Hello, hello, one, two, one, two, yep, and now with, can you hear me there? Yes, I think I can decide. Okay, hello, hello. Hi everyone, can you hear me well there? Yes, yes, yes, okay, good. Are you coming or are you leaving? Okay, so good afternoon everyone and good morning, evening or afternoon to the people that are joining us online. We are going to talk today about the, in this session about the Android implementation stories. Okay, and just to remind you, this chart that was shared during the conference on Monday, the first day, this is the adoption of Android, right? This is the number of devices that are using Android during the last 30 days. Okay, so we have already almost 100,000. Okay, so it is a big success, I believe for the, for, for UIO and for the whole community, but we want to keep improving. So if we go to see this country by country, we can see that we have Nigeria, Mozambique, Togo, Lesotho Malawi, okay, and it's been used in most of the countries of Africa, in many countries of Southeast Asia. We are starting in Latin America as well. Of course, we as the Android team, we can like taking care of the roadmap, we can take care of the features that we are developing for the, for the, for the application, for the mobile application. But of course, the most important piece is always the implementations, the deployments and all that, right? So how the, the users are using the Android application, the implementers, how they are deploying, deploying the Android application in the field. So it's something that we really, really want to hear from you. And I hope with this session, the community will learn about the different, very interesting use cases, right? So we have four groups here, and we're going to start with Jerry from his West Central Africa, please Jerry, eight minutes. I think now I'm left with seven minutes and 30 seconds like this. Okay, okay, great. So I'm going to talk about the Togo experience. So here in the picture, you can see our Prime Minister getting the vaccine. So I mean, we have an article just down there talking about Togo initiating the vaccination campaign. Okay, so we're going to talk about the context, the deployment approach, the main successes, the challenge and the lesson learned. Okay, so yes, COVID appeared on the 17th of November 2019. And I mean, in Togo, we actually had our first cases in March 2020, on March April 2020.  Okay, so there was a need actually to make sure that we don't have a high peak of cases and deaths. So we actually wanted to start the immunization. So one thing you need to understand is that for COVID surveillance, they use another system to actually track the cases, but it actually failed. So for COVID vaccination, they wanted to use another system, but the minister was like, we've been using DHIS for a while, and it's been working. So why can't we use DHIS for vaccination? And then we actually were able to use DHIS for vaccination. And this was actually the process. Yeah. So this was a process. So you needed to be enrolled into a website or platform, whereby when you enroll, then you can go to a health facility, and then they'll look for your ID. I mean, you need to go with your ID, because an SMS will be sent to you. And then you'll be registered. I mean, not registered, but you, they will actually take information about the first dose, the second dose, and the third dose, et cetera, et cetera. So we had this kind of process whereby the data was actually sent via another platform to DHIS too. The health professionals were supposed to actually enter the data into DHIS too. And then this data was actually sent to analytics for processing. So yeah, what we were able to do was, first of all, to configure the package with the the Ministry of Health. And then we actually were able to train them on data entry. Okay, we trained the ones that are supposed to enter the data and data entry. There was a pilot face in the capital city to see how it will go. And it went well. So we finally wanted to roll it out. Of course, they had a lot of support. One, because we had a lot of DHIS users in the country that could actually support from the Ministry of Health, support from us. What we did was, of course, we actually downloaded the application on Play Store. And in some places, you had phones provided to them, but others actually used their own device. So it was a hybrid system. But what we also did was to have a WhatsApp group and a Telegram group in order to make sure that people were kind of assisted or supported when needed. So this is just like a screenshot of the data entry screen using Android. So the main success was, we were able to use that for Nationwide rollout. So people were enrolled and data was collected into the system. So it was a success story. We are using that currently to generate the vaccination certificate in Togo. And it's actually compliant with Euro, how do you call it? Euro standards. We also were able to use that for informed decisions. For example, when they hire lower rate of teachers being vaccinated, the Ministry of Education was able to act upon it and encourage the teachers to get more vaccines. It also triggered the use of DHS for COVID surveillance. And you probably realized that we are the third country that was downloading the application most. But it's actually because we are now using it for COVID surveillance. And we're also using it for community health information system. So we are now, people are like, oh, you can use Android for a lot of data collection things. And you realize that it's actually increasing, the demand is increasing. Okay. So the last part is a Nationwide success story. So our Ministry of Digital Economy has been praising the national system of vaccination, the electronic system, saying that we've been able to enroll people and people who have their certificate is compliant. And due to DHS too. Challenges, analytics. I mean, we had issues with analytics in bringing up the data. But I mean, when we upgraded to 235, it was fine. Thanks to the developers and the feedback that they got, we were able to have the system to 235 and it was okay. We also had issues with managing devices, because some were using their own devices and a bit difficult to manage to upgrade to support and the versions were different. Those were the things that we had. We had also a problem in the beginning with the process, because they actually wanted to enroll the population via an electronic system whereby the people that were above 50 were not that used to internet and website. So when you come to the health center, they were like, we want to get vaccinated. They said, you need to get enrolled in the system, the what system. So we needed to actually educate them and make sure that they get enrolled into the system. So that was one of the challenges. Lesson learned. Well, it was possible to actually roll out a system in a fast period with the local support. So the fact that we were around and the Ministry of Health was already used to DHS2, we could actually quickly support a system like that. The good thing also is that we had this feedback mechanism. So we were able to talk with the Android developers, with the web developers, on the feedback that we got on the field and it was implemented immediately. And I mean, that actually was quite crucial for the rollout, because we didn't have a lot of problems. So thank you very much. Oh, yeah, good. Thank you very much. Jerry, it's a problem when you have the long hair to take this. Anyway, so then our next presenter is, sorry, I forgot your name, Tiwanga, sorry, Tiwanga from Malawi. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Good afternoon everyone. Okay, so the use case I'm presenting is on the community health information system for Malawi. So what you see on the screen to the right is just a list of the modules that we have within the community health information system at the moment. So from the test server. So as we go, give you the rest of the details of something of the connection. Yes, so the connection is off. All right. So the connection is back again. So I think largely that's also why we use the Android app for offline work at the community level. All right. So what we have as the integrated community health information system for Malawi is an approach to having an integrated solution that supports all the work at community level. So over the years, there have been varied implementations to support the frontline workers. So now the ministry as part of its community strategic plan wants to have a unified system where you'd have the community health worker using a single device to support all the services that they provide. So this is where the community health information system comes into place. So the system is owned by the ministry of health. It's coordinated through the digital health division with the support of the community health services section, so which is responsible for the services at community level. So like what I showed you from that initial slide, we have various modules implemented at the moment, not all as because we still developing the components. So we're developing and then rolling out. But at the moment where we have deployed, we have a community health register which observes or gets data on community or village demographics as well as community health. So schools, speed and collection points and so on and so forth. And then there's a household register which is used for tracking environmental health at household level. Then the person register for person registration and linkage to various health programs. And then we have the integrated community case management, which is an embedded protocol to guide the community health workers in managing childhood illnesses. So there's an embedded protocol that gets them through assessment. And then the app does tell them what the assessment classification is and what the management for the various detected conditions should be. And then we've also implemented all the tools for the aggregates reporting. So at the moment in terms of the scope, we've deployed in five districts, the fifth one being handled as we speak. So with over 750 mobile devices and the primary users, community workers, so these are Saturday government workers who are called health surveillance assistants. So in terms of the deployment approach, we've mainly tried to advocate for similar devices so that we're able to manage things better. And in prepping for the deployments, usually we have various teams coming together to do the installations as well as register the devices. And then there are also agreement forms that are given to the community health workers regarding how they should manage these devices. So for deployment, we're using fdread for the visioning and pushing to the users. In terms of upgrading to various versions, we're largely looking at staying a vision behind just so that we see that things are stable. And then in terms of troubleshooting, because in the field, there are a few things that we need attending to. So one, for example, where people have issues like with syncing, we check the synced logs. So in some cases, we do ask them to send us the synced logs. So then also we do utilize system logs. And then we have configuration testing sessions mainly to check and validate program rules, because since this is meant to guide service delivery, we have extensive program rules implemented. For the main successes is that over time we've put together different teams to have training of trainer sessions, and then also had combined training because the ministry is also at the same time deploying paper-based community registers. And to