was discussing the necessity for partition in India and the fate of Lindsey's post-independence. This question is related to your agenda. Would Pakistan ever have formed, had these delegates been the decision makers back in 1947? I think the formation of Pakistan as a nation was pretty inevitable. I mean, they did do a good job trying to prevent it, but that's not really something that would have changed. That being said, I definitely think if these delegates actually were there on that date, India would not have the boundaries that it does today. This is directed to the chair of the Paris Peace Conference, who are discussing on the agenda of the fate of Germany and territorial disputes after World War I. What the world has seen a second world war, had the terms of Germany's future been negotiated based on the past two days of discussion? Obviously, I cannot say for sure that World War II would not have taken place. However, I do believe that the possibility would be lower as when we were forming the treaty, we ensured that all the nations that they were equally represented, they all had equal compensation after the loss of the war. Second parliament. Your committee's agenda was the issue of Venezuela. I believe that the president of Venezuela, Maduro, was killed. What was the committee able to investigate and conclude on who, slash, which nation was responsible? Okay, so what I saw in the committee as the delegates responded to when we gave this crisis to them, they all were shocked. They couldn't believe that the fact that the president of Venezuela, who was just about to have had his trade hotel, he somehow got murdered and he and the president disappeared out of the way. They responded very well to the situation. They got to know the fact that Bolivia or the nation was responsible for this. However, Bolivia, at that time, he refused to believe it. And though he, a couple of times, he told him that, yes, this is the truth, as he was provided by one of our users, who were just urgent data. But yeah, I would be proud of that, because we responded and we investigated the situation. A share of the world is confidence. Your committee's agenda was Islamophobia and backlash in the name of religion. This question is related to that. How did the delegates respond to the banning of all Muslims in the USA? How did that work out? So we did introduce the crisis where USA banned all Muslims and I felt like everybody in committee, all the delegates acted appropriately and everybody took the crisis very well. They all were following their foreign policy and they were exactly how it was to be handled. In fact, they all had so much to say, everybody was participating so much that the special seekers, this that we established, went out of the way for a really long time and I thought they did a great job. So, here's Vinika from Algeria and my question is the chair of the United Nations framework connection of climate change.  My question is, do we now have a possible solution for climate change? Yeah, first of all, it was my achievement that everyone in the committee recognized that there is something that's climate change and global warming. Secondly, if these delegates ever in the future go on to become global leaders, they will think about changes that will not only bring us a new change to global warming, but also reduce the temperature very far better. To the chair of the Supreme Soviet Soviet Union, your agenda was the alternatives to the distribution of the USSR. Did you see a change in the performance of first hand delegates? The first day we saw that everybody was dominated by the exceeding delegates that was informed when I learned that there was block formation and I was like, wow, I was anticipating the same however, my vice chair and I also contributed to lead the debate in a fruitful direction and by the end of the day, we could see the change. Now, when we learned that the second day there was something very unexpected that happened. However, when they gave all these leaders delegates a lot for their money. And I'm telling you that all these experienced delegates in the committee forgot about the rules and it became so difficult for the vice chair and me to decide who the best delegate is because there was no complete end game. There was no one who was driving the agenda and was controlling the council and was leading by example. But then we had to select one of those. However, I would happily walk home with the feeling that my first time was killed in the council and so how it formed for me. This is Anisha from Al-Jazeera. My question is to the chair of Lok Sabha with the agenda of the I would be at this view. At this day, it's been the decision makers back in 1992. What do you think would have been the fate of Ayodhya today?  I think more than what the delegates learned I learned in the past few days. Yeah, with that being said, yes, I do think that the leaders who have gone in such a different part if these delegates were there, they discussed this topic so effectively, so efficiently with that intensity that could not be matched even in the actual Lok Sabha. I have no doubt that if these delegates would have been there then so many, the deaths would have been so, so much more risk, there's so much less to talk about. I think they would have been the better option for the actual Lok Sabha. Thank you. This is reporter Namya from BBC World News. Getting back to the chair of the Constitutional Assembly of India, India. The matter of the pregnancy states is actually one of the most interesting parts of our committee as a whole because unlike the individual representatives from inside India, each of these is officially a ruler in their own power, which is making decisions for their own state and have their own policies. Now, I think most of us know what's happening the actual history books and we all honestly also know what's happening right now with Article 370 in Kashmir. That being said, I do believe that the pregnancy states were, they were at least maybe a bit more in some places, a bit less in some. It's possible they could have asked for more, it's possible they could have been given more, but overall I do believe that it was, there was a lot more peace between the pregnancy states and the rest of the Indian Union. So, well done, community. Question through the chair of Paraskeet Constance. Do you believe that the delegate of UK, amongst others, prioritized more peace over western interests? To a certain extent, the delegate of UK did put other nations who suffered from the war above their own, but at the same time, it also put its country first, so that it doesn't suffer a loss. Similarly, all the other nations also fought for all the countries that were affected from the war and ensured that there was equal distribution of ammunition and money from the central powers to the Allied powers and all other nations that were affected. This is Kepota Sachi from BBC World News and this question is directed to the chairperson of the Latin American Parliament. How does the delegates define the fate of President Dave Venezuela without their president? So, after the crisis happened, we have killed off the president of Venezuela and the Indian president went MIA. The delegates of the Latin American Parliament as a whole, they decided that they would step in and won't let USA take power and be the supreme nation that I call the cell. The Latin American Parliament as a whole should do it. They were ready, basically, they were all listening to each other, they were aware of each other's policies, each other's stand, and they all stood together to resolve one of their nations, correcting one of their nations, and I'm just saying from there. To the chair of World Peace Conference, will these delegates, as future leaders, be able to eliminate Islamophobia from the world? So, obviously, with our current agenda and especially considering their foreign policies and the crises that we came up with, obviously, they had to stick to their foreign policy that they couldn't deal into the fact that they all wanted to have a way of Islamophobia, but the other countries, and especially before the crisis, the conviction with which they were working and how connected the emotions that they brought about and how they feel about the entire thing, yes, I feel like at least some countries whose foreign policy aligned with that would definitely put in a lot more effort and as future leaders, I feel like it would have been, we'd be at a much better position than we are at right now. So, my question to the chair of the UNSBC, were you happy with the level of research, like the delegates actually understand the core problems and the challenges associated? The delegates of FCC work very, very well in research. They were drawing graphs, they were drawing five charts on the board to explain it to the entire community how pollution works and honestly, I haven't seen those graphs in my life. They were so well researched. They went on to find companies and brands that are making shoes out of sewage and that was quite frankly very impressive. Now to the chair of the Foreign Union, how was your experience with marking delegates and what are the needed points to make? Well, marking delegates, it was definitely one of the most toughest committees that I've chaired. It was not, it was definitely, there was some amount of confidence that was there but then I would have very much appreciated that my committee was a little more aware, just a little more aware about how the Soviet Union operated back in the day. The course of the debate took drastic turns. In fact, very, very drastic turns wherein the vice chair and the chair wanted them to step in and guess, delegate and write the agenda, clear out a few things. It was not a failed committee, but so to say, but then a few points would have been better. Let's just say I walk over a happy man, a happy person, just because it was a successful committee and everyone had a good chance of participation and everyone walked on board. The question is to the chair of Lok Sabha. In our opinion, did the ruling party and opposition leave behind their differences and issue and effective directive for the Pakistani and China vice situation? Yeah, so we have a crisis in which Pakistan across the border at Kashmir and not here and considering the current political knowledge, so that's why.  I think George Bush once said that Kashmir is the most dangerous place in the world. And these delegates, despite that, discussed that situation so well. They were well aware of the time, they were well aware of the great situation that it was, that people were being cared and that we needed to save lives. And that was amazing enough. What absolutely blew my mind was that the final decision was unanimous. I don't think I have studied some politics in the past and seen a lot of human decisions in the Lok Sabha on such a critical issue. So if you answer your question, I think these delegates will do so well as the future of India. Woo!


