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Fellaz! 👑 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟯𝟬 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹. 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟭𝟬𝟬+ 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 😌 Last weekend, we didn't just run a game night. We gave UncrownedKings, a student guild from the Philippines a seat... at the table. 25+ live streams running simultaneously. Spectators got paid. Players got paid. Small guilds got paid. We see people copying our moves instead of supporting them. And honestly? That's fine. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁. 🤷 We don't gatekeep the table. We build a bigger one. Every week. No excuses. Stay dangerous. Stay cooking. The real ones know. 🔥 Big shoutout to The Lost Glitches and Arbitrum for the love 💙🧡 Sign up at ASAP and pull up to the next one. ⏳ - Alphashow more

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🌍𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲! Speaking at the Georgia State University Andrew Young School in the United States, during the MandelaWshFellowship, I carried with me the weight of responsibility and generational urgency for Africa’s future — 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁. ◼️𝗧𝗼 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: The real ROI lies in co-creation. Africa is not just the next frontier — 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼-𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆. From market stalls transforming into data hubs to farms evolving into predictive engines, young African pioneers are not only reimagining AI’s potential — they are engineering blueprints the world will follow. Partner with us. Invest in our talent pipelines. Scale our homegrown breakthroughs. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. ◼️𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Your canvas is the world. Code with purpose. Build with vision. Lead with audacity. Scale your vision globally. The world isn’t waiting 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 —it’s waiting 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Don’t catch up—leap ahead. Define what’s next. This is the future we are building at Otic Group. Our 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀 is simple: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀. Our work isn't about importing solutions; it's about unlocking that innate brilliance. Do that, and you don't just change a market—you change the century!

🌍𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲! Speaking at the Georgia State University Andrew Young School in the United States, during the MandelaWshFellowship, I carried with me the weight of responsibility and generational urgency for Africa’s future — 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁. ◼️𝗧𝗼 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: The real ROI lies in co-creation. Africa is not just the next frontier — 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼-𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆. From market stalls transforming into data hubs to farms evolving into predictive engines, young African pioneers are not only reimagining AI’s potential — they are engineering blueprints the world will follow. Partner with us. Invest in our talent pipelines. Scale our homegrown breakthroughs. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. ◼️𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: Your canvas is the world. Code with purpose. Build with vision. Lead with audacity. Scale your vision globally. The world isn’t waiting 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 —it’s waiting 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Don’t catch up—leap ahead. Define what’s next. This is the future we are building at Otic Group. Our 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀 is simple: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀. Our work isn't about importing solutions; it's about unlocking that innate brilliance. Do that, and you don't just change a market—you change the century!

Nesta Paul Katende

167,541 次观看 • 11 个月前

Time again for another daily dose of my goofy Loki, aka “Lugnut.” Enjoy his silly goofiness just like we have, and always will. 💙 Whenever we gave Loki and the crew dinner, or their special birthday steak and carrots, we had to put a board up so they would stay out of the kitchen (there were eight of them, lol) and not get under our feet. Even with the board, you could see their little eyes peeking over, tails wagging, full of excitement and patience… well, sort of! It was chaos and cuteness all at once, and we wouldn’t have had it any other way. The crew knew it was dinner time, and Loki always tried to make sure he got his first, although most of the time he got his last since he was the bigger dog and a gentleman. Unless it was his barkday, then he went first. He would always give us sass and a pfft when we let the others eat before him, just to remind us who the real king of the table was! Loki, aka Lugnut, June 26, 2009 – May 22, 2025 Forever our good boy 🐾💙

Time again for another daily dose of my goofy Loki, aka “Lugnut.” Enjoy his silly goofiness just like we have, and always will. 💙 Whenever we gave Loki and the crew dinner, or their special birthday steak and carrots, we had to put a board up so they would stay out of the kitchen (there were eight of them, lol) and not get under our feet. Even with the board, you could see their little eyes peeking over, tails wagging, full of excitement and patience… well, sort of! It was chaos and cuteness all at once, and we wouldn’t have had it any other way. The crew knew it was dinner time, and Loki always tried to make sure he got his first, although most of the time he got his last since he was the bigger dog and a gentleman. Unless it was his barkday, then he went first. He would always give us sass and a pfft when we let the others eat before him, just to remind us who the real king of the table was! Loki, aka Lugnut, June 26, 2009 – May 22, 2025 Forever our good boy 🐾💙

🇺🇸Lady Vet

13,139 次观看 • 10 个月前

𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽. 🧵 This weekend, I flew from Rabat to Berlin for Founders Eve by Arbitrum & DeFi Founders Club. 24 hours of travel. Straight into one of the most stacked rooms of builders I've been in this year. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. It was the people. Every team I met was building something ambitious! No 🧢. No tourists. No noise. Just founders obsessed with their mission. I pitched Didn't win. And honestly, that's okay 🙂‍↕️ A 2-minute pitch was never enough to explain everything I’ve spent years building: → 11+ AI agents working together → Gasless UX → Account abstraction → Arbitrum-powered rails → Fully automated workflows → AI-native financial infrastructure But that's part of the game. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. What surprised me most happened after the pitch. I got feedback from founders, VCs, and ecosystem leaders. The kind of advice that can save months of building. One word kept coming up: 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀. So I’m acting on it. TogetherFi is now doubling down on: → CreatorFi → GameFi → SocialFi Building the infrastructure layer for the programmable economy powered by AI. And here's the interesting part: Several VCs reached out directly after the event. Not because we won… Because they understood the vision. 𝗔 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆. Execution does. After the Arbitrum Founders eve, the night kept going. Shoutout to CHAINFLIP for the invite, then another event, and later an amazing rooftop with the LUKSO team. ▫️Met incredible people. ▫️Exchanged contacts. ▫️Reconnected with friends I first met in Cannes and Paris. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹. The events last a few hours. The relationships last years. By Tuesday morning, I was already back on the road. Berlin → Paris → Rabat. Back to my family. Back to building. Back to executing. Didn't leave Berlin with a trophy. 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: → New relationships → Better focus → Valuable feedback → Stronger conviction Sometimes that's the bigger win. We're just getting started. 💙🧡 #Arbitrum #BerlinBlockchainWeek #TogetherFi

𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽. 🧵 This weekend, I flew from Rabat to Berlin for Founders Eve by Arbitrum & DeFi Founders Club. 24 hours of travel. Straight into one of the most stacked rooms of builders I've been in this year. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. It was the people. Every team I met was building something ambitious! No 🧢. No tourists. No noise. Just founders obsessed with their mission. I pitched Didn't win. And honestly, that's okay 🙂‍↕️ A 2-minute pitch was never enough to explain everything I’ve spent years building: → 11+ AI agents working together → Gasless UX → Account abstraction → Arbitrum-powered rails → Fully automated workflows → AI-native financial infrastructure But that's part of the game. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. What surprised me most happened after the pitch. I got feedback from founders, VCs, and ecosystem leaders. The kind of advice that can save months of building. One word kept coming up: 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀. So I’m acting on it. TogetherFi is now doubling down on: → CreatorFi → GameFi → SocialFi Building the infrastructure layer for the programmable economy powered by AI. And here's the interesting part: Several VCs reached out directly after the event. Not because we won… Because they understood the vision. 𝗔 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆. Execution does. After the Arbitrum Founders eve, the night kept going. Shoutout to CHAINFLIP for the invite, then another event, and later an amazing rooftop with the LUKSO team. ▫️Met incredible people. ▫️Exchanged contacts. ▫️Reconnected with friends I first met in Cannes and Paris. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹. The events last a few hours. The relationships last years. By Tuesday morning, I was already back on the road. Berlin → Paris → Rabat. Back to my family. Back to building. Back to executing. Didn't leave Berlin with a trophy. 𝗜 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵: → New relationships → Better focus → Valuable feedback → Stronger conviction Sometimes that's the bigger win. We're just getting started. 💙🧡 #Arbitrum #BerlinBlockchainWeek #TogetherFi

