Hello, and welcome to episode 26 of the Daily Decrypt. I'm Amanda. Today, Bitcoin is $384. Counter Party is a dollar. Madesafe Coin is a cent. And Supernet is a dollar and three cents. Today's episode is brought to you by Telebit. 101 has been deployed on Bitcoin's Testnet. What is BIP 101? It's the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal which would increase Bitcoin's maximum block size from one megabyte to eight megabytes. This is seen as sorely needed as many of Bitcoin's more recent blocks have been full, which means longer confirmation times as well as higher fees. The increase to eight megabytes is scheduled to be pushed to the Bitcoin mainnet on January 11th of 2016. And it will be up to Bitcoin's miners to vote on it from there. Bitcoin Black Friday is set for November 27th. The holiday is in its third or possibly fourth year now, and it basically involves a bunch of merchants getting together and listing their discounted services or products on BitcoinBlackFriday.info. The site is currently seeking vendors who would like to join their merchant list for the 24-hour sale, and the merchant list is reported to be about 2,000 and growing. Vindine8 has tweeted that Coinimat is now offering crypto to debit card top-up services. This means that Coinimat joins other companies like Ecoin and Zappo who offer the same thing. The idea is relatively simple. The user sends cryptocurrency to the company plus a fee. The company converts the crypto into fiat and deposits it at a bank, and then the bank issues a prepaid debit card to that person. While this is a convenient and novel workaround for the fiat economy, users should take note that the banks involved will still have access to their purchasing history and use location, just as with any traditional debit card. Camgirl Royal Tiffany has given an interview to the news outlet Coinivore. Tiffany offers her beauty by the minute on the Bitcoin-accepting adult streaming site Zodica. Tiffany has shared with Coinivore how pleased she's been since beginning to work on a cam site that pays her in crypto. Keys for the popular game Counter Strike Go are now available for Bitcoin at the site keysforbtc.com, but the crypto action for this particular game does not end just there. The site Leet is a Bitcoin gambling platform for not only Counter Strike Go, but also Minecraft and League of Legends.  Cryptocurrency mining may soon get cheaper. That is, if you are mobile and or innovative enough to jump on some of the stuff that's happening out there. A wind farm in Texas is now generating so much energy that they're giving it away for free at night time. In addition, a YouTube channel called Create This has published this video proposing how wasted DC power from solar panels can be used to directly power energy-hungry cryptocurrency miners. That's pretty cool. And technical slash legal theorist Conrad Graf has published a new book entitled Is Bitcoin Ownable? Property Rights, IP Wrongs, and Legal Theory Implications. The author says this is a study in the foundations and implications of action-based jurisprudence forged through applying it to Bitcoin. The book is available for purchase at popular e-book retailers, but the author is also giving away a free PDF version right from his website. And thank you to today's sponsor, Telebit. Telebit is a new bot for people who use the Messenger Telegram. The bot acts as a Bitcoin servant of sorts in that it generates new wallets on command, allows you to send Bitcoin to any other Telegram user without their having to create a wallet first, gives you automated price notifications, and more things. And for anyone interested who does not use Telegram, there is also a standalone Telebit app in the Android App Store. So cheerio to you. And remember to share the daily decrypt with a friend today to spread the crypto love. I didn't change the background to red for nothing.


Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast, happy holidays. I wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I wanna talk about what is happening in the world of stocks and crypto. So hot of stock of the day is ARBB up 275% and look at that God candle, a massive God candle today. And if we look at the one day chart, you can see that that was a nice move pre-market and then the big move after pre-market. And in my opinion, this is just people wanting to make money during the holidays, kind of desperate looking for anything to make money with. And this is the pick of the day. I mean, that's really the only explanation for this. I didn't see any huge news. I didn't see any major catalysts. So to me, this is just people trying to make money for the holidays and there's a lot of money in the sidelines and jumping in on this pick. So I'm not saying it can't go higher. Anything can happen. It could go higher, it could go lower, it could go sideways, but put ARBB on your radar and on your watch list up 275% on the day. All right, second biggest move of the day, RyZB. So you can see what it did pre-market, that huge green candle and then just consolidated sideways ever since. This is why I don't like to chase these types of trades because a lot of times they don't go higher.  So just please buyer beware. Remember that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes and please do your due diligence and do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about or discuss on our show. All right, then third highest pick was called Back. This is Back is one of the highest movers of the day. Now this one actually went up pre-market and then continued to go higher. So two to the three picks today actually going up after the pre-market move, this is one of them, ARBB is one of them and then Back, second out of the top three. So that to me tells me there's a lot of money in the sidelines looking to make moves right now, looking to get paid and they're jumping in a lot of these trades, taking some risks as people are looking to make some money going into 2024.  