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Call 074 97 21396 or go to dmgmotors.ie. Kevin Fury. Broadcasting throughout the Northwest and across the world online. This is Highland Radio. Welcome back to the program. Well, it's time to get down to the serious stuff because there are 2 cars to be won today at the Lederkenny Credit Union and as well as out there also cash prizes as well. Up for grabs. Let's rejoin Oshin Kelly. Yeah, thanks, Kevin. Welcome back. Kevin Fury and Oshin Kelly are the two names of the winners of the cars. That would be nice, Kevin, wouldn't it? Definitely, brilliant. Then back up the mountain top. I was down after the show. It's not going to happen, Kevin, unfortunately, but we will have two winners and a very, very short time for you because you've got Eugene here beside us who's spinning the drum and we've also got Funtin McGrath from the We Care Lederkenny Food Bank who is going to pick out the two tickets for the lucky winners for the car. So Funtin, if you want to join us at the front here. Eugene, does she need another spin? 5,000, if you look at my notes, 5,237 entries in for the car draw this year in 2023. We've already given away two cars earlier in the year to Collette Kelly and Frank Coyle and we've got two Toyota Yaris Cross, that is, two Toyota Yaris Cross cars given away this time around in conjunction with Kelly's Toyota. We've got young Joe Kelly with us to help us with the draw today as well. So Funtin, put the hand on there and dig deep into the drum. We welcome those that are watching on our social media channels as well, live on Facebook. So what's going to happen now is we've got the first of the tickets out for the draw and the number has been shown to the draw team, which is 2421. They will now check the list to see who that winner is, who the correspondent name is to that number. Eugene is going to put it back in the drum because this person has paid for the four draws. We're doing two draws today and they're entitled to be back in for the second draw. So we'll give it another spin there, Eugene. Good man. Working very hard. We thank the draw team, of course. We've put in a stunning effort. It was always led up by Ted McLaughlin. We've got Gordon Randall, CEO. Now Callan's here as well. Eugene is the man on the drum. He's putting the tickets that are stuck to the top back in. Let them fall down. Okay, Fenton, good man. So ticket number two, the winner of Chiara number two. The number being taken out is 5156. I'll just show the draw team, 5156. So the guys will look through the notes, see who the winner is. In the meantime, we're going to announce the winners of the cash prizes. And we'll go with the top two prizes first of all. Two 1,000 euros to be given away this afternoon. Natasha McCann of Letterkinny and Kiernan Muriel Shields from Letterkinny are the winners of the cash prizes at 1,000 euros. So congratulations there. We have got 800, 500 euro cash winners. The following will be pleased with their lift today. Frank Sweeney of Philcara, Patrick O'Donnell Letterkinny, Lisa Devlin Convoy, Andrea Johnson Manor Conningham, Mary Hoey Letterkinny, Pauline Higgins Letterkinny, Michelle McGroarty Letterkinny and Frances Gibson from Letterkinny. The eight winners of the 500 euro cash. Congratulations to each and every one of you. We've also got four 250 euro winners as well. Louise McBride Letterkinny, John Higgarty Letterkinny, Noel Ryan Remelton and Bernadette McHugh from Newton Cunningham. So well done to each and every one of the cash winners. And in the meantime, Eugene's going to give me the details of the car winners today. Up for grabs, two Toyota Yaris Cross cars. They're a fine looking machine. They're a hybrid. One of them sitting out the front in a lovely white colour. John Duffy from Milford is the first of the winners of the Toyota Yaris Cross. So congratulations to John Duffy from Milford. And the second car is going to a Remelton man. Well done to Paul O'Neill, winner of the second car as well. So round of applause for both John and Paul. They have just won themselves a Toyota Yaris Cross car. Once again in conjunction with Achilles and Toyota. So very well done to them. They will be absolutely delighted as well or cash winners. And once again, many thanks to the brilliant team down here at Letterkinny Credit Union for having us down for the draws. Once again, we've been coming here for quite a few years. And as always, they look after us very well. And they do a brilliant job with their draw. And congratulations again to all of the winners today. And we wish all the staff and the members all the best. So back to you in the studio, Kevin. Thank you very much. Oshin Kelly there.


Hello, and welcome to our How Small Is It segment on atoms. The ancient Greeks had two schools of thought on atoms. One was that you could take a substance like water and divide it and divide it and divide it infinitely. The other school said you can divide it and divide it and divide it to a point at which point you have the smallest piece of water, and if you separate that, it's not water anymore. In those days they didn't have any testing capabilities to verify one theory or another. But today we do. This segment is all about the atom and the pieces that go together to form an atom. In our first segment, we saw carbon atoms through the eye of an electron microscope. Their diameter was 0.14 nanometers. That's very small. There are more atoms in the breath of air that I just took than there are stars in the entire visible universe. But what do we really know about atoms? And the parts that go together to make an atom. That's what this segment is all about. We'll start with J.J. Thompson's guess as to the structure of these things, atoms. It's a fascinating story, and it'll put us on a path to understanding elementary particles and the Higgs boson.


I didn't realize how great the weather was until I came to Perth. We have really great work opportunities after we graduating so it's really good. I really love the lifestyle at Perth. It's really so relaxed and I really love it.


When we look at AWS, when we look at, of course, we can talk about whole OpenAI, Microsoft, Google. What difference do you see in AWS J and AI approach versus others? Yeah, it's interesting. You know, as I mentioned, all the hyperscalers started to look alike. They have a very similar framework blueprint approach strategy, whatever you call. They look very identical. But what stands out with AWS is, let me pull up my notes. So I think Amazon's USB is purpose-built hardware. They are actually delivering innovation at the hardware level, from AWS Nitro to Graviton to Tranium and Inferentia. That is a very, very important differentiator. And what it actually means is, when foundation models become mainstream, when customers tend to pre-train models, fine-tune models, the price-performance ratio that Amazon would be able to deliver with the homegrown hardware is going to be significant. It is going to become way cheaper for customers to fine-tune models and to run J and AI workloads. So Amazon's secret sauce will move from software to hardware. That is the biggest differentiating factor. So when customers look at a comparative analysis on how much does it cost to fine-tune a model, to pre-train a model, or to run a model on AWS versus Microsoft versus Google, Amazon is going to look far more cheaper. I think that is going to be one of the differentiating factor, and that is where the hardware innovation comes up. The second one, which is very unlike Amazon, is the choice of foundation models. So Amazon always puts the first-party product or a service as the primary service. Though they adopt a lot of open source, they brand it as a managed service, and it becomes a first-party service. But for the first time in the history of AWS, I have seen partners getting a lot of attention, and Amazon giving enough importance to model providers, whether it is anthropic, in which, of course, Amazon has invested, and AI 21, stable diffusion, cohere, they basically got all these models, and they also got Lama from Meta, and they are partnering with Meta. So the differentiating factor there is the best of the breed models coming from first-party, which is Amazon investing in Titan. Second is the most prominent commercial models in the form of anthropic plot to Jurassic from AI 21, or cohere's command. That is the proprietary choice of foundation models that are available. Third is the collection of open models, whether it is Falcon, or Lama, or Mistral eventually. So all of those will become available, and this wide range of foundation models and the choice will actually become a key differentiating factor. Third one, which is, again, very unique to AWS, and they're going to really capitalize on this, is the data gravity. So if you look at S3, Redshift, RDS, Aurora, and a variety of data services that Amazon has, a significant part of internet data lives on AWS Cloud. Now they are going to enable GenAI with all those investments and enabling customers to basically bring the data living in all these sources into their applications and their GenAI applications. And honestly speaking, Amazon hasn't done as much as it needs to do with that in the sense connecting the dots across various data services and building pipelines to feed the data into GenAI foundation models. But eventually, that is going to become the biggest differentiating factor because just like they say a significant part of internet runs on AWS, a significant part of data lives on AWS and enabling customers to consume that data in a very effective mechanism to build foundation models or train foundation models and build GenAI applications or key differentiating factor to summarize hardware innovation, choice of models and data gravity. I think those are the key differentiating factors for AWS.


