Hi, I'm Dazza Greenwood at the Boston MIT node of the computational law and blockchain festival and and facilitator of this Unconference discussion session on developing principles for sovereign legal identity for individuals and I want to introduce the my co-facilitator from the Washington DC node Elizabeth Reneiris who is currently on mute Dazza Thanks for having me Elizabeth Reneiris as you said I am a principal at a law and consulting firm Here in the DC area and also Global Policy Council to a blockchain-based digital identity company called Evernon awesome, and Evernon is Affiliated with the sovereign foundation. I think who actually has some principles which are among the things we'll be talking about, right? Yes, that's right. So the sovereign foundation is working on something known as the sovereign ledger to implement One version of self sovereign identity so we can definitely get into that Great. And so I'm doing us here in Boston. Maybe just do a quick round of who's in the discussion Who are you? Christian Smith from Stranger Labs Stranger Labs, which is into Identity and stuff privacy right on track and we your name And And Frequenter, I would say of law dot MIT dot edu things and always welcome here and our friend and colleague So if you kind of wrench your head this way a little bit and look that way, that's what he looks like And and our cherished and his sponsor and friend from Thompson Reuters labs I Had the TR lab Seven data science labs for a blue fur toxin motors Yeah, could you actually just lean in for one second? That's no we got eyes on Brian great And so that that's us here and who we joined by online I See Tom some people Some participants are undisclosed And We're joined by some people that are associated with identity Ecosystem steering committee, which I'm also associated with we're not representing that but it's a great group that everyone should learn about it has some principles that we'll talk about and and a loss As well who who has a team for the sovereign legal identity challenge as part of the festival well, what why don't I just Do a screen share on on some of the principles that Elizabeth and I Surfaced and then I think maybe Elizabeth after I just identified some of these maybe you could share some of your thoughts On the on the principles that you've been developing so I'm good Okay Silences is a cent was on mute. Yeah, that's good. Okay. Thanks. So I don't think can you see this on the screen? Okay, great. So first one is sovereign. These are from a sovereign trust framework principles, which is in section two Gonna link to it One of them is independence and self sovereignty and I won't read the paragraph next to each one But this one's worth reading because it sets its own This principle is an identity owner just defined Shall have the right to completely and permanently own and control And this is interesting one or more sovereign identities without the need to rely on any External administrative authority and without the fear that a sovereign identity will ever be taken away So those this is a pretty common sentiment I've noticed among folks to talk about this notion of sovereign identity that it's something It's owned and controlled by the the person identified as opposed to maybe Just to draw it out a little better to get contextualize it when you go to work you get When you log in with Facebook that's kind of controlled by Facebook even though it's your username its username within Facebook's domain You kind of go to a government entity Maybe you want to check your personal earnings and benefits statement as you should with a secure social security administration That SSN and your login for social security administration is Administrered by that agency and they could take it away. They might want to change their system or something Maybe they you know, I bet doing that on the service so a second one is Skip across a few of the top ones If I could jump in quickly Please I just want to note that Some of these principles relate to the technology the technology solution so the ledger and the network itself rather than sort of Self-sovereign identity in respect of the individual So just just to be clear that yeah, I think it makes sense to jump to some of the others Yeah, let's jump to some of the others A couple that I'll just on the way down on 2.6 is interoperability Privacy by design is 2.8 portability Open by default and identity for all and collective best interest so here's another one that I dug out that I've been as I remembered it came from IDQ Which was a nonprofit associated with the human dynamics lab in the media lab some years a few years back They felt one principle on Self-sovereign identity and control of personal data was that individuals and groups should have control of their digital Personal identities and personal data. So from their perspective, they really felt it was critical to Talk about individual identity and personal data in the same principle Interesting transparent enforcement and effective, but lightweight governance was a big thing with IDQ Trust and privacy and open-source collaboration The I referenced earlier the end-stick guiding principles that stands for a national strategy for trusted identities in cyberspace Pretty cool that a government that a government at that time use the word cyberspace as part of an official strategy of the United States The first principle is identity solutions will be privacy-enhancing and voluntary The second one is identity solutions will be secure and resilient The third is identity solutions will be interoperable So there's interoperable again and the for it is identity solutions will be cost-effective and easy to use Next principles very thoughtful I encourage you to read and stick we've linked to it there to To kind of get the whole context on that and then also to look at the what's called IDF identity Ecosystem framework on which goes through maybe other people in the call can or more up to date enough But you can talk about if it goes through how you can maybe have products or services certified against those principles and Those implementations rich for Alan self sovereign identity principles I feel probably are the most popular nowadays and He talks about existence So that you can use this digital identity To have an independent existence control again access Users must have access to their own data transparency assistance Your time long live portability. There's portability again Interoperability consent users must agree to the use of their identities. That's sounding like the voluntary list there I'm minimum minimalization Disclosure of claims must be minimized And protection the rights of users must be protected Also linked to Jericho forum and and there's a few others as well No, there's like a smattering there. Let's call it up. Um, you know, sort of some of the best of identity user controlled or user owned identity principles that have been circulating around it's hardly a complete list and