Being a token really means that you're there, not necessarily because of who you are, but more so to make the company look good. I don't think that companies have necessarily solved this problem with diversity statements. They might have the diversity statements, but they're not necessarily putting in the practices that will actually help them to meet the values that they're putting forward in those statements. I think a lot of that is because, think about who's writing those statements. It's gonna be people who are either in positions of power in the company, not necessarily connected to the experiences of these who are on the ground experiencing that culture, and really know what that culture is like. The thought of confronting a co-worker who thinks that you're there as a token, when it's ambiguous, when you don't have that really clear information and evidence can really wear at a person. No one should be made to feel like they don't belong in a space, and that's why the movement towards trying to build inclusive workplace cultures is so important.


Everybody's finding them nowadays. And a recent study by the European Southern Observatory has actually found an exoplanet that may have the perfect conditions for habitability on its surface. And this is your space pod for Thursday, November 23, 2017. So what's the big deal? We always find a handful of these exoplanets that could potentially have life on them every year. Well, the thing about this one is that it's orbiting a very specific star that actually allows the possibility of life to occur. Now, you'll recall back in August of 2016, the European Southern Observatory announced they found a planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, only 4.3 light years away from us. And that planet was sitting in the habitable zone. Then in February of this year, NASA announced the discovery of the Trappist-1 system, seven planets, with three sitting in the habitable zone. Now, these are all excellent discoveries of triumph of instrumentation, analysis, and human effort. But really, the biggest problem is that these stars that they orbit aren't type known to have volumes of radiation coming off of them and also propensity towards flaring and flaring a lot. This means that the planets going around them are likely to be irradiated beyond what we consider ideal for life as we know it. Does that mean life could possibly survive there? Well, life is tough. We know that just from studying life here on Earth, but its chances of surviving are slimmer than we'd actually like to consider. Well, here comes our friends at the ESO again, releasing a paper titled A Temperate Exo Earth Around a Quiet M. Dwarf at 3.4 Parsecs. What does that mean? Well, this tells us that the paper is about a rocky planet orbiting around Ross 128, a red dwarf star only 10.8 light years away. And this terrestrial planet is within Ross 128's habitable zone. That makes this especially exciting, specifically because Ross 128 is an M-class red dwarf star. This means that surface temperature is cooler than most other stars, somewhere around 3,000 degrees Celsius. Now, M-class red dwarf stars also have a very quiet nature. They rarely flare and they don't put out as much radiation as our sun. Now that planet in orbit, which we currently call Ross 128B, orbits just a paltry 7 million kilometers from the star with an orbital period of just under 10 days. But because Ross 128 is an M-class dwarf star, rather cool, that planet only receives about 30% more radiation than we do here on Earth. And the surface temperatures of that planet would be expected to hover anywhere from negative 60 Celsius at the poles to about 20 degrees Celsius in the equatorial regions. Now, of course, a lot of this, we need to take a grain of salt with it, because we currently don't have the instrumentation to confirm a lot of these details. A lot of what we're saying about Ross 128B is based on models. But it's exciting, as within a few years with the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatories very well named extremely large telescope coming online, we're going to be entering into an era where we won't just be detecting exoplanets, we'll actually be characterizing them, studying their atmospheres and potentially figuring out what may be on their surfaces. And most importantly from the study, M-class dwarf stars are the most populous type of star in the universe. They make up 70% of the stars in spiral galaxies and 90% of the stars in elliptical galaxies. So to find things like this gives us a lot of hope for the potential of life beyond our solar system. So don't forget to like and subscribe to us here on tomorrow, and you can also do the little bell if you want to, to get notifications when we drop new videos throughout the week. And of course, don't forget to tune in every Saturday at 1800 coordinated universal time for our live shows. There's nothing quite like watching it live. It's one thing to watch it on YouTube, but when you see it happening, that's where the real magic happens. So until the next space pod, keep exploring.


Welcome, welcome, everyone. My name is Mario and I'm here live on RISC TV giving you guys a training about what is Forex? A lot of you guys might know what Forex is, but what about those that do not know? So, Forex is a breed as a FX or FRX. It's the official trading market where you can exchange different currencies across the world. In short term, it is foreign exchange. Forex market is the most traded market with a turnover of 5.1 trillion per day. To put this into perspective, the US stock market only trades around 250 plus billion a day, only a fraction of what Forex trades. As you can see, there's a big big difference right there between the Forex market and the stock market. Forex market is traded 24 hours a day, five days a week, across by banks, institutions, and individual traders worldwide, like myself and my team. There's no centralized marketplace for Forex. You can trade Forex anywhere, anytime. Meaning, if you're on vacation, you can trade Forex. If you're on an airplane and you have Wi-Fi, you can trade Forex right on your phone or your laptop. Anywhere in the world where you are, you can trade Forex. Now, Forex has four major time zones to trade on, and they are New York, London, Tokyo, and Sydney. These are the market hours for all four sessions. As you can see, New York opens, opening time is at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, and it closes at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. London opens at 3 a.m. Eastern Time and closes at 12 p.m. Eastern Time. New York and London overlap between 8 a.m. Eastern to 12 p.m. And then we have Tokyo. Tokyo opens up at 7 p.m. Eastern Time and closes at 4 a.m. Eastern Time. London and Tokyo overlap between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. And then you have Sydney. Sydney opens at 5 p.m. Eastern Time and closes at 2 a.m. Eastern Time. Sydney and Tokyo overlap between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m. So, and now the question is, how does trading Forex work? How do you trade a Forex? What are you trading? Trading Forex involves the buying of one currency and simultaneously selling it for another. In Forex, traders attempt to profit by buying and selling currency by actively speculating on the direction currencies are likely to take in the future. For example, if I am buying your USD, if I'm buying it is because Euro is strong. So if I buy Euro, it will go up. Now let's say USD is stronger than the Euro, then I will sell and I will sell the USD Euro. So you're not guessing, but you are buying the pair that is stronger. So that was a short training, guys. If you want to learn more about Forex and trading the market, just email me at m underscore oregano52ayahu or just email rich.  I know it's not a lot, but it was just a short training. And I will have more training in the future to come. Thank you guys and enjoy your day.