What's up everyone? It's your girl Kenty here from Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping. We've got 2022 Tops Tier 1 Baseball Hobby 12 Box Case number 68, Random Teams. Here is the list of the random results. You can always find these at LaytonSportsCards.com underneath the results tab and the links also in chat for you. All right, all right. Just a couple more baseball breaks left for the night. Up next, still five to go Diamond Icons, Random Hit Style. So again, you are guaranteed a card. You won't walk away hitless. Big hit potential in those as well. Again, that breaks next five to go. Let's get that one filled up on a tier one streak here. Soccer was beautiful. Let's see like a bat knob. Can we do it? Let's see, let's see. There is a link for you that Sam just dropped five to go. Breaks next. Up first, we got Patch Tom Glavin for the Met, 16 of 349. Starting off with an extra hit in the box. That's what I like. 312 of 349, Dan B. Swanson for the Braves. Braves Patch. Rookie, 39 of 299, Auto for the Brew Crew, Aaron Ashby, Brewers, and Sam Frann. We've got one Maratrol, 77 of 125. Sam Frann. I'm gonna throw back Auto there. It's not nice and big too. Yeah, it's like a classic like cursive, full name Auto. All right, here we go. We've got a Justin Verlander Patch, 108 of 399, Strauss. Rookie for the Debacks, 270 of 299, Drew Ellis. And tier one talent, Auto, 77 of 149 to White Gooden for the Met. That's with a couple hits here. Patch, 271 of 349, Twins, Byron Buxton. Tier one talent, 136 of 249, O'Sessell Fielder. Nice one there, Tigers. Got another nice Auto there. Got Nick. And 65 of 199 for the Twins, Torrey Hunter. Twins Auto, popular. I know. Even when he's not breaking. He's just a man, I guess. He's chilling at home when people are saying hi to him. He's just... When I grow up, I want to be like Forrest. We've got Patch here, Torrey Hunter, 26 of 399. The pinstripe, they got here. Rookie Auto, Trey, Ambergy. Auto, 299, Yankees. Ambergy. 275 of 299. What's up, Bakmus? And nice. Metz to 199. Having a great break so far. Little Pete Alonso Auto. Very nice. What's the first name and last initial? Five to go on the next break still, everyone. Again, one box, random, hit style, Diamond Icons. Pretty and basketball. Ryan. We've got nice Patches here. Austin Riley, 12 of 25 for the Braves. Three color and two color. Very nice. Yeah, I see it here, Ryan. Order number 8805. Rookie Auto for the Rockies. A Colton Welker, 11 of 299. Forrest, that's on it. Tier 1 talent, 53 of 125. Nomar Garcia-Para for the Red Sox. Good luck on that one, Ryan. I love obsidian. No matter the sport. See what we got here. Extra hit. We've got Jason Howard, 176 out of 399 Cubs. And Giancarlo Stanton Patch, 341 of 349. Yankees. Going back to the Braves Auto, 162 of 199. Jock Patterson. Braves also doing well. And Rookie, Ink on the Bronze, 24 and 25. Shane Baas for the Rays. Here you go, Rays, 24 and 25 on the Bronze, Ink there. All right, solid first half. Let's heat up here on the second. Again, five to go on the next break, everyone. Five to go. Random hit style of Diamond Icons. Random hit style, so you are guaranteed a hit. Out of 399, Max Muncie Patch, Dodgers. 189 of 399. Going to the Cubbies, little Derek Lee Auto, 56 to 299. Derek Lee. O'Neil Cruz, 105 to 299. Boom. Pirates, Benjamin V. Congrats on that one. Beautiful Cruz. We'll mag this one for you. Congrats. There you go. We've been pulling a lot of his on autos lately, especially Matt over on the baseball channel. Oh, yeah. And speaking of pirates, nice patches here, 24, 25. His buddy, Cabrion Hayes. Back to back hits there for Benjamin. Nice. Rookie Auto for the Phillies. Huns Kraus, 199 out of 299. And we've got another Bronze Auto. Tier one talent, 14 of 25. Matt Chapman for Oakland. Here you go, A's. Bronze Auto. All right. Jose Altuve Patch, 8 out of 399. Astros. Altuve. We've got 52 of 399 Ryan Mountcastle for the Orioles. Oh, we've just got Sports Center on right now, Gucci. Rookie Auto, 41 of 299. D-Bax, Tyler Gilbert. Tyler Gilbert. And 107 of 125. Andre Dawson for the Expos, which will go to the Nationals. Andre Dawson. All right, few boxes left. Up next, everyone. Diamond Icons, random hit style with spots still remaining. Let's get that filled up. Breaks right after this one does. You will not go home empty-handed. You will get a hit, guaranteed. We've got Bat Relic out of 299. Will Clark, Giants. 173 of 299. That show is so funny. Tier one talent for the Cubs. Aramis Ramirez, 30 of 299. Ramirez. And we've got Silver Ink Braves, 2 of 10. Tom Glavin. There you go, Atlanta, having a very nice break. It's got the Braves. Vincent G. There you go, Vincent. Having problems placing orders. Found some orders coming through, Matt. Anyone else in chat having issues? Got a steady stream of orders coming in. Yeah, another one just came through, so I don't know. Maybe it's your Wi-Fi matter if you're placing it not connected to Wi-Fi. Patch 9 of 399, Willie Adams. Brewers. Bronze Ink 4 of 25. Paul Conerco for the White Sox. Conerco. A lot of bronze autos coming out of here. That's nice. It's got like a third or fourth. Yeah. And Rookie Auto to 299. Jiren Duran. Nice Duran there. Red Sox. All right, last box here, and then we'll do a recap. Again, Diamond Icons up next. Don't miss out. Big hit potential. Beautiful, beautiful, high-end baseball product. Random hit style. Yeah, just let us know, Matt. We've got Patch 24 of 399. Michael Brantley for the Astros. Maybe like close your browser out and reopen it. That works usually for most people. Braves again. 195 of 199. Ian Anderson. Braves. And last one. Tier 1 talent. Nice way to end it. Cardinals, 42 of 299. Dylan Carlson. There you go. Down to 4. 4 to go on the next break, everybody. 4 to go. Random hit style. Diamond Icons. Baseball. Recap time. Michael Brantley Astros. Willie Adams. Brewers. Will Clark Batrillic for the Giants. Ryan Mountcastle. Orioles. Jose Altuve. Astros. Kebrian Hayes. Pirates. Max Muncie for the Dodgers. Giancarlo Stanton. Yankees. Jason Howard. Cubs. Austin Riley for the Braves. Tori Hunter. Tigers. Byron Buxton. Twins. Justin Verlander. Astros. Dan B. Swanson for the Braves. And Tom Glavin for the Mets. Autos. We had the Dylan Carlson. Cardinals. Ian Anderson. Braves. Jaren Duran. Red Sox. Paul. Canerco. White Sox. Tom Glavin. Braves. Ramirez for the Cubbies. Andre Dawson. Expos. Go to the Nats. Tyler Gilbert. D-backs. 80s. Matt Chapman on the Bronze Auto. Hans Kraus-Fillies. Derrick Lee Cubs. Shane Baz for the Rays. On the Bronze Auto as well. Jock Pedersen. Braves. No more. Garcia Para. Red Sox. Colton Welker. Rockies. Ape Alonzo. Mets. Trey Ambergy. Yankees. Tori Hunter. Twins. Cecil Fielder for the Tigers. Dwight Gooden-Mets. Drew LSD-Bachs. Maricall for the Giants. Aaron Ashby Brewers. And then our Maddox card. We had the Rookie Auto 105 of 299 O'Neill Cruz for the Pirates. Solid Case of Tier 1 there. Thanks again everyone for the fill. We've got Diamond icons coming up next.


Gitcoin grants round 12 is kicked off, and they have over $2 million committed in matching funds for projects. There's a special category focused on longevity for round 12. We'll tell you what this means and who's looking to get funded in this episode of Lifespan News. Gitcoin is a platform dedicated to supporting and growing the open source software that will likely serve as the foundation of Web 3. The Gitcoin crypto platform launched in 2017 to foster collaboration on open source initiatives by incentivizing developers to take on projects with payments and grants. Gitcoin focuses on funding public goods projects intended to benefit everyone. What really sets Gitcoin apart is their use of quadratic funding, which Gitcoin describes as the mathematically optimal way to fund public goods in a democratic community. Essentially, a matching pool of funds is raised and then a crowdfund campaign is matched according to the quadratic funding algorithm. The algorithm weighs the number of contributors more than the amount funded, which rewards the projects with the most community support. This elevates the power of smaller contributors and creates a sense of camaraderie between them and the larger contributors. According to Ethereum co-founder and noted longevity mega supporter Vitalik Buterin, quote, Gitcoin grants quadratic funding is not just for funds allocation. It's also a grant signaling tool. For the last few rounds, Gitcoin.co forward slash grants has led me to discover a lot of really cool Ethereum projects I previously did not know about, end quote. You can learn more about quadratic funding and explore calculator to see how it works at the website WTF is QF.com. Gitcoin grants round 12 is full of new experiments as we collectively seek to test out the various ideas and mechanisms that will eventually build the future of the internet. Round 12 features three different cause rounds focused on climate advocacy and longevity. There's currently 21 projects called grants seeking funding within the longevity category, which have been curated by the Vida Dow community, which also includes lifespan extension advocacy foundation or lifespan.io president Keith Comito. Many of these longevity grants are affiliated with our work at LEAF or our projects of our friends and collaborators. For example, you can support lifespan advocacy video content by funding the life noggin project, a YouTube channel which reaches millions of people with educational videos. We have lifespan news life noggin collaborations planned for the future, so dollars in this category support our work as well. Or you can support lifespan.io's transition from web two, which we've built our success on to web three, which will take our life extension advocacy and research to a whole new level, including blockchain facilitated crowdfunding of decentralized human clinical trials. This will be a game changer. Another project is focused on stopping Alzheimer's with light and sound and is led by lifespan.io's Dr. Oliver Medvedek. This project aims to crowdsource the development of promising safe and non-pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer's by passing the slow and costly clinical trials associated with drug-based models to get meaningful results in the hands of the public as fast as possible. You can also help fund the creation of Tim Moppen's longevity-focused feature film, The Last Generation to Die, because as David Sinclair says in his book Lifespan, quote, nothing begins with science, it all begins with stories, end quote. I've funded Tim's film with $10,000 to show my support, while others have also helped fund Tim's film with multiple people contributing $1,000 or more already. And full disclosure, I'm even more involved in another Gitcoin project called Longevity Plan, where I serve as co-founder and CEO. Longevity Plan's mission is to show you the value of a longer and healthier lifespan and to help you get there. You can go to longevityplan.com to learn more. Let us know in the comments which project or projects you're considering supporting and why. It's important that we all work to grow and fund the longevity community because it will ultimately benefit all of humanity. We're excited to see the growth of Web 3 and the potential of decentralized, blockchain-enabled innovations in these important areas, and we look forward to continuing to work with the Gitcoin community to expand the longevity movement. All of our Gitcoin longevity projects are still in development, and we'll have much more to share about them soon. So please make sure that you're subscribed so you can be among the first to find out about the latest details. I'm Brent Nally with Lifespan News. Thanks, and we'll see you in the next episode.