make people comfortable, we are at the moment also facilitating the trainings for those paper registers together with the app. And then also over time introduce pre and post assessments for the trainings, just to also have some quality checks in terms of the work that we do. And post deployment, we do have routine visits to the districts to evaluate how things are progressing. And then we've had an integrated approach in terms of system development and the trainings roll out as well as the supervisions. You see that in the final slide. In terms of the main challenges, I think at times the challenges with data syncing program rules, testing can be a nightmare at times where you have extensive rules and also you have different people working on rules. So one fixes, the other one does another rule and it just messes things up. And one also interesting thing that has come at community level is the need for supporting a dual track entity support because the tracker model mainly looks at a track entity. But here we have, let's say a household. So you want to track the household, but then you also want to track people inside the household. So that's a bit tricky at the moment, but we'll use relationships, but at the moment the implementation, the relationship linkage is soft. So you link, you tap on that X, that's gone. And then one other, I think a slight challenge that we've had is in terms of stages that are supposed to be linked. So in some cases where you would want the stage to be locked, some program rules still run. And then also linking related stages, like events across related stages in some cases has proved quite challenging. So for the lessons linked, we've seen that it's also important that we invest in digital literacy because when you go lower, more especially for older staff, digital skills can be quite a challenge. And also with the rapid expansion of the implementation, we feel it's important that we also expand the various competencies that we require. And then we've been able to coordinate multiple implementations using different partners and deploying in multiple places at once. And then one key thing as well is the balance between work plan flexibility and QA, like quality assurance, because we have a plan, but funding availability also has other plans. So you have to be able to balance those two, follow the funding, but also maintain the right level of quality. And I think one other thing, final is, we've also felt, I think, the need that we need to communicate with the global Android team more than we actually do, given our implementations, because I think in the cases where we've done that, the response has been quite good. So we'll improve on that. And so in terms of the partnerships, these are the different entities that have taken part in doing this. So the ministry coordinating the university and also last mile health, coordinating the technical assistance, UNICEF and Wandikwe is providing also part of the funding with UNICEF funding the most for this implementation. Thank you very much. Our next guest is Patrick from Hispuranda. Okay, good afternoon for those who are in here. So Patrick Omeel is my name and I'm here to share the experience of Uganda implementing Android for the different projects that we... Okay, so as that gets on, so I'm here on behalf of a team from Hispuranda and of course the Minister of Health that we've been working with to implement Android. So ours won't be one use case, but basically it's a sum up of what we've done and generally the entire experience of implementing Android. Of course from the team, we have Immaculate, a colleague who was not able to join us for the conference, who kind of leads country implementation in Uganda and she has been very, very key in making sure this works for us and she has been coordinating well with the team. Of course Prosperizia is also part of the team that we've been working with to implement. So mine is just to present. So if the hard questions come, reflect Prosper and probably if Emma is online, it's supposed to be offline but... Okay, so we have, I would say, maybe much longer history in terms of our implementation. It starts way back in, could be 10 years ago, way back in 2012 is when we had the first Android implementation and this was one NC project that was interested in tracking, of course, NC mothers across districts. That was the first and that used version 2.16, I'm sure some of you have not been using the HIS too. So that was the first Android implementation we had in 2012 and then in 2013, we had another one that was for global health security that was helping with the disease surveillance and after that, the interest grew. We realized that, yeah, you can use Android to capture data and the interest, of course, was how do you use this offline capability. And that was actually also the query requirement and I think that is the sole purpose of Android. So currently, as we speak, we are using Android for the EIDSR. We're using it for TV surveillance. We're using Android for the COVID vaccination and then we're using Android for the point of entry tracking. So those are some of the major use cases we have and like you can see Emma, Emma is the colleague I was talking about. She really does the support for Android implementation. So this is just a summary of what we've done with Android. Like I mentioned, we had a first implementation of the MCH project in four clinics and we used four tablets and same as the one of EIDSR through the global security, also for tablets and we're also acknowledging the partners because getting these devices together, you need support and most times we don't have those resources. So most of where we get is that when we get support, sometimes it comes with the devices, sometimes you have to look for other partners to provide the device. And for again, EIDSR, looking at mainly the COVID, we have 160 tablets deployed at district level and also that supports both point of entry and also the CTUs, the COVID treatment units. We also caused the TV surveillance. We've rolled out TV surveillance in Uganda and we also facilities that are not fine. We are doing a kind of hybrid deployment in there. Facilities that don't have computers, we've been able to provide them with the tablets to be able to capture data. And then the health facility, that's quality assessment, basically an assessment for health facility. We've also deployed Android for that. So basically it helps them to assess district teams and national teams to do assessment and facility. So we did the tracker configuration and also deployed Android to support that. And of course, the big one, the COVID vaccination, where we had a lot of support from the WHO and CDC to deploy Android. So in terms of our approach, and this is missing this slide, it's I think the same. We usually do the configuration, make sure tracker is up and running on the web and just make sure every program rule and everything is working well. And then when we forget the devices, we put them up in office and start doing the configuration. Making sure you've put the app, you've done all the configurations, you've put the username, so that by the time you hand over to the end user, it's kind of set and ready for them to use, so that again, they don't struggle a lot with being able to set it up. So we do the setup ourselves before we deploy the devices to the field. And most of these, we've been able to try and avoid the private own. Apart from this TD, for most of the others, we do the configuration and everything, then we hand over for them to be able to use. So in terms of benefits, some of these benefits are known. Of course, the offline capability is really a big benefit to the users that they're able to, we're able to deploy in remote areas and be able to get data. We've been able to also utilize the part of the picture for some cases. Like if you're doing a health assistance assessment, sometimes you need to capture some proof to show that, you know, you've been able to, if you say you're assessing and doing a scoring, there has to be some evidence that what you've scored is correct. So is what you're able to observe. So that was also been a very good feature that we're using. The barcode scanner has been good with the lab integration. The QR scanner has allowed for applications such as the self-registration at points of entry. We've been able to use that for points of entry. And then using the guide, you know, this is something that I personally went through a very bad experience of not following the guide and basically getting Android with my super user account and then setting up Android and going to demonstrate. And then when I reach there, I touch things freeze. I touch things freeze. So really, the experience of Lancia is trying really to stick to the guidelines, yeah, making sure you create the right user account that works for Android. It's very, very important to follow the guidelines. And then we learned, of course, less is better. This is mobile for a tablet, for you don't have to have so much. Yeah. And that goes back to the idea of using it for vaccination and there's a line of people and you are there with a tablet. It can be slow. So sometimes when you have less, the better. It will work first and you'll be able to quickly capture, you know, yeah. So less is better. So as you do the design, try and make it tight and something that fits mobile, you know, and then the assessment is a good use case. So we've learned, you know, people feel good when they're going to do an assessment and holding a tablet and asking questions and just, you know, so it has been one of the interesting use cases for us. The last slide. So in terms of challenges, of course, the software issues are there. On the update, when newer versions come, yeah, we've had some challenges coming. One more minute, okay. When you get your versions, you run into issues. This is known, yeah.  