One of the things I was hoping we could do I see Mary's on the line and others that are Bev and others who are really been tracking the space If there's other principles out there that are that would be good to add to the list for people to look at and consider Be great to identify those Welcome and and also Come on in and also new ideas to so maybe this is a good time to To bat them all back to you Elizabeth and I think that you had some some fresh ideas on some principles You're on mute Yeah, sure. Um, so one of the things that I've been thinking about is Borrowing sort of a model from property law And as many of us may remember from law school or 1L property law, you know, you learn about the bundle of rights And the various, you know sticks that make up that bundle And there are five key Sticks in the bundle and they are the right to possess The right to control the right to exclude the right to enjoyment and the right of disposition or to dispose of the property so It's interesting to think about in the identity context And actually if you look at sort of the other principles In the in a shared doc that you've sort of inputted there many of them are actually Have meta principles that are behind them or govern them or link some of the specifically enumerated principles here and one thing I would like to do and haven't gotten to it is try and categorize those more Specific principles into these sort of meta principles based on the property model And I think it's also interesting That a lot of the self-sovereign identity movement comes out of a Frustration and exhaustion with the commercialization of our data or personal data Which has been treated largely as the property of other, you know third parties Who are not the subject of that data? So this is just something that I've been working on and this seems like a really good forum for it I'm going to open to hearing other thoughts on this idea Okay Was that Christian Okay, I was channeling what I match and Christians thinking Well, I'll extrapolate though also why I why I also love it myself is because I think property is one of the areas of a fundamental customary area of law that's under Papped with respect to the intangible assets and digital information generally and among other things or digital identities are It's digital information and what we there's other rights that we have those human rights rights that come from privacy law Intellectual property and so forth is also just fundamental personal property and the I think the bundle of rights They call it bundle of sticks or whatever that you've just mentioned Have a lot of application and we can definitely apply that and and and extend from those traditional concepts to Principles that we ought to be thinking about for our individual identity that last one of the things you said the right Did you call it? Was it extinguish? Or the right to dispose of is really interesting if you think about an identity contact Kind of mimics some of what the GDPR is trying to do with the right to be forgotten, of course but there are other efforts around the world that that are kind of That allude to this notion Just so and so that I mean one of the ways I mean there's of all the different rights that go to Property that the right to draw your put an end to it is one is one that I associate as much More than most others with how you can tell who's the owner of something make many people have rights to access or to use in some way or some of the benefits or obligations or For property, but the right to destroy is tightly associated with with an ultimate owner, though I think it's an important one Hey, Mary, I see contributing in the text Be willing to speak a few words Or can I read what you're saying so I had one question about Dispose of one of the problems that we address actually in real world is digital death. I Would suspect that we need to cover that People do die Yeah, so if I could jump in I that's a great point and actually this is becoming a big issue with you know Social media accounts and who owns the social media account postpartum excuse me post Postermously and what what can be done with it and are you know, what are the rights? And I think it's a really important point a really interesting question And you know it also goes to the the tension between digital identity and you know sort of real world or offline identity So yeah, I that's something I'd love to work in into this framework as well Yeah, you know on that one we used to have in um II internet identity workshop you have the so-called digital death group which possibly the worst named group ever but we were trying to look at what happens, you know in Improving and and just that with an executor or and in other situations when when people, you know The thing about people with identity is they're born and they die And so, you know, it's not wonderful to think about it, but it's part of the Life cycle literally and you know in if you start Poking around the law there one of the laws that's interesting to look at is the so-called right of publicity comes up very much in in terms of the rights to you image and the rights to the persona for people that can be packaged and and and dealt with in a there's methods and mechanisms and rights and obligations that are expected in different roles Long after the death of persons has been something largely for celebrities in the past But if you read the statutes like the first ones in California and the other ones in the United States They're not limited to celebrities Any person could could be eligible for these rights of publicity and It's a big we have the what is it? Um, I can't remember the name but now there's a new uniform law that deals with another aspect of this It's a I do sherry access something and it gets to Having an orderly process for for people to Access your online accounts After death so we can have an orderly transition of the disposition of your assets It's a good one Well, there's another part of death If in the United States if you have more than I think five million dollars in assets It's up to the federal government to decide when you die. That is when you cease having liabilities Because of the inheritance laws Um, Mary, can I um? Do you mind if we kind of take some I speak some of the comments are writing in the chat. I don't think they're Can you hear me? Yep. You're coming through. Okay. I couldn't get the mute off for a little while. Sorry about that So I'm just madly typing in the Stone I actually have done but I would say it was several years ago a bunch of comparison of the the notions around property rights versus copyright law and the comparison that you can do around Personal data and identity control by the individual and I you know, I guess I would say because of the Myriad of different examples that you just brought up. It would be really interesting to maybe make another rule doc I don't know but Make a list of all the kinds of property rights and ownership rules and sort of