main draw for me, and he did not disappoint.

The convention is a fraction of Worldcon’s size. Programming runs two or three panels at a time, the dealer room is modest, and the convention space is compact. Organizers have been citing 775 members on Facebook. At peak times on Friday the halls held roughly 200. The staff has the operation running smoothly and were all super nice and helpful, from the info desk to programming to the dealer room, and attendees I passed all seemed to be having a good time.

The morning opened with a panel on the changing publishing world. The lineup was Silverberg, Josh Wilson from The Fabulous magazine, Teresa DeLucchi, director of marketing at Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press, Betsy Wollheim, and Stephen Jones.

The panelists agreed that everything in the business is up in the air and very different than ever. They discussed the trend toward sprayed edges on books that began in the pandemic, and cited that they thought the trend had peaked, which I find entertaining and think look great and add a lot to the presentation of books. They also said physical books are staging a bigger comeback because ebooks have become so prevalent and normalized, so people want something physical and cool to hold. That matches what I see in the market: readers want premium deluxe editions, and more publishers are making them.

AI produced the panel’s one real disagreement. Jones called it inevitable and asked why anyone bothers fighting it. DeLucchi argued people should not be using it. Jones has the better of that argument. AI is not going away, and people will not stop using it. It cleans up typos fast, and it has plenty of uses that never touch the creative work. He believes eventually AI will replace editors entirely for the most part.

The AI exchange led Silverberg to talk of copy editors, and he did not hold back. He once had a copy editor “fix” a sentence he had deliberately left unfinished, and he had to get it changed back. His verdict: “I hate copy editors because I know what I’m doing.” He added that Harlan Ellison once had a copy editor change a pile of his text wholesale, and that it did not go well for the copy editor.

He also talked about meeting John W. Campbell. The business used to be personal, he said, and now it is detached and run by email. The panel noted that unlike the days of building relationships with editors to buy stories, Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld buys stories only through open submissions, not by soliciting authors, so a relationship with the editor doesn’t get you a sale. Everyone goes through the same slush process. Silverberg described walking into Campbell’s office as being like going to church and meeting God. When he got to call Campbell by his first name, he thought the roof would fall in.

The dealer’s hall was modest but with a lot of cool stuff. Tachyon Publishing had a big presence there with a lot of works that were tempting, especially form Peter Beagle’s catalog. Cross Genre Books, a Portland dealer, had a deep rare-book stock: signed Jack Vance, signed Harlan Ellison, Poul Anderson, Anne McCaffrey, and plenty of Heinlein. I spoke with Anthony Eichenlaub, vice president of SFWA, who had a table in the room. Artist John Picacio also set up there, and he kept a line most of the time I passed, with fans buying prints.

In the afternoon I went to a reading with Bruce McAllister, Charlie Jane Anders, and Caroline Yoachim. McAllister is a long time writer who has done wonderful work and does not get enough credit in the field these days despite plenty of award nominations for his work. Anders really worked the room before reading from a forthcoming publication in 2027 that involves vampires and time travel, thanking the moderator and the audience and getting everyone applauding, and the crowd responded in kind.

What’s great is how many of the attendees are there just as fans and not a full slate of scheduled speaking. I ran into Robin Hobb and Tad Williams, among other big names. Peter Beagle held a small meetup that filled before I could sign up, and I hope to catch him another way before Sunday. A bookbinding workshop, where attendees bound their own books, also looked good, and I missed it for scheduling reasons.

Friday night also holds a mass autographing session. Silverberg and Jones are expected to unveil an anthology there, with advance review copies on hand. Saturday brings Silverberg’s interview panel, which I expect to be a highlight of the con as well. The World Fantasy Awards banquet is Sunday to cap everything off. 

All in all, it was an excellent Friday, and World Fantasy Convention delivered. 

Now, I have zero interest in any future accommodation with the SF-SJWs, not because they quite rightly hate and fear me, but because they are such a collection of irrelevant mediocrities that there isn’t a single one of them that I would ever deem worthy of publishing in ebook, let alone in fine deluxe leather. When Castalia House is publishing excellent authors like Eiji Yoshikawa, Benito Perez Galdos, Zenaide Fleuriot, Unno Juza, and Nomura Kido in English for the first time ever, how could we possibly care about these sub-trivial SF/F wannabes who don’t even understand what science fiction is and what it is not.