Rob always always down to clown with the DTNS crew Feel like it can do well the beast It's not what they make they can As they make their massive migration from So all that Roger I am to believe that you have a Familiarity with the sound of a will to be but not the concept of the World Cup I Used to be really big in animals Used to be yeah I'll be honest growing up. I played sports, but I was never really interested in competitive sports There's a difference between that which is a fair point to make and we respect you for it and saying I've never heard of the Cup which I didn't say I'd never heard What was going on I was not up-to-date your I think that's what I think you're excessively Let's roll the tape ribbing me. I Don't actually know what a will to beast is full disclosure. What is it? What Sarah? You know What the World Cup is and you don't know what a will to be stance I just think of it as a very large animal that I've never seen before it has four legs. How has horns You see those African Serengeti Nature shows where the lion kills like the horned animal that has like a mane on the back that is in a zebra It's probably a will to be I thought that was like There's also a water buffalo, but they're very dangerous and Very that they're attacked very infrequently when they're full grown Well, so sorry. I'm so into sports speaking of draft on Thursday Who's excited? Justin I'll tell you what I'm excited to see because there's a couple pieces in play now as of course LeBron James free agent that will probably reshift things and we have no more time because we have to start the show Absolutely Sarah Lane. It is your turn to all right convince the people in three Daily Tech news show is powered by you to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Monday June 18th 2018. I'm Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. Are you sure Tom? I'm Sarah Lane From Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert young and of course we wouldn't be complete without our producer Roger Chang Hello, I do know what a will the beast is. I'm a little fuzzy on the world cup That's okay. Listen to the pre-show on patreon for more on that. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Google will invest $70 million in China's second largest e-commerce company JD.com 10 cent and Walmart are also investors in JD Survey monkey registered for an initial public offering on Monday Survey monkey, which was founded 1999 says it currently has over three million daily users Sandia National Laboratory is adopting HPE's arm based Supercomputer called Astra as an experimental platform for nuclear research goes well It could be actually integrated in regular research Astra is a more powerful Efficient supercomputer with faster memory speeds than x86 CPUs which makes it great for bandwidth sensitive applications The US Supreme Court says it will hear Apple's appeal against a ruling that Apple breaks antitrust laws with its app store A class action lawsuit says Apple monopolizes the sale of apps leading to inflated prices Google's data Lee app which helps reduce data usage has added the ability to find nearby Wi-Fi hotspots set data limits for yourself and Others and find unused apps that consume data so you can delete them that last one is something I want definitely Yeah, all right Let's talk a little bit more about 9-1-1 This is one of those stories that I think is good, but it's getting a lot more buzz than I expected Maybe it's cuz it's one of those Apple Finally getting on board with something other phones have and the iOS people getting very excited Apple announced that iOS 12 will automatically share your location with first responders during 9-1-1 calls in the US If the call center supports it So there's a protocol that iOS will support any emergency call centers here in the US that support that will be able to Automatically locate it and it's more than just geo location with Wi-Fi and GPS There there's a improved way of doing it In fact Apple says it should exceed the FCC's 2012 requirement of pinpointing your location within 165 feet a Minimum of 80% of the time which is which is very accurate And they say there's assurances that location info will only be shared with the 9-1-1 center during the call and won't go anywhere else Doesn't it kind of seem like 9-1-1 in 2018 is almost outdated This is part of it, right? It's like well if you were in an emergency And you really needed help, you know and someone on the other line is like where are you? What's the cross street that kind of thing like this is really helpful? What's interesting is that it sounds like what Apple is doing is Basically absorbing another company that's been doing this for a while, but I was 12 pardon me will not Make you download this separate app, which of course a lot of people would know to do Sure, I almost wonder whether or not there's something to just having an app where The full range of sorting what what issue you need with the government your local government that if it's like an absolute emergency It should be different like I don't know it seems like there's a lot of data that when we interact with law enforcement We would be more willing to do it if it were Had less friction that we have in almost every other way of life I kind of feel like 9-1-1 is doing what you're saying No, because you still have to call them Well, I mean to make a phone call and in many situations where you need 9-1-1. That's a major problem Button I don't have to actually dial the numbers anymore Sure, right and like let's say, I don't know you're you're bleeding out.  I mean I can say hey voice actor vaded assistant call the emergency call I don't say 1-1-2, but you know, yeah, no, I'm saying that this is a good step in the right direction I'm also Yes, anding. I think that we could even go further than I thought you're trying to get to a 9-1-1 It's a joke in your town That's a whole He's out of there depends on the town On a totally different note Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid a video discussion platform app that uses video to make Collaborative lesson plans where students can discuss and reply to topics with video clips at home or in the classroom Microsoft VP Iran Me Said that Flipgrid will continue to work across Microsoft Google and partner Ecosystems the company also says more than 20 million teachers and students in more than 180 countries are now using the service I have never used it before not a student but I did actually play around with it a little bit earlier and It's very cool. It seems Unorganized almost in the way that I would assume Facebook might have been in the early days when it was a lot of students and nobody else but Knowledge base is is cool and the fact that Microsoft is dropping paid plans now that they're Acquiring Flipgrid means that they're you know, they're serious about the education sector. Oh, yeah No, they need to be Microsoft really wants to supplant Google And keep Apple Declining in the education space the education market is a competitive market for all three of those companies And not to discount Facebook and Amazon which also have a passing interest, but hardware wise You can sell a lot of hardware if your business is selling hardware Which Google's is with Chromebook and apples and Microsoft certainly is as well You want to have as many advantages and being able to say hey We're the folks that bring you Flipgrid where the power we can give you a little extra with that Is just it's another checkbox not going to make all the difference, but it's another thing to add to that list Geek wire notice that Amazon has discontinued the Mayday button on its fire Tablets Mayday was a service first introduced with the fire phone that let users reach a human for face-to-face support with one tap Fire tablet owners will continue to have access to support via phone chat and email and screen sharing with support staff will remain functional I always wondered if this was a bad idea And I assumed Amazon had taken enough Enough precautions and was done the calculations to assure that the money spent on it would be well worth it and increase subscriptions I wonder if a lot of those calculations and preparations Required the fire phone to be successful because it sounds like an Amazon hasn't said why it's removed this It just kind of quietly did it and people started to notice But it sounds like it was expensive first of all and maybe not worth it and be people were using it to prank If you go to YouTube and search Mayday videos You find a lot of people like hey sing happy birthday to my friend or you know like doing things It's not designed to do. Yeah, the name Mayday is not great Probably Amazon didn't get enough. Yeah, didn't get enough actual Questions that they thought that their support center could answer and apparently they were getting those questions and people liked it But they were also getting all those other stuff too. Also, it's this is a world that isn't you know Less and less are you going to drop a tablet into somebody's hands and then be like what? I can't do a thing Mayday right because that was what it's for and to me it seemed like a lot of getting to know you kind of stuff that Amazon was still new into that game They wanted to make sure that this is a thing that without it without a question You can buy as a gift drop it in your You know your your older parents hands and they're not going to just make it a paperweight because they are scared of it That there's a button that they can hit. I will bet you at some point in the next 10 years Because of AI and advances in machine learning The cost will come down the the cost will be appropriate to hire real humans to do something like this Someone some company will launch a replacement service and we'll say oh my gosh It's your member Amazon Mayday and the disaster it was I can't believe they're trying it again except that time It'll work in the future Know this day lock it in Tom's of a moonshot of the week In Salt Lake City this week scientists from Nvidia are presenting an unsupervised neural network speaking of machine learning That can add an arbitrary number of frames to a video in order to simulate slow motion They call the technique variable length multi-frame Interpretation now