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『METAL SLUG３』に出てくる『リングレーザーメカ』は、私が描いた敵キャラの中でもかなりお気に入りなんです。いかにも昔のSF映画に出てきそうなデザインで、ブリキのオモチャになんかしたら、きっと可愛いでしょうね。このメカは、老いて動けなくなったルーツマーズが乗るシニアカーなんです。衰えた肉体を捨て、メンテナンスが容易な機械の身体となり、この先何百年も生き続けていくことになります。普段は母船でお掃除ロボットとして働いていますが、敵が侵入してくると清掃用レーザーの出力を一気に上げ、ガーディアンに早変わりするんです。デザインもさることながら、その攻撃もまたシンプルで気に入っています。この『リングレーザーメカ』は、デバッグ段階ではもっと耐久力があって、かなり手強かったんですよ。縦や横の輪っかレーザーを連射されると、それはもう大変でしたが、子供の頃に遊んだケンケンパのような感じで凄く面白かったんです。それを連続で避けきれた時の快感は格別でしたね。私は、あの頃の鬼のような『リングレーザーメカ』が好きでした。交差する縦や横の「輪っかレーザー」を掻い潜り、皆で競い合いながら、デバッグしていたあの時間がとにかく楽しくて。でも、残念なのは、私が考えた敵の仕様が企画マンに伝わっていないことが多く、この敵もほんとの面白さを理解してもらえませんでした。『リングレーザーメカ』は、母船に突入したプレイヤーにとって、最初の脅威として立ちはだかる存在にしたかったんですが、どうやら、この『リングレーザーメカ』は、個性を発揮する事が出来ないまま破壊されてしまうことが多いんです。私たちがデバッグルームで「キャー！キャー！」叫びながらデバッグしてる様子を企画マンが見てさえいれば、何をするべきかが色々と見えてきたと思うのですが、その企画マンには、現場の反応から学び取って改善につなげる視点がちょっと欠けていたんだと思います。最終的なバランス調整で、あっけなく破壊される存在になってしまった『リングレーザーメカ』が、ちょっと気の毒に思うんですよね。 I don’t even remember if this enemy from METAL SLUG 3 was called “Utom” or “Ring Laser Mech,” but whatever the name was, it’s still one of my personal favorites among the ones I designed. Its design looks like something straight out of an old sci-fi movie, and I bet it would look absolutely adorable if made into a tin toy. This mech is actually a kind of “senior scooter,” like a mobility scooter for the aging Rootmars, who can no longer move on his own. He’s abandoned his weakened body and now lives on in a machine that’s easy to maintain, allowing him to survive for centuries to come. Most of the time, it works as a cleaning robot aboard the mothership—but when enemies intrude, it boosts the power of its cleaning laser and quickly switches into guardian mode. I really like not just the design, but also the way it attacks—every time I see it, I think, “That’s a pretty clever idea, if I do say so myself.” Back during the debugging phase, this “Ring Laser Mech” had a lot more durability and was a real tough opponent. When it started firing those ring-shaped lasers vertically and horizontally, it was complete chaos. But dodging them by the skin of your teeth—that feeling was absolutely exhilarating. I really liked the brutal version of the Ring Laser Mech from back then. We’d weave through those crisscrossing ring lasers, competing with each other as we debugged—and I just remember those moments being incredibly fun. But what’s unfortunate is that the specs I had in mind for enemies often didn’t get through to the planners, and this enemy was no exception—it never really showed its true appeal. The Ring Laser Mech was supposed to be the first major threat players faced once they boarded the mothership. Instead, it often gets destroyed before it can show what makes it unique. If the planner had seen us in the debug room, cheering and shouting as we tested things out, I think he would’ve realized a lot about what needed to be done. But he just didn’t have that perspective of learning from player reactions and turning them into improvements. In the end, final balance adjustments left the Ring Laser Mech as something that gets taken out far too easily, and honestly, I can’t help but feel a little sorry for him. #METALSLUG #PixelArt #GameDevStory #メタルスラッグ

akio

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スタイルカウンシルは、当時はJAMファンやロックファンから、あまりの音楽性の変化に「裏切り」とみなされていふしがあったが、今聴いても全く古い感じがしないし普遍的に受け入れられる様な曲が沢山ある。まあ日本ではスタイルカウンシルは酷評されるどころか人気があったので海外の評価に触れて少し驚いたぐらいなんだけど🙄 モッズやニューウェーブから、ソウルやジャズの洗練されたサウンドへの変化はポールウェラーの音楽性の幅の広さを感じさせる。当時は商業的にもそれなりに成功したし、新しいファンも獲得したが、あまりにお洒落すぎてチャラく感じたのかもしれない🤔 大衆迎合的な感じは一切しないんだけどなぁ。近年また再評価の動きが高まっているのはポールウェラーファンとして嬉しい限り💐👍😎 この曲大好きなんだよなぁ💐 個人的にはカフェロックと呼んでいる...笑とりあえずポールウェラーは当時もイケメン🫡 The Beatles, Oasis, The Kinks The Small Faces, The Clash ビートルズオアシスキンクススモールフェイセズクラッシュ The Style Council - You're The Best Thing

