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Reading Time: 35 minutes I’m in the curious position as I write this intro of having no idea how long this week’s Curios is going to sit in inbox limbo, held hostage by whatever fcukup is currently causing your work email to be fcuked into next week, and so as such I’m slightly-disinclined to put much effort into an intro which noone might end up seeing (except, well, that’s actually always the case, isn’t it? ARE ANY OF YOU REAL ANYMORE). BUT! I do, briefly, want to mention that, at the end of a(nother) week in which we’re once again reminded of quite how much of modern life, and indeed the weird vicissitudes of human civilisation and history, is determined solely by male sexual incontinence in all its various forms, I find the Jensen Huang thing VERY funny. Not because of the philandering (poor – if, fine, not *literally* – the soon-to-be-former Mrs Huang), or the spying, but because of the degree to which it’s just so perfectly emblematic of so much of our species. Ambition? CHECK!…

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