Aaron Blake

Please do a quick read of this. It’s short, well written, and will remove a bit of wool from over your eyes.

@webdevMason I thought so too, but the more recent slow-motion videos make it clear that the first shot came from the officer. It must have been the sun glinting off the victims gun in the other video at the moment th officer fired.

This is the only sensible explanation I've seen for the shooting, and somehow it once again only makes every aspect of this already horrible situation messier

Just returned from my first trip to China, mostly looking at the energy and robotics industries. Fascinating. Random observations, both business and general, below... 1/x

@johnarnold My experience was that it was not robust. You could walk right past without consequence. At least that was true 10 years ago - even in Beijing.

A security check including bag x-ray is required to enter subway stations, at least in major cities. It's interesting that most Western countries that are more dangerous do not do this, presumably for speed and cost. 14/x

@buccocapital @GrainSurgeon Often spans the entire GTM org. Includes marketing, partnerships, and related functions. Definitely a step above VP Sales.

@GrainSurgeon It’s just the VP of sales with title inflation

i have spent 15 years in SaaS and still don't know if CRO is a real job

@BarGlar @WarMonitor3 NATOnis meant to be a mutual defense alliance - that one what this is, given the tiny population and huge territory.

@makoblako @WarMonitor3 Maybe that's why they are in NATO? ;)

Leaders of five Greenland political parties issue statement saying “we don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danish, we want to be Greenlanders.”

@LibTearCreator1 I don’t understand why they aren’t arresting more of these people - there are multiple examples of assaulting a police officer.

BREAKING: Here is the original video CNN doesn’t want you to see!

This one is free to all -- and very VERY long. A lot of time went into this so if you're inclined to support the effort, you can do so at BuyMeACoffee -- link in my bio. Sat. PM not the best time to publish so RPs appreciated. open.substack.com/pub/shipwrecke…

@xwanyex He’s hitting his 60s - he’s probably just getting old unfortunately.

@bryan_johnson @_katetolo @grok put Bryan in a tutu and give the woman a dwarfs beard

My hand slides under her shirt, tracing the contours of her spine. The slow, deliberate movement ignites her mechanoreceptors, generating a current that speaks safety and pleasure. Microbursts lift the skin into goosebumps. Her hair stands perpendicular, increasing the drag of my fingertips. She asks for more. My left hand anchors the curve of her waist, pulling her close. My arms establish a perimeter of safety, holding back the world’s chaos.  The warmth soothes and excites.  Her vagus nerve activates, pulling her breath down deep and slow.  For days, we’ve architected this moment in messages. Our imaginations have already lived this. The pent-up energy radiates. My heart aches with affection for this woman. Her nervous system knows. It is the architecture of her cognition that pulls me in. She is Van Gogh, painting the world with the turbulence of possibility. Light pours in; her mind refracts it into color, shattering the monochrome of the status quo. My lips brush her cheek; my hands hold the nape of her neck.  The firm pressure asks her prefrontal cortex to stand down. She surrenders. This sacred entrance is earned. A thousand acts of reliability and trust precede. I whisper that she’s been missed, that I’ve longed. Deep within her cells, chromatin relaxes, inviting repair.  Wholeness saturates us. My lips press against hers; sensual want cascades through our nervous systems. My primitive brain tastes her chemistry, decoding the ancient immunological match. My hand glides over her abdomen to caress her breast. Her breath pulses, ragged and sharp, as her limbic system overrides the conscious mind. I circle the delicate skin of the areola. My fingertips graze the nipple. The tissue contracts and hardens. A current travels inward, awakening her.  She’s wet, though her body is not yet ready for entry. Nor am I finished tapping out the patterns of affection.  I slowly trace my hand down her body, mapping the terrain. I stop. It is calculated. Her hips rise, searching for the lost momentum.  She makes a sound—half frustration, half plea.  I’m in awe of the creation before me. I continue, taking a new route. Brushing close to tease. She wants more but must wait. The tension floods her brain with dopamine; oxytocin must follow. She craves union. Increased blood flow pulses serum through the vaginal walls, lubricating. Her cervix begins to tent, lifting the uterus in preparation. Too soon, and pain dominates. In concert with the symphony of her body, bliss awaits. Her vestibular bulbs engorge, forming a soft, pressurized cuff.  Her anatomy has remodeled itself for the dance. We merge. Our brain signals collapse into synchrony, phase-locking. No longer are we distinct neural patterns, but one shared waveform. Rhythmic motion now resolves as music.  Beads of sweat surface as we sway in concordance. Want washes over us, commanding all. Our egos quiet as the frontal cortex dims; future, past, and death evaporate. Now is all that exists.  We are transported into the tesseract, floating in and out of each other. Gravitational waves of motion compose a music of rapture. We climb toward the peak, descend again, maintaining perfect tension. Her legs wrap around me, demanding more. Boundaries are erased. Full body release waits in suspended agony, yet we stubbornly refuse to concede there is an end. We will grow young together. She ascends. The pelvic floor contracts rhythmically. A tidal wave of oxytocin lands ashore, bonding what logic cannot break. Hunger vanishes as prolactin signals all-consuming satisfaction. The cervix dips; the uterus contracts, drawing in the possibility of new life.  We lie together, interwoven. Her head rests on my chest as I trace the sheen on her back.  Outside this room, entropy reigns. Inside this room, our union commands repair; decay retreats. Our deep companionship has been earned. We bathe in the quiet certainty that we are one. They fell from grace because they sought knowledge. We seek knowledge to claw our way back in.