スタイルカウンシルは、当時はJAMファンやロックファンから、あまりの音楽性の変化に「裏切り」とみなされていふしがあったが、今聴いても全く古い感じがしないし普遍的に受け入れられる様な曲が沢山ある。まあ日本ではスタイルカウンシルは酷評されるどころか人気があったので海外の評価に触れて少し驚いたぐらいなんだけど🙄 モッズやニューウェーブから、ソウルやジャズの洗練されたサウンドへの変化はポールウェラーの音楽性の幅の広さを感じさせる。当時は商業的にもそれなりに成功したし、新しいファンも獲得したが、あまりにお洒落すぎてチャラく感じたのかもしれない🤔 大衆迎合的な感じは一切しないんだけどなぁ。近年また再評価の動きが高まっているのはポールウェラーファンとして嬉しい限り💐👍😎 この曲大好きなんだよなぁ💐 個人的にはカフェロックと呼んでいる...笑とりあえずポールウェラーは当時もイケメン🫡 The Beatles, Oasis, The Kinks The Small Faces, The Clash ビートルズオアシスキンクススモールフェイセズクラッシュ The Style Council - You're The Best Thing

稲妻のぺぺ(語り継ぎたい洋楽垢)

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Hot Mulligan Japan Tour 2026 開催決定 5/7（木）東京・新宿 Nine Spices 5/8（金）神奈川・横浜 F.A.D 5/9（土）東京・渋谷 WWW X 5/10（日）東京・新代田 Fever チケットは12/20（土）10:00より販売開始詳細：「現行エモシーンの絶対的王者」がついに日本にやってくる。Spotifyでのストリーミング総再生回数1億4,000万回突破・Coachella 2026出演・“エモ・ポップパンクの定義を書き換えた” USパンク界のトップランナー、Hot Mulliganが最新作『The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still” を携え2026年待望の初来日！ Hot Mulligan - No Shoes In The Coffee Shop (Or Socks) アメリカ・ミシガン州で結成されたHot Mulligan（ホット・マリガン）が、ついに日本の地を踏む。2014年に結成し、DIYパンク・エモシーンでハウスショーからキャリアをスタートさせた彼らは、今や Hollywood Palladium (LA) や Roundhouse (London) といった数千人規模の会場を即完させる、現行シーンで最も「絶対的な存在」へと登り詰めた。 Hot Mulligan - End Eric Sparrow and the Life of Him 彼らの評価を決定づけたのは、音楽ファンが最も信頼を寄せるメディアからの熱烈な支持だ。アメリカの大手音楽メディア・Stereogumは彼らを「新世代エモの先導者」と呼び、そのアンセミックなサウンドを「きらびやかでポップ、それでいて妥協なきエモ」と称賛。辛口な評価で知られる Pitchfork も「初期衝動を持ちながら、ポップパンクとエモなどジャンルを超えたクロスオーバーを果たす実力を持つ」とそのソングライティング能力を認め、著名な批評家をして「懐古主義的なポップパンクと、前衛的なエモの完璧な融合」と言わしめた。 Hot Mulligan - *Equip Sunglasses* (Official Music Video) もはやその活動範囲はパンクシーンの枠に収まらない。Fall Out Boy との全米アリーナツアーや、Pierce the Veil とのUKアリーナツアーを完遂したほか、世界最高峰のフェスティバル Coachella 2026 への出演が決定し、Bonnaroo、Lollapalooza、Riot Fest、Slam Dunk Festival、When We Were Youngといった巨大フェスのメインステージを席巻している。これまでにNew Found Glory、The Wonder Years、The Story So Far、Neck Deep といったレジェンドたちとツアーを重ね、今やその錚々たる顔ぶれに肩を並べ、彼ら自身がシーンの頂点に立つ存在にまで成長を遂げた。 Hot Mulligan - Island in the Sun (feat. Cory Castro of Free Throw) 彼らの音楽の最大の魅力は、その強烈な「ギャップ」にある。ふざけた auto-correct（自動修正）で付けられた意味を持たない曲名とは裏腹に、その歌詞の内容は驚くほど重厚で切実だ。Stereogumは、「タイトルは冗談のようだが、歌われる内容は少しも笑えないほど真剣だ」と評し、ヴォーカルTades Sanvilleの喉を引き裂くような叫びは、聴く者の魂を真髄から突き刺し、震わす。 Hot Mulligan - And A Big Load (Official Music Video) 2025年発表の最新作『THE SOUND A BODY MAKES WHEN IT’S STILL』（2025年/Wax Bodega）は、その勢いを決定づけた。Pitchforkは「初期の衝動を維持したまま、アリーナ級のスケール感へと進化した」と評し、Stereogumは「ふざけた曲名とは裏腹に、現代で最も真摯にトラウマや孤独を歌うバンド」と評すなど、名実ともにその地位を不動のものにした。 Hot Mulligan - It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here (Official Music Video) 「”汚い地下室で演奏し、バンで寝る” 生活をすること」を夢見ていたミシガンの若者たちは、今や世界中の人々の心を掴んで離さない、次世代を担うパンクアイコンとなった。「ふざけたタイトルで、最高の曲を」――そんな独自の美学を貫き、アメリカ中の若者たちが喉を枯らして合唱する、USパンクの「現在地」を体感できる最初で最後のチャンス。この歴史的な初来日公演を、絶対に目撃してほしい。 Hot Mulligan - John "The Rock" Cena, Can You Smell What the Undertaker Live at Riot Fest