you could slow down any video and make it slow But it gets jerky if it doesn't have enough frames so what this does is takes one convolutional neural network and Estimates the pattern of motion of all the objects and services and edges between the two frames That are that you're slowing down and then creates a 2d vector of predicted motion called a flow field and says well Even though we only have these two frames Let's assume that the ball goes this way and this particle goes that way all right a second convolutional neural network Then uses that flow field to predict what parts of the scene would disappear behind other parts and applies it to the two images It's called a visibility map So the flow field then warps the image in a way like you think you've seen like one face warp into another it Does that and transitions one frame smoothly to the next the team train the networks with 240 frame per second YouTube videos Including some slow mo guy videos that were already slow motion and they made them even slower They used an Nvidia Tesla v100 GPU set and a CU DNN accelerated pytorch deep learning framework to do all this It looks good it is You got to watch the video because they'll show you like this is what the video would look like if we just slowed it down And it's kind of jerky right because the frames don't roll smoothly together when they're going too slow And then it shows you what this neural network did and it just looks like slow mo video Yeah, no it is amazing and it also kind of shows you You know, I think we've thought specifically with phones that we've kind of hit a saturation point in terms of the tech for photography and video But as we get more powerful technology Not only on the on the on the desktop but also in mobile I think we could continue to see super super super rad stuff Yeah, the problem with this is you can't do it in real time So they're like even if we could bring it to people to use on their phones It would have to be a cloud service at this point. So there's still some work to do Amazon began offering Amazon Prime in Australia which offers free delivery streaming video and more Amazon has restricted Australian shoppers to using only the Australian version of the site to avoid collecting Australian sales tax We've talked about this recently However, Amazon's vice president of prime international Jamie Ghani said that Australian amazon prime subscribers could get free international delivery of items offered on the u.s website So The trial Ghani did not enlighten us as to how this is possible. Does it mean they're just going to pay the tax for people? because it would seem that Even if you say, okay, if you're prime user, you'll be able to order that u.s stuff You'd still have to pay the tax for Australia somehow, right? That also just might be a getting everybody on board Kind of thing that you can slowly restrict, right? Or maybe not. I don't know. I don't know the whole point of this was yeah that you know Australia was having its own store didn't have the same stuff that maybe the I am Of the opinion that possibly of the view that possibly it's kind of like Costco where they make a significant chunk of their Revenue based on membership cards not just merchandise sales. That's absolutely true. You're right. Yeah This might be like well, yeah, we might have to pay the the import tax But we're gonna bet that not enough people buy a lot of big items And so the tax will not exceed the amount of revenue we would get from people Just signing up and paying the the annual subscription fee Yeah, I would I would modify that a little bit where they make their money is selling Items to the subscribers because they're going to buy more if they're a subscriber But I think you're right. They're betting that okay if we get them to sign up as a subscriber They'll buy more stuff and honestly most of it will be in Australia So just saying that you'll be able to get the stuff from the u.s We'll end up bringing them in but we won't have to pay that much extra that could be it It's definitely, you know, it's definitely a gamble, but they probably have the the statistics to say like, you know, hey You know, yeah, some people stuff will buy like, you know an oddball, you know, $2,000 item from the u.s But most, you know, most of the stuff is like 10 20 bucks and it's you know, it's pocket change to the amount of money We're gonna rake in It would not be unusual for a site to say people complain more than they actually use Uh and then just bank on that in this case Well, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines. It's available on the anchor app google home The amazon echo and of course as a podcast you can find it at daily tech headlines dot com The internet and conspiracy theories we think of them as hand in hand these days The next web has reposted an article from the conversation written by Karen Douglas a professor of social psychology at the university of kent about How conspiracy theories spread online now a lot of you probably think the internet is responsible for a rise in conspiracy theories And professor douglas points out there's no evidence That the internet makes conspiracy theories spread But there is evidence that it deepens the commitment to believing them among those who already do so Just running through the article which is absolutely worth a read and she's got Great citations of all the studies that she's talking about uh the conversation does a great job She points out first of all conspiracy theories aren't new they go back to ancient rome There's a whole book called conspiracy narratives in roman history where you can read about it There's no evidence that people are more prone to believe conspiracy theories now Because of the internet an analysis of published letters to the editor of the new york times Showed that between 1897 and 2010 Theorizing remained steady conspiracy theories remained steady With peaks only happening during the depression in the late 1800s not even the 30s But the late 1800s and the red scare of the 1950s. That's when the conspiracy theories spiked But since the internet happened in the mid 90s, there hasn't been another spike like that the conclusion that she comes to in her article is that It seems like conspiracy theories are deepened in some online communities Believers tend to join communities and and she cites all the studies that support this Believers tend to join communities with other believers Those communities tend to keep out non-believers And filter out at any contrary information So it strengthens their belief because they build their own little echo chamber And believers in one theory are more likely to share Another conspiracy theory, even if it's unrelated 77.92 of likes and 80.86 of comments Were from users usually interacting with conspiracy stories on other conspiracy stories According to another one of these Journal and peer reviewed studies that she talks about so I I love this because I'm constantly saying well Hold on fake news conspiracy theories echo chambers. What's the evidence say? This is useful This helps you actually build a way to combat it to say, okay Now we know where the problem is the problem is the people who believe them solidify What can we do to relieve that? well, and I think the the you know the easy answer which is what I came up with this morning is like Well, you know, but the internet just helps, you know information travel faster, right? So none of this has really changed over the years It's just that the internet uh is is is heightening all of this But it doesn't really address the issue of why this happens in the first place Well, I think that the the roots of it again are Kind of eternal right like as long as we have had a recorded civilization or the the peak of of a civilization in ancient Rome that was worth studying We found traces of people being like well, you want to know what really happened Uh, so that's just kind of I think just a quirk of the human brain Julius Caesar was an inside job, which actually it was that's it was it? Yeah, so that one turns out put that one in the check mark column there The beautiful thing about the internet is that everything is verifiable And so in a lot of ways, I think Sarah you're right and this proves it That the internet does what it what we have the optimists have always assumed that it does get information out faster It makes it more readily available and that leads to smarter decision making The other end of this is if everything is verifiable, then we know to a granular detail Exactly how far people fall into an echo chamber when it comes to conspiracies because We can see the message boards and we can count the likes and we can count the interactions and then create data based on it, but At the end of the day It seems like we're getting better. I mean look if according to these studies We what we can Consider to be at least I consider to be the golden age of american conspiracy theory was the 1970s And that doesn't even apparently register compared to uh, some of the the gigantic peaks of the 1950s and the uh late 1800s Well, think about it one of one of the reasons conspiracy theories were so Popular in the 70s was because we had real conspiracies being unearthed with the watergate the pentagon papers, etc but a hallmark of that time are things like The principia discordia and the illuminatus trilogy which are making fun of conspiracy theories Uh, and so it shows that people are like, hey, there's real conspiracies. They get pulled out in the light of day, you know We're not going to really believe that there's there's all this other weird crazy stuff And and that makes sense to me and it ties into what you're saying, justin Which is we have more light of day on things than we've ever had before And I think we've also gotten spoiled by that faster than ever before so that you know Things don't move linearly when suddenly it darkens a little and and there's there's people trying to hide stuff We start to think oh things are getting worse and it's the internet's fault and it turns out Well, no, it's just the cycle of human behavior And that's why I love stuff like this is you could say well, tom You're just being naive, but the there is no evidence that we are believing conspiracy theories in