Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Have you ever heard of the Anti-Nostalgia Association for the Advancement of Time?



NY Times (archive link)

“Do you think all people have some kind of subconscious desire to probe the future?”
— Marion Stokes

It’s 1969, and Marion Stokes, a petite black woman in a peacoat dress, is smoking a cigarette on her local Philadelphia talk show, Input. She co-hosts this weekly televised consciousness-raising session, and today she’s in conversation with a palmist/graphologist, a Black Power activist, an Episcopal priest, and a tarot-reading telepathist. The episode’s title and theme: The Anatomy of the Unknown. Part 1 – The Future.

Marion was an unlikely futurist. A Communist and a single mother, she was fired from her job at the Philadelphia Free Library after attempting to defect to Cuba. Several years later, she walked into Wellsprings, a local community center, looking for clerical work, and before long was the co-producer of the organization’s television series, Input, along with the show’s founder – and her future husband – John Stokes.

....
While the networks carelessly discarded their archives into the trashcan of history, Marion privately amassed an unprecedented secret archive of American life as depicted on television. She filled more than 70,000 Betamax and VHS tapes, capturing not only epoch-defining news but also commercials, talk shows, public-service announcements, sitcoms, cartoons, interstitial graphics, and esoteric human-interest reports.

I was particularly intrigued by one marginal figure from Marion’s tapes: Bruce Elliott, President of the Anti-Nostalgia Association for the Advancement of Time. This uptight collegiate pundit would have been a perfect commentator on Input’s futurism episode. In 1989, prompted by Bryant Gumbel on the Today show, Elliott explained, “So much of contemporary culture is devoted to regurgitating the past so it obscures our vision of the future.”



Marion once said on Input, “Many people have prophetic dreams, know that the things that they dream about happen and tend to disregard somebody who will tell them that intellectually you’re just having a hallucination, or you’re having a neurotic seizure of some kind.” Indeed, she saw the future. We lived through an era of so-called fake news, with the truth perpetually distorted by ideological cable outlets and a reality-television autocrat. Marion’s archive tracks the evolution of this contemporary political crisis while also, undoubtedly, pointing to an uncertain future.

Recently I went searching for Bruce Elliott, hoping to ask him what insights he had gained from his staunch rejection of the past and whether he prophesied anything unique about the present moment. Alas, public records and social media yielded no results. Like most things on television, Bruce and the anti-nostalgists have disappeared.

The Advancement of Time

"33" years of tapes!!

VCR visionary: The woman who taped 33 years of TV news





A little bit of turbulence...







"Space Junk" by Dean Ellis from Future magazine, November 1978. According to NASA, there are 23k pieces of man-made debris larger than a softball orbiting earth at ~17,000 mph, and there are hundreds of millions of more pieces magnitudes smaller. This the reason why no friendly aliens will ever visit.







Ancient Internet



Remember when TV wasn't 24/7? US Air Force Moog Synthesizer version of the National Anthem...

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Take an extra shot of whatever tonight...Prohibition was over, 90 years ago today:


The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment, as well as being the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions.

List of states that ratified & rejected the amendment.



Wiki (lengthy bio)

Happy Days are Here Again!

Based upon an event that occured in the United States in 1933, many now celebrate 7 April as National Beer Day.

That day, after more than thirteen dry years of national Prohibition, the manufacturing, distribution, importation, and sale of beer again became legal in the United States.

Well, sort, of. There was a 'small' beer catch. Prohibition, per se, remained in effect.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution never explicitly outlawed beer, wine, or liquor. Rather, it prohibited the "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" [emphasis mine]. To define what that meant, Congress passed additional 'enabling' legislation, the principal bill of which was the National Prohibition Act (commonly known as the Volstead Act, after the Congressman who wrote it). In it, Congress defined "intoxicating liquors" as ANY beverages containing 0.5% alcohol-by-weight or more. All such beverages became illegal on 20 January 1920, the day the 18th Amendment took effect.

Thirteen-plus dry years later, Congress didn't actually legalize beer but, prodded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, simply altered beer's parameters upward. (Roosevelt's campaign planks had included a promise to Repeal Prohibition.) The legislation it passed, the Cullen–Harrison Act, declared, in effect, that alcoholic beverages of up to 3.2% alcohol-by-weight (abw) —which is the equivalent of 4.05% alcohol-by-volume (abv)2— were now to be considered as "non-intoxicating"! On 22 March 1933, the president signed the bill into law, noting that "I think this would be a good time for a beer." The bill took effect two weeks later, on 7 April.

Unfortunately, stronger beers and alcoholic beverages remained prohibited. It wouldn't be until eight months later, on 5 December 1933, that a majority of states would approve the 21st Amendment, finally revoking federal Prohibition of most alcholic beverages.

...
Shortly after midnight, a few miles to the north, Baltimore, Maryland's curmudgeonly scribe, H.L. Mencken, took his first legal sip of beer in thirteen years and un-petulantly declared it, "pretty good —not bad at all." And radio stations across the nation gleefully spun the hit song, Happy Days are Here Again.



So long sad times, so long bad times,
We are rid of you at last.
Howdy gay times! Cloudy gray times,
You are now a thing of the past.

Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again.

All together, shout it now. There's no one
Who can doubt it now.
So let's tell the world about it now,
Happy days are here again.

Your cares and troubles are gone.
There'll be no more from now on.

Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again.
Happy days are here again!

Milton Ager (music); Jack Yellen (lyrics). 1929.

The signature song & various renditions of it has been used in many movies/TV shows (notably by Barbra Streisand) and was used for the closing credits in Boardwalk Empire season 5, episode 3 "What Jesus Said".


Never a 'Dud' Moment



Posters That Go Hard...


Repression in America (1977 poster from Oakland Museum of California)

"The Killing of America" is a 1981 documentary of the decline of America by filmmakers Sheldon Renan and Academy Award nominee Leonard Schrader created a graphic and provocative examination of America’s history with – and penchant for – senseless violence, mass shootings from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.


Dec 5, 1986: HEARTBREAK RIDGE, Clint Eastwood's triumphant tale of the Grenada invasion.




"Pretend to be shocked":




LOL. Good luck disclosure dude.



"IF" there's some UAP Reverse Engineering happening in Suffolk, VA, those engineers are very lucky... not just for their groundbreaking work, but also because they're right next to a Riverstone Chophouse!




Disclosure go Chop-chop!






Flash Gordon Official Trailer #1 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFwECV8Kkk


This is WKRN (Call sign: "Knight Ridder-Nashville") signing-off...

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Dec 6, 1951: Los Angeles was mock-tomically bombed by the L.A. Mirror tabloid in a piece they called "Operation Wake Up."

In 1948 the Los Angeles Times company launched a tabloid called the Los Angeles Mirror to take on the city’s other afternoon papers—the Daily News and the Herald-Express. The Mirror was not an immediate hit, but once publisher Virgil Pinkley and managing editor Hugh “Bud” Lewis started emphasizing the tabloid staples of sex, crime and human interest crusades, the paper’s circulation quickly grew to 140,000 readers.

One of the Mirror’s specialties was over-the-top “journalistic” publicity stunts that used the city of Los Angeles as an unwitting foil. Two of these stories caught CONELRAD’s attention because of their outrageous exploitation of Cold War fears. The first concerns a feature timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the second addresses the prescient concerns of the paper over the danger of suitcase nukes.