Hot Mulligan Japan Tour 2026 開催決定 5/7（木）東京・新宿 Nine Spices 5/8（金）神奈川・横浜 F.A.D 5/9（土）東京・渋谷 WWW X 5/10（日）東京・新代田 Fever チケットは12/20（土）10:00より販売開始詳細：「現行エモシーンの絶対的王者」がついに日本にやってくる。Spotifyでのストリーミング総再生回数1億4,000万回突破・Coachella 2026出演・“エモ・ポップパンクの定義を書き換えた” USパンク界のトップランナー、Hot Mulliganが最新作『The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still” を携え2026年待望の初来日！ Hot Mulligan - No Shoes In The Coffee Shop (Or Socks) アメリカ・ミシガン州で結成されたHot Mulligan（ホット・マリガン）が、ついに日本の地を踏む。2014年に結成し、DIYパンク・エモシーンでハウスショーからキャリアをスタートさせた彼らは、今や Hollywood Palladium (LA) や Roundhouse (London) といった数千人規模の会場を即完させる、現行シーンで最も「絶対的な存在」へと登り詰めた。 Hot Mulligan - End Eric Sparrow and the Life of Him 彼らの評価を決定づけたのは、音楽ファンが最も信頼を寄せるメディアからの熱烈な支持だ。アメリカの大手音楽メディア・Stereogumは彼らを「新世代エモの先導者」と呼び、そのアンセミックなサウンドを「きらびやかでポップ、それでいて妥協なきエモ」と称賛。辛口な評価で知られる Pitchfork も「初期衝動を持ちながら、ポップパンクとエモなどジャンルを超えたクロスオーバーを果たす実力を持つ」とそのソングライティング能力を認め、著名な批評家をして「懐古主義的なポップパンクと、前衛的なエモの完璧な融合」と言わしめた。 Hot Mulligan - Equip Sunglasses (Official Music Video) もはやその活動範囲はパンクシーンの枠に収まらない。Fall Out Boy との全米アリーナツアーや、Pierce the Veil とのUKアリーナツアーを完遂したほか、世界最高峰のフェスティバル Coachella 2026 への出演が決定し、Bonnaroo、Lollapalooza、Riot Fest、Slam Dunk Festival、When We Were Youngといった巨大フェスのメインステージを席巻している。これまでにNew Found Glory、The Wonder Years、The Story So Far、Neck Deep といったレジェンドたちとツアーを重ね、今やその錚々たる顔ぶれに肩を並べ、彼ら自身がシーンの頂点に立つ存在にまで成長を遂げた。 Hot Mulligan - Island in the Sun (feat. Cory Castro of Free Throw) 彼らの音楽の最大の魅力は、その強烈な「ギャップ」にある。ふざけた auto-correct（自動修正）で付けられた意味を持たない曲名とは裏腹に、その歌詞の内容は驚くほど重厚で切実だ。Stereogumは、「タイトルは冗談のようだが、歌われる内容は少しも笑えないほど真剣だ」と評し、ヴォーカルTades Sanvilleの喉を引き裂くような叫びは、聴く者の魂を真髄から突き刺し、震わす。 Hot Mulligan - And A Big Load (Official Music Video) 2025年発表の最新作『THE SOUND A BODY MAKES WHEN IT’S STILL』（2025年/Wax Bodega）は、その勢いを決定づけた。Pitchforkは「初期の衝動を維持したまま、アリーナ級のスケール感へと進化した」と評し、Stereogumは「ふざけた曲名とは裏腹に、現代で最も真摯にトラウマや孤独を歌うバンド」と評すなど、名実ともにその地位を不動のものにした。 Hot Mulligan - It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here (Official Music Video) 「”汚い地下室で演奏し、バンで寝る” 生活をすること」を夢見ていたミシガンの若者たちは、今や世界中の人々の心を掴んで離さない、次世代を担うパンクアイコンとなった。「ふざけたタイトルで、最高の曲を」――そんな独自の美学を貫き、アメリカ中の若者たちが喉を枯らして合唱する、USパンクの「現在地」を体感できる最初で最後のチャンス。この歴史的な初来日公演を、絶対に目撃してほしい。 Hot Mulligan - John "The Rock" Cena, Can You Smell What the Undertaker Live at Riot Fest