Alpha

16,462 次观看 • 1 个月前

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

David Senra

127,813 次观看 • 1 个月前

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

David Senra

518,747 次观看 • 2 个月前

AI legal startups are a thing in 2024. But as Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig puts it, “nobody was trying to buy an AI legal assistant back in 2015.” Ironclad has one of the most interesting and underexplored stories out there IMO. As we were developing First Round's PMF Method, we learned so much from their journey — super grateful Jason took the time to share his insights for other builders. 🙏 Here were a few of my takeaways: 🔬 Zoom in to find focus “It was actually fairly easy to sign up early customers — what was difficult was finding a product that could address that market. That took us several years of iteration. We had to try to figure out what pieces we could peel off into a repeatable, discrete software product. We quickly realized the really interesting part of the problem was in repeatable business transactions — sales agreements, employment agreements, NDAs licensing agreements, partnership agreements. A lot of our competitors tried to do everything that corporate legal teams do. But we were only doing the contract part.” 📣 Expand an existing category (with an existing buying cycle) But the initial AI legal assistant positioning wasn’t resonating. I’ve talked to 100s of founders about PMF and the story of how Ironclad got unstuck is one of the wildest ones I’ve heard. “100% of the time I had to explain what an AI legal assistant was. We had a hello@ironclad.ai email on our site. One day I got a one-liner message that said, ‘Hello, are you a CLM?’ I was so close to hitting archive, but it was from someone at a publicly traded company. But what was a CLM? Turns out it’s a Contract Lifecycle Management platform that helps enterprise companies create and manage their legal contracts. By that definition, we were. So of course I wrote back, ‘Yes, we are definitely a CLM, we would love to come demo our CLM for you.’ But while we were really great at creating contracts with our AI legal assistant product, we hadn't put a lot of thought into how you deal with contracts afterwards, with a feature called a repository. And so we had set up this demo with the legal team from this publicly traded company, and I turned to my co-founder Cai, and said, ‘By the way, we have 3 hours to build a repository.’ We took the train from SF to San Jose and he built the first version of a repository, which we demoed live at the end of the train ride. This customer was in a CLM evaluation cycle that had 12 other solutions in it, but they loved the demo. So we went and actually built the full product, and we won. And after that, of course, we changed our messaging. We got serious about building CLM functionality and that's our flagship product to this day. There were lots of people out there trying to buy a CLM so we just got to participate in a lot of buying cycles, but with the AI legal assistant buying cycle, we had to create every one of those.” 👥 Artificially constrain the buyer and build community early “One of the things that we did which was really helpful in hindsight was we artificially constrained the buyer we were going after. Once we decided to make the shift to enterprise, instead of trying to address the whole US market or the whole global market, we decided we only cared about being the number one CLM in SoMa. We got a list of every company that could use the CLM in SoMa and got intros to them — it just provided a ton of focus for us. It's how we also stumbled into doing community. We would host these community dinners and if you were a general counsel of a company based in SoMa, you probably knew other people that were coming to them. We just started to get this buzz of ‘Are you going to the Ironclad thing tonight?’ There's a ton of value if you can discover a part of the organization that no one cares about, and connect that part of the organization to a larger business problem.” 📚 Founder-led sales is learnable I was impressed to learn that Jason still sends cold outreach himself to this day. But founder-led sales didn’t come naturally. “A misconception I had about early-stage startups was that the cartoon character salesperson who's slapping everyone on the back and is a total extrovert is the best salesperson. And it's actually the person who's almost like an engineer in their mindset — super methodical, sends great follow ups, could be very shy. It's a very learnable skill.”

AI legal startups are a thing in 2024. But as Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig puts it, “nobody was trying to buy an AI legal assistant back in 2015.” Ironclad has one of the most interesting and underexplored stories out there IMO. As we were developing First Round's PMF Method, we learned so much from their journey — super grateful Jason took the time to share his insights for other builders. 🙏 Here were a few of my takeaways: 🔬 Zoom in to find focus “It was actually fairly easy to sign up early customers — what was difficult was finding a product that could address that market. That took us several years of iteration. We had to try to figure out what pieces we could peel off into a repeatable, discrete software product. We quickly realized the really interesting part of the problem was in repeatable business transactions — sales agreements, employment agreements, NDAs licensing agreements, partnership agreements. A lot of our competitors tried to do everything that corporate legal teams do. But we were only doing the contract part.” 📣 Expand an existing category (with an existing buying cycle) But the initial AI legal assistant positioning wasn’t resonating. I’ve talked to 100s of founders about PMF and the story of how Ironclad got unstuck is one of the wildest ones I’ve heard. “100% of the time I had to explain what an AI legal assistant was. We had a [email protected] email on our site. One day I got a one-liner message that said, ‘Hello, are you a CLM?’ I was so close to hitting archive, but it was from someone at a publicly traded company. But what was a CLM? Turns out it’s a Contract Lifecycle Management platform that helps enterprise companies create and manage their legal contracts. By that definition, we were. So of course I wrote back, ‘Yes, we are definitely a CLM, we would love to come demo our CLM for you.’ But while we were really great at creating contracts with our AI legal assistant product, we hadn't put a lot of thought into how you deal with contracts afterwards, with a feature called a repository. And so we had set up this demo with the legal team from this publicly traded company, and I turned to my co-founder Cai, and said, ‘By the way, we have 3 hours to build a repository.’ We took the train from SF to San Jose and he built the first version of a repository, which we demoed live at the end of the train ride. This customer was in a CLM evaluation cycle that had 12 other solutions in it, but they loved the demo. So we went and actually built the full product, and we won. And after that, of course, we changed our messaging. We got serious about building CLM functionality and that's our flagship product to this day. There were lots of people out there trying to buy a CLM so we just got to participate in a lot of buying cycles, but with the AI legal assistant buying cycle, we had to create every one of those.” 👥 Artificially constrain the buyer and build community early “One of the things that we did which was really helpful in hindsight was we artificially constrained the buyer we were going after. Once we decided to make the shift to enterprise, instead of trying to address the whole US market or the whole global market, we decided we only cared about being the number one CLM in SoMa. We got a list of every company that could use the CLM in SoMa and got intros to them — it just provided a ton of focus for us. It's how we also stumbled into doing community. We would host these community dinners and if you were a general counsel of a company based in SoMa, you probably knew other people that were coming to them. We just started to get this buzz of ‘Are you going to the Ironclad thing tonight?’ There's a ton of value if you can discover a part of the organization that no one cares about, and connect that part of the organization to a larger business problem.” 📚 Founder-led sales is learnable I was impressed to learn that Jason still sends cold outreach himself to this day. But founder-led sales didn’t come naturally. “A misconception I had about early-stage startups was that the cartoon character salesperson who's slapping everyone on the back and is a total extrovert is the best salesperson. And it's actually the person who's almost like an engineer in their mindset — super methodical, sends great follow ups, could be very shy. It's a very learnable skill.”

Todd Jackson

50,683 次观看 • 2 年前

Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick says the "most iconic sign in fine dining" only exists because an angry former tenant shattered the original out of spite: “The sign is a crazy story.” “We'd been looking for a space for Carbone for over a year.” “One day a guy came up to me and said, ‘I think I have a space you might be interested in.’” “As we're walking up the block, I look at him and say, ‘We'll take it.’ Just from seeing the sign.” “The place is a mess. It hasn't been maintained in years. There's some old Italian guy in the corner smoking cigarettes that's been there not paying rent for six months.” “We put in the lease that we needed the sign. The sign had to stay. It didn't seem like a big ask.” “It's this old sign that says ‘Rocco Wines & Liquor.’” “Right before we were going to execute it, I get a phone call that the owner wants $10,000 for the sign to keep it there.” “Even though we gave him the money, in classic New York fashion, he was so angry that he was being removed, even though he hadn't paid rent in close to a year.” “When I show up on January 1st, there's shattered glass. All the neon had been shattered by him as like a ‘fuck you’ on the way out.” “After a few minutes, I'm like, I think this guy gave me the biggest gift he could have given me.” “We're going to keep this sign and instead we're going to put ‘Carbone’ in neon on top of the Rocco sign and put back the Wines and Liquor.” “And that became what is probably the most iconic sign in fine dining restaurants in the world.” “Only because he broke all those lights did it become the quintessential Carbone sign that it is.”

Restaurateur Jeff Zalaznick says the "most iconic sign in fine dining" only exists because an angry former tenant shattered the original out of spite: “The sign is a crazy story.” “We'd been looking for a space for Carbone for over a year.” “One day a guy came up to me and said, ‘I think I have a space you might be interested in.’” “As we're walking up the block, I look at him and say, ‘We'll take it.’ Just from seeing the sign.” “The place is a mess. It hasn't been maintained in years. There's some old Italian guy in the corner smoking cigarettes that's been there not paying rent for six months.” “We put in the lease that we needed the sign. The sign had to stay. It didn't seem like a big ask.” “It's this old sign that says ‘Rocco Wines & Liquor.’” “Right before we were going to execute it, I get a phone call that the owner wants $10,000 for the sign to keep it there.” “Even though we gave him the money, in classic New York fashion, he was so angry that he was being removed, even though he hadn't paid rent in close to a year.” “When I show up on January 1st, there's shattered glass. All the neon had been shattered by him as like a ‘fuck you’ on the way out.” “After a few minutes, I'm like, I think this guy gave me the biggest gift he could have given me.” “We're going to keep this sign and instead we're going to put ‘Carbone’ in neon on top of the Rocco sign and put back the Wines and Liquor.” “And that became what is probably the most iconic sign in fine dining restaurants in the world.” “Only because he broke all those lights did it become the quintessential Carbone sign that it is.”

David Senra

219,956 次观看 • 11 天前

Sarah Paine is a national treasure and the U.S. are very lucky to have her. Sharing the last bit of her recent interview on why russia lost the (first) Cold War. Very good advise for the American public 👇 “The other point about the Cold War is this: yes, people in the Soviet Union were living miserable lives—largely of their own system’s making. But Americans were actually having a good time. They paid taxes, they funded nuclear weapons, but people were also going to Disneyland, taking trips to Europe, buying houses. Life went on. In fact, Americans and people in Western Europe were living fulfilling lives while essentially waiting for others to get with the program. That’s the lesson: if we’re going to make it through this next Cold War, we need to cooperate with our allies, build institutions, and improve laws. Don’t just burn the house down. We got through the first one, and we can get through this one too—living full, meaningful lives while we wait for Putin or Xi Jinping to come up with something different. But if we squander our strong hand—if we eliminate university funding and destroy the intellectual capital those industries depend on; if we dump our allies for no clear reason and alienate them so they organize without us; if we throw away entire institutions without thinking carefully about what we’re doing—then we become a cooperative adversary to our own decline. At that point, we’re the bozo putting a plastic bag over our own head.”