“L.A. MOCK BOMBED” was the screaming headline of the December 6, 1951 “extra” edition of the Mirror that came complete with a mushroom cloud background. A note from the publisher in a front-page box explained the noble goal of the newspaper:

    OPERATION WAKE UP

    Today’s Mirror, on the eve of the Pearl Harbor anniversary, is dedicated to the high purpose of alerting Los Angeles to the grave need of civilian defense. The Mirror and the Civil Air Patrol “bombed” the city with 2,000,000 leaflets asking all sensible citizens to wake up to the insistent, personal demands of home defense—one of the most vital elements of national security.

    -- VIRGIL PINKLEY, Editor and Publisher

Inside the paper the “bombing” was played big with several pages devoted to coverage of the wholly manufactured event. No self-congratulatory angle was left unexplored—including the very fact that an “extra” edition had been published in the first place:

    THE MIRROR REPORTS L.A.’s BOMB MISSION

    Scant minutes after “Operation Wake-Up” paper bombs hit Los Angeles, The Mirror’s civil defense EXTRA was on every “target street corner…”



At the center of all the breathless sidebars, though, was the more or less straight news story describing the actual “bombing.” It was headlined “38 CAP Planes Drop Grim Warning Leaflets” and it was reported by James Bassett:

    Thirty-eight planes of the Civil Air Patrol “bombed” Los Angeles today.

    Down from lowering slate-gray skies, exactly at 10:41 a.m., the first of 2,000,000 “paper block-busters” struck lower Broadway.

    Three minutes later these leaflets, carrying a stark message to inhabitants of America’s third largest city, reached the heart of the downtown business sector.

    Hurled from the CAP ships, which rumbled in V-formations over the unwary metropolis, the “bombs” inundated Civic Center, Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw district, Hollywood, the Miracle Mile, and a score of other key centers from Highland Park to San Pedro’s waterfront.

    Each demanded bluntly:

    “If the Civil Air Patrol, flying this warning mission in co-operation with The Mirror, had been the enemy, would YOU have been prepared?”

    While “Operation Wake-Up” leaflets were still falling, City Council quickly moved to commend The Mirror and the CAP.

    “Gentlemen,” said Councilman Ed Davenport, “Los Angeles is being ‘bombed’ right now!”

    Civic leaders joined in congratulating the cosponsors of this dramatic projects [sic] aimed at alerting Southlanders to their lagging home defenses.

    At Seventh St. and Broadway, a policeman declared:

    “It’s high time the people woke up!”

    Citizens scrambled for the crimson-colored “paper bombs” as they fluttered slowly earthward. In surprised queues, they gawked towards the morning skies to watch CAP squadrons pass overhead, puffs of leaflets trailing each speeding craft.

    Another policeman said gravely: “It COULD happen here.”

The article droned on for another two columns about Los Angeles’s dire need for civil defense. The next day, of course, the Mirror published follow-up stories on how “Operation Wake-Up” had improved civil defense awareness:

Continued at L.A. MOCK BOMBED



Dec 6, 1941: 3 sailors met for a drink at a bar in Pearl Harbor. Clifford Olds (at right), was on board USS West Virginia (BB-48) when it sank the next morning. When salvage workers found his remains months later, a marked calendar revealed he had lived for 16 days trapped within the ship. Damn!

The ship was later refloated and extensively rebuilt over the course of 1943 and into mid-1944. She returned to service in time for the Philippines Campaign, where she led the American line of battle at the Battle of Surigao Strait on the night of 24–25 October. There, she was one of the few American battleships to use her radar to acquire a target in the darkness, allowing her to engage a Japanese squadron in what was the final action between battleships in naval history.
Decommissioned: 9 January 1947
Fate: Sold for scrap, 24 August 1959


We are so DOOMED!


Tom Cruise made a whole movie about it just last year. It made $1.5 Billion.


Speaking of doomed...That sinking feeling when you're working on a nuclear weapon and it goes *thunk* when you rotate it.


The things that go bump in the night: "unauthorized introduction of mechanical energy."

From the Defense Nuclear Facilities Board Resident Inspectors' report for Pantex nuke plant in Texas, week ending 17 November 2023.


Taylor Swift is TIME's Person of the Year.



That photo looks like it's taken from 'Cult Zombie Monthly' magazine. The dead-eyed, disconnected automaton look is exactly what they want from the public.

Swifties: "Leave Taylor alone, she isn't political!!!"

Taylor:


People mag Swifty photo.


Ho, ho, Hoooo, I been waiting for this...




Houston Chronicle

It’s real simple. Move the minefields from Ukraine to the US border.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Honolulu Star-Bulletin extra on Pearl Harbor attack, today 1941:


FADM Chester Nimitz believed the U.S was fortunate that the attack on Pearl Harbor came as a surprise. Had the U.S. known of the approaching Japanese fleet, the American fleet would have been sent to intercept it and then been entirely lost to a superior force.

Dec 7, 1941: Kazuo Sakamaki became the first Japanese PoW in U.S. captivity after his midget sub ran aground during the attack on Pearl Harbor. 50 years later, he was reunited with the sub when he attended a symposium at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas.


Dec 7, 1941: USS Ward (APD-16) fired the first American shots of the war in the Pacific when the destroyer sank a Jap midget sub trying to enter Pearl Harbor. The 14th Naval District HQ believed the action was a false report, not recognizing that the sub was part of an incoming Japanese attack. USS Ward was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California in a record of 17½ days back in WWI days!!



Ironic Fate: Set ablaze by kamikaze strike on 7 December 1944. Later scuttled by gunfire from the USS O'Brien whose commanding officer was the Captain of the Ward on December 7th 1941. WoW!


In early December 2017, Ward's wreckage was located by RV Petrel on the seabed in Ormoc Bay near Ponson Island in the Philippines.

The photo of the explosion of USS Shaw's forward magazine is one of the most iconic images from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite the heavy damage, the Shaw was repaired by 1942 and served in the Pacific for the rest of the war, earning 11 battle stars.



One of the Japanese pilot's (who survived) took aerial pictures of Pearl Harbor just before the bombing started. My dad has one of the original photos, (believed to be the only one of its kind in existence) that he restored & enlarged from the original negative. Long story on how he obtained it. He gave the negative to the Library of Congress, after he made a copy of it.


After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Bill Of Rights was prepared for an emergency evacuation. Archivist of the United States Solon J. Buck stands with a volume containing the Bill of Rights, wrapped for "quick removal."




Ride out the Armageddon in your Fox Hole, Inc. fallout shelter. 1961.




"68% correctly identified the civil defense fallout shelter sign."


Source PDF from Defense Technical Information Center


Happy Birthday to conservative recording artist and performer Janet Greene [Dec 7, 1930-2021 in Klamath Falls, Oregon]. She was promoted as the "Anti-Joan Baez". Here she is at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in 1964 belting out "Commie Lies" for Fred Schwarz and Herbert A. Philbrick.



Here's a clip of her from that second "Red" era:



Dr. Frederick C. Schwarz (Australian, 1913-2009) founder of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC), and were persuaded by Schwarz's arguments on the evils of communism. After Schwartz became aware of Janet Greene's singing experience, she resigned from WTVN, stating:

"I am very grateful to have had the privilege of growing up in the United States of America. I was reared in a Christian home with the love of my parents and my brother and sister... My husband and I have two children of our own, and it is my concern for their future that has prompted me to leave my TV career. Our American heritage and Christian religion are in great jeopardy. The enemy is Communism. Communism denies the existence of God, the individual right to freedom of choice and woman's right to raise her own family as God intended. The Communists plan to take our children away from us.... I am hoping and praying that the women of the United States will become aroused and save our country and our children from the tyranny of Communism. I am dedicating my voice and musical talents to help bring this to pass."