Nothing Feels Real

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🪷業算！数狂菩薩🪷 檀家のみんな❗️大変だ❗️ 夏期講習の教室で、学生たちが一生懸命勉強していると―― 突然、カルマ怪人「数狂菩薩」が現れたぞ‼️ 数狂菩薩が出してきたのは、誰にも解くことのできない超難問の「カルマ問題」‼️ 考えても、考えても、答えが出ない……。「どうして解けないんだろう？」「自分は勉強が苦手なのかな……？」悩みすぎた学生たちは、次々とカルマ戦僧員になってしまったぞ💦 さらにカルマ戦僧員たちは街へ飛び出し、こどもたちに「カルマプリント」を配りまくっている‼️ このままでは、楽しい夏休みが「カルマ試験」だらけになってしまう…❗️ だが、もう大丈夫だ❗️ 📚✨家庭教師のナム子先生✨📚 そしてワタルくんが助けに来てくれたぞ‼️ 「わからないからって、あきらめなくて大丈夫！」ナム子先生が、ひとつずつ優しく勉強のコツを教えてくれるんだ🪷 コツをつかめば―― 「あっ！わかった！」今まで難しかった問題も少しずつ解けて、勉強することがどんどん楽しくなってきたぞ✨ カルマ戦僧員たちも、みんなと一緒に問題を解いてみると…… ほら❗️ 元の姿に戻ったぞ‼️ ところが―― 数狂菩薩が最後の超難問「カルマ数式」を繰り出してきた‼️ そこへ現れたのは―― 🪷ナンマイダー🪷 半跏思惟像（はんかしゆいぞう）のポーズで静かに考えるナンマイダー。果たしてナンマイダーは、誰にも解けない超難問の答えを導き出すことができるのか⁉️ スマホの前のみんなも、ナンマイダーと一緒に考えてみよう☝🏼🪷👇🏼 わからないことは、悪いことじゃない。考えることを楽しめば、それも立派な修行なのだ🙏🏼🪷 🪷KARMIC CALCULATIONS! SUKYO BODHISATTVA🪷 Hey, Danka friends! Big trouble! The Karma Monster “Sukyo Bodhisattva” has appeared during summer vacation! 😱 He’s challenging students with impossibly difficult— 📝“Karma Problems”📝 No matter how hard they think, they can’t find the answers... Overwhelmed by frustration, the students are transformed into Karma Warrior Monks! 💦 Now they’re spreading “Karma Worksheets” all over town! At this rate, summer vacation will become one endless Karma Exam...!! But don’t worry! 📚✨ Private Tutor Namuko ✨📚 and Wataru are here to help! Namuko gently teaches everyone the tricks to solving each problem. Once they get the hang of it— “Ah! I get it now!” ✨ Even the Karma Warrior Monks start solving problems together and return to their original selves! 🪷 But then— Sukyo Bodhisattva unleashes his ultimate challenge: 📝The “Karma Equation”📝 And that’s when— 🪷 NANMAIDER 🪷 appears! Taking the contemplative pose of a Hanka Shiyui statue, Nanmaider begins to think... Can he solve the impossible Karma Equation⁉️ Everyone watching— think it through with Nanmaider! ☝🏼🪷👇🏼 There’s nothing wrong with not knowing the answer. Learning to enjoy thinking is part of the training, too. 🙏🏼🪷 #仏造人間ナンマイダー #ナン活

