November 14, 2026

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! The Great AI Con: The Nvidia Sex Scandal Isn’t a Sex Scandal — It’s a Chinese Psyop.

84% of Chinese people say they’re excited about AI. In America, it’s now just 38%.

This has all the telltale signs of not just a Chinese psyop, but a dedicated, multiyear plan to defeat America in the AI race.

Look at what’s happened in the past two years:

  1. AI and data centers have been thoroughly (and, possibly, permanently) demonized in America. Especially after the midterms, very few politicians will approve new large-scale data centers.
  2. The U.S. AI industry is currently being destabilized. “Someone” is spreading unsubstantiated rumors (and/or leaking classified information) about the private lives of top U.S. tech CEOs.
  3. The “vast Chinese spying machine” continues to Hoover up our tech secrets.
  4. The media keeps pushing anti-AI propaganda into the political discourse, even though it’s a 1% issue.
  5. The Democrats in Congress are prioritizing AI slowdowns, guardrails, moratoriums, hearings, and regulations. (Reuters calls it a “flood of AI bills.”)

Everything China wanted is coming true!

The Jensen Huang/sexy Chinese spy story was fun. Call it a honeypot, a honeytrap, or anything you want.

But I seriously doubt that story is the real story. Too many coincidences. Too many pro-Chinese, anti-American outcomes in a row. Including outcomes FAR better than what you’d get from a one-off honeypot operation and ChiCom shell companies.

Sorry, but this isn’t a story about honeypots or sexy spies. It’s way bigger than that.

Given how the CCP intertwines itself with Chinese corporations, I’m not sure if I’d fully discard the honeypot aspect of the story just yet:

● Megaspeed’s vacant offices raise questions about ties to Nvidia and China.

● To Nvidia and Beyond: Measuring the Extent of China’s Infiltration.

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPENCER PRATT: We need to start a doomsday panic scorecard.

Every time someone declares a civil war, or climate apocalypse, or nuclear armageddon & WW3 for the 9,000th time, it never comes to pass, but we just move on, so 5 months later they do it again, and people fall for it, again.

The apocalypse isn’t happening in your lifetime, folks. The real shit is some overpaid bureaucrat in your municipal water district is gonna get lazy with their emails, and your reservoir is gonna be empty when some other overpaid state park bureaucrat forgets to monitor a smoldering plant for an entire week, then your entire town burns up in a wildfire, your grandma burns alive and then 400 more people die from accelerated cancers from the toxic smoke.

Buying into these theatrical fantasies of global catastrophe only serves our corrupt government, distracting you from the true menace in your life. It’s so exhausting. I used to indulge in these catastrophic conspiracy theories, but I had to learn the hard way that it’s just plain old government incompetence that’s the biggest threat to your daily life.

Read the whole thing. Perhaps the reason why people who’ve grown up in the 1970s tune these sort of doomsday scenarios is that we’ve seen them repeated in various forms over and over again.

Besides, aren’t we all dead today? According to a 1960 study, overpopulation was going to end the world on Friday.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DO NOT TRUST CHINA; CHINA IS ASSHOE:

Posted at 2:48 pm by Ed Driscoll

SUCKING IN THE ’70s: New House Democrats Can Be Today’s ‘Watergate Babies.’

Having lived through all of that once, I’m not looking forward to a return of double-digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates, impeachment hearings, and 21st century equivalents of bugging out of Vietnam, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

LOST IN A GALLUP:

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Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WOKE 2.0 IS DESPERATE FOR NEW MATERIAL: Crazy: NPR Guest and University of Michigan Gender Studies Professor Claims Physical Fitness Is a “Tool of Soft Fascism” — Says BMI Standards and Self-Discipline Are “Racialized”

C’mon guys, think of something new; you’ve run this topic into the ground:

● Do you boast about your fitness? Watch out – you’ll unavoidably become rightwing.

—The Grauniad, September 27th, 2018.

● ‘Fascist fitness:’ how the far right is recruiting with online gym groups.

—The Grauniad, March 6th, 2022.

● MSNBC opinion article ridiculed for warning about ‘fascist fitness.’

—Fox News, March 23rd, 2022.

● The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness.

—Time magazine, December 28th, 2022.

● According to MSNBC, if you exercise and work out, you’re a Nazi.

—The Washington Examiner, July 11th, 2023.

Finally, in California, you don’t need an ID to vote, but you do need one to buy creatine: California to force gym buffs to show ID to buy popular fitness supplement.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

YES:

Posted at 11:17 am by Stephen Green

AND THE AI ANSWER IS: What happens when we pose the same question to multiple AIs? Are AI systems free from the unstated, unexamined assumptions of their trainers? HillFaith starts today with the first of a series of queries to be posed in coming weeks to ChatGPT, DiscO, and Grok 4.6. The variations in their responses are definitely food for thought.

Posted at 10:51 am by Mark Tapscott