Here's Betts, BETS. Now this is super, super cheap under a penny, super risky. Not telling you to buy this at all but they're up 53% of the day. You can see that they've heavily dropped from much higher levels and that's not the type of chart that I like at all. Definitely taking a big bet on this one, super, super risky and up 53% of the day, not my type of trade but I know there's people that would like these types of ideas. GRCL up 60% on the day. Now this is one that is actually complete opposite of what we've been seeing on a lot of trades. This is one that's just been climbing up all year, looking very, very bullish, GRCL and it's got a very strong trend. So GRCL trading right around an all-time high or a 52-week high today. So keep it on your radar. Gracelle biotechnologies ink up 60% on the day. All right, so what else is moving? SG, HT up 45% on the day. This is the one year chart and you can see it's come down and now it's starting to do a nice reversal. As you can see here, it'll come from here down to there to that almost no man's land at that dollar mark and now has reversed all the way back to five bucks. So this is an interesting trade. It's doing quite well after really getting crushed. It's starting to come back. So definitely put it on your radar and put on your watch list as GHT. All right, here's Bitfarms. This is one that I've traded this year, made money on and it's climbing again today a little bit. Bitcoin is down today. So when you start seeing Bitcoin miners go up, that's very bullish for them because when Bitcoin goes up, they will skyrocket. Here's Roblox. Told you guys I really liked Roblox and it has started to climb. It started to make its move. So don't sleep on Roblox. Tesla, Tesla in the green today slightly at $256. One of the greatest trades of the last decade is Tesla. Moderna starting to come up from the bottom as I predicted and is green again today. So keep your eye on Moderna. Tesla, this is the Tesla ETF. I thought like it was really cheap and then it was positioning itself for something great and it started to climb. So keep your eye on Tesla and if the price of Tesla climbs, expect that the Tesla ETF TSLY will climb with it. NVIDIA has been selling off around that 500 mark. We're getting close to that 500 mark again, we're at 494. Put them on your radar and put them on your watch list square. Look at that trend up. Very bullish price action for square as we predicted it would climb and it has PayPal. Another one that I believe is starting to climb from a bottom and it is. Meta has had a monster year. One of the greatest trades of the year is Meta. Hundreds of percent up like NVIDIA been an absolute killer all year and kind of expect a lot of the same for 2024. Google trading around a 52-week high today. Coinbase back in the green today and it's been on this epic, epic move up and it looks like this move continues and that's interesting because Coinbase is up despite the fact that Bitcoin's down today. So that's very bullish in my opinion for Coinbase. Amazon trading at a 52-week high today. Uber maintaining its strength slightly in the green today. Apple seems to be struggling to get over that $200 mark as it should because it's not having a greatest year financially with growth but still has a ton of cash. That's why Apple's at $193. MicroStrategy's been one of the biggest movers this year. Bitcoin holder, it's gone from $100 to $600 this year. That's a 500% gain on MicroStrategy's. Mara, this is a way to trade Bitcoin miners. And you can see they've been ripping but they're slightly red today. Ethereum is down 2% today. So sellers taking profits there. Riot, another Bitcoin miner down 2% as well today but I like them a lot. And Cardano slightly red today down 2% and Bitcoin slightly red down 2%. You have to understand these things have been climbing. So nothing wrong with investors taking some profits. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust just had one of their major insiders resign. So that's the big news there and that's why they're dropping. CLSK has been on a tear. They've done a 10X this year. You look at their chart, they've done a 10X this year from $1 to $11. So it's been a big, big, big year for CLSK and another Bitcoin miner is CLSK. All right, let's see, it's gone from $1 all the way to $11 and done a 10X. RMCO slightly down after having a big week last week and Solana was killing it all weekend and has been killing it all year. It's done a 20X and investors are now selling and taking profits and Solana is down 8%. All right, wanna wish everyone a happy new year. I hope you're enjoying your holiday season. Here's the biggest mover of the day. There's that God candle on ARBB. The biggest mover and shaker of the day, up 290%. Wanna wish everyone a happy new year. I'll be coming back as much as I can over the holidays. Maybe not doing as many videos as usual, but after January expect a full slate of videos as usual. And other than that, wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas, happy holidays and happy new year. We are less than a week away now from 2024, folks. Get your popcorn ready and make sure you watch Rich TV. If you like these videos, smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe if you're alive. I'm your host to the most, your boy, Rich Rich TV, and I'm out. Peace.


The thing about the Raleigh Foundation and what we're supporting here tonight is obviously we're trying to defeat childhood cancer. If you guys don't know, childhood cancer is the number one disease killer in America. Only 4% of the national budget is allocated to childhood cancer. And so what we're doing here tonight, man, we're trying to bridge that gap. We're trying to beat the other 96% trying to raise as much money as possible, but also celebrate these children tonight. These children will be walking down the runway, they got their suits on, they got their dresses on. They're beautiful. And we're trying to support them and celebrate them tonight.  Let's cut what? Him finish with him? And then we just post it. Okay. Now so let's go. Keep walking to the front. Yeah. This is such a great distraction for the kids that are fighting and battling cancer. They're going through the chemotherapies, irradiation, these yucky medicines and treatments that consumes their life, it flips their life upside down. So for them to get a distraction and break away, hang out with the Titans players and getting cheered on by an entire audience that is super excited to see them and strut their stuff down the runway, it's literally a dream come true. Oh, it's definitely memorable. These kids will remember this night for the rest of their lives. I would definitely remember this night for the rest of my life. I'm just glad to be a small glimpse or a small part of their lives. So like I said, bless you. Telling about us and about the Titans is really all about these kids and letting them enjoy their night.