🪷業算！数狂菩薩🪷 檀家のみんな❗️大変だ❗️ 夏期講習の教室で、学生たちが一生懸命勉強していると―― 突然、カルマ怪人「数狂菩薩」が現れたぞ‼️ 数狂菩薩が出してきたのは、誰にも解くことのできない超難問の「カルマ問題」‼️ 考えても、考えても、答えが出ない……。「どうして解けないんだろう？」「自分は勉強が苦手なのかな……？」悩みすぎた学生たちは、次々とカルマ戦僧員になってしまったぞ💦 さらにカルマ戦僧員たちは街へ飛び出し、こどもたちに「カルマプリント」を配りまくっている‼️ このままでは、楽しい夏休みが「カルマ試験」だらけになってしまう…❗️ だが、もう大丈夫だ❗️ 📚✨家庭教師のナム子先生✨📚 そしてワタルくんが助けに来てくれたぞ‼️ 「わからないからって、あきらめなくて大丈夫！」ナム子先生が、ひとつずつ優しく勉強のコツを教えてくれるんだ🪷 コツをつかめば―― 「あっ！わかった！」今まで難しかった問題も少しずつ解けて、勉強することがどんどん楽しくなってきたぞ✨ カルマ戦僧員たちも、みんなと一緒に問題を解いてみると…… ほら❗️ 元の姿に戻ったぞ‼️ ところが―― 数狂菩薩が最後の超難問「カルマ数式」を繰り出してきた‼️ そこへ現れたのは―― 🪷ナンマイダー🪷 半跏思惟像（はんかしゆいぞう）のポーズで静かに考えるナンマイダー。果たしてナンマイダーは、誰にも解けない超難問の答えを導き出すことができるのか⁉️ スマホの前のみんなも、ナンマイダーと一緒に考えてみよう☝🏼🪷👇🏼 わからないことは、悪いことじゃない。考えることを楽しめば、それも立派な修行なのだ🙏🏼🪷 🪷KARMIC CALCULATIONS! SUKYO BODHISATTVA🪷 Hey, Danka friends! Big trouble! The Karma Monster “Sukyo Bodhisattva” has appeared during summer vacation! 😱 He’s challenging students with impossibly difficult— 📝“Karma Problems”📝 No matter how hard they think, they can’t find the answers... Overwhelmed by frustration, the students are transformed into Karma Warrior Monks! 💦 Now they’re spreading “Karma Worksheets” all over town! At this rate, summer vacation will become one endless Karma Exam...!! But don’t worry! 📚✨ Private Tutor Namuko ✨📚 and Wataru are here to help! Namuko gently teaches everyone the tricks to solving each problem. Once they get the hang of it— “Ah! I get it now!” ✨ Even the Karma Warrior Monks start solving problems together and return to their original selves! 🪷 But then— Sukyo Bodhisattva unleashes his ultimate challenge: 📝The “Karma Equation”📝 And that’s when— 🪷 NANMAIDER 🪷 appears! Taking the contemplative pose of a Hanka Shiyui statue, Nanmaider begins to think... Can he solve the impossible Karma Equation⁉️ Everyone watching— think it through with Nanmaider! ☝🏼🪷👇🏼 There’s nothing wrong with not knowing the answer. Learning to enjoy thinking is part of the training, too. 🙏🏼🪷 #仏造人間ナンマイダー #ナン活

架空昭和史作家西川真周

24,166 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen

My half-a-year update of my personal 100 favorite songs Yes, this is all my opinion and I'm probably not sorry: 100. The Voidz - Pyramid of Bones 99. Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me 98. Pearl Jam - Porch (Unplugged) 97. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension 96. System Of A Down - Soil 95. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 94. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country 93. Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things 92. Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger 91. New Order - Thieves Like Us (Instrumental) 90. Sly And The Family Stone - Stand! 89. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste 88. Prince - Little Red Corvette 87. Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be Hated Here 86. Rosa Walton & Hailey Coggins - I Really Want To Stay At Your House 85. A-ha - Take On Me 84. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 83. Fugazi - Turnover/Repeater -in order- 82. Death Grips - Hacker 81. Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 80. Bad Religion - How Much Is Enough 79. Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Single version) 78. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness 77. Linkin Park - Lying From You 76. System of A Down - Radio/Video 75. Nirvana - Come As You Are 74. Alvvays - Belinda Says 73. My Chemical Romance - Dead! 72. Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 71. Weezer - Pork And Beans 70. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 69. Pink Floyd - Time 68. Deftones - Change (In The House of Flies) 67. OutKast - Ms. Jackson 66. Neil Young - Heart of Gold 65. The Strokes - You Only Live Once 64. Danny Brown ft. Everybody - Really Doe 63. MGMT - Little Dark Age 62. At The Drive In - Napoleon Solo 61. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon 60. Magdalena Bay - She Looked Like Me! 59. The Killers - When You Were Young 58. Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion 57. Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay 56. The Killers - All These Things That I’ve Done 55. Portishead - Roads 54. Fall Out Boy - Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet 53. Radiohead - Black Star 52. Refused - New Noise 51. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People 50. NIN - Dead Souls 49. Tool - Sober 48. David Bowie - Starman 47. Nas - If I Ruled The World 46. Van Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love 45. The Strokes - Welcome To Japan 44. NIN - Wish 43. Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn 42. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me 41. Pearl Jam - Garden (Redux) 40. Bad Religion - You 39. Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo 38. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 37. Metallica - Until It Sleeps 36. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror 35. Deftones - My Own Summer 34. Alice In Chains - Nutshell 33. New Order - True Faith 32. The Get Up Kids - Holiday 31. Queen - 39’ 30. Pearl Jam - Alive (Redux) 29. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 28. The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Ocean 27. Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot 26. Radiohead - There, There 25. Pearl Jam - Even Flow (Redux) 24. Frank Oceans - Night 23. Pearl Jam - Scared of Fear 22. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 21. Radiohead - 15 Steps 20. At The Drive In - Arcarsenal 19. Charli XCX - forever 18. Tyler The Creator - EARFQUAKE 17. The Beatles - Let It Be 16. Jawbreaker - Condition Oakland 15. Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles 14. Radiohead - Paranoid Android 13. Boston - More Than A Feeling 12. Weezer - My Name Is Jonas 11. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945 10. Nas - N.Y. State of Mind 9. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven 8. Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven 7. The Strokes - Hard To Explain 6. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer 5. U2 - With or Without You 4. Jeff Buckley - Grace 3. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 2. System of a Down - Chop Suey 1. Pearl Jam - Black (2004 Remix)

