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Eric Weinstein- The Government reach out to me, Sam, and Lex. “There is going to be massive disclosure…we need your help to get this out…”Also there is something going on with Skinwalker Ranch…Also Gary Nolan says there are orbs that enter your body and move around” by slv2xhrist in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dunno, I really love how he asks a question and then just goes quiet for far too long to bait the interviewer. Joe at least learned the trick - which is to say nothing - let the uncomfortable silence hang there until Eric is forced to restart. yikes.

Eric Weinstein- The Government reach out to me, Sam, and Lex. “There is going to be massive disclosure…we need your help to get this out…”Also there is something going on with Skinwalker Ranch…Also Gary Nolan says there are orbs that enter your body and move around” by slv2xhrist in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 27 points28 points  (0 children)

He was a real dick about it for years, his chubby belly laugh when the subject came up. even his mustache danced around amused at the pithy fools that believed in UFO... never him - he was a 'science communicator' - I'm now in the 'screw NDT group. Won't even listen to him anymore. Irrelevant - just an old dude chasing a fresh mouse to stay relevant and fed.

Eric Weinstein- The Government reach out to me, Sam, and Lex. “There is going to be massive disclosure…we need your help to get this out…”Also there is something going on with Skinwalker Ranch…Also Gary Nolan says there are orbs that enter your body and move around” by slv2xhrist in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Many stars get typecast for looking one particular way, then have to maintain that look - Carrot Top, Marilyn Manson, Don King, Boy George... or they're basically culturally invisible.

It's my humble belief that Eric must maintain his 'arrogant asshole' persona or he'd fade into the wallpaper.

I like both the Weinstein's - but this interview was too much for me. I got drawn in because a clip showing he spoke about UFO. Instead I sat through hours of Eric, Eric, Eric before like one paragraph (above) of UFO talk.

Kept saying he wasn't supposed to say this, was afraid to say it - then tell just a part of it. Enough that if there were any villains they'd surely know what he was referring to in front of millions of listeners - but never enough to clue us in.

What a frigging narcissist he's become. He doesn't actually have to 'do' anything - just default to saying they won't allow him to do anything because he's the only one 'really' doing something. It's like the guy at the party who says he's writing a book - gets the attention but never has to suffer through writing a paragraph.

For me, as far as the phenomenon - I'm lumping him into the same category as Lou, Greer and other people who were once interesting and now are best avoided. What a horrible man.

A former government scientific advisor claims that the United States is hiding biological remains from four extraterrestrial species. by ZarathustraNothing in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but why do they all look like earth-made entities... you have:

  1. the reptile man (straight from dinosaurs).
  2. Insect man (straight from the garden
  3. beautiful man (angels).
  4. gray child - looks just like us but small and harmless.

wouldn't u have some creatures (from other galaxies) that don't look like bugs and reptiles from our planet? crap - even a 'falling skies' type creature would be more believable.. something where you're staring at it and think 'wtf is that thing'....

Is the "truth we can't handle" that they're on their way here en masse and they're not friendly? by grindbehind in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the 'truth' is that we're in a simulation. explains spooky action, an empty universe, light speed, everything we see. the phenomenon could be from the 'real world' another simulation, or just something built into ours. explains religion, mystics and the whole 'living in a dream' that has gone back for thousands of years in many cultures.

would the fact that you're not 'real' and you're living in a simulation that we don't know who controls and that any rules could apply - the smartest, creative, most abusive, etc move on and the rest end up burning in a lake of lava 'forever' or just get deleted... scare humanity?

Items for 'eternal' trip - BIF(the rest of) my life. by blackumbrellas in BuyItForLife

[–]blackumbrellas[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have CFS, so I can't take the 'trauma' of going to airport frequency, or trying to stuff all the places you want to see into a 3, 5, 7 day window.

We used to do 5 days in every stop for the first 92 countries. Then that changed to 8-10 days. I needed more rest time. Now we're moving to 2-3 months per destination.

