This movie is a must-see.. I watched DREAM SCENARIO during the final days of my recovery from influenza B last week–a little too weak to write up anything in relation to the movie.
Anyway, long story short, this film may be one of the wildest, craziest, funniest, scariest, and deeply moving films about human existence and dreams and all of this madness that I ever saw.
I truly recommend it.
Some of you out there may hate it! Some may love it.. Nic Cage might scare the ever living piss out of you when you watch it. But in the end, this movie has profound meaning–if you allow it to.
It begins in such a way that gave me nostalgia to the “This Man” of the late 2000s, back when some dude made us all believe in a hoax for a few days that everyone was seeing ‘this man’ in dreams. *that website still is online by the way*
While it became apparent no one ever dreamed of that man–at least not organically–DREAM SCENARIO brings us to a world where it would be true. People randomly of Professor Paul Matthews.
What would happen to him? And us..
It is a truly remarkable performance and has quickly escalated into one of my top ten movies of all time just after one viewing.
This video focuses on paranoia.com and how Disney ended up being its owner.. Pretty fascinating and addictive, like always is the content from NEXPO.. A great internet mystery detailed!
It should be noted that this most likely AI written Mashable article, claiming that Usher “blew up the Internet“ after his halftime performance at the Super Bowl, was published while he was still performing at the Super Bowl.
This is how ‘journalism’ works now. Pre written pre fed and indigestible.
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.