Hi, everyone. I'm Diana. Everyone of us has seen this world map before, maybe in your geography classroom, your school books, or when you zoom out of Google Maps. What many people don't know is every time you try to put a globe on a squared space, you create some kind of distortions. So just imagine that you try to peel an entire orange and then put that peel on a squared space. It's impossible. So this projection we see here is called the Mercator Projection, and it's the most common and the most used projection. It distorts the size of the countries. Every time you see this world map, the sizes are wrong, the relative sizes. So this is a world map that adjusts for the size of the countries. We see now that Africa is way bigger than on a previous map, and Europe is kind of more negligible. And the same holds for North and South America. So every time we try to draw a world map on a squared space, you must make some kind of decisions. Which country do you put in the north? Which distortions are worse? And so we have to ask ourselves, who are the people who create world maps, and why do they keep on using the same projection over and over, representing some countries more favorably than others? And in the end, does it even matter how the world looks like on a world map? So imagine I ask you about your opinion on relations between Africa and Europe. To be more specific, I give you an example. I ask you, how would you distribute resources between Africa and Europe? For you to form an opinion, many things will matter. For instance, your knowledge about the current economic and political situation will matter, your political preferences, what do you think is fair, how to distribute resources, maybe even your own experience in these continents, and your expectations, how these continents will develop in the future. But most certainly not the size of the continents depicted on an ordinary world map. So this is exactly what I tested in a very small experiment. So I asked people a couple of questions on distributional preferences between Africa and Europe. And I showed them a map of Africa and Europe. Everything was the same. The only thing I randomized was the projection used. In one question I asked them, imagine the international community tries to fight climate change altogether. For this, they agreed on the maximum amount of greenhouse gas emissions that can be emitted by the world. And now I ask you, how would you distribute these emissions, how would you distribute the right to emit greenhouse gas emissions between Europe and Africa? So what we can see is that in a control group where people saw the Mercator projection we all know, they would distribute more than half of the emissions to Europe. Well, if they've been exposed to this other projection for a couple of minutes they would distribute nine percentage points more of emissions to Africa. Maybe this doesn't seem a lot to you, to me it is actually it seems a lot. But what if you think about, you know, those guys saw this map for a couple of minutes, what if we extrapolate if they've seen this map all their lives? So what I want people to take away from this little exercise is that we are sophisticated creatures and we form our opinions over time with education and experience. But we're not unaffected by small manipulations such as size or position of objects. So every time we consume some kind of information we must, you know, take into account who's the creator of the information. No matter how scientific or neutral this information appears in the first place. And that's it, thank you.


Good morning, Hickets Tuesday. There's a Kava Akbar poem that begins, it's been January for months in both directions, and it really has been. For quite a while here in Indianapolis, the only answer to why is the sky blue has been that it isn't blue. I keep thinking about a line from a Mountain Goat song, the gray sky was vast and real cryptic above me. Real cryptic indeed. There's a phrase in literary analysis for our habit of ascribing human emotions to the non-human, the pathetic fallacy, which is often used to reflect the inner life of characters through the outer world, as when Keats, in Ode to Melancholy, writes of a weeping cloud, or Shakespeare in Julius Caesar refers to threatening clouds. In Emily Dickinson's poetry, sometimes the clouds are curious, other times mean. And this literary device often works because ultimately whether a cloud weeps or threatens is largely down to who's looking at it and when. So here in the American middle there's a common weather phenomenon we call wintry mix. Precipitation will shift from sleep to snow to rain and then back again. Sometimes we'll get these weird snow pellets called gropple. Snow is beautiful, almost ridiculously picturesque as it wafts down from the sky and blankets the ground. Wintry mix is radically unromantic, as nicely captured by the word gropple. It feels like the sky is spitting on you. For years now I've wanted to review wintry mix for my podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed because it is such a thoroughly Midwestern form of precipitation, practical, unlovely, and unpretentious, but the problem with wintry mix is that there's literally nothing interesting about it. Snow is interesting, like consider for example the story of Wilson Bentley, the amateur photographer who became the first person to take a close-up photograph of a snowflake in 1885 and went on to photograph more than 5,000 snowflakes, which he called ice flowers and tiny miracles of beauty. That's good stuff, but wintry mix, at least so far as I'm aware, has no such tales to tell. That photographer Wilson Bentley once said, the farm folks up in the country dread the winter, but I was supremely happy. It's hard to imagine even Wilson Bentley being supremely happy about wintry mix. But if I can't write about it for The Anthropocene Reviewed, I'll write about it here.  But I do kind of like wintry mix. It's one of the ways I know that I'm home. I love Indianapolis precisely because it isn't easy to love. You have to stay here a while to know its beauty. You have to learn to read the clouds as something more than threatening or dreary.  But two things make the pathetic fallacy work. First, many of us really are affected by the weather, especially in the slimly lit days of winter. And so even if the weather doesn't have human emotions, it does literally cause them. And secondly, we can't help but see the world around us in the context of ourselves, especially our emotional selves. That's not a bug of human consciousness, but a feature of it. As Sarah and I drove through Indianapolis last week on our way to a poetry reading, the weather didn't feel angry or spiteful. It felt adventurous, even hopeful. On another night, of course, the same weather would have been threatening, or menacing, or joyless. What you're looking at matters, but not as much as how you're looking or who you're looking with. And that night, I was with just the right person in just the right place. And I'll be damned if the weather wasn't beautiful. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


Like the italics talk was called crypto economics in 30 minutes So I was like, oh, maybe I should call this talk the theory foundation prioritization framework allocation philosophy and decision-making guidance in 30 minutes But just didn't quite have the same ring to it So welcome to subtraction in action, but really it's a theory foundation prioritization framework allocation philosophy decision-making guidance in 30 minutes So like I said, I'm Albert I spend most of my time these days helping the EF wherever I can I've been a fan of Ethereum since way back before in the Dow fork but needless to say a lot has changed and One of the most important things that has changed is that the EF has become one small part of a big Vibrating Ethereum ecosystem and that's not just good. I think it's essential for Ethereum to thrive long term One reason is because you know when it comes to the future We are all like this parable that I love and it's used in every talk, which is the blind man and the elephant So most of you probably heard this parable. You have blind men. They're feeling different parts of an elephant for whatever reason They each get an incomplete picture out of this, you know, they make different and incorrect assumptions about what they're touching I find this to be a really like even though I have no idea why the blind man are doing this I find this to be really valuable because in the real world There's a lot of situations that are now like in today's in the real world There's a lot of situations where we don't see the full picture of something including Ethereum And even right now you have this like new critique that no one can say what Ethereum is You know, it's like is it this or is it that and so we're having this much trouble describing what Ethereum is today Well, you know what can only imagine how hard it is to see the picture of what a thing is going to be in five years So, you know, since I went through all the trouble making this this animation and we're gonna use it twice in 2019 and then There even in 2024 and this is not a price prediction. It might be a state-sized prediction. I'm just kidding It is an impact goal, right for Ethereum, you know For everybody who's in one of the their communities today There are a lot of people hundred probably more than that still to join And something that I had talked about in her talk was how this independent flourishing that we have this vast vibrant ecosystem This makes Ethereum special. This is key to us growing into this 2024 potential So one of my favorite books from this book or fun One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite books titled good strategy bad strategy You can read the quote, but it essentially says that, you know, life doesn't work like the movies In the movies the hero has this like crazy elaborate plan You know, sometimes they manage to dodge a bullet by like a few inches and they never show what happens in the movie they didn't manage to dodge the bullet and The real world doesn't work that way and the real world is more important to have create options and to have flexibility Then have this like master 12-step plan and so When I think about the ability to create