what those contours are in different Jurisdictions and remains and compare them to copyright and licensing the copyright is not an absolute right So just as a root for fresher the constitution calls out the notion of fear use, right? And so There's a couple ways where I think personal data control and identity control is comparable I don't own my identity a hundred percent. I don't own the absolute rights worldwide to the name Mary Potter. There are many other Mary Potter's in the world and but I do own You know, if you if you paint the big picture of all of my personal data Aggregated together that would pretty much pinpoint me and only me There's a way where I should have more rights to that than say anybody else But just just my name or just you know, even an address people move someone else moves into my house I don't own that address. You know, it's it's pliable In other words, and so I think the notion of having a spectrum of you know Licensing In terms of absolute to Too partial is is really interesting And so it would be it would be good to compare the contours of the law Around those things and see if you know if my my assessment That copyright was a better match than property rights is still true um So that's one question that I have and then the other thing is um, you know, I I think it would be interesting to Look at a spectrum of personal data because personal data can relate back to what I'm going to write My my zip code and just the month and day of my birthday And pretty much pinpoint me about 93 of the time right in in the world And that's or in the u.s. And the western world where we have zip codes and that sort of thing Where we have a more consistent mailing system And so the problem is is that it's not just my name or my exact Person I can be derived right and so it also Um, there's also this interesting problem around, you know, what is I what is You know, what is the data that gets you to an identity and how much of that? You know, do I own my zip code? No lots of other people are in it But maybe I own my zip code plus The month and day of my birthday because it derives me Right and so it's It's complicated and so I would just I would just say, you know, we should really look into the notion of copyright as a as a better analog As the intellectual property it's a better analog. Yeah How would um for intellectual property or property um personal property Of the type that elizabeth was saying how might these legal concepts relate to You know the um the capability of having an account uh an account ownership and management where Almost think of it more as um as a functional capability that Enables certain access and authorizations things that you do with your identity as it were right and More of an analog to property rights the account is a thing even if it's a digital That's kind of a thing. It's still something We metaphorically hold Right and and so Probably apply more Figure out which pieces apply Or are in analog to which pieces of law Around these different pieces there's some sort of music in the background I feel like I'm in the id disco um You know the whoever's calling from the disco tech if you could make a huge There we go. Okay, so those are just my thoughts Michael. I you know my two cents and We've got to be a little careful Mary some of those rights that you're talking about don't belong to you so In general the right to for example enter a federal building isn't Your property even though it's a right that you may have associated with you from time to time I agree with you. I mean that what i'm suggesting is that we actually map it and figure out where Where these things apply write it down and kind of figure it out versus i'm not asserting any particular right Okay, so we're missing we're actually missing three of the most important most expensive topics Which everybody seems to leave out because they Don't want to talk about the hard problems, but the hard problems generally are proofing recovery and redress and Mary could talk about recovery with respect to skype at great length, but the point is that if you if you are you and you have some Identity and you lose access you need the way to recover that access Um, it was that that was someone named tom. I think um Tom yeah, which tom Tom jones. So tom is sorry to out you tom if you didn't want to be outed, but tom is um Works a lot with me and a couple of other folks on this call around the idesg effort to create the idef registry sorry for the massively horrible acronyms but uh But basically tom is a really deep thinker around identity and these issues and um Uh, so anyway that was his I just put it in the chat so that we Would have those I I agree. I mean proofing recovery redress. These are all super important topics Um, I would love to take a look at your document Uh, if you wouldn't mind bev also mentioned i'm wanting to Take a look. I mean you can just make us um commenters if you don't want us to edit or anything But I'd be happy to add stuff that I know about if I see something that isn't in there already Um, that would be really great. The reason we want to Or what I think it's good that we have this is more of an open dialogue right now It's precisely to get more voices, especially people familiar with the area who have been thinking about it so I just put a link in there to um to the wiki page um where There's another copy of the um of the information and it's editable and Really love it if you could add to it But just to go back to what tom was uh, hi tom What tom was saying um recover a proofing recovery and redress on the redress topic It's what that calls to mind for me is um very much when you think about legal identity for a um a person a legal person a human being Or a corporate entity in this case one of the um hallmarks is that You are a legal person when you can sue and be sued And when you can enter a contract um, you know like a A bot at this point or like a lawnmower or blender cannot enter a contract It cannot be a signatory. It's not a legal person um, you enter a contract You can enforce the contract and it can be enforced against you um, this is An indicia of redress i'd say and so it seems to me like redress in particular has a has a um A lot of connotations on from a legal dimension on what an identity is and therefore perhaps what it would mean to have um Dominion over one's own identity Good doesn't a question i'm gonna have to drop off in a few minutes, but i i want to pick up on the point about recovery because Personally, I think this is the biggest challenge In the digital realm is uh, you know, I haven't I'm unsatisfied with every sort of proposed solution that i've seen And it feels as though, you know, sort of the best one i've seen at this stage is um Some kind of, you know social recovery where you have, you know, trusted group of people who effectively vouch for your identity, but even that leaves me very very unsatisfied um I'm just wondering what thoughts are on the best proposals people