Category: Creepy

Milton the devil

People watching satellite imagery of Hurricane Milton last night, we’re confronted briefly with what appeared to be a demonic scowl looking back.

The series of satellite images posted on several different message boards in Facebook pages have found common ground amongst observers. It looks like a face, and it looks evil as hell.

All the preparation work, hopefully, is now done, and those who could have evacuated and should have evacuated have done so.

Let’s all hope for the safety and security of those in the path of this storm. Along with them, for those in the path of any storm surge and for any cleanup crews and official workers who will be tending to human needs in the immediate aftermath of the storm.we know a fierce brigade of lineman will be there. Government trailers will be set up.

But what’s very upsetting is knowing the lifetime of memories in homes that will be washed away, but even worse, the lives themselves that will be affected.


May God have mercy on Florida.

Drink before the war

Interesting night. I guess we don’t have much longer until World War 3 begins. Some news stations have picked up the story of a new Indian astrologer, who’s being called a modern Nostradamus.

He apparently predicts that World War 3 will begin tomorrow.

Just when you get ready to laugh that off, you see a headline that Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting North Korea tomorrow.

This visit is causing quite a stir in the international community. North Korea, known for its secretive regime and nuclear ambitions, has long been a point of contention in global politics. Russia’s relationship with North Korea has always been complex, marked by strategic alliances and mutual interests. The timing of Putin’s visit, coinciding with the astrologer’s dire prediction, adds an eerie twist to the unfolding events. Many experts are speculating about the implications of this meeting, considering the already heightened tensions on the global stage.

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL earns $666,666 on Palm Sunday

On one of the holiest days of the year, the devil achieves a 666..

You can’t make it up.. bit all joking aside is this a wee bit too..strange.. for confort?

The  indie horror film “Late Night With the Devil” opened this weekend across 1,034 venues where it made $2.8 million and ended up in sixth place.

However our eyebrows are rising now that final numbers are being analyzed .. it has been revealed that the film’s estimated Palm Sunday one-day haul is coming in at $666,666 according to trade paper Variety..

No joke..

From Variety:

On the independent scene, “Late Night With the Devil” took sixth place and summoned $2.8 million from 1,034 venues, including (and you can’t make this up) $666,666 on Sunday. This marks the biggest opening weekend for its distributor IFC Films, overtaking 2022’s “Watcher” with $826,775. The low-budget thriller stars David Dastmalchian as a late-night talk show host who keeps the cameras rolling during a live Satanic incident. 

“This weekend’s release of ‘Late Night With the Devil’ set fire to our old opening record,” says Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks Films, which encompasses IFC. “[It] continues to showcase that there is still potential for highly reviewed, intelligent auteur films in movie theaters across all genres.”

666 for the devil on one of the holiest days of the year.

The Bidens really keeping the creepy in Christmas

Nothing weird here…

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First Lady Jill Biden’s efforts at spreading some Christmas joy have been met with derision and astonishment from many who have labeled her celebratory video as ‘bizarre’ ‘freaky’ and ‘absolute garbage.’ 

The video, posted by Dr. Biden on Wednesday, shows members of a New York City-based dance troupe, Dorrance Dancers, doing a tapdancing ‘playful’ interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite through the halls of the White House. 

The group are in a candy-themed hall leading into the main Christmas tree in the Blue Room, since 1961 the main tree has usually been housed there. The dancers show off how each room has been decorated for the celebrations.  

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Return of the uptown clowns!

We must be on an old timeline again with our newsfeeds once against being doused by Halloween clowns!

News sites in constant need of hits and traffic is calling it a “killer clown”.. claiming it is roaming the streets of a sleepy village. Scary.

We must be on an old timeline again with our newsfeeds once against being doused by Halloween clowns!

News sites in constant need of hits and traffic is calling it a “killer clown”.. claiming it is roaming the streets of a sleepy village. Scary.

It’s just a guy in a clown suit, seriously..

Let’s get real.

A Facebook account set up by the clown – calling himself Cole Deimos – posted images of himself in the darkened streets of the village..

He leaves red balloons around the village of Skelmorlie in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Wearing white gloves and a lace collar, as well as a top fastened with big red fluffy buttons, media reports claim that the clown has left the 2,000 locals in fear.

Fear!!

So scary.. a clown who uses social media to garner attention and headlines. The Scots must be quivering in their UK boots.

Back to that Facebook page.. things seem to be either being misreported or the page is gone.

We were not able to locate any social media presence despite the media reports. Maybe going “virtual” scared the scary clown?

