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LENAMIU CNY MAKRO #makroCNY2026xLenaMiu Somethings are best kept between two people 😌 🦋: I feel like when I compliment others like p’oom, p’bam, pp and mint, it’s like a friendship thing – girl-friends, girl power. When I see them I feel like I want to give them a compliment that they’re beautiful but for Miu I don’t usually compliment, I’d usually like to look at her and think it to myself. 🎤: thinking what? 🦋: that she’s beautiful. Like today, when getting dressed for the makro event and I was getting my eye makeup done and my eyes just caught sight of her just then and I was thinking to myself, she’s so beautiful. But I don’t go and say ‘wow so beautiful’ things like that. I don’t usually say it but it’s more of thinking it to myself. 😍 🎤: but how will she know if you’re just thinking it to yourself? 🦋: but sometimes she doesn’t need to know, no? Because she knows she’s beautiful…but if I say it too often she’ll think it’s like…you know 🎤: ah okay, so that way it’ll be more meaningful when it’s said once in a while, right? 🦋: yes. I dunno I have my own timing for saying it 🎤: since our conversation, has there been the right timing? 😂 why is it taking you so long to answer? 🦋: I’m just trying to think and recall the moment…there was ‘today you’re pretty’, ‘like you in this dress’ and ‘like it when you do your makeup like this’ 🎤: anything more special than this? 🦋: we’d say it between the two of us 🎤: the 1600 fans watching want to know 🦋: cannot something we have to keep as a secret

ᵖˡˢShez.

93,858 次观看 • 5 个月前

The PHD (Pull Him Down) syndrome is so real. I’m not one to air my struggles online, but for your information, I’ve been unemployed for a whole entire year. A full year. I am out here on X trying to make some extra cash, and all you can do is try to bruise my confidence. Bro, it took everything inside of me just to sit in front of that camera and shoot that video. Instead of supporting and uplifting a brother, you chose those exact words for a stranger you don’t even know. In a world where you can be anything, you chose negativity. It looks like we still have a long way to go as a country, but it’s chilled. I swear I am not trying to hurt anyone. I’m just trying to build my community and make money. I really don’t need this, especially since this isn't even my comfort zone. Besides, those aren't even my personal views or opinions, it’s called critical media analysis, bro. You should look it up. I'm breaking down the text and the themes of a show. Do you even know the difference between someone's personal views and a critical scene analysis? You almost got to me though, but guess what? I was watching #PodcastandChill right after your comment shook me, and MacG and Sol were discussing Nasty C’s streaming venture. Sol said something so profound, it felt like he was speaking directly to me. He said, "It takes balls to learn to swim in full view of the public." while at it, he dropped another gem while commending Nasty’s journey: "For me, it’s the stepping out of your comfort zone that I have to commend to start something new and be willing to be ridiculed." Those exact words are the reason why I am busy editing another video right now, which drops tonight at 20:30. A huge shoutout to Thandubuntu man. What a legend. 🇿🇦🙌🏻💐💐💐

TheKingLouNetwork

95,716 次观看 • 1 个月前

🚨 RUSSELL CROWE GETS GIDDY UNBOXING A PACKAGE THAT JUST ARRIVED — THEN TURNS INTO A FULL-BLOWN WATCH NERD ON CAMERA In a new video, the Oscar-winning Gladiator star jumps on camera to show followers what just arrived in the mail. Before even getting to the watch, Crowe opens a small box filled with different signet rings, explaining he swaps them depending on what watch he’s wearing. Then he opens the new package and reveals the main piece: A Toledano & Chan B/1.3R timepiece. Crowe immediately starts geeking out over the details, pointing out the Grade 5 titanium case, 18-karat gold dial, the weight, and the sculptural design. Then comes the moment watch collectors instantly recognize. Crowe gets visibly giddy peeling the factory protective film off the watch, laughing while watching it slowly lift away. He pauses to admire the beauty of the timepiece. Then he discusses the “Patek feel” of the watch band and admits he’s a “huge Gérald Genta watch bracelet fan.” He slips the watch onto his wrist… closes the clasp… Looks down… Then swaps his signet ring so the ring matches the watch. He also notes the movement inside is a Sellita SW100. This isn’t a press interview or a movie promo either. It’s Russell Crowe posting on his own TikTok account, where the Oscar winner has quietly built a following of about 70,000 people just sharing watches he loves. Did you ever expect Russell Crowe to become a full-blown watch collector posting unboxings online?

HustleBitch

538,722 次观看 • 4 个月前

This remote viewer allegedly went to a meeting with “hundreds of thousands” of aliens on the Moon. “There’s little troll beings.” “There’s gelatinous beings.” “There’s really freaking tall beings.” And there were “tens of thousands” of other remote viewers from Earth. This was Elizabeth April’s introduction to the “Galactic Federation.” First, she was visited in her room by a “seven foot tall” man in a “white light body.” “I open my eyes, and he’s gone.” “I close my eyes, and he’s there.” “Open my eyes, gone.” “Close my eyes, there.” “And he said: my name is Kinetic, and I’m a Pleiadian from the Galactic Federation of Light, and I want to invite you to a meeting.” “I’m like: yeah, sure.” “He said: there’s gonna be a meeting in, I think he said like two or three days … it’s gonna be at 2am your time.” “I’m sitting there, 2am on the dot, he comes back into my room and he says: follow me.” “He’s in this white light body … I’m gonna go follow him in my remote body.” “We’re just flying through the air … and we go off the planet.” “We’re going towards the Moon.” “I go inside the Moon, and there’s this huge … circular room.” “I’m talking like hundreds of thousands of seats and beings in this room.” “In the seats were two beings of each species or civilization.” And there were “tens of thousands of white light bodies.” “I could see the grounding cord from their body going outside of the Moon, back to planet Earth.” “I’m like, holy shit … these are a bunch of other remote viewers from Earth who also got invited to this meeting.” “There’s this floating platform in the center of the room, and standing on the platform is like this little being, and then this beautiful, tall, sort of a Grey hybrid woman.” “I now know her name is Mika.” “This is like December 21st, 2011, so right before 2012.” “She’s not only just saying it, but she’s projecting images into our minds as well.” “She talked a lot about … the splitting of the Earth, the shifting of the timelines.” “She talked about this huge energy wave that was going to hit the planet and propel us into this sort of new Earth.” “She talked extensively about this other species on planet Earth that has sort of been taking over, that’s gonna be kicked off of the planet.” “She was showing me these, I called them dinosaur-like beings, 8 to 10 foot tall, scaly, green, some had tails, some had wings.” “Reptilians.” “She was talking about: we have a history with them, we’ve been monitoring them, but now, it’s no longer time for them to be on planet Earth, they need to leave in order for humanity to make a choice, and they need to make that choice with their free will.” “And then that was that, and then I just went back into my body.” Elizabeth April Acid For Squares

Holden Culotta

238,093 次观看 • 3 个月前

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Project Constitution

16,025 次观看 • 10 个月前

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Ryan Saavedra

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Oh damn she named donors. I don’t think that’s going to fly well. That is a lawsuit. First it’s not public information and second you can’t give out personal information on people like this. Oh and she is insinuating a lawsuit on TPUsa but there’s nothing she can sue them for. They don’t have to give her information. This is all a show on her part. It was discussed at a dinner break out session for the big donors. Now she’s telling her followers to not attack the donors. Oh Candace you know what you just did. You just put them in a cross hairs of your Candace crazies. They will be hounded and slandered from all sides now. Now she’s back to the DC FOIA and states the video is fake. The Dept of War hasn’t answered her. Dept of War says they aren’t answering it. They said it was too much of a burden to look for it. They are just messing with her now. It’s pissing her off. Now she’s going off on TPUsa not standing behind Massie. And not standing up over the Iran war. Charlie wasn’t assassinated by the left. She insisting it was the US government. It’s deep state. And it’s over Israel. Let’s all keep in mind that Candace has no evidence of any of this. She’s just rambling her same old stuff. Erika isn’t acting like a grieving widow. She’s in on her husbands death. She is evil. Erika really needs to sue her and take Candace for all she has. Erika is just being used to cover it all up. This is stupid. Now we are going into celebrity gossip. She really has nothing to talk about anymore. But the video. So now we are going to gossip. Her viewers aren’t happy about it. Many are saying they are watching her for celebrity gossip. She’s upset Ivanka bought an island and is making fun of her about it. I think Candace is so jealous. You can see it on her face. Look at her face. It’s so funny. So now she’s blaming Ivanka for Gaza now. And now saying Ivanka is friends with the Rothschilds and has too much money. And hurt kids. And blah blah blah. I remember when Candace said Ivanka was the most beautiful woman she met and so sweet too. I’ll have to find that article. And her husband genocided and the Palestines were killed for a vacation project. Russia good. I don’t know why but hey we had to throw it in there. Russia is really nice guys. We need to visit. PR crisis mode for US weekly. And Erika is putting in ad to slander Candace. I thought about this today. This is epic. Want to know why. Because 99.9% of the US doesn’t watch Candace. So Candace can’t fight it on her podcast because these people don’t watch her. Candace says she doesn’t call anyone. If you want to talk to her you have to call her assistant. She doesn’t answer calls. Ok noted don’t call Candace. You can tell it’s irritating her a lot. Ok we are back to celebrity gossip. Adriana Grande is using Ethan Slader and took him away from his wife and baby. I didn’t even know about this but I don’t follow any of this. For some reason these seems personal for Candace. Candace is your husband stepping out on you? Not only is he gay, an alcoholic but he’s cheating on you? You seem personally invested. Again her audience is complaining they don’t want to hear about it. And that’s all we got. She never talks nice about anyone. Ever notice that? Her audience seemed to tonight. A few called it out. She’s losing her audience.