options, I'll take what was said by IA a step further I think what we have here in the Ethereum ecosystem isn't just what makes it special I think it's an outright superpower And so one of the things that we've been trying to explain better is that this this like subtraction mindset, you know It's about creating options. It's about leveraging unfair advantages And it also recognizes and embraces that there's this unique opportunity and responsibility In a theory one thing that I think is important to note is it's not even like everyone I think can't effectively apply the the subtraction mindset And another thing that I want to note is that this is not the EF claiming everyone has to operate this way But we do think that it's crucial to the EF's future operations so that it can like fulfill its Responsibilities and its potential as a steward and supporter of the theory So some of you a lot of you have probably seen it now, especially after IA's talk But I'll just do a really quick speed review of some of the aspects of the subtraction mindset You know, you have this like whole In an addition mindset you're trying to capture opportunities and subtraction mindset you're trying to distribute them I think that this contrast between trying to increase prestige and increase effectiveness is very interesting For instance universities don't seek to grow, you know in terms of number of personnel or things like that necessarily But every university cares about its prestige and one could argue that it has come at the cost of the effectiveness over time You know the basic one that I really like is just what do you think when other people other organizations create value and I honestly I I really just did this speed review just so I could reuse this slide because I love it so much It's from this. It's a fictional quote, but I think it actually says, you know Like like many good fictional quotes. It says something really crisp about the real world And so, you know, this is obviously not the mindset that we are taking And so ultimately It's not that the point is that the EF needs like is trying to avoid responsibility or you know do all this other stuff it's just noting that what matters most here is ethereum and how much the ethereum foundation matters that that's kind of secondary or hopefully in service to ethereum So that's nice But why is this so tricky because you know every organization cares about just doing the right things or being impactful or whatever And it took I think at least for me it took a while to better understand And articulate the challenge so on the one hand obviously, you know what we do matters, right? And there's like and there's all these direct consequences to what we do but How we do things also really matters. This is true everywhere But I think when you have an organization with the history of the ethereum foundation and you have something like ethereum That is itself unprecedented Then there's like how things are done and the second order effects or the indirect consequences of what is done That also really matters it often matters more. And so when we talk about doing what's best for ethereum It's like, okay, of course we want to do that then the tensions arise for example Short-term versus long-term. This isn't just an ethereum specific thing and all kinds of organizations face challenges around this They're setting direction, but then on the other hand, you have this like huge ecosystem and does that curtail creativity? Similarly, you know Coordination is often extremely valuable to do something But of course decentralization is this hedge against a lot of the bad things that can happen in the world How do those play off each other and even something like I think that is often Overlook which is you know when you endorse something you'd also might come with a chilling effect because if for example EF says hey look this project We're supporting them and someone else might be like well I'm not going to work on something that does something similar because you know this other project already being endorsed by the EF So that's not saying there's no no way around that but how you go about doing an endorsement how you go about doing those things also matters So to try to like at least make it a little simpler at a very hallowing the EF today is focused on two complementary goals There's there's working towards this world where ethereum is widely used hopefully for good and also trying to build towards a world where ethereum values are widely found and Like in this talk I won't have enough time to say like what is used for good necessarily mean or what the ethereum values are and those are extraordinarily important and I'm not trying to like sweep it aside But it's really also not my place to say or our place to say But I do think that like it's obviously merits discussion and that we can also agree that in theory There is some version of widespread good use of ethereum and some version of you know widespread ethereum values that would be desirable So figuring that out if it wasn't complicated enough figuring that out is also something that we want to work on To like me a little shorter We've got grow ethereum usage and you know spread ethereum values and to do dive into these a little bit For me at least grow usage is really this like shorthand way of talking about measureables It's not just about like transactions on chain or unique addresses or things like that Not you know not everything can be quantified that easily, but some measurements can still help us calibrate And I think another thing to note is that it's we can be a lot more systematic about this at times You don't have to be like extremely precise like I I don't the exact number is but I think it's it's got to be like 99.5% of software developers either have not done anything with ethereum or not like actively You know working on a theory. I don't need to know what that exact number is I can tell you that anything that can plausibly increase the rate at which we can penetrate at that market is probably worth exploring Similarly, you know spread values is a shorthand way of saying that there are things that matter that cannot be easily Quantified and as I alluded to earlier. I expect and seek enormous debate over what the quote value should be Like I said, it's not for the you have to decide alone And I think it's actually one of the reasons why a subtraction mindset is so important because you know maybe to folks in this room It's obvious that you wouldn't want to do this But we have people all the time they're like telling us you should just say exactly what your values are until everyone How they should be operating in your ecosystem? But yeah, really the most important party here is that this this like hard to quantify stuff is just as important I think it might even be more important than the quantifiable stuff. Let me just have quick examples I think just even just the example that Ethereum sets for others, you know being an inspiration I know that for me personally seeing a different way of operating as a community than say like the Bitcoin community was operating Several years ago was very attractive to me and then things like this are not going to be adequately captured by stats There's also things that we have to be wary of compromising right like if they're in becomes more centralized You know, let's say partners with projects or companies or governments to get quote more usage Then maybe it's still called a theory, but I'm not sure that it's still a theory. That's being used And so to tie it back to what I was talking about earlier You can look at it as usage being primarily about first-order, you know effects threat consequences and Values being about like second-order effects or indirect consequences And so as I noted earlier the subtraction line set creates options It leverages unfair advantages and it embraces this like unique opportunity and responsibility Another thing that I think has really shaped the way we think about things at the yeah Is observing that this amazing ecosystem is now at a point where it seems like 90% of what Ethereum needs Happens organically and a lot of it happens better than quote central planning alone would lead to But there's still definitely at least a 10% that could benefit from additional coordination or direction Or accountability and so we take this like first order effect lens naturally you'd want to identify this this 10% You know, Ethereum is a normal company, but I think I mean said this to me And I really liked it. You also don't want it to fail in ways that like any normal company never would Now on the second order effect lens There's how you go about approaching this, right? So we prefer approaches that would move things in this like 10% Bucket to the 90% moving from insufficient coordination for instance to like organic flourishing And so I'm calling this the 10 to 90 philosophy So mapping back to a slide from IA's talk, you know, she referenced, you know incubation Community support and going beyond Ethereum is like three of the many classes of support we're trying to provide and I think looking more closely especially at these particular Examples almost all of them are examples of this 10 to 90 philosophy in action some other examples include just this general increased emphasis on the ecosystem support that some of you heard about and will be continuing to communicate more about Something I mentioned a bit earlier, but there's a chilling effect when you have a quote official project Or even just when you give a grant to something or when you partner with something And so that doesn't mean you never do that, but I think recognizing that this effect exists is important to Determine the best ways to really support the outcomes we're trying to achieve Another one is just biasing towards being a commonly Collaborative, you know, I'm not gonna and if the EF is a very decentralized organization in spite of what some might say I'm not gonna sit here and say that when I first saw for instance some of the sponsors for DevCon I was like oh that makes perfect sense like you've all these competitors you've all these other things But I think what's what's really interesting is For me one of the things that drew me to Ethereum is Well, if you operate in a way that everyone operated that way Like