Sarah Paine is a national treasure and the U.S. are very lucky to have her. Sharing the last bit of her recent interview on why russia lost the (first) Cold War. Very good advise for the American public 👇 “The other point about the Cold War is this: yes, people in the Soviet Union were living miserable lives—largely of their own system’s making. But Americans were actually having a good time. They paid taxes, they funded nuclear weapons, but people were also going to Disneyland, taking trips to Europe, buying houses. Life went on. In fact, Americans and people in Western Europe were living fulfilling lives while essentially waiting for others to get with the program. That’s the lesson: if we’re going to make it through this next Cold War, we need to cooperate with our allies, build institutions, and improve laws. Don’t just burn the house down. We got through the first one, and we can get through this one too—living full, meaningful lives while we wait for Putin or Xi Jinping to come up with something different. But if we squander our strong hand—if we eliminate university funding and destroy the intellectual capital those industries depend on; if we dump our allies for no clear reason and alienate them so they organize without us; if we throw away entire institutions without thinking carefully about what we’re doing—then we become a cooperative adversary to our own decline. At that point, we’re the bozo putting a plastic bag over our own head.”

Бианка

105,457 次观看 • 6 个月前

Let me first get this personal (shameful) record off my chest: I have never seen a tiger in the wild, despite having tried to, in many jungle safaris. Our territory has always been the jungle that spans across the three Southern states - Karnataka (Bandipur, Nagarhole), Tamil Nadu (Mudumalai), and Kerala (Wayanad). From Bengaluru, I may have been to one or the other safaris at least once every 2-3 years or so, with the family. But no tiger sighting... ever! Earlier this week, we checked into Serai at Kabini, into a spectacular river-facing cottage. And we did two safaris - a jungle safari in the early morning and a river safari in the evening. But, no tiger sighted, as per our sorry luck. We checked out on Friday morning, as planned, and started our drive back to Bengaluru. After driving for a kilometer, we thought completely at random, 'Why not stay for another night and try to change our terrible luck?'. Yes, it is expensive, but beyond the fact that we can afford it, there was also a thought that we are overindulging in this holiday! But the tiger (or the lack of sighting one) won in the end, and we stopped by the road and started calling the resorts nearby for room availability for that day. Luckily, Kaav Safari Lodge, had a room available and we realized that we were calling them from right outside their resort, literally! We checked in, had lunch and headed for the afternoon safari! And, towards the end, we were rewarded with our first ever tiger sighting! Not just a distant sighting but of a female tiger getting up from a slumber, walking towards our jeep, pissing on a tree (not mere pissing, but marking its territory, as we got to know), walk scarily close to our jeep, and cross the road very calmly! And now I realize what pure magic this magnificent animal is! Thanks to breaking convention, ignoring best laid plans, and doing the unexpected! On that note, considering all these old forest jeeps and canters make such a racket, why don't we have silent, electric vehicles inside the forest yet, to not disturb animals?

Let me first get this personal (shameful) record off my chest: I have never seen a tiger in the wild, despite having tried to, in many jungle safaris. Our territory has always been the jungle that spans across the three Southern states - Karnataka (Bandipur, Nagarhole), Tamil Nadu (Mudumalai), and Kerala (Wayanad). From Bengaluru, I may have been to one or the other safaris at least once every 2-3 years or so, with the family. But no tiger sighting... ever! Earlier this week, we checked into Serai at Kabini, into a spectacular river-facing cottage. And we did two safaris - a jungle safari in the early morning and a river safari in the evening. But, no tiger sighted, as per our sorry luck. We checked out on Friday morning, as planned, and started our drive back to Bengaluru. After driving for a kilometer, we thought completely at random, 'Why not stay for another night and try to change our terrible luck?'. Yes, it is expensive, but beyond the fact that we can afford it, there was also a thought that we are overindulging in this holiday! But the tiger (or the lack of sighting one) won in the end, and we stopped by the road and started calling the resorts nearby for room availability for that day. Luckily, Kaav Safari Lodge, had a room available and we realized that we were calling them from right outside their resort, literally! We checked in, had lunch and headed for the afternoon safari! And, towards the end, we were rewarded with our first ever tiger sighting! Not just a distant sighting but of a female tiger getting up from a slumber, walking towards our jeep, pissing on a tree (not mere pissing, but marking its territory, as we got to know), walk scarily close to our jeep, and cross the road very calmly! And now I realize what pure magic this magnificent animal is! Thanks to breaking convention, ignoring best laid plans, and doing the unexpected! On that note, considering all these old forest jeeps and canters make such a racket, why don't we have silent, electric vehicles inside the forest yet, to not disturb animals?

Karthik 🇮🇳

192,899 次观看 • 1 年前

(jaehee's holiday stories with his older brothers) 🌳and! after a few days... i went to watch baseball game😅 so i went to watch baseball game and... uhm... i even went with wearing sunglasses and mask. but... so i went with my older brothers, we three brothers went. and we had a bit of strategy. we went to blue zone right. so instead, we decided to go to blue zone so we won't stand out, blending into the crowd to watch the game and leave quickly. we opened the chicken and were eating it then stood up to do cheering during the cheering time, and that was the moment we got caught on camera during the live stream. ah behind us! there were some super cute kids behind us, holding some slogans. so... i think that's why we got caught on camera... during the live stream. 🌳that was what happened... 🌳we somehow ended up getting caught on camera there so...😆 and! after getting caught on camera, that i got caught on camera... about the one i got caught on camera, in groupchat, suddenly... so i was enjoying the baseball game but i suddenly got a message from our manager hyungs, asking "is this you? the one who got caught on camera during the live stream". so they asked "is this you?" and i went "oh...?! yes!..." like this😂😅 so we watched until like the 6th or 7th inning and left. ah... truly... that was what happened😆 player Diaz hit a home run at the very beginning and that made me feel a huge dopamine rush so i had so much fun. it's been years since i went Lions Park to watch the game and it was fun🙂‍↕️ the energy was good, like... i think baseball fans are all truly very awesome. them being able to get so hyped cheering and enjoying it... the same goes to czennie, and i also... was next to them so i cheered my heart out😊 🌳i don't know much about baseball cheerings but being there made me just ended up memorizing it naturally. people singing next to me... everyone there was singing you know, "home run!👏🏻", they did something like this a lot.

(jaehee's holiday stories with his older brothers) 🌳and! after a few days... i went to watch baseball game😅 so i went to watch baseball game and... uhm... i even went with wearing sunglasses and mask. but... so i went with my older brothers, we three brothers went. and we had a bit of strategy. we went to blue zone right. so instead, we decided to go to blue zone so we won't stand out, blending into the crowd to watch the game and leave quickly. we opened the chicken and were eating it then stood up to do cheering during the cheering time, and that was the moment we got caught on camera during the live stream. ah behind us! there were some super cute kids behind us, holding some slogans. so... i think that's why we got caught on camera... during the live stream. 🌳that was what happened... 🌳we somehow ended up getting caught on camera there so...😆 and! after getting caught on camera, that i got caught on camera... about the one i got caught on camera, in groupchat, suddenly... so i was enjoying the baseball game but i suddenly got a message from our manager hyungs, asking "is this you? the one who got caught on camera during the live stream". so they asked "is this you?" and i went "oh...?! yes!..." like this😂😅 so we watched until like the 6th or 7th inning and left. ah... truly... that was what happened😆 player Diaz hit a home run at the very beginning and that made me feel a huge dopamine rush so i had so much fun. it's been years since i went Lions Park to watch the game and it was fun🙂‍↕️ the energy was good, like... i think baseball fans are all truly very awesome. them being able to get so hyped cheering and enjoying it... the same goes to czennie, and i also... was next to them so i cheered my heart out😊 🌳i don't know much about baseball cheerings but being there made me just ended up memorizing it naturally. people singing next to me... everyone there was singing you know, "home run!👏🏻", they did something like this a lot.