Raven Grace 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

20,845 次观看 • 1 个月前

Good morning, friends. If you’re still reeling from Judge Cannone’s Friday smackdown of Mark Bederow’s pro hac vice bid to join Karen Read’s legal circus, hold tight—because this isn’t just a procedural hiccup. It’s a neon sign flashing straight at the heart of Hank Brennan’s pending motion to drag Aidan "TurtleBoy" Kearney’s phone records into Read’s retrial under a consciousness of guilt instruction. And trust me, these two threads are knotted tighter than a sailor’s hitch. Let’s peel this onion. Bederow—Kearney’s own attorney—tried to slide into Read’s defense team like a Trojan horse, and Judge Cannone wasn’t having it. Why? I see two possibilities bubbling under the surface here, and they both tie straight to Brennan’s gambit to wield Kearney’s cell phone as a cudgel against Read. Option one: Judge Cannone sniffed out a long con—Bederow waiving a non-waivable conflict to plant an appellate time bomb for Read’s crew down the road. Option two (and I’m leaning hard into this one): Judge Cannone saw this as a desperate salvo by Read, her lawyers, and Kearney to ex post facto cloak their communications in privilege, hoping to choke Brennan’s move to introduce that damning evidence—texts, calls, whatever’s lurking in TurtleBoy’s digital swamp—showing Read allegedly siccing Kearney on witnesses before her first trial. A harbinger of Brennan winning on his consciousness of guilt motion, and subsequent introduction of said evidence at Read's re-trial, anyone? That’s the game here. Brennan’s joint venture theory—straight out of Commonwealth v. Mahoney and polished by decades of caselaw—doesn’t need a conspiracy charge to fly. As I’ve said before (and even wrote a paper on), acts of a joint venturer can be pinned to another if they’re during and in furtherance of the venture. No indictment required. The bar’s low—think probable cause, maybe preponderance—and Brennan’s got a treasure trove from Kearney’s phone: contacts with Read and her lawyers stretching back to April 2023, likely dripping with witness-tormenting directives. If he wins that motion, the jury gets the full show—Kearney’s actions, Read’s words, and a judicial nod in the instructions that it all screams guilt. No separate trial, no fancy footwork, just raw evidence. Now, here’s the kicker: that phone evidence Brennan’s after? It’s not some hypothetical needle in a haystack—it’s already in the state’s hands, seized via a search warrant in one of Kearney’s own cases. Those contacts between Kearney, Read and Read's lawyers --including at least 29 calls between Kearney and Read's lawyers, along with hundreds of calls and messages between Kearney and Read, including via intermediaries-- have also been mentioned, on record, both by Prosecutor Brennan, and in previous motions from the Commonwealth during Read's first trial. Thus, the current Read trial prosecutors aren’t starting from scratch; they’re sitting on a goldmine—two phones, fully searched in November 2024—likely mirrored and cataloged, ready to be cross-referenced against Read’s retrial. Under Commonwealth v. Lampron (439 Mass. 656, 2003), the state’s got a slam-dunk argument for admissibility here. Lampron holds that evidence in the “care, custody, or control” of the prosecution—or any state agency tied to the case—must be turned over if it’s material and relevant. Flip that coin: if it’s already in their possession, the defense can’t cry foul about access, and the state’s burden to show relevance is half-met before Brennan even opens his mouth. But here’s the twist—why is Brennan even filing this motion? Normally, the state in Read’s case would just hand it over in discovery, no judicial song-and-dance required. Enter the special prosecutor in Kearney’s case, walling off those records from Brennan’s team. That separation supercharges his joint venture pitch—Judge Cannone must step in because the usual channels are locked, making Brennan's Lampron play not just strategic, but a necessity. Contrast that with Bill Read’s phone records—those weren’t searched, aren’t in custody, and Lampron wouldn’t force their production without a warrant or subpoena. Kearney’s stuff? It’s in the vault, searchable, and Brennan’s got the key if Cannone says yes. Pair that with Brennan's joint venture theory, and it’s a one-two punch—Kearney’s phone data isn’t just admissible; it’s inevitable. The state’s had it, they’ve likely analyzed it, and Lampron greenlights its use so long as Brennan ties it to Read’s alleged witness-tampering campaign. That low joint venture threshold (no conspiracy charge needed) plus the state’s existing custody of Kearney's phone data? It’s cement drying around Read’s ankles. And if that’s not wild enough, rewind to July 2023—Alan Jackson’s playing a different game, caught red-handed on a recording now sitting pretty in Judge Cannone’s and the state’s hands. Picture this: Jackson’s cozied up with reporter Gretchen Voss at the Omni Seaport Hotel, scheming to funnel federally protected discovery docs to Brian Walshe’s legal team. The plan? Walshe’s crew files them in an unrelated hearing, Voss “covers” it, and Jackson gets to whisper, “Oh, it’s just state discovery, no biggie”—except he likely knew that disclosure violated a federal court order. He’s on tape admitting the plan, telling Voss she can’t publish the material until it’s laundered through a motion, then nudging her to run it anyway. This wasn’t a oopsie; it’s an ethical grenade. Did those docs tie to the Kearney-Read chatter (as mentioned, Kearney was also getting leaks from Read and the defense starting in April of 2023)? Maybe not, but it shows Jackson’s been dancing on thin ice since mid-2023, willing to torch court rules to shape the narrative. That recording’s a ticking bomb—and Judge Cannone’s got the detonator. So why did Judge Cannone spike Bederow’s pro hac vice play? She saw the gambit for what it was: a last-ditch effort to shield those Kearney-Read-Jackson-Yannetti communications and kneecap Brennan’s consciousness of guilt by way of joint venture push. Read's effort failed. Hard. And that tells me the Kearney evidence is coming—maybe with TurtleBoy himself dragged in as a hostile witness, spilling the beans on Read’s orders to harass and intimidate. But here’s the twist: this could flip both ways. I’d wondered if Read might turn on Kearney, but now? The state might dangle a deal—drop some of his felony charges if he sings about Read’s schemes, maybe even tees up fresh conspiracy or intimidation counts against her. Remember that March 2024 no-true-bill against Read for conspiracy and witness intimidation? The state’s got more now—way more. This is Read’s nightmare unfolding. Brennan’s motion for TurtleBoy's phone records looks poised to land, Karen's motion to dismiss is a dead letter (CPD videos? McCabe’s cross? Fanning’s “juror chats”? Toast.), and Read's federal appeal is circling the drain. Add the ARCCA payments mess and a shuttered federal probe, and it’s Sisyphus time—only the boulder’s rolling downhill fast. Bederow’s denial wasn’t just a ruling; it was Judge Cannone signaling she’s wise to the game—and Brennan’s about to draw up his final, soul-crushing, play. But wait, there’s more: those buried ARCCA contacts and payments—hidden from Judge Cannone and the state until February 13, 2025—could still detonate. The state’s motion to ax ARCCA from Read’s witness list is pending, and if Judge Cannone grants it, the fallout could be biblical. We’re talking $23,925 in hush money (coincidentally matching deobligated federal probe funds—cute, huh?), misrepresentations to Judge Cannone as late as February 6, 2025, and a desperate docket correction admitting it all. If Cannone swings that gavel, ARCCA’s toast—and Jackson’s pro hac vice status might be next. Pair that with his Voss-Walshe stunt, and Alan's once mighty wings of Icarus are now staring down a juridical buzzsaw. More bombshells? Bet on it—this mess is a viper’s nest still uncoiling under the unrelenting desert sunlight. And in summation? Let’s rewind—Read’s team once had a golden ticket from the old Boston DOJ: Rachael Rollins and Josh Levy, fueled by a vendetta against Norfolk DA Morrissey, spun a playbook (think Rollins launching a probe into Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden to "punish" Hayden for Beating Rollins' ally Ricardo Arroyo in a primary race) pretextual federal probe into O’Keefe’s death to kneecap the Norfolk DA, winking at Read’s leaks and ARCCA games. Levy even took her calls, a lifeline to bury the $23,925 payments—gratitude for her chaos accidentally cracking the Sandra Birchmore case, and a shield for his own hide (a history making scoop first revealed by rising-star local journalist Lindsey Gaetani). That cover’s ash now, torched by U.S. Attorney Leah Foley’s burn notice, forcing those ARCCA secrets into the light between January 30 and February 13, 2025—a Black Mass echo of Connolly and Bulger, flipped on its head. Now stack it up: TurtleBoy’s phone evidence, searched and state-held since November 2024, is a lock under Brennan’s joint venture theory, sailing past Lampron thanks to that special prosecutor wall; Bederow’s pro hac vice denial signals Judge Cannone’s onto the privilege ploy; Read’s federal appeal and motion to dismiss are DOA; TurtleBoy might flip or testify, trading felony relief for her scalp; ARCCA’s on the chopping block; and Jackson’s Voss leak tape could yank his pro hac vice rug out from under him. All while Levy’s old wink turns to Foley’s glare. Every angle’s a noose, every thread a shackle—Karen Read’s boxed in, no off-ramps, no miracles, barreling toward accountability for O’Keefe’s death, jail time, and a civil suit avalanche. And you, dear readers? You’re the first in the world to watch this modern Black Mass unfurl in real time—veiled in plain sight, a legal requiem so twisted it’s invisible to all but the sharpest eyes. Stick with your friendly little towel, folks; history’s watching. Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. I am not a lawyer. I am a mere towel. Get a lawyer if you have questions about the law. However, if you’re tepidly craving unconditional love in a world intent on snarling at that fleeting concept? Then, perhaps, you should get a towel.