My half-a-year update of my personal 100 favorite songs Yes, this is all my opinion and I'm probably not sorry: 100. The Voidz - Pyramid of Bones 99. Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me 98. Pearl Jam - Porch (Unplugged) 97. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension 96. System Of A Down - Soil 95. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 94. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country 93. Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things 92. Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger 91. New Order - Thieves Like Us (Instrumental) 90. Sly And The Family Stone - Stand! 89. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste 88. Prince - Little Red Corvette 87. Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be Hated Here 86. Rosa Walton & Hailey Coggins - I Really Want To Stay At Your House 85. A-ha - Take On Me 84. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 83. Fugazi - Turnover/Repeater -in order- 82. Death Grips - Hacker 81. Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 80. Bad Religion - How Much Is Enough 79. Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Single version) 78. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness 77. Linkin Park - Lying From You 76. System of A Down - Radio/Video 75. Nirvana - Come As You Are 74. Alvvays - Belinda Says 73. My Chemical Romance - Dead! 72. Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 71. Weezer - Pork And Beans 70. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 69. Pink Floyd - Time 68. Deftones - Change (In The House of Flies) 67. OutKast - Ms. Jackson 66. Neil Young - Heart of Gold 65. The Strokes - You Only Live Once 64. Danny Brown ft. Everybody - Really Doe 63. MGMT - Little Dark Age 62. At The Drive In - Napoleon Solo 61. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon 60. Magdalena Bay - She Looked Like Me! 59. The Killers - When You Were Young 58. Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion 57. Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay 56. The Killers - All These Things That I’ve Done 55. Portishead - Roads 54. Fall Out Boy - Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet 53. Radiohead - Black Star 52. Refused - New Noise 51. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People 50. NIN - Dead Souls 49. Tool - Sober 48. David Bowie - Starman 47. Nas - If I Ruled The World 46. Van Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love 45. The Strokes - Welcome To Japan 44. NIN - Wish 43. Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn 42. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me 41. Pearl Jam - Garden (Redux) 40. Bad Religion - You 39. Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo 38. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 37. Metallica - Until It Sleeps 36. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror 35. Deftones - My Own Summer 34. Alice In Chains - Nutshell 33. New Order - True Faith 32. The Get Up Kids - Holiday 31. Queen - 39’ 30. Pearl Jam - Alive (Redux) 29. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 28. The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Ocean 27. Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot 26. Radiohead - There, There 25. Pearl Jam - Even Flow (Redux) 24. Frank Oceans - Night 23. Pearl Jam - Scared of Fear 22. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 21. Radiohead - 15 Steps 20. At The Drive In - Arcarsenal 19. Charli XCX - forever 18. Tyler The Creator - EARFQUAKE 17. The Beatles - Let It Be 16. Jawbreaker - Condition Oakland 15. Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles 14. Radiohead - Paranoid Android 13. Boston - More Than A Feeling 12. Weezer - My Name Is Jonas 11. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945 10. Nas - N.Y. State of Mind 9. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven 8. Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven 7. The Strokes - Hard To Explain 6. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer 5. U2 - With or Without You 4. Jeff Buckley - Grace 3. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 2. System of a Down - Chop Suey 1. Pearl Jam - Black (2004 Remix)