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. On February 22, the US recorded 500,000 COVID-19 related deaths. This current death told not only outstrips the fatalities of other badly affected nations but also vastly outnumbers the annual death rate of the most devastating wars and epidemics of the 19th and 20th century. The disease is now just behind heart attack and cancer as the leading cause of death in the US. While the pandemic has had a devastating effect on US citizens everywhere, it has affected the most underprivileged racial minorities including African Americans, Latin Americans and Native Americans the hardest. By the end of the first wave of pandemic, counties with dominant Native American and Black demographics were among the worst infected. During the first wave, the Navajoon Nation topped in terms of infection rates while Black mortalities represented a majority of the deaths in deep South states. According to APM Research Lab as of February, the average fatality rate across the US stands close to 151 for every 100,000 people. It was as high as 210.6 and 135.2 for Native Americans and Black people. Moreover, a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the single biggest decline in average life expectancy in the past 40 years was in the year 2020. Life expectancy on average is estimated to have dropped by 1.13 years in 2020 and will continue to decline in 2021 due to continuing deaths and long-term effects of the pandemic on public health and the economy. According to the study here, two racial disparities are quite stark. The decline of life expectancy for African Americans is as high as 2.1 years and for Latin Americans it's 3.05 years compared to 0.68 years for white Americans. The University of Washington has projected deaths to go up by more than 589,000 by June 1st. How did the United States get here? The answer has partly to do with the initial response of the authorities and the people to the pandemic. The federal government and the then President Donald Trump, disregarded early warnings from China and the World Health Organization, refused lockdown protocols and even encouraged his supporters to openly flout counter-pandemic measures like wearing masks or observing physical distancing. This was one of the factors that led to uncontrolled community transmissions which caused hospitals to be overwhelmed in major cities like Detroit and New York between March and April and in the rest of the country by August. The numbers reveal the same. The U.S. reported the first 1 million infections by April 25th, 2 million by June 5th, 5 million by August 4th, 10 million by November 5th, 15 million by December 5th, 20 million by December 29th, 25 million by January 20th and is expected to reach 30 million by the end of this month. The casualties have risen in a similar fashion. It hit the first 100,000 by May 22nd, 200,000 by September 14th, 300,000 by December 9th, 400,000 by January 15th and 500,000 on February 22nd this year. The sharpest increase in mortality was witnessed in the months of December and January when 200,000 deaths were added. Despite the alarming statistics, the current ruling establishment is yet to reckon with the gravity of the situation. Despite the vaccination drive that has begun in earnest, the federal government is yet to come up with a plan to mitigate this public health catastrophe. Even there, the government is hit with the rising deficit of trust among public health workers and frontline workers with many in several states continuing to refuse vaccination. Socialists in the US pointed out that in order to even begin to mitigate the disaster, the US needs to take the immediate expansion and indefinite extension of the current stimulus package which is set to expire in mid-March. There have also been demands for a proactive intervention from the government to start real relief for working people with steps such as rent and mortgage cancellation, a guaranteed income and universal health care.


It's a big weekend in Bemidji as the Knights of Columbus walleye classic prepares to take over Lake Bemidji. Paul Bunyan Park has been busy as members of the Knights of Columbus set up for the big event. Everything is in place for 100 teams of two who are ready to compete to catch that prize walleye. The popularity of the event has not faded and the registration for the walleye classic filled within only 20 minutes. We love that everyone wants to come back that much. It's it is a great feeling. We also know that our anglers are expecting a lot out of us. This is the premier walleye tournament in northern Minnesota. So we work very hard. We're always upgrading our tournament, upgrading our standards, finding out what the best practices in the field are and trying to achieve them. Even if you are not competing there are still plenty to do special family events and plenty of food will be available for all the spectators. The committee has been working hard to make sure the walleye classic offers something for everyone. We have a number of games. We've added a new charitable beneficiary this year that is bringing in some new activities for youth and their families. So we just keep increasing that community aspect of this tournament as well. $12,500 is up for grabs in the contest. Boat launch tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Tim Ashman, Johnny Hernandez, and Hi-Tech Oki. Going up on DTNS, bad news for vertical farms, why chat GPT caused Google to go into a panic, and how Mastodon could survive its success. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 at Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. The show's producer, Roger Chen. My friends, we are heading towards the holiday break. Only two more live shows of DTNS left before we get into our holiday specials. But the tech news hasn't stopped. We'll tell you why in the quick hits. Game on, everyone. Google and the NFL announced that YouTube will offer the NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for out-of-market NFL games, starting with the 2023 season. Customers can purchase Sunday Ticket through YouTube TV or Alucard through YouTube Prime Time Channels. The Wall Street Journal sources say that YouTube will pay $2 billion per season as part of a seven-year agreement. Cora launched a beta for Platform for Open Exploration. That's PFO, but they're just calling it PO, where people can ask questions and have a back-and-forth dialogue with chat bots. PO will access several models, including chat GPT, and will introduce a system for organizations to submit their own models in the near future. PO currently has a wait list for access. And then insert never more joke. The memory chip maker Micron announced it will cut 10% of its workforce. This comes as it's reported it lost four cents per share on revenue that was down 47% on the year in its fiscal Q1 to $4.09 billion. Both missed analyst estimates, which is probably why we're cutting. Last month, Micron announced it would cut chip production by 20% and now expects to reduce its capital budget for new plants by 42% in the year to $7 billion. FTX co-founder Sam Bankman Freed, often referred to as SBF, was extradited from jail in the Bahamas Wednesday and has arrived in New York City. He is charged with eight criminal counts, including fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. In related cases, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed complaints against Alameda Research's ex-CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX's ex-CTO Gary Wang for their roles in alleged fraud that used FTX customer deposits for risky investments made by Alameda. Wang