Item number, SCP-484, Object Class, SAFE, Special Containment Procedures. All samples of SCP-484 reserved for testing must be secured in Pharmaceutical Locker AG. This testing pool should include at least 20 doses of any particular form of SCP-484, or 50% if fewer samples exist. All other samples are currently stored in Secure Storage Room 112-4. All personnel of Clearance Level 3 and below must have written authorization from a Level 4 staff member to access SCP-484. Any staff member currently researching SCP-484 may not interact with any 05 personnel until the conclusion of their research and a thorough toxicology screening in search of their office space and home. If any staff member of any security level is found to have appropriated SCP-484 without authorization or outside experimental parameters, they are to be reprimanded and reassigned with the stolen SCP-484 return to containment. Description SCP-484 is a pharmaceutical of unknown origin, originally discovered in use as a street drug in urban areas throughout the world. Interrogations of dealers has put a tentative first release around June 2000 in Norway. As with most street drugs, the physical form of SCP-484 varies greatly from sample to sample. SCP-484 is generally found in pill form, though at least two types have been powders within a rapidly dissolving gel pack. Reports of a transdermal patch were received, but no sample has been obtained to date. SCP-484 has a number of street names, with the most common being V, Vic, Vicar, and Care, each revolving around the word vicarious. Phrasal slang includes any mention of memories or remembering, and name code uses V names like Victor or Vivian. Unlike most street drugs, all samples of SCP-484 are nearly chemically identical. Most illegal drugs vary by manufacturer, and contain impurities and additives. But other than cosmetic appearance, SCP-484 samples are identical. The only explanation for this is that all samples come from the same source. Why there is such a cosmetic variation is unknown, though researchers believe it is to disguise SCP-484 as a simple street drug. This also explains how a pharmaceutical with the level of sophistication demonstrated by SCP-484 reached the open market without precursors or public notice in its development. All known organizations capable of manufacturing SCP-484 are being investigated in order to determine the source. The logo seen on many iterations of SCP-484 is a tilted square with 8 dots within, though no companies with similar logos are anywhere near capable of producing such a chemical. The dealer questioned an interrogation report for SCP-484-A33 seemed genuinely unaware of the drug's origin, despite repeated and vigorous methods of interrogation. When ingested, SCP-484 is absorbed and causes the brain to produce a chemical compound previously unknown. Researchers have named the compound, the compound is extremely volatile and breaks down almost immediately if extracted from the brain. Subjects experience rapidly increasing brain activity and pupil dilation. When a subject exposed to SCP-484 makes eye contact with an unaffected person, a form of telepathic connection will be established between the two subjects. The subject having ingested SCP-484 will begin to experience hallucinations of the other subjects' memories. The degree of vividness and duration of these hallucinations increases with the amount of SCP-484 taken. The unexposed subjects enter semi-hypnotic state. Repeated use of SCP-484 builds a familiarity with the hallucinations, and certain subjects have been able to move through a subject's memory at will, similar to a lucid dreamer altering a dream. At higher dosages, the victims begin to lose the memory's test subjects' described viewing, forgetting all or part of the memory. This memory loss was accompanied by intense migraines and psychological trauma, chiefly, feelings of loss and violation, though the subjects were unable to describe what exactly was lost. It was later revealed that a subject using SCP-484 at high dosages actually appropriates the memories and adds them into his or her own memories. There seems to be no limit to the number of memories a subject can absorb, and existing memories are not overwritten. This data is corroborated by Interrogation Report 484-A33, though all answers from this report must still remain suspect. Testing allowed several subjects to have their memories, from childhood to the present, completely erased and absorbed by other test subjects. Those absorbing the memories reported initial discomfort and confusion by the double memories, but all those absorbed seem as real and personal as the subjects' original memories. These memories seem to be maintained as long as the subject's memory is not damaged by some other chemical or trauma. The risk SCP-484 poses to information security is high, and as such, its tight regulation is vital. Research is ongoing into using SCP-484 in multiple fields. If properly controlled, it could be used to extract unwanted memories of security breaches or traumatic experiences. Permission is currently pending for use of SCP-484 with various memetic hazards. Priority is given to experiments concerning SCP-484's use in advanced espionage and information security. Addendum Excerpt from Interrogation Report 484-A33 Interrogator, Doctor, Assisted by Agent Subject, Crimson Andrew, Detained Drug Dealer Doctor, so you still maintain that you were never involved in the manufacture of this drug. Crimson Andrew, Coughing, Dunn told you that already. Doctor, indeed you have, yet I remain unconvinced. Do you think another session with Agent A would change my mind?  Doctor, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Now, please describe what it is like to use SCP-484. Crimson Andrew, when you drop Vic, man, it's like nothing else, I've tripped on anything I can get in my arm, up my nose or down my gut, and nothing was ever like Vic. Doctor, the hallucinations were more vivid. Crimson Andrew, Sorta, it's not like that though, when you're on a trip, you know it. You know, at least somewhere, that the walls ain't really melting, you know? But on Vic, no matter how weird it gets, you know it's real. Everything you see, it's like you're doing it, and afterwards, it's like you've done it from the beginning. It doesn't bother me that I have to take it away from someone. It lets me have a better life, better history. Doctor, better, elaborate. Crimson Andrew, well, check this, you remember being a kid. How happy simple s*** could make you. New toy, climbing a new tree, just playing, whatever. Well, Vic lets you experience that, again and again, and every time it's different, but it stays with you. Doctor, how do you mean? Crimson Andrew, you remember your fifth birthday. Doctor, I don't see how that's relevant. Crimson Andrew, just s***. Do you remember or not? Doctor, yes I do. Crimson Andrew, how was it? Doctor, I really don't. Crimson Andrew, shouting, how the f*** was it? Doctor, it was very nice. Crimson Andrew, yeah, usually are. You know how many fifth birthdays I've had? 38. I remember one where my dad, or some s***'s dad really, but he's my dad when I remember it.  Anyway, my dad got me a f***ing pony. Who really does that? It's a joke or something from TV, no one really does that. But my dad did. That's the purest joy I've ever felt. No jealousy, no fear, nothing tainting it, and no hangover afterward. Just pure, simple joy. Doctor, how poetic. Crimson Andrew, yeah, it is. Especially since my real dad never gave me nothing but a good s***'s whoop when the beer ran out at night. With the Vic, I got a thousand happy memories that make the bad ones less important. Gonna come in handy soon, I bet. Doctor, how's that exactly?  Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-483, Anti-Aging Placebos, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


So we're doing muscle testing. We've done that before. Have I show you? No. So we're going to find which pendant is the best pendant for you. We have a whole set of ones here. So I want you to grab... First of all, let's do the proper muscle testing. You put your finger together. The pinky and the thumb. And then you put your thumb in there with the strong one. And then come together and then open it. Put some pressure and open it and see how much strength it needs to open up. A couple times. So get a base. So you call that a five or something. So that's how much strength you need to pull out. How much force you need to pull. Open your fingers. So now we're going to put this... This is blue quartz and we'll put it on your body somewhere right here. We can have a little touch of your skin. And then do the same thing. It's in your pants. Oh yeah. Put in your belt or something. Usually you'll wear it on your neck but then we don't have time to switch back and forth. So is it easier or harder to pull off? Harder, right? Harder. Out of ten, how much harder is that? In eight. Okay, take it off. Put it down and do it again. Easier now, right? You're trying to keep it. But then it's not as strong as it was. Okay, now we're back to normal. Maybe like a six now, but yeah. But not as strong as it was. Okay, so that's in eight. So now we test another pen. Let's say we test the... Let's test Pyrite. That one's a seven. Seven, right? Okay. So we'll rank this, right? Let's say it'll be the eight, that's the highest, and then seven. And then let's take another one out. Since you like the color pink, we'll try this one. It's a favorite color. Feels different. I got a seven. Seven, right? Okay, let's put that down too. That's what we have here. Let's have this one. Which one's this? Highlight. This one's pretty strong. Let me see what number would that be. That's the strongest one, right? Nine. Whatever's over that blue. Not by a ton, but interesting. Over that blue. Interesting. Okay, take this one. This is Red Jasper. So different ones align with different people? Yep. At once. It's eleven. That's really strong. Yeah, that's really strong. That's like, what? What number would that be? It's the strongest one. A ten? Put it on the top of it.  