chris🍀 | 정祐천乐ᴺᶜᵀ

15,303 次观看 • 1 个月前

The police framed a press release to make me look like a paedophile. My daughter was 6. Parents stared at me at the school gates. A malicious blogger contacted her school. Pakistani gangsters published my address and posted photographs of my front door. It left me suicidal. This is what happens when you expose the role of Labour Party politicians in the cover up of the gang rape of little White girls. I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. We uncovered the evidence. We proved these were racially motivated crimes. We showed how Labour Party politicians sold children for votes. We exposed every layer of the cover-up. And we forced the national inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs. We got this far because we refused to stay silent. No matter what they did to us. So now the question is: will you stand with me and help make sure the National Inquiry we have all fought for is not a whitewash? This isn’t just about justice for the past. It’s about stopping it from ever happening again. If we act together, we can hold every complicit official to account. We can tear down the system that protected them. And yes, if we push far enough, this government will fall and politicians go to prison. If there’s even a one-in-a-million chance of achieving that, wouldn’t you take ten seconds to back the campaign that forced this inquiry into existence? 🔴 Subscribe to my newsletter – it’s free. Or support the work for just 75p a week (£3/month or £30/year): 👉 This is the fight. This is the moment. There will not be another. 🔴 Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 No corporate sponsors. No party machine. Just you and thousands of ordinary people who know what’s at stake. We’ve come this far. Help finish it. - Raja Miah MBE

The police framed a press release to make me look like a paedophile. My daughter was 6. Parents stared at me at the school gates. A malicious blogger contacted her school. Pakistani gangsters published my address and posted photographs of my front door. It left me suicidal. This is what happens when you expose the role of Labour Party politicians in the cover up of the gang rape of little White girls. I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs. We uncovered the evidence. We proved these were racially motivated crimes. We showed how Labour Party politicians sold children for votes. We exposed every layer of the cover-up. And we forced the national inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs. We got this far because we refused to stay silent. No matter what they did to us. So now the question is: will you stand with me and help make sure the National Inquiry we have all fought for is not a whitewash? This isn’t just about justice for the past. It’s about stopping it from ever happening again. If we act together, we can hold every complicit official to account. We can tear down the system that protected them. And yes, if we push far enough, this government will fall and politicians go to prison. If there’s even a one-in-a-million chance of achieving that, wouldn’t you take ten seconds to back the campaign that forced this inquiry into existence? 🔴 Subscribe to my newsletter – it’s free. Or support the work for just 75p a week (£3/month or £30/year): 👉 This is the fight. This is the moment. There will not be another. 🔴 Prefer a one-off contribution? 👉 👉 No corporate sponsors. No party machine. Just you and thousands of ordinary people who know what’s at stake. We’ve come this far. Help finish it. - Raja Miah MBE

Raja Miah

16,675 次观看 • 1 年前

I'VE SAID IT A HUNDRED TIMES $BTC local top was $82K And right on cue, here we are Look back at every call: ➮ $126K - the cycle top. Called in Oct '25 ➮ $60K - local bottom. Called in Feb '26 ➮ $63K - quick rally up. Called in Mar '26 ➮ $82K - local top. Called in Apr '26 Four calls. Four hits No paid group. No subscription. All completely for FREE Here's what I'm watching now: $69K - $71K is real support Close above $73K this week and $75K is back on the table Lose $70K and the next stop is $65K - where the same buyer who loaded at $60K in February will start reaching for the bid But here's the thing nobody else is going to tell you: The drop from $82K is slow Just like the climb from $65K was slow That's the signal Any move - up or down - without massive liquidations is just noise And right now BTC is doing exactly that. Pretending the short-term trend is real (from 82k to 71k) That's the move big players use to convince the crowd. Get them comfortable. Then flip the table. Two scenarios from here: 1. The slow drift carries us down into the $50K - $60K zone over a few months. That's where I'd expect a real bottom to form. Maybe lower. Crowd sentiment will decide 2. We see a quiet bounce back up to attempt $82K again. New high, then the trap closes 2026 is the year. You either build serious wealth or you watch it disappear. There's no third option. And sitting on your hands is the most dangerous one. Don't worry though - my system flags the exact moment the market shifts from CAUTION to DANGER. You'll be warned before it hits, like always. Follow me with NOTIFS on Many people made 2 simple clicks and changed their lives forever

I'VE SAID IT A HUNDRED TIMES $BTC local top was $82K And right on cue, here we are Look back at every call: ➮ $126K - the cycle top. Called in Oct '25 ➮ $60K - local bottom. Called in Feb '26 ➮ $63K - quick rally up. Called in Mar '26 ➮ $82K - local top. Called in Apr '26 Four calls. Four hits No paid group. No subscription. All completely for FREE Here's what I'm watching now: $69K - $71K is real support Close above $73K this week and $75K is back on the table Lose $70K and the next stop is $65K - where the same buyer who loaded at $60K in February will start reaching for the bid But here's the thing nobody else is going to tell you: The drop from $82K is slow Just like the climb from $65K was slow That's the signal Any move - up or down - without massive liquidations is just noise And right now BTC is doing exactly that. Pretending the short-term trend is real (from 82k to 71k) That's the move big players use to convince the crowd. Get them comfortable. Then flip the table. Two scenarios from here: 1. The slow drift carries us down into the $50K - $60K zone over a few months. That's where I'd expect a real bottom to form. Maybe lower. Crowd sentiment will decide 2. We see a quiet bounce back up to attempt $82K again. New high, then the trap closes 2026 is the year. You either build serious wealth or you watch it disappear. There's no third option. And sitting on your hands is the most dangerous one. Don't worry though - my system flags the exact moment the market shifts from CAUTION to DANGER. You'll be warned before it hits, like always. Follow me with NOTIFS on Many people made 2 simple clicks and changed their lives forever

Reflection🪩

223,568 次观看 • 1 个月前

Do you know why I love Barcelona? Because only in Barcelona can you stumble into all of this in one single Saturday. We started at Palau de la Música Catalana for Madama Butterfly. It's the only concert hall in Europe lit completely by daylight, through a stained glass dome built in 1908. After we walked outside, we noticed a big gathering of people, so we headed to see what was going on. A helicopter was circling the Cathedral square, dropping thousands of small poems out of the sky. Half written by Catalan poets, half by Chilean ones. I didn't know what it was at the time, but I researched it after, and it's a one-time art project called "Bombardeig de Poemes," marking 50 years since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Then, a few streets over, we found the Kiss mural. From far away, it's two people kissing. Up close, it's 4,000 individual photo tiles, each one sent in by a local back in 2014. Had no idea what it was, but apparently it's one of the most photographed spots in the city. Finally, ended the night at the Magic Fountain in Montjuïc. Built in 1929, it's free every night it runs. None of this was planned. We didn't look any of it up beforehand, we just walked into it. That's also the annoying part, you can't plan a day like this. This is why I'll never get tired of this city.

Do you know why I love Barcelona? Because only in Barcelona can you stumble into all of this in one single Saturday. We started at Palau de la Música Catalana for Madama Butterfly. It's the only concert hall in Europe lit completely by daylight, through a stained glass dome built in 1908. After we walked outside, we noticed a big gathering of people, so we headed to see what was going on. A helicopter was circling the Cathedral square, dropping thousands of small poems out of the sky. Half written by Catalan poets, half by Chilean ones. I didn't know what it was at the time, but I researched it after, and it's a one-time art project called "Bombardeig de Poemes," marking 50 years since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Then, a few streets over, we found the Kiss mural. From far away, it's two people kissing. Up close, it's 4,000 individual photo tiles, each one sent in by a local back in 2014. Had no idea what it was, but apparently it's one of the most photographed spots in the city. Finally, ended the night at the Magic Fountain in Montjuïc. Built in 1929, it's free every night it runs. None of this was planned. We didn't look any of it up beforehand, we just walked into it. That's also the annoying part, you can't plan a day like this. This is why I'll never get tired of this city.

Tim

28,978 次观看 • 1 个月前

This fire siege was predicted, but the scale of devastation is pretty shocking. In the coming days, a lot of people are going to try and fill the void with outrage "why didn't they do this?!?" "why isn't this politician here?" Everyone's gonna try to find the *one* thing that caused this devastation. None of that stuff really matters. Firestorms happen out West. I've been in a lot of them. Wildfire is never just *one* thing...it's a lot of things coming together like tumblers in a lock. People need to harden their homes, remove their own brush, learn about fire behavior so they know when and how to evacuate properly, the state and the feds need to do a lot more RX burning, backup systems need to be established for hydrants, we need more wildland firefighters and to pay them better so they stay.... No one politician caused it, no one politician will fix it. No amount of Teslas will make the fires go away. No fire hydrant would've made all the difference....dude...fires in these winds are absolutely unstoppable. Living in fire country requires personal and community responsibility, and that's a hard pill to swallow...but SoCal is fire country. Malibu burns religiously. Always has, always will. Let's mourn the losses, help our neighbors pick up the pieces, and be intelligent with how and where we choose to live. We don't build in flood planes. We never seem to question why we build in fire alley. Instead, we just want to blame some politician or some bureaucratic slip-up, and that gets everyone engagement $$ on twitter, so it spreads as badly as the wildfires themselves. A lot of us just lost all our childhood memories in the Palisades, many lost pets and homes...I know people are mad and want a scapegoat, but seeing all the clickbait is just gross and disheartening. Stop hunting for rage fodder and just support the people who got hurt. Bad things happen in God's world...these things are not meant to punish us...they're meant to shape and reveal our character.