Unfortunately, Mike Glyer has forgotten that his proper role is that of a science fiction historian, not a racial gatekeeper, and while it’s understandable that he would eventually fold under the hateful pressure of the yapping SJWs, it is a mistake on his part. Because, as a very kind and gentle dark lord once said, an apology is nothing more than a guilty plea in their beady little eyes.

And they are irrelevant anyhow. Despite their best efforts, Castalia House already publishes more and better titles than Tor or Baen. I will not be surprised if within three years, Castalia House is the biggest science fiction-related publisher in the world not named “Amazon”.

Sign up for Castalia Unlimited to find out why.

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The Lingering Costs

  • In July 2021 during Eagles training camp, Jalen Hurts confirmed to reporters that he had received the COVID-19 vaccine. Multiple contemporaneous reports from The Athletic, and others documented him stating “I have the vaccine.”
  • The 2026 season of Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is most likely over. Hurts, who played eight days ago with a blood clot in his leg, has been diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism in each lung.
  • Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is out for the remainder of the season with blood clots.

There are a lot of stories about this in the sports media. A lot of different angles, all of which address how the Eagles have been handling the situation, if Hurts should have played in London, if Hurts should have flown back from London, what the Eagles will do for the rest of the season, and if this marks the end of Hurts’s career in Philadelphia given his current contract.

None of them address the elephant in the room: why does one of the healthiest, most physically fit young men in the world have a blood clot in his leg and pulmonary embolisms in his lungs? Or why the much-maligned Aaron Rodgers doesn’t.

What are the chances Rodgers doesn’t address this on Pat McAfee’s show…

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The Scholars Revolt Spreads

Now it’s the scholars of Belgium who are raging over the suboptimal nature of their educations:

Student riots plaguing France have spread to Belgium, where hundreds of hooded thugs are clashing with police.

The country’s French-speaking community have taken to the streets to protest swingeing cuts to Belgium’s education budget, as the government seeks to save at least €10billion over the coming years to reduce a high deficit.

Inspired in part by protests across the border in France, Belgian school students have taken to the streets in recent days in several towns.

Police said as many as 30,000 demonstrators have flooded Brussels, an ‘unprecedented’ number, after they began arriving at around 9.30am local time today.

They threw cobblestones, bricks, glass bottles, fences and traffic signs at police. One cop was seen taking a samurai sword away from a protester.

These rioters were seen congregating around Brussels Central Station, which sits in between both the European Parliament and the country’s legislature building.

Footage showed demonstrators running amok near the major railway hub. One clip showed masked and hooded figures throwing things into a fire as police stood by watching.

The gathered crowd was heard cheering and whooping as more things were thrown into the inferno.

I just think it’s amusing that we’re still supposed to pretend to believe that the rioters are “students” or that any of this has anything to do with young people desperate for better educations.

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Corruption in Social Media

Foreign interests attempt to utilize American social media influencers:

Ukraine’s government-backed United24 project offered former US service members thousands of dollars to produce pro-Ukraine videos for American audiences, RT’s America Now has found. The offers targeted veterans whose military backgrounds could make the message seem more credible to viewers.

Host Ben Swann and investigative journalist Elizabeth Lane examined how the project, launched by Vladimir Zelensky in 2022 to raise support for Ukraine, approached former personnel, including special operations veterans with YouTube channels and other media platforms.

According to veterans who reached out to Lane, United24 offered around $10,000 for each video, plus $40,000 in advertising support. There was no stated limit on the number of videos they could make. The project would also provide scripts and guidance, while the veterans would ultimately deliver praise for Ukraine and Zelensky in their own words.

Some creators who agreed to the deal were reportedly creating up to five or six videos a week, making nearly a quarter of a million dollars a month, Lane found. The men who spoke with Lane said they themselves had turned down the money, recognizing that they were being asked to present paid propaganda as their own views.

However, for some, the refusal came with consequences beyond lost income. One veteran, who turned down the offer and later criticized Ukraine for wasting US money on his channel, had people contacting his employer, calling him a Russian agent, and trying to get him fired.

Full disclosure: the only foreign interest that has ever offered any support for me was China’s English language television station. They offered me a show, which in retrospect I probably should have agreed to do. I turned it down, in part because UATV was starting to roll, but also because I didn’t want people trying to to dismiss me as some sort of Chinese shill.