Try this one. I was hoping the pink one would be stronger. This one looks strong. Put an eight with the blue one. Try this one. Egyptian Granite. Egyptian Granite would look really good on that countertop. Yeah. Okay, that's that one. Put the same as the last one. Maybe a little bit more. This is Lapis. Little Lapis. Let's try that silver one we just did. Silver. Let me look this way so people can see what you're doing with your fingers. That's using a pinky, the weak one, right? Okay, so what's the power rating of that? This one's up there with the red one. Pretty high, right? Okay, so if you do it yourself, retest it. Anything you're doubting? Well, I'm doubting the whole thing. I'm like, how can a rock be making me... Well, test it, right? Let's test the pink one again. The worst one. Let's test the worst one with the best one. Try to dry my hands off. You never try this with these stones. I don't know how much harder I can punch with these. Now you're using the pink, the rose quartz? Yeah. And it's weak, isn't it? I'm not weak. I'm a strong guy. Okay, now try another one of the strong ones. Why? Oh, sorry. So is that harder or easier to pull off? What do you think? You're probably still doubting. So let's try the other one that's weak for you. Why don't you just do a blind test? Okay, do a blind test. Let's blindfold you. Like an eight? Eight? Everything's about an eight. Okay, and this one? This one's weaker. Okay, what number is that? Lower than a seven? Seven, six and a half or something. Let's try this one. So that's more congruent from your first results. That's matching your first results. So that's more matching your first results. The red jasper is the strongest one for you. Yeah, it was good. Okay. What does that mean? Well, that stone makes you physically stronger. So why does it specifically connect to me? Well, you can measure the vibration of every stone. Every stone has a different vibration. So does that mean every human has a different vibration? Yes. All humans have different vibrations. Different chakras. So for example, we have chakras, whether you believe it or not. And some are by chakras are weaker than others. I think the most power comes when all your chakras are balanced. The more balanced you are, like in Tai Chi, the concept is balanced. You have to balance all the yin, balance all the yang. So when you have your chakras balanced, then the energy flows without resistance. So when the energy flows without resistance, then you have the most power. Physical power and all your mind power too. So what these stones do is they enhance specific chakras in your body. And some of them actually balance your body. And some of them actually balance your chakras. So what you might find is possibly some of them are enhancing some of your weaker chakras, or some of them are balancing your chakras so that you will remove that resistance of energy flow in your body. So they can fluctuate? They can fluctuate. So sometimes you might need a different stone, sometimes you need another stone. But for now, right now, the one that's best for you is the red jasper and the silver. I find silver you can use for anybody who wants more physical energy. Silver helps. Red jasper is good too. Have you found out what particularly red jasper helps with? Red jasper, it's good for body energy. I think it's a grounding pendant too. So it helps you feel more centered. It's up online. I think I will. I have terrible balance that probably explains a lot. Yeah, so test it out. You don't even need these pendants. These pendants are frequently enhanced. You can just go to any metaphysical store and try different stones. But then the thing is it has to be high quality stone. It has to be natural stone. There's a lot of people that make cheap ones. They will just crush stones and just glue them back together. Not natural, right? So these are all natural cut from actual. This is naturally occurring? Yeah. They just cut from, these are cut from actual large pieces of rock. Okay, and then they're frequently treated with harmonic vibrations. Pretty cool. Okay, so I'm gonna let you borrow that one there. Red jasper. Cool. And then you can wear it for a week and tell me what's gonna happen. Then I can get in a fight with it. We're just kidding. Okay, thank you. What do you think? Get back. It's weird to think it's frustrating when you're doing this. I don't know if it's because I'm focusing on the stone or what? Because I'm not a huge believer in chakras or anything like that. So it's a little frustrating when you put a stone in your pocket and then it's harder to do it and you're like okay, this is weird. Yeah. It's also very cool because I mean I'm huge into sci-fi and if there's another world behind us, a veil that's covering up what actually goes behind us and the energies that transfer between us, I'm all for it. Okay, all right, cool. To be continued.


Great. Hi and welcome to today's section on showcasing new diversity and inclusion through storytelling in the Wikimedia movement. My name is Euphemia Owandu, one of the 14 members of the Wikivibrant project. And with me here today are some of the members of the 14 members, and the person of Douglas, James and Frances, who will also be speaking during this section. We also have an amazing pool of speakers, young speakers from different parts of the world who will be joining us today to join us today as well on this section to talk about what they are doing in their community and that of the other young people, how they are building communities in different parts of the world contributing to the Wikimedia project. Beyond this, we are also going to be looking at our new look today, we'll be unveiling our letter today with the rest of the audience. And at this point, I would like to pass the mic to Frances, who will be jumping in to tell us a little bit about the Wikivibrant project and her work in some regions. Thanks, Euphemia, for this kind introduction. I will start with a little of a personal story. I was one day, one year ago, I was in my town, like, you know, it was holidays, and that girl here, Euphemia, she had an idea. Her idea was to celebrate the International Jout Day in the Wikipedia movement. I mean, it wasn't an idea that started in August that year, but it was August that year when we started. We tried to, well, she asked me some collaboration knowing this project and I was very kind to participate just as my partners here in the core team. And we started with that adventure, which was to make an event and a campaign to celebrate the International Jout Day. The celebration of the International Jout Day, I have here some notes. We held it the 12th and the 13th of August. It was online via Zoom, of course. And we have 71 registered participants, which is, which are very good numbers for being the first time that any of those characteristics was made in our movement. And everyone edited an article on agriculture, food, water, plus climate change. No, those were the topics that were related to the International Jout Day in 2021. And of course, we must add that we had some logistic help with using Zoom and, you know, with the event coming from Wikimedia Austria, Wikimedia Osterreich, which, well, we are very grateful for everything that they did that very first year. As we can see in this slide, so far we've celebrated the local events. The first one was the African Jout Month, which was celebrated between the 5th of November and the 14th of December. And that event, it worked as everything in the Wikibuy brand works. I mean, there are some local events, there are some information from experimental Wikimedians to people who are coming to our community. And the African Jout Month last year was centered on the four E's. Education, employment, entrepreneurship and engagement. We had six countries participating, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. And well, it was the first step that we as Wikibuy brands team made and it was a success. The last event so far that we have celebrated was the European Jout Day. We celebrated the 2nd of April. We celebrated in Valencia in partnership with the IBAC, the Valencian Institute of the Jout. And in this case, we had a format. It was going to be an important event. Unfortunately, the world in Ukraine made that we had to make some changes and switch into virtuality. And it was more focused in a conference format focused on education. We had experiences from five different countries and we can say that it was also a success for both the communities participating and the organizers, the institutional organizers that we have. So basically so far, this is everything that we have done with the International Jout Day. And of course, there are too many things that we still have to do and that we hope that we'll all our wonderful local organizers that we have and all the wonderful local organizers and communities participating that I'm sure that will join us after knowing of this project. We hope that we can do many, many great things in the future. Recording in progress. Now we should give our voice to Euphemia and Agnes. We will talk to us about international events that are already being prepared. Thank you, Frances, for passing the mic back to me. And I'm going to talk briefly about the International Jout Day in 2021, just like Frances previously mentioned, where we had about seven something people who were trying to learn different parts of the world from Africa, from Europe, from the US and from Asia. And because we were starting out as a first time, we are focused on trying to understand some of the challenges that young media face in the media movement and how they can be better supported in doing the work they do. So we had some panel discussions with some young people in the movement who have notable achievements having these discussions and it was really fruitful and also understanding that the project was something that young people were very excited to have. And this year, we are even doing it bigger and better. But Douglas here is going to step in to tell us how we are doing it this year. Over to you, Douglas. Okay, thanks so much Euphemia and thanks Frances. And all viewers out there, thank you for joining this session. I'll first start with a brief story as well, just like Frances. So Wikivibrance, just like Frances mentioned last year is when I came across Wikivibrance. It was actually via the African Telegram mailing list where Euphemia had posted about events happening for the International Youth Day. And I really saw a vision for Wikivibrance because it was something that was quite unique that didn't happen or that was not happening within the movement. And then if it was happening, we didn't actually know details about that within the Wikimedia movement. So that's when my journey started and I'm quite new to the core team for Wikivibrance. I just joined in May this year officially, but we have held activities since 2021. And for this year, 2022, the International Youth Day is being celebrated under the theme of creating a world for all ages. It was officially like commemorated yesterday on 12th August. And it really is something that links to what we do as Wikimedians and what we want to do in the future. Because young people are the driving force for change and we really need to celebrate them on such events and also celebrate their achievements. So this year, we've had a drive for Wikimedians to celebrate their own local events with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. Some of the communities that have participated have applied for support from the foundation through the community resources team. And like we have a meta page that will share probably in the etherpad. But yeah, there are very many communities that are doing activities in regards to youths this year. And I'll write ahead, I'll showcase some of them that are going to share with us what young people are doing within their communities. So we cannot disintegrate the community because we are one people with a common vision. And by that, I mean like connecting this to the theme, we are creating a world for all ages, be it young people, be it those that are beyond their youths, we cannot disintegrate the community, but we can collaborate and work together. And that is also one of the reasons why we are coupling young people and also experienced Wikimedians to support activities and initiatives of youths. Because if you look at the landscape of the movement, you realize that there's a mixture of young people, people who are in their young ages, those who are in the middle ages and those who are at the peak of their youths. Even when you look at most affiliates, like 50% are composed of youths. Like already from the example of the Kaua team for Wikivibrants, we have a mixture of people who are in their early stages of youths and people who are in their late stages of youths. So we can only work together and we can't