and Ellison both pleaded guilty to related federal charges of multiple counts of fraud themselves. Meta's latest update to the Quest 2 headset boosts the maximum GPU frequency 7% up from 490 MHz to 529 MHz. The headset will automatically increase the frequency if it detects that an app can benefit from it. That results in better image quality when using dynamic foveation, for example. The boost works with current titles, but developers can update their apps to boost resolution as well. Sorry, do you think SBF tried to put up his bail in crypto? My first question is, can you bail yourself out of jail? Apparently so. Second is, can you bail yourself out with crypto? I have some FTT, now they're going to be worth a lot if I win my case. Alright, let's talk about food. We've covered vertical farms before on the show as a possible advance in food production, especially for urban areas. Wired's Matt Reynolds has an interesting article out called, Vertical Farming has found its fatal flaw. Europe's energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry's future hangs at the balance. The short version is energy prices rose in Europe by 58%. What was once a very manageable 25% of operating costs for vertical farms, sprayers, LEDs and such became almost half. A secondary issue is that vertical farms are expensive to bill compared to traditional farms and investors are lost tolerant to long lead times to profitability than what they used to be. Yes, you might say, well, all right, is there a solution? The solution could be to charge more, but inflation is making consumers less tolerant of paying extra for produce, especially leafy greens that vertical farms do really well at. With energy costs rising, vertical farms advantages are less pesticide use, less water use. That might mean that vertical farms best bet is to head to arid countries, perhaps in the Middle East, where they also have stable electricity prices. Yeah, I think this is an interesting example of how we take for granted certain things that make it possible for innovations to happen like affordable energy. It's one conversation to have about emissions and all of that, and it's an important conversation to have. Don't get me wrong. But the price of energy being low has allowed us to try a bunch of things. Very similar to how battery technology is a break on what we can do with technology right now that I don't think anybody really thinks about because there just isn't an alternative to the lithium ion battery right now that's worth anything when energy prices go up. Suddenly, something like vertical farms, which has a lot of advantages and a lot of things it can do for certain areas, isn't as possible because now the profitability and the price point have all changed. Yeah, I think that one of the things here that's a key point is that these farms are expensive and more difficult to build. So I think like with regular farming prices go up, you kind of stop doing a certain thing when they come back down, you restart because it's not necessarily cost prohibitive to actually get started in regular farming. But because the vertical farms actually cost more to produce and start, that could be a reason to where this inflationary hike that we're having right now might just say, we're going to move elsewhere to try this technology out. Yeah, it's sort of disheartening to hear a story like this because you go, oh, vertical farms, how cool. You can farm in urban areas that makes it closer to the people who might eventually buy those leafy greens. It makes it possible to grow things that would otherwise need lots of land and lots of water. Lots of land, lots of water. Yeah, like typical farming stuff. I mean, I know it's not the same as putting solar panels on your house, but it kind of reminds me of that, of people saying, well, but yeah, I get it. I get why it's so great, but there was a point, and we've kind of come past that at this point, but there was a point where people were like, but I'm not going to recoup my costs really, besides just sort of doing the right thing. And so I think that we kind of get into a conversation like that with the vertical farming industry is like, doing the right thing, doing the thing that is going to taste better and is just healthier for everybody. If it costs too much, is it going to stick? Well, and I wonder what would have happened if this energy crisis had happened later in vertical farms evolution, assuming it caught on, right? If the sunk costs were in there, you might have a different story going on, but right now it's like what you were saying. It's easier to just adapt in a traditional farming situation, whereas vertical farms just they haven't built up their infrastructure enough. They haven't gotten past that part where they can say like, okay, even we can absorb a little energy cost because we've already paid for the infrastructure. They're still building out. And I think that's, you know, hopefully that won't last forever and won't keep these out forever. And I think the Middle East is a great place for them to incubate for a while until maybe energy prices come back down. You might be saying, but when Sarah brought up solar panels, like, yeah, why don't they just put solar panels on the vertical farms? The fact is that also adds to the cost, right? The upfront cost, right? It would pay for itself over time. It's not the pay for itself over time. That's the problem. It's the like, yeah, but I don't know that we can afford to build that now. Yeah, can you can you make $2 and 10 years or can I make $1.50 next month? Yeah, that's what it comes down to. Yeah. And the farmers around the place that I grew up are like, yeah, I can give you $1.50 next month. I don't have to wait for my vertical farm to pay off. So there you go. New York Times reports that Google issued a code red. Apparently, that's a buzzword in the enterprise these days, skittin' all code red and things. Not in the same way as the movie, I hope. This kind of code red is like, get on board. Let's all figure out how to solve this problem. And Google issued theirs over the rise of chatGPT, Google CEO Sundar Pichai directed teams in Google's Research Trust and Safety Division to assist in developing AI prototypes and products, just bringing more people into the process. Folks inside now, Google, have been debating whether chatGPT could get good enough to replace Google. Instead of searching through a list of results, you just ask chatGPT for what you want and get it. So right now at the moment, the answer is no, since chatGPT still has a hard time distinguishing facts from fiction, but it's going to get better. And at some point, it will be as good as Google search results, which also sometimes surface incorrect information. Google has its own version of chatGPT called LAMDA. There was one employee that was convinced that this