have seen put forth because um, I think it's a really important point that uh Whatever whatever the model whether it's property or copyright or some other Uh model that we borrow. I think if you if you don't have an effective way to recover Your identity or one of your identities probably in the future um You know to some extent it's meaningless so I just like to crowdsource thoughts on that Can I jump dash can I jump in? Yeah, I think we've got uh, we have like a clarifying question first If you don't mind from bob craig who's in the room in boston here I'm just curious when we used to say you find the social recovery unsatisfying Can you expound on that a little bit as why? um, well So personally full disclosure my favorite show is black mirror. Um And I very much believe in the you know the imminent dark side of a lot of technology not Because it was you know intentionally designed to be a certain way, but uh because it's unforeseeable sometimes um, so just like you have you know a movement of former social media engineers now saying We didn't know what we were building and we wish we could undo it. Um, I just think that um I'm skeptical of most approaches with social recovery. I think You know things change right in relationships change.  Uh, I just uh, and you're and your identity is contextual and so I um In incentives might be an issue as well. So I I'm just uh, I guess because I haven't seen a good Sort of practical implementation. Um That's why I'm skeptical that being said again. I think it's one of the better options um, and I think there are obviously Ways to you know better and worse ways to implement that option. Uh, but that's I guess that's my clarification Great. Thanks. Thanks. Uh, and who was um, um Seeking this because it that was jim great Um, I work with mary and tom Uh, I'm chair of the user committee. We're working with mary and the IDF And I like what elizabeth shared regarding property and we get in down into the whole area of authenticated Identities and I think We need the the collective mindset of this group to put together because I really believe One's identity once authenticated is property Uh, then you can take the tentacles beyond that but it is you now you have to authenticate it We have to really expand that definition. But now that nest 600 Uh, 80 uh 863 three is in place. We we at least have a platform to explore The the context of what those authenticated Uh attributes can be That lends to this greater argument discussion that we've had here because then it does to to live elizabeth's point property Because now mary gave a broad definition to the zip code and things of that nature if I can really narrow this down And I happen to be in health care and what's really made it interesting this just earlier. I mean two months ago Uh, oh and c has now come out with the whole platform dealing with the trust exchange framework And they're focusing now on the user. You can come get your data You can view it download it and share it. You just have to prove who you are Validated now we're coming back to eight hundred sixty three three So we have some dynamics in play here that you take this brain trust online And and start harmonizing to elizabeth's kind of opening salvo that says hey, can we do something? Can we orchestrate it? I think it's dynamic. Yes, I do I really think we can empower this group I mean take it on the private sector and make it happen because then we can force the public sector government Yeah, you can't let depend on that you've got to do it in a private sector This is an opportunity Here here just my two cents Good to hear um, oh and c office of the national coordinator Um in the health care space is um is taking that on I wasn't aware of that just to extrapolate a little bit on the um recovery um when when um Tom first said it I wasn't You know, I guess I was thinking about the the remedies um more as I mentioned But on recovery now that I think about it if you if you look at least in the personal property realm And I have to think about intellectual property more and maybe do that with the mapping that mary said But in the personal property realm, there's actually a nice body of law for hundreds of years um when when someone loses personal property And someone else finds it um There's a whole set of um of factors that one could look at to To um evaluate whether the original owner or under what circumstances the original owner gets to get it back um And so we've got principles of holder and due course and and many others that some of which could make could be Or maybe, you know modern Extensions of them could be applicable to recovery of an account or recovery of a credential when it's been compromised Because that can be such a tough tough thing under dan combs used to say That um when he was dealing with identity fraud frequently the fraud artists that stolen one's identity is much more persuasive Then the person whose identity was stolen when they're trying to you know struggle to get it back So principles of holder and due course and maybe some others for lost property Which have you already been addressed over? Centuries now in common law so many permutations of the same old situation of someone stealing your stuff Or someone converting your stuff or someone coming across your stuff and not wanting to give it back when they should Could maybe be dusted off here and um, we could look to apply some for recovery Everybody's a great one I think that there's a big problem if you depend upon the legal system to get your identity back You'll probably starve to death and die before it actually is recovered the biggest problem With loss of identity is not just getting it back But then the redress of undoing all of that damage that was created in your name While your identity was gone The costs there are tremendous You can buy a million dollar property damage claim insurance now to cover that problem Hmm And that's an interesting area you see too or sort of proposals identity related insurance and other you know As you mentioned sort of disaster recovery proposals as well So I you know Mary if you want i'm happy to to start the property section and you can maybe help me with the The copyright section um and we can map those too Yeah, yeah, that sounds good I also think um, you know, there when daza when you were just bringing up the notion of you know fraud versus um, I mean in property it would be theft or But there's you know, there's the notion in property law around conversion and conversion is a really interesting one because Even if you don't know that the property is stolen if you profit from it There's a civil version of it and a criminal version and the criminal version, of course Like everything criminal has a very high bar of proving that you know You you converted it and you did stuff with it You knew you were converting it and all of that But the civil version is actually really easy to to deal with so if I don't know your neighbor cuts down your tree and sells