disintegrate the community because we are one people. And then lastly, usually there's a traditional connection to youths to the sustainable development goals, which is fine, but also what we'd like to do as Wikimedians is connect the activities of the young people to the future of Wikimedia. And most of us might be aware about Wikimedia 2030. And if you look at the vision that we have as Wikimedians by 2030, there will be definitely a large number of youths within the movement. And also, like by 2030, the basis for the future that we want to create would have been created by the current youths that we have today. So that is the reason as to why we are celebrating the International Youth Day and looking at intergenerational solidarity. So youth today will be added out in the future and we can only collaborate and work together. In the next slide, I would like to introduce some of the members that have been spotlighted to share with us our work of to share with us the work that they are doing within their communities. Yes, so next slide when you see your name, I'll invite Romeo. Romeo, if you're there, please go ahead and share with us the work that is being done within your community. Thank you so much. All right, thank you so much. I'm super excited. I don't know, can you get me and. All right, amazing. So thank you so much. I am from the South Sudan, the Wikimedia user group community here in South Sudan. And on this day, we're super excited that actually we are being part of this amazing Wikibibrance program, which is going to be able to like showcase what the youth independently are able to do as far as it comes into, you know, what the youth are doing in solving local community issues and how they're using Wikimedia as a whole to be able to cover up issues concerning like the content gap and issues concerning a lot of stuff. I come from a country that has had a very serious history of war and a history of instability, and hence giving us a very large gap of a lot of things in terms of its own infrastructure, even data itself, even content online. When you come inside stuff about South Sudan, really this was little about it, but this kind of a spotlight where we bring in youths to come together. And I'm excited right now as a young I would really love to show you the number of youth that are right now in the room watching this and ready to be part of this amazing movement to just write and fill in the content gap that is missing about South Sudan. So, so excited man, I don't know that we could even have such kind of energy from a history whereby we have been within war right now we have an economic crisis and all that but we have a lot of youths that are ready to create impactful change by doing this. So, can we just train people and right now we have people sitting here wanting to know more about what is the money what is the commedia how can we contribute how can we do that. So super excited for the support from the commedia foundation as well and every other partner who is there to support us together with even my colleagues Douglas and the others. Thank you so much. I guess who wants fear what to say a lot, but we're excited to be part of the team and yeah. Yeah, anyway, thank you. All right, that's great to hear. So that is actually the essence of the commedia like bringing on board new and underrepresented communities and good enough like youths are very excited. Thanks. Thank you for the story. Romeo so Terry go ahead you can use maybe try to use like around two or three minutes and then when you're done, the next person will be able to present over to you Terry. Hello everyone. My name is Teresia bouquet. I am from the wiki media community is a group in Kenya. And this is my second wiki media to attend wiki mania to attend. And it's been so exciting for me for the last two years when I joined the wiki media community is a group in Kenya. Previously, I really never used to interact so much with Wikipedia. Until recently. I can hear some echo. I don't know if my sound is okay. Now it's working. Please go ahead. Thank you. So what I'm doing in the wiki media community is a group in Kenya is that I am a Wikipedia, first of all, and then also in the social media space I am the one who is curating content for our Twitter page, and also managing the page. And through the collaboration of, you know, my community members, we are trying to do different activities in the wiki space. For instance, my community has tapped into the creativity of young people in Kenya to mobilize for change in shrinking the gender gaps in Wikipedia. And in the spirit of leaving no one behind, I mean, getting everyone on board, we are trying to put more focus in growing Swahili Wikipedia in Kenya. And in January, actually, we had a capacity building session down in Kilifi at the cost, where we trained guys on how to edit in Swahili. And also we are trying to enhance digital literacy skills through the Wikipedia editing trainings. For instance, in April, we had sessions with about 100 young girls who are techies with an organization called Acura Chicks, that is leading in female tech talent in Africa. And we empowered them on how to, you know, not just consume Wikipedia content, but also to create and contribute towards growing this movement. We have taken part also in photo walks, for instance, wiki long monuments, we've done workshops in person and virtually, and this year, big for us was the wiki for human rights workshop which we launched. And we had a great stand up of young people who are very charged and geared towards creating a society in which every person's rights are respected and upheld, and that was very big for us. And then we have had community meetups for capacity building, both in person and virtual as well. And key also to mention is that we have been taking part in the months of African cinema through the editor tons, which majority of us from the user group have been part of. And wiki loves Africa because Africa is our, you know, is our motherland Africa is home so we can't we can't fail to take part in that. And we have been part of that wiki loves women through the she said campaign, women are very, very integral in in our community. And so we are keen on building that. And the wiki mania conference, this is the second one for majority of us from the user group and we are so excited. Despite the challenges that some of us have been experiencing for the last two days.  And we also participated in wiki in the bar and the movement strategy. And for me to join wiki mania movement, it was because somebody inspired me. I mean somebody was there to make me like think and be part wants to be part of this community. And this person is none other than our team lead in the Kenya user group miss Winnie have been to who is actually the female co-founder and female lead for the wiki media community user group in Kenya. And she is under 35. And at this point is where you allow me to actually celebrate her again and congratulate her for, you know, the recent appointment into the wiki media, into the wiki media foundation. As a senior global movement communication specialist in Africa, we knew we are so proud of you as a user group. And thank you for always inspiring us each and every day and pushing us to dream bigger to go out there and volunteer and be change makers in our community in our different ways. And also, I cannot end this without realizing or rather recognizing the efforts of Carol Maura, who is also a part of the community user group in Kenya. And Carol, together with Winnie, really came in at a time when the wiki media community user group in Kenya was, I think it was dead, I will say. But through their magic through their collaboration, they have brought us together. And nowadays, you know, our community is vibrant our community is more involved and engaged in activities in the wiki media movement. So thank you, Carol and Winnie. Please keep on inspiring us, keep on motivating us through different incentives that you know you keep pushing our way. For example, today you can see I'm wearing my wiki mania hoodie. It's called in Nairobi. Yeah. And I know most of us in the user group here are wearing our hoodies and we are warm. Thank you to wiki media. Thank you so much. And just to close, I would like to say that our user group has tapped into the creativity and innovation of young people in Kenya, you know, to mobilize and shrink again the content gaps in wiki media. And as we speak, 85% of our user group members are young people under 35. So congratulations young people you are doing a great, great change to this society. We are proud of empowering you in Kenya to be champions of free knowledge. And I do believe that it's very crucial that young Africans take the prominent role in pushing for knowledge equity and contributing to what the sustainable development goals. So thank you everyone. May you keep contributing through different skills at your capacity. You don't have to just be an editor. You can be a photographer. You can be a graphic designer. You can be a videographer. You can be, you know, an event organizer so keep going. Thank you guys. Well, thank you so much Terry. That's really inspiring. And I know there are very many, a lot of great, great minds, great troops in Kenya. Faith Moanyolo, one of them as well. So and a lot of other youths that are doing great work. So thank you so much. Valentin, I'm not sure if you have Valentin, but maybe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, very good, very good vibes. Fine round, fine round here. Yeah, great to be speaking here. So yeah, hi, I'm Ryan boy in the projects. Yeah, and mainly editing Ukrainian projects. Also, I'm globally globally involved in some cross wiki petroleum and so on. And I'm a member of the community Ukraine and the community of Poland. So, yeah, great, great to be here about. Generally, this is an interesting initiative here because I personally think that young editors and young members of our communities are really once once being a very, very young editor is quite. I'd say. Step step forward for community being relying on young editors. And yeah, generally it's it's good. Good to highlight some action that is being done that have been done in Ukraine and in Poland to that regards. Yeah, for example, we have a lot of, for me, yes, also like once being as a young, very young editor. It's nice to know that there could be real some support from community. But on the other hand, it's really good to understand that at least what we need to do to have in flow of young editors. It's not to demotivate them from I know this this is where a rare actions but sometimes they happen and yeah we need to look maybe a little bit closer into that and to try to like. And it even the most this rare examples of such because yeah, many prominent members of communities are real of young age for in Ukrainian community I can highlight the recently very active user that is vitally. 