Wednesday April 6: Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 4.6


NEWS STORIES

 



Meta Employees Call Zuck The Eye Of Sauron

Mark Zuckerberg had this to say recently on the Tim Ferriss Show:

“Some of the folks I work with at the company — they say this lovingly — but I think that they sometimes refer to my attention as the Eye of Sauron. You have this unending amount of energy to go work on something, and if you point that at any given team, you will just burn them.”

Considering Zuckerberg is a robot it’s ok to give him a pass on not knowing what love is.

Read more at Consequence.net.


Pentagon Releases a Shit Ton of Secret Alien Documents

The Pentagon released 1,574 pages of documentation about its secretive UFO program titled the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. It took four years to get the docs after a FOIA request was submitted in 2018.

Now we just need someone to go through the dump and get us the good stuff.

Read more at The Sun.


Twitter Tells Elon Musk, Please Don't Buy More of Our Stock

After Musk acquired more than 10% of Twitter stock, the powers at Twitter offered him a seat on their board, under the condition that he stop buying up their stock.

This is really taking on a Gordon Gekko feel.

Read more at digg.




SPORTS



Gronk Undecided

Rob Gronkowski says he’s undecided about his future in football, and he’s not ready to commit to anything yet.

What makes you think the Bucs want to commit to you?

Read more at TMZ


Magic Johnson Says Lakers Could have Acquired Derozan

The fall of the Lakers can be blamed on Lebron, Magic Johnson says. They could have acquired Bulls forward Demar Derozan instead of Russell Westbrook. “The blame that [Lebron’s] gotta take is the fact that DeRozan ended up in Chicago and not with the Lakers.. If you sign DeRozan, only trade Kuzma for Hield, we would be playing in the WCF.”

It’s not just Westbrook under the bus. It’s now Lebron james.

Read more at Mediaite.


Tennis Player Slaps His Opponent

A 15 year old channelled Will Smith’s Oscars performance when he walked up to the net and slapped the player who beat him, setting off a little brawl. Barstool called it the Will Smith Effect.

Which is the exact opposite of a chris rock effect.

Read more at barstool.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Dude Who Banged Jada Writing Tell All About Their Entanglement

August Alsina, the dude who slept with Jada during her “entanglement”, is planning on releasing a tell all book about their affair. Get out of this marriage, Will. It’s not for you anymore.

Read more at the Daily Mail.


One Writer Is Outraged About All The Prosthetic Dicks On TV

A writer at Mel Magazine acknowledges there’s a ton of dick on TV today but is outraged that Hollywood is using prosthetic dicks and wants the real thing. Well, porn actors better start taking acting lessons then.

Read more at Mel Magazine.


Paula Patton Causes Fried Chicken Outrage

Actor Paula Patton went on gram to share a video of her grandmother’s amazing Fried Chicken recipe. Fans tuned in looking forward to something epic, only to be horrified by Patton’s failure to season the chicken or the coating only to later season the oil.

So you’re saying you like flavor in your fried chicken?

Read more at NY Post.


Amy Schumer Gets Serious Backlash Over Oscars Joke

After being triggered and traumatized by the Will Smith Chris Rock incident. But then over the weekend, while on stage in Vegas, she decided to share some of the jokes that the Academy wouldn’t let her tell at the Oscars.One of those jokes was this;
“Don’t Look Up is the name of a movie? More like don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun.” She then added: “I wasn’t allowed to say any of that [at the Oscars], but you can just come up and [slap] someone. The joke was posted, by Amy (since deleted) and people are pissed.

Congrats to Amy on becoming the first comedian to get in trouble for a joke she did not tell.

Read more at buzzfeed.


Pete Davidson's SNL Digital Short Is Changing Entertainment

Pete’s only SNL appearance this year was in a pre recorded digital short, where he was rapping about needing some short ass movies to watch. So Netflix created a short movie category, where everything is under 100 minutes.

This means Pete is now a bigger influencer than Kim. Earth 2.

Read more at CNN


Farrah Abraham Starts Her Stand Up Comedy Career

Fresh out of a treatment center, Farrah has had an epiphany that she wants to be a stand up comedian.

She’d be a perfect opener for Louis C.K.

Read more at TMZ


Star Trek Next Gen Cast Joining Picard in Season 3

LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Worf), and Gates McFadden as the (Dr. Crusher) are joining Picard on Paramount for Season 3, along with Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner, who have previously appeared as Will Riker, Deanna Troi, and Data.

Sure now that the show has a following and a budget. Where was Number One in Season One?

Read more at Gizmodo




TRENDING & VIRAL



Woman is Astonished By Her Dogs Celebrity Resemblance

Does her dogg look like Matt Damon?

I don’t see it but he is just as good of an actor.

@ab.larson

#mattdamon #doppleganger #goldenretriever #goldensoftiktok #VenmoSpringBreak #fyp

♬ original sound – Abby Larson


Meteorologist Calls Home During Broadcast

Weatherman Doug Kammerer was reporting on a tornado in Washington, D.C., when he realized his house was right in the path, so he called home while on the air, to warn them.

Hey if your family isn’t going to watch you, do they deserve the special warning?


Staten Islands Own Meals by Cugine is Hot Hot Hot

Staten Island is doing all the influencing these days.

Read more at NY Post.

@meals_by_cug

Sicilian slice like a gentleman @Redmoonpizza #mealsbycug #jersey #pizza #slicw

♬ original sound – Meals_by_cug



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Most Americans Can't Name All Four Of Their Grandparents

A new study found that more than half of all Americans can’t name all four of their grandparents. But they can name all Kardashians, their current partners and genders.

Read more at Study Finds.


More Than a Quarter of Teens Have Prediabetes

Research shows that 28 percent of teenagers have the condition known as pre-diabetes.

Isn’t everyone pre-diabetes?

Read more at MSN



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