you know, does that make the world a better place and Ethereum seemed to be this environment that kind of most Gave the opportunity to express that and I think being uncommonly collaborative not blindly or naively But at least uncommonly collaborative is a really important part of making it possible for things to you know move 10 to 90 So all this you know ties into the support stuff that I has been talking about and improving our support capabilities is like Obviously, how well we allocate is a huge part of that and so sometimes I think about it's like yeah You just figure out what's allocated towards how hard can that be? And then when I sit down and I try to think about it more and I talk with all the people throughout the ecosystem Well, you're just like an incomplete list of needs when we talk about Ethereum over the next five years Right like obviously we'd like to see and usage grow With that there's community growth. That's important to cultivate developer base needs to grow And then developer output, you know, it's just not just quantity But like what each developer is capable of doing which is which is very different and very important Of course researcher base is still going to be important researchers often produce things that you know enable developers to be much much more effective And then broadly speaking we also just need to support the research you get to screw the researcher base We also need to find ways to support these researchers that are building towards Ethereum tomorrow Similarly, there's a ton of development going into the future of Ethereum and While we're talking about future we can't forget that there's also an Ethereum today and the security and upkeep of Ethereum today Which I think does get a little bit overlooked at times is equally as important An extension of security and upkeep is just this notion of downside protection, right? Like There's there's still many things that can happen that can single-handedly set back or destroy it all that we build more towards But then the flip side of downside protection is this general notion of out-of-the-box ideas But I think if we get too locked into precisely defined categories We're going to lose a lot of the essence that made Ethereum, you know Ethereum itself was an out-of-the-box idea in the first place And of course, you know, I haven't even I don't think I covered everything but but before I forget There's also it's important to support everything in a way that's consistent or whatever that's even going to mean with Ethereum's values so Yeah, take a look at all that and also tell me what I missed because I'm sure I have or tell me how you would break These things down further And this is a big part of what not just we at the EF, but we you know, it's an Ethereum ecosystem have to do together So my response to this is Well, we don't have any choice.  Well first I want to talk a little bit about what mediocre decision making looks like because I think like Sometimes making less mistakes is just as important as having more hits often. It's much easier to prevent than to fix You know fixing gets you glory and prevention doesn't I think that's one of the reasons we know and maybe notice it as much But prevention is also extremely important. And so we might have that I'll start with some common patterns that we try to avoid There's in a wishful thinking confirmation or narrative bias Just like a general lack of nuance like sometimes when you just infinitely wait one thing in lieu of everything else and of course just pattern matching in general especially since like If you don't really know why the pattern that you are matching like maybe make sense to be matched Then it might very well be coincidental. So these are just some you know basic things to keep in mind easier said than done But something that we try to keep in mind with everything So now I want to talk a little bit about how we would for instance evaluate an allocation proposal There's a few big components here. One is to precisely identify the goals Another is to think holistically, you know independent of the proposal What are the best ways to achieve the goals and then there's you know evaluating the proposal itself. So So coming back briefly to Aya's presentation in it She showed some of the things that the other foundations been supporting and just a quickly run through them again We had grantees, you know, we had these other support designations And then these additional areas which I also showed earlier when I was talking about the 10 to 90 And obviously wouldn't have time to go and teach every one of them But I did think that what might be helpful is to kind of do a case study Of what allocation looks like in practice because what's important is not like to be able to Justify a mediocre decision is just to make a good decision And so we can talk about theory and framework all day But let's see like what happens when you really put into practice and to illustrate this I chose a particularly interesting allocation story from this past year This was definitely like way more elaborate than most I want to emphasize It's not like everything needs to go through all the stuff that happened here Because again, the goal is not to produce better justifications It's actually just to make better decisions as often as possible that often requires incomplete information Yeah, operating with incomplete information But I chose this story because I think it just illustrates so many of the things that I've been talking about in a way That hopefully makes it more tangible So what was the catalyst? We learned that a popular game developer is doing great work and is looking for funding support This wasn't even a direct application by the way It wasn't like this There was an application of the grants program or the EF It's just something that we were paying noticing and paying attention to And I should be clear that this actually happens quite a bit. This is a very dynamic space There's people moving around all the time doing lots of people doing great work And the EF is often making introductions exploring grant opportunities and so on with such people And at the same time the EF it can't and probably shouldn't react every single time something like this comes up but this particular situation caught our eye The work that this person had been doing had been contributing to onboarding more people to And an effect on improving a theorem UX and so we thought it maybe it does make sense to give them more freedom Let's break this down Now remember I mentioned precisely identifying goals and what I said here about an onboarding or improving UX or giving more freedom I don't think that's precise enough. So let's try to go deeper when we talk about onboarding more people to Ethereum, you know, why do we want to do that and One obvious reason is we think this is going to lead to more Ethereum usage But of course an important implication of that is that people will continue finding Ethereum useful and not just want it done So you're not just looking for like a gimmick to onboard somebody, right? You're actually looking for a sustainable like outcome Another reason might just be that like when you onboard people do Ethereum The people themselves might be developers and you know, maybe those developer They become an Ethereum developer and then maybe that Ethereum developer then creates new cases And you know the cycle kind of starts where it begins and there's many other possible reasons Similarly with Ethereum UX, right? Like when we talk about improving Ethereum user experience, you know, for what impact? Is it maybe increased accessibility? Maybe that increased accessibility leads to increased user growth maybe increased security like less user error and Just in general like I think products are more useful when the UX is better and of course There's so many other reasons why improving UX would be good Lastly further for this whole give more freedom Well, there was this hypothesis that would lead them to be more impactful on Ethereum by an increased contributions to Maybe the onboarding that I mentioned the UX stuff I mentioned and perhaps also other stuff We shouldn't restrict to like what their work had been doing so far when there was evidence that they were doing lots of good work One thing I think is really cool here is not any obvious at all who this is because there's so many people in the ecosystem That fit a lot of these attributes So moving forward step two holistically like how can we best achieve these goals? And I think this is a really important step that often gets skipped I think oftentimes we jump too quickly to like providing an answer when instead we should be improving the question That's being asked out of the box ideas Often come from the question prompted by better questions not just directly answering a question So what is onboarding for onboarding more people to Ethereum right like these are all these reasons I was at earlier But breaking it down. I think the more questions that we want to discard What are the best ways to grow Ethereum usage or one of the best ways to grow the developer base? They're one of the best ways to create more use cases and Similarly with UX, you know, we talked about these things increasing accessibility security usefulness But breaking that down. Where do we need to most increase accessibility? What are the best ways again to grow the usage? In what ways do we most need to improve security or just decrease user error, which might not be strictly a security thing How can we improve Ethereum's usefulness in general? And of course, how can we make Ethereum products? Whatever that even might mean easier to use And then finally with give this person more freedom. Well, like we thought it might increase their impact So what would the best ways to improve the onboarding? Like in general be whether it's involves this person or not and same with UX But then also with the person, you know, what type of environment would help them be Most impactful like is their guidance or mentorship and obviously financial support that would enable them to do their best work And so off of one situation Easily come up with 20 goals are potentially worth pursuing And at a meta level, it's clear that increasing ES ability to provide support is going to be necessary To be able