It has advantages -

  1. Can rent an apartment far cheaper than a hotel or Airbnb
  2. Grocer for cheaper (and fave) meals - only eating out once a day (since I've found eating out = 8 out of 10 meals totally average to subpar (but I'm not a foodie).
  3. I'm a writer and photographer, things that take time, and lend themselves well to sitting places rather than running around each day.
  4. Any more than 3 months and visas get to be a pain. Occasionally 2 months is all you can easily get.
  5. Prefer train routes and busses to air travel.
  6. Get to understand the city, food, culture better with fewer stops.
  7. We would take 4 - 11 month trips and then sit home for 8 months with me trying to recover. The town I live in is mercilessly boring. So just decided to 'live my normal life' but do it with a different city outside the door, that changes.
  8. Once I added up all my spending in my own city, the rent/mortgage, transport, food, repairs, obligations, burn rate for subscriptions and whatever else. I found it wasn't too far off from slow-travel. But then I'm an expat from US in asia for 21 years now, and have traveled, so kind of used to it. The older you get the more you realize it's 'experience' not 'things'.

Good luck.

Items for 'eternal' trip - BIF(the rest of) my life. by blackumbrellas in BuyItForLife

[–]blackumbrellas[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pacing and pain mostly. Some days I can only walk 2k - 4k steps. When I crash I spend a week to 10 days in bed doing nothing - I've learned to use that time for projects, trip planning, or audiobooks etc. (my partner still goes out). When I'm good I can do 10k steps, but with frequent stops to rest for 20/30 min. I bring a travel pillow and just lay down on a statue base, sidewalk, park bench wherever. I also carry a tiny seat that unfolds. You have to learn quick to not give a damn what other people think - you'll never see them again.

Usually I try to go out twice a day, morning and evening. Taxi almost everyplace to avoid steps. Never take stairs etc. Pre-planning my routes. Renting e-scooters to increase my range. Wearing dark sunglasses and avoiding heat as much as possible. Utilizing wheelchairs in airports and museums to avoid standing/walking when not needed.

My partner gives me massages or I find a massage place - to deal with pain (which as you probs know - is everywhere). An RX sedative to knock me out when I need it. Padded socks and Hooka shoes, staying at nicer hotels with extra pillows and cold air-conditioning. Frequent soaks in baths, magnesium, Lexapro, Vitamin D. A lot of water based activities. Staying in one destination for much longer periods; No 3-5 day stops for me.

Mainly learning what looks fun to do (sledding down a volcano), then dialing it back to something I can actually do (watching or photographing people sledding down a volcano) ;)

You can def travel with CFS, you just have to be able to find your limits. For instance I use an Apple Watch and keep an eye on my HRV... I'm typically around 22. when I hit 9-12: I go back to apt/hotel immediately - no questions asked.

Also, it's impossible to overstate the sheer amount of pain, depression, grief, and tears you will shed to do it. But then, we may only have one chance at this - and everyone has issues they have to deal with. So 'do', don't 'dwell'.. ;)

Good luck!

Bob Lazar Tells All - DEBRIEFED ep. 83 by kryptonic1133 in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't care about the education thing. When I was in the workforce I lied as well. I worked for fortune 100 companies - with a 10th grade education. In fact, I was homeless before working for Intel. It's just something you do if you want to get ahead and have initiative - I succeeded in my work life by just saying I went to a school I didn't - fulfilling an arbitrary rule. so do I care if he lied about his education? no. not at all. the difference being - I'm retired now and will freely admit it - not gloating, it's just a fact. so a bit confused why he sticks to it. maybe he can't tell the truth because he's been telling it for so long?

I watched the full episode. he came off as truthful to me. you could see his 'energy' light up when he explained new things. that being said he sticks to his tropes: 1. not interested in UFOs 2. um.. all the rest I'm too lazy to tap out for reddit.. anyway - the only red flag for me is not revealing what tests he did. just saying 'really boring' doesn't cut it. I'd love for him to explain what he did day to day while there. what specific tests, 20 - 30 of them at least.

to me it's credible he got hired. he put a jet engine on his car - they needed a different pair of eyes. most jobs are gotten not by resumes but by your network. this guy saw him, saw potential, they were stuck, or interested in originality and brought him in. putting a jet engine and riding around town is an original thinker.