As it turned out, they do that anyhow on the basis of me sharing my observations without any compensation. Of course, it’s a lot different openly doing a show on a network and secretly taking money to advertise someone else’s perspective.

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There is No Free Press

We always knew the media was fake, gay, and retarded. But we didn’t know that it was 100-percent government-funded.

USAID financed some SIX-THOUSAND, TWO-HUNDRED (6,200) “Journalists” Acros 707 different “media” outlets, and 279 Media Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s).

Stop and think about that for just a moment. How many “Journalists” are there at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC-MS NOW, CNBC, FOX NEWS CHANNEL, and all the local affiliates of those networks? Certainly nowhere near 6200.

Here in the NYC Metro Area, which is the media capital of the USA, and likely the world, there are maybe a dozen on-air Journalists per network. With the named networks above, a dozen journalists per network makes a total of eighty-four (84).

How about the print media? How many “Reporters” does the New York Times have? What about the Wall Street Journal? The New York Daily News? The New York Post? What about the largest newspapers in America’s 25 largest cities? Maybe 100 reporters each? If every newspaper above in the 25 largest US cities each has 100 reporters, that’s only about 2900 reporters.

USAID is now exposed as having funded 6,200.

What does that tell you about the “news” you’ve been getting from ALL of them? What does that tell you about the “narratives” they’ve been “reporting?”

So much for the First Amendment and the so-called free press. The media as we know it is nothing more than government propaganda. Which, of course, we knew, but we didn’t know they were quite literally contract employees working on the government dime.

No journalist, reporter, or media figure should get a free pass on this one. They must all be assumed to be corrupt until proven innocent.

UPDATE: The average payout was $43,286.45 per journalist.

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Federal Hasbara

Washington is getting into the act of buying social media influencers to counteract the influence of other influencers:

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify the viewpoints of Pete Hegseth. At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Thomas Anderson, who goes by the online handle Cynical Publius.

Neither the Pentagon nor those involved have disclosed the government roles despite the Trump administration’s claims that they are running the most transparent Defense Department ever.

It’s fake, gay, and corrupt all the way down. It’s at the point where I just laugh and delete the email every time someone sends me a request for my take on yet another “conservative” who “really tells it like it is.” I don’t have a take on any of them. I don’t pay attention to any of them. The only people who interest me are the people who simply describe what they think they are seeing without trying to fit it into some sort of narrative.

What part of “it’s all fake, gay, corrupt, and retarded” is so hard to understand? Why do so many people have this burning need to follow other people and parrot whatever it is they’re saying?

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The Thumb on the Scale

  • Icelanders have turned out in unusually large numbers to decide whether to reopen accession talks with the European Union, with the founding NATO member split almost exactly down the middle over its future relationship with Brussels. The campaign went down to the wire. A final Maskína survey put the “yes” camp at 50.4% and “no” at 49.6%.
  • Icelanders voted against resuming EU accession negotiations in a referendum held on Aug. 29, 2026, with 52.8% voting “no” and 47.2% voting “yes.” Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s government proposal was rejected, and turnout was 82.5%.

Amazing, how the polls always overestimate the media’s preferred result. That’s a 6.4 percent swing. And yet somehow, they never manage to correct for their previous misses.

But if Global Banking & Finance Review is to be believed, the Swiss really want to go to war with Russia.

A second recent poll shows 54% of Swiss voters oppose enshrining a stricter neutrality in the constitution, compared with 42% in favour, ahead of the September 27 referendum. 62% oppose it according to another poll, reinforcing expectations of rejection.

Imagine what a nightmare strict, constitutional neutrality would be! Isn’t it so much better to abandon the principle that allowed Switzerland to prosper for centuries and avoid participating in Europe’s many brutal wars. After all, look at how well participating in the sanctions regime is working out for Germany!

Germany is in the midst of a slow-motion economic unravelling — one that is almost entirely self-inflicted. Once the uncontested engine of European prosperity, the country now posts some of the weakest growth among advanced economies, has watched its industrial base wither, and faces a political crisis driven by a governing class too timid to confront the problems it helped create.

Anyhow, good for the Icelanders, although I doubt the government will keep its pledge and stop trying to transform itself into a puppet state of Clown World. And hopefully the media propaganda will prove both incorrect and ineffective, and the Swiss will constitutionally solidify their historic neutrality.

Self-destruction always begins with the lie that one has no other option.

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