Machine Gun Philly

15,997 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

THREE LANGUAGES. THREE LIVE AI APPLICATIONS. THREE COMPLETE RESUMES. 2 MINUTES, 27 SECONDS. ZERO HIDDEN CUTS. The first note looked like absolute trash. It had been scribbled on, torn across the top, crushed into a ball, and reopened live on camera. One job was partially split by the tear. Some of the writing was barely legible. ECHO read it anyway: It recognized the progression from cashier, to barista, to shift leader. Then it transformed a damaged piece of paper into a professional résumé positioned for the next step: café manager. Then it did it again in Vietnamese. Then again in Japanese. Each note was attached live. Each application was running independently in its community’s language. Each résumé remained on screen long enough to be read. There were no hidden cuts. We only accelerated the waiting time. During a week when most of the AI world was debating regulation, platforms, and what might break next, we quietly built a working piece of the future. And we built it for more than one community: LATAM. Việt Nam. 日本. You did not simply watch ECHO. You tested it. Challenged it. Corrected it. Shared it. And carried this company beyond 200M views in three weeks. So we are building the next phase with you. We are not merely translating an American product after the fact. We will continue developing Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics, and the deeper ECHO Premium systems that help people use AI with more clarity, structure, and judgment. At the same time, ECHO Careers will continue building practical tools for the person trying to get hired, change careers, prepare for an interview, negotiate compensation, or finally communicate the value of years of real work. And for the students and families preparing for university: We have not forgotten you. ECHO Academia begins rolling out August 1. We have already built new tools for applications, essays, interviews, degree discovery, and the documents families are expected to understand without ever being taught how. Careers and Academia are already operational across our languages. The dedicated website for job seekers and university applicants is complete. It will open in the coming weeks. This summer, we will preview the rooms one by one: Not rushed. Not reduced. The same standard of excellence for every community. Phase I proved the architecture. Phase II applies it to opportunity. 🇪🇸 LATAM Lo que acabas de ver no fue una maqueta. Las tres aplicaciones estaban activas, usando IA en vivo, y cada currículum se generó a partir de la nota que apareció en pantalla. La nota de LATAM estaba rota, arrugada, tachada y apenas legible. Aun así, ECHO convirtió una trayectoria real, cajero, barista y jefe de turno, en un currículum profesional orientado al siguiente paso: gerente de cafetería. No hubo cortes para ocultar el proceso. Solo aceleramos el tiempo de espera. Seguiremos desarrollando Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics y las herramientas profundas de ECHO. También seguiremos construyendo para quienes buscan empleo, una mejor carrera y una oportunidad real de demostrar lo que saben hacer. Y para quienes quieren entrar a la universidad: ECHO Academia comienza el 1 de agosto. 🎓 Las aplicaciones en español ya están funcionando. Muy pronto podrán verlas en acción. 🇻🇳 VIỆT NAM Những gì bạn vừa xem không phải là một bản mô phỏng. Cả ba ứng dụng đều đang hoạt động trực tiếp bằng AI thật. Mỗi CV được tạo từ chính tờ giấy ghi chú xuất hiện trên màn hình. Không có cảnh cắt để che giấu quá trình. Chúng tôi chỉ tăng tốc thời gian chờ. ECHO sẽ tiếp tục phát triển Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics và những công cụ giúp mọi người sử dụng AI rõ ràng, an toàn và có định hướng hơn. Đồng thời, ECHO Careers sẽ tiếp tục xây dựng cho những người đang tìm việc, đổi nghề, luyện phỏng vấn, thương lượng lương hoặc muốn biến kinh nghiệm thật của mình thành một hồ sơ chuyên nghiệp. Và đối với các bạn học sinh, sinh viên và gia đình đang chuẩn bị cho đại học: Chúng tôi chưa quên bạn. ECHO Academia bắt đầu được giới thiệu từ ngày 1 tháng 8. 🎓 Các ứng dụng tiếng Việt đã hoạt động. Những bản trình diễn đầu tiên sẽ sớm ra mắt. 🇯🇵 日本今ご覧いただいたのは、演出用のモックではありません。 3つのアプリはすべて実際に稼働し、画面に映ったメモから、それぞれの言語で履歴書を作成しました。結果を隠すためのカット編集はありません。待ち時間だけを早めています。 ECHOはこれからも、Pattern Audit、Drift Forensics、そしてAIをより明確に、構造的に、適切な判断とともに使うためのツールを開発し続けます。同時にECHO Careersでは、就職、転職、面接準備、給与交渉、そしてこれまでの経験を正しく伝えるための実用的なツールを作り続けます。そして、大学進学を目指す学生とご家族へ。皆さんのことも忘れていません。 ECHO Academiaは8月1日から順次公開します。🎓 日本語版のアプリはすでに稼働しています。デモも近日公開します。 Try Pattern Audit + Drift Forensics free now: 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 For exclusive career content and professional releases: 💼 Follow Restrained Depth AI on LinkedIn. For ECHO Academia, university applications, and content built for students and families: 🎓 Follow Restrained Depth AI on Instagram and Facebook. Want early demo access, feedback invitations, and launch updates for Careers and Academia? 📩 Join the founding list: DM Career or Academia We helped people build businesses and brands. Now we are building for the job seeker, the student, and the family trying to reach what comes next. The future should not belong only to the people who already know how the system works.