to be able to just work on more of these goals And and then another thing that's really important is that if you want to improve your allocations A big part of that is actually improving what opportunities you have to allocate, right? If sometimes you have these options in front of you, but if you can create more options That's often the best way to like, you know, be able to make a better decision So earlier I talked about evaluating an allocation proposal, but there's kind of this like analog Which is to create an allocation opportunity and then you do that like it's still very similar to evaluating a proposal But for instance Inviting and seeking out proposals is obviously a very different step than evaluating them Now remember I showed this slide just a moment ago about how to jump in too quickly And I actually skipped over one extremely important question that should be asked Remember we started with this we have a popular team developer doing great work And and so another question that should be asked is how do we increase the amount of great work being done in the space? And that's already such a huge question. So just to keep this a like a little bit simpler I'm going to focus on how do we increase the great work being done by developers even though You know by no means is that the only category of work that's important So there's some dimensions here be nice to increase the number of developers You know by improving evangelism onboarding and retention There's also it'd be nice to improve productivity per developer via like tooling education Or even just like this market like implicit market that exists for mentorship and collaboration opportunities, right? Like like sometimes you thrive in the right company But if you can't discover that company then you know, you're never going to have a chance to thrive So what we did to work on this was we formed a few working groups And these working groups did the following things in parallel They identified potential goals that we should focus on ASAP And they also performed deeper investigation of the topics, you know Just general research interviewing people and even asking experts outside of the Ethereum ecosystem So when it came to goals to focus on ASAP Among other things for developer onboarding. We worked on studio at ethereum.org Thank you to the super blocks team and help out that and you know, I think in less than a couple of weeks now That's going to be be live And on the developer experience side, there were so many things But I think one of the most notable ones that came out very recently was was biddler stack traces by the no make labs team Furthermore, you know this deeper research On developer experience it led us to seek out like developers who themselves are experienced with ethereum Are passionate about dev acts and have the bandwidth To help or you know, maybe can we can help them create the bandwidth to help And so for instance, as I mentioned that the biddler stack traces, you know We've been collaborating a lot more with the no make labs teams No make labs team and with them and with a lot of other folks throughout the EF have been identifying a whole suite of developer experience Improvement opportunities that maybe we can go 10 to 90 in terms of improving. So also from an ethereum value standpoint This is cool because We're continuing to support in the ecosystem rather than you know trying to do things entirely in-house And I think that is a huge part of everything here Another interesting aspect was this developer evangelism research, right? You know, I kind of wrote it all up there But we connected a lot of the best developer evangelists in the world And these conversations confirmed like the value of having great developer evangelism And it also taught us a lot about what that might mean But we in addition learned how hard it might be to hire people for this So what's interesting here is like, you know, the best not only are the best developer evangelists extremely hard to post Because they're often extremely valued But they also might not be great at being ethereum evangelists anyway Right because ethereum is quite different than a lot of the other development stacks out there So how does it all like tie together? Remember this all started with a popular ethereum developer doing great work And you know, we were thinking about what it might like we were trying to assess different goals And one question we asked was is there an environment that they could be more impactful in? What type of guidance or mentorship would enable them to do their best work? That also led to us thinking about how do we increase the amount of great work being done Which you know, this whole value of developer evangelism in addition Finding out how hard it is to hire for that So you might even have noticed earlier if you're eagle eye developer evangelism program was kind of varied In this like incubation section that I showed and I've showed a few times here So putting off the other we are now working on starting a developer evangelism program You know and on the back end we have, you know, robby benn and myself and the ef other folks From this developer evangelism working group and on the front end Popular ethereum developer doing great work. You know, we learned this particular person here was Austin Griffith who many of you know worked on the burner wallet and all kinds of other things and This was really cool. I think it's when I think about all how this came together I think it's really like we're going to work together with Austin to build this program We're going to be able to leverage his passion and enthusiasm for evangelizing ethereum And I think it's just really fitting that we start with one of the most kind Authentic passionate and prolific builders in ethereum, you know when we're talking to these various dev evangelists A lot of them were really builders at heart They were actually more like evangelists at heart who happened to be able to build And for ethereum, it didn't feel right to have anyone other than like someone who's just first and foremost a builder And if anyone here knows Austin, you know, that's like all he can do I think like the birth of his child is literally the only thing that ever stops him and even then it's for like 36 hours Um So anyway to wrap everything up here Uh, we've gone, you know from the top kind of all the way down And I'll close by zooming back out ethereum is going to have enormous direct consequences Um, and perhaps even more enormous indirect consequences So we have a long way to go and because of that one of my favorite quotes is to hold tightly to the problems Um, but loosely to the solutions For us because right now it seems to becoming more flexible dynamic and capable at providing support That's the best way that def can, you know, practice this subtraction discipline Um, but as I said, hold loosely to the solutions like hopefully as a result of this talk You'll both better understand our reasoning and more importantly be able to give us feedback So thank you everyone for coming to talk. Hope you've been enjoying that time


Namaste and welcome to our N5D Patreon mid-month energy report for March 2023. And you know what? I'm going to make this episode completely free for everyone. Well, where do I begin? I was hospitalized after going to the ER for stomach pain and ended up having my gallbladder removed. The doctor who did this surgery placed a faulty JP drain in me that wasn't suctioning out the discharge from the operation, which made the pain worse than what it was before I went to the hospital. My nurse practitioner, however, looked at the device and was the one who noticed that it was faulty. My surgeon was in the room and denied any fault by saying the tubes were clogged, not broken. The nurse practitioner showed him directly where the leak was and yet my surgeon still denied it. I have it all on video. The reason I bring this up is because many light workers are targets of the dark. The brighter your light, the bigger a target you become. One thing the dark doesn't like is love and for me that comes in the form of resiliency. It crushes them every time I bounce back. Now speaking of light and energy, one of my hospital roommates, Ron, told me there's something different about you, Greg. You're destined for fame and I can see you taking off in the future. You know, I didn't expect that from him, but it's not the first time I've heard of it. Matter of fact, when I was being transported to the surgery that drained the infection out of my body, there was a hospital technician, Dutch, who transported me from the hospital room to my surgery room on the way there. He said, you know, I've brought many people from the hospital room to the surgery room, but I've never experienced such amazing energy from anyone else. There's something very special about you, brother. And I thought that was very kind of him to say and then completely unexpected. And to top it off, my nurses for the operation, their names were Ali and Brittany, my wife and my daughter. So I knew I was in good hands. And I'll tell you what, the pain was worse after the initial gallbladder removal operation than beforehand because of the infection that occurred afterwards due to the faulty apparatus the surgeon put in me. And here's the power of the mind. I was given two Percocets, which is oxycodone and acetaminophen. And it's one of the stronger pain medications available. And I was taking it every four hours. I was starting to feel nauseous and saw that as a sign of opiate withdrawal. So I decided to stop taking the medication and tried meditating it away. Now, at the time, my pain level was a nine out of 10. But after meditating throughout the day, it dropped to a three out of 10. And I'm sure that just it wasn't me. I had a lot of people sending me Reiki and quantum touch energy, prayers, loving, healing energies, et cetera. So between us all, we brought that pain down substantially.  And you can find a link for that below the video. It really does make a huge difference when people send you energy. You can tangibly feel it as an empath. And I'm just so grateful for all of you and your support. I love you all. But, you know, the bottom line to this is to stay positive.  