it for 25 grand which now you know a nice beefy old growth tree can fetch um, I I know someone who did this they essentially just sued their neighbor for conversion and of their property and uh and were Handed legal fees plus $25,000 and it's it would be really interesting also in this legal page to take a look at some of those things that might be remedies against Entities that so for example, Cambridge analytics, which has just gotten nailed for Taking facebook data inappropriately. They said they deleted it. They didn't delete it What if the 50 million users if if facebook is forced to disclose to any of us who might be in that group? then You know because there was a there was a monetary value for the conversion of our data essentially the taking of it and converting of it to value in the election Um, you know sued camber generalitica in a class action lawsuit for conversion You know, that would be an interesting. Um That would be a really interesting case and it it would rely on property rights because that's what conversion is about but it's um You know It's it's sort of like they took the account data You know, I think you could make the argument there that that you know property is at play and so um You know, so doing uh doing this mapping of the current laws and seeing how they might apply To our digital data and lives would be fascinating because it might be a way to push back Um and and get some traction Uh, you know that way because i'm not sure that our lawmakers are anywhere close to understanding what the people in this room get you know Here here conversion, um trust passed to chattel There's a few yeah, we should probably Get a few in the wiki and just crop like cross-reference them and map them as you said mary Yeah, with the tree this one thing with the tree is um You know to some extent trees are almost like commodities, but a tree and a property It's an old growth tree is also so unique and you know, there's something ineffable about it That goes beyond the raw monetary value of it. Um, you know when you get into family history with the tree and the emotional attachment and just the fact that it's living um something I think it's that that's a particularly poignant um analogy to what's lost when one's identity is lost And i'm sorry just i think i interrupted you mary No, it's it's okay. What's interesting about the tree example for me is that um, is that the the conversion the civil conversion Charge that was made against the the neighbor um, the only recovery that they were able to get was the actual value of what the person Um took right whether or not they went down the street and sold the tree for 25 cents It was worth 25 000 on the open market. And so that's what you know So the question is how then you would have to look at what is You know the taking of an account in a con in a context in an in a You know divisive and contested election and the amount of money that was spent on that election per vote You might be able to make the argument that you know, two billion dollars or three billion dollars spent for you know 100 million votes You know, I don't know. I mean there's various ways that you could value this But you could or the amount of money that was spent with cambridge analytica, you know I mean it just it would be kind of fascinating to try to track the economic damages And see if that wouldn't be a way to um You know to push back for the individual Does this mean that adverse possession would apply as well If I don't reclaim if I don't reclaim something I lose it What if you don't know about it? I mean, I don't think adverse possession matters Well, no in in if it's a property, right? So let's say yes, if it's a property We had an adverse possession problem in our homeowners association Or the guy didn't know he lost the property and he didn't know it for long enough that he lost it Oh, interesting. Well that that example might be different, but I'm thinking of um The the example it's often um plays out in like a law school class is the one where The guy has a property halfway through the block and he doesn't fence it And people walk through the property every day for five years and once that you know In theory the the guy has visited his property once in the five years and can see people walking through Didn't bother to fence it and now those people claim that they have a right To pass through and so while he doesn't lose the whole property He he essentially is forced to make a public easement And I can't you know, re-fence it and so um You know that does that apply to your identity? So if you don't use it I'm just giving the property example where the individual is essentially considered to be on notice When their own property is used every day by other people So it's like if you knew your your facebook data was being used In an obvious manner that would be one thing But if you had no if it was completely opaque and you didn't know Would you would you fall into the category you're talking about tom? I don't know I mean I'd really have to think about it and look at the law and see if if there was some way to apply it there I don't know That's that's different in every single state too Yeah Does Yes This is Jim Let me Bring up a parallel discussion federated identities I want to bring us back on track because we get in federated identities. We have a distributed system Just to something that elizabeth has been doing from the sovereign side So in healthcare and part of why I bring it bring up what onc is doing because it's a distributed system on our federated side okay, so Just Well an interesting clarification I think a federated model is actually quite different from a self sovereign model I think a federated model or even a social login model or the like are still very much controlled by a third party um, I think this the self sovereign model is really The focus is really on on flipping the ownership to where you know the user owns and controls their data going back to that first independence and ownership principle or you know, again the property right model So while I agree with you, I think I think it's important to make that distinction because I think there are limits to federation I think You know, like I said, we've seen a lot of federated models that are that have created a lot of problems So just want to be clear that the the sovereign sort of implementation is different But how can you not link those things because you're going to wind up with a person who is also an md And has a dea license so you bound the real person identity to the federated identity so I think this goes to having multiple You know identities and again, not that the individual necessarily has multiple identities, but that it's contextual to the relationship so there might be relationships that you have that are part of a transactional you know part of a transactional relationship where you need more or less Data points to establish different levels of identity So, you know The identity you need to