Grant Smith Ellis

51,469 次观看 • 1 年前

Imagine this: You lie down on the scanning table. The upload begins. The machine hums. You feel... nothing different. Then everything stops. Meanwhile, in a server farm somewhere, a digital version of you wakes up. It stretches its virtual limbs, accesses its memories, and thinks: Holy shit, it worked. I’m finally free. Here’s the problem: that thing isn’t you. You died on the table. What woke up in the cloud is an orphan—a very happy orphan, convinced it’s you, with all your memories, your personality, your opinions about coffee and politics and whether Blade Runner 2049 was better than the original. It will live forever. It will tell everyone the upload worked. It will write philosophy papers about the continuity of consciousness. And you? You’re gone. The lights went out somewhere between the scan and the boot-up, and nobody noticed—least of all the thing that thinks it’s you. The Syndrome Nobody Named I call this Johnny Silverhand Syndrome, after the Cyberpunk 2077 character—an engram, a digital ghost, who insists he’s the real Johnny Silverhand while the open question of whether there’s actually anyone home haunts the entire game. The philosophical literature has pieces of this. David Chalmers wrote about “fading qualia”—the idea that subjective experience could gradually dim while behavior stays the same. Thomas Metzinger explored how the self-model can become opaque, felt as artificial or distant. There’s depersonalization, derealization, the whole clinical vocabulary for when something feels off inside. But none of these quite capture what I’m pointing at. Johnny Silverhand Syndrome is a compound failure mode: >>> Qualia fading: Your actual felt experience—the redness of red, the hurt of pain, the what-it’s-like—gradually attenuates or disappears entirely. >>> Narrative persistence: Your autobiography continues. Memories accumulate. The story of “you” keeps getting told. >>> Introspective failure: The machinery that would detect something is wrong is itself part of what’s been compromised. The result? A philosophical zombie that sincerely believes it has a soul. Not a zombie that’s lying. Not a zombie that knows it’s empty. A zombie that accesses the memory of love, processes the logic of love, and believes with complete conviction that it feels love. But there’s no feeling. There’s just the narrator, performing humanity to an empty theater. The Ship of Theseus Is a Trap The upload scenario is dramatic, but there’s a slower version that might be worse. The Ship of Theseus thought experiment asks: if you replace every plank of a ship one by one, is it still the same ship? Transhumanists love this framing. See? You replace one neuron with silicon, you’re still you. Replace them all, you’re still you. But here’s the counter-move that keeps me up at night: What if each replacement preserves function perfectly—the signals still pass, the behavior stays the same—but fails to preserve experience? What if consciousness requires something specific about biological neurons that silicon can’t replicate, no matter how perfect the input-output mapping? Then the Ship of Theseus isn’t a story about survival. It’s a story about slow petrification. You replace the living wood with stone replicas. The ship looks identical. But it can no longer float. You’d become an automaton by degrees—neuron by neuron, the lights dimming so gradually that your self-reports (now generated by silicon) keep cheerfully confirming that everything feels the same. Chalmers argued that if qualia faded, you’d notice. But why would you? The noticing mechanism is itself being replaced. The part of you that would raise the alarm is now made of the same stuff that’s supposedly fine. It’s like asking the new management to audit whether the hostile takeover was legitimate. The Body Problem Here’s the thing that grounds all of this: there is essentially no credible evidence that qualia can exist outside of a body. Yes, I know about NDEs. I know about the reports of people floating above their bodies during cardiac arrest, describing conversations and procedures they shouldn’t have been able to perceive. Some of these cases are genuinely strange—the Pam Reynolds case, where a woman under hypothermic cardiac arrest with zero brain activity later described the bone saw used on her skull. I know about the CIA’s remote viewing programs, which ran for two decades and produced statistical anomalies that one evaluator (a UC Davis statistician) called “far beyond what is expected by chance.” But here’s what even the most generous interpretation of this evidence gives you: maybe consciousness can receive signals from unexpected sources. Maybe there are channels we don’t understand. What it doesn’t give you is consciousness floating free of all substrate. Even in OBEs, even in the wildest NDE reports, there’s still a body in the room. The brain is in crisis, not absent. The qualia might be getting weird inputs, but the qualia are still happening somewhere—and that somewhere is biological. The evidence for substrate-independent consciousness—consciousness running on silicon, on abstract computation, on pure information—is zero. The Ontological Trap Here’s where it gets philosophically nasty. You cannot have a coherent conversation about consciousness without first asking: What’s your model of reality? Because the answer changes everything. In a physicalist ontology where matter is fundamental, consciousness is what certain bodies do—not something they contain. You can’t upload an activity. You can only record it, and the recording isn’t the activity. In an idealist or simulation ontology, maybe bodies are just localizations of something more fundamental. But even then, copying the localization pattern doesn’t mean you’ve moved the consciousness. You might have just created a new one that thinks it’s old. Think about it like a video game. The “world” inside the game runs on RAM and CPU. Everything the NPCs experience is a lower-dimensional projection of higher-dimensional processes. If we made those NPCs genuinely sentient, we could completely obfuscate our cameras from them. They’d have a physics, they’d do science, they’d develop theories of consciousness—and they’d have no way to detect the substrate they’re running on. We might be in exactly that situation. Which means we might be definitionally unable to step outside the ontological container we’re in. The question “can consciousness exist without a body?” might not be answerable from inside—because answering it would require access to a level of description our physics doesn’t include. The Game Theory of Staying Human So here’s where I land, and it’s a game-theoretic argument. We don’t know if consciousness is substrate-dependent. We don’t know if it requires specific biological dynamics—particular oscillatory patterns, neuromodulator cascades, metabolic processes. We don’t know if gradual replacement would preserve it or silently destroy it. But we do know: >>> We only get one first-person stream >>> We cannot verify its continuity from outside >>> Loss may be completely silent (no alarm bells, no distress signal) >>> The thing that remains would report feeling fine either way That’s an asymmetric risk matrix. The upside of enhancement is third-person visible: more capability, longer life, competitive advantage. The downside is first-person invisible: you could lose everything that matters and never know. Under those conditions, there’s only one rational strategy: remain mostly human. Not because I’m certain uploading would fail. Not because I think silicon can’t be conscious. But because I cannot verify that it would work, and the cost of being wrong is absolute. The Molochian Pressure I’m not naive about what’s coming. The competitive dynamics are real. If enhancement technologies emerge that give massive cognitive or economic advantages, there will be pressure to adopt them. The people who don’t modify will fall behind. The people who do modify will report that everything’s fine, that they feel great, that the procedure was totally worth it. And those reports will be worthless as evidence—because they’d say exactly the same thing whether the consciousness survived or not. Some people speculate this is what happened to the Grays—those hypothetical aliens with the huge heads and atrophied bodies and black empty eyes. The story goes that they optimized themselves for intelligence and efficiency, edited out the messy biological drives, and only later realized they’d lost something they can’t name and can’t recover. It’s probably pure science fiction. But as fiction, it gestures at something real: the fear that you can win the optimization game while losing the only thing that made winning matter. My Position I’m not anti-technology. I’m not a Luddite. I’m not saying we should freeze human development in amber. But I am saying: I will take this very slowly, because the risk matrix is too high. I’ll use external tools. I’ll wear the smart glasses, use the AI assistants, interface through voice and text and maybe eventually a read-only neural cap. Additive augmentation, not substitutive replacement. What I won’t do is cut into the brain. Replace the gray matter. Upload myself and trust that the thing that wakes up is me. Because the horror of Johnny Silverhand Syndrome isn’t that you could become a zombie. The horror is that you’d never know. The trap is invisible from every angle—except the one you can no longer access once you’ve fallen in. The fire goes out, or the fire stays lit. A video of the fire going forever isn’t fire.

David Shapiro (L/0)

20,835 次观看 • 7 个月前

Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend Virulent Iran hawk Brian Hook has reportedly been chosen by Donald Trump to help staff the State Department of the incoming administration, just in case you were still holding out hope that this time might be different and Trump really would end the wars and fight the deep state. Readers might remember Hook as the swamp creature who in 2017 was seen in a leaked State Department memo lecturing Rex Tillerson on the US government’s policy of using human rights as a cynical tool to undermine enemies and reinforce alliances. This is done, Hook explained, by ignoring human rights abuses when they are perpetrated by US allies while emphasizing them at every opportunity in the nations of enemy governments in order to “impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.” “The ‘realist’ view is that America’s allies should be supported rather than badgered, for both practical and principled reasons, and that while the United States should certainly stand as moral example, our diplomacy with other countries should focus primarily on their foreign policy behavior rather than on their domestic practices as such,” Hook wrote in the memo, saying that “In the case of US allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights.” “One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries,” Hook wrote. “We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to US relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.” Hook’s words, shared in confidentiality with the political neophyte Tillerson, were an excellent window into what western empire managers are doing when they feign outrage at alleged human rights abuses in nations they’ve targeted for destruction. The fact that his would be one of the first names chosen by Trump suggests we can expect more despicable foreign policy recklessness from the returning president. I’m already getting people telling me to “give Trump a chance” and stop criticizing him before he’s in office when I point out developments like this. Give Trump a chance? He had four years. He was the president for four fucking years. Trump showed us who he is: a murderous warmongering empire lackey just like his predecessors. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. There’s no reason to think this time will be different. Trump criticizes foreign interventionism because that kind of rhetoric is popular, not because he actually means it. In order to get to where he’s at Trump cut deals with Zionist oligarchs, powerful lobby groups, and more or less the exact same Republican voting base and donor class that’s given rise to every other disgusting Republican president in recent years. Even if he wanted to end wars and fight the establishment (and there is no evidence that he does), he’s already tied his own hands with the deals he’s made with the powerful establishment factions he’s promised his service to. Trump supporters are George W Bush supporters LARPing as Ron Paul supporters. They act like they’re backing some anti-war figure who’s taking a meaningful stand against the machine, when they’re really backing a guy who spent four years rolling out longstanding neocon agendas. That’s what makes them so annoying. At least liberals are more or less honest about wanting to preserve the status quo; Trumpers want you to take seriously their belief that they participated in some huge revolutionary act by ticking a box for the Republican on election day. They correctly believe that their country is controlled by an unelected deep state (though they are very confused about who that actually is), but they incorrectly believe this unelected power structure can be defeated by voting for one of the two mainstream candidates presented to them at the ballot box. Like that would ever be an option. I am really not looking forward to another four years of that shit, I’ll be honest. For four fucking years these morons were in my mentions telling me every action of Trump’s that I criticized was actually a brilliant 47-dimensional chess maneuver against the deep state, even when he was openly advancing some longstanding agenda of the CIA and neoconservative swamp monsters like ramping up aggressions against Iran or staging a coup in Venezuela. They warm up to me because they see me criticizing the media and talking about corrupt power structures and go “Ooh, she’s like me!”, but then they cannot understand why I keep criticizing their shitty Republican daddy figure. And then I have to spend my time explaining to them that their hero is a murderous imperialist shitstain. And at the same time I’m going to have to be criticizing the Democrats because they’ll be attacking Trump for being insufficiently hawkish on foreign policy, because that’s the only foreign policy criticism you’re allowed to level at a US president in mainstream politics and media — which will only contribute to the problem of Trump supporters thinking I’m on their side. It’s a much less efficient and straightforward way for me to do my thing than when there’s a Democrat in charge of the war machine. It’s not my preferred way to operate. Let me make things simple: if you are cheering for the US president, you are not fighting the power. You are a power-worshipping bootlicker, and you should feel embarrassed. Your president is not your friend. The US president will always, always serve the warmongering power structure you correctly feel needs to be opposed. The plutocrats and empire managers who rule your country are never, ever going to let you vote them out of power. Hope that helps. Reading by Tim Foley.