was sentient. I remember that from a few months ago. But Google has held it back from public use because of its failings. What do we think? Should Google make search a good version of chatGPT before chatGPT becomes a best version of search? That is a tongue twister of a sentence right there. Yeah, yeah. I mean, but it's a tongue twister of a problem, too. Yeah, it's a good question. I would say the answer is yes. I have this saying, when things change, change things. We know that Google didn't go out with LAMDA. They were worried about what if we are racist? What if we are giving wrong information? There are reasons why they didn't do what they do. But chatGPT has shown that this is really, really some next level technology. So Google, they need to get on with it. Like they called this thing a code red that we need to go and look at this now. Because I do see, when I play with chatGPT, it is the closest thing to the bridge computer from Star Trek that I've seen. I think for a lot of folks of AI assistance, that's kind of what you want. You literally can just have a conversation with AI and it gives you the answers in just a conversation away. If Google is not thinking about that, and I believe that they are, they need to be, because that is where search is going ultimately, in my opinion. Yeah, what I imagine is going on behind the scenes at Google, and I don't work there, so I don't know. But I can see a lot of folks in a conference room somewhere saying, let's be conservative about this. Let's make sure that this tool is ripe for the masses, which it isn't. Our tool, Lambda, in that case. And let's make sure that we're not just unleashing something that's going to break or otherwise going to be misused. And then you've got chatGPT that no one can stop talking about. And all the Google people say, no, come on, we've been doing this for years. We are also doing this. And especially people talking about future of search. Okay, this might be where we're going. And there's no question that Google has already thought about this. They're just not the ones getting all the headlines. I mean, this reminds me in some ways of Netflix saying we want to become HBO before HBO becomes us, right? Google realizing, well, crap, we need Lambda to get good enough to be in our search engine before chatGPT gets good enough to that people stop using Google search, which would be devastating. That's where all of Google's money comes from. It's from ads on search. So they not only need to get Lambda good enough, they also need to figure out how to monetize Lambda because that's a different situation than a list of search results. So when I start thinking about it that way, it reminds me of IBM looking at this new Apple computer that people are buying and realizing crap, we need to have a PC, hurry up and figure that out and get it out there. I mean, it just goes to show that Google is no longer and hasn't been for a long time a new company. It is, it is an old, slow company. And this newer startup, OpenAI, has passed it in something that I think Google thought, well, we have really good AI chops, which they do, but they move too cautiously, they move too slowly than the smaller competitor could hear. That doesn't mean I think chatGPT is ready to replace search tomorrow, but it's a race now to see who can get it good enough to do that. And I don't know what the timeline is, but I fully think that you're going to get your wish, Rob, that you're going to have that Star Trek-like experience sooner or later. I wonder if Google is looking at this and they're serious enough about it that they may make an acquisition. If Lambda isn't where it needs to be, do they just try to go out and acquire chatGPT? I haven't heard any rumors on that, I haven't heard any news, but it's something that kind of is just popping in. ChatGPT is owned by OpenAI, which is funded by one Elon Musk, so... Yeah, it's unlikely, but I see where you're going with this. Yeah, could they buy somebody else who's got some chops that they could throw in there? That's the... When you're a company the size of Google, it's like, what do we have? Google, Meta, Amazon? I mean, they're Apple. There's a few companies in that category where it's like, everybody's suspicious. Hmm, you got your own tool. Do you Google? Well, you know, is it as good as chatGPT? OpenAI made it, not Google. If Google is the parent company of a tool like this, well, you get a lot of finger-wagging from folks that... I mean, there is that anyway, just about the technology in general. But I think it's a blessing and a curse to be a company that is as powerful as Google is to be able to say we are and possibly have the better version of this technology, but we have to be so careful about releasing it because anything goes wrong and it turns into Google's evil. Also, keep an eye out on pedals. We talked about pedals earlier on DTNS. It's backed by a hugging faces, big science project. It's open source and distributed. It's that horse that's in third place right now, among the three we're talking about. There's more in the race, but let's just simplify things, right? And it's coming out and on from the outside. It's not impossible that pedals develop something that passes chatGPT and Lambda because it's even more nimble and creates that ability to use the web openly because they have the least reservations on research. Whereas OpenAI, it's doing some things publicly, but keeping a lot of stuff private and Google's keeping almost everything private. This is an interesting race to watch. When people ask you what are you excited about in the future of technology, this is one of those things that you can say, you know what, those chatbots and how they're going to improve search and who's going to get there first. I think that's a fun one to watch. Yeah, I'm definitely looking at this because I've always dreamed of being able to hit something on my chest or hold up a tricorder and just talk to a computer and it gives me all the information of the world that I ask it. So if Google, if they're thinking about this and I understand the issues that they would have with we can't be wrong because we're Google, but they need to start to skunk works up and they need to get going and just explain to earth that, hey, this is experimental technology. It's not going to be perfect.  