Phillipa Fallon, the beat poetess from HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL! (1958) played at the Village Vanguard in NYC in April of 1959. It's an old jazz club in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, Max wanted it to be a cabaret club, but was refused such a license by the NYPD. The club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jazz music venue in 1957. It has hosted many highly renowned jazz musicians since then, and today is the oldest operating jazz club in New York City. Back in the 70's-80s when my late uncle was working for the Mafia he would often hang out (moonlight) here.



The scene is from the movie "High School Confidential". Phillipa Fallon, who plays the poet, is brilliant, but she seems to have had few other roles, and not much is known about her. Jackie Coogan is the piano player. The poem itself seems to have been written by "B-movie actor and writer" Mel Welles (1924-2005). The lyrics to "High School Drag" kinda go something like this:

My old man was a bread stasher all his life.
He never got fat. He wound up with a used car,
a 17 inch screen and arthritis.

Tomorrow is a drag, man.
Tomorrow is a king sized bust.

They cried ‘put down pot,’ ‘don’t think a lot,’ for what?
Time, how much? And what to do with it.

Sleep, man, and you might wake up digging the whole
human race giving itself three days to get out.

Tomorrow is a drag, pops, the future is a flake.

I had a canary who couldn’t sing.
I had a cat who let me share my pad with her.
I bought a dog that killed the cat who ate the canary.
What is truth?

I had an uncle with an ivy league card.
He had a life with a belt in the back.
He had a button-down brain.
Wind up a belt in the mouth with a button-down lip.

We cough blood on this earth.
Now there’s a race for space.
We can cough blood on the moon soon.

Tomorrow’s dragsville, cats.
Tomorrow is a king size drag.

Tool a fast shore, swing with a gassy chick.
Turn on to a thousand joys.
Smile on what happened, or check what’s going to happen,
You’ll miss what’s happening.
Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum.

Tomorrow, DRAG.



 John Drew Barrymore, father of Drew Barrymore.

Good ole American censorship: "European prints featured more explicit versions of two scenes, including co-star Jan Sterling showing a naked breast when Russ Tamblyn calls her on the telephone. Additionally, a girl suffering from heroin withdrawal also shows a naked breast as she lies uncomfortably on a bed." IMDB

Biography

Phillipa Fallon was a 1950s actress singer and actress most noted for her appearance in the film High School Confidential (1958), reciting the Cold War-themed beat poem "High School Drag", written by B-movie actor and writer Mel Welles, recruited by producer Albert Zugsmith to ensure the film's slang was believable because, as Welles recalled for interviewer Tom Weaver in 1988, “I was an expert on grass in my day…” Her performance is accompanied on piano by Jackie Coogan.

As a movie actress Fallon had minor roles in two other films, 1957's Confidential: The Girl in the Kremlin 1957) and The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) She also worked as a singer for the NBC television network in 1956. Little else is known about Phillipa Fallon, and attempts to trace her have been fruitless.

Best I could find about her...

B-Movie Phantom: The Phillipa Fallon Story Part 9

Around the time of her triumph in High School Confidential!, Phillipa Fallon appeared in the industry casting publication, the Academy Players Directory, for the very first time.[1] Her publicity photograph, along with the name and telephone numbers of her talent agency, Paul Small Artists, Ltd., appears on page 103 of the 79th edition of the directory issued in 1958. Phillipa, who would turn 35 in August of 1958, is in the Leading Women section surrounded by hundreds of other actresses, most of whom the contemporary reader would be hard-pressed to recognize. She and her agents could not have known it at the time, but Phillipa had already had the best role of her career.

In July of 1959 production began on Albert Zugsmith’s biblical sex comedy The Private Lives of Adam and Eve. Zugsmith co-directed the incoherent, poorly shot film with Mickey Rooney who also stars as the devil. The movie’s plot revolves around a modern couple played by Martin Milner and Mamie Van Doren who fantasize that they are Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The film opens with a bizarre title sequence in which Paul Anka drives a car with his feet while singing the theme song.

Rooney spends most of his screen time dressed in dime store Satan drag surrounded by a harem of women known as “The Devil’s Familiars.” Phillipa, in the non-speaking role of Desire, can be seen approximately thirty-seven minutes into the movie giving the devil a pedicure. It was a thankless role and, quite understandably, her last.

1960, the year that Private Lives was released (and condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency), was also the last year that Phillipa paid to have her listing in the Players Directory. Her final entry appears in issue number 85 on page 125. Her agents are identified as Len Kaplan and Mark Harris of the William Schuller Agency. Unfortunately, both of these men are deceased so they could not be asked for details about how Phillipa came to be cast in such a terrible movie. Mickey Rooney, seemingly immortal, did not respond to our inquiries for an interview, but he has probably forgotten about the film by now anyway.

Phillipa had made three movies, all for Albert Zugsmith, and she was now ready to move on. Her new focus would be on her songwriting career, politics and a long campaign against fluoridation...

[1] CONELRAD reviewed the Academy Players Directory for the period 1941 (the year Fallon arrived in Hollywood) through 1960. We searched under all of her known aliases. We found that she appears in issues 79 through issue 81 and issues 83 through 85. Her agency affiliation changes from Paul Small Artists, Ltd. to William Schuller in issue number 83 (after not appearing at all in issue number 82). In issue number 80 (1958, page 105) Fallon’s listing immediately precedes another tragic actress, Frances Farmer:

Only if you're really curious (her story is very strange & complex) you can hit parts 1 thru 8. Links at bottom of his post.





Phillipa Fallon superfan/stalker (?), Howard Feldman. Los Angeles Free Press, Nov. 18, 1966...

"Soon I'll Wed My Love" written by Philippa Fallon. First release by Gale Storm (June 1958)
Worth a listen:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMi6vjRBkqY

[EndtheMadnessNow]

THE ATOMIC KID opened Dec 8, 1954.


A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring. LOL!

This film is advertised on the marquee of the Hill Valley Town Theater on November 12, 1955 in Back to the Future (1985). It can briefly be seen after the DeLorean is sent back to October 26, 1985.


Dec 8, 1982: nuclear freeze activist Norman Mayer held the Washington Monument hostage by claiming, falsely, that he had a 1,000 pounds of dynamite. Mayer was shot to death by U.S. Park Police when he attempted to drive off in his van. Ashes interred in Arlington National Cemetary.


The Norman Mayer story thou shall not copy:

"An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55" copyright 1982, 1985 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.

This work appears online via special arrangement with the the author, Harlan Ellison. You can thank him by visiting the HERC Store. Copying or distributing any part of this piece for personal use, commercial use, or any other use you can come up with is strictly forbidden.  Breaking this rule will result in the author coming down on you like the proverbial Hand of God or, barring the author finding out, your being forced to spend 15,000 years in Purgatory watching the same three episodes of "Perfect Strangers".

An Edge in My Voice

Harlan Ellison, a Jewish atheist died back in 2018, but I'm not taking any chances. His literary estate is currently executed by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.



Another story:

    On Monday, Dec.6, two days before the monument siege, Mayer, was seen in his motel trying on a new snowsuit that still had price tags an it. On Tuesday, he told William Thomas in an abrupt phone conversation, "I have decided what I'm going to do and I'm going to do it."

    At 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, in the costume of a B-movie villain, Mayer drove his van to the base of the Washington Monument and executed his bluff.

    Ever meticulous, he had prepared a cue card for himself listing his demands. Ever belligerent, he refused to negotiate and pulled off what U.S. Park Police Capt. Robert H. Hines said was the longest terrorist bluff in U.S. history. Ever skeptical of the human race, Mayer watched a portable Panasonic television to make sure he had reached the world.

    Shortly after the evening network newscast, he drove off to his death.