So you kind of lose that data and just flash it out and re-enter. And clear logging, I think this one has been mentioned. Inconsistency is between the web and Android. I guess this was also mentioned by other colleagues. We also have other competing flashy web Android apps that people use. Like COVID, we are really, you know, in the field of struggling, you know. Other people wanted to use CompCare and other tools to do so. But still, once we have deployed, it's usually had to be pushed out. And then the last, the operational part is really you have limited budget for these devices. So you have to plan for it, you know. The event re-management. When you give these devices out, sometimes you may not recover it. Especially when you're working people in the district and very remote areas. It may become someone's mobile phone or mobile device. So it becomes very difficult, remote maintenance and support. And that comes with the cost of the MDM. We are not able to run this for now. Yeah. So that was the Uganda experience. And over to the next presenter. Thank you. Thank you very much, Patrick. And our last guest is Shaila from South Digitus. Good afternoon. Good afternoon all. My name is Shaila. I'm leading the implementation team in Mozambique. And I will be telling you guys some stories about the implementation of Android in Mozambique. I think, as Patrick, we are not going to focus on one specific implementation use case. We will be talking broadly about this implementation process in Mozambique. As a quick introduction, we start using DHS2 in Mozambique since 2015. And in 2017, our country started adopting the approach of using the Android version for this national control for CB program. And after that, the malaria program also starts using with iMiche, which is integrated malaria system storage. And the surveillance program also starts using the Android version. Currently, the Ministry of Health has several trucker implementations, which why we are in the second place of using this device has a way of implementing the DHS. For instance, in terms of DHS, Android, the Ministry, and we have been using most over 18,000 devices for the iMiche program, 2000 for the TB program, and also 15 for the COVID. We have supporting other countries using the same approach, such as Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, and pre-CP, using the device as a mechanism to implement our programs. As a deployment approach, we used the testing, and Android version was performed by SD, us, to cope of a DHS version similar to the production version. We used the web version, and then we tested to see how it works on the Android version. We have worked also on installing the devices on all devices. And then in some countries, we had used the fDroid as a mechanism of uploading the DHS, because we're more easier for us to have this control of the version for some implementation. Lately, we started using the Mirador because of the advantages of using Mirador, such as remote control, because we have been working with several countries, and sometimes it's very easy to have these management devices control for this remote monitoring and upgrading version. We have also worked with the capacity building of the users, and during this deployment approach, we did a lot of TOTs with our local members from the health facilities to make sure that they will also train the other people. And then we had this regular support and troubleshooting. We had created a lot of WhatsApp groups, which were more easier to have feedback from them during this interaction and during the implementation. And also we have been helping on upgrading the devices and the DHS app versions. It has a main success. Using the Android version, it brought more flexibility in terms of data entry, because I think we all know that one of the main reasons we are using these devices is because of the advantages of using offline data entry process, because we have health facilities that don't have connectivity in certain areas with this future. It allows more of them to do the data entry, and then when they have connectivity, they can send. Also allow the individual and aggregate data to be entering in this offline mode using the device to input data from different programs. In terms of saving resources, having these devices in each health facility helped the health facility person to entering this data from several programs. And also we use the mirror door has a way of ensuring this remote and centralized device update, allowing tracking devices and also allowing being mobile data consuming. Because one of our biggest challenge is regarding to data consuming. And with this control, it was more easier to have how can I say on how much and how facility could consume regarding to data. And then we use has planning for other implementations. As a challenge, our colleagues mentioned some challenge regarding to the app, the program rules and everything I think we have been discussing in other groups. But in terms of implementation on site, the literacy of the health facilities in manipulating the devices was one of the biggest challenge. For that, actually one of our approach when we are doing the capacity building is to make sure that one of the first things that we teach them is how to use a mobile phone. Because it starts from there. And also maintaining the devices, it has been a big challenge. Because we have high costs to use the MDNs and sometimes we have to use in the not paid version. And then we have this limitation on help the people remotely. And also sustainability with the device acquisition. Because we know the device have like a lifetime very, very short. And sometimes we have to make sure that we have a plan that it's sustainable for all these devices. The compatibility of Android devices or field devices with the DHS capture versions. For example, for the TB program that was the first one using the mobile implementation. We had a version of Android which was five. And these devices couldn't be upgraded for new versions of Android. These ones that it's being displayed there. And the new features of the DHS app, sometimes this incomparability, it makes us to not update the version of the app in these Android phones. And this device starts to be not helpful. Because for example now we have new updates for the analytic part for the Android. And they cannot use because the device version doesn't allow them to have a new version of the DHS one. And also management of internet. There is a lot of costs regarding to the internet management. And this has been also one of our biggest challenge for the most of the experience. It was this. Thank you. Hard with the long hair, I know. Okay, thank you, Sheila. So we open this for questions. I have a question about the incompatibility of versions. Because if it doesn't work on 5.0, then we need to know because in theory it was working down to 4.4 until the last version. Okay. For the first versions of the capture, yeah, it's possible. This is the one that we are using. But for example, for 2.6, the minimal, it's not the 5. Yeah, but it's not when we are using, it's kind of doing a crush. And that's why we have to use the lowest point so far. Okay, then it will be good to learn about that. Okay, thank you. I'm going there first, then come into prosper. And I'm going to run the room. I have a question regarding the usage of Eftroid. Did the teams that used Eftroid for distributing the app set up their own repositories? Or were you distributing it publicly? And could you please share your experiences with using it? Sorry, can you repeat the last part? I didn't get it very well. So with Eftroid, did you set up your own repository for distributing the app? Or did you upload it to the public repository of Eftroid? Okay. For the Eftroid, we created our own repository, and then we uploaded the versions, because we have a different link for each implementation, because sometimes it uses different versions of DHS2, and then we upload the right version for each one. So when we set up for the androids, they have a direct link for this specification, for this specific Android version, the DHS app that they have to use. I mean, yeah, so in short, we also set up our own repository that we use for distributing the apps. I don't think we can publish the app in the public Eftroid because it uses some Google services and libraries that prevent us from that. We're trying to remove all dependencies, and then it will be available in Eftroid without requiring individual repositories. Okay. Yeah, thank you very much all the presenters. One of the challenges we are having is using one device at one clinic for multiple programs, which are running with multiple instances. So you have a TB program, which has its own instance, that's a different URL. You have HIV program, you have an assessment program, and so on. So most of the users have been coming to us and like, why do I have to have different devices? Because right now, it is forcing me to have different devices. So for the Android developers, is there something that we are thinking about and also to the implementers? Do we have any solution to that? Yeah, we support multi-user offline now. From 2.6 up to 3 accounts. You can instantly or different servers. It's the combination of the URL and the user. One last question. There we go. Thanks. I'm not a DHS to expert at all, but we're coordinating this project on surveillance. And so I had a similar question to Prosper. So I saw that in Uganda, you're using each program has a different device, and it seems like it's the same device for several programs. And how can we make sure that we can use one device for the different programs? And then another question is, can you use the Android for case-based surveillance where you have so many variables and entering that at health facility level? Do you think that's something that's recommended or do you recommend more like having paper-based for case-based data with, you know, 100 different variables? He's taking that. All right. So yeah, so I think on the, as I said, in terms of, I think the multiple accounts, those can be supported. But also in some cases, I think where things can be combined, it's best to do that because you also get to run away from one health worker having multiple devices for each program. Like what we've done is to also assess the districts who already has devices from other programs and see whether those are fit to deploy on. And then we use those and then give to those that don't have. In terms of surveillance, I think, yeah, there are different ways of organizing the data. So you can be able to support that like on the Android. Yeah.  So for any of the presenters, I was curious, for those of you that specified the hardware as opposed to the bring your own, can you talk about the specific vendors that you used, any specific models that you specified? And yeah. Okay. Most of the devices that we are using are like Samsung. And now we have been working also with Lenovo. There is a different advantage of these two devices. For example, for the Lenovo ones, they are more used for the work because there is this, for example, we did not allow you to use a phone. There is no mobile phone calls. So it reduced the use for non-use work activities. And for the Samsung one, we use with some specifications, but there is this MDNs that allow us to create a restriction. Thanks for the phone. It also reduced the use of non-use beside work activities. Just on the device, I think the one that we are preferring is the Galaxy S7 Lite. At the moment, it fits what we want to do quite well. Thank you so much. I wanted to find out from Malawi the issue of security of devices. Again, lost or theft, how are you managing that? And also just from Togo, a quick one, how many devices are you using? And what is your internet penetration percentage within your country? Okay. So I think for us in terms of the management of the devices, as I said, there is an agreement form. So these are government devices. So I think it's part of giving the devices to the frontline workers, because these are also government employees. They sort of like an agreement form that they would have to sign in terms of the responsibilities for keeping the device and also the way of escalation, if they were to lose a device. And then there's the structured district level. And then at the central ministry level to follow through, should there be a loss or any other thing that needs attending to? That's a tough one. Well, I don't have the correct figures for the number of devices that we have, but all the health facilities are currently having devices for how to call it. The ones that the facilities that are supposed to enter data for vaccination have their devices. So I don't have the correct figures. So I don't want to say wrong figure. For internet penetration, I mean, you have internet, of course, in the capital city and around the capital city. In the northern part, it's a bit remote. The internet penetration is not that I mean, you don't have internet all the time. But of course, there is this offline capability. So people have been using that for synchronization. Of late, we didn't have any complaints from the site. Related to internet, they've been able to send the data and people have been able to get their certificates because we use that to get the certificates. Okay, over. I forgot to use Android.