This thing is under alphabet is something different until they actually decide it's good enough to bring it into the fold. Rock in a hard place, though, right? Because if pedals is bad, people go, oh, weird open source project. If chatGPT is bad, they're like, no, who's open AI? If Google's bad, blowback, instant condensation and blowback. I think if they were, well, I was about to say if they were smart, a lot of people at Google are very smart, but if you could somehow make Lambda or whatever it becomes in the future part of Google's assistant, then you're getting the idea, right? And you're getting somewhere because you're not replacing search. You're saying you have lots of options and we win 100% of the time. And it's already in there. Google is putting the technology from Lambda and other things into things. It's just putting them in slower than this race is going suddenly. Well, folks, as we get towards the end of the year, we have a lot of last things of the year to check out and you don't want to miss them. If you're a patron, be sure to check out Rogers last column of the year. He shares his thoughts on a comic series illustrated entirely by image generation, by an text to image generator. It's cool. Find it at patreon.com slash DTNS. Well, Mastodon, having a bit of a moment, monthly active users have jumped from 300,000 in October to 2.5 million in November. A lot of people signed up for Mastodon in a month. That's still really small compared to Twitter's 350 plus million users, but it is a huge spike, an 800% rise in a very short period of time. This is a unique challenge though, since no one organization actually runs Mastodon. It's an implementation of the open source activity pub protocol. That implementation is administered by a German nonprofit at join Mastodon.org. Most servers are run on a voluntary basis. If they take money at all, it's usually through PayPal donations or a Patreon, but in almost all cases, you don't need to even pay a dollar to use it. Yeah, each instance's admin is responsible for everything, the maintenance, the moderation, the legal compliance, so things like Digital Millennium Copyright Act, GDPR, COPPA, any local laws in each market where you're made available, which if you're on the Internet, you're in all the markets. Not all of the work is about laws though. Each instance has a community that the admins are responsible for moderating. And all the drama that comes with moderating humans comes with doing it. Smaller the community, the easier it is to manage, but as we said, it's getting bigger. And of course, there's all the maintenance, the uptime, the storage, all of that gets more difficult and grows as your server gets more popular. All of these things take time, effort, and resources to deal with. They're dealable, you just have to increase the amount of time, effort, and resources you apply to them, and that usually means money. Mastodon instances, by and large, do not take advertising. They rely on volunteers and donations, and that can be difficult to scale. Yeah, so bigger organizations are joining in, which could take some pressure off of those smaller instances. For example, Mozilla announced it will launch Mozilla.social, starting in 2023. Tumblr said it would add interoperability with Activity Pub, that's the protocol used by Mastodon servers. The Guardian noted a crypto startup called Social Coop, which runs a Japanese-based Mastodon instance called PaWoo, P-A-W-O-O, which has 800,000 users along with two other instances. And in fact, TechDirt might Mastodon thinks that Mastodon might be about to have its Gmail moment, which is high praise, that moment when Webmail went from being just kind of slow and limited, and it only does so much to the way most people just do email and think about email. So what do we think here? Should we forget about whether it should be a Twitter successor and think of it as something totally different? And if it's mostly volunteer run, can Mastodon actually scale? And how? Rob, you have some experience with scale, I think, right? So, you know, Mastodon essentially is a federated service. And federated services are hard because you have multiple people, and in the case of Mastodon, multiple people who generally aren't paid, who are doing all of the upkeep and maintenance and all of that work. I think that one of the reasons that Mastodon is, and the main reason Mastodon has seen the growth that it is is because of all the stuff that is happening at Twitter. So there's a couple of things that I think could happen. What I think is likely is that it's going to be one of these larger organizations that has the funds to actually stand up an instance and just actually pay people to keep that thing up and running. And you may still see Uber growth there to where it's just going to grow, what is it, 800% over a month and a half. I think that that's ultimately what it's going to take. I told a story in the pre-show about how I logged out of Mastodon on accident. Couldn't remember what instance I was logged into. Had to text somebody to find out, hey, what's my Mastodon address so they could tell it back to me based off of posts that they could see and let me know how to log back into my own account. That isn't scalable at the rate they're growing. Just all these federated services that are out there. But I do believe that if someone with actual money behind them comes in and says, hey, we're going to productize this. We may make it ad supported or just do something to where it's one giant massive server that could literally have hundreds of thousands if not millions of users on that one instance. I think that might actually be the thing that maybe pushes Mastodon over because they've got to react and capture the Twitter people who are leaving Twitter or who are just looking for something other than Twitter relatively soon. The Twitter thing I don't think is going to be a thing for a long time. I think eventually Twitter will kind of settle back into what Twitter has always been. And if they've missed that moment, then you might go back to see the growth go back to what it was like before the Twitter fiasco started to happen. Yeah, I think the challenge with Mastodon, let me start here. The advantage of Mastodon, one of the big advantages of Mastodon is because you can choose different servers, you can choose different flavors of experience. So if you want a more like free wheeling, let people post whatever they want, you can find a server that allows that. Or if you want something that's more locked down, keep all the bad words off, you can do that. If it's fine that Mozilla, Mozilla is non-profit, fine. If Mozilla comes in and makes a real popular server, the Mastodon administration itself has a very popular server with hundreds of thousands of users. Actually, okay, Tumblr comes in. Matt Mullenwig is a good guy. We trust him, right? That's going to be okay. But at what point does somebody come in and make the big popular Mastodon server that then just ends up being the server everybody's on and this whole thing is centralized and the smaller servers fall by the wayside? I think one of the other big advantages is that you could also start your own server. Right now, that's not for everyone because it's complicated enough. But what if instead of just being the big popular server automatic, the folks who make WordPress create