Nuclear Foe, Eccentric Idealist Was Victim of Unyielding Will (The Washington Post December 19, 1982)

As a side note, I read a few of sources that stated this was the longest recorded police sniper killing in U.S. history at about 480 yards. And also, it is the earliest recorded use of night vision scopes by police snipers.

Ghosts of DC - Three Things That Happened at the Washington Monument

Norman Mayer trivia: He was responsible for a turning point in the life and career of political strategist/journalist George Stephanopoulos. Then 21-year-old intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Stephanopoulos writes about the experience in his memoir "All Too Human" (1999).




New Chipotle social phenomenon just dropped - sentenced to Chipotle. Ohio on the cutting edge once again.


Burrito bowl in face hits payday

"Your sentence is living on minimum wage."

"I once served two months in an Ohio Chipotle."

So, Emily quit, asked to come back, gets a pay raise plus promotion, And from this USA Today story:

The victim has since quit her job at Chipotle, she told the Washington Post, saying that she was only struck because she stepped in to protect a 17-year-old employee who Hayne was screaming at.

"I was so embarrassed and in shock," Russell told the outlet. "I couldn't believe my customers had to witness that," adding that the food was hot and burned her face.

A GoFundMe page was created to support Russell until she finds a new job. The page has surpassed its goal of $1,500, raising nearly $10,000 as of Thursday.

20%. One-fifth of the workforce. This is what 'Peak' collapse looks like.
What would be worse for their egos:
Replaced by A.I. or Replaced by *nothing*?

Despite the now-resolved writers and actors strikes shutting down Hollywood production for several months, the loss of tens of thousands of Tinseltown jobs this year actually is part of a larger economic contraction, a just-released study claims — and those gigs might not be coming back.

“Entertainment Industry employment in Los Angeles this year peaked in April, when 142,652 workers were employed by the Industry,” says Otis College of Art and Design’s “The Day After Tomorrow” study, produced by Westwood Economics and Planning Associates. “As of October, there were 24,799 fewer workers employed by the Industry than there were in April,” the California-centric report states of the 17% drop.

Set to be the first of two studies on the entertainment biz, the report released Thursday (read it here) estimates that ress”Greater Los Angeles Entertainment Industry workers lost roughly $1.4 billion in wages between April and September 2023, or roughly 0.5% of the industry’s annual economic activity.” During the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which ended in late September and late last month respectively, the California economy overall took a $6.5 billion hit. Nationally, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 45,000 jobs were lost from when the 12,000-strong scribes guild hit the picket lines in early May, followed by the 160,000-strong actor’s guild in mid-July, to mid-October.
“Beyond the short-term impact, the strikes should be understood within the context of a broader restructuring of the Industry: employment was contracting in the Industry even before the strikes,” the Otis College reports declares. “Employment in the Industry peaked in May of 2016, and reached nearly the same level in August of 2022. Since this time, employment has shrunk by 26%”.

One of the primary authors of Otis College’s “Day After Tomorrow” warns that end of the strikes, which officially came on Dec 5 with SAG-AFTRA members voting to ratify their deal with the studios by just over 78%, don’t mean everything will be returning to normal. In fact, Patrick Adler, Principal at Westwood Economics and Planning Associates and Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, says normal had left the ever-changing industry way before the strikes started.

“Almost all of Hollywood production is controlled by publicly traded companies, and Wall Street has exerted more pressure on the industry since interest rates spiked in 2022,” Dr. Adler notes. “Basically, one dollar of production money is much more expensive today than it was in 2021, and so the street expects higher return.”

Putting a spotlight on the shortcomings of streaming services as revenue streams, the18-page report itself says: “The bigger picture reveals that Peak TV, rather than the strikes, represents the more enduring threat to employment in the Industry. An arms race among streaming platforms heralded a surge in production between 2016 and 2022, as platforms pursued subscriber growth at all costs. As this business model has transitioned into one which emphasizes profitability and sustainability, we have likely reached the highwater mark in production.”

Worth noting that while the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have reached new contracts with the studios, IATSE and the Teamsters will be entering negotiations with the AMPTP next year. As the Hollywood employment contraction tightens further, both those unions will clearly have job saving as one of their top priorities as more strikes and standstills could loom.

Hollywood Jobs Down Nearly 20% This Year, & Not Just Because Of The Strikes, Study Says

Rogue Service Announcement: They're coming for your dreams:



'Halo' Device Coming in 2025 Is Designed to Induce Lucid Dreams

"Some experts are skeptical"?

CIA & SRI Project Stargate: hold our beer!

Probably venture funded by the CIA's In-Q-Tel.

Soma by day, Halo by night. Ain't life wonderful!
The new Nic Cage film "Dream Scenario" is basically a commercial for this new market.

For those working at home please report to the astral office.

Also, Jeff Bezos & Co. is or was working on a similar device to RECORD your dreams with ability to (alter) and play them back. WTF?! Not to worry though...if you experience a nightmare or irregular breathing pattern the device will 'wake' you. How many people have Amazon devices in their homes?

You: Good night Siri.

Siri: See you soon.

If one thought The Idiot Box and then the InterNet was a control device...well, this is the point of no return kind of Black Sorcery Control Device. It basically interferes with your sleep cycles and keeps you in a semiconscious/semi-hypnogogic state so you will just accept the new regime changes and be an obedient dumb slave.

In hindsight, not even remotely a new concept:

Adventures with the NovaDreamer (1995)


Meanwhile, a sitting US Senator actually claimed that imported garlic was a national security threat. Who coulda thunk it?


"In the coming days, Senator Scott is introducing the SEWAGE GARLIC Imports Act and the SEWAGE GARLIC Imports Tariff Act to address the growth practices and safety of garlic produced in China for human consumption."

Sen. Rick Scott to Commerce: Sewage Garlic Grown in Communist China Has No Place in American Grocery Stores

The letter is ridiculous, mentioning food bloggers and YouTube videos, and citing concerns that contaminated food would hurt not just Americans in generally, but also first responders, firefighters, teachers, "essential workers". But the core claim is: a health hazard, which if true sounds like a Commerce issue.

Go ahead ban it. All my garlic is homegrown.

The New Right Gets Mugged by an Old Reality

That Chinese garlic can sap our bodily fluids!



"Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water"



There's a bizarre and fascinating episode about the Chinese-US garlic industry, local growers, and a US garlic cartel on Netflix's Rotten series (S01E03). Good informative series.

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Me going to see John Wick 5 in the theater and seeing "Based on a true story" in the opening credits...


Keanu Reeves' home has once again been targeted


2020s crazy story: Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service at Embassy in Madrid for bribing agents from Spain's CNI intelligence service in order to infiltrate it.

Most tragicomic aspect of the report is this:

The case is a very serious matter, since recruiting secret agents of a host state to betray their own country is considered an openly hostile act. Such actions may be taken with enemy or adversary governments, but never with friends and allies. Sources from the Spanish intelligence service do not fully understand what happened. “What do Americans have to pay for if we give them everything they ask for?” they noted. These sources insist that Spain openly collaborates with the United States, and always exchanges information. According to these sources, the number of times in which Spain has refused to share information of interest to Washington is “between one and zero.”

Not sure whether to laugh or crawl back in my bunker and slam the blast door shut.




And the most eyebrow-raising aspect of the report is this:

These sources explain that, when the U.S. Ambassador Reynoso was summoned by Minister Robles, she said that she was not aware of the case. The U.S. ambassador allegedly claimed that the U.S. agents who had bribed the Spanish spies were working independently of her, in a program that was launched before current President Joe Biden arrived at the White House and that, for reasons unknown, had been maintained until now.

Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore reveals in 1965 that a CIA agent was caught in 1960 for trying to buy information from a Singapore intelligence officer. A longtime and poisonous practice of bribery which often violently erodes the social contract and cohesion of every country it touches, as the brilliant statesman Lee Kuan Yew elucidates. Now is your chance, Spain...



Yew forced the US, to pay a very large sum of money to Singapore. It is a pattern of behaviour by the US intelligence services as well as all nation (NATO) intel agencies. Obviously, the trick of the tradecraft is to not get caught!

Denmark helped US spy on Angela Merkel and European allies – report (31 May 2021)

Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio said the US National Security Agency (NSA), whose alleged tapping of Merkel’s phone was disclosed by Edward Snowden in 2013, also used the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) to spy on officials in Sweden, Norway and France.

Snowden on Sunday accused Joe Biden, who was US vice-president at the time, of being “deeply involved … the first time around”. Snowden called on Twitter for “full public disclosure not only from Denmark, but their senior partner as well”.

Can't help but wonder if British intel had a role in one or more of these scandals.

And right there on the British Order of the Garter "motto Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Middle French: "Shame on him who thinks evil of it") - Also note the Garter club has Muslim members too. All in it together because like Kissinger once said...





Found in April 1921, 14 feet below the surface at London Bridge. Gold ring, early 17th century. "A freinds guift" and "R. H." (British Museum)


Just had the thought "I'm tired of everything, I feel like I've seen it all, (I haven't) I want to see something entirely alien and new" - maybe I should venture back into the desert and see what's going on there.



Or maybe I'll try some fishing therapy in the great outdoors with friends. LOL.


Imagine the campfire stories that would be told!!


This looks like a place of honor for a powerful culture, commemorating highly esteemed deeds with valuable things buried within. I bet even if it were to become dangerous, the danger is not within my own time.

I'm gonna dig it up.

View of a giant geometric structure covering a demolished uranium mill and its radioactive tailings. New Mexico, USA:


Buried in 1992 by the Department of Energy, this mill near Grants, N.M. is one of about 20 uranium mill tailings sites in the U.S. that were remediated as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action project (UMTRA). Courtesy of the Department of Energy.
Ambrosia Lake Mill Site  | Map Location

It's intriguing how much is hidden away in plain/plane sight that COULD be something else. Archaeologists will marvel at it in 500 years. There will be no warning signs other than nomadic bioluminescent cats in the area indicating great treasure is hidden there which will end up in the British museum.

We have to establish the Atomic Priesthood with "ray cats"!


Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages


"It stores an unforgeable amount of money, and enables unforgeable transactions with other wallets. It is safer than cash money since only the legitimate owner who knows the password can operate it." Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings of CRYPTO '83, Santa Barbara, CA, Aug. 1983. 1983 was certainly an interesting year!

Cashless society been in the planning a long time...


Electronic Wallet (Israel again. Why am I not surprised)

A story for bad times

Here is a story that seems most appropriate to the current era in which we (scientists, especially those not at Weizmann) face administrations (i.e., VERA, VATAT, and the government) that reason only via money and power...

In the late 1970s, when becoming chairman of CS at the Technion, Shimon noted that the computer used for teaching was more adequate for a historical display. He asked for a meeting with the Technion's president, in which he requested permission to buy a new computer. The president refused Shimon's request by saying that the department already has a computer, and remained unconvinced by Shimon's explanation that this "piece of junk" is worthless (beyond its junk-yard value). "For all I know", the president said, "you have a computer".

A week later, Shimon phoned the president and asked again for a new computer. The conversation went on as follows.

    President: I already told you that you have a computer, so you don't need a new one.
    Shimon: But I don't have a computer.
    President: What do you mean?
    Shimon: I sold it.
    President: What did you do???
    Shimon: I sold it as junk.
    President: Who allowed you to do this???
    Shimon: I don't need permission to sell old equipment (see Technion's Regulations, Article No. NNN).
    President: So what do you want now?
    Shimon: Your permission to buy a new computer.
    President: You are NOT getting it!
    Shimon: So I'm not opening the next academic year. We cannot teach Computer Science without a computer.
    President: We'll see about this.
    Shimon: Yes, we'll see about this. I'm not opening the next academic year without a computer.

Well, the next academic year was opened with a new computer...

Stories about Shimon Even (by Oded)

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Lazy Sunday Wacky Aether Times







Archived Tweet


The highly coordinated PR campaign to rehabilitate Alex Jones has been fascinating to watch.

Red Scare > Alex Lee Moyer docu "Alex's War" (2022) > Greenwald-hosted premiere > Tucker interview AJ > Elon Musk.







According to the Public Religion Research Institute, as of 2022, the largest age cohort to believe in QAnon was 30-49.



The Persistence of QAnon in the Post-Trump Era: An Analysis of Who Believes the Conspiracies


Hmmm, kinda strange/interesting that Gen Flynn (former Army psychological warfare officer) joined the chat.

Apparently, they're talking about better names for Gemini Ultra, Google's new "DeepMind" AI platform.

Ah, more MK Goodies...


Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model



Soon the entire Web will be an AI generated hallucination. And with the drive toward legalizing psycheldelic shrooms/therapy you won't know what is real anymore. Blissful utopia!


"The Juan" has been double-dipping in the shrooms.


The message is: "You can trust the government on UFOs." The dark abyss of skullduggery & cross-pollinating shenanigans knows no bounds.

To Be Continued.

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LOL...



I think it's more like in the trillions.

If you could pry the cold dark secrets from this Texas whiz kid, now retired wizard you would know more secrets than Lockheed & Raytheon combined.



Note of caution: The 92 year-old retired Admiral has MKULTRA immunity and any other tactical method you can possibly imagine to extract secrets.

Beware which rabbit hole you venture down.




Breaking UAP News! Your most reliable source for all things Extraterrestrial.








The American entrepreneur mindset: "How can we profit from this?"

The EU mindset: "How can we regulate it with a system so Byzantine the investments flow to America?"


Dec 10, 2009: CIA agent William Cooper (Karl Urban) is assigned to hunt down and kill former black-ops CIA agent, Frank Moses, who is considered RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous).



Dec 10, 1988: Lucinda Embry, who could predict the dates, times and locations of major world disasters, died of a medication overdose.


In the Bible, "Lucinda" means "Bringer of light." The predicament of being able to see future disaster and fearing no one will believe you is called "The Cassandra Complex", after a Greek myth.



MSRP is $750,000. 33.0% APR for 666 months with $47,333 borrowed. 12 month no cost maintenance. Radiation shielding optional with Sport Pak #2. Hurry, offer expires Jan 1, 2024.

1. Applying for "X" credit online is super easy, convenient and ultra secure. The process usually takes around 10-15 minutes and you can expect to receive an Elon personal response right away.

2. You'll be asked to provide the following basic personal information:

Social Security Number
Date of Birth
Eye color
Hair color
Blood type
DNA sample
Ethnic Race (or ET)
Employment status and/or annual income
Address, and whether you own or rent
Monthly mortgage or rent
Email address
Phone #
Spouse name and full details
Political affiliation(s)
Criminal record

3. You'll also be asked to answer a few questions about your preferred vehicle and financing options (i.e. financing type: purchase or lease, and application type: individual or joint). Your final vehicle and financing options will be selected at your local dealer. Surcharges & fees may vary from state to state.

The optional X implantable neuralink probes you can insert through your eyeballs that interface you with the on board AI. It's only $133,666 dollars. It's called the Ahrimanic upgrade, and you can go to the 8th realm with it.

Note: this upgrade is currently sold out.


R.I.P. Gary Webb. August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004.


Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking

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Dec 11, 1972: Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program which was the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
The official emblem of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission which was flown by astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt. The insignia was designed by artist Robert T. McCall.