Computers keep changing the world, but their power and safety is limited by their rigid design. The T2tile project works for bigger and safer computing using living systems principles. Follow our progress here on T Tuesday Updates. This is the 10th episode of T Tuesday Updates, and how about that? The goal from last week we had just built a new T2tile based on the revised circuit board that we got from Seed Studios a few weeks ago. We saw that it was able to boot, but didn't really test it very much, tested it a bit more. In addition, we knew there were problems. For example, the J10 header with its six pins were completely in the wrong place. At least for two of the pins, couldn't put the Beaglebone down on top of it to do the revs. So today I want to try to do a little demo, show you what we've learned about the Tile. A lot of it's working, some of it not so much, but I'm not entirely sure in some regards whether it's actually a hardware problem or whether we're actually climbing up to the level that it's the development of the software that needs more work. I want to save ten minutes, half the time, something like that, to say, you know, wow, we've made it to ten. Let's take a look back, take a look forward, sort of just take the moment to see, you know, for where we're at, okay, that's the plan for today. All right, so in the new rev of the board from last time, we added a light sensor that we needed to test, and then we needed to test the intertile connectors, the ITCs. So this is the board from last time. We've actually got it plugged in and powered up here, and we've got it connecting with Ethernet so that we can actually SSH into it and take a look at it, and that's what we've got here. So the upper window here is monitoring the analog to digital channels on the board of which they're seven, and we're using essentially five and three and four are reserved for future work, future we'll see. But the grid voltage, channel A, channel zero, it's measuring 12.5 volts, 12.25 volts, that seems about right. One and two are measuring temperatures in the center of the board and at the edge of the board, 97 and 91 degrees for us, you know, Fahrenheit wings. It's fairly hot and that is not the CPU temperature. That is not the chip temperature. That's just measuring the board near the center one is measuring the board near the chip, near the CPU. So in fact, the CPU is quite a bit hotter and, you know, these guys do produce a non-trivial amount of heat. We'll see how much of an issue that is coming forward. Now, in addition, number five, the user act is what used to be on a digital pin, but I actually wanted the digital pin back more than I wanted. I had extra analog channels. So I said, well, what the heck, we can read the state of a pin with an analog channel. And that seems to work fine. Six ADC light, that's the main event. That was the light sensor. The fact that it's currently reading 3,500, 3,400, whatever it is. These are 12-bit analog to digital channels. That means their maximum range is 4K. So 3,400 like that is near the max. And the only reason we're seeing that is because there's a ton of light on in the room here for shooting the video. But it works fine. If we put the thing in shadow, look at that, thousands to hundreds like that. And we can get it all the way down further. Like I said, when there's this much light, there's absolutely no problem. In typical room light, the ADC light is typically at, you know, low hundreds. But still, if it goes into shadow, it goes down to tens or ones. So in fact, it is quite sufficient to detect what's light changes. And I think it'll be fine. It'll be sort of fun when people walk by, cast shadow on the things or shine their phone flashlight at it or whatever. It'll get detected pretty well. So that's good. But that's just the analog to digital channels. We really need to be testing the intertile connectors to see whether they can negotiate locks with each other, which is one of the main things that these tiles do so that when an event happens near the edge of the tile, they can ask the neighboring tile, could you please not mess with it while I do this? And I'll tell you what the results were. And it'll send a packet with a cache update through the, say, East or West thing. And then it'll release the lock. And maybe the other guy, it'll be able to grab the lock and say, okay, now I want to do an event and tell you what happened. This is meant to be our best effort attempt to make a single event reliable. And it's a lot easier when the single event is in the middle of the tile, but when it gets to an edge or worse, when it gets to a corner and have to coordinate with the neighbors. So, but we can't really test communications if we only have one tile, at least not well, but we can do the standard thing, which is to have the tile talk to itself. And that's what this bottom thing here, let's see. Okay, now this is not very easy to read, but the main thing is just, you know, Northwest, Northeast, ET, East, Southeast, Southwest and West. So we have a little display for each of the six directions. And we have what state it thinks it's in. So for example, Northeast is currently in state failed. East is in state reset. Southeast is idle, failed, flocks is another state and idle for Northwest. Now, this tells us several things. The first thing it tells us is that since there are no connections here, in particular, since there's no connection at all on, so Northwest, you see, if we look at the back, Northwest is this one right here. And there's no, there's nothing connected there. And idle sounds like it's not doing anything, but in intertile connection space, idle is a very active state. It means we know we're connected. We've reached synchronization for exchanging packets. And we currently just have no packet actually to send. So the fact that Northwest and Southeast both think their idle is a problem. But let's, so let's do East and West here. So we'll take a cable like this, I guess. And we'll, which way does it go? To obey the key, it goes like this. All right, so now if we're lucky when we plug this cable in, the East and West, which is in reset and flux, will actually change to something else. Look at that, okay. So now East and West are both idle because they spoke to each other through the cable and now they got coordinated back and now they know. Okay, so that's good. Why? And in fact, in a proper setup, we'd have more loopbacks. We'd have a loopback for, what is this? This is Southwest would go to Northeast and so on. Oh, and Southwest and Northeast, they actually got to idle as well. So that's good. And then there would just be one more here, but we know Northeast and Southwest. Northwest and Southeast, we know they're messed up. But so you can tie these things together. You kind of get Taurus connectivity except that the two, we have half of the tile is mapped to this side and half the tile is mapped to the other side.  Anyway, so we need to do more work there, but we've made a lot of progress. And in addition, we have revised the board in several ways. We've taken the light sensor footprint made a little bigger so that we could hand solder it, even though our goal is to get the stencil and try the reflow soldering when the thing comes back. A bunch of other little changes I won't go through, although they really are a little bit of a sign of increasing confidence on my part in that I have never actually changed a footprint that I got from Kaikad itself to say, well, I don't actually want the pad to be quite this big. I think it has too much solder because of my previous efforts doing reflow soldering. I tended to get a lot of bridges, solder connecting adjacent pins on certain of the chips that I was using. So I said, you know, if there was less solder, maybe that wouldn't be such a problem. And this past Sunday, two days ago now, I ordered a set of three prototype boards from Osh Park and they told me it could take, you know, up to two weeks or something like that. And I was waiting to have my guy assigned to a panel. But then yesterday, they told me that it had already been assigned to the panel for December 12th, which was already great since I was not expecting it necessarily to happen that quickly. And that wasn't even it. I then also got a follow-up today saying that the December 12th panel has already been shipped off to the fabrication place. It may take up to a week, a week and a half for it to come back, we don't know. But after my previous experience, my most recent experience with Seed Studios where it took kind of longer than I expected, this is all going much quicker than I expected. We'll see how it actually works out. I will let you know. All right. So that's the current state on the hardware. Let's talk about T Tuesday updates, you know, good news, bad news, always the case. Overwhelmingly, my feeling is, you know, it's really been incredible. I made a little bit of a little montage all the way back to the first one. You know, the basic idea. Let's just build out this new idea. Looked at how things used to work, earlier stuff. People showed up and they asked questions. They thought about it. We tried to make, you know, question and answer format. We got a little video bumper to put on the front. I think that needs work. Got a JavaScript simulator just came out of the world. Got my brain re-going on the thing. Tested out this new light sensor using Bunny Huang's ideas. Looked at fork bombs, all of this stuff. Got t-shirts. I got my t-shirt. I mean, the amount of stuff, you know, for 10 weeks and I built a board like that is phenomenal. We have a chat room where there's lots of folks in there. We have a subreddit that, you know, it's warming up. And all of these things are fantastic. And my overwhelming feeling is I started this for two purposes. The one purpose, number one was to keep myself in line and not be able to just sort of slide around and slack off and not actually make progress week by week. And that purpose of keeping me focused week to week has worked really well. And the fact that as many people as there have, all the, you know, people that we know, the questions, all these great things, have wanted to help out and have helped out is wonderful. Like that. On the other hand, there's always possibilities for improvement. There's always issues of some sort. So let's talk about them briefly as well. I have two major issues. I mean, one issue is, well, let's just say this. This is some stats from my YouTube thing. This is the first month from October 10th to November 5th, that the first five episodes, the Y axis is minutes of watch time per day. The different colors or different videos like that. And it's building more minutes each week than the previous week. And that's good. That made me happy as well. I wanted to see. But if we look at it over the full 10 weeks, the picture is somewhat different. The first five weeks, in fact, is where it peaked. As far as the release day minutes of time watching. And, you know, to some degree, that's a misleading statistic because the watching over the rest of the week is so here, you know, in the early days, if people didn't watch it on the first day, they hardly watched it at all. Whereas now there's actually people who are checking in later in the week. Thank you. Like that. Although not every day. So the fact that the peak is going down here is not as bad as it might seem. But in fact, there is essentially a leveling out. The overall watch time of each episode is not going up. It's perhaps going down. Some subscribers have lost a way and so forth, you know. So I offer that in the spirit of transparency. But then on the other hand, I want to say, well, so what? As far as, you know, mission number one of keeping me honest and saying, you know, okay, I need to be able to explain to somebody each week how I'm actually getting closer to the goal. The T Tuesday updates are doing great at that. But there is the second goal, which is to spread the word about indefinite scalability about robust first and about this alternative approach to architecture and an approach to sort of computation and programming almost generally. I mean, they all touch again at the end, but you have to go way, way, way, way and work your way back before they do touch. And so part of the goal of having this weekly update is to help find people that could understand this stuff. I mean, yes, this is very esoteric. This is not just for people who are familiar with computers, not just with people who are programmers, but kind of with people that sort of know all of the above or at the very least are seriously interested in trying to think about alternative ways that we can understand what computation is. And we've found some of those people and that makes me happy and they're contributing and just, you know, asking questions and commenting. That makes me very happy. But I also believe there's an awful lot more people out in the world, even though they're, you know, if they're one in a million, right, there should be an awful lot of people out in the world that just don't know that this is here. So how to actually do better about that, I'm not sure. The second issue that I know is a problem from my point of view is, okay, this feels like a once a week class, you know. And I have to be there. I have to show up. I have to have a lecture. I have to have something to say and I have to say it, you know. The professor can't say the dog ate the homework. You've got to be there and have something to say. But once you achieve that, and certainly 10 weeks ago in the pilot, just the idea of doing that was absolutely terrifying. But now, okay, I get it a little bit more. I can show up. I can tell what progress it is. But there's also this risk of sort of having the least progress per week possible. Okay, I debug the board. I try it out the things. I got the light sensor tested and so forth. That's good enough. And so teaching a class is not just lectures each week. It's the whole class. How long is this class supposed to be? How long is T Tuesday updates supposed to be? Well, on the one hand, who knows? I don't know. It depends how long it's all going to take and we'll keep doing it as long as it seems useful, as long as we can get some progress.  So, my conclusion from all of this is we are now at the 10th episode of T Tuesday Updates by the 20th episode of T Tuesday Updates. We shall have 133 tiles manufactured, interconnected, and running in a grid. And why 133? Because we have 12 tiles surrounding 6, surrounding 1. 12 plus 6 plus 1 is 19. That's a power zone. 19 tiles that will be connected up to a single brick to power them. And we're going to have 6 zones surrounding 1. That's 7 zones. 9 times 7 is 133. Assuming I did the arithmetic right. Okay. 133 tiles in 7 zones. Actually, you know, this is actually a question that I have for y'all. With the 19 tiles in the little cluster counting as a zone, these 7 zone group like this, it needs a name of its own. What should we call a group of 7 zones arranged in 6, around 1? Because that's what we're building. We're building one, what? This is completely terrifying. I said the first time the pilot of doing these updates is terrifying. And it was. This is super terrifying because it means I have to commit to parts. I have to commit to the board layout. I have to make them 100. I have to start laying down serious money. And if I mess it up and the boards don't work or they don't fit in each other or the thing doesn't connect or whatever it is, I don't get my $15,000 back. So the goal for the next week is come up with a schedule for the next 10 weeks that leaves us with 133 tiles running. The next update will be out in a week. Thank you so much for watching.