1500 that is being crashing that has been crashing the good articles project is very, very good editor of very young age. In Polish community we have, for example, user Yamnik Starnowa that is being very at young age he's already an administrator and leading member of community that is dealing with organizing of all editants of all a contest and yeah it's it's really inspiring to see such examples. And now that regional chapters of the community foundation can really promote and inspire such young editors to know that know that yeah we have we have a good good movement and good experience ahead of us. Yeah, because, although young editors may seem not not experienced enough not having enough. Yeah, just just life experience. We have multiple examples when, for example, all technicals, all technical stuff in communities or technical stuff in on projects were done by very editors of very young age that's. And yeah, really that is that is very, very nice to see when young editors are being leaders of a community. And I think, generally, generally I'm done. Thanks. Thanks everyone for, yeah, for nice comments. Yeah, and generally, thanks. Thanks for such a session. Wonderful. Thanks, Valentin. I think we'll continue with the flow since we are almost left with less than 20 minutes to wrap up so Nada, please take it away. My name is Nadal Farah. I'm a doctor from Palestine. I'm a member of the Wikimedia 11 user group and we work heritage. Well, I started my Wikipedia journey back in 2018. I had some interruptions in this journey, but the only constant thing was that I want to continue, I want to improve as a Wikimedia and I want to spend more time to spread and share this in movement. I was just an editor when I started this year and now I am on the leadership development working group where I get to participate in the actual implication of the sex recommendation of the movement strategy that endorses investing in skills and leadership development. I have invested in my skills and other colleagues, other Wikimedia and colleagues' skills by coordinating multiple workshops to document Levantine authors works and featured lists on Arabic Wikipedia. Each list has exceeded 80 published books and articles. I have also guided members to translate pictures and photos and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I have co-organized interwiki women collaboration 2020 workshop with my Wikimedia friend Anur. We actually co-organized a lot of workshops together that was directed to newcomers and build capacity and fill gap in Wikipedia content about women. What I most admire about my journey is that it made my free time eventful. It expanded my comfort zone and helped me encounter young promising people in each edit I made and made me want to contribute more and have more people from my community in the movement as it's a place for everyone. So that's basically my journey and I hope everyone have an eventful journey in their Wikimedia journey and in this wikimania and have the inspiration to follow their own path and as I said it's a place for everyone and everyone should give it a shot. So thank you. Thanks. Wonderful work, Neda. And it's great that you mentioned being part of the leadership development working group. So already enough action like for youths being involved in movement strategy implementation. So let's hear from Proteh on what is being done. Proteh, over to you. Thank you, Seth Douglas. My name is Poyezu Proteh, Wikimedia from Rwanda and a member of Wikimedia communities of Rwanda. I'm happy to speak with you, everyone. I'm also the local organizer of the Tukibai branch this year.  His target, then I get interested. When I was joining in my community, there were a majority of youth in the Rwanda. In the communities of Rwanda, there was a majority of young people, which I can address as my main motivation, which made me more curious about knowing that learning strategies of movement. Because most of the participants were young, I also aimed to contribute high then so I can be more useful in that community of my age group. So I have started like in July 2020, it's like three years ago. Then I started by editing, by contributing in some of the context of time. I get to maximize my knowledge on editing hints and started training others as also mentoring other young people. This lead me to contributing and attending more international context where I joined Wikibai branch last year, in August I think. Wikibai branch was the African context which was aiming for the youth people to eat about the culture. Then I participated in that opportunity, then I managed to be the winner, the top contributor. I remember I become the second. So after winning that prize, my community also recognized me to be in the main group of Wikibai branch, which has taken place in February. Which also that opportunity gave me another chance to join the Afros Cinema. It was the continental context which aimed to cover the knowledge gap about African cinema, where I also managed to be in a top contributor. I remember he had the third prizes. Also I become the motivation and the motivator to those other young people in my community. Where they have a lot I can teach them, where I have a lot they can learn from me and also still running and learning to be more and active. So in my community young people raise many parts in every angle, whether in volunteer retention, in participating like in YouTube projects. And also I remember last few months we hosted the movement strategy. It was a research but also the young volunteers got involved in that project and we have been doing that for like three years ago. So in sharing ideas with other volunteers they have increased the disability of our media in Africa. Our community in Africa that we have set some strategies and also aimed to shape the future of our community. So this lead to our community Rwanda is organized as the official media group in Rwanda and we are happy to achieve that. So that's why I can say the youth volunteers are the more active and the more important in our community. That's why we aim to rate them a lot and I am sure the Vibrance project is what we really do. So thank you very much. I'm happy to share you my story. Wonderful. Thanks so much for today and like good to see the budding community in Rwanda. You mentioned something interesting on when you started activities 2020 that was during the COVID-19 lockdown and very many youths had out of time on their plates. So I think we saw a lot of increased contributions. We are like behind schedule behind time but then we have two more slides and probably Rafi could use his time like three minutes. We can probably borrow more time from the Q&A sessions and then we can maybe play one video. So after Rafi will play one video I request the technical team to take note of that. So after Rafi we can play maybe one video then go to that Q&A session. Thank you so much. Over to you Rafi. Rafi are you with us? Are you there? Okay so probably we can have one video played. Over to you technical team. Thank you. Barrage for you to be part of this growing movement. Thank you Viki Vibrance project. Yeah okay so we I think we only I only had the last part of the video. There was some interference but no worries like we'll share this. We'll upload this to the meta page and we'll probably link it in the etherpad. So sorry about that in case you didn't hear the video very well but I would like to now hand over to Francesc to take over the Q&A and then Ophemia will wrap up. Thank you so much. Over to you Francesc. Thanks Douglas. Well we are a little bit short on time but I know that there are some questions in the chat. So if anyone wants to make those questions, let's say by voice now is the moment so please make a comment in the chat and we can invite you to make your questions. Yes Caroline do you want to make your question publicly or should I? Sure hi can you hear me? Yes we can. I just wanted to ask two questions. One what are the challenges like the user groups are facing around all those who have presented. Then again what how are they keeping the young people to continue being on Wikipedia. You know sometimes we face the issue of people will come one day do something then they leave. How do you keep them going in the in the community. Thank you. Thanks to you for your question. I believe that it would be better if our local organizers so perhaps somebody else can answer your question. Just to give some time to somebody to step in I will share my thoughts. When it comes to the challenges for the communities I believe that I mean one challenge there are several challenges one is of you know very related to leadership development of capacity building etc. And in order to you know to mind a little bit on the gap we must say that there are there are I mean this year we have already put that in practice we have implemented some grants for local organizers so we can help them to you know to prepare things with time and without worrying or not etc. That's one hand and the other hand when it comes to engaging young Wikimedians. Well, as we say here in Valencia, every person is a world. So, I mean, this is something that can change a lot from a person to another. I can say that, you know, especially that there are one specific kind of Wikimedians which are the natural born Wikimedians according to a to research that was done by the foundation a couple years ago. And let's say that the people who are born Wikimedians that people who are very, very passionate on free knowledge etc. So we, because this is an event of the movement we are a very specific breed of person of people. And, and I believe that that's difficult because sometimes it's very difficult to find the specific person the appropriate person to to be into Wikipedia and to to enjoy this passionate platform. But as I said at the very beginning I believe that to give a more specific and non philosophical answer I believe it's better to bring it to anybody else. So I don't know if you can add something as she was the person who started with all this initiative if she can, if she can provide a more specific answer. Thank you, Francis. Just to add to what Francis said, and about the questions around what our plans are, our thoughts and getting younger editors to join the movement. So one of the things that was really worrisome to us when we started was acknowledging that there are some Wikimedia communities that you know have any young person in it at all at the moment. For example, from Francis community is about the only person in his community and that is not good for us that is not good for movement sustainability. So one of the things we did this year was to launch the European youth there in this region working with youth institutions with the reading Wikipedia in the classroom program that attracted a lot of young people during the program. Because of short of time, I think I will have to end it there but know that there are two plans or we are happy to unveil that will definitely have more young people in the movement. Thank you. Thank you for your answer. Well, we've reached it almost the end of our of our time so I will invite you again so you can say you're the final statements and to close this session for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Francis again and thank you everyone for joining. I just want to speak about our new look today, which is our new logo that was designed by an international artist by name Jordan as well. Thank you so much to our youthfulness, our stamina and our speed, and then also coming that this thing is happening in a community that is full of bed lovers. This is the new logo have unveiled today and we'll be working with. Thank you everyone who have joined the section to listen to the work of young people. Thank you to our amazing speakers. Thank you to the core team members. You guys are the best the technical team. Thank you for your great work and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Bye bye. Bye bye. Thank you to our amazing speakers. Thank you to the core team members.