THREE LANGUAGES. THREE LIVE AI APPLICATIONS. THREE COMPLETE RESUMES. 2 MINUTES, 27 SECONDS. ZERO HIDDEN CUTS. The first note looked like absolute trash. It had been scribbled on, torn across the top, crushed into a ball, and reopened live on camera. One job was partially split by the tear. Some of the writing was barely legible. ECHO read it anyway: It recognized the progression from cashier, to barista, to shift leader. Then it transformed a damaged piece of paper into a professional résumé positioned for the next step: café manager. Then it did it again in Vietnamese. Then again in Japanese. Each note was attached live. Each application was running independently in its community’s language. Each résumé remained on screen long enough to be read. There were no hidden cuts. We only accelerated the waiting time. During a week when most of the AI world was debating regulation, platforms, and what might break next, we quietly built a working piece of the future. And we built it for more than one community: LATAM. Việt Nam. 日本. You did not simply watch ECHO. You tested it. Challenged it. Corrected it. Shared it. And carried this company beyond 200M views in three weeks. So we are building the next phase with you. We are not merely translating an American product after the fact. We will continue developing Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics, and the deeper ECHO Premium systems that help people use AI with more clarity, structure, and judgment. At the same time, ECHO Careers will continue building practical tools for the person trying to get hired, change careers, prepare for an interview, negotiate compensation, or finally communicate the value of years of real work. And for the students and families preparing for university: We have not forgotten you. ECHO Academia begins rolling out August 1. We have already built new tools for applications, essays, interviews, degree discovery, and the documents families are expected to understand without ever being taught how. Careers and Academia are already operational across our languages. The dedicated website for job seekers and university applicants is complete. It will open in the coming weeks. This summer, we will preview the rooms one by one: Not rushed. Not reduced. The same standard of excellence for every community. Phase I proved the architecture. Phase II applies it to opportunity. 🇪🇸 LATAM Lo que acabas de ver no fue una maqueta. Las tres aplicaciones estaban activas, usando IA en vivo, y cada currículum se generó a partir de la nota que apareció en pantalla. La nota de LATAM estaba rota, arrugada, tachada y apenas legible. Aun así, ECHO convirtió una trayectoria real, cajero, barista y jefe de turno, en un currículum profesional orientado al siguiente paso: gerente de cafetería. No hubo cortes para ocultar el proceso. Solo aceleramos el tiempo de espera. Seguiremos desarrollando Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics y las herramientas profundas de ECHO. También seguiremos construyendo para quienes buscan empleo, una mejor carrera y una oportunidad real de demostrar lo que saben hacer. Y para quienes quieren entrar a la universidad: ECHO Academia comienza el 1 de agosto. 🎓 Las aplicaciones en español ya están funcionando. Muy pronto podrán verlas en acción. 🇻🇳 VIỆT NAM Những gì bạn vừa xem không phải là một bản mô phỏng. Cả ba ứng dụng đều đang hoạt động trực tiếp bằng AI thật. Mỗi CV được tạo từ chính tờ giấy ghi chú xuất hiện trên màn hình. Không có cảnh cắt để che giấu quá trình. Chúng tôi chỉ tăng tốc thời gian chờ. ECHO sẽ tiếp tục phát triển Pattern Audit, Drift Forensics và những công cụ giúp mọi người sử dụng AI rõ ràng, an toàn và có định hướng hơn. Đồng thời, ECHO Careers sẽ tiếp tục xây dựng cho những người đang tìm việc, đổi nghề, luyện phỏng vấn, thương lượng lương hoặc muốn biến kinh nghiệm thật của mình thành một hồ sơ chuyên nghiệp. Và đối với các bạn học sinh, sinh viên và gia đình đang chuẩn bị cho đại học: Chúng tôi chưa quên bạn. ECHO Academia bắt đầu được giới thiệu từ ngày 1 tháng 8. 🎓 Các ứng dụng tiếng Việt đã hoạt động. Những bản trình diễn đầu tiên sẽ sớm ra mắt. 🇯🇵 日本今ご覧いただいたのは、演出用のモックではありません。 3つのアプリはすべて実際に稼働し、画面に映ったメモから、それぞれの言語で履歴書を作成しました。結果を隠すためのカット編集はありません。待ち時間だけを早めています。 ECHOはこれからも、Pattern Audit、Drift Forensics、そしてAIをより明確に、構造的に、適切な判断とともに使うためのツールを開発し続けます。同時にECHO Careersでは、就職、転職、面接準備、給与交渉、そしてこれまでの経験を正しく伝えるための実用的なツールを作り続けます。そして、大学進学を目指す学生とご家族へ。皆さんのことも忘れていません。 ECHO Academiaは8月1日から順次公開します。🎓 日本語版のアプリはすでに稼働しています。デモも近日公開します。 Try Pattern Audit + Drift Forensics free now: 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 For exclusive career content and professional releases: 💼 Follow Restrained Depth AI on LinkedIn. 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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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