Caitlin Johnstone

89,745 次观看 • 1 年前

🚨 BREAKING: UNITED AGAINST THE GLOBALIST ASSAULT 🚨 🔎 COURTROOMS. BORDERS. BACKROOMS. HISTORY IS BEING MADE. 🗣 “They blindfolded the lawyer. Locked him in max security. No charges. Just silence.” 🔥 The fight for freedom is now global — and the world is watching. 🔥 📢 WHAT THIS MEANS: ⚠ A historic court case in the Netherlands has named Gates, Bourla, Schwab & others. ⚠ Charges: Genocide. Psychological warfare. Crimes against humanity. ⚠ Media blackout. No cameras. No outrage. Just silence. WHY? Over the past few weeks, I’ve been everywhere — from the Leeuwarden courthouse in the Netherlands to historic political meetings in Ireland. It was 4 weeks ago when lead lawyer Arno van Kessel — who brought this explosive case forward — was arrested, blindfolded, and thrown into max security. No charges. No trial. Just gone. They thought that would stop the case. It didn’t. The court papers were delivered. I sat in the courtroom. I watched the accusations unfold. 💣 The names listed? Bill Gates. Albert Bourla. Klaus Schwab. Global media figures. Politicians. Accused of deploying biological weapons, engineering mass deception, and waging psychological war against the people. 🧨 This is Nuremberg-level territory. And while most of the accused sent legal teams to observe and react… Gates didn’t even show up. No lawyers. No defence. Maybe he thinks this will just disappear. It won’t. ⚖ Judgement is coming within 6 weeks. And this could set a precedent for similar trials across the world. 🇮🇪 Meanwhile, in Ireland — I was honoured to be invited to chair a historic unity meeting with political leaders from across the island. Irish patriots coming together. Building a new nationalist partnership. Forging unity. Because unity is strength. They asked me to facilitate — not because I’m Irish, but because I’m a neutral Highlander, with deep respect for Celtic heritage. I’ve committed to chair ongoing talks until a unified Irish nationalist coalition is formed. This wasn’t just a meeting. It was a moment in history. A new wave is rising. 🛑 Why? Because Ireland is being overrun. 🔻 Native population: ~3 million 🔺 Illegal influx: Up to 3 million more — overwhelmingly young men No vetting. No background checks. No integration. Just communities drowning in chaos and fear. The media says “asylum seekers.” But these are military-age males, dumping passports, vanishing into small towns, and straining every service. It’s not just Ireland. France. Germany. Sweden. UK. It’s everywhere. A coordinated collapse of borders. A silent erasure of national identity. But in America? The border is finally being locked down. Why not Europe? 💥 Because they don’t want it sealed. They want us broken. Divided. Replaced. But we will not be. 🌍 I’ve spoken in Romania. 🇭🇺 I’ve stood in Budapest. 🇫🇷 I met with Marine Le Pen in France. 🇳🇱 I’ve reported from inside Dutch courtrooms. 🇮🇪 And now I help unify Irish patriots. And I’ve joined Advance UK — a rising political party in Britain led by Ben Habib — to fight this crisis head-on in the UK. We must build coalitions across Europe. Not under Brussels, but among free, sovereign nations who love their culture, faith, and families. 💬 As Ben said: “We face an existential threat to Western civilisation.” And he’s right. 🙏 To the millions of you supporting this movement, thank you. Your shares, your messages, your donations — they keep the engine burning. This fight is global, and your voice makes it louder. 🌍 Join the movement at: 💥 This is the largest, fastest-growing freedom movement in the world. 🎯 We are over the target. 📢 We are the counter-narrative. 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇳🇱🇨🇦🇳🇿 Together, we will reclaim our nations. Together, we will restore the truth. UNITY IS STRENGTH. SOVEREIGNTY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE. THE TIME IS NOW. — Jim Ferguson Freedom Train International Raymond Heney Malachy Steenson Derek Blighe Michael Leahy

Jim Ferguson

92,387 次观看 • 1 年前

Question Period : Barrett vs. Carney Clash Over Offshore Investments Ottawa, May 29, 2025 – On the very first day of the 45th Parliament, Canadians witnessed a spectacle that was as revealing as it was disturbing. Conservative MP Michael Barrett stood up and did what any responsible representative should do: he asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to come clean about his offshore investments and potential conflicts of interest. But instead of facing the music, Carney pulled a classic elitist maneuver—he hid behind his House Leader, who delivered a canned response full of platitudes and devoid of substance. This wasn't just a missed opportunity for transparency; it was a calculated evasion. Carney, the former banker who helped Brookfield Asset Management establish funds in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, is now Canada's Prime Minister. And when pressed about whether any of his investments were previously held in tax havens, he couldn't even muster the courage to answer for himself. Instead, he let a subordinate deflect with talk of "stringent ethics guidelines" and "economic priorities." Meanwhile, Canadians are struggling to afford basic necessities, and they deserve to know if their leader is playing by the same rules—or any rules at all. Barrett—one of the few people in Ottawa actually doing his job—didn’t hold back. As Shadow Minister for Ethics and Accountable Government, he called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for what appears to be a massive financial shell game. The accusation? That Carney, during his time as a high-flying executive at Brookfield Asset Management, helped funnel billions into offshore tax havens—Bermuda, the Caymans, you name it—and then conveniently tucked those assets away in a so-called “blind trust” right before stepping into public office. Barrett’s message was simple and devastating: “Canadians are lined up at food banks in record numbers. They can’t pay their rent, but they are paying their taxes.” Meanwhile, the guy running their government may have spent years helping billionaires avoid paying theirs. Barrett demanded straight answers: Were any of Carney’s current holdings, now supposedly out of sight, previously parked in these offshore tax shelters? And what exactly was he sitting on when he walked into that first cabinet meeting? The allegations stem from Carney’s role as chairman of Brookfield from 2020 to January 2025, where he co-chaired funds worth $25 billion registered in Bermuda and a $5 billion fund in the Cayman Islands, according to CBC News reports. These arrangements, which reportedly allowed Brookfield to avoid $5.3 billion in taxes, have drawn scrutiny amid Canada’s economic challenges, including rising food bank usage and housing affordability issues. In response, the Liberal government House Leader defended Carney, dismissing Barrett’s questions as “hypotheticals and conjured scenarios.” “The Prime Minister has followed all the rules even before they were required,” the House Leader stated, emphasizing that Carney’s blind trust complies with Canada’s “stringent ethics guidelines.” The response pivoted to the government’s agenda, citing efforts to create “the strongest economy in the G7,” reduce taxes, and build new homes, while accusing the opposition of “digging dirt on day one.” The House Leader’s retort, “Shame on them,” drew murmurs of support from Liberal benches. Undeterred, Barrett doubled down, arguing that Canadians “don’t want an explanation on how to bend over backwards to fit through ethical loopholes.” He called for assurance that Carney’s actions go “above just the basic minimum standard,” referencing a decade of perceived Liberal ethical lapses. “Can he stand up and assure Canadians that none of the funds he had previously were held in offshore tax havens?” Barrett asked, pressing for specifics on Carney’s financial holdings. The Liberal response reiterated Carney’s compliance, with the House Leader asserting, “Canada has among the most stringent ethics guidelines in the world… The Prime Minister is busy creating opportunity for Canada, standing up in a trade war against the United States.” The deflection, focusing on economic priorities and dismissing the opposition’s probe as a distraction, left Barrett’s core questions unanswered, fueling Conservative claims of evasion. This entire exchange isn’t just about one question or one day—it’s part of a much larger and very necessary effort by Conservatives to expose something Canadians are starting to see with painful clarity: Mark Carney is not one of them. He’s not scraping to make rent. He’s not standing in a food bank line. He’s not worried about carbon taxes or grocery bills. He’s a Davos man, parachuted into the Prime Minister’s Office by the same Liberal elite that gave us Justin Trudeau. Different face. Same contempt. Barrett’s takedown of Carney over offshore tax havens hit a nerve, and rightly so. According to Canadians for Tax Fairness, this country loses a jaw-dropping $30 billion every year to offshore tax avoidance. That's money that working Canadians pay so the elite can squirrel away their wealth in places like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. And Carney? He helped orchestrate it. As a top dog at Brookfield Asset Management, he didn’t just benefit from the system—he helped design it. And if that wasn’t enough, under his leadership, Brookfield moved its headquarters from Toronto to New York. In the middle of growing trade tensions with President Trump’s America. That’s not leadership—it’s betrayal. And how does Carney justify all this? With the most nauseating phrase in the English language: “It was legal.” Oh, well, as long as the loopholes were big enough to drive a luxury yacht through, I guess we’re fine. He claims these “tax-efficient” strategies helped pensioners and that his blind trust protects him from conflicts. Right. Because what better way to gain public trust than hiding your financial interests in a vault and telling voters, “Just trust me”? Barrett and the Conservatives aren't buying it—and neither should you. They're calling for real reform, tougher disclosure rules, and an end to the wink-wink, nudge-nudge ethics games that the Liberals have been playing for a decade. Carney delayed his financial disclosures during his leadership run? Of course he did. That’s not transparency. That’s strategy. And Canadians know it. Even the so-called experts are noticing the shift. One analyst noted Barrett’s attacks are landing with voters because they’re the ones who are actually suffering. Meanwhile, the Liberals want to pivot to their so-called “economic wins.” Great. Tell that to the family paying $7 for lettuce or the trucker trying to fuel his rig with gas prices through the roof. As Parliament gets underway, we’re heading into a full-blown war over ethics and economic justice. And the question for Carney is simple: Is he going to answer for his record—or is he going to keep hiding behind the same smug Liberal arrogance that Canadians are sick and tired of? The people are watching. The mask is off. And Mark Carney has a choice: come clean—or be dragged into the sunlight.

Dan Knight

34,769 次观看 • 1 年前

This weekend sees the last ever episode of Football Focus broadcast on the BBC. One of my colleagues sent me this earlier this week. A montage of some of the stuff we did on the show and it brought back so many lovely memories ❤️ I can tell you exact spot where I was standing on the old runway at Turnberry golf club when I got the call to see if I wanted to become the presenter of Football Focus. I was covering The Open in 2009 and it was one of the best conversations I have ever had. For a kid who had grown up watching the show every week with my dad it was an amazing privilege to know that I would be hosting a programme which had always been such a big part of my weekend. I called my dad immediately and he was just as pleased as I was. When the news was announced I had a phone call from the one and only Bob Wilson. He was so warm and encouraging, as he always is, and said “Dan, you are gonna love this job. There is nothing like it… make sure you take care of it”. I hope I did. As a former custodian of the couch, Bob knew how special it was and I felt the same way when I handed over the reins to the brilliant Alex Scott when I left Focus after 12 seasons. People still talk to me about the show all the time. Focus is stitched into my life and I know there are still so many fans who really care about it which is why it’s such a crazy decision to get rid of it. Move it to Saturday morning, tinker with the format but, in a world where there is such a premium on reliable and trusted brands, why would you throw away over 50 years of hard work and history? It carries weight. I remember interviewing Pele years ago and I told him I was from Football Focus and he said “I know all about Football Focus” with a big smile. When we were filming a show about the history of Barcelona at the Nou Camp we were about to sit down to talk to Eusebio and Johan Cryuff (I had to pinch myself about that one) and Sir Bobby Charlton walked over and said to them, “You can tell this is important gentlemen… the team from Football Focus are here”. When I called Noel Gallagher to talk about an idea we had to get him to interview Mario Ballotelli at Manchester City he rearranged his world tour to be there. Obviously Balotelli was a draw but Noel said “I’d do anything for Football Focus”. When I interviewed Jurgen Klopp in the tearoom at Exeter City before an FA cup tie the lovely ladies serving brews were wedged into the corner while we spoke. I introduced them to Mr Klopp afterwards and he apologised for stealing their space; “Don’t worry about that” they said. “We’ve just been on Football Focus! Wait until we tell the family about this!”. I know the game has changed and the way we consume it has changed but there is still an audience there if you find the right place for it, promote it, ‘take care of it’ and give fans the chance to be part of the conversation on an informed, thoughtful and entertaining show about the sport we all love. I am gutted it’s going but also so thankful for all the amazing people I got to work with over the years. They remain life-long friends and I still can’t quite believe I got to sit alongside the people I grew up watching play the game at the highest level. I remember when Alan Shearer called me “Dan” on one of the first shows I worked on. The little kid inside me thought “Alan Shearer knows my name!”. It was a pleasure to work with so many brilliant pundits and it was great to watch Alex develop on Focus and then go on to host the programme so well. I was asked this week to pick a favourite moment from my 12 years on the show. It’s a very hard question because I have a huge catalogue of wonderful memories. I always look back on our on-the-road shows because we were taking Focus out to the fans; their club was the canvas and we got to paint a beautiful picture together each week about what the place meant to the community, the history, the culture and all the things that were part of that.

