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Pete Davidson - Videos - Career


Pete Davidson and his girlfriend, Elsie Hewitt, are expecting their first child together. They have been open about their excitement for the baby's arrival, with Davidson expressing his eagerness to provide a stable and loving childhood. Pete is in the process of having his tattoos removed estimating the process will take 10 years as it is a painful process. To date his hands and facial tattoos have been removed.


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The Failing Film Industry - A Mirror of a Dying Reality


25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows
NY Times - November 15, 2025


People keep telling me 'Hollywood is dead'. When you look around, it's hard to argue the point - a death long overdue.


Do you need to vicariously experience through films or celebrities or to vent about them as a distraction from your issues?


Originality has collapsed into endless prequels, reruns, sequels, remakes, and reboots - a looped mirror of a reality that's also rerunning itself.


In the Human Experiment, redundancy is the first sign that the Simulation is winding down.


Film has morphed into digitized images another reflection of reality. Will AI take over the industry? It is already - for better or worse.


Hollywood films have simply become too expensive - both to produce and to watch in a theater - where movie-goers pay for the expense of production - forever increasing.


Theaters often feel like luxury experiences at a time when the dominant theme in American life is affordability. Why pay for a seat in a crowded venue when most people prefer the comfort of home where they can pause, rewind, eat, answer messages, take bathroom breaks, and avoid the distractions of strangers including sick people, and parents with restless young children.


The decline of Hollywood didn't happen overnight. The shift away has been unfolding for decades. Many of my friends in the industry have spent years traveling across the U.S. and around the world, seeking locations where production costs stay within budget. As most of us know, whatever the original budget is, double that by the end of production.


Independent films - versus big-budget productions - have become more popular, but they're generally built around a screenwriter presenting a story about 'dealing with issues,' usually their own or someone else's. That's not something I'm programmed to enjoy. I'll take an action-adventure film any day. My favorites usually star Jason Statham, Gerard Butler, Ryan Reynolds, and others in that genre.


The film industry has always been riddled with abuses, scandals, gatekeepers, and astronomical production costs that inevitably bleed over to consumers. Abusive systems eventually collapse - especially when climate change and institutional dysfunction push everything closer to breaking. This will happen with the Trump administration by the end of ACT III.


Award shows are another factor, often creating their own dramas - before, at the event, and afterwards. Declining audiences are no surprise.


I am one of those people who fall under the heading ... "I haven't read a book in years because I don't like to read". I get my news online from the more reputable publications - and take everything with a grain of salt including TV and documentaries - and like everyone else process what I see and hear through my own filters. As a visual learning that works best for me + discussions with Z.


I watch films online even if I have to wait a couple of months after they air in theaters. I don't like melodramas, reality shows, or anything else that elicits tears, fears, and emotional overload. If I don't experience that in life - why would I want to watch it on the screen? People watch "issue films" because they are a reflection of their own issues, that hopefully they can overcome - much like the characters onscreen. "We are broken in the same way. I can heal like that character". Memo: Only if you're programmed to.


Sci-fi isn't what it used to be in terms of action-adventure. Again, it's all about emotions but that is what the human experiment is about so I guess that's what people seek.


I still enjoy writing my daily blogs - but how many times can I recycle the same script to make a point? Apparently, that number stretches endlessly as does the Fibonacci Sequence that creates and shapes our storylines - adapted from patterns encoded in the simulation itself.


"Healing your issues" is popular with many people who return here seeking answers - but not the way that arc spiked in the grids years ago. What I think most readers are waiting for is something that triggers a memory about closure.


Each blog awakens a specific group of people, but the final message remains encoded in my DNA and yours - waiting to be hermetically unsealed at the end of time ~ Ellie & Alchemy 101.




Brooklyn Brownstone Decorated for the Holidays



11/11/2025 - It was so cold this morning even the trees were shivering as temps dropped to the low 30's.


Arctic blast brought frigid temperatures to most of the U.S.


Spray boats and hearts with the first snowflakes of winter in Brooklyn.





Auroras


3 Giant Solar Outbursts Explode Towards Earth, Prompting Aurora Forecast Across US   Science Alert - November 12, 2025


Breathtaking northern lights splash across the night skies as far south as Florida   CNN - November 12, 2025


Crystalinks: Auroras




Hidden Structures


Astronomers Uncover a Massive Hidden Structure Around the Pleiades Star Cluster   SciTech Daily - November 12, 2025


Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades cluster, long admired as the 'Seven Sisters,' is only a small part of a much larger stellar family stretching across the sky.