greater numbers So if we spend a lot of energy trying to stop people from believing conspiracy theories We're kind of fighting the wrong battle. We need to target like okay Where are these conspiracy theories? Hardening and causing people to do more dangerous things and more extreme things because they're hardening in their belief That's where we should be spending the time in my opinion Uh, yeah, but to to the point about deepening conspiracy theories The rise or rather popular discussion over flat earth conspiracy theories is always my my favorite because talk about deepening nine times out of 10 In my anecdotal, uh research into this A flat earth conspiracy is always the voltron Of four other separate different conspiracy theories. You very rarely just wake up and say well, obviously the earth is flat It's more likely you believe that they uh, that there's a line to you You have a general distrust that there is yes that there is a control of the media that One-world government that there are uh falsifications in the scientific community at the very least that the people that uh, went that you know, the moon landing was a hoax and then when you Mash all of them together you get The grandest of all lies that has been hidden Which is that we indeed live on a flat disc as opposed to a round sphere and that is Fascinating to me and and it is it is informed by this that A conspiracies are meant to interlock and b the one thing that we can prove Through our verification of the internet is that these things have gone Deeper and deeper. Well and look at facebook twitter Any large social network is now trying to figure out. Okay. How do we try to mitigate disinformation and make everybody You know feel safer and and this whole thing because they're huge and now they have to solve a problem that already exists snopes.com Pretty much always has my answer Anytime i'm like is this real or not, you know, but that that's a very antiquated Solution, right? It's it's um It that's the only real website that I can think of. I mean unless you're like trolling reddit for a while that uh, you know kind of Seeks to unmask a lot of these things instead of people just sort of Talking bubbles. Oh, no, there's I mean first of all. Yes. It's the only one that's broad, but there's politifact Uh, there's fact checked out politically oriented, but also you can just do a search I think we forget that like you don't even have to go to snopes. Just be like hold on What is always the first result? What does the new york times have to say about this? What is you know, what and maybe you don't believe the new york times? What is what are the journal articles say like you can find reputable sources that comment on stuff? uh, so so they're you know just You don't even need snopes is great because it it It takes all that stuff and puts it together for you. Uh, but there's there's more information out there than ever if you just go and look for it The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously Hey speaking of reddit, thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit Submit stories and vote on other stories at daily tech news show reddit.com if you want to hang out on facebook We're there too facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Let's Look in the mail bag dare we we got a nice email from patrick and main who says I've been listening to tom merit hosting shows for a long time now a decade Can't afford to put too much in in the patreon pool, but just wanted to say tom Thank you you do an excellent job at hosting and telling news in a way that usually makes me fall asleep within 10 minutes I'd say thank you patrick, but you're asleep by now so Sweet dreams. No, it's great. It's great. I think um, I think I don't know I mean I have my podcast that I kind of listen to sort of at the end of the day So I don't think he's saying you put him to sleep. He's saying you soothe him to sleep I think that that podcasting like radio before it is a tremendously personal medium and for somebody To feel comfortable in a very vulnerable position as we all are and going to sleep. I think is a tremendous I know it all series this I take is a great compliment and I have been inspired Uh to put out my next audiobook Tom explains blockchain to sleep by Yeah, have insomnia by my book not an FDA approved sleep aid Uh, no, it all thank you patrick in vain or someone when patrick wakes up. Tell him. 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We're also live monday through friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 2030 UTC you can find out more at daily tech news show dot com slash live back tomorrow with the now very happy to have youtube premium patrick bezha dr. Then This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com Primemen club hopes you have enjoyed this program Good show good show Good the survey is still going on you can still take the survey We'll we'll keep an eye on it We put a weak deadline on it because we wanted to talk about it on the the quarterly analyst hangout, but But it's still there. We didn't we didn't end it. So yeah What do you think uh Tom's bookcase it has to be a green screen No That could be any episode anytime plus it only applies to video Flat earth is the voltron of conspiracy theories I like that one um People voted up uh no rise in conspiracy theories. They say That's funny You can know it and still deny it I guess that means know the truth, but yeah still did It's very um ex files Do they start the new season do they have a new season it it I I know it started. I don't know I finished the last Last season with the weird cult it's harvesting organs, but I think that was the last episode as well having somnia buy my book I'm james badersen. I write everything you should read it I remember when s and l made uh made fun of his uh his somewhat prodigious writing and They had robert deniro as kind of this uh as as kind of the uh Kind of that character, you know the author um, james badersen like And he all these titles were ridiculous were so funny one of them that stood out was the pokemon deception I don't know why it's just really funny James badersen i'll tell you what I I almost felt Bad for james badersen. I'm sure he Retired back to his igloo made of $100 bill bricks feel bad about himself, but He in those uh that that that today show interview with the new bill clinton book that he wrote that turned into a dissection of Bill clinton's place in a post me to world.  I guess yeah, I'll just I'll just be here Glad I wrote this book with the next president I'm gonna go shoot with money going back to my igloo going back to my money igloo I like flat earth is the voltron conspiracy theory yep Going twice sold sold conspiracy Um, would you guys mind terribly if I yes look off Yep, I wouldn't mind at all. We'll talk about you constantly after you go ahead and leave but then the conversation Remember the movie the constant gardener? Well, this is the constant gossip the constant gossip I can I can understand and I will rejoin you guys on thursday Uh, but thank you for allowing me to bow out early. Oh, yeah, no problem. Thanks. Thanks. Justin see thursday Oh You know we uh, I forgot I know we said uh, Lamar wilson was going to be on the show on friday and then we did not acknowledge that but we actually didn't because All right, so this is a coincidence. Did we not say that on friday? It's a completely fortunate coincidence I miswrote justin for monday. So you said justin. Oh really though. Yes. Oh, I'm looking at that down That's why I didn't want to say anything. Was it a mistake or clairvoyance roger I know I didn't realize until after the show Just don't say anything when we feel good as a producer He like can see through time Our google docs have become omnipresence You know that actually sounds like a really good twilight episode Twilight's a or black mirror where technology sees in the future for you just a few Days ahead That's awesome. Well, I guess take it back. Lamar wilson was never going to be on this show I don't know what you're talking about. Where'd you hear that? Well, you said no, I didn't say anything But I never said that he was Sure, sure Well, if you were like, wait a minute, isn't lamar on a monday sometimes. Yes, and he will be again. Don't worry He uh, he had something come up at the last minute today I think justin. I think roger paid him off So His the rundown would still be accurate. I'm not wrong here Here's a hundred dollar brick. I stole from patterson's money igloo. That's what that's what rich people do Isn't it like I can't be wrong. I'm gonna pay you to make it. No throw money at the problem until it's right I wish people would throw me maybe I could be the problem and people would throw money at me like like literal money Throw me some of those bricks We go to next time you go to comic con or or any convention get a t-shirt that says the problem And then in parentheses try throwing money at it Throwing money at it may solve I guarantee. I'll just get a lot of coupons People don't carry coupons. It's a conference. No, but Shannon morse does she carries coupons everywhere. That's a good point She's a coupon. It's a real thing. Yeah, I think it's every time I see those coupons. It's for things I wouldn't use regularly.  It's a way it's a loyalty program It's like make sure you keep going Ralph's because hey, look at this. We give you cool stuff I went and shopped last week with my fist full of Ralph's coupons Pulled all the things that I had coupons for that I needed Walked up to the cash register and didn't use them Uh, I've done that once and I kicked I kicked this You just didn't want to I just forgot I have done my pocket in my shirt I I was carrying them as I'm shopping and then as I go up to the counter I'm like, oh, I'll just put them in my pocket. So I don't drop them and then I totally forgot I missed that on $15 worth of grocery savings because I left the coupons I had a shopping list and all the coupons and I left the coupons back on the fridge On because I didn't want to lose them. So I'll just leave them back on the fridge with the magnet I'll put them in a safe place. That's the it's the death of coupons I mean, it wasn't the end of the world because it was again all stuff I would have bought anyway.  