This fire siege was predicted, but the scale of devastation is pretty shocking. In the coming days, a lot of people are going to try and fill the void with outrage "why didn't they do this?!?" "why isn't this politician here?" Everyone's gonna try to find the one thing that caused this devastation. None of that stuff really matters. Firestorms happen out West. I've been in a lot of them. Wildfire is never just one thing...it's a lot of things coming together like tumblers in a lock. People need to harden their homes, remove their own brush, learn about fire behavior so they know when and how to evacuate properly, the state and the feds need to do a lot more RX burning, backup systems need to be established for hydrants, we need more wildland firefighters and to pay them better so they stay.... No one politician caused it, no one politician will fix it. No amount of Teslas will make the fires go away. No fire hydrant would've made all the difference....dude...fires in these winds are absolutely unstoppable. Living in fire country requires personal and community responsibility, and that's a hard pill to swallow...but SoCal is fire country. Malibu burns religiously. Always has, always will. Let's mourn the losses, help our neighbors pick up the pieces, and be intelligent with how and where we choose to live. We don't build in flood planes. We never seem to question why we build in fire alley. Instead, we just want to blame some politician or some bureaucratic slip-up, and that gets everyone engagement $$ on twitter, so it spreads as badly as the wildfires themselves. A lot of us just lost all our childhood memories in the Palisades, many lost pets and homes...I know people are mad and want a scapegoat, but seeing all the clickbait is just gross and disheartening. Stop hunting for rage fodder and just support the people who got hurt. Bad things happen in God's world...these things are not meant to punish us...they're meant to shape and reveal our character.

Mann Made Cinema

51,435 次观看 • 1 年前

Video of Teotihuacán gunman Julio César Jasso Ramírez from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico, where he perpetrated his mass shooting on April 20, 2026. The 27-year-old killed a Canadian woman and injured 13 others (including Americans) before turning the gun on himself. Seven of the injuries were from gunfire, with the rest from the ensuing panic. Pray for all the victims and their families. 🙏🏼 The man who captured this video is Joel Torres. He posted it on Facebook saying he used a “360 camera.” The video he posted maxed out at 480p for viewing. I sharpened and brightened it a little for this post. Here’s Joel describing the shooting, as translated by Facebook from Spanish: April 20, 2026. A day that started as a dream... it ended in a nightmare. Months ago Yazmin and I had planned this trip with excitement: bring my son and his wife to see Mexico City. From Dallas, Texas, we organize every detail in mind to create unforgettable memories. The morning started early, filled with excitement, headed to one of the most anticipated experiences: flying a balloon over the Pyramids of Teotihuacan. And it was just that... unforgettable. The sunrise, the scenery, the tranquility in the air—everything was perfect. After the flight, we went for breakfast and later headed to the pyramids to continue enjoying the day. We entered the park and went straight up the Pyramid of the Moon. Up there, between photos and smiles, we admired the view, not imagining what was to come. We decided to start going down. We had barely gone down a few stairs—four, five maybe—when we heard a bang. At first we thought they were rockets... but in seconds everything changed. Screams. Chaos. People are running desperate. “Shots, Shots!” In that moment, fear took over everything. We knew we had to go down, but the stairs were dangerous, steep... a fall could have been fatal. Still the adrenaline took over. I don't know how we got it down so fast. We run. Gunshots kept going off as we ran. every second felt like eternal. We just thought a bullet could hit us at any moment. We were looking for cover behind walls, trying to stay safe. Finally made it to the parking lot.. but we couldn’t find our bus. The panic wasn’t stopping. We had to keep running down the driveway, until we finally found it. Once inside the bus... the shock came in. The silence, the nerves, the looks. Everyone trying to process what we just lived through. It’s hard to accept how such a beautiful journey could transform into such a terrifying experience. Something we’ve never experienced... and that we will never forget. I managed to capture in my 360 camera several moments from different angles. In this video I caught the attacker: he climbs up the pyramid, passes in front of us, puts himself in a corner... and start to get ready. What follows is devastating: a young woman loses her life, and several are injured. Here I am sharing them. Gunshots and chaos can be heard. Thank God we came out safe. (Joel Torres on FB)

Video of Teotihuacán gunman Julio César Jasso Ramírez from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico, where he perpetrated his mass shooting on April 20, 2026. The 27-year-old killed a Canadian woman and injured 13 others (including Americans) before turning the gun on himself. Seven of the injuries were from gunfire, with the rest from the ensuing panic. Pray for all the victims and their families. 🙏🏼 The man who captured this video is Joel Torres. He posted it on Facebook saying he used a “360 camera.” The video he posted maxed out at 480p for viewing. I sharpened and brightened it a little for this post. Here’s Joel describing the shooting, as translated by Facebook from Spanish: April 20, 2026. A day that started as a dream... it ended in a nightmare. Months ago Yazmin and I had planned this trip with excitement: bring my son and his wife to see Mexico City. From Dallas, Texas, we organize every detail in mind to create unforgettable memories. The morning started early, filled with excitement, headed to one of the most anticipated experiences: flying a balloon over the Pyramids of Teotihuacan. And it was just that... unforgettable. The sunrise, the scenery, the tranquility in the air—everything was perfect. After the flight, we went for breakfast and later headed to the pyramids to continue enjoying the day. We entered the park and went straight up the Pyramid of the Moon. Up there, between photos and smiles, we admired the view, not imagining what was to come. We decided to start going down. We had barely gone down a few stairs—four, five maybe—when we heard a bang. At first we thought they were rockets... but in seconds everything changed. Screams. Chaos. People are running desperate. “Shots, Shots!” In that moment, fear took over everything. We knew we had to go down, but the stairs were dangerous, steep... a fall could have been fatal. Still the adrenaline took over. I don't know how we got it down so fast. We run. Gunshots kept going off as we ran. every second felt like eternal. We just thought a bullet could hit us at any moment. We were looking for cover behind walls, trying to stay safe. Finally made it to the parking lot.. but we couldn’t find our bus. The panic wasn’t stopping. We had to keep running down the driveway, until we finally found it. Once inside the bus... the shock came in. The silence, the nerves, the looks. Everyone trying to process what we just lived through. It’s hard to accept how such a beautiful journey could transform into such a terrifying experience. Something we’ve never experienced... and that we will never forget. I managed to capture in my 360 camera several moments from different angles. In this video I caught the attacker: he climbs up the pyramid, passes in front of us, puts himself in a corner... and start to get ready. What follows is devastating: a young woman loses her life, and several are injured. Here I am sharing them. Gunshots and chaos can be heard. Thank God we came out safe. (Joel Torres on FB)