Here we go guys this I didn't think would happen till maybe spring, but it's already happening right now We're not even to February yet. So there's some really incredible data points. It's happening right now in the market that Really is showing signs of the market coming back not just coming back but coming back extremely Extremely strong. I also want to share with you why we're going to see a massive wave of Negative media about the real estate market, you know massive, you know negative headlines About real estate coming up very soon when in fact the market is not going to be bad at all But I want to I want to share with you why I feel like we're about to start seeing these Massively negative headlines I want to prepare you so that you when you see these negative headlines you knew it was coming and You understand what's really happening in the market and you're not fazed.  Maybe not as hard as 2008 You know when you go and show them data that shows otherwise With their response is always. Oh, just wait. It's coming you wait another year.  You said it was gonna happen that year You know, but anyway nevertheless, I digress Nevertheless, I digress. Let's get into some data points here and we're entering into what I feel like is the next real estate surge And we're entering into right now already stage two of this stage one was more people looking online at properties and Searching so 50% more people In the last few weeks are searching homes for sale in their market then was back in November So we're already seeing that uptick in people showing more interest as mortgage rates start to come down But what is the most interesting a data point that I've seen in a long time? Was that mortgage applications that were that were submitted that data shows that mortgage applications was up? 28% a week over week last week 28% now We're still down from last year of course But this just goes to show you how much pent up demand and the smallest little decreases in the mortgage rate What that does to the market? There's so many people sitting on the sidelines Just waiting on interest rates to inch down just a little bit more right every, you know five basis points ten basis points We're gonna see a wave of buyers come through and look at property You know go and put their mortgage applications in make offers on properties So on and so forth that's gonna present more pending deals We're gonna see more closings, but phase two is already underway with mortgage applications So phase one was people looking at properties phase two is mortgage applications increase Phase three is we're gonna see pending deals go up That's the next phase of this and we'll see how long it takes to get from phase two to phase three It's gonna happen. That's gonna result in more pending deals and more closings I'm predicting another year of five million transactions I could be off the good thing is it doesn't matter if it's four and a half million even if it's four million Which won't happen. I don't see that happening whatsoever, but even if it's four million Which was what it was in 2008 that that's not going to be a massive Factor in our success as a real estate agent as a real estate investor Why because number one that's plenty of transactions to go out there and and make a great living and there's plenty Opportunities and if that happens prices are going to be down considerably Which means there's gonna be a lot of deals out there, but more so we're talking about one year out of your 40 year Career, you know, I'm helping agents and real estate investors build their careers ladies and gentlemen not this year Yes, I want you to have an amazing 2023, but I want you to have an even more amazing 2026 2030 2035 I want you to be in position to go out there and absolutely scale your business to the moon Grab as much market share as you can and right now is really the best time to go out and grab market share When most agents and investors are laying down laying low pulling back, you know, retracting from the market I mean look at history all the greatest companies and most successful agents built their business During the most recessionary periods including myself 2008 when I got back on the market and by 2014 I was the number one Remax agent in the state of Alabama. That's because of what I did during those down years. That was Literally the reason why my business exploded when the market rebounded when the market Reexpands if you put yourself in position by working as hard as you can to build sweat equity Into your database into your relationships with your customers into building, you know and growing your market share Your business is going to explode when the market rebounds. That's just a fact But getting back to what we're talking about here with this second phase. It's already underway I'm talking agents all over the country who are getting multiple offers again. They're getting tons of people at their open houses They're getting tons of showings on their listings and it's not happening in all markets I'm also getting messages from people in other markets saying it's still slow things aren't selling not getting multiple offers Yeah, that's the same thing as where I'm at I'm not getting multiple offers on any of my properties But I pay attention to what's happening in all the different markets And I know that real estate is local and it's completely local But you do have that national kind of vibe as well that's what's interesting is That you can kind of see what where things are going based on what's happening in other markets just because it's not happening in your market That's a good thing because that could probably tell you what's coming to your market if things continue to to progress So the first thing is mortgage applications are up considerably week over week with that little bump in interest rates coming down As inflation continues to soften We're gonna see the 30 year fix continue to soften and every time we see that bump down We're gonna see a bump up in buyer activity. So get ready and I was thinking also that This wasn't gonna happen till spring. It's already happening now and inventory is plummeting If you look at MBS if you look at redfin data, we're under 700,000 listings active listings in the US. It's like 690 thousand some odd listings Actively for sale that is just a ridiculously low number and the trend is going exactly like this now Every single year including 2021 the boom year Inventory went up. Nobody talks about 2021 inventory going up. It went up for several months in a row It's crazy. We never hear anything about that But it happened the year that things were going for 100,000 more than asking price and all that good stuff inventory went up And so every year if you look at you know the past five years and you look at the trend of of active listings actively for sale You see the trend down from up from like August to February it go like go straight down and then you know late February March It curves up and it starts going back up. We're gonna see that this year I believe if history is any indicator and the trend is this you know, it's been the same, you know So many years in a row We're gonna see inventory can start to increase Come springtime which is gonna be just the trifecta here for interest rates coming down buyer activity You know inventory is gonna come we're gonna be at a very low place in inventory. There's really nowhere for it to go But up but it's just gonna be a very interesting time gear up for this now why we're gonna see negative media headlines is simply because Prices are at 350,000 on average right now. We're 1% higher than we were the same time last year So year over year were at 1% however last year prices escalated all the way to about March or June was the peak So prices went up all the way to June and then started coming down And so if prices stay exactly the same right now at 350 if prices stay exactly the same Then as that trend from last year intersects the line of this year Then we're gonna see negative year over here And that's when the media is gonna have a filled day and every month if it stays at 350 If it doesn't go up or down if it goes down or to be worse if it goes up It won't be as bad, but if it just stays at 350, which I think there's a good possibility It could with the amount of demand that's out there in the low inventory if it stays at 350 Every month that goes by the media is gonna come out and show a bigger negative percentage year over year price Decreases and they're just gonna be ripping real estate to shreds with this Well, meanwhile prices are exactly the same Let's just say that high that that theory plays out and it is say 350 in June when everything was at the peak then that June month is gonna be the worst month as far as year over year prices and You know even though they're gonna show a higher number every month Price is just the still the same 350 350 350 and the reason why I say it 350 is cuz the market is so good Cuz there's so much demand or so little supply and interest rates have gotten better But the media is the media and they're gonna go out there and have a filled day with this So prepare yourself for the negativity that is more than likely gonna come our way Due to the fact that we're gonna be down from last year But however the market is going to be strong. Okay, so just wanted to update you on all of this I hope you're doing super well Let me know if there's anything in the world I could do for you I'm gonna link a video right here that I feel like you really need to see and we'll see you guys on The next video take care keep crushing it. We'll talk to you guys soon