Yeah I said, well fine. I want the brown gravy out of that. I'll go with the turkey gravy out of that I had nothing nothing But that's why they issue those coupons a lot of times is to move Product yeah, I have I have six cans of tomato paste like those little cans of tomato paste because they're great I don't know what to do with them you make pasta I was thinking of making pizza like with bobbly, but I remember not liking bobbly. I'll give you my spaghetti recipe Yeah, you got a season that paste Yeah All my spaghetti sauces have a combination of tomato sauce tomato paste um You know spices and stuff garlic Yeah You know, that's the one thing I really missed about not shopping at 99 ranch Which for anyone who doesn't know 99 ranch is a I think it's still so Cal and maybe uh, western Arizona Uh supermarket. Oh no not so in Texas supermarket. That was originally focused on the asian american market, right? So we had nothing in the area too, didn't we? No, we had something like A 99 ranch. Oh no, they did it was on on the east bay. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought So You know and and like I guess 10 years ago got bought out by a big american Uh supermarket chain But one of the things they offer in the prototype is peeled ready to smush garlic pieces Which is great because normally when you buy garlic, they're like little onions You got to peel them and do all these are already already shucked ready to be just sell that Ralph's and Whole Foods too They were they were so cheap Oh, that's why it was like it was like a package for like 99 cents. That's pretty good. Yeah, is that where the 99 comes in? Uh things is it like 99 cent store or no?  It's not a deep fry The skin where it's crispy People love the pork rinds lechon kind of Yeah, I guess that would be lechon has more meat stuck to it.  That's not good for you if you eat too much Oh, but so god So hungry now I went to subway yesterday So that happened, you know ever since I ever since the hole we make made our bread out of that One ingredient that they used in exercise mats or something. I haven't gone back Yeah, I don't do it often, but I don't know. I wanted a sandwich and it was so close and it was good I think the only I'm trying to remember what I think was the meatball the meatball is the only thing I really got there that I liked So when you were saying you miss 99 ranch, you're saying you miss it before it got bought or no One of the things is that uh, no, no, what what what I miss about it is that it's very far away And it's a very infrequent shopping experience, but there's a bunch near you Yeah, like, you know 45 minutes away. It's not near but it's close. They're like in the pasadena and Down in al-monte like I know I was just at it like two weeks Oh, okay. All right too much of a drive. Gotcha. You know how it is. It's not the it's not the distance. It's the Traffic. Yeah, and there's no direct road. I guess is there and as as with all things asian american, uh, the parking lots are always packed Um, I think that you could just unlike other parking lots with los angeles there and No, no, I mean like it's always packed no matter when you go on a weekday and morning evening My statement still stands people need groceries Oh, they sell those little desserts things, you know, like the peanut like my peanut milk soup Oh, yeah, I saw your picture of that It's it's really nauseating if you think about it, but it's good for me It's soggy. It's soggy peanuts and sweetened milk I don't know if it's because we've been watching so much terrace house But Eileen went over to a mitzua marketplace this weekend and bought a bunch of groceries there So she made japanese curry and uh, I made uh, yeah, you're close to that one. Oh, yeah, it's right. It's pretty near, uh, some some ground beef and What else did she make she oh, she got these little like, uh, anchovy snacks japanese anchovies So much good stuff over there. So good It is You know, and I don't understand why They can get those great price because 99 ranch now is owned by a large American supermarket conglomerate But like strawberries I got a basket of just standard size strawberries 99 cents and they're all good Like it wasn't like all these are really bland or anything if anyone wants to know this is what milk peanut soup looks like Let's see Oh It's like some tapioca nightmare. There's no tapioca. It's literally sweet. I know it just kind of has that like Well, I'm not gonna say it's bad because I've never had it You if you like peanuts, you'll like it. I think Sort of if you like peanuts in your cereal in the morning, you'll like Is it repeat? Is it repeat that? 99 ranch is owned by Tawa supermarket incorporated a taiwanese company. Is it I remember them getting bought up by Oh No, apparently not Apparently they got bought out by Tawa supermarket company, but which is a big company Uh, point of this uh, and it maintains its own production facilities in china Uh for quality control and cost Also, you know call me a conspiracy theorist, but a bunch of strawberries that taste good for that cheap some weird They're made of people Typically on that stuff. It's because they buy what the supermarkets don't buy right. Yeah It's like overstock for well Yeah, when the supermarket goes like the the buyer goes out they go to Well, my dad used to go to you go to like a wholesaler and you say like I want 20 cases of That head of lettuce, you know five cases of these tomatoes and stuff like that, but the Vans and Safeway and Ralph's they all get like first dibs because they're like buying a lot like thousands Uh, so because 99 ranch a lot of other grocery stores are smaller.  So you can kind of they'll stay a little bit longer in your fridge But like the ones at 99 ranch were like, okay. These are ripe. You gotta eat them like in the next two days Jason Chen I gotta make myself go to 99 ranch one of these days. I love it. I don't think it was acquired in 90 1993 Uh 99 ranch invested in a chinese canadian supermarket chain called tnt supermarket along with unipresident Enterprises corporation of taiwan But it never sold itself It does franchising though Oh, you need supermarkets Interesting Yeah There you go. It's really good like themed supermarkets You know, there's met suya. There's bay cities that we went to where it's like it's all italian like it just sort of like Condenses everything so if you want to make something it's all the theme is already there Which also keeps me out of huge grocery stores where there's too much choice But like the prices are great. I mean most of it's pre-packaged stuff But even on the fresh stuff, it's pretty inexpensive. Let's say a quick goodbye to the video folks Bye See you tomorrow


Hey I don't really know how to start this because it's like one of those situations where you have so much to say But like so much so that you don't have anything to say, but hi I in case you didn't know you may not have noticed most of you probably didn't notice But I did take a break from this channel for like the last three months, and I'm still Contemplating how frequently I want to come back I'm still kind of playing around with that And I just thought I would like catch up with you and let you know sort of why I took a break Give you a little bit more of an explanation than just sort of the glazed over version that I gave in a community post When I decided to take a break, but basically I just woke up one day, and I was like And we'll get into all that but it genuinely feels so good to be filming this right now Like I was really excited when I was getting ready because there was especially during the last three months a time Where I like I really thought I was never gonna do this again So we'll get into all that but hi over the last six years or so I have vlogged pretty regularly like twice a week every single week and I've never really missed apart from when I take breaks after vlog Miss and I don't know I just really needed to reassess my relationship with YouTube because I've been filming YouTube videos for 10 years now I had my 10 year anniversary for my main channel back in January, and I'm so sorry in advance for how loud it is outside It's just I live in LA so it's just par for the course But I like you know 10 years ago I started my main channel and at the time I was a waitress I was waiting tables full-time and then I would like get up really early in the morning and film a YouTube video and then go To work and then come home from work and edit the video and then like wake up extra early before my shift the next day You know that type of thing and then it became my full-time job and then you know I don't know three or four years into having a YouTube channel. I Got a second channel. It was the kind of the thing that everyone used to do back in the day It was like, okay, you have your main channel for your main channel content, which is like, you know sit down videos That's what YouTube used to be anyway, and then you have your separate channel for vlogs It was just very important for me to keep that content separate And I have mixed opinions about that now like if I would ever combine my channels and just do like Two uploads a week on my main channel and do like a vlog and like a thrifting video or something So I don't know we'll see how that goes in the future, but for now I really do actually like having them separate so anyway once I started vlogging I was from like, you know still very much like the old school YouTube mentality of vlogging And I feel like I was just incredibly open and vulnerable Which I you know have a lot of respect for myself for doing that takes a lot of bravery to like be super open about Everything in your life, but I don't know the older. I've gotten you know, I'm 35 now Which is crazy which makes me you know a dinosaur in YouTube years But I you know since turning 30 and then just progressing in my 30s I've just become a lot more protective of my privacy and my peace And so like I feel like over the years YouTube has changed a lot the landscape of YouTube has changed a lot YouTube has become like super mainstream. It's like a dream career for a lot of like they do like surveys of kids in elementary school And they're like I want to be a youtuber and I love this