Let's move on to a different topic. Did you guys see the Global Consciousness Project yesterday? Let's check it out. So this is a real time data analysis of the Global Consciousness Project. It collects data each minute and runs statistics on the stream of random numbers generated by the project. This analysis is run every 10 minutes behind the generation of the data. In this way, it can be seen as a real time indicator of global consciousness coherence. But what you can't see right here, just a little over 24 hours ago, it was red. And here I'll put the picture up right now. You can see where we had the sustained period of it being in the red. And when it's in the red, what it says, what that actually means is significantly large network variance suggests broadly shared coherence of thought and emotion. So what does this really mean? I drew a couple tarot cards and it showed me all I needed to know. The first card was the Three of Swords, which is heartbreak and emotional pain. The second card was the Star. And together, this shows us that there was something nefarious planned against humanity yesterday but thanks to the off-worlders, it never happened. That brings me to what happened yesterday and how this all ties in with this month's mid-month energy report. So I'm leaving my mobile home community and was about to pull out into a busy street here in Sarasota. And I looked both ways. And as I was inching forward, I hear a man yelling at me, hey, you effin' a-hole. I can't really say the other words, but you know what I mean. I swear to God, I did not see him. And I felt horrible about it. I ended up turning right, but I did a quick U-turn so I could apologize to him. But he was nowhere to be found. So I ended up going to Publix, which is a chain grocery store here in Florida, to pick up my antibiotic medication. So I get out of my car and as I was walking toward the store, this woman zips around the corner and almost hits me. So I smiled at her and waved and said, it's okay, don't worry about it. And she was apologetic on her side of it. I could see that she was saying, I'm sorry to me. But the first thing that came to mind was instant karma. Just like what John Lennon spoke about. It wasn't simply a coincidence. The greatest implication of this is that the same applies to the Cabal who have kept us enslaved for millennia. Karma is coming for them right now. And that brings us to the Three of Swords and the Star Card. We're receiving galactic help and whatever nefarious plans the Cabal has for us will inevitably boomerang back at them in record time. You know, I've used this analogy in the past and it's so true right now. On infid.com I have an article called Project Looking Glass Insider speaks out, there is an inevitable event coming. And that goes on to say Project Looking Glass Insider was a US military attempt to view the future. They were surprised by what they saw. And some Project Looking Glass discoveries include the choices that we make become less and less consequential to the future. And eventually we're pushed into this bottleneck of time no matter which choice we make. Number two, very smart people began to figure out that something big was coming up. Number three, all possible timelines lead to the same basic set of history in the future. Number four, the elites of the world probably figured out that that was the end of the game and nothing could be manipulated beyond that point. And number five, the timelines will contract down to some inevitable thing. There is an inevitable event, an evolution of consciousness. Pretty wild right? And it goes on to say basically what we're experiencing right now is two master chess players sitting at the board and one of them looks down at the board and sees that he's in checkmate in seven moves and he looks across at his opponent and he knows that his opponent sees it too. So there's no getting out of it at this point. The loser can only prolong the game. And we're seeing that with the, you know, the cabal trying to do this and that. They already know they lost but they're just trying to bring as many people down as they can with them. Both players know the game is over. It's only a matter of time before he does this and then you're forced to do this and then he's forced to do this and eventually checkmate. We as a race, if we could understand that, the game is over based on the rules of the game. The bad guys have already lost. The good guys have already won. Yet there's moves left on the table but those moves are being forced by the player that is going to win. What Project Looking Glass is seeing is also what many of us are feeling that something magnanimous is coming. Now for years I've written about Pluto and Capricorn and how this will usher in a great transformation for society. It's all about energy and learning from the cycles of time. The current energy is one that has an incredibly strong truth vibration, which is exposing everything the dark agenda is trying to suppress. What's happening is that anything that goes against humanity's best interests is boomeranging back at them as they are being exposed almost instantaneously. The end of Pluto and Capricorn could very well be the marker that launches humanity into the golden age. And right now we have an incredible event unfolding in which the end result cannot be controlled by the global elites who can do nothing to change the predicted evolution of consciousness. Enjoy the ride my friends. Many haven't realized it yet but we've already won. I'm going to wrap it up there. I'd like to thank you all for being part of our beautiful N5D Patreon family of 1111 plus as well as to those who are watching an N5D Patreon mid-month energy report for the first time. Later on today I'll be uploading a new guided meditation for the month for Patreon family members of 1111 plus. This one is on activating your third eye, a third eye guided meditation. So join me on Patreon.com slash N5D and I'll put a link down there. That's it for now. Thank you for all your love. I'm truly grateful for your support. Until the next time, I'm sending you all infinite love and light from my heart to yours. Have a nice day.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are once again talking about the upcoming Silver Stars promo that is coming to FIVA 22 Ultimate Team. Could this promo actually crash the market? That's the question that we're gonna talk about theoretically today because there's a lot of unknown as a part of this promo. Are there gonna be cards and packs? Or is it just gonna be objectives and SBCs? We're gonna take a look at some of the leaks, of course, and just talk about how the game would react to a brand new promo like this. Something that we have never seen before. And sometimes when you have uncertainty like that and new cards and new promos like this, it can cause the market to drop. So I wanna talk about all those things today and my spin on things as I do feel like a promo with Silver cards would also, it would depend on a lot of things. There's gonna be a lot of big if factors with potential promo like this. And we have to talk about these road to the final cards as they are leaving packs tomorrow could they be potential investments for a rise out of packs as they are live cards, they have a low pack weight. I think a lot of people are looking to invest in these road to the final items. So I wanna talk about all of that in today's video. So if you're enjoying the videos on the channel, make sure to hit thumbs up on it and of course, subscribe if you're new. Now let's talk about Silver stars once again. A little bit about what in the world this promo is even sounding like it's going to be like. We have a couple leaked players and a couple new ones. I don't think we looked at yesterday. This Rutter striker card from the Bundesliga, a French striker, he's another Silver stars item that is leaked to be coming out during this promo. And there's actually a really big one that is leaked to be coming out. And it was just a very subtle leak by foot share. If a lot of people saw this and it's some French wording, right? And everybody sees this and they think Paul Pugba. So now we have a Paul Pugba that is rumored as a part of this Silver stars promo. And we have a Kevin De Bruyne, which is so very interesting how it sounds like this is gonna go down. We don't really have any more new leaks besides those players. But again, it just sounds like this promo is gonna be about Silver cards. Now, how could this crash the market, right? In reality for me, it all comes down to stats. If you look at this leaked Musunda card, right? 90 pace, 88 dribble, 79 shooting, 82 passing. That's a cracked out Silver rated card. But if you compare that to the meta cards that are on this game right now for other right mids, like even this Inform Eto that was put out in the game yesterday, right? 