the WordPress of servers so that it would be easy for everyone to just roll their own instance and moderate it? Again, might not be for everybody, but you could provide tools that give you the legal shielding, that give you all the compliance issues, the maintenance stuff, the uptime, maybe even moderation tools could be part of that. You get a few of those, a WordPress Squarespace, a Wix of Mastodon servers, and then suddenly you've got a good ecosystem. There could be a business that doesn't have to be fully ad supported in order to survive that keeps Mastodon flourishing and also preserve some of those benefits of being decentralized and allowing smaller niche servers to survive. I agree with everything you said there, Tom. I really think that it's going to take that for them to just maintain this type of growth. I just think it's untenable to have folks who are running these things as a service. This is largely unpaid work. I think that's just untenable at the growth that they're having because things are just going to happen because someone had to go to work. Someone had to, they were on vacation and while they were on vacation, have it happen. I think you're right. I think it could be a combination of the two to where you're going to have some company or some organization come in, stand up a massive server and that allows some of the smaller servers to still stay and do their own thing and be kind of a niche within the Mastodon world. I like Nick with a C calls it the Samsung to Mastodon's Android or maybe to the protocol, to the activity pub is the Android of the situation. That's actually a good good analogy. Yeah, it's a good one. I like that. Well, y'all might be surprised by this, but Nintendo's Game Boy is 33 years old, still has run for president and it maybe it should still has a devoted fan base. I'm one of them. I don't have the original, but I do have a Game Boy somewhere behind me in Studio Redwood. One of those fans though is Sebastian Stax who's created a plug and play device that lets gameplay from the handheld stream to a computer using USB and also be recorded without having to modify the console itself. Now you might say, that's amazing. How did Sebastian do it? Sebastian is a tanker earlier this year. I created a custom cartridge that let the Game Boy stream video wirelessly, which Stax showed off by playing Star Wars on the screen and also a hack that made the Game Boy capable of playing modern games such as Grand Theft Auto 5. I like that. And Mike says, are we still calling it Game Boy at this point? Shouldn't it be Game Man or Game Person? Yeah, Game Grown up. It's a whole adults 33 game adult. Anyway, not to take away from Sebastian Stax, who did a thing that not only will be fun just because you can do it, but Roger pointed out when we were talking about this before the show that you're good for Twitch streamers. Do you want to stream some Game Boy? That's cool. It is cool. Yeah, my first question is like, but why? And all of you were like, because you can. Why not? That's the fun of it. So it's a good reminder that, you know, there are things that are capable of being done and Sebastian Stax has given us a little fun thing to do over the holidays. Thank you, Sebastian Stax for your service. Indeed. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Mark wrote in with thoughts on our discussion we had yesterday about that facial recognition and Madison Square Garden situation with the lawyer being basically identified and thrown out. Mark says, policy and technology are not at odds here. They both function independently for good or bad. The issue with me is that once the technology is in place and they state it's for security and safety, how far do they stretch the definition to include we recognize you and don't want you here when it has nothing to do with the stated purpose of the tech? Mark says, I think the safety and security definition would include disruptive behavior at the venue, concealed weapons, something like that. Is the tech appropriate for that kind of venue? That's another discussion. Mark says if they spotted someone famous, could they draw attention to that fact? Perhaps by bragging about who attended the show. What about using the tech to reward visitors somehow? Is that within the purview of their stated usage? I think not. Rob, you weren't with us yesterday when we were talking about this. What's your take? So I watch everything facial recognition very, very closely because there are ginormous issues with it. This was not a facial recognition story. Someone was recognized. It was by facial recognition. The story is about MSG's rules, not about the technology that they used. Mark asks some pretty good questions. This technology is there. They're using it. What else can it be used for? Fat Joe is at MSG or Jay Lowe is at MSG. Are you going to use it to recognize her and then put the camera on her in the state? They do that already, but can the facial recognition make it easier to find celebrities? That is an interesting question on how this would work. Those are fair questions. What would happen if they're not to me anything about what did happen, though? Nothing you shouldn't be asking questions because that's how we make sure that abuses don't happen, is to talk about, okay, how do we guard against that? I don't know that this particular story is the one that is the smoking gun. I don't think so at all, because if it was a security guard that recognized the lawyer, the same thing would have happened. Well, thank you. Thank you, and thank you, Mark, for writing in. If you have thoughts on anything we talk about on the show, anything we might talk about on a future show, do send them our way. We love feedback. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com is where to send that email. Thanks to you, Rob Dunwood, for being with us today. Let folks know where they can keep up with you. Oh, everybody can find me at the SMR podcast, and that is smrpodcast.com, or over at my other podcast, thetechjohn, that is thetechjaw.com. And of course, I am on pretty much all the social medias at Rob Dunwood. Well, we thank you for being with us. We also thank our brand new boss, Bob. Bob just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Bob. Yay. Well, thank Bob, literally, right now. Bob, Bob is the best. Be like Bob. Yes, you've been thanked, Bob, and welcome. Glad to have you. Speaking of Patreon, stick around for our extended show, Good Day Internet. We roll right into it after DTNS wraps up. But reminder, you can get your show live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 2100 UTC. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We'll be back tomorrow with a special holiday AMA show, Ask Us Anything, featuring Patrick Verdin and Len Peralta joining us. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com.


Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. It's my great pleasure to introduce the launch of the full results of the Global Forest Resource Assessment 2020 or FRA 2020, as we call it. It provides a comprehensive picture of the world forest resources and their trends for the period from 1990 to 2020. We know that we depend on forest. They are a source of food, medicines and biofuels for more than one billion people. They protect soils and water, host the vast majority of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, and help mitigate climate change. They provide many products and services that contribute to socio-economic development and create work and income for tens of millions of people. Forests are at the heart of the 2030 agenda. They have immense potential to support sustainable development pathways, and yet we are still losing forests. The world has lost 178 million hectares of forests since 1990, an area about the size of Libya. This needs to end. We must protect and manage forests sustainably for the benefits of people and the planet. The key to this is reliable evidence. Akkurati informacija on forest resources is also needed to monitor progress towards the achievement of the national determined contribution and disease of countries under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The global forest goals of the United Nations strategic plan for forest, the forth coming post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and the global efforts to halt the forestation that are at the core of SDG-15. For the first time FRA data were collected using a digital platform. This innovation help to reduce the reporting burden. It also gave all countries access to freely available remote sensing data in produkci. Akurejt, oficial and reliable information is what FAO is providing by releasing the FRA 2020 report today. I know give the floor to my colleagues. They will explain why this flagship report is so important, how these data were collected and how will make them available to you. Today's launch represent an important milestone for many of us. The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 is the result of hard work of hundreds of experts worldwide and its findings have been long awaited. The reason why this assessment is so important is that it's the only truly comprehensive and authoritative assessment of global forest resources. It is based on official country statistics which have been compiled and reported to FAO by a network of national experts from across the world. This process has been a huge participatory undertaking and we're really excited to be able to deliver these results to you today. So let me give the floor to my colleague, Anci Pekarinen, who coordinates this process at FAO and who will tell you more about the results published today as well as the various products we have made available to you. Anci, you have the floor. Many thanks, Mette. It is indeed with great pleasure that today we released the full results of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020. The assessment comes with a number of new important findings, some of which we have already shared with you. However, let me recap some of the most important messages. First, the world's forest area continues to decrease, but the rate of loss has slowed since 1990s. This is a result of successful reduction of deforestation in some countries and forest expansion in others. But we have to do better. We are still losing 4.7 million hectares of forest every year. Most of the forest area losses happen now in sub-Saharan Africa and South America, but also in southeastern Asia we continue to lose almost 1 million hectare of forest every year. On a more positive note, there are clear signs towards more sustainable management. For example, the area of forest found within legally established protected areas continues to increase, and it has now reached 18% of the global forest area. This means that the ICHI Biodiversity Target 11 to protect 17% of terrestrial ecosystems has been achieved for forests. Another positive trend is that in the last 20 years the area of forest having a long-term management plan has increased by 13%. And now more than half of the world's forests have such plans. This is really great news, as the existence of these plans indicates the intention to manage the forest sustainably to guarantee their provision of long-term benefits. These three key findings tell to us that globally we are making progress towards a more sustainable future with forests. Nevertheless, halting deforestation remains an enormous challenge. An estimated 420 million hectares of forest has been converted to other land use such as agriculture, mining, infrastructure, et cetera, worldwide since 1990. In the most recent five-year period the annual rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares. Although deforestation is slowing down we are nowhere near to meet the commitment to stop deforestation and increase the global forest area. At this rate of reduction the SDG-15 target of halting deforestation which was set for 2020 will take another 25 years. Now, I hope that I have your attention and that you cannot wait to get your hands on the global forest resource assessment 2020 information products. Let me just briefly describe what we will make available today. First, we will publish the main report. It is a comprehensive digital document that presents the results of the analysis of over 60 variables that were collected during the assessment. The report focuses on presenting the status and trends of those attributes at global, regional and subregional levels. In addition, it also includes statistical fact sheets for all the regions of the world as well as country reported figures for selected key variables. In tudi, the main report is the product aimed at all those users that want to obtain comprehensive understanding of the fraud process and the results of the analysis FAO has carried out. Our second product consists of 236 reports that are the basis of the analysis presented in the main report. These digital documents contain all the information reported by the countries and territories of the FAO. Finally, we are very excited to introduce the new Fra platform. That will give you access to the same information as the reports I just mentioned, but in a format that it will make easy for you to use this data in your own analysis. By visiting the platform, you can select any country or region of the world, access the original data or summary statistics and visualize and download them on your own computer. These products will add to the key findings publication and digital interactive report launched earlier in May and now available in additional languages. I thank you for your attention and hope that you will explore these new resources and find the information you need in the format you like. And stay tuned as we plan to continue disseminating global forest resources assessment 2020 data in special studies during the coming months in the lead-up to the 15th third Forestry Congress, which will be hosted by the Republic of Korea in May 2021. Thank you. Many thanks, Ansi. Dear all, I hope you've enjoyed this brief virtual launch of the key results of the global forest resources assessment. I invite you all to go to our website and download the main report, access all the country reports and the interactive platform. And please let us have your feedback. We are very eager to know what else we can do to make these results even more useful for your purposes. Thank you so much for your attention today. Stay safe and hope to see you again soon.


Thinking about eye presentation, flavor profiles, and what I call layers of flavor, making sure it harmonizes from the first dish to your entree to the dessert, it can become very, very challenging. But can it be done? Absolutely. I've got one just for you, Jason. The nutritional competition is one of the hardest. And I say it hardest because it is about healthy cooking, meeting the requirements and the number of calories that can be produced for a three-course meal. The annual joint culinary training exercises nutritional hot food event challenges chefs to create a three-course meal that is nutritionally sound, visually appealing, and flavorful. So we had a seared scallop with shirataki noodles, a spicy ginger sauce, and stir-fried vegetables for appetizer. For our entree, we had a seared, smoky venison loin with butternut squash. Here a shredded Brussels sprout with a plumb sauce. The dessert was a vegan panacata with aquafaba, urban mango sorbet, and a ginger snap. Sergeant Joshua Hoyt, an advanced food specialist, has competed twice in the American Culinary Federation's nutrition challenge. It's all about adding flavor without adding fat. The modern soldier is a fine-tuned machine. They like their nutrients. They like low-fat, high-flavor. So those are things that we really need to bring back to the dining facility to enhance the meals that we have there. The Fort Drum team won the nutrition category with the most points, but in this heated competition, it's still not enough to earn a gold medal. Bittersweet. I've been aiming for that gold for a few years, and it's a very hard, pedal-footed hit. I wish I would have got it, but it gives me something to try for again.