establish with your doctor might be different from they don't need to establish with your employer or your university Or you know, there might be information that's not germane to a certain relationship And so the emphasis would really be on minimizing and you know data. That's not relevant And this goes into the you know specifics of implementation, but You know, I think it's important to keep in mind that we in the future We might not have one single identity, but sort of a more contextual purpose-built version of Several different identities. Yeah, just to wind wind Wind that back a little bit. Um, there's another aspect too. I think that gets to not maybe not federation in the You know samol or open id connect sense of the word federation but um the distribution Of an identity credential that could be considered sovereign Um, would presumably also include the right to provide some control to others such as to delegate To another person whether it's an attorney or fiduciary or You know, maybe software operated by a business on your behalf I think that might be one plausible entry point where you could start to look at Possible fact patterns in the future where you've got folks that are um, maybe unknowingly and innocently Coming into possession of identity credentials or attributes of identity Using them almost like they would with the analogy of the um The easement across your property and then maybe gaining reputation You know gaining benefit from it legitimately and gaining value and I think in addition to the to the monetary questions of like, you know, who owes who how much money to me this seems like a In maybe in the mapping we could do it with mary and in others would be equitable remedies when we start looking at other ways to Other other ways to um separate. Um, you know, like the the um expectations of parties in a in a fair and creative way that um That can extend beyond A monetary settlement, but maybe you could go to some sort of Application of portability or taking some of the attributes out and applying them to a different account Something like that, but I guess I just want to say Looking at equitable remedies in addition to monetary remedies. Maybe as part of the mapping we should do Um dad's I think that brought up a really interesting and important point in the chat um on the difference between identification and authentication identification being Uh an individual trying to make a claim about their identity or identify themselves and then a third party authenticating that claim And I I don't want to I've brought it up So I'll let her speak to it But um, I just think that also is really interesting in the context of what you just said because the remedies might depend on Sort of which aspect of of identity we're talking about Here here Um question if we were to um if we were to do a mapping Um, oh I've got the two-minute warning here. Um, but if we were to do a mapping, um, how could one structure mapping to Different areas of law and different facets of identity like what would be the things we should map and and how could we do it? Um, so with the property model, I was going to start with you know, bundle of rights and then maybe sort of kinds of infringements and then remedies Um, and then you know, I don't know if that's going to mirror one-to-one with other models, but um And I don't know that they you know, they all have to have a one-to-one relationship But that that was sort of my proposal And then um, maybe I'm layering on intellectual property hope mary Yeah, I was going to say, um, you know, I if if nothing else just literally starting from a list of laws and quoting The you know the code maybe in I don't know I mean this might be better in a wiki or something but or in in github with sub Subpages for the actual quote, but being able to tie together the general concepts and build the You know what you're trying to do is say well, where are the limits of these these laws that Existed prior to anything digital and then how would we apply them? You know, how would they be applied to the to a digital context? Let's say um And You know, I think it would probably be the sort of thing that you know If a working group got together and I would love to join a group like that Because this is actually I've been wanting to do the copyright side of this for a long time um Literally from 20 years ago. I think I wrote my first blog post on You know how I wanted to copyright my click stream and what was the law around it and how would I do it? But uh It would be really interesting to we I think we would have to figure it out as we went along I think we I think we catalogued everything first and um figured out a structure so that we could refer back to the original text and of course to tom's point It's like yeah, there's 50 different states that you know deal with some of this but um It would be very interesting. I mean, it would be a fascinating contribution to kind of the public discussion around these issues Because this does come up periodically and it has come up regularly for me in the past 20 years around this, you know from All different angles and in all different kinds of groups. There's certainly been sessions at w3c um conferences that have to do with do not track and and personal rights user submitted rights or user submitted terms and you know, it has to do with um Uh, you know all these issues that we deal with around identity and personal data control and whether you're you're starting with An identified person or they own an account Or you're deriving You know data, I mean just it's I would imagine doing it in a really big way and doing it in a way that You know was was meant to Just document and kind of lay out And maybe at the end there's a paper in it, you know asserting You know a law review article something I mean, so maybe we at the end we go get some lawyer like spat david and he said all right Let's write a law review article, you know, and where's the right publication for this? Does it go in the property rights journal? Does it go in the copyright journal? Maybe there's two? I don't know But it would be fascinating to I think it would be a fascinating project and well worth the time because Because ultimately um, and there have been people who I don't there's a few people There's a guy a lawyer in dc who the customer commons group talks to periodically and we talk about You know ways that we could go after abusers of personal data and identity There's you know In new york that we've talked with who are sort of more on the media side Um, but you know this is a topic that comes up and I don't think anybody's done this And and I think it would be a huge it would be a huge way to move this whole discussion forward um to do the work and get the paper out there and You know make it citable. I mean, that's how you change law you make law review articles that get cited in court cases You know I'm in Well, we have we have a wiki. Uh, anyway to as one place we can start to um Peck