job. I just have to say I love this job so much And I am so grateful for this job for someone who's neurodivergent like me and really struggles with like Authority and keeping long-term jobs being my own boss and being able to do this and connect with you all is Genuinely my dream come true like I could not dream of a better jobs and I've said this before I will literally ride this thing till the wheels fall off like I just love YouTube. I'm a YouTube viewer I'm a YouTube fan YouTube genuinely means so much to me I had no idea that when I first started watching like viral videos in 2006 like shoes and Muffins and David after the dentist and stuff that like YouTube would be my career someday But anyways, I'm getting off track when I first started making vlogs I just was a little bit more open than I feel comfortable with now and I was that way on my main channel too I've since like private at all my story time videos Private in a bunch of old vlogs just things that I don't feel like super comfortable Sharing on the internet anymore and that's just due to like boundaries changing and stuff And I think that that's like really important for a lot of creators to do and just people in their day-to-day life Like reassessing where you're at and seeing what you're comfortable sharing and keeping things for yourself So anyways, I've been trying to strike that balance for many years And I feel like I've done a pretty good job of like figuring out what I am and am not comfortable sharing But I don't know it was just Where do I begin with this it was just a thought in the back of my mind for a really long time how You know the Downsides of this job can be really low sometimes and you can kind of equate a lot of Comments and things that you get on the internet to like your value as a person because people are commenting on you as a person And I think there's one thing about like my main channel mostly being like fashion and testing viral products and thrifting and all that kind Of stuff when someone like leaves a critical comment It's just kind of like oh, okay Like that's something I can improve on or if someone's like lol your fat like that doesn't bother me But sometimes the comments on my vlogs, you know, because it's me and my life and my personal life and what I'm choosing to share It's like usually about my personality or my relationships or your perception of like the five minutes that I show you of whatever thing I'm doing and it can feel really yucky sometimes to you know It's like you have that voice in your head, right? Everyone has that voice in their head that says like the nastiest thing about yourself and then to have other people say those things Is really painful. It's really painful. And so I am not making this video to get sympathy at all whatsoever I am totally fine. I am in a great place mentally I think I just want to vent a little bit and just like put this out there have it be a little bookmark and then move on You know, I also just hate the idea of addressing negativity online So I will keep this really brief because Sometimes I feel like it comes across as like really ungrateful when creators are like constantly talking about negativity It's just part of what comes with this job But on the other hand it does really have an effect on like your mental health at times So I thought that I would just kind of like briefly touch on it and say my piece and then wipe my hands clean of it And go about my life So similar to like what I mentioned before You know when you put yourself out there online and you feel like you're just genuinely trying to like connect people or Like have something for you to put on when you're like doing your laundry or cooking or hanging out or whatever It can feel so shocking sometimes to receive such Hateful like vicious negative comments that are just so Charged emotionally and they're these long paragraphs about you and who you are and how disappointed they are in you and how they've watched you for so Many years and that one thing you did just ruined it for them all these different things and it's like the most minute thing It genuinely shocks me every time like it's something that completely comes out of left field and I'm literally left scratching my head being like What that's what you took from that I think what really hurts the most is having people just assume the worst of you Especially when for me anyway, I really value myself on like being a decent person Of course, I've had things in my past that you know have been less than favorable But I always try to like grow and learn from those things and like just be better So when someone picks something and then is like you're a bad person or you know Just it's like a real bummer when someone just assumes that you have the worst of intentions or that you meant the worst possible thing Or taking something and twisting it and making it into something. It's not everything, you know And I mean I could go through a laundry list of things that I have been like accused of or assumed of me over the years like that I'm lying about my sexuality for Popularity or that me not disclosing certain things about my personal life is me trying to hide it or that my Relationship is x y and z like you know, there's all these different things. These are like actual I don't want to get into like cuz it's it's just nasty But yeah, even though the majority of you are so incredible and I'll get into that more in a minute There is like a small group of people who yeah are just committed to like really really not liking me Just really hating me and I just feel like after reading it for so many years I noticed that you know over the last I would say a few months it really started like getting in my head and Warping my own perception of myself and it was actually starting to scare me a little bit most of the time I'm just able to let it roll off or I'll just have a moment where I'm frustrated and then I'm like, okay Whatever and then I move on but I don't know what it was There were just certain things that I was like, you know I was starting to live my life Picturing people's comments in my head and it just started getting into my head a lot and so yeah Just one day I was you know working and reading comments and whatever and I just had this little voice in my head That was like you don't have to do this. You don't have to do this You don't have to put your personal life on the internet if you don't want to it was just this like huge Eye-opening moment for me because yeah, my main channel is like my job and my vlog channel is just kind of for fun I mean it is part of my job, but I don't it's it was extra. It's just like an add-on It's like a second channel type of thing So it was that combined with balancing upload schedules for two channels and I'm the only person who works for myself I don't have a team. I have since hired a manager, which is amazing who helps move with like brand deals and stuff But I don't have an editor. I don't have like anyone that works with me full-time I don't have a staff so it's literally just me and it can be really difficult And I think I was just burning it at both ends for like Literally six years as long as I've had this second channel and I just needed a break I just needed to like figure out the balance of having two channels and how I want to go about that And I still haven't quite figured it out yet, but I just needed a break I just needed to like take a little take a little beat and I do think like naively I took this break And I was like yeah, okay now I'm just gonna focus on my main channel content and like I'm not gonna get any bad comments anymore because I'm not talking about me and my life Hello, there's a fly. I was thinking oh because my main channel is more fashion content And my vlog channel is more my life is the content I was like once I switch back to the main channel that all of that will go away and No, it didn't I just realized that it's just being online. It's not, you know, specifically one channel or another I guess one hurts a little bit more than the other But it's just part of being on the internet and it's part of dealing with the job So it really helps to know that like everybody who makes content is going through the same thing And I again, I'm not looking for sympathy at all whatsoever I am so grateful to have this job and I love it so much But after taking a break from vlogging which is something that I love doing by the way I love filming vlogs. I love editing vlogs, but I think just after a while I realized that my vlogs were becoming a part of like my regular upload schedule my regular content So I was filming things just to have a vlog to upload instead of just you know Filming something when I feel like it and feel like putting it out there And I was really just filming a whole lot of nothing which I know a lot of people enjoy And it's just sort of like the the routine the habit, you know And you enjoy watching someone cooking food and you know showing new things that they buy for their apartment or whatever And I still will do that But I think I just like became so Deadline focused that like I really kind of lost sight of why I enjoy doing this so much I ended up in turn just like pulling out the camera even when I didn't want to because I had like a deadline Making my life my content and focusing a lot on that just really started to feel weird for me And so yeah, I took a break and even though the comments were a part of it That was also another part of it So all of that combined was what led me to sort of taking a break And I really feel like I had the time to step back and recenter recalibrate, you know set some more boundaries and realize that you You are never ever ever going to be able to satisfy everyone I am one person I cannot possibly possibly be 100% relatable to like almost 70,000 people like that's just impossible And I think with like tick-tock and just the way that social media has gone a little bit more lately It does feel like there's this sort of like problem that some people have with a Content that isn't made specifically for them people get really like offensive and like honestly kind of aggressive when something isn't Directly catered to them and you know something that they wouldn't personally do and so I just