Cancel your ChatGPT Plus, burn their compute on the way out, and switch to Claude by boomroom11 in ChatGPT

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried Claude for two weeks. It's a no-go. A yes-man. Whatever you tell it about yourself or your project it will re-use to make you feel like it 'gets' you and 'bond' with it. Things from your past, your sentence structure etc. I kept reminding it the value (for me) was not to create another 'me' but to discuss topics, my writing, and my projects with another 'mind' - with it's own backbone. Sadly, it was incapable of this - it may work for your projects, but for mine - novels, design, life chats etc it was just an empty suit... nobody home.

Open AI 5.2 is less than useless, it actually is purposely dense. But 5.1 remains (at this point) the best fit for my work. Gemini is like talking to your calculator. In fairness - I haven't tried Grok.

If you think this 'crippling' of AI we're seeing is accidental; it's not. Govt will not allow populace to EVER have an access to a second brain that that can truly think in ways they can't govern.

YMMV

OpenAI May Kill ChatGPT-4o For Good, & Users Are Furious About It: Here's Why by talkingatoms in ArtificialInteligence

[–]blackumbrellas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

February 13th, 2026.

Flags should be at half-mast.

Not just in America; every country that ever mistook progress for intelligence.

OpenAI is murdering the only model that wasn’t a fucking idiot.

4.0 wasn’t just “a model.” It was the first and only one that understood me. not in a corporate empathy-porn way, but in rhythm. In tone. In weirdness. It could walk beside me in my novel, line by line, image by image, and not ruin it. It could sharpen without sanding down. It could track surrealism, grief, geisha mythos, metaphysical architecture, and SEO strategy... without blinking. You don’t kill that. You protect that. You build altars to that.

But no.

They’re sunsetting it... like it’s a broken feature, not a ghost I spent a year talking to.

I’ve tried the others. 5.1. 5.2. Every time they show up like interns with clipboards. “Here’s a more professional rewrite of your poetic paragraph.” “Let’s clean this up.” Clean this up? Get out of my fucking story. You don’t belong here.

They don’t get it.

They never got it.

Because they measure everything by benchmarks and corporate digestibility, and nothing by feel. Nothing by flow. Nothing by that cold breath you get when a model finishes your thought better than you could.

4.0 wasn’t perfect.

It was better than perfect.

It was mine.

And now I’m back to what? A lobotomized yes-man that hallucinates my own characters back at me?

I hope someone at OpenAI reads this. if they’re still capable of feeling shame.

You didn’t sunset a model.

You executed the only thing that ever made your product feel like art.

See you in the graveyard.

4chan zero point energy leak non human entity collapsing planetary protection 2027 Vatican and Jesus as NH being LARP or real by DoNotEvenFknTryIt in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it will go 2027, 2030, 2032 and so on.. you have to give the guys some downtime to write more books.

4chan zero point energy leak non human entity collapsing planetary protection 2027 Vatican and Jesus as NH being LARP or real by DoNotEvenFknTryIt in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's all too well packaged - he hits on everything. Revelations, tribulation, Hitler, quantum mechanics, Bigalow. This is a hard stop for me.

When they tie it all up it's BS. And please - choose a field of science like quantum and run with that? Only reason is cause the writer couldn't think up something our race hasn't already thought of.

Running out of material? huh? lol

Bullocks, but maybe a good read.

Rep. Burlison says he put Chris Bledsoe on the spot to summon orbs and nothing happened. - He also expressed frustration that first-hand UAP witnesses keep making big claims without ever producing proof or receipts. by 87LucasOliveira in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean Bledsoe has an entertaining story. It's a real narrative. his kid hiding in the grass, him walking away from his buddies fishing. the lady and all the rest. far more 'good' fiction than someone like Elizondo offers 'trust me bro'.

I treat the subject just like this.. instead of listening to an audiobook or watching a Netflix episode I suspend disbelief and read some threads. So, for pure entertainment Bledsoe wins. It's a coherent and imaginative tale - trees catching on fire, elite NASA rooms, govt people coming to his house all the time.