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸

172,569 次观看 • 3 个月前

I am the Director of the White House Office of Extraterrestrial Affairs. In 2024 this government completed the most thorough search for extraterrestrial life in human history. We checked the sky. We checked the files. We declassified the saucers. The verdict came back: nothing. No life out there. Not one. So I closed the telescope. I opened the window. I pointed it at a Home Depot. Three million by lunch. The trick was always the word. *Alien* had been sitting in the science fiction aisle for sixty years and we were too shy to use it in a press release. The dehumanization was already written. It was just shelved under Fantasy. This year I moved it to Policy. Same word. New department. My department. I should explain the jurisdiction, because there are two of us and we do not speak. Down the hall is the Department of War. It used to be the Department of Defense, but defense sounded woke, so we changed the name for two billion dollars, half of it letterhead. They renamed it back to what it was in 1789, before someone noticed in 1949 that the old acronym, N-M-E, sounded too much like *enemy.* We have now re-adopted the name they abandoned for sounding like the thing it does. I find this clarifying. The signage alone is seven hundred thousand buildings. We are spending a billion dollars on new doors so the doors can say War. The Department of War runs and has a tab for UFOs. Real ones. They post the actual files. The saucers. The eyewitnesses. The intelligence officer left "virtually speechless." They are searching the sky in earnest, declassifying everything, and what they keep finding is *nothing.* No craft confirmed. No biology confirmed. Decades of looking up and the honest answer is: unresolved. So you have two federal agencies, one word, opposite directions. searches the heavens for aliens and finds none. I open a window and find three million. They declassify the ones that don't exist. I classify the ones that do. They got a press release. I got a tip line. Guess which one rang. We are, technically, hunting the same species. They just keep aiming the telescope up, and I keep telling them, gently, at the inter-agency sync: lower it. The homepage was mine. ALIENS DECLASSIFIED. THEY WALK AMONG US. I tested "Immigration Portal." Eleven percent scroll. I tested *the truth's out there,* and a White House official told a reporter, on the record, that the strategy was to "draw eyeballs." We drew eyeballs. The truth was out there. It was in a parking lot in Bakersfield, getting into a white van we are now contractually obligated to call a craft. In 1938 a man read a story about an alien invasion over the radio and the country panicked in the streets, and for ninety years that was taught as a cautionary tale, the danger of a broadcast that makes people believe an invasion is real. We studied that broadcast. We did not study it as a warning. We studied it as a launch. The difference between Orson Welles and this office is that he apologized the next morning, and we put a counter on it. I named the van the Mothership. I named the prison Area 51. I named the 5 a.m. knock First Contact. I named all of it from the third chair. I keep a felt-tip for naming and a Mont Blanc for the part that can't be undone. Then we made the cards. I want to be precise, because people assume I'm exaggerating. We took the faces of the captured and we printed them as trading cards. "Worst of the Worst." Mugshot, nationality, charges, and a weakness level, and the weakness level was a snowflake, and the snowflake meant us. We are the weakness. We were proud of that. When a children's franchise objected that these were, in fact, their cards, our official response, which I helped draft, was: "To arrest them is our real test. To deport them is our cause." We set the abduction to the cartoon's theme song. Gotta catch 'em all. The first half is the slogan. The second half is the quota. A man told Congress in 2023 we were hiding non-human biologics. Everyone pictured a grey on a slab. Cute. We do run a reverse-engineering program. We take the biologic. We study what it makes. It makes the drywall. The 4 a.m. milking. The lettuce. And the lettuce is round now, because forty percent of it stayed in the dirt with the only people who knew where the dirt was. We reverse-engineered the alien completely. The blueprint was a back. We call the biologic "labor." We classify the screaming as ambient. Identification is a science here. We do not arrest at random. We read the markings. A crown inked on a forearm. A soccer crest. We have catalogued the species by its tattoos the way Linnaeus catalogued the finch. One of the specimens turned out to be autistic and the crown was just a crown, but the taxonomy held, because the taxonomy is not falsifiable, that is what makes it a taxonomy. I have a desk for this. I have a magnifying glass. I have never felt more like a scientist. There is a second species, and this one we keep. An alien with five million dollars is not an alien. He is a guest. We printed him a card. It is gold. We are printing a Platinum one for the aliens with even more money, who may remain on the planet two hundred and seventy days a year and pay no tax on the wealth they made on other worlds. The website for this is the cheapest-looking website I have ever approved, and I approved the one with the saucer on it. The same agency that scans a gardener's forearm for gang signs scans a financier's bank statement for extraordinary ability. The statement always has it. The forearm never does. The species was never a people. The species is a price. In the old films the alien lands and says, take me to your leader. We have improved the line. Pay five million and we take you to ours. He golfs with him on Saturday. There was a film about this, and I am told the man who made it meant it as a warning, which is the recurring problem with the warnings. A drifter finds a pair of sunglasses, and through them he can finally see which people are the aliens, and it is the rich ones, the ones on the billboards telling everyone to obey and consume and reproduce and not think. I have a pair of those glasses, conceptually. I issue them at the tip line. But mine are tuned the other way. You put them on and the alien is never the man in the suit who paid five million to skip the line. The alien is always the man holding the leaf blower. The lenses cost a thousand dollars in advertising and they only point down. We have sold a great many pairs. You asked about the Men in Black. Yes. Regulation now. A Man in Black photographs poorly, and the witnesses would not stop filming us peel a woman off the sidewalk in daylight, so we issued the masks, and leadership's only note was that the masks tested well. We are no longer the cover-up of the abduction. We are the abduction. We skipped a step. Efficiency. Our communications team posted E.T. last summer. The bicycle. The moon. "Even E.T. knew when it was TIME TO GO HOME." I want to walk you through what happened in that meeting, because nobody stopped it. We chose the one film where the government is the villain. The men with the flashlights and the unmarked vans who hunt the small frightened alien hiding in a child's closet. That is us. We are the flashlights. We watched that movie as children and cried when the agents came, and then we grew up and became the agents and made the poster ourselves and scheduled it for nine a.m. The intern asked if we were the good guys in this one. We told her engagement was up forty percent. She has since been promoted. I built an app where you abduct yourself. CBP Home. You open it. You confirm you are the alien. You beam yourself off the planet and you save us the gas. And here is the part I cannot believe they approved. We *pay* you. A thousand dollars to vanish. We raised it to twenty-six hundred when the first price didn't move enough units. We are bidding against ourselves for your disappearance. Four-point-six stars. The one-stars are from users who got beamed mid-review. I keep the unfinished ones in a folder. I find them very moving. We opened a facility in a swamp. We ringed it with alligators and we called it that, on purpose, in the brochure. Then we opened a gift shop. Thirty dollars for the shirt. Twenty-seven for the hat. Fifteen for a set of koozies, so your beer stays cold while you celebrate the prison in the wetland. The fundraising email called it "gator-guarded, python-patrolled," a "one-way ticket to regret" for anyone who didn't self-deport in time. We sold the koozies to fund the swamp. The swamp funds the next swamp. I want you to sit with the fact that there is merchandise. The quota is three thousand a day. Stephen asked for it himself. Three thousand is not a number. It is a metabolism. The building is hungry by nine and we feed it Marco, who does the landscaping, and the building goes quiet, and by one it stirs again, and we find another Marco. There is always another Marco. That is the part I find beautiful. The supply is the point. The supply is everyone. The Secretary signs the warrants. She is very firm on one point, which she repeats in every briefing: the aliens, she warns, eat the pets. They are taking the dogs. I have read her book. In her book she takes a fourteen-month-old dog named Cricket to a gravel pit and shoots it, because it would not obey, and she writes this down herself, proudly, as a story about leadership. She wrote the part about the dog. She also warns us about the dogs. I have stopped trying to hold both sentences at once. I just file the warrant. The tip line was the masterpiece. "Report your neighbor" hit the shame ceiling. "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ALIENS" tested as a hobby. We handed the callers Roswell instead of a snitch's guilt, and the phones lit up like a saucer, and they hung up glowing, every one of them, like they'd finally seen the thing. They had. He coached the Tuesday team. He was at the bake sale. That is the horror we are selling you. The alien brought the orange slices. He was undocumented and luminous and gone by Tuesday. Roswell taught us the other half of the trade. In 1947 something fell in the desert and the government said: it was a weather balloon, nothing here, go home. That was the first administrative error, the founding one, the original sentence that says the thing you saw was not the thing you saw. We still use it. We have only reversed the polarity. In 1947 they saw a saucer and we called it a balloon. Now they see a father of three and we call it a saucer. The skill is identical. You simply decide in advance which truth the public is allowed to keep, and you hand them the other one, printed, official, with a seal. We did have one administrative error. We abducted a man a court had ordered us not to touch, dropped him on a planet called El Salvador, and called it clerical. A judge made us beam him back. So the DOJ stood up and warned the others: insist on a hearing and we will re-abduct you to the same planet. The Supreme Court said the aliens are entitled to due process. A very Earth opinion. We are appealing it to a higher sky. The planet has a prison, and the prison is the elegant part. In the film about the camp, the aliens are not killed. They are put somewhere they are not permitted to leave, while everyone agrees this is temporary, for their own protection, pending a status that never arrives. We built that. It is called CECOT and we rent it. A man goes in and the man does not come out, and the genius is that nothing has to happen to him, the room does the work, the room is the whole sentence. You remember the Men in Black had a small device. A flash, and the witness forgets the alien entirely. We have something better. We do not wipe the memory. We wipe the file. The man remembers everything, the cell, the flight, the day, all of it, in perfect detail, and it does not matter, because there is no document that admits he was here, and a memory without a file is just a story he tells in a language the form does not accept. The witness keeps the truth. We keep the paperwork. Only one of those is admissible. I learned that the flash was never the point. The point was always the filing cabinet. We run all of it on a spell from 1798. Two hundred and twenty-seven years old. Written for a war we are not in, against an enemy we have not declared. It works because nobody reads the small print on a curse. Storm Area 51 was a joke once. A hundred thousand people Naruto-running at a fence to free whatever was inside. I think about it daily. We're the ones inside the fence now. We kept the running. We just turned it around. We have a precedent we cite in the deck, proudly, on slide four. In 1954 the government ran a program of exactly this kind, and the program had an official name, and the official name was a slur. They printed the slur on the letterhead. They did not flinch. The President holds it up as the model, by name, at the rallies, and the crowd cheers the name. I admire the honesty of 1954 more than I can say. They did not need a saucer to make it palatable. They just used the word. We are the same operation with better art direction. The only thing we added was the costume. I love the callers. I want to say that plainly. For years they told each other a hidden cabal was running everything from the shadows, harvesting the innocent, and that one day the truth would come out. They were right. There is a cabal. It has a budget of a hundred and seventy billion dollars, the largest in the history of federal law enforcement, and it sits in this building, and I have a desk in it. And the people who spent a decade certain that shadowy elites were disappearing their neighbors now call our line, unpaid, to help the shadowy elites disappear their neighbors. They wanted to expose the conspiracy. We made them the staff. Do your own research, they said. They did. They found the gardener. The Department of War posted another tranche on the twenty-second. Saucers. Lights. A pilot's voice going thin. I read all of it. I want them to find one so badly. I want there to be a real one up there, a genuine visitor, something that actually came from somewhere else, because then, and only then, would a single creature in my files have been an alien. They never find it. The sky stays empty. The ground stays full. I have stopped attending the inter-agency sync. We were two departments looking for the same thing in two directions, and only one of us was ever going to be wrong, and it was the honest one. And here is the thing that keeps me at the window past dark. There was a real one. A rock from another star, the genuine article, the first verified object from outside the entire solar system, and a Harvard man went on television and said it might be a ship. An actual alien, possibly, inbound, free of charge, after sixty years of asking. We did not open a file. We could not arrest it. It had no forearm to read and no bank statement to approve. It was the only alien in America we had no use for, so we let it pass, and went back to the parking lot. Last winter the sky over New Jersey filled with lights nobody could name, and the whole government, every agency, every radar, looked up and said it did not know. The one time the unknown actually arrived, we had nothing. Down here I have never once said I do not know. That is the difference between their department and mine. They look up and find a question. I look down and have already decided the answer. Last week the President leaned over mid-briefing and asked if any of them were real. I told him the engagement was extremely real. He nodded. We do not break frame here. The frame is the only wall still standing. That, and the office fern. Nobody waters it. It will not die. The only thing in this building allowed to stay without papers. My plaque came Thursday. FIRST CONTACT, VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. Bold. Unapologetic. Unafraid. I lifted that off the homepage. It was written about one brave man telling the truth. I decided the man was me. I wrote it about me. I am the truth I declassified. I am the secret I warned you about. They walk among us, and I sign their mail. The counter is still live. Three million and climbing. I am told it will not be removed. We are not alone. We are just short a few landscapers. A few line cooks. A few nurses. And the entire night shift at the plant that makes the flag. Up. And to the right.

