Throwing away your NFL career because your teamate called you trash is an odd use of free will.
TITANS PRACTICE ARGUMENT TURNS INTO A GUY FOR GOING TO HIS CAR FOR A GUN
Tuesday the Titans put out a statement saying they had reviewed an "incident" at the team facility and released defensive tackle Jordan Elliott. That was the entire message. No details, no questions. Reporting filled in the blanks. On Thursday, Oct. 15, Elliott and right tackle JC Latham tangled during a play at practice, Elliott was told to leave the field, took his pads off on the sideline and walked out to his car in the players' parking area with security cameras capturing the whole sequence, and veteran defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers talked him down. The gun never left Elliott's parking spot. Metro Nashville police said no reports had been filed. Then head coach Robert Saleh got in front of a microphone and said Elliott is a father and a great husband who "never committed a crime in his entire life, and he pulled a gun in the parking lot." That is a character reference with a trapdoor in it. Saleh called it "a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as a call for help more than a criminal act." He said Elliott was referred to a clinician. He also brought up two NFL players lost to suicide in the past year and the guys who struggle without getting help. He closed by working the phones in public. His message to the other 31 teams: if you need a run stopping DT for a playoff run, call me, and I'll tell you everything you need to know about him. Cut Tuesday, represented by his old head coach Wednesday. The NFL says the situation is under review.
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- cbssports.com - Titans release DT Jordan Elliott after incident with firearm at team facility, per report
- sports.yahoo.com - Titans' Jordan Elliott was released after reportedly going to retrieve a gun after dispute at practice
- espn.com - Titans abruptly release DT Jordan Elliott for undisclosed reasons
ONE IN FOUR DATA CENTERS IS PARKED SOMEWHERE THE WATER ALREADY RUNS OUT
A team led by the Carnegie Institution for Science plotted all 9,347 operational data centers on Earth against local water availability, and found that a quarter of them sit in areas where demand already exceeds supply at least one month a year. Electricity can be hauled across a grid from three states away. Water has to come out of whatever river, lake, or aquifer happens to be sitting there. The close-up is uglier. Near 41 percent of these sites, the biggest water user in the neighborhood is a city full of actual people. Near another 28 percent, it's agriculture. And 523 facilities, roughly 6 percent, sit in places with a water gap at least nine months out of the year. That's not a dry spell, that's the climate. Lead author Lorenzo Rosa explained why nobody had done this sooner: electricity gets metered and reported, while water scarcity gets measured locally, inconsistently, or not at all. So he built the map because it did not exist. An industry that can quote you GPU utilization to the decimal never bothered to check the river. Run the models out to 3 degrees Celsius of warming and the share climbs to one in three. Most of the newly stressed sites are in the US, which already hosts 39 percent of the world's data centers.
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RAMASWAMY CAMPAIGN PUTS OUT AD FEATURING ACTON'S ESTRANGED MOTHER
Most campaigns caught behind an anonymous hit piece deny it for a week. Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign spent Tuesday refusing to answer whether it made the thing, then confirmed late that night that it did and announced $4 million to run the ad online and on TV before Ohio votes next month. The spot features Donna Arthur, who introduces herself as Acton's mother, calls her daughter a liar, and says the story about growing up in a tent is not true. The court file disagrees. Mahoning County records show Acton's stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was indicted in September 1978 on a felony rape charge for assaulting her at 12, and a 1982 record shows police found him living in a tent. Acton's brother Philip Stearns called the ad a despicable low and said it turns their childhood abuse into a talking point. Republicans cannot agree on what they just watched. Former Ohio House Speaker Ryan Smith posted that the party should stop normalizing bad behavior and that Ohio deserves better, while JD Vance was busy warning Republicans not to criticize the ad at all. Axios reported the campaign went all in because the spot tested well with persuadable voters. The other defense on offer: the mother was not paid. She did it for free, which is not the flex they think it is.
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- pbs.org - Ramaswamy campaign says it produced ad with Amy Acton's mother and will spend millions to promote it
- cbsnews.com - Ohio governor's race takes ugly turn with Ramaswamy attack ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother
- ohiocapitaljournal.com - Ramaswamy takes responsibility for controversial ad featuring Acton's estranged mother
KID CUDI GOT SICK OF WAITING FOR A BASQUIAT MOVIE AND CAST HIMSELF IN ONE HE WROTE
People have been telling Kid Cudi to play Jean-Michel Basquiat for years. No studio ever actually did anything about it, so on Wednesday he announced Jean, a Basquiat film he wrote, will direct, and will star in. His stated reason, roughly, was that he finally said fuck it and wrote it himself. That is the whole origin story. Hollywood left the part sitting there and he walked off with it. He posted wardrobe tests to Instagram, suit and tie and a dreadlocked wig, then got ahead of the comment section by noting the hair is a rough version and promising they'll get it right. The prep sounds legitimate: books, and conversations with people who actually knew Basquiat, which is more homework than plenty of biopics do with a studio behind them. Two complications. Cudi is 42 and Basquiat died in 1988 at 27, so the wig has a lot of work ahead of it. And the Basquiat lane is stacked. Jeffrey Wright played him in 1996, Kelvin Harrison Jr. has Samo Lives, Jeremy Pope has The Collaboration with no release date, and an estate-approved documentary is headed to Netflix in December. Jean doesn't start shooting until 2027, by which point everyone will have met this guy four times.
FLORIDA MAN DRIVES TO CIA HEADQUARTERS TO APPLY FOR A JOB THAT DOES NOT EXIST
At 5:45 a.m. on Oct. 15, Corbin Collins Rodier, 31, of Orlando, pulled up to the visitor control center at CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia, and started unloading bags and boxes from the back seat and trunk while other cars were trying to get in. He did this in a restricted traffic lane. A CIA officer watching the security cameras noticed, which is the easiest shift that officer will ever work. When officers walked over, Rodier handed them what looked like a Department of Veterans Affairs identification card, then produced a Florida driver's license. Prosecutors say the first one was phony. He told officers he had come because he wanted to be the "Speaker of the CIA." There is no Speaker of the CIA. There is a director, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and the application does not begin with parking wrong at dawn. On him: a pocketknife, a multipurpose tool and two cans of mace, brought to an agency that has a drone program. It took six CIA police officers to get him into handcuffs. He now faces four federal misdemeanor charges in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, including trespassing, failure to comply with officers, resisting or impeding federal officers, and possessing a false federal identification badge.
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