Hi. So I'm Ben Kreuter. And I'm going to talk about how we've been using MPC at Google. Before I begin, I'd like to say, every time I tell people in this community, hey, we're doing this. We're doing MPC at Google, everyone gets really excited and starts saying, oh, are you using Garbled Circuits? Are you using GMW? And then I have to disappoint everyone and say, nope. And actually, we're going to talk a bit about why. I think probably the most interesting part here is what is separating the academic work from the work that companies like Google are doing in this field. So we'll start with that. And then I'll talk about two applications that sort of illustrate two different scenarios in which this is being used. So we have a business to business application and an application on consumer devices on smartphones. So let's start with this separation. Why is research going one way? And everything else seems to not be going that way. So at a high level, the academic view of MPC has been mostly looking at these generic protocols. So these protocols where you can take any polynomial time functionality and compile it down into something that you can then run between many parties. And it's very nice if you're a developer, if you have a system like that, or one would hope, because you don't have to get into the crypto. You just have to specify what your function is and who should participate and what you want them to learn. And there's also been a lot of interest in the strongest security model possible, right? The malicious model or sort of these concurrent models that go even beyond that. And there's been some very good results, right? So we've defined security models on the theory side and developed a very good and very useful theory about it. We've shown that actually any function you want a protocol for has a protocol. And we've shown that you can even do it if only one of the parties is honest. So the whole world can be against you and you can stay safe. And as Yehuda was just saying, we have implementations of these systems. And for many years, people have been developing them. So this is what things look like on the academic side. Now, the theoretical results have a lot of value in practice, or so I think. The security definitions especially, we need to, when we design this, we need to know how to think about security, how to think about what we're actually doing. And the feasibility results are good. My team at Google sort of does work for teams that come to us and ask for things. And it's very nice to be able to say, yes, on paper, we can do that. And impossibility results are also good, because then we can say, actually, on paper, we can't do it and then try to solve the problem another way. So we know where to not waste our time and we know when we're doing something that's at least possible. And on more than one occasion, I have actually found the security problem in one of our designs by trying to write the simulator for it. So for those not familiar, the simulator is sort of how we define security for NPC. It's, you want to say that you can generate a transcript without actually running the whole protocol so you learn nothing from the transcript. So this is all very useful. And the security models in practice, you know, a bit more about that. The semi-honest model is actually not as bad as you might think. In some settings, it actually has value. It's akin to forward secrecy in a sense. If I haven't cheated yet, you know that everything, thus far, is secure. And, you know, if you can audit it, if you can get sort of just below the covert model, but still be able to catch cheating sometimes, that's actually good enough in a lot of cases, especially in business to business settings where contracts can be used and you can sue people. It's also worth pointing out that in a lot of cases, we care more about privacy than correctness. The malicious model guarantees both. So you obviously can't satisfy that if you only guarantee one. It's a little hard to define that. It's a little hard to say we have privacy, but you can sort of change the output because maybe you change it to just repeat my input, right? But in terms of what we really care about, privacy is often more important. And kudos to the researchers who developed the covert model, because if I remember correctly, they specifically said it was for realistic applications, and that's 100% true. That is probably the most useful thing to achieve for these business to business cases. In the consumer setting, when you have people you can't just bring into court, you probably want malicious model. And these concurrent composition questions do come up. Sometimes non-malleability is an important thing to have.  So that is the tension. Now, this I think is probably the biggest gap between academic work and what we do. Academic work tends to focus on the end-to-end running time of some system, some protocol, or the throughput, but doesn't really break down the cost. So for example, let's say we're doing this two-party computation between Google and someone else. So we have a data center with tons and tons of machines in it, and they all have to share the uplink, or uplinks if there's more than one. And the other party has some resources. That shared network is gonna have a ton of contention. You're not gonna get to monopolize it with your protocol. And even if you could, you're not gonna run your protocol once.  And so the network is usually the costliest resource for you. And this is equally true on consumer devices. There's only so much wireless spectrum to go around. And crypto is not the only thing people are doing. So for a business to use this, there's obviously some reason they wanna run it. There's a benefit. If the benefit outweighs the cost, it could be used. Not guaranteed, it could be. So a few practical challenges. Consumer devices don't get to communicate directly with each other usually. Like my phone is behind a nat that my service provider runs. So I have to go through some cloud service. There isn't really any reliable PKI, sorry. And for some protocols, so for the one I'll talk about later, we're gonna sort of select random sets of phones. If we're malicious, we'll just select phones that we control, right? So how we select the parties is a sort of interesting question. And the cost metrics on consumer devices are different. You can measure cost in terms of how much energy you've used, which is a very different thing from like a data center or a laptop. All right, sorry, not a laptop, a desktop. A laptop does have a battery. Also, consumer devices fail all the time. It random points in a protocol. This can create an interesting security problem where a device sends half a message and dies and it winds up ruining its own privacy in the process. Some protocols fail miserably if you don't finish. So in ORAMs, for example, you either lose security or you lose all your data if you don't complete the protocol, which is usually a problem. Also, of course, these civil attacks where you just simulate things and call them cell phones. These are a concern. And there's this weird, this theoretical result here that you either get to have security against everyone, in which case civil attacks are irrelevant, or you get to ensure that the computation finishes even if parties drop out. You can't have both of those. Usually it's more important to finish, and so you have to carefully ensure that these sorts of malicious coalitions can't really be formed at a large scale. Marley had mentioned there's no such thing as a non-colluding service provider. I'm gonna say a slightly weaker version. It's not impossible. It is quite difficult. I say it's not impossible because it's already been done in a real protocol. But if you're trying to deploy a system, it's not really a good thing if some third party can stop playing and then your system stops working. So it does add a lot of risk when you wanna do something like that.  So, our applications. This is a sort of famous quote from advertising, right? People spend a lot of money advertising their products and they wanna know that that money is well spent. So, I think this guy sold tractors and wasn't really sure who saw his ads and then bought them. So, set intersection functionality is actually very useful for this. We use it for a lot of things. It's very good when you wanna compute some aggregate information over a joint data set. And in particular, in these business to business settings, that data is often something you can't share with other businesses. So, Google has user data and this tractor salesman maybe has some data about his customers like who came in and bought tractors. Those two data sets are very, very private and very sensitive, so you can't just send them out to other people to work with. So, this is how we get our ads attribution now. If we compute the intersection of who saw the ads and who bought the tractors, the size of the intersection gives us some information. If we augment this with some extra data, so we use the, you know, we intersect on the key and then the value is how much they spent, we can sort of figure out quantitatively the effectiveness of this ad campaign that he was running. Very important that we not reveal who's actually in the intersection since that amounts to revealing at least partial data about either who bought tractors or who saw the ads. So, we'll only reveal the size. And here's our basic protocol. It's sort of a Diffie-Hellman-based protocol. We augment it with some homomorphic encryption, like PAI-A, because we only need a sum. And it's very quick, obviously, this is for an honest but curious setting. It is simple, and this is a non-technical advantage, not just because it's easy to implement, but because we have to convince other people that this is something they should do. We have to convince, you know, non-technical managers, we have to convince lawyers, and then we have to convince the people who need to implement it. There's different opinions on who is the hardest among these to convince. The lawyers are interesting because you can show them a proof and, you know, two plus two equals four is a negotiable statement here, so it's interesting talking to them. I find that managers usually trust your expertise, although I'm told that before I joined my team that wasn't so true, not because I joined, I think, that changed long before I came along. Software engineers, I think, are the worst because they already assume this is impossible. So you first have to go and undo everything they've learned about crypto and then rewrite all of it. So how about a quick comparison? Why don't we just use garbled circuits? So a few years ago there was some work from a co-grad student of mine at UVA on garbled circuits. They can be just as fast as custom protocols or even better for set intersection. So why not? So he assumes we have some bit vector representation, so we only need two AES blocks per bit, and we need some adders, that's one AES or one AND gate per bit that we need to add. Let's say we're doing 16 bits. And in our protocol, it looks like it's all the same. So at best, we're equal. Unfortunately, all of our assumptions are wrong. We don't actually have bit vector representations and 16 bits is a bit small. Tractors are actually quite expensive. Also, there's a subtle difference hiding in here. Our protocol only has to send a element from that curve for everything in the set. But in this garbled circuit approach, if you're using this bit vector representation, you have to send a bit for everything in the universe. And as it turns out, our sets are usually quite sparse in the universe of possible values.  