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

@PalmerLuckey @JeninYounesEsq And regardless, the guy she hit can’t feasibly stop time, lean over, and check the tires while in the middle of experiencing a hit and run.

@JeninYounesEsq The wheels are turned to the left when she hits the gas.

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus. It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her. ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her. Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable. I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

@Noahpinion Including the actors :)

I'm sorry, but TV shows can't keep it up with this "release eight episodes every 3 years" thing. Everyone forgets what was happening and everyone stops caring!

@SelflessGiftx @JeffNippard @JDVance The videos very clearly show him being hit and physically pushed

@makoblako @JeffNippard @JDVance Except he wasnt "hit".

This is preposterous. First of all, she's not waving the officers through and has no right to do so even if she were. She is waving another car through, before the officers approach her car. Second, the officers are not randomly searching her, they are approaching her vehicle because she is violating the law: namely, she is obstructing a lawful enforcement operation. You're not allowed to walk up to or drive up to people who are enforcing the law to make it harder for them to do their jobs. Third, this defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a "real police officer." Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing. Fourth, the officer didn't discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing. When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating. The gaslighting is off the charts and I'm having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him. A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.

@Alladdin1983 @MWhitney93679 How can you tell that it was the exact same agent? (Serious question, I can’t tell from the video)

🚨Breaking: The same ICE agent appears to have been dragged roughly 300 feet while executing an arrest warrant on an illegal alien, resulting in 33 stitches just six months ago. Video and full details below. Thanks to @MWhitney93679 for bring this to my attention. @DataRepublican @elonmusk cbsnews.com/minnesota/vide…

@JeffNippard @JDVance In this case, the video clearly shows the discharge happening as he was being hit, not after.

He shot her while standing on the side of the vehicle though. Here are cases where police moved out of the way of a moving vehicle and still illegally exercised deadly force. Adam's vs. Speers (2020): "Once Speers was no longer in the path of the vehicle, the justification for the use of deadly force ended." Orn vs. City of Tacoma (2019): "A reasonable jury could conclude that once Orn was no longer in the car's trajectory, the threat of serious physical harm to him was eliminated." Cordova vs Aragon (2009): "Where the officer had moved out of the way of the oncoming vehicle, the use of deadly force was not justified." Villanueva vs. Cali (2021): "a reasonable jury could conclude that the Officers used excessive force, because they lacked an objectively reasonable basis to fear for their own safety, as they could simply have stepped back or to the side to avoid being injured."

@CoachDanGo But in kilograms? 🧐

This is 100x better than the old food pyramid.

@pitdesi In some countries such as Australia, rentals don’t come with these - the tenant brings a fridge, or tenants sell them to each other when they move in and out!

As a landlord I’ve never contemplated NOT including refrigerators and stoves… and window dressings! Seems clearly superior for all parties if the landlord provides them

I don’t think these countries are interested in our rules. I suspect the precedent we set effects primarily other first world democracies. Furthermore, in this case, we appear to have 2 meaningful justifications. (a) the true elected leader of Venezuela is in the US is presumably supporting action - Maduro is not the elected leader. (b) they, and Maduro specifically, have been actively funneling drugs into the US, which may not be an act of war, but makes Maduro/Venezuela less than neutral parties.

So when China launches a special op to seize the president of Taiwan: or Russia tries to do the same for Zelensky - what exactly do we say? You can’t do that, it’s illegal?