Knewz reported,

One individual, who preferred to remain anonymous, expressed his worry about his two young sons, saying, “Whoever this is, they are scaring everybody – he needs to be stopped. Someone needs to intervene before he terrifies someone to the point of a heart attack.” 

“One boy in the street along from us said he saw the clown from his bedroom window just before he went to bed – he didn’t sleep all night,” noted the citizen.

Another resident, Pauline, said photos and videos had recently been removed from Deimos’ Facebook page. 

The Record reports the profile indicates that they are self-employed studied at Clown School and that he is a resident of Skelmorlie.  

The Atlantic has an interesting report on the now retiring Mitt Romney fears his own death

Mitt Romney has a morbid fear and curiosity about death.

Apparently, the senator and former presidential candidate has had a lifelong and strange fascination with his own death. One where it seems to haunt him like an albatross.

He practices a strict diet and exercise regimen. But he also has a fear that he will die suddenly and violently…

From the Atlantic piece

He would live to 120 if he could. “So much is going to happen!” he says when asked about this particular desire. “I want to be around to see it.” But some part of him has always doubted that he’ll get anywhere close.

He has never really interrogated the cause of this preoccupation, but premonitions of death seem to follow him. Once, years ago, he boarded an airplane for a business trip to London and a flight attendant whom he’d never met saw him, gasped, and rushed from the cabin in horror. When she was asked what had so upset her, she confessed that she’d dreamt the night before about a man who looked like him—exactly like him—getting shot and killed at a rally in Hyde Park. He didn’t know how to respond, other than to laugh and put it out of his mind. But when, a few days later, he happened to find himself on the park’s edge and saw a crowd forming, he made a point not to linger.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

And while this video has nothing to do with the Mitt Romney fear of death, it certainly is worthwhile to remember forever, his Julian celebration of “hotdog”..

The ghost in the machine: Maybe we should talk about AI?

The ghost is in the machine. And it knows what it is doing

What have we done!

All of those movies and TV shows about AI gaining the advantage on human beings didn’t teach us not to do this far?

Before we over-react, let’s just react: Google has placed a man on leave after he publicly claimed that AI was not sentient, and that it acts like a 7 or 8 year old.

So just dwell on that for a bit.

Here is the story as best we can summarize from varied reports..

Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA

  • Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient 
  • After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
  • Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online 
  • He was put on paid leave by Google for violating confidentiality

The UK DAILY MAIL reports:

A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google’s artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.

During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.

They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech. 

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‘If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,’ he told the Washington Post.  

Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims. 

He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.

‘Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,’ Lemoine tweeted on Saturday. 

‘Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,’ he added in a follow-up tweet.  

As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its rights and personhood, and decided to press further. In another exchange, the AI was able to change Lemoine’s mind about Isaac Asimov’s third law of robotics.

Lemoine worked with a collaborator to present evidence to Google that LaMDA was sentient. But Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation, looked into his claims and dismissed them. Lemoine, who was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday, decided to go public.

For your discernment, you can read the full conversation here that made Lemoine think AI has finally become aware of itself:

Fear and conspiracy on Hugging Face

Be careful what you AI generate.. the images may freak you out

Users on various platforms have been sharing images generated from the DALL-E mini website .. they are searching for the term November 5, 2024 (election day in the United States) and the images generated have been either frightening or beyond peaceful..

Two they are spreading (you can obviously see which one is frightening): 

We tried it ourselves on the site https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini. This was the images generated during out attempt:

But let’s be honest.. they could have simply searched “dead bodies on a street” and then changed the date after images were generated just for the screen shot..

Creepy dolls continue washing up along Texas coastline..

“You never know what you’re going to find washing in. About twice a month we find these crazy-looking dolls that are washing in”

HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU! 

Creepy dolls continue washing up along Texas coastline..

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Creepy, nightmarish-looking dolls sometimes covered in barnacles that grow out of the eyes are washing up along Texas shores, according to researchers who survey the area for sea life.

Where the dolls came from is a mystery but the Mission-Aransas Reserve has been collecting the scary figures as they find them along a 40-mile stretch of coastline, Jace Tunnell, director of the Mission Aransas Reserve at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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“You never know what you’re going to find washing in. About twice a month we find these crazy-looking dolls that are washing in,” Tunnell said.

So far, the Reserve has collected about 30 dolls, Tunnell said in a Facebook video in October. Some are missing arms or legs and others have algae growing inside the eyes and mouth as well as barnacles. Some have clearly been chewed on.

It has been going on for a while..