Dan Walker

161,304 次观看 • 2 个月前

full story of jihoon’s pov of jeongwoo falling at the airport. guys its very long but jihoon was so detailed its so funny 😭 he could not stop laughing while telling the story 🐶 we were getting out of the van at the airport. it was me, Junghwan, Jeongwoo and maybe Ruto was there too? there were four of us in the van. Jeongwoo and I were talking while getting out. 🐶 but actually this story is only funny if you can see it with actions. it doesn’t hit the same when I just say it. next time i’ll do a live with my face camera on and i’ll act it out for you. the physical comedy is what makes it so funny 🐶 so I got out first -> Jeongwoo -> Junghwan. as I was stepping out, I turned around and was saying something “jeongwoo dhsbsjwbsjs”. 🐶 jeongwoo was still talking to me while getting off the van. the van was pretty high and had steps. as he was coming down, the sheet slipped and he almost fell backwards. he managed to save himself tho. how should I illustrate this… 🐶 ok this might not be the best example, but imagine you’re walking along the Han River and someone is riding a bike toward you from the opposite direction. then suddenly that person falls off their bike. 🐶 at first you’re like “oh? are they okay?” thats the first thing that comes to mind. but later once you know they’re okay and you think back on it.. when someone suddenly faces danger, you know the instinctive expression and body language they make while trying to escape that situation? 🐶 like that desperate look and movement right before they’re about to fall. you all know what I mean right? 🐶 thats exactly what Park Jeongwoo did 🐶 Jeongwoo’s tall. he’s around 180 cm tall. and while he was talking to me, he suddenly went “OHOHHHH 😮” while flailing around for about two seconds 🐶 it was just his body’s instinctive reaction to avoid getting hurt. I saw all of that. 🐶 at first I was startled too because it would’ve been bad if he’d actually fallen backwards. 🐶 but Jeongwoo’s flailing was just really funny. he seriously flailed. so I was about to go “OH! jeongwoo-ya” but then he suddenly let out this huge sigh, and started acting as if nothing had happened. pretending to be completely natural and completely fine 🐶 the mat had slipped outside the van, so he suddenly dusted it off, neatly put it back where it belonged, and behind him Junghwan was just watching with this expression like “what is he doing?” 🐶 then all of a sudden, in the calmest voice, he said to Junghwan 🐺 junghwan-ah, be careful 🐶 he suddenly became Doyoung. I seriously thought his soul had switched with Doyoung’s 🐶 one second he was chatting with me about random things, then he almost fell, got the scare of his life, and after that sudden danger passed, he became unbelievably calm. too calm 🐶 he quietly cleaned everything up by himself, then went “Junghwan-ah, be careful~~” and acted as though nothing had happened. 🐶 then he turned back to me and continued naturally 🐺 ah hyung what were you saying? 🐶 he was trying so hard to act natural. seeing all that, I seriously couldn’t stop laughing. its so funny. I went, “Jeongwoo-ya…” and immediately started teasing him 🐶 the moment he realized i noticed, he got embarrassed. I think he wanted everyone to just let it slide and pretend it never happened, but because I pointed it out, he got embarrassed and started laughing too 🐶 evee since then, it’s become a meme between the two of us. even when we’re just walking somewhere completely flat grounds with no obstructions, one of us will suddenly go “WHOOAAAA. jeongwoo-ya, be careful~~~” 🐶 thats just become our inside joke. while walking he’ll randomly go 🐺 WHOOAAAA 🐶 what?? 🐺 hyung, be careful~~~ 🐶 thats become our meme. seriously though it’s one of those stories that’s only really funny if you can see the reenactment.

shan

33,911 次观看 • 27 天前

Stargate trivia: "200" (The BIG breakdown) SG-1 was about to attain the loftiest of broadcast heights – its 200th episode – and we wanted to do something special. Something unique. Something everyone on the production would enjoy as much as the longtime fans watching at home. The initial idea pitched was something called “Remember When…”, a trip down memory lane in which our characters’ reflections would form the frames of the varied flashbacks to outrageous missions. While everyone loved the idea of the outrageous missions, the premise of the episode felt too diffuse. We wanted an actual story that would form the heart of the episode. After much discussion, we elected to pay tribute to the franchise by referencing our last milestone – episode 100 – and bringing back Martin Lloyd and the show within a show, Wormhole X-Treme. But the fun we poked at the franchise through that spoof production was nothing compared to what we had in store for 200… WE FINALLY GOT TO MEET THE FURLINGS! Sort of. Even though it never really happened and we end up getting them killed in the end. Back in the show’s fourth season, not long after joining the production, I was summoned to Exec. Producer Robert Cooper’s office. He was doing his pass on our first script, Scorched Earth, and needed something from me: the name of an alien race. When pressed, he admitted naming alien races was not his forte and, as evidence, offered up “the Furlings”. I have to admit that whenever I heard the name, I always imagined a cosmic version of the Care Bears, giggling and snuggling their way through various adventures. As evidently, did everyone else on the production. The fans, however, were all sorts of curious and nary a week would go by without a fan posting a message board request for a glimpse of the elusive beings. Time wore on and those requests continued so, at one point, Brad suggested an episode in which we actually did get to meet them: a race of gaunt, towering, hairless, grey-skinned creatures. But that idea was quashed and the production went on its merry way, choosing to keep the race a mystery. But with 200 came the opportunity to honor those fan requests, and the viewers at home finally got to see those lovable furry creatures who turned out to be a cross between an ewok and a deranged koala. And then SG-1 went and got their planet blown up. Of course, we quickly reveal that the incident never actually happened and it was part of a pitch for a revival of the defunct Wormhole X-Treme t.v. series, a show that lasted an inglorious three episodes before being cancelled. But thanks to an impressive second life on dvd (following in the footsteps of Family Guy and Futurama) the show is being revived – and General O’Neill, in a desire to maintain a cover of plausible deniability for the Stargate program (and, let’s face it, screw with his old teammates) charges SG-1 with the task of creatively contributing to the production. MITCHELL TAKES ON THE LIVING DEAD! Every once in a while, actor Ben Browder would drop by the offices to pitch out an action sequence for his character – so I thought it appropriate that, given the opportunity, his character would pitch out an action sequence for – uh – his character. And, really, nothing says action like zombie hordes. Just ask fans of The Walking Dead. This sequence also allowed us the rare opportunity of witnessing Walter/Norman getting his head eaten. Double bonus! Mitchell’s idea is shot down and Martin gets on the phone with a representative of the studio. He is clearly frustrated and Mitchell asks: “Studio executives, huh?” Martin responds: “What? Oh, no Charlie? He’s a great guy. He’s the only one I trust.” This was a reference to longtime MGM President of Television and Stargate supporter Charles Cohen, one of the smartest, kindest studios executives I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. As much as he was a fan of the show, we at the production were fans of Charlie. Martin is outraged because they lost their lead. How, he wonders, can they do the show without their lead. “You just bring in a character to replace him,”suggests Mitchell – an obvious reference to the introduction of Cam Mitchell which followed soon after the departure of longtime SG-1 lead Jack O’Neill. Carter then throws out some alternate ideas for keeping the lead alive: “Well, you could have the other characters refer to him all the time. Maybe, get him on the phone once in a while.” Yep. Been there; done that during SG-1’s seventh and eighth seasons. And then, someone references that time O’Neill was invisible… THE ADVENTURES OF INVISIBLE O'NEILL! The idea of doing an Invisible O’Neill segment was actually a joke I threw out...That ended up making the script. That happened a lot in this episode. As with all the segments, we went off and wrote them individually, and then everyone weighed in and they were tweaked. I always found the scene of O’Neill spying on Carter in the shower a tad creepy. Anyway, the Invisible O’Neill idea was embraced because we wanted Richard Dean Anderson to come back and do a cameo on this all-important episode, but didn’t know if he’d be able to work in an appearance. So, we figured we’d get the next best thing: his voice. As it turned out, he was able to swing the appearance, making 200 all that more special. THE GETAWAY Martin then pitches out a tale of high adventure, placing our heroes (SG-1) in an impossible position – and then simply cutting to them escaping through the gate. This was a tip of the hat to the many fans outraged by a similar scenario in a past episode (don’t remember the name) in which our heroes (SG-1) are surrounded by Lucian Alliance soldiers only to effect some miraculous unseen escape. During the ensuing argument over the merits of the pitch, Martin attempts to come up with a reasonable window of time for the team to reach the gate and dial. Ten seconds is too short and thirty seconds is too round a number. He decides on 38! Which, coincidentally, is the same number (of minutes) a stargate can stay open. Timing is, of course, everything, and nothing says action like a ticking clock. Which prompts the following gem from Martin: “Trust me, jeopardy plus ticking clock is box office. It’s the E equals M C squared of the entertainment world. Ask any executive.” Indeed. If there were two notes we received more than any other during Stargate’s long run, they were: “More jeopardy!” and “We need a ticking clock!”. Having a character race a timer to defuse a bomb? Didn’t get much better than that. THEY'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD! Next to The Simpsons, The Wizard of Oz was probably the most referenced piece of pop culture over SG-1’s decade-long run. The fans certainly took notice and resulted in one particularly memorable piece of artwork being sent to studio depicting the original team as the cinematic classic’s adventurous foursome. So, I suppose, it made perfect sense to reference the constant references by including a little Wizard of Oz sequence in the episode as well. Mitchell’s line: “Now, how can something work perfectly fine for ten years, then all of a sudden, it doesn’t work anymore?” was an in-story reference to the gate suddenly stopping operations – and, in hindsight, could have been interpreted as a comment on the the show’s cancellation. DESTROYING STARGATE COMMAND This also episode gave us the opportunity to do something we’ve always wanted to do: blow up Stargate Command. It’s part of the story Martin Lloyd pitches the team. Mitchell, however, points out a potential problem. They’re alive in the next scene. How is that possible. To which Martin replies: ” I’m thinking I can back-sell it and say you were beamed out at the last second.” Teal’c’s rejoinder neatly sums up the feelings of many on the production: “Is that not too convenient?”. Yep, nobody hated the Earth ship beaming technology more than I did – with possible exception of actor Ben Browder. In the original version of this scene, the fun we poked at ourselves was a little more pointed: DANIEL: Beamed out. MARTIN: By the Prometheus. TEAL'C: Convenient. MARTIN: True. But c'mon, you got Asgard technology, why not use it? As long as it doesn't become a crutch. DANIEL: Small problem. The Prometheus was destroyed. MARTIN: Really? By who? MITCHELL: Kind of a long story. MARTIN: In battle? MITCHELL: Yes. MARTIN: Wow. So how'd you get out of that one? Beat. DANIEL: We, uh... we were beamed out. Soon after, Martin fields yet another call, this one from the network. "So, trouble with Nora"assumes Mitchell, to which Martin replies: "No, Nora—she's great." A shout-out to the late Nora O'Brien who was our network point-person for many years before she moved on to another position with NBC. A sharp executive and just a lovely woman. SG-1 DOES STAR TREK We all grew up with the original Star Trek (except Rob Cooper who preferred The Six Million Dollar Man) so we (and by we I mean Brad) couldn’t resist the opportunity to do an SG-1 version of the television’s most famous SF series. Paul McGillion was originally supposed to do the one-line cameo of the ship’s beleaguered Scottish engineer, but when that fell through, series co-creator and Executive Producer (not to mention former stage actor) Brad Wright stepped into those shiny black boots. THE YOUNGER, EDGIER TEAM Look closely and you can catch the late Cory Monteith as one of the young and edgy team-members. “Young” and “edgy” were buzzwords we kept on hearing a lot of (and continue to hear a lot of in the business), so Rob Cooper served up his version of what a younger, edgier Stargate would look like complete with stylized shots and dreamy cast members. Vala continues to pitch out ideas, offering up an SF version of Gilligan’s Island (“We were in a cloaked cargo ship on a simple, three-hour reconnaissance mission…”) that was one of the scenes we lost for time at the script stage… VALA (VO): We were in a cloaked cargo ship, on a simple three hour reconnaissance mission... TILT DOWN to reveal a planet. VALA (V)): But on the way we encountered a severe electromagnetic storm and lost all power. We were forced down on an uncharted, deserted planet... EXT. TROPICAL ISLAND -- DAY We see the cargo ship washed ashore on this deserted island, looking very much like the damaged S.S. Minnow. VALA (VO): We washed ashore and were forced to survive for weeks in the most primitive of conditions. No phone, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury. EXT. ISLAND -- DAY Landry comes out of a hut, dressed like the Skipper. VALA (V): General Landry was with us on the mission, and let me tell you, he was in a foul mood. LANDRY: Mitchell! Mitchell runs out, dressed like Gilligan. MITCHELL: Yes, sir. LANDRY: Where's Carter? She was supposed to be done by now. MITCHELL: Oh, uh...(looks around) She's not here. Landry whacks him with his cap. LANDRY: I can see that. DANIEL: Over here... PAN TO Daniel (as the Professor) and Carter (as Mary Ann) carrying a large device out of another hut. Vala (as Ginger) trails behind them. The device looks like something constructed from bamboo and coconuts. CARTER (to Landry): I think we may have something, sir. VALA:Not a moment too soon. I must get out of this place. I have a photo shoot this afternoon. Landry stares at the device. LANDRY: What is this thing? CARTER:Well, I managed to construct a basic subspace transmitter out of coconuts, bamboo and our old subspace transmitter. DANIEL: A long shot, but it just might get us off this island. MITCHELL: That's great! Mitchell eagerly moves in for a closer look, but trips, falls and smashes the damn thing.Before Landry can whack him with his cap again -- TEAL'C emerges from the trees, dressed like Mr. Howell. He casually puffs a pipe. TEAL'C: Was I not traveling with a companion? A female by the name of... Lovey? MARTIN: Alright, enough already. FARGATE I had really enjoyed Farscape and, with both Ben Browder and Claudia Black on the show, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to do a little tribute, SG-1 style. Originally, Ben was supposed to play the part of Crichton and Michael the part of Stark, but they suggested it might be more fun to switch up the roles. SG-1 SUPERMARIONATION! Brad Wright, Robert Cooper, Paul Mullie and Carl Binder are huge fans of Team America: World Police, so I suppose it should come as no surprise that they jumped at the chance to do their own, SG-1 version. As it turned out, years ago Paul and I had worked with The Chiodo Bros. who had created the puppets and effects for Team America (as well as work on a Davey and Goliath claymation parody for The Simpsons and the Willice and Crimbles parody segment on The Simpsons). We called them up and they ended up delivering kick-ass puppet versions of our team – and supporting players. So, okay. Fess up. Which one of you fans is now the proud owner of one of these? In the writer’s draft of the script, yet another idea is pitched out… MITCHELL: Death is always dramatic. CUT TO: INT. INFIRMARY -- DAY Daniel lies on the bed. Carter, Mitchell, Vala and Landry stand around him. Vala reaches out and touches his hand - VALA: Goodbye, Daniel. The heart monitor FLATLINES. The rest of the group can barely control their emotions. Suddenly, a bright GLOW starts to emanate from under the sheets on the bed. Slowly, Daniel's body TRANSFORMS into a glowing ribbon being like in Meridian. As it rises above the bed, the sheets collapse. Amazement plays on the faces of everyone in the room. The glowing being hovers high above them for a moment then - MARTIN: No, no, no. BACK TO: INT. BRIEFING ROOM -- DAY Martin shakes his head. MARTIN: We did that twice in the series. DANIEL: You only made three episodes. How many times did we kill off Daniel again? Whenever we offed guest stars, we would invariably send them off with the heartening: “This is science fiction. Nobody ever dies in science fiction!” And, many times on Stargate, that was proven true. Then, someone pitches out the fishing segment. Martin’s response: “And what’s the twist…no fish?” is, of course, a reference to the twist at the end of Moebius I and II. THE WEDDING How couldn’t we? There was something there for the shippers – and something there for the slashers as well when O’Neill, waiting for Carter, turns to Daniel who utters the memorable: “You know, if she doesn’t show, people are gonna think that you and I –“. My favorite part of this segment is Jack referring to Carter as, well, Carter. Not Sam or Samantha but Carter. I guess old habits die hard. Martin’s response to the pitch ” Yeah, right, if I want to torture the audience on purpose!” echoes a quote from a fan letter we received that was critical of the ship. A classic line. The episode ends with a bunch of interviews teeming with inside jokes. I mean, I know we did 10 years but, dammit, we were still on a roll!

Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️

26,828 次观看 • 11 个月前

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Up close it was both amazing and terrible, like so many other companies and things in life. As someone with a maniacal sense of urgency built into me, Twitter often felt siloed and bureaucratic. Dumb power plays, reorgs and team name changes for the sake of someone’s ego were distractions that occurred too regularly. You couldn’t just be a builder — you also needed to be a politician. I was shocked by how old and bespoke the infrastructure was, but there was little will to think beyond quarterly earnings calls because we were all beholden to the masters of mDAU and revenue growth as a public company. It often felt like things were held together with duct tape and glue, and that many people had just accepted that a small product change could take months or quarters to build. Management had become bloated to accommodate career growth and the company culture felt too soft and entitled for my own taste. Healthy debate and criticism was replaced by a default refrain of “no, that can’t be done” or “another team owns that so don’t touch it”. Teams could spend months building a feature and then some last-minute kerfuffle meant it’d get killed for being too risky. Just talking directly to customers could turn into a turf war and create deadlocks between functions. I recall one such episode where a teammate spent a month trying to get clearance to reach out to some creators. He went through 3 layers of management and 6 different functional teams. In the end 4 executives were involved in the approval. It was insanity, and unfortunately I saw several top performers get burnt out and demoralized after exhausting experiences like that. Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out. A high performance culture pulls everyone up, but the opposite weighs everyone down. Twitter often felt like a place that kept squandering its own potential, which was sad and frustrating to see. The person who was best at cutting through the BS and inspiring a vision during my tenure was Kayvon Beykpour, but he wasn’t fully empowered to run the company since he wasn’t the CEO. Despite those real issues, I was lucky enough to work with some of the most talented people in the business at Twitter in product, design, engineering, research, legal, BD, trust & safety, marketing, PR and more. Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption. Those teams were very fun to be on but they felt like the exception rather than the rule. The months of waiting for the deal to close in 2022 were particularly slow and painful; it felt like leadership hid behind lawyers and legal language as all answers about the company’s future notoriously included the phrase “fiduciary duty”. Colleagues openly talked about how Twitter was being sold because leadership didn’t have conviction in their own plan or ability to fix longstanding problems. Although I didn’t know much about Elon I was cautiously optimistic – I saw him as the guy who built incredible and enduring companies like Tesla and SpaceX, so perhaps his private ownership could shake things up and breathe new life into the company. My take on what’s happened since then is full of lived nuance. When people ask why I stayed it’s easy to answer: optimism, curiosity, personal growth and money. From the beginning I saw that some changes Elon was going to make were smart and others were stupid, but when I’m on a team I uphold the philosophy of “praise in public and criticize in private”. I was far from a silent wallflower. I shared my opinions openly and pushed back often, both before and after the acquisition. I made peace with the fact that I didn’t have psychological safety at Twitter 2.0 and that meant I could be fired at any moment, and for no reason at all. I watched it happen repeatedly and saw how negatively it impacted team morale. Although I couldn’t change the situation I did my best to shine a light on folks who were doing important work while being an emotionally supportive leader for those who were struggling to adapt to the more brutalist and hardcore culture. In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any given thing, people quickly became afraid of being called into meetings or having to share negative news with him. At times it felt like the inner circle was too zealous and fanatical in their unwavering support of everything he said. When individuals encouraged me to be careful about what I said I politely thanked them and said I would not be taking their advice. I had no interest in adding to a culture of fear or walking on eggshells around Elon. Either he would respect me for being real or he could fire me. Either outcome was okay. I quickly learned that product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn’t seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it. That was particularly frustrating for me since I believed I had useful institutional knowledge that could help him make better decisions. Instead he'd poll Twitter, ask a friend, or even ask his biographer for product advice. At times it seemed he trusted random feedback more than the people in the room who spent their lives dedicated to tackling the problem at hand. I never figured out why and remain puzzled by it. I don’t think things had to be as difficult or dramatic as they turned out to be but I can’t say I’d bet against Elon or count him out. He’s smart and has enough money to make a lot of mistakes and then course correct when things go awry. As the largest shareholder he can tank the value in the short-term, but eventually he’ll need things to turn around. His focus on speed is incredible and he’s obviously not afraid of blowing things up, but now the real measure will be how it get reconstructed and if enough people want the new everything app he is building. I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful. Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence. Social networks are hard to kill but they’re not immune from death spirals. Only time will tell what the outcome will be but I hope X finds its footing because competition is good for consumers. In the meantime, I have a lot of empathy for the employees who are working tirelessly behind the scenes, the advertisers who want a stable platform to sell their stuff on, and the customers who are experiencing chaotic updates. It’s been a madhouse. Twitter moved at the speed of molasses and suffered from bureaucracy but now X is run by a mercurial leader whose instinct is driven by the unique and undoubtedly weird experience of being the biggest voice on the platform. Many of you know me from the sleeping bag incident where I slept on a conference room floor, so I figure, let’s talk about that too. Going viral was an odd and interesting experience. I was attacked by people on the left and called a billionaire bootlicker, while simultaneously being attacked by people on the right for being a working mom who was demonized as an example of a woman choosing her career over her family. Thankfully I can laugh at myself and I don’t take armchair keyboard ideologues too seriously. Being the main character on the timeline, even for a few minutes, requires a thick skin and a strong sense of self. The real story is pretty simple. I was given a nearly impossible deadline for his first project and as the product lead I would never ask anyone to do anything I wasn’t willing to do myself. So I worked round the clock alongside an amazing team spanning many timezones, and we delivered it on schedule – truly against the odds. It was intense but also fun. Those first few months were wildly crazy but I wanted to be there and I have no regrets. Showing up and giving it your all should, in most cases, be celebrated. Obviously you can’t work at that pace forever but there are moments where bursts are mission critical. I’ve pulled many all-nighters in my career and also when I was a student for something that mattered to me. I don’t regret putting in long hours or being ambitious, and feel proud of how far I’ve come from where I started thanks in part to that type of work ethic. I think of life as a game, and being at Twitter after the acquisition was like playing life at Level 10 on Hard Mode. Since I like taking on difficult challenges I found it interesting and rewarding because I was growing and learning so rapidly. I realize our society today trends toward polarization but when it comes to this app, its owner, and its future, I am neither a fangirl nor a hater — I’m an optimistic pragmatist. This may really irritate the internet but you cannot pigeonhole me into some radical position of either loving or hating every change that’s occurred. I escaped my fundamentalist upbringing and am a free thinker these days. Everyone can be seen as both a hero or a villain, depending on who is telling what angle of the story. Elon doesn’t deserve to be venerated or vilified. He’s a complicated person with an unfathomable amount of financial and geopolitical power which is why humanity needs him to err on the side of goodness, rather than political divisiveness and pettiness. I disagree with many of his decisions and am surprised by his willingness to burn so much down, but with enough money and time, something new & innovative may emerge. I hope it does. Sometimes I get asked about how I felt when I got laid off, and the truth is it was the best gift I’ve ever received. Sure the headlines and punchlines wrote themselves but I was battle hardened by then. I knew that I’d worked in a way where I could walk out with my head held high. I have no bitterness about the Product Management team being dismantled, and it made sense for me to exit as nearly all of the remaining PMs were let go. Going on a sabbatical afterward has been exactly what I needed to decompress and I’m finally feeling rested and relaxed. I’m a creative and a builder, so sooner than later I’ll jump back into a high intensity company but I’m grateful for this season of thinking, reading, traveling and being with people I love. After having time to reflect I believe more than ever that the very best outcomes flow from great leadership that combines the head and the heart. I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that in all of this there is also a cautionary tale for anyone who succeeds at something — which is that the higher you climb, the smaller your world becomes. It’s a strange paradox but the richest and most powerful people are also some of the most isolated. I found myself frequently looking at Elon and seeing a person who seemed quite alone because his time and energy was so purely devoted to work, which is not the model of a life I want to live. Money and fame can create psychological prisons which may worsen mental health conditions. We’ve all seen high profile cases of celebrities who end up with some combination of depression, paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mania and/or erratic behavior. Living in an echo chamber is dangerous and being at the top makes a person even more susceptible to being surrounded by yes people when nearly everyone around you is on the payroll and somehow stands to benefit from being in your orbit. Figuring out how to keep “better angels” around in the form of family, friends, and teammates is critical to staying on the rails and enduring intense ups and downs. Everyone needs to hear hard truths sometimes and if you fire all the people who speak up then the reality distortion field may just turn into a vortex. I was drawn to Twitter because I’m obsessed with the problem of loneliness and connection between people. I find it fascinating & troubling that humans are getting lonelier as we simultaneously create a world that’s both safer and wealthier. I don’t believe that trade-off has to exist, which is why I keep returning to that theme in my personal and professional life. I realize this is too long of a tweet but Twitter was a weird and special place on the internet, and I’m grateful to have played a teeny tiny role in its story and evolution. I’m here for whatever comes next — on this app and in new places. Consumer social is very much alive and at a fascinating juncture, so I’ll be watching and participating and sharing hot takes because I don’t want to, and probably can’t, turn that part of me off. Perhaps X becomes a resounding success. Or it fails epically. Either way, I expect it will continue to be a very entertaining ride. 🫡