Dec 9th was National Llama Day. Did you know that the Y‑12 National Security Complex (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) who maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, took part in a nonproliferation effort called Project Golden Llama in Chile that removed all of the country's highly enriched uranium?



During shipment preparations, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred off the Chilean coast causing widespread damage to surrounding areas. Contingency plans were made, and the shipment made its way to Oak Ridge with minimal delay. Hmm, suspicious major EQ.

The highly enriched uranium is needed to power...




Handing this one to Stepford Biden because LA to Las Vegas is the funniest possible route to use to declare the nation will now have high speed rail. Biden regime solution to the failing EV market and billions toward Operation Human Containment. Kinda like Gaza except a million times larger.



Note that many thousands of Europeans flock to LA every summer to rent a CAR, TRUCK, Jeep or RV so they can enjoy the drive in DESERT solitude through Death Valley or Mojave Desert while spending money in the tiny desert oasis resort towns on their family adventure to Vegas.

Newsom madness: Up to $128 billion dollars for San Francisco to LA.


High-speed rail project bridging Las Vegas and LA receives $3bn in US aid

Initial 119 mile segment, mirrored is 911. Probably nothing.


The FDA issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vax to be approved by the agency.


CDC Museum COVID-19 Nightmare Timeline


Seeing #blackout trending on Twitter the day after I watched "Leave the World Behind."


The attacks will stop as soon as we send more $$$ to the Ukraine.

In the movie, the son Archie wears an "Obey" t-shirt with Andre The Giant's image. This is artwork by Shepard Fairey who is best known for his Barack Obama "Hope" artwork. Barack & Michele Obama are the Executive Producers of this utterly bereft of spirit and anti-humanity with no vision of the future other then chaos, suffering, death, nihilistic film about weaponized cyber attacks and a global communications breakdown where NOBODY is in charge. Lots of Easter eggs and subliminal messages throughout. The ending is a metaphor. Mocking the working & lower class. You'll own nothing and be happy. Sounds like Obama got the plot from Weltfuehrer der Hochklaus von Blohschwab, Freiherr von Bomburst und Bloviation AKA Klaus Schwab, OR one of the Chan boards.


One of the quotes from black daughter to her black father:

"I'm asking you to remember, if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people."

On the flip-side the Obama productions is just low-grade entertainment.


They brought back AJ to prep the new timeline.


Text is from the Tucker/AJ interview on Rumble (3 min clip). "attack sports stadiums"? Like in Black Sunday? Paging Bruce Dern for comment. Prolly shouldn't laugh as you never know these days. We already just seen paragliding attacks and we are told that not even the Mossad seen that one coming.

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Dec 12, 1953: "Operation NACA Weep", Chuck Yeager piloted Bell X-1A to Mach 2.44 at an altitude of 74,700 feet, a new record for piloted aircraft at the time. After reaching Mach 2.44, the X-1A tumbled out of control, twice reaching 8 Gs. Yeager recovered from an inverted spin and landed the aircraft. The Right Stuff!


National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) became NASA on October 1, 1958.


December 11, 1959: Twilight Zone's "And When The Sky Was Opened" S01E11  aired. Three astronauts return to Earth after testing an experimental rocket. Then things start getting weird. Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman and Jim Hutton star in Rod Serling's adaptation of a Richard Matheson story. One of the best, in the top 5.




THE LAST DETAIL turns 50 today, written by Robert Towne (based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan) premiered at the Bruin theater in Los Angeles on Dec 12, 1973. Jack Nicholson as "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Randy Quaid as Meadows.


The script was completed in 1970, but contained too much profanity to be shot as written. Columbia Pictures waited for two years trying to get writer Robert Towne to tone down the language. Instead, by 1972, the standards for foul language relaxed so much that all the profanity was left in.


As you may be aware, the 1962 Christmas classic "Do You Hear What I Hear?" was inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis. But did you know Robert Goulet's version was co-songwriter Noël Regney's favorite interpretation?


NY Times (archived)

Noël Regney (born Léon Schlienger; 19 August 1922 – 22 November 2002), was a French World War II veteran and songwriter, best known for...



Born in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Léon Schlienger, written backwards, is Noël Regnei (-lhcS). He grew up Catholic, but later became a Unitarian Universalist. He was drafted into the Nazi army despite being a Frenchman like many other "Malgré-nous". As an Alsatian, he spoke the German dialect Alsatian as fluently as French. It is said[by whom?] that he soon deserted, joined a group of French Resistance fighters, and became a double agent working for the French. He led a party of Nazis into an ambush, was shot in the arm, but survived. Eventually, while touring the United States, accompanying Lucienne Boyer, contemporary of Édith Piaf, he met his first wife pianist/composer Gloria Shayne with whom in 1962, he composed the Christmas song "Do You Hear What I Hear?" He had Pick's disease, a degenerative brain illness that causes dementia.

Wiki | [Deathwatch] Noel Regney, songwriter, 80


The Cuban Missile Crisis was over and sales were up! Cold War Christmas Billboard...


Billboard Music Week (62 pg PDF for Dec 8, 1962)





25 years ago (Dec 11, 1998) the Mars Climate Orbiter built by Lockheed Martin launched aboard a Delta II rocket. Communication with the spacecraft was lost during orbital insertion when it reached Mars the following year. An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two software systems: International System of Units (SI) by NASA and US customary units by Lockheed Martin. Must Always check your units!




Houston, V'ger has a problem...stuck bits!


The @NASAVoyager team is investigating an issue with Voyager 1's Flight Data System. The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth but not returning useable data. Do not go gentle into that good night! Press onward, oh weary traveller!

Recently, the TMU began transmitting a repeating pattern of ones and zeros as if it were “stuck.” After ruling out other possibilities, the Voyager team determined that the source of the issue is the FDS. This past weekend the team tried to restart the FDS and return it to the state it was in before the issue began, but the spacecraft still isn’t returning useable data.
NASA-JPL

Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, was taken down by a cyberattack on Tuesday morning, resulting in some 24.3 million subscribers losing their phone and internet service, while shops throughout the country were unable to process credit payments.

In Lviv, street lights continued to burn through the morning as the remote switching is controlled through a Kyivstar network. The malfunction meant all disconnections of power to the lights had to be done manually.

“The company's specialists are working on eliminating the problem. We apologize to subscribers for the temporary difficulties and thank you for your understanding,” Kyivstar wrote on its Facebook page.

Ukraine’s Largest Mobile Operator Knocked Out in Cyberattack

But, but, your data is safe. What kind of doublespeak nonsense is that?!

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Mike "Touch" Connors ponders the thought of "No Frisco?" in Roger Corman's DAY THE WORLD ENDED. The movie opened in San Francisco Dec 13, 1955. In a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war seven disparate people find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.


Youtube 1  | Youtube 2  | Youtube 3


Santa with an Altair 8800 computer, as seen in Popular Electronics, December 1975.

That was one sexy piece of hardware!



Dec 13, 1996: Time traveller James Cole attempts to prevent a deadly virus from being released.




Vote SPOCK 2024.



Leonard Nimoy Revealed on Live Television that he had met an Alien.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_ltAGr7fI


Just a normal software update. Don't even worry about it.


Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot

Besides adding a Moron Alarm because your user base can't be trusted, my mind immediately went to that screencap.


Upcoming movie...2024 is set to be lit like a Michael Bay production, Call of Duty style.







Texas teams up with California? LOL. Must be the alternate-universe narrative. Starring Kirsten Dunst as a journo. Alex Garland and Karl Glusman's first collaboration since Devs (2020). Also funny that A24 started as a prestige indie distributor and are now producing movies on the level of Invasion USA.