Can you imagine if there was a meaning class in school? I mean out of all the things that students are required to learn as part of their education. What if there was a class that actually was about why you should be learning what you're learning in school? That can maybe answer the question of why should you continue in school? Why should you do these things that you're expected to do? But of course we don't see that and it seems like those answers are not readily available. I mean we're told the idea is you go to school and it helps you to get a job. Getting a job helps you to get money so that you can support yourself. So that's really the main function that is explained to us. This is why you should participate and do these things. It will help you to make money so that you can survive. So of course this economic level, this is really at the survival level. It's at a very basic almost like an animal level.  And so this is why you should do what's expected of you and learn to do the right things so that you can then get a job and make money. So that's the most basic level to give as a reason, as a meaning why we do things. And then on top of that the usual meaning, the main meaning that is given for why we should do anything is to be happy. Let's live happy lives, let us live good lives. And that sounds like a good thing, living a good life. I like the idea of live a good life. I want to live a good life. I know that I'm alive now and this is a special thing, this chance to be alive. So I want to live a good life. But the term happy, let's live to be happy, that seems to be very limited in what it can offer for us because if we're really just following happiness, it's just chasing pleasures. It's momentary, it's fleeting, chasing after a feeling that's always ebbing away. And certainly if happiness is the reason why we should work hard and be successful. As a young person you think, well I can be happy in lots of ways without working hard and being successful. Why should I be following this program? Now the way I presented all this, it is kind of at a pretty low level. I mean this stuff can be presented in a much stronger way to say this is why we should do these things. And there's the most basic thing of just that we know people. It's the personal connections. We know people and they encourage us to do things that they believe will help us become successful in the way that they define it and help us to define what it means. So we follow this pattern. But ultimately there is no foundation. There's no answer in the society we have in our culture, in our system. There is no answer for what gives our lives meaning. Even the idea of questioning the meaning of life is almost a joke. It's like oh what's the meaning of life? That's the never ending and impossible question that doesn't seem to get a lot of attention. So all this is to say if we're looking for meaning in life it's not going to be found in the culture, society and system that has an expected program, this sort of imaginary path of life an imaginary idea of what life is about. Simply doing those things like getting a job, building a career, building a family, those are fine things but they still don't ultimately get to the ultimate point. They can be part of a complete life but they don't in themselves answer the question of what is the meaning? What is the thing beyond everything else? What is the thing that keeps me working hard? What is it that I'm working for? What is it that makes it all meaningful? For that we have no ready-made answer and we have to find some other way. There has to be something beyond, even if the answer is a very simple and basic thing it doesn't have to be some grand thing, it can be a very simple thing and yet it is still something that I believe we each have to find for ourselves.


I've asked many people, you know, I've asked them, hey, what you think about this random products such as a game, a celebrity, you know, a genre of music, and they'd be like, oh, this is great, this is the best thing I've ever experienced in my entire life. If everyone could experience this at the cost of me going bankrupt for the rest of my life, I would take that deal with no regrets. And now that being said, I absolutely despise this product, but because the community swarming it is the most degenerate scumbastards that are still stuck on the second stage of evolution. And now it's funny as that sounds, I think we can all relate to it, you know, it's not always the product or content itself that repels people from it, but sometimes just the community. And I think, I even think that most of the time, it's not even the community as a whole. They're like seven to eight times out of 10.   Despite non-artists, despite having that logic embedded in my brain, there's still some vocal minorities within big communities that prevent even me from enjoying stuff to the fullest, such as Ariana Grande, K-Pop, as an entire genre. And then there's this YouTube channel called the Dodo. Forget these two for now, K-Pop, especially K-Pop, it's like I'm on the internet. I'm reading a webpage about the behavior of Ducks or something. Google's like, hey, I see that there's a letter K on your page. That means you like K-Pop, right? Hey, this guy likes K-Pop. I just let my buddy Twitter over here know the next time you log in, you want to be Bomb Barbie with K-Pop trending content and all their amazing and free thinking fans, right? Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna, Stan Luna. It's times like these where I wish that Google had some sort of web extension that made it so that whenever someone said something cringy online, it popped up their exact location or home address right beside their comment.  Now for Ariana Grande, I feel like it'd be much more effective to give a good description of the fans than to give my own personal experience of them. Ariana Grande fans are the types of people where, okay, you ever seen an argument happen on the internet? I'm going to try something else. You ever seen an argument happen on the internet, right? And one guy, he's just completely decimating the other person.  Yeah, that's an Ariana Grande fan. Like, you'll be spectating an argument, right? The smart guy will be like, hey, guys, there are seven continents. I'm so happy that everyone agrees that there are seven continents. And then some other person, I don't know, we'll call them AG for short. AG will be like, actually, there are 50 continents. That's why there are 50 stars on the flag.  The 50 stars stand for the 50 States in America. And if not, everyone is joining in on this discussion, telling AG that she's wrong. Blinking all these sites and fax to her, she'll come back like a few minutes later saying, if you paid attention in third grade, you should know that this is basic knowledge. But that's none of my business.  That's an Ariana Grande fan. Now, the Dodo. I'm not sure if the majority of you guys have heard about this channel. You know, you may have seen like a video from them shared by your best friend's mom or something like that. But the Dodo is a YouTube channel whose videos usually consist of heartwarming animal moments, you know, animals interacting with humans in strange ways.  I think it's like one of the coolest things ever. And I recommend the channel for anyone who's having a bad day and wants to put a smile on their face. Now, got to swallow that spit. What I don't recommend, what I don't ever recommend is taking a scroll down to the comments section. My God, my goodness. On some of these videos, the comments section is like an Olympic competition, a damn free-for-all for people to show how good of a person that they are. Wow, this is so me. I remember the day I rescued all 12 of my dogs and adopted all of them. Yeah, yeah, I remember the first one. He was walking with this one guy, right? He had this rope-like device around his neck. I think they call him leashes. So I walked up to the dog and I had to do it. I just had to do it. I started sucking at dogs, dude. The person that had the rope thing around his neck, he was so shocked, he abandoned his dog and I had to adopt it.      So technically, I'm better than all of you. You know what? I know a little somebody that can explain this. Way better than I can. Have you ever hated something because friends liked it? You shouldn't do that, right? But sometimes, there's an inherent bias that comes with the territory. You see a product or an IP that you may know nothing about, but then you hear stories and see the collective mass of people this sort of IP attracts. And you can't help but just think to yourself, what the fuck? I don't like or watch Steven Universe because that's a show for babies. But then I hear that a bunch of people started threatening the life of a 15-year-old girl for drawing a character wrongly proportioned.  Now, that's an extreme example, honestly. But there are many subtle comparisons one can make to this to other overzealous fandoms. There is not exclusivity to fandoms where an audience not only thinks they have power, but does have the power to alter an enforcing viewpoint, to gain control of love of a subject and monopolize it, take it, and warp it into something twisted or warped. That's what bronies are. Another community that's just really fucked. Imagine being a parent and taking your daughter to one of those conventions where everyone's my little pony fan. And while you're there, in the audience to one of the panels, some 20- to 30-year-old grown-ass man who came all by himself gets the mic and starts talking about... Alright, so I'm pretty sure you're aware of Princess Celestia being portrayed as a tyrant, an air-natural, and God forbid a molester.  Do you want your daughter being within this kind of community? Within this kind of environment of adult men who aren't afraid to be as horny or as autistic as they desire? But let's take a step back, actually, and look at cons as a whole. You can actually specifically look at nerd cons, anime cons, fighting game events, Star Wars, cosplay, power rangers, dress, whatever.  If you were being groped by some guy who hasn't showered for 3 days, you'd feel less inclined to do your hobby so much anymore. Heck, you could also look at the opposite end of the spectrum, look at cosplaying kind of events where women frequent more too, while you're a man dressed as a twink boy, getting some hands touching your nabber, and although you in particular may find yourself panting a little bit, others may not feel comfortable in experiencing such provocative touches to the groin, especially when you're not doing it for attention, you're doing it for a hobby, you're doing it for fun, or something you like to do. And when you encounter an event for which you're not comfortable with, you remember that.  To express yourself in your hobby or craft, people always react strongly to the experiences they witness. No one ever just takes it and ignores it. No, a consciousness is eternally formed, based on every experience you encounter. And if an experience you encountered within a subject you like was that of a negative one, no matter how much you love that subject, you will feel the slightest bit of resentment towards that topic as a whole forever onwards. And you can take a step back even further! I don't know if everyone will be able to relate to this, but for all of you out there who can, think of a particular subject you liked very much in school. I used to love human science, specifically health and biology. But then during high school, two years in a row, for both my health class and my biology class, I had the most shitty and degrading teachers that I have ever had. And by the end of those classes, I didn't like biology and human science as much anymore. To the degree I once did, you can interpret that as a community bias as well. When you want to be a part of something, when you want to do something, learn about something, it's always going to be a battle of your experiences versus those in the same field, whom you may inexplicitly and unavoidably find yourself in contact with. And you may find yourself at a crossroads, a disadvantage of mental comfortability that may interfere and reflect to you a negative side of this community, which will ultimately interfere and reflect in nuanced opinions you may now, in the future, accumulate. Likewise, your experiences, your interactions with communities you are fond of may also be positive ones. You may come around to love something even more. Maybe your art is getting a bunch of love, or your writings and vids are getting a lot of positive reception. There's a flip side to everything. I used to hate writing, but then I had some good teachers and now my opinions changed. Now I love writing.  