Ground Ball Under Buckner!!

All speculation at the moment, naturally. But it seems that FAA depends on Gummint Contractors for its compute. Here are the main ones (via Google Gemini):

- Lockheed Martin: Developed and upgraded key computer systems like ERAM (En Route Automation Modernization) at air traffic control centers.
- Leidos, Raytheon/RTX, and SAIC: Act as major systems integrators for airport modernization, mission systems, and IT transformation.
- Verizon: Designs and operates telecommunications and network infrastructure for the National Airspace System

So, what's the bet that one of them got hacked? My bet is Verizon. Time will tell. A MSCommie reporter in Jacksonville airport was told be a deplaned passenger that the pilot told them do deplane as it would be 7 hours before they could fly. Up to that, the reporting was in the half-to-hour range. Time will tell.

Ain't capitalism great? I suppose that Ayatollah 17% Don^© will pile on and complain that the same hackers that grounded the planes were the ones who rigged that Blue Tsunami. Of course he will.

By The Numbers - part the one hundred and fifth

Now that the GOP, writ large, has had it's ass handed to them, we now get the sturm und drang of why the soon-to-be ex-congresscritters still suck Ayatollah 17% Don^©'s dick? Simple: it's the money.

If you've got the impression that a whole bunch of them end up on K Street, you betcha. Do you really think that Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don would stop and think for a moment; "should I call every K Street lobby shop and tell them to not go near congresscritter Z who voted against my wishes just once?" Not a bit of it. That's why they still suck the long tit.

The other number that matters, given Blanche's tsunami of voter fraud cases in this election: how many different voting systems were used in the 50 states? After all, the only feasible way to get a barge pole up your sphincter (and out your nose, in the end) in so many losses is if there is some systematic way to undermine the mechanistic voting process.

Total votes (Senate): Dem - 34,172,419   Rep - 27,595,797 
Total votes (House):  Dem - 66,167,935   Rep - 49,913,331  

Numbers from the wiki as of 13 Nov. 1:40 pm. (The difference isn't a typo, wiki's or mine, only 33 Senate seats voted this year)

Now, how to rig a national election? The only feasible way to generate those margins is to fiddle with the mechanics; upwards of 10,000,000 individuals would have to fake vote otherwise. That's too far even for Douglas Adams. So, how many distinct mechanics are in use? Not so many as you might think, but not just one. Ballot methods: 5 Tablulation methods: 7 Note that is the methods, not the machines, so these two numbers are the lower bounds.

Boy howdy, are they ever!! Turns out Bone Spur Samurai^© has an office (I suspect he'll shut it down soon in order to bolster his lies) that certifies voting machines. As I type, there are 92. Now some are multiple versions of a basic device, but still??? Fiddle them all??? C'mon man!!!!!

As you can see from the accompanying, they get mixed up all sorts of ways. May be in 2028, Elon will have used his primitive AI to rig all combinations. We ain't there yet, and, God willing, he'll be in prison.

Boo Hoo

Well... Huang is out of Nvidia, and the black crepe is all over the AI world. But... bullshit. He is being called the visionary of AI, whose absence spells doom. But that's all bullshit. Anyone who bothers to look up what he's actually done at/with Nvidia sees that it's... not much.

He's been compared to Gates and Jobs as vital to both Nvidia and AI globally. But consider what he hasn't done.

- he didn't invent GPU

- he didn't invent parallel processing hardware

- he didn't invent, design, or code CUDA

- he didn't discover that GPU can be used for general arithmetic

- he didn't invent, design, or code the first math co-processor, the 80287 the granddaddy of the microprocessor GPU

- he didn't invent, design, or code VLSI, et seq which make the microprocessor GPU possible

As to the Gates/Jobs comparison... well yet more bullshit. Gates got rich and famous because IBM was stupid; they bought (non-exclusively) Quick and Dirty Operating System from Microsoft after it scrounged same for Seattle Computer. And, of course, Lotus wrote 1-2-3 solely in x86 assembler, and every Suit in the world wanted to run 1-2-3 (only a handful ever ran Microsoft's multiplan, ha!) Gates knew how to code, bigly. Jobs was always more interested at user experience, than the nuts and bolts of the Apple machines. That guy was Wozniak. The two eventually fell out.