And if you try to do this, not using bit vectors, then you have to do the set intersection online in the circuit, and then your costs really start to look bad. So garbled circuits actually are not competitive, at least in this setting. A few final notes. There's a very interesting problem here of finding common identifiers for our user data and for some third-party data. We do have an audit mechanism, so we have a way to sort of post facto check that there was no cheating. In this model, in this world, that's pretty useful. Arbitrary, lawyer-imposed things are things that have no relevance to computing the results correctly and no relevance to real security, but are required for reasons we don't fully comprehend. Our future work, malicious model security, that is not substantially more expensive, would be a great thing for us to have. Non-malleable security may be something useful here for certain applications that may come later. And more functionality than just additions, so that sort of cumulative function on the intersection may wind up finding some garbled circuits use there. Unclear at the moment, if that would be necessary, but it could still happen, so nothing's off the table. So how about our consumer applications? So, we have phones. We may have heard that machine learning is this big new thing that's gonna revolutionize the world. So let's take as a particular example the keyboard model on your phone. So your phone does predictive input. You can train a local model. You may have noticed your phone tries to do things differently as time goes on. We can actually do better if we were to take all of our local models and merge them. This is what we've been told by the machine learning guys. And in this case, they've told us that merging is a linear combination, so that's good. So we could sort of, without caring about privacy, do that. Just upload all of these vectors to Google, add them up or do whatever the linear combination is, and then we're done. Of course, the downside here is that your local model reveals what you've typed, so you'd be sending a transcript of everything you've ever typed, at least over some period to us, and we don't want that data from you and you don't wanna give it to us. So, differential privacy, yes. Although, it's not terribly easy to do it here. The local models, if you add enough noise to achieve the differential privacy properties, will be a lot less useful, since there's only one element in the data set and you've added enough noise to protect that one element's privacy. So we want the outputs to be differentially private after we've aggregated. So, it's an MPC application. We have a linear combination. In this case, it's really kind of a weighted average. We have a very large number of parties, but since it's linear, why not a linear secret sharing scheme? So, maybe something like that. We will just mask all of our vectors in some way, and we'll do it in such a way that if you add them, all of our masks will cancel. So, if I'm one party, then I agree with every other party on a common mask. One of us will add, one of us will subtract, so now the sum of our vectors cancels that. So, this is the basic idea of our protocol, and this has actually been studied in the past. This is not novel. Now, sharing that whole vector would be an awful lot of communication. It's gonna grow essentially quadratically. So, we want something less costly, and as cryptographers we all know, we can use a PRG. So, instead of this one-time pad with these random masks, we'll just use a stream cipher. Now we just need to do a key exchange to agree on common keys with each other, and that is significantly less expensive. We also have to handle device failures. So, phones do just stop participating in protocols sort of all the time. So, we need to make sure we can still take your mask back off. So, easy enough, right? We send out shares of our secret keys. Unfortunately, now if a failing party was actually not failing, it was just very slow. It will now send the message to the server, and now the server can see its private input.  So, we'll just add another stream cipher on top of that, and have two keys that we send shares for. And so now the idea is that we will reveal at the end when the server says I stopped receiving messages from these parties, one key, and then for all the parties that completed it, we'll send the other key. And so, you either see this late party's encrypted input or you get to add it to the output. Differential privacy, there's sort of two ways we could do this. One would be to just have the server at it that will allow the server to see the non-differentially private output, which is not great, but if it happens to be the same company that ships the software for your phone and is doing a ton of stuff to keep your data secure, maybe it's okay. Another thing we could do is try to add noise locally, and we've been told by experts that actually we can add a whole lot less noise because we add everything up, and so we'll actually get the right amount of noise at the end, so that's good. Open question for anyone who is interested in trying to solve a problem. Can we do the distributed noise generation efficiently enough to have say, thousands of parties do it? And in this case, you must be secure against malicious parties because consumer devices are just not as accountable. And that is that, so I will open the floor to questions. Hi, so I'm glad to see that Google is considering privacy and using MPC with consumer devices, that's great. I guess my question is, what would you like to see from the academic community to help out with this? So in addition to these generic protocols that people are doing, there are frameworks coming out that are supposed to make it easier on software engineers, so what would you like to see from the academic community to help out with? Do you mean what would I, as someone who's working on this at Google, want? Or do you mean what would I like to see for the world at large to have? Both. What I would like is a generic protocol that is significantly less bandwidth intensive. So think like FHE, except without the enormous constant factor. So either make that constant factor way smaller or find a garbled circuits protocol that has sublinear communication, but not a huge constant. For the world at large, I think the frameworks are great. I think that once we have these generic protocols that are really practical enough for more problems, that will lead to this sort of MPC renaissance, because I think there's a lot of problems out there that people need to solve, and I think people are aware of that. It just hasn't, the costs so far seem to be outweighing the benefits for a lot of people. You want to alternate? I actually have two questions. The first one is how long was this in deployment, both these systems? And also I was wondering if you could comment on experiencing your experience debugging these things when they're running, because you're dealing with private data, you can't just open everything up. So I was curious about that. To answer that question, debugging is hard. And as for the deployment, the phone one will soon be deployed. And I don't know how much I can say about how long the other one has been in production, but I can say it has been deployed. That's great, thank you. In your example of merging predictive input models, what are you doing to prevent consequences similar to like the AOL search corpus disaster 2006 where you have this corpus and even if nothing in there is immediately attributable, there are things that are obviously passwords and somebody could just go brute force to find out what username that password belongs to. Right, so in this case, the differential privacy property is the answer to that. So imagine without worrying about how you got it that you had the merged model already. If you add the right amount of noise that was sampled according to the right distribution, you'll have the property that no small subset of the inputs matters. As in, you could have excluded a small subset of the inputs and the output distribution will remain the same, or at least indistinguishable. That's sort of the high level summary of the differential privacy property. So it's a way to say you can learn aggregates but not specifics. Okay. With the phone example where you're merging these models, it's true that you only care about almost sort of high probability contexts. So if this is some sort of markup chain model, you don't really care about sort of rare events across the whole sample, interesting computing aggregates. Is differential privacy the right notion or do you think that there should be research into other notions like, okay, I want to get the maxima of the sums of the sets. I don't want to see anything below a certain threshold. So I think the differential privacy property is the best one that we have right now. I would love to see research on new ways to think about that. As I said, theoretical results have a lot of value for that very reason. So if you have ideas, tell us, publish them, tell the world, please. Henry? Thanks for the talk, that was really interesting. So I was curious about the, in the case where you're merging these machine learning models, what do you do if a client just sends you garbage because it's secret shared garbage.  How do you prevent that or how do you handle it? Two ways. One is it's still kind of an open problem and two, we can usually tell when the output is garbage. A good model is sort of distinguishable from a random model. So if the best that we can do is to force cheating clients like this to give us random outputs, that's good enough. Thanks. I'm gonna ask one question. So you mentioned there may be more interesting functions on intersection that is interesting. Do you have examples of few things, functions that would be interesting or? No, but with PIE you can do affine functions, right? So if we ever had a case where we needed something that is not affine and there are a lot of functions that are not affine, then that would be an example. No specific example. No specific example that I can give here now. Is there a third speaker? That's where I was asking. We can go keep boring with the questions. Is it about the question? Yeah. So for this, you're taking this average are some amount, a subset of the players and if you do this multiple times and you take different subsets that can leak more information. Yes, it can. But I think again, this becomes more of the differential privacy. You can view that in a differentially private world where we say we'll just add more noise. By taking a large enough sample, you can get away with actually adding more noise than would be needed for just one round of the application. And I think I'm being told that we are done. We do have a third. Sorry, you can come chat with me in the back if you have more questions.