Vince McMahon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of TKO, the parent company of WWE, following disturbing allegationsof sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse.
The allegations came to light in a lawsuit filed by a former WWE staffer, Janel Grant, who worked at the headquarters of the wrestling behemoth McMahon founded.
McMahon has denied the allegations, and said he is prepared to defend himself in court. But, in a statement Friday, McMahon said that he has resigned.
The haunting words of Gordon Lightfoot’s IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND may be the best background for this story.. conjuring the imagination of his ghostly song coupled with technology piercing the safety nets of our mind.. and going deep into brains to predict what we will want. What we will buy.. what we will…think?
As this post is written, a LONG day is wrapping up. For some weird reason, this particular Saturday felt like the longest day that ever existed.. Maybe the snowy landscape and bone chilling temperatures.. Who knows.
I think it was hour number 5,000 of the day when I was just bored in the chair looking through stupid TikTok videos, one after the other. After the other.. And so on. People falling. Political content. Old ladies screaming. Ice storms and people slipping. Weird stuff and so on. Everyone’s for you page is different. That’s a peak at mine.
This is where the weirdness started.
In my brain, a voice said “it’s been a long time since you saw TikTok videos about Michael Myers and Halloween”.. No verbal output occurred, here, it was just an internalized passing thought. A blip on the brain wave radar.. It just popped into my brain, and I remembered rationalizing it by saying that ‘Halloween is over and of course I will not be seeing videos like that on the for me page’ for a while..
About a good solid minute later this video now pops up on the for you page:
First of all, great great video. Pure nostalgia and 1980s glory and all that..
But wait.. HALLOWEEN!? Just when moments earlier the idea of a Halloween video was crossing the brain and being dismissed due to the time of the year..
I completely got the chills and gave me a very bizarre feeling.
And it just started more thoughts to roll. Do you have this occur? Does this happen when you talk about things–we all know ads pop up a little bit after we search things or talk about them.. but how often do you actually have something on tech occur after you simply THINK about it?
Is there some algorithm that certain videos trigger people searching for other things? Or perhaps this was just all weird and random coincidence ..
Controversy about TikTok’s (and other social media platforms) algorithms have be been in the news for years. Most of those have revolved around the kids not being alright, teens with angst getting a perverted sense of purpose and meaning after diving too deep into rabbit holes.
Advertising clearly goes hand in hand with things you search and like. TikTok was accused of privacy violations recently. Others have accused social media platforms of monitoring heart rates and eye movements when viewing Apps. Sounds ridiculous, right? Conspiracy silly theory?
When it happens it’s weird.. But it does not feel real.. natural. It has no meaningful or paranormal context.. Instead it has a creepy and artificial feeling. You get an immediate impression that you’re a test subject, a spoke on a wheel. Nothing of it feels right, instead you just want to escape this hellscape that the future may be bringing us.
Rumors sure.. but it is more than likely that NASA will not Admit to such—though it just seems entirely impossible that earth is the only inhabitable planet in the universe.. that aside, Futurism reports this:
Though a NASA official told Ars that no “definitive evidence” has been found so far, they acknowledged the possibility of a huge discovery on the horizon that — sorry, folks — would take years worth of followup research to confirm.
“It is anticipated that JWST observations may lead to the initial identification of potential biosignatures that could make habitability more or less likely for a given exoplanet,” Knicole Colón, the James Webb’s deputy project scientist for exoplanet science, told Ars. “Future missions will be needed to conclusively establish the habitability of an exoplanet.”
It’s an answer worded to tamp down any out-of-control rumors, but it certainly leaves the door open to some exciting possibilities — a no, but “not a hard no,” in Ars’ analysis.
While this existed for some time, I just discovered it today.. And thank God I did.
There is a special place in everyone’s heart for the OLD Weather Channel. Those 90s graphics.. the elevator musaaac…
Just the stats ma’am. It gave you what you needed to know every several minutes, followed by some talking head forecasters giving you the nationwide outlook and, during the winter time, mentally prepping you for the next big Nor’Easter that–maybe never happened–was about to come..