LOL, C'mon man...




Zelensky met with US arms manufacturers yesterday at Ukraine House in Washington, DC. Here he is pictured alongside executives from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and others. Looks like many lucrative business opportunities still ahead for these valued partners. The lone female is Ukrainian ambassador to the US, also an arms (laundry) dealer.

Lord of War & the Oligarchy dealers...


Photo source is from The Odessa Journal.


Cetacean thumbs rising...


Dolphin with thumbs discovered in the ocean in scientific first



On a related note, my local Barnes & Noble has the Bible in the section labeled "fiction."


Dec 13, 1975, the Word Association sketch was unleashed upon the world. Written by Paul Mooney, Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase, it still remains one of the most defining moments of not only SNL but televised comedy in general. I'm surprised it's still on Youtube.

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Dec 14, 1989: Clark Griswold wishes corporate a Merry Christmas then goes shopping.




As a passenger I'd be more concerned about plane payload capacity.



NY Post


Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot's answer to the question: What was the race of Jesus Christ? Ho, ho, ho, just a bit biased. LOL.





https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status...3050975277

Don't be too disappointed, it just didn't pan out as described by this sanitized and manufactured "disclosure" nonsense.



Though the chances of authentic disclosure are never zero. It could happen...




When you realize you're only fighting trolls/Bots/shills and cursing each other over each others TRUTH and all that spells is just faith and loyalty to a deity...


An anagram of watermark is "karma trew".




Sinatra speaks. It's going to be a tough holiday season...

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Dec 15, 1923: Gabrielle Casartelli (1910-1990) plays the Will o’ the Wisp in a London pantomime show, "Where the Rainbow Ends."



On 23 December 1937, 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth was taken by Queen Elizabeth to see a performance of Where the Rainbow Ends at The Holborn Empire, London.




Dec 15, 1945: The Slim Gaillard Quartette recorded "Atomic Cocktail" at the Atomic Record Company Inc. 5634 Santa Monica Blvd Hollywood 38, California.





Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 14, 1916 (?) – February 26, 1991), also known as McVouty, was an American jazz singer and songwriter who played piano, guitar, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone. Noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout" or "Vout-o-Reenee". Hence the dictionary. In addition to English, he spoke five languages (Spanish, German, Greek, Arabic, and Armenian) with varying degrees of fluency. His daughter, Janis Hunter (January 5, 1956 - Dec 3, 2022) is the ex-wife of Marvin Gaye and the mother of actress and singer Nona Gaye. Nona was "Zee" in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.



Gaillard rose to prominence in the late 1930s with hits such as "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" and "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti)" after forming Slim and Slam with Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart. During World War II, Gaillard served as a bomber pilot in the Pacific. In 1944, he resumed his music career and performed with such notable jazz musicians as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dodo Marmarosa.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he acted in films—sometimes as himself—and also appeared in bit parts in television series such as Roots: The Next Generations.

In the 1980s, Gaillard resumed touring the circuit of European jazz festivals. He followed Dizzy Gillespie's advice to move to Europe and, in 1983, settled in London, where he died of cancer on February 26, 1991, after a long career in music, film and television, spanning nearly six decades.

Gaillard's date of birth, his lineage and place of birth have been in dispute for years.

Discography Of American Historical Recordings  |  Slim Gaillard Discography



Have a Mell-O-Reen-EE CEE-MET-O!

Slim Gaillard Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary (Unfortunately, the A-B pages are missing).

George Melly & Slim Gaillard - Part 1 - Jazz Juke Box:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wzbqg2TQmM



Vout-O-Reenee’s - Meet me at the Crypt!


Dear Santa, if I could have anything I want for Xmas I would take...


All three are German tech. lol!


I'm envisioning a train wreck on a wreck...


That's called Sufi AI magic for nerds.

This Special Issue welcomes original research papers and review articles on, but not limited to, the following topics:

    AI-powered safety, security, disaster, crisis and emergency events analysis, including historical and big data analysis;
    AI-enabled climate extreme events, disaster risk assessment and early warning systems;
    AI-enabled public health emergency management including COVID-19;
    AI-based emergency response planning and decision making;
    AI-assisted real-time situational awareness and monitoring;
    AI-driven resource allocation and optimization in emergency management;
    AI-powered prediction and mitigation of disasters and their impact;
    AI-supported public communication and social media analysis during emergencies;
    AI-augmented human-robot collaboration in emergency response;
    AI-powered autonomous systems for search and rescue operations;
    AI-enhanced post-disaster assessment and recovery planning;
    AI-enabled disaster and business continuity management including education continuity operations;
    Ethical and social implications of AI in emergency management.

Special Issue "AI in Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Management"

Just add some Divine Comedy, demon archetypes, symbols, Lovecraftian horror, The Circle (ritual magic; Circles of Hell), AND a lot of creepy conspiracy mystery as the main characters plunge deeper down the rabbit hole...

The Institute of Noetic Sciences is seeking candidates to participate in a mind-matter interaction study. Here's the website that explains what this experiment is all about: Magick Test




Lookout for WME's!


DHS 39 page PDF - surely they've added Cyber warfare by now.

Luv me some acronym's.

WME = Windows Media Encoder

Also, "William Morris Endeavor" Entertainment Talent Agency. Indeed, actors "are capable of inflicting grave destructive, psychological damage." AKA, the enemy within AKA The Fifth Column, AKA Hollywood, AKA CIA & Five Eyes.

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."
― Frank Zappa

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
― Lewis Carroll

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On this day in history, December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party takes place when a group of angry patriots, the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump the tea from three ships into Boston Harbor to protest Parliament's tax on tea. In 1767 the Townshend Acts placed a tax on tea and other items for the first time, leading to boycotts of English goods in the colonies. The Townshend Acts were finally repealed in 1770, except for the tea tax, which Parliament left in place to assert that it did indeed have the right to tax the colonists.

By 1773 the British East India Company, the main importer of tea to England and the colonies, was suffering a severe financial crisis. The Indemnity Act of 1767, which removed certain taxes on the Company, had expired, causing the price of tea to go up. Tons of tea that could not be sold at the higher price sat in warehouses in London. In order to rescue the Company, Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773, which removed taxes on the Company, allowed it to export directly to the colonies, thereby bypassing middlemen who raised the price and raised the tax on end-consumers.



The Tea Act actually lowered the price of tea in America, but the colonists stood on the principle that it was unjust for Parliament to tax them at all, because they were not represented in Parliament. Seven tea ships left England for America that year. Patriots at Philadelphia and New York successfully prevented the ships from unloading, while the ship at Charleston, South Carolina was confiscated by patriots and the goods resold to aid the patriot cause.

The term Boston Tea Party was not used for nearly another century. In fact many Americans looked down upon the event for the first several decades after the Revolutionary War because it involved the destruction of private property. Eventually though, the event came to represent a moment of pride in American history as a revolt against tyranny.

A Resolution from President General, John Dodd in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. You are encouraged to celebrate at 8:00 PM Boston time on Saturday, December 16, 2023!




"The only thing we can be sure of about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic."

Dec 16, 1917: Writer, futurist and inventor Arthur C. Clarke was born.

In 1964, he appeared on Horizon and gave some astonishing predictions about the future. "The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys. They'll be machines."




Who needs a Tesla when you got one of these...Get in!