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Human brains are programmed to pick up sensory information within a certain biological spectrum - things like visible light, audible sounds, and chemical signals humans can detect. Because of this, there's a vast amount happening around us of which we remain unaware. This brings us to the mind's perception of reality.


The Human Experiment is deeply rooted in emotions and that's where many people get stuck/trapped. Everything is filtered through your emotions to make it real.


How many things pass you by each day that your mind ignores - focusing only on those of emotional value to you?


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The structure around the Pleiades star cluster was either beyond human perception or a new insert in the simulation - much like suddenly discovering ancient artifacts where once there were none - or finding something lost that suddenly manifests.


Humans only have a brief understanding of how things were created, how they work, and how it ends because everyone is programmed to know that closure is coming - but not the particulars - which are recycling as I blog this.


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The Pleiades is another insert in the simulation for those who want to play beyond the games of human emotions and expand the limits of their consciousness as far as allowed. Think of humans as dumbed-down so their focus remains on emotions to make anything real.


Most of what appears as the great cosmos is in truth green screen - in which whoever is controlling it - can add or subtract details.


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The article took me to a memory from the 1980's when this book - that I found in the back of a bookstore in Manhattan - awakened something in me that had been foretold in 1954 at age 11 when I was "taken" on a UFO. The gray alien toy was a gift from a client - who went by Deja Allison - and an important part of my journey. Crystalinks - Pleiades.




Hidden Instructors


Thursday - In the middle of the night I awoke briefly - the physical sound of my voice pulling me back to "Earth".


Pause ... Rewind film strip (grids) ... Pause ... Instant Replay ...


I was aboard what I processed as a UFO ... racing through space while speaking to seated passengers whose "identities" were only familiar in my dream.


"These are the rules of space travel" - I was saying as if an instructor.


In the dark I reached for the notepad I keep in my nightstand and scribbled the sentence. As I never remember dreams I've learned to reply on notes taken while half asleep - fragmented messages I want to retrieve when I wake up.


I fell back to sleep and, all told, slept for ten hours.




Space in the News


Astronomy Index


Scientists Puzzled by Strange Star-Forming Regions at the Milky Way's Center


Don't Panic! 3I/ATLAS Isn't an Alien Death Probe, But It Is Wildly Unusual


Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS


Breakthrough: Blue Origin Nails Booster Landing in Historic Mars Launch


Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX’s Feat


Our solar system is moving faster than expected


Is the Universe Slowing Down? Stunning New Evidence Says Yes


Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It's a Monster


Astronomers stunned by three Earth-sized planets orbiting two suns


Constant Rain of Tiny Meteoroids Poses 'Silent Threat' to Future Moon Base


JWST uncovered life's chemical seeds frozen in alien starlight, proving the cosmos brews organics far beyond our galaxy.


AI controls satellite attitude in orbit for first time


The archaeologist's guide to colonizing other worlds


How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds


Mysterious Streaks on The Slopes of Mars Might Finally Be Solved


Scientists Reveal a Chilling Glimpse of The Sun's Future Death


Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked in the cosmos, and that the universe is bound to get steadily 'colder and deader' from here on.





Physics in the News


Physics


Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time


Scientists Uncover a Hidden Energy Cost in Quantum Timekeeping


What is time? Rather than something that 'flows,' a philosopher suggests time is a psychological projection


The time 'rondeau' crystal: Scientists observe a new form of temporal order


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Physicists unveil system to solve long-standing barrier to new generation of supercomputers

Scientists Finally Peek Inside an 'Impossible' Superconductor


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String theory: Scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics


How Do Quarks Really Move? New Theory Unlocks Decades-Old Physics Mystery


Scientists to Use Earth Itself as a Giant Sensor in Hunt for New Physics





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence


AI at the speed of light just became a possibility


Image compression method combines classic techniques for greater efficiency and flexibility


Hypersonic Breakthrough Could Make One-Hour Global Flights Possible


New Graphene Tech Powers Supercapacitors To Rival Traditional Batteries


Apple will conceal the front-facing camera under the screen of its 2027 iPhone, a Chinese leaker said today, corroborating reports that Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone will have no visible cutouts in the display.