This was one of the most famous true crime stories, and for those who live through it 20 years ago it dominated headlines I want to talk of the entire planet ..
A man who was convicted in 2004 of killing his wife and unborn child has had his case picked up by the Los Angeles Innocence Project, according to ABC News.
Scott Peterson was convicted in the deaths of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child in one of the state’s most infamous murder trials. The LA Innocence Project, a group that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people, is taking up the case, ABC News reported.
The case is 18 years old. You don’t automatically get new trials. There needs to be demonstration that Peterson may be innocent.
This should be a really cool limited series podcast on ‘Finding Matt Drudge’ !!
First episode drops in a week according to this X post ..
He has becomes increasingly mysterious and secretive and clearly very anti Trump.. this podcast is set to go in depth and should be really cool to listen to.
We can’t wait to (maybe?) hear answers to these questions.
The soap actor, who is best known for playing Del Henry in “All My Children,” died at his home in Del Mar, Calif., his fiancée, Paige Press, told TMZ.
Musser’s uncle Robert further confirmed the news to the outlet, but a cause of death has not yet been revealed.
The actor appeared on the long-running soap opera between 2005 and 2007 and he was seen in a total of 43 episodes.
Adam Sandler paid tribute to Musser on Instagram, writing, “I loved this guy. Cannot believe he is gone. Such a wonderful, funny good man. Thinking of him and his family and sending all my love. A true great sweetheart of a person.”
He also made appearances in the TV series Rita Rocks in 2009, Desperate Housewives in 2011 and Road to the Altar in 2009.
According to video footage taken at the event, the frenzy of the protesters led to the shaking of the metal perimeter so hard that it shunted back portions of the fence, forcing the secret service to scramble parts of it to prevent a massive breach.
It was the second-largest rally in support of Gaza held outside the White House in Washington since the war began, as part of a global day of protests marking 100 days since the Hamas attack of October 7 that killed more than 1,200 and saw hundreds more taken hostage.
Women wearing Palestinian dresses staged a sit-down protest, cradling bloodied dolls bound in sheets. Demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and displayed signs questioning Joe Biden’s suitability as a presidential candidate due to his unwavering support for Israel. Some of the signs read: “No votes for Genocide Joe,” “Biden has blood on his hands,” and “Let Gaza live.” There also were chants of “F*ck Joe Biden.”
So the powers that be had their private UFO Congressional briefing yesterday.
Nothing major publicly has been revealed at this time, besides some rumors that the UFOs or UAPs are inner dimensional .. Alex Jones said the same thing and so did Tucker Carlson.. which is weird. But they released some video of a jellyfish flying. Or something.
Stabilized video of the 2018 Jellyfish UAP reveals motion or change in the object pic.twitter.com/Pkp4WB4MU0
There was a secret UFO briefing to Congress on Friday January 12 2024.. while no ‘new news’ was released as a result, some lawmakers’ responses made news after they went through the briefing.. Such as Rep. Robert Garcia..
🚨 Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) Confirms David Grusch UFO Crash Retrieval Allegations Are *Real* After Classified Briefing. Video courtesy of Jordan Clifford at NewsNation.
Cincoski says the video was taken from an aerostat, a big balloon that looks like a blimp and was over the base. It has cameras on it to keep a lookout for threats.
“Toward the end, it seemingly continued off into the distance,” Cincoski said. “It got smaller and smaller. It got seemingly far enough away where they could not see it anymore — whether it dropped into the water or it just continued over the lake, because there is a lake next to the base we were at. At no point in the video can you see it drop into the lake or shoot into the sky like there have been some claims. That never happened.”
“It crossed my mind because the theories we had didn’t fully explain it,” he said. “Our curiosity kind of goes there. Is this something extraterrestrial or paranormal or whatever you want to call it?”