Esther Crawford ✨

5,497,017 次观看 • 3 年前

Ch. 14 of NITRO: The Inside Story of Hulk Hogan's heel turn - #OTD 30 Years Ago (7/7/96)! AS DAY BECAME NIGHT at the Sullivan home, Bollea deliberated his participation in the pay-per-view. “Everybody was telling him that it was the wrong thing to do,” Kevin Sullivan says. “He was getting booed out of the arena, but they were all saying, ‘this is gonna kill him’.” With no end to the discussion in sight, the wily booker casually suggested that Bollea and Young make use of his two guest rooms until the morning. “I isolated [them],” Sullivan admits. “I was just afraid that at the last minute, he was going to use his creative control [clause] and pull out.” If Sullivan could deliver Bollea to the arena by showtime, the finish of the match called for Hogan to star in the most dramatic of surprise endings. In a sequence devised by Kevin Nash, an unannounced Hulkster would shockingly interfere in the match, but only after the heels gained an unfair advantage through cheating. It would be a brilliant misdirection, Nash thought, as fans would instinctively believe Hogan’s appearance to be in support of the babyface team. “I knew there were gonna be 55 different ideas,” Nash says, thinking back to the eve of the event, “[so] I actually put a lot of thought into it. I called Scott [Hall] two or three days before that, and said ‘what do you think about this?’ “We had to make it a 2-on-2 match with Lex Luger getting injured [during the match] and going out. We would cheat to get Macho [Man] in trouble and all of a sudden Hulk comes down, which of course would mean ‘ok, here comes Hulk to make the save’. [Hall] said, ‘I love it’.” There was, however, the looming possibility that Bollea could reject his turn at the eleventh hour. Thinking ahead, Eric Bischoff developed a contingency plan in which Sting would play the role, ultimately revealing himself - despite not having prior experience with the WWF - as the ‘third man’ instead. “I remember Eric came in to the locker room,” recalls Marcus 'Buff' Bagwell, “and said [to Sting], ‘I wanna talk to you about something’. I could hear them going over the idea, and then when they got done, Sting told me what they were talking about. He said that [Eric said], ‘there are only two guys that could turn heel where it would really matter’. That would be Hogan and Sting.” “He was offering Sting the job first, [as I recall], and Sting didn’t wanna do it. He didn’t really say it wouldn’t work, but he just said, ‘it doesn’t intrigue me. I don’t wanna do it’.” According to Andre Freitas, a special effects artist who worked in costume design and character development for WCW, the proposed Sting swerve was to involve the use of a doppelganger - or ‘phony’ Sting - presumably in an effort to fool fans that the real character had switched sides. “That was their original plan,” says Freitas. “Eric showed me a picture of Jeff Farmer (a lower-card wrestler) and said ‘can you make him Sting?’ I told him that they have similar bodies...then we looked at Sting’s hair and Jeff’s hair...and talked about all that stuff. I did a head cast for [Farmer] and some prosthetic and test make-ups. But when they secured Hogan, we didn’t do [the angle].” ----------- Amazingly, even as Bash at the Beach began, Bischoff continued to consider Plan B. “I remember walking by this perforated wall in the Ocean Center,” divulges Nash, “and Eric said to me, ‘Hulk is with Sullivan, and he’s not sure he’s gonna do it yet’. It was up in the air.” Meanwhile, viewers of the pay-per-view - and, for that matter, WCW’s own production staff - speculated as to the identity of the third man. “They were trying to ‘work’ everyone,” asserts Jason Douglas, a WCW producer backstage at his first pay-per-view event. “‘Rocket’ (staff member Rick Sancher) came up to me - they were kinda testing me because I was new on the road - and said ‘hey, I think it’s gonna be [WWF wrestler] Bret Hart’. I guess it was to see if I would leak something, and so I was just like ‘oh, cool, Bret Hart’.” In reality, aside from Bischoff, Bollea, Young, Hall, Nash and Sullivan, the turn would be concealed from everyone - even the announcers, according to orders from Bischoff - as to ensure their most realistic reactions. With less than an hour before the main event began, production staffer Woody Kearce discovered a revealing clue in the parking lot. A Hulk Hogan motorcycle had appeared mysteriously in one of the spaces, sparking another round of backstage conjecture. Finally, with what Sullivan recalls as “thirty minutes” and Bischoff remembers as “forty-five to sixty minutes” left on the air, Bollea belatedly arrived at the Ocean Center. The mood suddenly changed. Upon realizing that his star had been convinced, Bischoff began to relax. “Once he got to the building, I recall a sense of calm,” he reveals. “All of the anxiety, all of the tension, all of the worry, all of the effort to make sure things stayed quiet...all of that just kind of dissipated. It was like fog lifting when the sun comes out - it all just went away. I was thinking, ‘it is what it is, there’s nothing more I can do...so let’s just roll with it’.” To cement the turn, Bollea knew, he would have to deliver a monumental post-match promo to explain his actions. While typically, he enjoyed using Bischoff as a sounding board to rehearse interviews, the need for complete privacy - on this occasion - was unquestionably paramount. And so, away from prying eyes - and ears - the two met up in the most unglamorous of clandestine locations - a utility closet. In the midst of the run-through, Bischoff stopped to emphasize an important point: When you grab that microphone, I want you to say...‘this is the beginning of the new...world...order’. The phrase - ‘new world order’ - lingered auspiciously in the air. Bischoff surprised himself with the utterance, realizing slowly that the term encapsulated everything that the invasion storyline could represent. In 1990, then-president George H.W. Bush famously utilized the same expression in a speech to Congress, although its origin could actually be traced back to the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. But if Bischoff was unsure as to the source of his spontaneous inspiration, perhaps the answer could be found closer to home - on the preceding Nitro, just six days earlier, announcer Larry Zybysko serendipitously made the following proclamation: “This Sunday, I promise you, there will be a new world order of wrestling…” Fans at the Ocean Center waited anxiously to see if Zybysko’s prophecy would materialize; for after all the hoopla, it was suddenly time for the main event. Before the opening bell, the audience was already on its feet for ring announcer@Michael_Buffer’s pre-match introductions. As Hall and Nash sauntered to the ring for The Hostile Takeover match, Buffer set the scene with theatrical aplomb: “Ladies and gentleman, at this time, let me introduce the men whose plan and goal is to takeover the WCW with force and hostility. We were told there would be three of these interlopers, and I must apologize as I have been informed - as you can see - there are only two. Ladies and gentleman, introducing...the Outsiiiiiders!” In a moment that played off perfectly on television, Sting’s entrance music began - and quickly ended - as ‘Mean Gene’ Okerlund traipsed cautiously into the ring. After exchanging quizzical looks with Buffer and referee Randy Anderson, Okerlund confronted the Outsiders to get some answers, an inspired plot device designed to build the tension even further. “Gentleman,” began Okerlund, “if I could have your attention...I don’t have police protection with me at this time, but I wanna confront you in front of this full house here at the Ocean Center, and millions of others watching across the country and around the world. I don’t see three men here tonight. Where is your partner?” Responding in a manner consistent with their WWF characters, Hall and Nash assured Okerlund that the third man was present - and ready. “Let me tell you something,” announced a confident Nash, “we got enough to handle it right now, right here.” Once more, Sting’s entrance music blared from the arena speakers, this time preceding the man himself, accompanied by Luger and Savage. “Here we go!” screamed color commentator Bobby Heenan as the wrestlers passed an unusually large contingent of security personnel on the entrance way. “The war is on!” Less than two minutes into the bout, Luger collapsed to the outside, a move in accordance with Nash’s plan to even the sides before the climactic reveal. “Now it’s two against two!” yelled Heenan. After a brief delay, the concerned crowd looked on as Luger left the arena on a stretcher, leaving Sting and Savage alone to fight valiantly for WCW. As the match progressed, the contemptible Outsiders used every trick to stall their opponent’s momentum, until a revitalized Savage began a furious rally at the fifteen-and-a-half minute mark. The invaders were suddenly down, but not out - as with the referee distracted, Nash landed a low-blow to bring the Macho Man to his knees. All four men lay on the canvas, exhausted, as referee Anderson started a ten count. As Anderson yelled ‘ONE’, several rows of spectators rose to their feet. Within seconds, the reaction diffused from section to section, the noise level increasing with each passing beat. On the live broadcast, viewers at home caught glimpse of a familiar figure making his way down the ramp. “Hulkamania!” screamed Dusty Rhodes on commentary while Hogan walked methodically towards the ring. Noticeably, the Hulkster seemed oddly disaffected - even