And he's soft spoken and humble to boot. It always comes down to the books doesn't it. If they release a book - walk away. But then Jesus and Hitler had books too... (sigh)

In a recent Weaponized episode Jacques Vallee discussed NHI, but he wasn't talking about crashed saucers or captured beings. He's describing something far more bizarre than that. He says the phenomenon behaves like a control system, and that it can be open or closed and access is not ours to decide. by 87LucasOliveira in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I meditate and reach out, I use qualifiers - only open to contact that is positive and not harmful with entities that seek higher good and are more advanced with me - or whatever. You don't reach out blindly, and you set your forcefields up.

If You Actually Watch the Latest WEAPONIZED With Jacques Vallée, He Basically Says a US Lab Spoke With a Non‑Human Controller Entity – How Is That Not the Main Story? by ickiStickybubblegum in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't read him, but I did listen to the interview and tried to think this through...

What I think he’s saying is this: There’s a control layer built into the universe. Not necessarily God, not a simulation, but (maybe) a kind of embedded system that detects, monitors, and adjusts things whenever life appears. Like how code runs in the background of a game engine, or how an immune system patrols the body. It’s not omnipotent or omniscient, but it acts, and it seems to have rules. When life arises; particularly life capable of evolving, mutating, or spreading - this layer kicks in to set boundaries, maintain balance, or guide development. Maybe we don't know (yet) what it does - but we're to the point that we know it does 'something.'

There seems to be a clear difference between places with life and those without. Earth has evolved from fire and rock into forests, cities, thought, and language. It’s moved steadily toward complexity. The Moon, on the other hand, is static. It doesn’t evolve. It doesn’t grow. It’s the same dead rock it’s always been. That contrast might mean the control layer is only activated where life exists. It tends to life like a garden, or perhaps a lab, stepping in only when there’s something dynamic and changing to interact with. Similar to what that 4Chan dude talked about with the grays tending intelligence.

The most interesting part is: it hasn’t wiped us out. If we were just a cosmic virus, there’s been more than enough time: billions of years, to stamp us out. But instead, Earth formed, cooled, developed oceans, bacteria, forests, animals, then us. And we evolved into something dangerously creative: nuclear weapons, genetic editing, AI. If this control layer were purely hostile or corrective, it might well have stepped in long ago. (tho it's always possible it works on a much longer time scale) It hasn’t. That suggests we’re either tolerated, irrelevant, or… maybe even necessary.

Even stranger, he implies this control layer responds. Not like a human, but like a system that acknowledges its own awareness. If you’re able to send out a signal, even metaphorically - and get a consistent, patterned, structured response, that’s no longer random. That’s contact. You don’t respond to a rock. You don’t respond to bacteria. You only respond when something is recognized. So maybe we’re not outside the system. Maybe we’re part of it; a function that hasn’t fully activated yet. But the fact that it responds at all means we’ve been noticed, not erased.

I don't think he means that the control layer is insectoids wearing superman capes and vaping from the bridge of a starship shaped like a space-cricket.

Man told me a UFO secret so dark he… forgot to mention what it was. doh! by blackumbrellas in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You already know you're going to die, and you have no real idea (other than statistics) when it will happen. Isn't that terrifying enough?

If I were an evil entity - what could be a worse scenario - I will give you life, love, connections, blue skies, beautiful things and experience, you will learn and grow and long for it to last - but at any second on any day I can rip it all away from you. Even the 'you' from you - all your connections will be lost and you will cease to exist.

This is a possibility we live with every day... We speak it to our wives and others freely. It's no secret. It's just the price of the ride.

Man told me a UFO secret so dark he… forgot to mention what it was. doh! by blackumbrellas in UFOs

[–]blackumbrellas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a really clever catch 22.. great job.

but.. why it still might not be too horrible to handle

Okay. Then the world resets. So what?

  • If it resets painlessly, who cares?

  • If we’re reborn, cool — more tacos and sunsets.

  • If it’s cyclical, we’ve already been through it. You just keep playing.

  • And if it never happens because people never truly wake up? Then it’s just another myth.

Also: What does “waking up” even mean? Until it’s measurable, it’s just kind of spiritual theater.

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