“I experienced multiple timelines.”
“My whole world shattered for two hours.”
“And it was the most scary, disturbing experience in my life.”
This is one of the wildest stories I’ve ever heard.
One night, in the middle of the night, Hollywood producer Brent Friedman’s entire sense of reality broke.
He just shared this mind-blowing story with Jesse Michels:
“I’m at an Airbnb in LA one night.”
“My day job is I’m working on a Call of Duty game.”
“And I get a chime on my Slack.”
“It’s like 1:00 in the morning.”
“So I read the question, and … answer it.”
Then he heard another chime.
“The person’s like: what you said makes no sense.”
“I’m like, okay, maybe I’m tired. Let me read what I said.”
But what he saw on the screen was a totally different message than the one he had just sent.
“So I correct it and I send it back.”
“And then … he’s like: now you’re really confusing me.”
“I look and I read it again, and … his original message is different now.”
“I’m like, okay, this is weird … am I hallucinating?”
So he went to a different Slack conversation with his creative director.
They talked “all the time.”
But now, he doesn’t even recognize the conversation.
“We’re talking about things I’ve never heard of before.”
“This is not the reality that I am living in.”
“Now, I’m starting to get a little shaky.”
He starts to wonder if he’s having a psychotic break.
“Or I’m thinking to myself, do people get Alzheimer’s, like, overnight?”
“What is happening to me?”
“So I go to a different device.”
“I go to my phone.”
“I’m thinking, I’m gonna look at the texts from my wife.”
“And we’re talking about a dog we don’t have.”
“I’m starting to really freak out now.”
“I’m checking, like, my heart’s fine.”
“I’m pinching myself, I’m not dreaming.”
“I’m doing all these checks just to make sure this is really happening.”
“And it really is.”
“And every time I go back to the computer, it keeps changing.”
“So I’m like … I’m gonna shut down all my devices, I’m going to just take a shower.”
“And I’m going to hope and pray that … when I wake up in the morning, everything will be reset.”
When he’s in the shower, he hears a voice say one word:
“Timelines.”
After that, he went to sleep.
The next morning, he opened his devices again with a sense of dread.
“I boot everything up, and everything is back to normal—but only 99%.”
“There’s a few weird little references that feel like artifacts left over from another timeline.”
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Erin Brockovich has launched a new interactive website and map tracking data centers across America — and the response has been overwhelming.
In just the first week, the site logged 1,690 resident complaints, with over 1,800 submissions coming in from 47 states shortly after launch.
Residents are reporting serious issues including:
• Massive water usage draining local supplies
• Sharply rising utility bills for nearby homes
• Constant 24/7 noise from fans and generators disrupting sleep and daily life
• Concerns over e-waste and potential PFAS contamination
This comes from the same Erin Brockovich who famously won a $333 million settlement against PG&E in the 1990s for contaminating drinking water in Hinckley, California.
The map shows operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, allowing people to submit reports with photos and locations.
What the map shows~
• Major AI data centers (operational, under construction, or proposed) across the U.S.
• Overlaid with community-reported concerns (pins from residents emailing in issues).
• You can click markers for details, sources, and reports. It uses a leaflet/OpenStreetMap-based interactive map.
Stats from the site (as of ~May 24, 2026)
• 33 Operational (built & running)
• 44 Under Construction (announced or building)
• 27 Proposed (in pipeline/pending approval)
• Hundreds/thousands of community reports nationwide (earlier reports mentioned 2,700+ submissions from 49 states, with Texas leading heavily).
Many Americans are now asking whether the rapid expansion of data centers is coming at too high a cost to local communities and the environment.
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