Wild new 'gyromorph' materials could make computers insanely fast





Chemistry in the News


Chemistry


Scientists Develop More Efficient Way To Extract Rare Earth Elements Amid Global Trade Tensions


From Plastic to Pure Water: Scientists Turn Trash Into a Super Catalyst


Scientists Solve the 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of Sea Silk's Unfading Gold


On this date - Chemists discover buckyballs - the most perfect molecules in existence - Nov. 14, 1985




Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


After Decades, Scientists Have Finally Discovered Tylenol's Secret Mechanism


Scientists Discover a Natural, Non-Addictive Way To Block Pain That Could Replace Opioids


Wegovy and Ozempic tied to dramatically lower cancer deaths


Astatine-211, one of the world's rarest and most unstable elements, is emerging as a 'Goldilocks' isotope for targeted cancer therapy thanks to its powerful yet precise alpha radiation


Viagra Reverses Damage Behind One Type of Deafness, Scientists Discover


A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure


World's Top Infectious Killer Tuberculosis Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says


Alzheimer's May Hijack Your Cells' Clocks, Hinting at New Treatments


Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world.


Tiny implant wipes out bladder cancer in 82% of patients


Experts Reveal a Drug-Free Way to Mimic The Effects of Ozempic


Astatine-211, one of the world's rarest and most unstable elements, is emerging as a 'Goldilocks' isotope for targeted cancer therapy thanks to its powerful yet precise alpha radiation


Alzheimer's May Hijack Your Cells' Clocks, Hinting at New Treatments


Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world.


Tiny implant wipes out bladder cancer in 82% of patients


New research finds no clear link between acetaminophen (Tylenol) and autism


A hidden breathing problem may be behind chronic fatigue's crushing exhaustion


The Food and Drug Administration will remove the so-called black box warning from all hormone replacement products containing estrogen





Brain in the News


Brain Index


Scientists find brain chemical tied to trauma and depression


Alzheimer's May Hijack Your Cells' Clocks, Hinting at New Treatments


Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted as if you were about to nod off to sleep, even when you're awake




Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index


Scientists Create Digital Twin of Earth, Accurate to a 1-Kilometer Scale


Underwater volcano off Oregon coast likely won't erupt until mid-to-late 2026


Earth is slowly peeling its continents from below, fueling ocean volcanoes


Breathtaking northern lights splash across the night skies as far south as Florida


Amazon Lakes Became Hotter Than a Hot Tub, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins


The Hidden Chemistry That Let Earth Finally Breathe


Unexpected biosignatures found in a startlingly blue volcanic goo beneath the Pacific Ocean may offer clues to life's origins





Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


We May Finally Know The Purpose of 5,200 Mystery Holes in Peru


Crystalinks: Band of Holes near Pisco Valley, Peru


Two voids detected on the eastern side of the Pyramid of Menkaure on Egypt's Giza plateau hint at a second, hidden entrance to the pyramid, according to a new study.


Pyramid of Menkaure


Rewriting History: Egypt's New Kingdom Started Later Than We Thought


Fragments of Stone of Scone tracked down to reveal a hidden history.


Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains


Hidden signatures of ancient Rome's master craftsmen revealed


Neanderthals May Never Have Truly Gone Extinct, Study Reveals


New Neanderthal footprints in Portugal reveal a life we never expected


Specialized potteries reveal complex organization of El Argar society 4,000 years ago


A Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE has been reconstructed with the help of AI, revealing a poetic tribute to the city's splendor and its people


Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilization survived a climate catastrophe


Australian 'drop crocs' unlock insights into ancient ecosystems


A Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE has been reconstructed with the help of AI, revealing a poetic tribute to the city's splendor and its people


Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilization survived a climate catastrophe


Specialized potteries in the southeast of the peninsula reveal the complex organization of the El Argar society 4,000 years ago


Australian 'drop crocs' unlock insights into ancient ecosystems




Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


Yuka The Woolly Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced


Tiny 95-Million-Year-Old Croc Relative Baffles Scientists With Its Strange Teeth


Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains


Ancient condors thrived on Peru's northern coast before retreating to the highlands, study reveals


A 400-million-year-old plant creates water so weird it looks alien


Paleogenomics study shows humans and dogs spread across Eurasia together


Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, new research suggests.


Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events.


The Story of The World's Weirdest Dinosaur Just Got Weirder










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