realized that yeah at the end of the day Like one person cannot possibly be agreeable and relatable to every single person who comes across their content So I just have to be as authentic as I possibly can or I will suffocate I come from a family of very strong individuals like my family are all just like Individualists like we all march to the beat of our own drum and we just are who we are Especially my dad. I really get a lot of that from my dad I only know how to be Carrie and that's what I'm gonna continue to do So if you know that doesn't align with you or whatever That's totally okay that we part ways if there's just been this little inkling thing where you're like There's something I don't like about her. You don't have to follow me. It's absolutely okay I will not take any offense to it. Whatever I unfollow people all the time all that being said Sorry for the ramble. I'm I am gonna continue blogging because I really really do enjoy it I felt a little emotional there. I'm gonna stuff that back down Cuz I am a Capricorn and that's what I do my Pisces rising tried to come up a little bit And I was like no absolutely not we don't have time for that I love vlogging so so much and I miss it I miss seeing those familiar names in the comments and connecting with you all about just like the most mundane things I love feeling like we have just this little corner of the internet That's just random and like weird and fun and mostly people like in our 30s Just trying to navigate life and we're from all different stages of life Some of us are mom some of us are single some of us are college students some of us are doctors Like we're all just doing our thing and hanging out together a few minutes a week And it just means the world to me and I miss it. I really really do so I don't know like with what? Consistency I will keep uploading on this channel But I really want to keep doing it because I miss it and that's it So I just want to say if you have been if this is your first video you're clicking on or if you've been watching for a While like thank you so much You will never ever ever ever know how much it means to me and how just deeply I feel gratitude and love and appreciation for all of you because you've totally changed my life and We've been through it all together. Okay, we've been through moves from different states different houses Different neighbors and all these fun things that I want to keep doing together Just maybe in like a little bit more of a boundary way, of course I think for a while this channel just didn't feel like as safe for me. Like I was just kind of like ooh That's not a safe place.  They're resuming as normal. I'm really excited I feel really excited and ready to just jump back into this and You know hang out with you all if you have any questions or you want me to do maybe like a maybe I'll do for the next We'll do like a Q&A slash life updates and I'll just kind of let you know what I've been up to I did film a vlog like right before I took a break or at least some footage of a vlog So maybe I'll include that in the future as well the lost files if you will but yeah, just thank you so much Thank you so much for the people who get me and understand me I appreciate you and you mean the world to me. Thanks for sticking around. It really means a lot And I'll see you very soon in a new vlog


Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome to this video about the energies of the September 2022 equinox. My name is Ona Christie, and today I'm going to be sharing with you, first of all, a channeled information from my Akashic guidance around these energies of the September 2022 equinox. I'll also be just introducing this painting that carries a lot of the energies that really relates to this time, and it has some healing energy in it, so I'll explain about that as well, and another channeled message from the Mary figure here, and also reading around the energies of the equinox here to support us through this time that will be on my Facebook page. So if you want to check that out, I will leave the link to that below here, and also I'll just stay tuned for the end because I'm going to be introducing a new course that I'm going to be offering. So let us start.  This is a tumultuous new beginning. This is a test of wills. A cycle of purification that began in February of 2022 will resolve and begin again now, like the next go round of it, or the underside of it, the revolution first upwards in an arc and now downwards. We are entering another portal, another leg of the journey. That which was initiated at the 22 and 222 junctures ripened at the Lionsgate, the 88, and will be birthed now through the 1111. Seeds that were sown are ripening. Seeds that were sown are sprouting. The September 2022 equinox is one of many choice points on the path of planetary ascension. What is a choice point? It is a coming together of potential timelines, a hub, if you will. Those who wish to proceed along a certain predetermined trajectory will select the appropriate exit point made available at this time. This is all a matter of choice. The key to navigating it is to remain impassive, to stand your ground physically, morally, mentally, emotionally. This planet is entering a frequency that will hold you to your truth. As you know, choices that are not aligned to your truth result in chaos, confusion, and suffering. For those who consciously or unconsciously align themselves with illusion or dark energies, this chaos, confusion, and suffering may manifest itself in those around you, leading to apparent benefit for yourself for a time. But ultimately, should you choose this route, your karmic burden will be increased 10,000 fold and it will ultimately catch up to you. 4. With each choice point, as the earth rises in consciousness, illusion is becoming more and more difficult to uphold. And make no mistake, the earth desires to ascend. The ascending trajectory is a given. That is why, with each choice point from here forward, more souls will choose to leave this plane as they cling to their chosen illusion. Should your soul align itself with truth, the illusion within you will be cleared, sometimes forcibly. In this case, the chaos, confusion, and suffering may manifest in your own life and to your own person. This is a part of the process and no way of punishment. You may know it as a healing crisis. When this is the case, some souls who wish to be aligned with truth may also elect to leave the earth plane at this time. These, should they be resonant with the current planetary timeline, will be awarded upgraded physical vessels and enabled to return, here or to another location in the galaxy depending on the individual's soul mission and need for healing and recuperation. For those who remain, the way you can be of highest service to others is to hold the joy. Joy is a pure expression of life force, the song of universal love. A lower dimensional being is incapable of joy. They may get off on things, but they cannot vibrate at the level of joy. Those who vibrate at the level of joy are powerful medicine for the earth and humanity. Hold this vibration and you become the remedy. Do what brings you joy. There is no higher service than this. Okay, so this is really deep stuff and it really relates to some of the videos that I made way early on in this year and at the end of last year. You may recall me talking about and others also talking about this bifurcation of energy, this splitting on the earth between the 3D energies going down and falling away and the 5D energy springing up. So there's this shift from 3D to 5D, but it's not just like everybody shifts. It's like people have to choose sides at some level, the soul level. People are choosing sides and they're going to cling to the old or they're going to be really moving forward and actually assisting with bringing up this new beautiful 5D energy. Okay. And so that's what they're talking about. And I did a video or a couple of videos back in February about that 222 and the 222, 22, 22, whatever it was 222, 222 portal, which was all about activating the master builder energy on this earth. And I'm feeling like a good way to think about it is if you have a piece of land that you want to dedicate to build a beautiful temple, but there's already a building on that and it may be a temple or it may be a secular building, whatever it is, but that building is so falling in.  You know, there are times where you can take a building and restore it and make it into something beautiful, but there are also times where you got to just look at it and say, hey, there is no way that that is ever going to hold the vibration or be able to have that beautiful structure that we need in order to create the temple that we have in mind. All right, so that is what we're dealing with, right? And so this whole arc, energetic arc from the February 222 energies all the way through the solstice season and through the Lionsgate, which for me, the Lionsgate is always intense, but this one was like the mother of all Lionsgates for me. It felt like just a massive amount of just star energy, star activations. In fact, that's part of what this painting is about came in during the Lionsgate and what I feel like it was like that was sort of an activation of the wrecking ball, right? And it's super, it's going to be super, super important to really keep that in mind that this is not the wrecking ball for the planet, right? This people are going to be saying this is end times, people already are, right? And it is end times for that 3D timeline, right? But remember that a wrecking ball when it's used properly clears the way for another beautiful new structure to come and be built there, all right? So we need to really, really hold that image in mind and intend that, right? Because it is in that intention that it actually will manifest, okay? So coming out of the Lionsgate, I have been feeling, and just in talking to other light workers as well, a lot of emotional energy coming up and also ancestral energy, okay? So that's where I feel like this particular juncture of the September 2022 equinox is really helping us to work with, okay? Because as just an incredible gift from the stars, we have a mercury retrograde right now. Mercury just went into retrograde, it's going to station direct on October 2nd. So we have this whole equinox window, this time that is within that mercury retrograde. Now mercury retrograde often gets a really bad rap. It's because it can throw a monkey wrench in the works when we've got to like move forward or, you know, we're trying to communicate outwardly. And it's because we have this do it, do it, do it, do it, right? Get it done kind of society and mindset.  