Bill Bishop

Supermicro co-founder charged in conspiracy to export Nvidia chips to China ft.trib.al/xRQc8VG

@the__dude98 bullies

@niubi Makes you wonder why they never sued Bloomberg for defamation

Dummy servers justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/t…

>SMCI brought back its co-founder despite 2018 accounting fraud ties >Now he's federally charged with helping reroute $2.5B+ in restricted AI tech to China 👏👏👏

@MarkSimonHK i can understand that...

@niubi Well, that does seem a little excessive.. - they closed my accounts for me just running my mouth..

Must have found something bad to fire this kind of client - “Tang was a major client of JPMorgan’s China private banking team who generated millions of dollars in revenue before the firm ended relations a few months ago due to know-your-customer issues, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Tang had a $4 billion stake in AppLovin Corp. as of early 2025 after the US ad-tech firm’s shares surged more than 700% the previous year.”

Were any super micro execs at that dinner?

@MarkSimonHK finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-darlin… this

@niubi Bill, trust me, JPMorgan/Chase will shut your account for all kinds of reasons.. trust me.. I know… so until we see more, I say give Mr. Tang or whoever it is, the benefit of doubt.

Today, my work over the years received another validation. The DoJ, together with the FBI, announced charges against three executives of SuperMicro (SMCI) for Conspiracy to Violate the Export Control Reform Act. Since at least early 2024, SMCI's executives built a sophisticated, systematic scheme to illegally divert billions of dollars worth of high-performance AI servers containing restricted Nvidia GPUs to China, using a pass-through company in Southeast Asia to evade U.S. export controls. I was the first to call out this smuggling phenomenon in late 2023, when it was just beginning to pick up volume. I tracked the flow of chips across Southeast Asia, including their final destinations in China, and identified the key participants, SMCI among them, documenting how the sophisticated, systemic scheme operated. What the DoJ described in its charging documents is precisely what I wrote about numerous times: the mechanics of how it works, the routes the GPUs travel from origin to their final destination in China, and the volume of the smuggling, which I estimated at tens of billions of dollars worth of GPUs. SMCI is a significant catch, but it is far from the only player in this smuggling ecosystem. Others remain uncharged. What has been equally troubling is that many companies, including public companies and their executives, have had knowing or willful blindness to this phenomenon, looking the other way in order to hit sales targets and meet Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, the smuggling network has evolved in parallel with one of the fastest datacenter buildouts in Southeast Asia, involving numerous subsidiaries, local companies, and datacenter operators who have absorbed every lesson from the smuggling playbook and are now working around the clock to build a datacenter empire across the SEA region.

@AsiaLens Wish her response had been “well I hope this goes better for you than Pearl Harbor went for us”

I highly doubt that it will impact the alliance. Japanese officials are very pragmatic and will quickly move on.

One of the indictees

U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say @CNBC including a super micro cofounder cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-…

Labubu peaked last year

So now we can get ai-generated summaries of the ai-generated x articles?

I'm fucking dying oh my goddddd 💀💀💀

The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. abcnews.visitlink.me/TuMsII

⚖️CIVIL TRIAL⚖️ Seven Adams County Sheriff's Deputies vs Rapper Afroman (Joseph Foreman) in Ohio Monday, March 16, 2026 The Lawsuit filed claims invasion of privacy and emotional distress after he used 2022 home raid footage in his music videos. 😆 Viral 'Lemon Pound Cake' video brought threats, distress😂

2/2 China builds new economic empire in occupied Ukraine english.nv.ua/nation/china-q…

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

财新网•政经【文博反腐看首都 71岁首博原书记郝东晨被查】军转干部出身，曾任北京多个文物保护岗位要职，参与处理“天安门立柱拍卖事件” the 71-year-old former Party Secretary of the Capital Museum (abbreviated as ‘Shoubo’), Hao Dongchen, was officially announced by the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision to have been removed from his position china.caixin.com/2026-03-19/102…

The Chinese founder of the massive router maker facing national security probes by the Trump administration has applied for an expedited visa under the Trump Gold Card program bloomberg.com/news/articles/…