GM built the Firebird III in 1958 and debuted it at Motorama in 1959. It is an extravagant concept with a fiberglass body and seven short wings and tail fins (which were tested extensively in a wind tunnel). It is a two-seater powered by a 225 hp (168 kW) Whirlfire GT-305 gas turbine engine, with a two-cylinder 10 hp (7.5 kW) gasoline engine to run all the accessories. Its exterior design features a double-bubble canopy and technical advancements to make it more practical, such as cruise control, anti-lock brakes, and air conditioning. It also featured "Space-Age" innovations, such as special air drag brakes like those found on aircraft, which emerged from flat panels in the bodywork of the car to slow it from high speeds; an "ultra-sonic" key that signaled the doors to open; an automated guidance system to help avoid accidents; and "no hold" steering. The driver controlled the steering with a joystick positioned between the two seats.

GM Firebird lll Gas Turbine Car Promo Film - 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOdux6Gjno

1958 GM Firebird III news film - stock video (GettyImages) "This is a short promotional film about GM's experimental, gas-turbine engine concept car, the Firebird III. The Firebird III was a Space Age experiment in the area of autonomous, self-driving cars." GM test track in Phoenix, AZ.


Dec 16, 1977: the Charles Bronson Cold War thriller TELEFON opened. "Dial 800 (Toll Free) T-E-L-E-F-O-N for the secret of The most explosive picture of the year!" The number had been disconnected by Dec. 20, 1977.



The name of the poem used as the code spoken over the telephone to activate sleepers was 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost. This poem was originally published in 1923 in his collection titled 'New Hampshire'. The exact lines from the poem heard in the movie each time were: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."


Long ago and far away: Dec 31, 2001...




What the Swifty hell is happening?














What do you get if you go back one letter in the alphabet for each of the letters in IBM?

[Snarl]

Surprised they drew that routine out on their channel.

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Surprised they drew that routine out on their channel.

Shocked, I tell ya! No kidding! I was going to post the original Carlin clip and happened to stumble across the After Skool version.

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Posting from here tonight...




50 years ago today SLEEPER premiered in New York City.



SLEEPER trivia: Other candidates for the nuclear warhead joke punchline were NYC cabbies and the DAR.




Visitors to the National Archives Museum often ask: why does the word Congress have an "f" in it at the top of the Bill Of Rights?


Here is the Long S answer.


In the voice of Hans Gruber, Ho... Ho... Ho...



Final destination for the trip is Nashville, where they performed a flyover for the Titans game today.

You know we're in that season again when various TV networks AND theaters start re-showing "Die Hard"...tis the season.


As AI creates more of the content online (text, news, videos, images) it will enter a feedback loop where its errors multiply and it "learns" from the erroneous AI generated material it finds online. In this way AI becomes self corrupting. Sure seems that's what is happening to humans. I wonder what happens when you feed AI generated data into AI models.

Looky here, some folks actually doing research into this...


Degenerative AI: The collapse is Near


This is "Glasgow rains a lot" as generated by AI:

The noted science fiction author Robert Heinlein once wrote “climate is what you expect, and weather is what you get” as quoted in the Sunset Western Garden Book, 2012. And after a decade of changing weather systems, even slightly, our gardening methods will change, too.

East Oregonian

Meanwhile...

Google DeepMind Used a Large Language Model to Solve an Unsolvable Math Problem

Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the first time a large language model has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific puzzle—producing verifiable and valuable new information that did not previously exist. "It's not in the training data—it wasn't even known," says coauthor Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research at Google DeepMind.

Large language models have a reputation for making things up, not for providing new facts. Google DeepMind's new tool, called FunSearch, could change that. It shows that they can indeed make discoveries—if they are coaxed just so, and if you throw out the majority of what they come up with.

FunSearch (so called because it searches for mathematical functions, not because it's fun) continues a streak of discoveries in fundamental math and computer science that DeepMind has made using AI. First AlphaTensor found a way to speed up a calculation at the heart of many different kinds of code, beating a 50-year record. Then AlphaDev found ways to make key algorithms used trillions of times a day run faster.

From MIT Technology Review

Wyatt Russell Would Love to Remake The Last Starfighter

[Snarl]

I wonder what happens when you feed AI generated data into AI models.

I bought an AI Chat Bot. Had to tell it a bunch of time not to use Consensus Science as the basis for ANY argument it wanted to have with me. Damn near broke the thing.

Was shocked when it openly admitted it was programmed and unable to learn from its interactions with paying customers. Lost interest in it there and then. If that is what AI is ... Clown World ain't never gonna end.

Design A Building: I found you better know what kind of stuff you want run in, around and under your building before you ever begin designing in earnest. I found it 'pays' to have second, third and fourth opinions. It's a bonus if you have friends in that business too.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

I meant to post this yesterday, but got caught up in data dis-traffic shenanigans.

In other psychological apocalyptic hocus pocus news from the past, The multi-city world premiere on 7 continents of ON THE BEACH opened Dec 17, 1959. You can watch the 5 min trailer that includes footage of the premieres...Worldwide media proclaimed the film a "Great Success! and an "Unprecedented event!"



The film is set in Australia, the only remaining haven for mankind.

Kids/teens/adults who saw this movie back then still have nightmares about it to this day. Or those who read the novel of same title by British author Nevil Shute, published in 1957 after he emigrated to Australia.



The film opens with a shot from a bedroom window. It pans to the sky as the narrator (James McKechnie) recalls the time he looked out his window. He saw an object flying through the sky. Throughout the film the object is only referred to as It. Although It (bearing an uncanny resemblance to the B-2 stealth bomber or black triangle UFO, though likely inspired by the YB-35 or YB-49) was very far away and seemed to move slowly, it came swiftly and was unnoticed. When It flew over the mountain, the leopard and the deer looked up. When they saw It, the deer ran free from the leopard's claws and they both hide in fear. When It flew over the fields, the owl and the rat looked up, and the rat ran free of the owl's claws and they both hide in fear.

Australia's "The Age" newspaper on the premiere of ON THE BEACH. Author and Langwarrin, Australia resident Nevil Shute was a no-show for reasons...



Nestled right beside above article is:



ON THE BEACH author Nevil Shute's refusal to attend the premiere of the film adaptation "has really stirred things up in America."





On the Beach Film Review




The real USS Sawfish (SS-276)

Radio Call Sign: November - Whiskey - Foxtrot - Mike

USS Sawfish was a diesel-electric submarine sponsored by Hattie Wyatt Caraway, the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate (Arkansas) in 1931 to 1945; and christened the sub on 26 August 1942. Stationed at Pearl Harbor she did 10 war patrols during WWII, Decommissioned on June 20, 1946; Sold for scrap on Dec 2, 1960.


The phrase "on the beach" is a Royal Navy term that means "retired from the Service." The title also refers to T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines:

    In this last of meeting places

We grope together

And avoid speech

Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.

Printings of the novel, including the first 1957 edition by William Morrow and Company, New York, contain extracts from Eliot's poem on the title page, under Shute's name, including the above quotation and the concluding lines:

    This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

On the Beach (2023 Australian theatre production) a play adapted by artistic director Kip Williams and playwright Tommy Murphy for the Sydney Theatre Company. (As one might suspect, really weird just based on the stage stillshots)

Gotta luv that cover...


From Penguin Books UK edition of Eric Schlosser's COMMAND AND CONTROL.


Father Christmas gets a mention in one episode of "The Prisoner" in the following exchange in episode 6 titled "The General":

Number 12: Who's the head man?
Number 6: Santa Claus

[Freija]

Looky here, some folks actually doing research into this...

Degenerative AI: The collapse is Near

Here's a video on this very thing - AI learning from AI

[Snarl]

Looky here, some folks actually doing research into this...
Degenerative AI: The collapse is Near

Here's a video on this very thing - AI learning from AI

Unintended consequences.  

Described as one would a Christmas present wrapped by a pretty red bow.

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Holy science, damn!!

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