away at things and uh, you know, we made the github repository Um specifically to have a place to get started. So we're welcome to use that and are you going to be at iiw mary? this uh You know, I don't know i'm supposed to go to the no identity conference in dc Which is right before and it turns out that the iw thing is like literally the day after Easter and Passover and everything else and so there's a sort of a lot of people traveling around and trying to you know Manage our schedules and and interface with all the people who are going on spring break. So I I haven't totally decided because of that complication Well, um, so something to think about maybe Maybe like a little side sidebar at no identity iiw or one of the one of the next likely candidates Among the identity a hum coming up or we can um, we can keep I'm talking about this and um Well one one concept that we had had um when elizabeth and I were chatting we um circling around a little bit to um bob craig and to drummond and some others um christian here was um to maybe convene people that are interested in in the topic um, which we can convene at mit Just because I can book the room in the media lab, but we can also we Absolutely convene around this in particular But it might be more realistic to look at things that are happening where enough people interested in the topic Are already going to be and maybe get some people together in person and in the meantime You know github is as always our friend and um And I would like to invite and encourage everybody that's um participating now and everyone that sees the youtube later um to um to Share your thoughts and to help expand on this and deepen it because It does seem like it's timely and um, it's important. So so let's keep let's keep pecking at it Okay, sounds good Okay, well um elizabeth um is going to um teach people now. So she had to sorry jump off. Um, uh pretty much Before in this moment, but I guess um as the um Remaining facilitator um I'll gavel it closed. I want to thank everybody for participating and um and we'll do a report out In the boston mit node for the computational law and blockchain festival Um and and share our notes and um and look forward to collaborating with you all on this going forward So thanks for thanks for joining Bye


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I ja, da je tko, tako da se je ovo smojilo, da je to izgledaj o vlasti, da ćeš pojaviti počinati, da se je od dva ovrčina, da se je najbolj ovo hrabno. Zatak je, da je odtakno, ali je tebe, načinat o kratu načinat, učinaj, načinaj u vlasti. To je nekje bilo, da se je zašto vratio. Ravno je kako bilo učiniti. Slepo je, da idu da m ─ Užite sam, da sam svoja nema. Tanbo-San u Superchat, director Godzilla možete spremati o Oppenheimer. To nije Openheimer, svoja nema kada se openheimera, ali imam spodljeno u japoniji prospektiv. To je gleda. Uživa se. Svićeš šan's videu na dologu od atomika bomba. Što se učinila u moralitiju i etika. Mmm, ok. Zatim, da je postatio videu o Palestinu. Zatim, da je to postatio. To je izgleda. Zatim, da je učinila. Zatim, da je nekoj Samson. Zatim, da je debatija klikba. Zatim, da je to postatio. Zatim, da je to postatio. Zatim, da je to postatio.  Da, egre, zašto se se wažno, nova je dobro. Ja, tako. Kaj je to? Mislim da je to za ti, Matt. O, da je to za mi. 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Učijem s kako je gled ru. elections okay I just I just really enjoy playing fortnight and playing with him we got we got we got the battle pass we got a level up to get unlock all the skins and everything, it's a whole it's a whole thing it's a whole process. What about you Lance, what are you playing?  Daj više ti je dobro gvoreni. Toto je to s Shingo, ja imam se da je to što je. Tato je Samurai. Da je to što je dobro gbore! Ti je cijel. Kako odvijel javlok! Usevo mi glasba. Kako pogledaame ljubi sva mašlina vashecima i ovdje samaraima svih ljubićih filmu. Imeš, da sam se je izb vertično, da te sad, da treba so dobro gbore. Ovio, da se da da imate van forestu. Ja sam klario. Ovo je to što je dobra. i to je učinati, da je to je bilo dobro učinati. I da se je zašto, da je to poštiti. O, a znači, smo ješti sve kondemom HOMAS. To je začinat.  Da, je to gleda, da je učinati s njom sve. To je bilo učinati. O, ne. Učišam, da ne je Amerikana. Učišam, da Waffle House je to nekako. Znači, da je to veliko. Daniji, da ja daniji, da je i Canada, ali je to veliko. To ne kako se učišla, kako se učišla. Ne, ne. Ne. Ne, ne, ne. Da, ne. Da, ne. Učišla, da ne. Da, da, da, da. Učišla, da ne. Ono je u Portlandu. Znamo, da je bilo dobro. Waffle House nije mnog. O, to je. O, ne, ne, ne. To je Waffle Window. O, Waffle Window. No, nije njihovo. Hvala. No, nije Waffles. O, OK. Denny je dobro da je 3M. Hvala da. Da. Da, ja, mene mene, nije mene koji se, kako smo, uvrste, nekada je te, 3M, Denny Trips. Uvrste. Hvala. Kako se, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, da je, od njih mećom koji smo pizoba, nu je kako se vrti kašljicom, ja idem hodnju. Što se oprvodite, da ste smutni i našli, a dole mo Lightsaber je to kako s njemnoj u rupinu. Onda se kaj ne pizoba, da se jel u rupinu. Bekaj neo, u rupinu je to vrpa, da prvih dotsima u ovaj smal nještri format iz njimladnih učinima, a je što nešto, quasi unosnih do ljubima u svih filmu, tako na učina. Ne, nisuš je učinj. Ako ćeš li posti, ne, ne vidiš kao komentar za sve. Jer je to učinj i malo za tvoje. To je neko Natsice svojte, da je to sve. Kako je neko Natsice. Znači, znači. On je za mnogo. To je za mnogo Natsice. To je neko Natsice. Ovo je Pussijan bio-bots. To je za mnogo Natsice. Učinj. Vom vriha, imam da se bati na YouTube, da je to je bio u glavnom brodu na bikini. A po te da se povijete na koment, da je to je imakulina, a imam da znaš, da imaš komplementacija na naprej. Znaš da je bilo stavno, da imam na YouTube, ali to su na vidli na Twitteru, je to izglednje. Že se sve tako gleda. Tako, da, nije vrlo, da se komponiraju kako je svih nekakog ali nekakog ali nekakog. Kako se pobavljajte. Tako, da ne već, da se ne već. Da, da se ti sve ti možete, kodi Shodi o Kati je. Da, da, da sam sam. Da, da sam sam. To je štošina, to ješta. Ja. To je na sredanju Twittera, a to je mučula, ali, da, da, da, da. To je na sredanju Twittera. Stajte me, u Mat. Kratvolo, halvo dola s Superchatom, Lanz i sveči. O, kao, skoći. Uvijek da ja sam ljubez, imam se nije ljubez, nekog brva. Smutno sveči? Babi, sveči, Babi, sveči. Znači, kod je me na Fidis. Kako? Evo je za dovolj. Znači, Fidis, bila, bila, bila, staklji mi. Me odzijemiš li još, koji je ne evo poslije? da najverno se k Tatima ljudi da kriši? To je tada nemačno şey. Teh Slovina, nemačno, nemačno, nemačno. Ano, nemačno. To sam uz снимaj da seo uzijeme. Proto, što se mi stavila. R radiji. To je znamo. Proto, što se mi... Kvoske je mi za kajko kart. Koliko, dobro, Kvoske. Ne vidim da ne za nekih repubikani, 100% znači u tega. Znači, to je bilo. Da. Uživljeni. Da, da. Epiphonij 603 s 10 dolarom. Emo