23,000 coins for a four star, four star card with those kind of stats. People aren't gonna wanna use Silver cards if they don't have good stats, right? Everybody is worried about the meta and the best cards that they can use in this game. So that is one, that is my main point. It's really gonna come down to the stats, right? How are they gonna do like a Kevin De Bruyne, right? Of course, we see a Renier. This card, it looks okay. Looks cracked for a Silver. But does it really look that good that people are gonna sell cards that they currently have in their team to go and get one of these Silver stars even for a KDB or a Pogba? Again, it really in my opinion depends on the statistics. Now, one thing that I think could really impact the market in an interesting way would be how would EA Sports go about, you know, maybe they're gonna require these Silver cards in the Weekend League, right? If they required you to use Silver cards in the Weekend League because of this new promo or something like that, then I think that it really could drop the market. But again, I feel like there's way more opportunity for a promo with Silver cards to be less hype than more hype. But again, it all comes down to the stats and it all comes down to how EA released the cards. It sounds like it's just gonna be objectives and SBCs which would take away from the hype, in my opinion, of some of these cards as well. That would mean that there would be less of them being released. So for me, it really feels like it's not gonna affect the market that much, but we have to continue in the mindset that we still don't exactly know how this is gonna work and that there is that small chance and that small possibility that it could impact the market a little bit. It all depends on what EA structures the Silver promo around. Like if they require you to use these Silver cards as a part of any sort of the competitive competitions on this game, which I don't think that they would because they haven't done anything like that yet this year, they've done it in years past where they've required you to use Silver cards in the weekend league and stuff like that. I don't think they would do that, at least not right now, maybe in the summer or something like that. So that's the biggest argument for me and the biggest situation that kind of settles my mind a bit about this whole Silver stars promo is that it's gonna have to come down to the stats. And if the stats aren't good, then people value the meta in this game so much that they're not gonna try out new cards and grind for them if the stats aren't good, right? And that's just plain and simple. How I think it's gonna come down for the Silver stars promo. Now again, we talked about the Pogman. We talked about this being mostly a SBC or objective promo, but Sheriff here is saying can't wait to see EA release lighting rounds for Silver packs. Little conversation between the leakers here. Genuine question out of curiosity. Do you think they'll be on the market? He says, yes, TBH. I got told some names on a team that I know weren't listed as SBCs or objectives. So again, hopefully today on Thursday, we get a loading screen, right? Hopefully today we get a loading screen or something that just tells us more about this promo because again, it's just so confusing and it's so uncertain, right? Again, here's a question about Kevin De Bruyne's Silver stars item. Footshare says that his stats are better than his 91 rated item. And again, people are like, what exactly? The stats like I told are interesting, weird concept. It is a weird concept. It's confusing. It's something we've never seen before. And that uncertainty can cause the market to be very cautious as well. But again, that side of my mind is working. I'm talking like, yeah, this promo does not seem like it's gonna be very hype. So thinking in that sort of sense, maybe investing in some of these Road to the Final cards might be a decent idea if people are gonna look at this new promo and be like, man, this doesn't look that great. I'm just gonna go out and buy Road to the Final cards because those are better than everything that's coming out. And these are the next most hype cards in the game. Now, along with this promo, Silver stars might be like objectives and maybe a few cards and packs and SBCs. But I think that icon moments as well is gonna be a big part of what we see for a promo this weekend. So really watch the icon side of things on the market today. I think that in years past, we have seen a loading screen for icon moments before, a day before they are released. And I think that might be the pack content that they try to sell us this weekend, right? They might run lightning rounds for icon moments cards that are gonna be in packs. And then the SBCs and objectives as a part of icon moments would be like the Silver stars promo or whatever it's gonna be called. That might be how they kind of mix it up. That might be our like promo for this weekend. But again, hopefully a loading screen or some tweets from EA, give us some more information today before we head into the day tomorrow on Friday on promo Friday and figure out what's kind of going on with that. I also would expect to see more leaks today about Silver stars on the Twitter in the community and stuff like that. So I'll be looking out for a lot of that as well. But again, back to the road to the final, right? Because the way that I'm thinking of this is if this Silver stars promo is just icon moments in packs and if it's just some Silver objectives and SBCs, I think that's gonna make some of these road to the final cards and the rest of the market in general actually have a potential to go up in price because people are gonna look at these cards and say these are going out of packs. They're decently rare. Some of them are getting upgraded in the next like day or two days depending on when EA start to do these upgrades. The last Champions League games this week are done, right? We are now onto the Europa League and Conference League game today on Tuesday. And a lot of these cards have moved, right? Only a few of them are actually getting upgraded. Havertz is one of those cards that is actually getting an upgrade from the games that happened this weekend. I think he's actually the only one that's getting an upgrade. Yeah, Havertz is the only one that's getting an upgrade because the other games were all draws if I'm thinking correctly. So this card is gonna be going to a 90 rated item. Yes, Kai Havertz is gonna be 90 rated. And I think people have started investing in this because Havertz was down at 230K. Right now it looks like he is up a bit at 230, 8, 240K. So this is the one thing I'll tell you about investing in these road to the finals, right? Invest in the ones that people think are gonna upgrade. And also the ones that are very hype, right? Again, you have to look at hype, you have to look at popularity, and also if they're good in game. Now we had the Mason Mount SBC that was released yesterday as a part of the showdown with Mount Enorigi. And the Mason Mount card does not look very good. And I think that was one of the things that we were just waiting to see if this Mount SBC that was leaked would drop the Havertz card. And maybe it did a little bit, but this card does not look anywhere near as good as the Havertz does. And the better card from yesterday was this Origi, right? Look at this item. They gave him a huge boost, only coming in at 130, 140,000 coins, an 83 squad and an 85 squad. This card is a W. So I was a big fan of this showdown yesterday. This of course, I'm kind of rooting for Liverpool now on the weekend because I just wanna see this Origi to plus two, which is actually so funny because it seems like now when they release all these showdown SBCs, it's always a draw. I mean, think back to like Muriel and Darmien. And even yesterday with Bayi and DePaul, Atlético Madrid and Manchester United drawing in the Champions League, those cards are only gonna get a plus one. So Bayi and DePaul both gonna get upgraded. Hopefully we have an outright winner here, which we will, because it's the lead cup final. But hopefully that outright winner is Liverpool, in my opinion, for a FIFA perspective, I would love to see this Origi go to an 89 rated card and how even more cracked he would be with that upgrade. But everybody's loving this SBC, 4,200 thumbs up for the price and just for the card that it is. And then the Mount SBC, of course, has got 4,800 thumbs down on the other side of things. So that was our content yesterday. And a lot of what we had yesterday on the market as well. So these, these road to the finals dropped off a little bit more. There was a pack supply SBC, that was not a crazy pack supply SBC, but just something out there. But you take a look at a lot of these prices again, Mr. Maras went from a million coins all the way down to like 800. Yeah. So he appears in a million coins all the way down to 850. Now he's risen back up a little bit. And some of these road to the finals have risen up a little bit into the night time. Others of them are still low. Quadrado 139. You see Haberts at 230. Tellez is 220. That's actually the cheapest that he's been. Bale 220. That's the cheapest that he's been throughout this promo. Kempembe is in a low 1.1 million coin range. Denier 65K, Emery Chan 61,000 coins. And Losano was just 32K. I think that, yes, some of these cards might get supplied today with rivals rewards. I'm gonna pick up another Haberts there at 228, because I just think that's a little bit too cheap. Now I've started to buy a few of these cards, Haberts, because he is gonna get to upgrade. But one thing I'll tell you is this, between today with rivals rewards and of course, marquee matchups, just I would say be careful with some of these. You can invest in a few of them if you want to. Of course, taking the risk now, thinking that the Silver Stars promo or whatever is gonna be happening for Silver Stars is not gonna be that hype. You're taking the risk earlier, kind of like just me buying that Haberts right there. There's more reward, right? Because if the promo is found out to be not so good, then these cards are gonna start to rise up because of that. But if the promo is found out to be pretty good, then these cards could go down. So I would watch the market today, marquee matchups, and then even tomorrow and Friday, depending on how this promo is gonna look, might create opportunities and potential for these cards to go down with marquee matchups and that supply. But then again, after that, of course, people might start investing in them too. So just keeping out for things, as I think if the promo this weekend is not hype, some of these will go up in price. Now I've just bought a few of them. I have a couple Haberts. I thought that this bail, he was down to like 210 at one point. I think he's up a little bit now. He's like 220 or almost 230 even, but he was down towards like 210. And I picked up a couple of those there. Some of the cards are still up in price, right? Like Renato Sanchez is still up. I'm being very, very careful with him. I still think this Tellez is a very interesting item as a lot of people have. They have like the Veron SBC, they have the Eric Bayes SBC. So I'm kinda watching this Tellez and as a Brazilian left back, you have Renan Lodi as his like other competition for just a promo card. This still has the potential to upgrade too, right? In a couple of weeks when Manchester United are gonna play against Athletico in the second leg, whoever moves on from there will get to upgrade. So no upgrade for the draw in the first leg, but again, you still have potential for basically all of these cards that are out in packs right now to get an upgrade soon. So that's the draw to them. And I think a lot of people are going to want to invest in them, so just be careful as some of these will be over-invested in as well. Depending on what content that we do have coming, their prices are gonna fluctuate and they are going to move on the market for sure. So again, that's kind of what I'm feeling with on the market right now. Live cards like these wrote to the finals have like always risen out of packs, if I'm being completely honest. Could this be the year though with the market being so different? Oh, 215, bang, we'll take that. Could this be the year though where these cards do not rise out of packs for whatever reason? If EA's got something up their sleeve for this weekend with icon moments or something crazy along those lines, some of the leaks that have been put out about some of the icon moments cards make them look actually kind of cracked, which I feel like people are looking over this stuff right now. But some of the other, this is a leak here of the Zidane stats for his icon moments card, plus 15 agility on the Zidane card from the prime. 