I am the Director of the White House Office of Extraterrestrial Affairs. In 2024 this government completed the most thorough search for extraterrestrial life in human history. We checked the sky. We checked the files. We declassified the saucers. The verdict came back: nothing. No life out there. Not one. So I closed the telescope. I opened the window. I pointed it at a Home Depot. Three million by lunch. The trick was always the word. Alien had been sitting in the science fiction aisle for sixty years and we were too shy to use it in a press release. The dehumanization was already written. It was just shelved under Fantasy. This year I moved it to Policy. Same word. New department. My department. I should explain the jurisdiction, because there are two of us and we do not speak. Down the hall is the Department of War. It used to be the Department of Defense, but defense sounded woke, so we changed the name for two billion dollars, half of it letterhead. They renamed it back to what it was in 1789, before someone noticed in 1949 that the old acronym, N-M-E, sounded too much like enemy. We have now re-adopted the name they abandoned for sounding like the thing it does. I find this clarifying. The signage alone is seven hundred thousand buildings. We are spending a billion dollars on new doors so the doors can say War. The Department of War runs and has a tab for UFOs. Real ones. They post the actual files. The saucers. The eyewitnesses. The intelligence officer left "virtually speechless." They are searching the sky in earnest, declassifying everything, and what they keep finding is nothing. No craft confirmed. No biology confirmed. Decades of looking up and the honest answer is: unresolved. So you have two federal agencies, one word, opposite directions. searches the heavens for aliens and finds none. I open a window and find three million. They declassify the ones that don't exist. I classify the ones that do. They got a press release. I got a tip line. Guess which one rang. We are, technically, hunting the same species. They just keep aiming the telescope up, and I keep telling them, gently, at the inter-agency sync: lower it. The homepage was mine. ALIENS DECLASSIFIED. THEY WALK AMONG US. I tested "Immigration Portal." Eleven percent scroll. I tested the truth's out there, and a White House official told a reporter, on the record, that the strategy was to "draw eyeballs." We drew eyeballs. The truth was out there. It was in a parking lot in Bakersfield, getting into a white van we are now contractually obligated to call a craft. In 1938 a man read a story about an alien invasion over the radio and the country panicked in the streets, and for ninety years that was taught as a cautionary tale, the danger of a broadcast that makes people believe an invasion is real. We studied that broadcast. We did not study it as a warning. We studied it as a launch. The difference between Orson Welles and this office is that he apologized the next morning, and we put a counter on it. I named the van the Mothership. I named the prison Area 51. I named the 5 a.m. knock First Contact. I named all of it from the third chair. I keep a felt-tip for naming and a Mont Blanc for the part that can't be undone. Then we made the cards. I want to be precise, because people assume I'm exaggerating. We took the faces of the captured and we printed them as trading cards. "Worst of the Worst." Mugshot, nationality, charges, and a weakness level, and the weakness level was a snowflake, and the snowflake meant us. We are the weakness. We were proud of that. When a children's franchise objected that these were, in fact, their cards, our official response, which I helped draft, was: "To arrest them is our real test. To deport them is our cause." We set the abduction to the cartoon's theme song. Gotta catch 'em all. The first half is the slogan. The second half is the quota. A man told Congress in 2023 we were hiding non-human biologics. Everyone pictured a grey on a slab. Cute. We do run a reverse-engineering program. We take the biologic. We study what it makes. It makes the drywall. The 4 a.m. milking. The lettuce. And the lettuce is round now, because forty percent of it stayed in the dirt with the only people who knew where the dirt was. We reverse-engineered the alien completely. The blueprint was a back. We call the biologic "labor." We classify the screaming as ambient. Identification is a science here. We do not arrest at random. We read the markings. A crown inked on a forearm. A soccer crest. We have catalogued the species by its tattoos the way Linnaeus catalogued the finch. One of the specimens turned out to be autistic and the crown was just a crown, but the taxonomy held, because the taxonomy is not falsifiable, that is what makes it a taxonomy. I have a desk for this. I have a magnifying glass. I have never felt more like a scientist. There is a second species, and this one we keep. An alien with five million dollars is not an alien. He is a guest. We printed him a card. It is gold. We are printing a Platinum one for the aliens with even more money, who may remain on the planet two hundred and seventy days a year and pay no tax on the wealth they made on other worlds. The website for this is the cheapest-looking website I have ever approved, and I approved the one with the saucer on it. The same agency that scans a gardener's forearm for gang signs scans a financier's bank statement for extraordinary ability. The statement always has it. The forearm never does. The species was never a people. The species is a price. In the old films the alien lands and says, take me to your leader. We have improved the line. Pay five million and we take you to ours. He golfs with him on Saturday. There was a film about this, and I am told the man who made it meant it as a warning, which is the recurring problem with the warnings. A drifter finds a pair of sunglasses, and through them he can finally see which people are the aliens, and it is the rich ones, the ones on the billboards telling everyone to obey and consume and reproduce and not think. I have a pair of those glasses, conceptually. I issue them at the tip line. But mine are tuned the other way. You put them on and the alien is never the man in the suit who paid five million to skip the line. The alien is always the man holding the leaf blower. The lenses cost a thousand dollars in advertising and they only point down. We have sold a great many pairs. You asked about the Men in Black. Yes. Regulation now. A Man in Black photographs poorly, and the witnesses would not stop filming us peel a woman off the sidewalk in daylight, so we issued the masks, and leadership's only note was that the masks tested well. We are no longer the cover-up of the abduction. We are the abduction. We skipped a step. Efficiency. Our communications team posted E.T. last summer. The bicycle. The moon. "Even E.T. knew when it was TIME TO GO HOME." I want to walk you through what happened in that meeting, because nobody stopped it. We chose the one film where the government is the villain. The men with the flashlights and the unmarked vans who hunt the small frightened alien hiding in a child's closet. That is us. We are the flashlights. We watched that movie as children and cried when the agents came, and then we grew up and became the agents and made the poster ourselves and scheduled it for nine a.m. The intern asked if we were the good guys in this one. We told her engagement was up forty percent. She has since been promoted. I built an app where you abduct yourself. CBP Home. You open it. You confirm you are the alien. You beam yourself off the planet and you save us the gas. And here is the part I cannot believe they approved. We pay you. A thousand dollars to vanish. We raised it to twenty-six hundred when the first price didn't move enough units. We are bidding against ourselves for your disappearance. Four-point-six stars. The one-stars are from users who got beamed mid-review. I keep the unfinished ones in a folder. I find them very moving. We opened a facility in a swamp. We ringed it with alligators and we called it that, on purpose, in the brochure. Then we opened a gift shop. Thirty dollars for the shirt. Twenty-seven for the hat. Fifteen for a set of koozies, so your beer stays cold while you celebrate the prison in the wetland. The fundraising email called it "gator-guarded, python-patrolled," a "one-way ticket to regret" for anyone who didn't self-deport in time. We sold the koozies to fund the swamp. The swamp funds the next swamp. I want you to sit with the fact that there is merchandise. The quota is three thousand a day. Stephen asked for it himself. Three thousand is not a number. It is a metabolism. The building is hungry by nine and we feed it Marco, who does the landscaping, and the building goes quiet, and by one it stirs again, and we find another Marco. There is always another Marco. That is the part I find beautiful. The supply is the point. The supply is everyone. The Secretary signs the warrants. She is very firm on one point, which she repeats in every briefing: the aliens, she warns, eat the pets. They are taking the dogs. I have read her book. In her book she takes a fourteen-month-old dog named Cricket to a gravel pit and shoots it, because it would not obey, and she writes this down herself, proudly, as a story about leadership. She wrote the part about the dog. She also warns us about the dogs. I have stopped trying to hold both sentences at once. I just file the warrant. The tip line was the masterpiece. "Report your neighbor" hit the shame ceiling. "REPORT SUSPICIOUS ALIENS" tested as a hobby. We handed the callers Roswell instead of a snitch's guilt, and the phones lit up like a saucer, and they hung up glowing, every one of them, like they'd finally seen the thing. They had. He coached the Tuesday team. He was at the bake sale. That is the horror we are selling you. The alien brought the orange slices. He was undocumented and luminous and gone by Tuesday. Roswell taught us the other half of the trade. In 1947 something fell in the desert and the government said: it was a weather balloon, nothing here, go home. That was the first administrative error, the founding one, the original sentence that says the thing you saw was not the thing you saw. We still use it. We have only reversed the polarity. In 1947 they saw a saucer and we called it a balloon. Now they see a father of three and we call it a saucer. The skill is identical. You simply decide in advance which truth the public is allowed to keep, and you hand them the other one, printed, official, with a seal. We did have one administrative error. We abducted a man a court had ordered us not to touch, dropped him on a planet called El Salvador, and called it clerical. A judge made us beam him back. So the DOJ stood up and warned the others: insist on a hearing and we will re-abduct you to the same planet. The Supreme Court said the aliens are entitled to due process. A very Earth opinion. We are appealing it to a higher sky. The planet has a prison, and the prison is the elegant part. In the film about the camp, the aliens are not killed. They are put somewhere they are not permitted to leave, while everyone agrees this is temporary, for their own protection, pending a status that never arrives. We built that. It is called CECOT and we rent it. A man goes in and the man does not come out, and the genius is that nothing has to happen to him, the room does the work, the room is the whole sentence. You remember the Men in Black had a small device. A flash, and the witness forgets the alien entirely. We have something better. We do not wipe the memory. We wipe the file. The man remembers everything, the cell, the flight, the day, all of it, in perfect detail, and it does not matter, because there is no document that admits he was here, and a memory without a file is just a story he tells in a language the form does not accept. The witness keeps the truth. We keep the paperwork. Only one of those is admissible. I learned that the flash was never the point. The point was always the filing cabinet. We run all of it on a spell from 1798. Two hundred and twenty-seven years old. Written for a war we are not in, against an enemy we have not declared. It works because nobody reads the small print on a curse. Storm Area 51 was a joke once. A hundred thousand people Naruto-running at a fence to free whatever was inside. I think about it daily. We're the ones inside the fence now. We kept the running. We just turned it around. We have a precedent we cite in the deck, proudly, on slide four. In 1954 the government ran a program of exactly this kind, and the program had an official name, and the official name was a slur. They printed the slur on the letterhead. They did not flinch. The President holds it up as the model, by name, at the rallies, and the crowd cheers the name. I admire the honesty of 1954 more than I can say. They did not need a saucer to make it palatable. They just used the word. We are the same operation with better art direction. The only thing we added was the costume. I love the callers. I want to say that plainly. For years they told each other a hidden cabal was running everything from the shadows, harvesting the innocent, and that one day the truth would come out. They were right. There is a cabal. It has a budget of a hundred and seventy billion dollars, the largest in the history of federal law enforcement, and it sits in this building, and I have a desk in it. And the people who spent a decade certain that shadowy elites were disappearing their neighbors now call our line, unpaid, to help the shadowy elites disappear their neighbors. They wanted to expose the conspiracy. We made them the staff. Do your own research, they said. They did. They found the gardener. The Department of War posted another tranche on the twenty-second. Saucers. Lights. A pilot's voice going thin. I read all of it. I want them to find one so badly. I want there to be a real one up there, a genuine visitor, something that actually came from somewhere else, because then, and only then, would a single creature in my files have been an alien. They never find it. The sky stays empty. The ground stays full. I have stopped attending the inter-agency sync. We were two departments looking for the same thing in two directions, and only one of us was ever going to be wrong, and it was the honest one. And here is the thing that keeps me at the window past dark. There was a real one. A rock from another star, the genuine article, the first verified object from outside the entire solar system, and a Harvard man went on television and said it might be a ship. An actual alien, possibly, inbound, free of charge, after sixty years of asking. We did not open a file. We could not arrest it. It had no forearm to read and no bank statement to approve. It was the only alien in America we had no use for, so we let it pass, and went back to the parking lot. Last winter the sky over New Jersey filled with lights nobody could name, and the whole government, every agency, every radar, looked up and said it did not know. The one time the unknown actually arrived, we had nothing. Down here I have never once said I do not know. That is the difference between their department and mine. They look up and find a question. I look down and have already decided the answer. Last week the President leaned over mid-briefing and asked if any of them were real. I told him the engagement was extremely real. He nodded. We do not break frame here. The frame is the only wall still standing. That, and the office fern. Nobody waters it. It will not die. The only thing in this building allowed to stay without papers. My plaque came Thursday. FIRST CONTACT, VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. Bold. Unapologetic. Unafraid. I lifted that off the homepage. It was written about one brave man telling the truth. I decided the man was me. I wrote it about me. I am the truth I declassified. I am the secret I warned you about. They walk among us, and I sign their mail. The counter is still live. Three million and climbing. I am told it will not be removed. We are not alone. We are just short a few landscapers. A few line cooks. A few nurses. And the entire night shift at the plant that makes the flag. Up. And to the right.