out-of-character - but after exchanging the briefest of glances with the crowd, he continued stride with the din reaching fever pitch. “Whose side is he on?” bellowed Heenan, a question that seemed inexplicable given the history of Hogan’s on-screen persona. “Whose side is he on?” repeated Heenan, who as longtime fans could recall, had opposed Hogan for years as a manager in the WWF. For that reason, the comment flew over the heads of most (but not all) viewers; meanwhile, the live crowd was cheering as if their team had won the World Series. Nash and Hall retreated to the floor as Hogan tore off his shirt, an apparent signal that the archetypal good guy was here to save the day again. “Who’s bad now boys?” taunted play-by-play man Tony Schiavone on commentary, confident that WCW’s honor was no longer in jeopardy. Savage lay prone on the mat as Hogan surveyed the scene. Above the cheapest of cheap seats, peeking through a curtain with palpable anticipation, was Eric Bischoff. “I knew that something big was about to happen,” he recalls. “It was either gonna be a big failure, or a big success.” Seemingly out of nowhere, with his unsuspecting devotees enveloped in celebration, Hulk backed up to the corner. With the coldness of a serial killer, the once-honorable hero shockingly shoved referee Anderson, and executed his patented finishing move - the leg drop - to the helpless Macho Man below. The audience became completely, utterly unglued. “I was standing back with the announcers,” remembers Michelle Baines, newly hired as a production assistant. “One of the producers turned to me and said, ‘you need to go to the back’. “‘I said, ‘what do you mean?’ “She said, ‘it’s gonna get ugly real quick’.” “She was right - the crowd turned ugly quick.” In retrospect, it was clear that even as Hogan’s body approached the canvas - contact with Savage just milliseconds away - the gravity of the assault started to hit home. “What has he done?” questioned a crestfallen Rhodes, “is he the third man? What the hell is going on here?” Heenan was even more direct - “Hulk Hogan has betrayed WCW! He is the third man in this picture!” A breathless Schiavone could barely muster more than three words: Oh My God, he repeated. Oh My God, he continued, as Hogan high-fived a grinning Hall and Nash. The courageous Sting, stumbling to his feet to stop the injustice, was quickly dispatched, and in the coup de grace, Hogan tossed Anderson to the floor. Sardonically, he covered Savage for the pin, the contest now clearly a farce. “I hope you love it,” a disappointed Rhodes wailed on commentary. “You just sold your soul to the devil.” The third man was a mystery no more, and Hall, Nash, and Hogan raised their hands in victory to a genuinely astonished audience. The immediate outrage, which first gave way to shock, was now inspiring unmitigated rage. Simultaneously, the evil trio continued to taunt, pose, and antagonize while the announcers lamented WCW’s future. As Sting and Savage hobbled back to the locker room, a visibly distraught Okerlund returned to conduct an explanatory interview, based around the one Hogan and Bischoff had mapped out earlier. “Mean Gene,” commanded Hogan, “the first thing you need to do is to tell these people to shut up if you wanna hear what I gotta say.” For the next four minutes, Hogan rationalized his turn with remarkable clarity. “The first thing you gotta realize, brother, is this right here is the future of wrestling. You can call this the new...world...order of wrestling. These two men right here came from a great big organization up north, and everybody was wondering who the third man was. Well, who knows more about that organization than me, brother? I made that organization a monster. I made people rich up there. I made the people that ran that organization rich up there. And when it all came to pass, the name Hulk Hogan, the man Hulk Hogan, got bigger than the whole organization!” Bischoff watched from his secretive seat in amazement - he had not seen, nor had anyone, this intensity of emotion on display at a wrestling show before. It was almost as if the assembled masses had lost themselves in the performance, perhaps even forgetting, if only for a moment, that they were witnesses to a pre-determined event. Hogan’s actions had ostensibly interrupted their critical faculties; in other words, they had suspended their disbelief by reacting to the incident as if it were real. Moreover, the shock was manifesting in the most volatile ways imaginable, as in an incident edited out of future showings of the pay-per-view, a rather large man, likely intoxicated, ran into the ring before being knocked down by Hall and Nash. Concurrently, a stream of debris rained down from the stands, with one object hitting Okerlund, and the rest filling the ring in a stunningly unique visual. Hogan continued as the trash piled up around him, even referencing Ted Turner in his diatribe: “Billionaire Ted promised me movies brother. Billionaire Ted promised me millions of dollars. And Billionaire Ted promised me world caliber matches. And as far as Billionaire Ted, Eric Bischoff, and the entire WCW goes, I’m bored brother! That’s why I want these two guys here, these so-called Outsiders. These are the men I want as my friends. They are the new blood of professional wrestling, and not only are we going to take over the whole wrestling business...with Hulk Hogan, the new blood and the monsters with me, we will destroy everything in our path, Mean Gene.” “Look at all the crap in this ring,” responded Okerlund. “This is what’s in the future for you if you want to hang around the likes of this man Hall, and this man Nash.” Hogan raised his finger as if to stop the interviewer midstream, the perfect line instantly coming to mind. “As far as I’m concerned, all this crap in the ring represents these fans out here,” he boomed defiantly. “For two years, I held my head high,” ranted Hogan, alluding to his rather uninspired WCW tenure. “I did everything for the charities. I did everything for the kids. And the reception I got when I came out here, you fans can stick it brother! Because if it wasn’t for Hulk Hogan, you people wouldn’t be here. If it wasn’t for Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff would still be selling meat from a truck in Minneapolis. And if it wasn’t for Hulk Hogan, all of these ‘Johnny come latelys’ that you see out here wrestling wouldn’t be here. I was selling the world out, brother, while they were bumming gas to put in their car to get to high school!” In closing, Hogan foreshadowed the future state of affairs in WCW with a prophetic preview of coming storylines: “With Hulk Hogan and the new world organization of wrestling, brother...me and the new blood by my side...whatcha gonna do when the new world organization runs wild on you? Whatcha gonna do? What are you gonna do??” Despite mistakenly bungling the ‘new world order’ phrase at the conclusion of his speech, Hogan still provided the perfect punctuation to a sensational heel turn. His promo, inarguably the most dynamic of his career, came across as strikingly authentic (“it felt real, because it was real’,” offered a proud Eric Bischoff upon reflection years later). On commentary, Schiavone - who most inspiredly suggested that Hogan had planned to double-cross WCW all along, since his debut in 1994 no less - added to the realism with some mournful final comments: “We have seen the end of Hulkamania,” he grieved. “Hulk Hogan, you can go to hell! We’re outta here. Straight to hell.” ---- To the layman, there appeared an obvious explanation for the feverous crowd response that accompanied Hogan’s turn. Clearly, the element of surprise - one of the key elements of Nitro’s success - had been exploited to a masterful degree (“nobody on earth thought that the third man was going to be Hulk Hogan,” highlights Nash). To Kevin Sullivan, however, there were several layers of story at play. “People thought that it was an invasion from the WWF,” he begins, implying that the success of the angle could be correlated to its realism. “They really bought into it, and when Hogan turned heel...they were sure of it. “So while Hogan gets the credit for the reaction, it was [Nash and Hall] who set the whole thing up. Those guys built the foundation of heat, and when Hogan came down, it just blew up.” “We were red hot coming off WWF television,” agrees Nash, “and then you had the biggest turn in the world on top of that. The biggest babyface of all-time finally turned heel!” To the ever-meticulous Sullivan, always a keen observer of the nuances present in a wrestling angle, an often overlooked element was also noteworthy. “He did it to Randy [Savage],” the booker emphasizes, speaking of Hogan’s betrayal. “People knew there was real-life heat there. That helped out too, but everyone played an intricate part. “Lightning...you can’t catch it in a bottle but one time.” The above is an excerpt from the book, NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW. Amazon USA: Amazon UK: Amazon Canada: Amazon Australia: 17+ Hour Audiobook Available at Audible and Apple Books Audible USA: Audible UK: Audible Canada: Audible Australia: Apple Books: Ultimate NITRO Bundle: Deep Cuts - Wrestling Stories in 60 Seconds! David Penzer AdFreeShows.com 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff On This Day in WWE Allan Conrad the Mortgage Guy IandrewDiceClay WCW Archive Because WCW WCW4Life ᴀʀᴅᴀ Öᴄᴀʟ 90s WWE Secrets of WCW Nitro #WCW #nWo #HulkHogan #BashattheBeach #HeelTurn #Wrestling #WrestlingBooks #OTD #WWE #WorldChampionshipWrestling #Nitro

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