And they also used to hate league. And I still do. It's all about the environment. It's about the people around you within a community for which you have interest in if interaction is positive, then that's great. That's amazing. But there are times where a community can be something which is dominantly compiled of people who make you feel uncomfortable, a force of nature you need to embrace if you truly want to fit in. Likewise, if you wanna talk about or make art of your favorite TV show, but the dominant force within that fandom show is composed of people who disagree with you to the extent that they would have torched to harassment, then you wouldn't want to engage in that crowd. And as a result, your voice and any voice similar to yours gets lower and lower, so low that your voice may become impossible to hear for anyone else within that community. Sometimes these alternating voices may find a place and community civil wars may erupt. But other times, that voice faints into a whisper and nothing more of a mind from one voice of mouth is said. This is how fan hive minds are formed. This is why attendance or participation for particular events like cons may stagnate or decrease. Companies may notice that. And as a result, reinforce rules to decrease destructive behavior. This is why cons with frequent cosplay now have rules against touching and consent. This is why some shows with particularly strange audiences may lash out against their very fans. This is why some measures, some are being taken. But unfortunately, that's not the case for every community. Not every business needs not to reap profit. Not every business even is for profit. And so they may see such behavior, they may know of it, and they may be powerless to do anything about it. Or don't wanna do nothing about it. It's always gonna be something that's just gonna be out there.  Eventually growing an identity of its own, that ramp it enough to separate itself from what the community was supposed to be about in the first place. And there's nothing you can really do about it, except, you know, like, I don't know, try and make as much of your own noise as possible. Form your friends and get your friends into your hobbies and form your own hive minds from there. Who knows? Who doesn't got anything? Just get off the internet if you don't like it. And that's my rant about communities. Oh, one more thing though. If there's one community in particular, I despise the most. I specifically hate the JoJo fandom.  Not the people who make something from it, like fan art or videos or funny jokes or whatever. But the people who laugh at these jokes, I despise the people who upvote and retweet and share on social medias. Specifically, specifically, the people who like and share all those shitty little memes, not because they're funny, not because they actually enjoyed them, but because they were JoJo. They were JoJo. And I know what that is. So I laugh and I click on the up button because that's the thing I know about and no other reason but that.  An interesting topic with JoJo.   Hey everyone. This video is sponsored by absolutely nobody. That's right. And YouTube will probably demonetize it anyways. So yeah, buy my merchandise. Also, if you got this far into the video, please discuss this image in the comments below. Have a great day. She jealous of what? I'm letting up. I'm like the eyelids that fell in a cup. I fell in a hole. She was a hole. She broke a list of you ready to dial it. Where's that rabbit at? This is my habitat. Hold my eyes ready for the cataract. I lay on a sink like a wash rack. Hop up in this hog smash. She said, man, was it small lad? You can't less about this dog tag. She called once, did you call back? And what? I take the dirt from the underground. Tell your new nigga don't come around.


nice can you walk faster it's too fast right you can go faster okay cool even faster faster oh it's crashing it's too fast nice that's very good try again more even faster so hi so who are you Selena Selena what is the company LKK and LKK so LKK yeah is Shenzhen yeah we are from Shenzhen and this is real product this is a correct product it's real of course it's real for sale for sale yeah huh but we are all product design and development company so all of these products you see here is that way different sorry is this following your phone or no just the cable for the speaking so but how is it following you or it's following the phone or following my phone is connected to my phone yeah if you give me the phone it will follow me no no yeah it's already recognized my dresses this is why it can follow recognize your dress dress so there are sensors in my phone so the two functions together yeah clip the microphone there not movie so much okay what is this this is another the e-bike we just take it out and show all of the mechanical that what we have right now so you do an e-bike yeah not only a bag there's so many different products that what we're working right now what is a what is this there this is all mechanical device that's a way showing the mechanical design what we have right now so right now we're cooperating with many startup or some the new technology culminates to focus on to make the new products for them sorry is it's very cool can you open this bag when I see what's inside it's water inside full of water yeah because we need to keep it stable can I see empathy it cannot be working very well so you open it yep sure wait okay ouch be careful your fingers okay so there's some battery and some sensor inside so all those things is just same as a luggage nothing very special there's only a little bit here yeah the battery is there and the sensor right there and here is nothing yeah it's only here yeah it's coming so it's very simple but how heavy is this the how heavy is the bag without this is about to the four kilo four kilo all right let's check some other stuff okay can you make it work again okay you can stop it there can it follow me okay come I know I'm the other side can you walk faster hey want you to be faster walking faster yeah yeah run run try running running faster faster faster running no okay it's too cool if you're in a rush at the airport you look too cool it is it's pretty convenient right can I have one why not much is price the price is just nearly five hundred dollars it's okay it's cheaper than an iPhone I think it's much cooler than we have a much more cool stuff than this one what but we will bring to the market version in a one month what one by one this is kind of the smart locker which can track your car for example you can rent your parking place to others and it can lock where it can find out where you park your car so it's easy to find your car by this device cool what is this stuff this is something clean clean the islands directly automatically and we also have some this stuff is also cool it's a mouse you see it's a mouse but it also can control your computer too it can do what yeah can control the PPT like this by the plane so it's so easy in the convenience right oh so it's a mouse yeah it's a mouse it's a mouse and then boom it's a thingy oops yeah yeah just press it like this yeah change the page so you close it mouse then this right mouse okay and there's some the tracker we don't need a Wi-Fi don't need the Bluetooth so 3G 4G not 4G they just connected to the outer space so when your gut loss in some remote or unknown place they can track you easily to get to the space sorry it connect to Chinese satellite oh yeah yeah and there's some the LED screen that you can show the mechanical design so cool it's not a screen it is green look oh right so this is the back looks like a drone exactly and it's much lighter than the traditional one so we get a lot of changes on them well why you do all this do you have like skills yeah of course we have about 150 engineering too are you engineer no demo designer we have 1,500 designers how many engineer 150 engineers and 1,500 designers yeah so you have 10 designer for every engineer yeah really of course so it's a very much design company the largest industry design company in China and we're from the supply chain management branch office which one you design my design I didn't bring to here today but I because we have another booth in other place maybe later you were coming about what is your design I designed the medical device and also the industry equipment make-up device medical for medical this device in fact you see maybe just a brain scanner right yeah it's a brain waves but when you wear it it can take a picture automatically it's by checking your mind brain picture of what taking picture by your brain waves it can monitor what you wanted for example you just thinking okay I want to take a picture right and then you wear this device it can take a picture automatically just think yeah you don't need a cell phone or something else because there's a camera so you think picture and we'll take it right you don't need to do some movements what is this karaoke yeah there's some the karaoke you can charge with the cable and then you can sing it doesn't make you sing better of course you can listen you are singing directly it's auto tune yeah tuning your voice yeah maybe sing like similar functions too but this is for the label to do what label label what does I mean you work with Lenovo yeah a lot we're working with a cure and the nest tail and LG and this candle both of big companies too is this like a flying spaceship yeah the ship is I mean the design in my nation is from that but this one has a work connected together yeah has work usually they should be like this how it can stop the by the magnet yeah but now it doesn't work somewhere broken this morning it's a American right no it's not trade war okay oh that's what is this this is just a hedger I mean for the folder can I take this one of course it's very compact it's a high high power yeah and you can see the designs also or this one is I don't have hair so it's not so good for me so this one is a charging robot it's very lovely one and we're cooperation with one company name the Shimalaya Shimalaya yeah it's one of the largest the worst country company in China similar theory the function is it from the mountains of Shimalaya no it's a communist name is plan for which have all of the contents and the worst country so we're working with them to make it this robot you know for this company they have one problem it's a platform right the only for some calm comments or contents so they need a hardware to make all of the contents could be available not only relied on the cell phone before they relied on cell phone or tablet to download the app but now they have the own hardware is this also flying in