Melissa Chen

One day, I hope @MrWinMarshall will no longer be defined by or asked about his cancelation from his band;

and that the experience of leaving something he loved so much in order to be free, would be the least interesting thing about him.

Until that day.. 👇

Was talking with a friend about how public extramarital affairs are handled differently in Chinese versus Western societies, and how expectations placed on the wife diverge sharply once a man’s infidelity becomes public knowledge.

As of now, Jensen Huang’s wife Lori has not publicly responded. Obviously she's not obligated to explain or manage her husband’s behavior for the public, and she isn't responsible for protecting or restoring his image. The matter is quite simple and straightforward. The public feels bad for her and knows she is the victim here.

Although that said, given how important of a company Nvidia is, the world is kinda waiting with bated breath because her eventual reaction or continued silence carries the potential to ripple through market sentiment, institutional confidence, and the valuations that underwrite countless portfolios, thereby shaping, in no small measure, the net worth of investors the world over.

In Chinese society, however, the response often takes a very different form. Just last June, it was reported that Foxconn founder Terry Gou was having an affair with a female golf partner / friend.

The media tracked his movements closely, waiting for some statement or reaction. A couple of months later, his wife, Ms. Zeng shared a photo on Instagram of the couple looking happy together. They had flown to California for an event hosted by Apple CEO Tim Cook and posed with him; Gou wore a formal suit while his wife wore an elegant red dress, and both smiled for the cameras.

This is a familiar script among Chinese women facing such rumors: publicly posting affectionate couple photos as a way of signaling 支持先生 (support the husband / stand by one’s husband). Gou himself never issued a public comment or statement about the alleged affair, and the matter effectively ended there.

When a man’s affair is rumored, Chinese society tends to focus above all on 妻子是否继续站在他身边 (whether the wife continues to stand by his side) as the decisive outcome. They look for signs. Does the wife appear at events, does she pose for photos with her husband? The man himself faces little public accountability.

Chinese society has a distinctive way of processing these situations: if one spouse errs, the other is often expected to absorb the consequences and remain at their side. When a man does something wrong, women are frequently expected to 委屈求全 (endure humiliation and compromise to preserve the greater good / swallow one’s pride for the sake of the bigger picture).

The questions that circulate are whether the wife will forgive him and whether she will continue to support him if his career or reputation is damaged.

This is the biggest difference between Chinese and Western societies when high profile people deal with the fallout extramarital affairs. In Chinese society, women are expected to 顾全大局 (take the overall situation into account / consider the big picture).

If the husband makes a mistake, the wife is expected to maintain the family; if he damages the marriage, she is expected to help repair it; and if he publicly apologizes, she is often expected to come forward and forgive him so that the episode can be considered closed.

In Western society, by contrast, when an adult errs they are generally left to 自己看着办 (handle it yourself / deal with it on your own). Very few wives step out to “help the husband apologize” or publicly grant him another chance in the same way; adults are expected to own their own mistakes.

Look at how it went down for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The notable exception many people point to is Bill and Hillary Clinton - she stood beside him despite his infidelity, a stance that feels more Eastern than Western in its emphasis on standing by one’s partner for the sake of the "larger picture"

I suspect this goes to the top of Commerce.

Howard Lutnick and Jensen are close.

Huang has publicly said Lutnick is “the person I talk to most in the administration,” that Lutnick is “on top of the technology,” and that Lutnick was the first to know about certain Nvidia announcements.

Lutnick earlier told Huang that Nvidia is a “national treasure” and to call whenever he needed access to the president or the administration, and Huang has said that proved true.

They’ve met repeatedly (Oval Office around the $4T market-cap milestone, GTC events, G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, and other Washington meetings, including amid export probes).

This relationship gives Jensen unusually good access to the Trump administration. Huang has credited Lutnick with opening doors, and the two have been photographed and reported together in official settings.

Of course this doesn’t prove that there was corruption, but it does illustrate the access and influence channels at play while Commerce was approving these licenses and while broader China-chip policy (H200 sales with a U.S. cut, ongoing probes into Blackwell/other exports) was being shaped.

“Engaging with China” really means something different now eh

this video is a must-watch if you’re following the Florida Learjet crash:

A meteorologist and pilot wanted to know how is it that a plane equipped with Doppler radar did not see the storm ahead?

Turns out that the onboard radar can tilt and if the pilots had tilted it downwards, they would have seen that stronger storm building up.

How did they figure this out?

They took the actual National Weather Service Doppler radar data from the storm, then recalibrated and resampled it to simulate exactly what a Learjet’s onboard Collins WXR-840 X-band radar (the 3 cm wavelength system many of these jets carry) would have seen at 35,000 feet in −47 °C air.

The result is striking. At a normal 0° tilt, the returns look like faint ice-phase echoes. A nothingburger, basically.

Tilt the same radar down roughly 5° and it suddenly lights up with the stronger lower core of a rapidly intensifying storm directly ahead.

NWS data shows the storm tops were around 31,000 ft just before the jet penetrated, shot up to 40,000 ft while they were in it, then collapsed back to ~33,000 ft after they exited.

This confirms that they flew into a storm cloud with explosive growth and collapse with violent updrafts and downdrafts, exactly the kind of thing an X-band radar looking straight ahead at cruise altitude can easily under-sample.

@EricBurrisWX walks through the radar geometry, the crystal reflectivity at those temperatures, and low-key gives one of the clearest, most technically grounded explanations out there.