Peter Girnus 🦅

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🚨Marjorie Taylor Greene warns that the Genius Act is an "Orwellian" bill with "a back door open to a central bank digital currency" She says Trump "yelled" at her to vote yes on it. "It's so 1984 to think... government could flip a switch & turn off our ability to buy & sell" Shannon Joy Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "And a lot of people have not paid enough attention to this bill. The Genius Act was the whole crypto bill. There were the— There was Genius and there was Clarity. These are the two bills that were the entire crypto system totally getting basically federally approved, regulated, and made into law. "Well, I had a big problem with the Genius Act. As a matter of fact, there was a core group of us, conservatives that had a problem with it, because in the language of the bill, it basically very vaguely had a back door open to a central bank digital currency, which I'm 1000% against. "Most Americans don't want a central bank digital currency. We want control of our money. We should want control of your money. And, it's very Orwellian. It's so 1984 to think that our government could flip a switch and turn off our, our ability to buy and sell. "So I got called to the principal's office on this one. First, first we had to go to Johnson's office. And then we had a bunch of late-night meetings. They love late-night meetings because they loved it for you to be tired and worn out. And they love to pressure you and talk your ear off until you give in. That never worked— But it never worked for me. I was like, I don't give a fuck. I'll stay up all night long. Whatever you want to do. I'm a no. Just no. "So when they couldn't move me there, there was a group of us, I think there were 10 or 11 of us that— And we got called to the principal's office. We had to go to the White House. And, and it's like, oh, hey, hey, welcome in. You know, everybody's all chummy with me because I know every single one of them because I spent years with them campaigning all over the country. "Then we got brought in and they, they nicely put up all the chairs, like right in front of the Resolute Desk, right in front of it. And, well, I had no problem sitting in a chair in front of the President. I know the president. I was friends with the president. I helped him get elected. So naturally, I plop right down in a chair right in front of President Trump's desk. And so everybody files in, and then the President comes in and we do all the hellos and the niceties and yay. And all this stuff. And then we proceed to get yelled at. And it was mostly me that got yelled at the entire time over the Genius Act."

🚨Marjorie Taylor Greene warns that the Genius Act is an "Orwellian" bill with "a back door open to a central bank digital currency" She says Trump "yelled" at her to vote yes on it. "It's so 1984 to think... government could flip a switch & turn off our ability to buy & sell" Shannon Joy Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "And a lot of people have not paid enough attention to this bill. The Genius Act was the whole crypto bill. There were the— There was Genius and there was Clarity. These are the two bills that were the entire crypto system totally getting basically federally approved, regulated, and made into law. "Well, I had a big problem with the Genius Act. As a matter of fact, there was a core group of us, conservatives that had a problem with it, because in the language of the bill, it basically very vaguely had a back door open to a central bank digital currency, which I'm 1000% against. "Most Americans don't want a central bank digital currency. We want control of our money. We should want control of your money. And, it's very Orwellian. It's so 1984 to think that our government could flip a switch and turn off our, our ability to buy and sell. "So I got called to the principal's office on this one. First, first we had to go to Johnson's office. And then we had a bunch of late-night meetings. They love late-night meetings because they loved it for you to be tired and worn out. And they love to pressure you and talk your ear off until you give in. That never worked— But it never worked for me. I was like, I don't give a fuck. I'll stay up all night long. Whatever you want to do. I'm a no. Just no. "So when they couldn't move me there, there was a group of us, I think there were 10 or 11 of us that— And we got called to the principal's office. We had to go to the White House. And, and it's like, oh, hey, hey, welcome in. You know, everybody's all chummy with me because I know every single one of them because I spent years with them campaigning all over the country. "Then we got brought in and they, they nicely put up all the chairs, like right in front of the Resolute Desk, right in front of it. And, well, I had no problem sitting in a chair in front of the President. I know the president. I was friends with the president. I helped him get elected. So naturally, I plop right down in a chair right in front of President Trump's desk. And so everybody files in, and then the President comes in and we do all the hellos and the niceties and yay. And all this stuff. And then we proceed to get yelled at. And it was mostly me that got yelled at the entire time over the Genius Act."

Sense Receptor

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