93 agility, these are confirmed stats. There's also leaks about moments push us having like five star skills. Okay, this is again a concept. This is not like a screenshot from in the game. This is like a prediction with just really good editing, showing the card like it was in the game. So this is what we're kind of looking for with the icon moments to be released this weekend. So that's gonna be part of the hype as a part of this weekend as well. But icon moments of course, I mean, it's not live cards. It's not promo cards. So some people will probably write it off as not very cool. So just kind of keep that in mind with icon moments as well. He mentions here that Joe Wellington is not the only objective coming for the Silver Stars promo. And then I wanna talk about this briefly at the end of the video too. There's no info yet on a road to the final player SBC, which would seem like an atrocity to not get a road to the final player SBC. Again, think about all the great SBCs we had during road to the knockouts. And there's still a couple cards like, or a couple teams like Villarreal that played against Uve this week. They don't even have a live card right now on this game, kind of representing their team in the quest for the Champions League. So it would be a really big bummer if we didn't actually end up having a road to the final player SBC. But technically this is our last day for that opportunity to come up in this game. So I'm very interested to see if we do get one of those last minute today. And if we don't, I'd be a big bummer. It really would be. But I guess in one statement that could be made would be, well, EA put 22 road to the final cards in packs. So instead of releasing like three or four SBCs during this promo, they just put all the extra cards in packs anyways to try to sell packs. I don't know, but it is a bit of a bummer because again here it says, enjoy road to the final dynamic player items along with themed SBCs objectives and more throughout the campaign. So I guess it doesn't say player SBCs, it just says themed SBCs. But that would be a bit of a bummer if we didn't have any road to the final player SBCs. Again, the Fakir vibes, the Bernardo Silva, the delict from earlier on, doing SBC and hope for that player's team to perform along their way in a Champions League run. So watch these road to the final cards today. With the supply they will have, of course we have some other games on in the Europa League. There's actually a lot more cards that are in action today. A very interesting matchup is Chucky Lozano and Napoli against Ansu Fati's live card and Barcelona. Basically for these cards, I think EA is gonna upgrade the winner of this game today. Even though it's technically, it's like a playoff to get in to the knockout rounds. I think what they're doing is, since they released a special card for Irving Lozano and Ansu Fati, I think they are gonna upgrade the winner of this game even though it's not technically in the same stage that the Champions League is in. If you look at it, because they have the playoffs for the Conference League and for the Europa League, it's kind of an interesting scenario there. I still think that the winner of that game today is gonna be included with the first batch of upgrades that will come out hopefully this weekend. So keep an eye on Fati and Lozano, because those would be two items that are playing today. Ilisic has got a game today, Papu Gomez, Emery Chan and Dortmund are in a very, very peculiar situation. They are down right now. They need to have a huge comeback game today against I think it's Rangers for them to get an upgrade. 65K for Achan with the striker position change. I can't resist that position change, chemistry style, trading method right there. How much does this sell for? Striker Emery Chan sells for how much? Oh, there's not even any of them up at 75K, boom. I'm gonna list this one for like 77 and see if we get this sale. But again, the teams that are the biggest underdogs to get upgrades, those have the biggest potential profits, right? If they were to come back and win on aggregate and advance out of the playoffs into the actual knockout rounds of the Europa League, I mean, that would be the first upgrade for Emery Chan and but he's not favored to get one right now. So that's the kind of hype that we could see today. Cards that are maybe not expected to get an upgrade that could come back and win with so many games taking place today on Thursday for the Europa League and the conference league. But other than that, just keep watching the market, right? A lot of prices are fluctuating on some of these rare cards. I'm trying to flip a couple of these Hollands right now trying to get them under 400K. I think I can sell around like 430 or 440. So it's just, the market right now is a very interesting place as we're awaiting some information on this Silver Stars promo or whatever it's gonna be. We'll talk about it more tomorrow for what we learn. Again, hopefully today we get a loading screen but other than the marquee matchups that we expect today, maybe, I don't know if there's any league SPCs that are not available at the moment that are waiting to be refreshed. I feel like we have all of them in here. Maybe we get an icon of speed, I don't know. I'm really curious to see what happens today. On this game Thursday has have been icon SPC days before. So I'm curious to see what EA Sports does today for content on a Thursday. We haven't had many gamble packs or any gamble packs this week in all honesty. So that's the video for today, boys. Let me know down below what you think. I read a lot of you guys' comments and you're like, yeah, Silver Stars, it seems cool for collecting cards but it also does not seem very cool just for the fact that they're Silver cards. Not very meta, not very hype. So let me know down in the comments what you guys think about that. Of course, if you did enjoy, smash the thumbs up and subscribe if you do. It's been Nathan Foot Account and I will catch you guys later. Peace. Out.


Hello everybody welcome back to another AI video and this one I want to show you how to blur faces without masking using a free AI tool this is free to use and I'm going to show you how to do it here we've got the big Lebowski and I've uh kind of blurred out Donnie and Walter and the dude's faces how did I do it let me show you it should take no longer than 90 seconds let's start from scratch okay here we go first step runway ml.com I'll put a link in the description this is the AI tool that a lot of people are talking about and it's wonderful sign up if you don't have an account it's free and you just use a gmail or an apple account if you've got one click on login and off we go once you're in you're going to see on the left side a bunch of options we want AI magic tools click on that and then you're going to see a huge list of things that are all of them are really really cool but the one that we want to talk about today and take a look at is down here on the bottom right called blur faces left click on that and then presto you're going to see this here now it says here we can drag and drop any file so I'm going to go into my finder or if you're on a pc go into your explorer and I'm just going to go ahead and grab some some big Lebowski stuff okay so drag and drop it in there it loads super duper fast as you could see here so we're going to be able to work with this pretty darn quickly now while it's detecting faces I'm going to come back when it's done it should take only a few seconds and then I'm going to show you the next step all right that only took like five or six seconds excellent now out of the box it does a pretty good job but it doesn't do a perfect job and I'm going to show you once we get to Walter or no part of me once we get to the dude you're going to see here that it sort of flashes in and out so for the first part of this video Walter and Donnie are done pretty good but we want to fix up the dude here so I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move this I'm going to move the playhead basically to a shot where the blur is not what I want it to be it's not exactly where I want it to be and you need to go ahead and click on redetect faces basically by doing that you're telling the the AI that hey this this shot here wasn't correct please redetect it but redetect it based off of that shot so when we go through it again I'm going to hit play you're going to see it does a lot better job so that's all it is is you just have to click redetect faces now there's a chance that this might not be the correct amount of blur so if you want to pad it watch this I'll go ahead and increase the padding substantially maybe too much but I just want to show you this last final thing and there we go and then you'll see here that the blur dimensions got a little bit bigger and as I roll through it here it's just more of the face is blurred if you need to do that so it's just blur padding the last step here is you can click on export and when you do that make be extra careful that you uh when you select the resolution it defaults to sd which is standard definition you don't want that you want 720p or if you're an upgraded member select the high def 1080 that's all there is to it that's how you blur faces with no masking with a free tool thanks for watching