In sum then, Huang is the world's greatest schnorrer, riding on the capability of CUDA. Which seems less powerful today than a few days ago, having nothing to do with the downfall of Huang: AI can now run on AMD GPU. Whether that is a stake through the heart of Nvidia is way, way too soon to tell.

Anthropic is pitching IPO investors on a number that should worry anyone who owns NVIDIA (NVDA): three days.

That's how long Anthropic says its Mythos model took to get Claude running on chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). "It got Claude running on AMD in just three days with basically no human intervention. Claude ported or wrote almost 100% of the kernels," Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said in the company's roadshow video. The company's old approach took six to 12 months.

No one will miss Huang.

By The Numbers - part the one hundred and fourth

Scott Colom is projected, and Hyde-Smith has conceded, as Mississippi Senator. Watching MSCommie News, with their Numbers Guy (just as bad as the last one in khaki) showing results over the last few cycles. What's striking, and those who fixate on percents usually do, is that no one has yet remarked on the collapse of votes.

Colom -      473K
Hyde-Smith - 468K
2024
Trump -  747K
Harris - 466K
2024 Senate
Wicker -  763K
Pinkins - 451K

Looks like Ayatollah 17% Don^© was kinda right. Colom out voted Harris and Pinkins, while Hyde-Smith got torched by Trump and Wicker. Ya cain't win if ya don't play.

Mr. Watson, come here...

Regular reader is aware that oft times, 2016 and 2020 and 2024 mostly, I've made mention of NSA. Having spent about a decade in DC, and before that Beacon Hill, I became a politics junkie. And still a bit later, about a year as a Jack Anderson peon while he was still relevant; even met up with some spooks in Bethesda whilst working on a story. Suffice to say, spies were everywhere. And they still are.

The point being: NSA machines hoover up every last bit of telecomms across the planet. Their remit is to not spy on USofA citizens. At least directly while such citizens are on USofA soil. But there exist two exceptions to that protection. First, if a tap is on some foreigner in some foreign place, and said foreigner is chatting with a USofA citizen in that foreign place (or any other, for that matter), then what the USofA citizen has to say is fair game. Second, and more important, it is still legal to slurp up what the USofA citizen says even on USofA soil if the foreign party is outside the USofA.

Which brings us to Les Affaire Huang. You've likely heard a bit about it already. But this is some new admissions about how it all worked.

Mr. Huang's relationship with the woman, who goes by Alice Huang, became a U.S. government concern after surveillance revealed that she was feeding information directly to Beijing.

If it's the case that Ms. Huang was off-shore at some times then

In the course of the surveillance, they found that she was in communication with a U.S. citizen who was identified as Mr. Huang.

Gotcha, Jensen.

And, naturally, gotcha Ayatollah 17% Don^©. The only issue is when will NSA/Vlad/Trump get Snowdened? The sooner the better. Treason is, after all, just treason. I don't think it can be argued that such behavior is, in the words of The Gang of Six^©, "official acts". If they say so, the USofA is no longer a free democracy.

Some Answers

It's North Carolina deja vu all over again in Texas. Of course.

We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat.
-- Rep. Brian Harrison (R)

Swapping Susie Wiles for Miller? Talk about triple down!

By The Numbers - part the one hundred and third

By now, unless your braindead and living in some faraway cave, you've noticed that the MAGAnauts commited suicide on Tuesday. But, of course, how? Going into voting, it seemed to me that turnout, on both sides, would be the factor. Here's some numbers (from a local teeVee station, no less) that point the way.

About 124 million people voted in the 2026 midterm elections, according to preliminary data from the University of Florida Election Lab. That's up from the 112 million in 2022 and 118.6 million in 2018.

While the over number of votes cast is up, the voter turnout rate for 2026 still lags behind both the 2022 and 2018 midterms, which saw a 69% and 79% voter turnout rate, respectively. In 2026, the preliminary voter turnout rate was 63%.

Voter turnout was calculated using voter registration data from L2 and the U.S. Census Bureau. Voter registration has increased from 153 million in 2018 to 196 million in 2026.

Of course, weighing turnout is a volatile notion. So, by the numbers, the percent turnout is down from earlier midterms. BUT, note the registration numbers: a whopping 43 million more possible voters. That's a bunch.