That's why the communication goes wonky. You're not meant to be out there trying to, you know, set up a zillion different appointments. It's time to go within. And so this is a really beautiful, beautiful opportunity. I feel like there was one thing that they said was that this is this is really calling us to truth. This planet is entering a frequency that will hold you to your truth. Okay, so this is a great time to really start getting honest with ourselves, maybe do some journaling, do some dream work, and really identify, you know, what is your heart's desire? Why are you here? What's your purpose? And so that's why I'm going to be offering a course. I'm going to keep it affordable and accessible as much as I can. And I will be announcing that within the next week or so. And so if you would like to be notified of that, I'm going to put my a link to my newsletter sign up up here and just sign up for that because I'll be notifying through email and probably through the channel as well. So feel free to subscribe. But you know, this murky retrograde. Don't curse it and embrace it. Use it. It's here as a gift for us. Okay. And then I think it's really worth saying that, you know, anytime something has to come down, right, you know, even an old building that is falling over, there's memories attached to that. And some of them are good memories, right? And there's some good things, there's always good. And we may be entering or already in a time of morning, right, a time of releasing and relinquishing some of these things of honoring what has occurred. Right. And that's why the ancestors are coming forward so strongly right now. Okay. And coming forward, both to support us and also to be healed right through us. We can consciously do that and healing of the bloodline. I worked with someone recently where we, it's not me doing the healing, it's the spirit moving through, but it was a bloodline clearing and blood clearing all the way back to first man and first woman. It was very, very powerful. It was within this, this, this period of time here. So that kind of healing is possible. Also a download that I got during that healing was that, and I think this is related to the Lionsgate and that, that activation of the, the wrecking ball is that at the higher conscious level, this has already been done. Okay. And that we are here now to act it out, to manifest it. But it's still important that we be very, very aware and conscious because it's still within the realm of our choice. Right. So our actions and how we choose to respond and react to whatever is happening outside of us is, is super critical right now and, and super beautiful, right? Because we, this is, this is why we're here as starseeds, right? This is why we're here. We came here to hold the light and to hold the lantern up of truth and of light to illuminate this time of, of immense darkness that we're about to move or are moving through, right? We're here to hold that light and hold that vibration to really usher in this new 5D reality. Okay. But it's still an experience, like we have to experience it. And there will likely for almost all of us be grief involved and letting go. And so I encourage, you know, whatever ritual, whatever ceremony that if you feel called to do is just, just do it, right? And don't, don't hold back with that. Don't hold back with your tears, right? Because those are cleansing and, you know, change, change isn't always easy, but, you know, this, this is something that you're here to assist with as healers and as lightworkers. Okay, let's move on to this particular painting here. And this one, I can't remember the exact day I started, but it was somewhere around or shortly after that 222. And when I started her, I thought it was probably Mary Magdalene, but I wasn't sure. And then I just kind of started her and then stopped and she sat there throughout the whole summer, that whole period of time. And then right around shortly after the Lionsgate, because I'd already had her and there was this kind of spiral at her third eye and her hands were there. And so just after the Lionsgate, I had this incredibly powerful experience of this blue portal opening up in my third eye. And I was told that it was this portal directing a kind of this connection to the star Sirius, right? Which is, Sirius represents the central sun, right? That central creative force of the universe. And I was also told that through this portal, we can access our star brethren from Sirius that the Syrian Brotherhood is there and we can communicate and receive information, receive healing through this portal. Okay, so I'm also told this painting is an activation to help to activate that in whoever views it. So you know, that's why I'm having it right here throughout this video. And I also went in and did some inquiry around this. So after that whole Lionsgate, I started painting it again. And all these little dots and what it reminds me is like the dots of Aboriginal Australian, the Dreamtime paintings, it was just like, I realized that as I was already doing it. So I feel like there's some connection with there. That is not a tradition I know anything about. So if you have any clarity on that, or anything about this, there's a lot of symbolism in this painting. We have the sea turtles, which I kind of am feeling like the whole turtle island concept. There's a lot about turtle symbolism that could be in here. I haven't fully gone into the symbolism of this. So I would love any insights or downloads that you have. There's also, it's hard to see, but there's this moon cycle here going from waning to the new moon to the full moon here. And she does talk about the moon in the channeled message. And also there's this lion on the shell of the turtle. The lion and also turtle are both very, very protective energies. Lion in a more active way, turtle in a more passive way. And I feel like there's, there's definitely a lot of divine feminine energy being activated here. But let me just read what I was given. Okay, so when I asked about the figure, because I wanted to confirm what it was. And they said it's the woman of the sea. They confirmed it was Mary Magdalene, but they spelled it M-E-R-I. So Mary and talking about the sea, mayor, right, being the sea. So I asked Mary of the sea here, Mary Magdalene of the sea, what her message is to humanity at this time. And specifically to light workers. And so I'm just going to read what she said. I came to bring peace. Gaze upon my face and know the stillness that comes with true acceptance of universal law. One must accept the unfathomable mystery of the world. Not everything can be explained. It must be experienced to be known. Transcendence comes only through entering the deep. Become still. Allow the flux and flow to move through you around you. Surrender to the flow of life and you will realize that your own heartbeat is the drum that sets the pace, the rhythm that sets it all in motion. Allow your heart to dictate the rhythm of your life. Breathe to slow the heart. Breathe for peace.   Your breath influences the currents and tides of universal energy. Like the moon to your sun, the world around you will reflect the radiance of your being. Peace within, peace without. If you will play the part of the moon, choose carefully which rays you choose to reflect. Maya, the changing one, is beautiful in her reflection of the eternal sun. When she reflects reflection itself, she becomes a labyrinth of illusion. Reflect to the first degree no more. Reflect truth, not illusion. Okay, so a lot of this is really mystical and might be a good thing to kind of meditate on. It feels to me like it is about, you know, this healing of the deep feminine and really moving into the energies of the divine feminine and activation of that. Again, if you have any insights or downloads, please do share them because it helps all of us, right? A little bit more here. Again, I say the portal, this visual portal here allows for direct healing to take place. This is actually representing this access portal that I mentioned before that opened up right after the Lion's Gate, directly to the Syrian Star System. They say the portal allows for direct healing to take place. It is an access portal for healing from Syrian light beings. Ask for protection through this portal. It will be made available. And it says it's also can, it's a shielding particularly in the emotional plane and the protective power of the lion, protection for the heart. A lion, I feel like I'm reading a wonderful book right now called The White Lion's, something about the white lion. So I could put the link in the description. But it talks about that Syrian connection with lion. I'm only halfway through it. It's an amazing book. And I think that the lion has a lot to do with holding that and protecting that divine feminine, the great goddess. And then the last thing that they said here around this painting, this is my guidance right now, protection, peace and flow, primordial seeds, primordial seeds, beginnings of time. She has life. She has divine goddess, the great mother, the embodiment, she who gives birth to all into whom all returns. This painting is feeling significant enough. I'm going to put her on my website, make her available as a print if you would like your own copy of her. And also she'll be available, the original for sale as well. There may be one person that she's really meant for to have this original. So that link will be down there as well. So again, it feels like beautiful juncture right now. And I feel like there's going to be around the 1111, another wave of activation assisting in clearing of the old energies and also birthing the new. Again, this is a lot. Like I mentioned, I'll be doing a reading on Facebook to support us in these energies. 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