space or something what is this no this is all lights and the AI speaker you can see some speakers right here show it it's near to be charged no power yeah no power you only charge it in China this can be taught by the face generator when you talk about this it can change the power the lens did you say face generator it's not they have sensor inside in fact but it's near charger later maybe I can show you you can just change the lights it's got gesture control exactly maybe later we can show you so you can use it with very dirty hands that's too and this is a one-cup machine this machine and you can see you can put the coffee and this can of both of the things inside so we will make some coffee yeah coffee tea both are okay one cup you can this coffee good sure you see there's one cup yeah okay smart toothbrush of course yeah this is we developed for another communist this device is cool very too but you didn't try you see it right of course he can try so that's why we can start this one and it's pretty light the luggage can follow you on the bicycle oh this is display see yeah we can continue both okay try yeah that's cool this is a electronic back yeah no accident here's the lawsuit country this is too cool you can have your luggage follow you on the bicycle why not just yeah you can come this way yeah all right yeah just keep going M2 it's called the M2 you have a cool job no you have a cool job okay keep going this is a 2020 CS with a bicycle electric bicycle with a nice LED display he's got some luggage just following him and you can also ride up the hill it's totally cool no accident no crash so I was just saying that your friend has a very cool job yeah but you too thank you this is another device you didn't see yet I just want to follow him for one more second okay sure this is too crazy okay what did I not see this one this is kind of the earphone but it can stop when you're sleeping so when you're sleeping just wear this one maybe you're driving or you're working you feel sleepy or tired just wear this one it can wake you up at once so it's so what you is a earphone for sleeping it's anti-sleeping earphone it's a sleeping earphone not for making you sleeping it to wake you up when you feel sleepy so sometimes in the office yeah your boss wants you to work but you fall asleep yeah so you will always wake up when you fall asleep is that what it is just let you wake up and you also can enjoy the music too because this earphone is a very good quality about the speakers maybe you can use it while watching very boring TV show that's this and you fall asleep and it wakes you up instantly and you continue watching perfect good idea okay it's like for a game of thrones or something I'm joking it's not boring and what is this kind of the robot for charging because you know the charging in the kindergarten that that playing around right it's darting in the hands so it's kind of the robot washing hands yeah there's some liquid come outside and clean your face clean your hands oh nice so just for chargers it's a hand wash yeah this is a joint in the box yeah this is a kind of the drawing for the chargers to not for the I mean artificial this kind of field just for the chargers it's came about the eight meters like this that's robot is very cool you got it got the best sale in China it's very popular it's very cheap not cheap it's 100 R&B so you know this one before no I think so how much is cost is this about the $82 $82 okay and you have more this is your Bluetooth speaker this is a dual screen so when you have a lot of work to do you can change the difference screen at the same time this one I do the excel close it of course don't break it yeah so it just goes behind and boom it's a type C connect with the type C yeah exactly so I can take it out yeah they do it you see only one now only one yeah but I can connect my phone not for now we have another version now it's not a phone right now I can try to connect just to try we have another product which can could work at that not on the cell phone now so this time we will bring another version okay but it's type C support okay okay cool and here's your Bluetooth speaker yeah so AI not Bluetooth AI speakers where is the AI this is we just show the mechanical design so we separated all of the coupons and the mechanical parties into the difference one we show all of our ability of the mechanical design this is the PCBA you can see from there this is the PCB this is where the AI resides and this is what's inside the speaker cool so it says your idea you make it yeah exactly so that means Americans or other people Europeans yeah maybe have ideas and you in China you make it exactly no matter what kind of the products because every year we launched about three thousand different products for the difference company big company or start up we work on everyone come to us so you are big design house we cannot see that we're a design company because we have the development engineering we also do the supply chain management so they offer the idea we will make the products design and also the mechanical design electronic development prototype and mass production so everything we can do that's what a design how does no sir design house is not only design is yeah design of the only electronics we do all of the things from design to manufacture DFM including everything and is a good price of course this is why so many American partners come to us which one sir bag do you know that sell bank sir a bank sir a bag yes kind of the manco device they're in the city convention and it's focused on checking the waves chicken waves chicken brain waves so another one other one problem other company many we started now so they will be more and more come to us the reason why this kind of the American start up or American company come to us because we can short of the time for then when they finish one products in America maybe take at least one years or two years by us maybe we can one or two weeks cannot five months or four months back this and the reduce a lot of the cost by all of the resources in China do you have office in Europe or USA or I'm trying to open one in California this year you yeah exactly I'm trying to employ and interview some people right now anybody is smart enough sorry anybody is smart enough in California of course I'm just selecting the quiz the best one so far maybe you can recommend some good people to us too they can contact you maybe they watch this video and they're like I want to work in the California office Silicon Valley yeah near that area near the Google don't need to start near that area or San Francisco both are okay not sure okay you're not sure yet when the word office will be Silicon venue or the San Francisco both are you will have to office yeah this is our plan many people want to do like crowdfunding new idea and put on the crowdfunding and then they partner with you to make it real in fact before crowdfunding they already come to us for example they just have one idea I mean concept stage so they come to us they tell what's kind of the products or I mean functions features they want to come to and then we will give the feedbacks a final proposal for example how long to finish from design to manufacturing and what is the cost on the each stage and what kind of the research should have so we give all of these things to them and this kind of startup they can decide if they can they wanted to work with us or they can go on this within the budget so if it's over the budget they can give up this project and started or not a new one so if I did come to us even before the crowdfunding not only after the crowdfunding stage so you have a lot of experience with this yeah how old is this company I love this company is pretty cool how old is company it's just 15 50 years old not pretty down


Penguin Random House Audio presents Big Little Lies, by Leo Moriarty, read for you by Caroline Lee.  Schoolyard chant. Peer away public school where we live and learn by the sea. Peer away public is a bully-free zone. We do not bully. We do not accept being bullied. We never keep bullying a secret. We have the courage to speak up if we see our friends bullied. We say no to bullies. Chapter 1 That doesn't sound like a school trivia night, said Mrs. Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette. That sounds like a riot. The cat didn't respond. She was dozing on the couch and found school trivia nights to be trivial. Not interested, eh? Let them eat cake. Is that what you're thinking? They do eat a lot of cake, don't they? All those cake stalls. Goodness me. Although I don't think any of the mothers ever actually eat them. They're all so sleek and skinny, aren't they? Like you. Marie Antoinette sneered at the compliment. The let them eat cake thing had grown old a long time ago and she'd recently heard one of Mrs. Ponder's grandchildren say it was meant to be let them eat brioche and also that Marie Antoinette never said it in the first place. Mrs. Ponder picked up her television remote and turned down the volume on Dancing with the Stars. She turned it up loud earlier because of the sound of the heavy rain had eased now. She could hear people shouting. Angry hollers crashed through the quiet cold night air.  Goodness me. Do you think they're arguing over the capital of Guatemala? Do you know the capital of Guatemala? No, I don't either. We should Google it. Don't sneer at me. Marie Antoinette sniffed. Let's go see what's going on, said Mrs. Ponder briskly. She was feeling nervous and therefore behaving briskly in front of the cat. The same way she'd once done with her children when her husband was away and there were strange noises in the night. Mrs. Ponder heaved herself up with the help of her walker. Marie Antoinette slid her slippery body comfortably in between Mrs. Ponder's legs. She wasn't falling for the brisk act as she pushed the walker down the hallway to the back of the house. Her sewing room looked straight out onto the schoolyard of Pirawee Public. Mum, are you mad? Can't live this close to a primary school? Her daughter had said when she was first looking at buying the house. But Mrs. Ponder loved to hear the crazy babble of children's voices at intervals throughout the day. And she no longer drove. So she couldn't care less that the street was jammed with those giant truck-like cars they all drove these days with women in big sunglasses leaning across their steering wheels and terribly urgent information about Harriet's Ballet and Charlie's speech therapy. Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces, their busy little bottoms strutting into the school and their tight gym gear, ponytail swinging, eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses. It made Mrs. Ponder laugh. fondly though. Her three daughters were exactly the same and they were all so pretty. How are you this morning? She always called out if she was on the front porch with a cup of tea or watering the front garden as they went by. Sample complete. Ready to continue?