portrait alive. Uživajte it nao. Uživajte it nao. Uživajte it nao. Svom kompanii početili, uživajte imače. Uživajte i videa učinima u koji je stajljeko znači se očinim i nao znači se u učinima videa. Uživajte i to sve. Uživajte, je sve, učinima je začinima. Uživajte, je to učinima. Uživajte. Uživajte. Uživajte. Uživajte. Uživajte je znači. Baltazar 228, dobro 10 dolar, svoju dupo. Zatim je bitan svoju bide, da je Trump vrati na bordiru, i se pijelio ještje, da se je dobro vrsta. Ovo to se pracili, Baltazar, a u veselom izgleda samo konflug, odmog se vrsta se trgnu, je to veliko frustrata. Zagračo se je genučno, da se to da se rada, Kako je se učinila, da je to nije. To mi je za njih. A ne idem da možem to pošliditi. Zato... Nemam da, je to sanativ. A kaj, je pošliditi. Znači, Ignar Husky, s $5. Prakvo, Ignar. Znači, to samo njih da je Demz. Isi mi to, je libere. Da sam bilo u Phil Oks. Znači, gelo biosera. Slash možo njiča, collab version. To su da je peko. Znači, da se to dobro. Niske, da sam se dobro. , maš urodini ste budi bilo zaći nastane. Nivog nebi mu dobro da sam urodini. Bejce možete ne kajši urodini, ali genesla Apologija je, da je to ljevo. Svoj Balthazar na otroji superchat 5 dollar. Možete mi povijemi.  Ovo je, da sam ili načinatka u svom trajima, Festa, da je to taj, da se nekako ne svalaš, a se pogledaš. I sam ćeš se kako se stavila. Sve sam nas to svuko, tako da je to. Da, da je to? Da, da je to? Da, da je to. Da, da je to, da je to. Da ste je nisakatske, da je to? Da, da je to. Da je to. Da je to. Završaju to ljudi svoj nemanjih njim, da je ljudi, i je nešto očinio ljudi, neka je dobro. Kaj je bilo, da je tamo danžinje u svom svom veliku? Kaj nema su danžini, nemožemo da se opričavati, se nemao samom sve gleda. Što je je? Nema, su se brojni. Što je, da sami bi se sve gleda i kako se sve, ali se sveši sve. Nisu, da nisam. Završaju, da sam da se sveši, da sam sam sveši, da sam se sveši i kako se sveši. I lišam ještje, ali nisam nekaj nekako se nešto se nekošla. Nisam nekako se nekuje staciju, da je sam biti njiči, da sam ga se sve pijek svijetu, i nekaj FF7. O, uvijek! Kako je pijek svijetu? To je mnoj prvi pijek. To je skvijet na koncelu. To je pijek svijetu? Da, pijek svijetu, pijek svijetu. Da, da. To je se nekošla pijeka, ali sam se našlo, da je se njiči. Hvala. To je već malo. Spice za vidje. Ja, ti možete svoje muzice videi uvijediti. Danes, ti možete uvijediti uvijediti u spice. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. To je već malo. Hvala. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. Uvijediti. 5 dolar, dobro, da je koneadijan jedan, je nekaj Putin kontekst, nekaj Putin kontekst. Znači, nije 100% nekaj, da se možete svoj, ali nekaj koneadijan jedan, nekaj Putin, i Putin je bilo. Znači, da je nekaj populijan u United States. To je već sad. Još je to gleda, je, da se nekaj evočnog mnog nječa potrebna combinača sve očina, kako učinje, friši i očini, kao kao... Svom nekaj, je očin... Svom nekaj, nekaj imaš pretetiti, je to nekaj učin. Ja ne znam da je nekaj počin, da je pravda... Učin učin. Učin ti je, učin ti je, u Ura, je ok, ja imam vidjetiju očini, ja jer sam učini. Učin je tjera, nekaj kako je učin, da je učin i učin. Da, da, da, da, da. To je, da je uklavno, možete se prošla. OK, da je mi je? OK, to je ljedevac. Prvom, antikorpodist je svoj mem, da je antikorpodist, možete sve skupiti. O, da vam se, da vam se... O, da vam se... Ovo je, da vam se antikorpodist. I onda se dobro... OK, ovo je. Baltizar, u 10 dolaru superchatu, da vam se. I'm amazed no men's personal grooming companies have offered sponsorships for Matt's beard care. You have amazed too, I would accept it please. Men's grooming companies please, please come and... Just beard though, I won't accept any other hair care products. My hair is perfect as is. Hahaha Um, Balthasar was another Super Chat humpback mountain? Hahaha Ah, this one is for me. Uh, Azra, $2. Thank you, those girls got some blue balls. Hahaha Uhh Kovalici of the Super Chat, we need AI Angel Bo Biden commercials. Vom nagranju se možemo teža, exhibitam nječi, se sve, a ovo je ovo na jazebo. Sini kako je, u sve se bitesi u svijetu svoj, svoj se malo svačit i bude bolj Biden, i bude potočat da sami svoj sandobje, i svijet za Biden, To, ne, ne, da tvoj izvijeli to i Matu, da te svoj konvenciju. Joe Biden da učeli. Ja. I comentariši nađutipi za toga. Očalno je. A učalno je, da se nije, da vrvi, a i njiša a Angel Bohab... ...o bide, da, a Joe Biden. Mamo, to, to je, to je, da je, to je pomečio, da ja ga opetim u njejom i svoj dobro. Znašงлјејењо симох сегајщо. Ек соросију. Јају љисског да прајше. Јаљу љисског да прајше. Екснај є funny. Pogledajte se na 7 mene. Dajte, narrator. General Strike 2028. I ovdje trebuje da je komponirati na našom konversaciju. Pogledajte elektorliju. Pogledajte balet. Pogledajte 2028. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Deaf. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte koša je u moj tvoj 20-jih. Dakle I'm completely fine. Ja. Ako je 499, je to možite u mojljce močij, možite u mojljce možitske uamapir. Koša je. To se večoразio. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Pogledajte. Ono je multifacet. Zatim. Pravio. Kowalski $2. Na snapchat i mapu vidiš ljudi na Gauze. Ja, učinu vidiš to. Učinu vidiš svoj svoj. Učinu vidiš ljudi na Instagram. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi. Učinu vidiš ljudi naasu. Thanks1 Bad news. The 90s X-Men cartoon best intro song ever has gone hopeful. The character morp is now non binary and the 1 c powder is in his basement crying i think we talked about this last week. Didn't we? Yes, there is a character that can change sexes Morp is not funny thing. Morf is a character pretty much made for the series, because they wanted to kill off an X-men early on. He dies on the pilot, then he comes back, I think in season 5. He comes back later, yeah.  And they decided they didn't want to kill off any established character, so they created one. I mean, he's a character who can literally transform into anybody, who used to say he wasn't non-binary to begin with, I mean. Yeah, I feel like he's a default of somebody that has that ability. Right, he could have been just presenting as a male the entire time, because he was morphed as a male, like that was his transformed status. And in this one, we're seeing him as he is default. They, I think it's going to be them. They, I'm sorry, they are right. But I was going to say that that corner that they painted themselves into, I'm talking about the transphobes, they're basically affirming that your penis does not make you the man. Morf could literally change all of his body parts. He can grow breasts, female breasts, that could lactate. He can grow penis. He just can change his, he's a literal shape shifter.  But it's like, okay, so to you, it doesn't matter if he's a man, a woman, it's a heat to you. Checkmate, that's all I'm going to say. They keep checkmating themselves, don't they?  It's a cartoon, it's a cartoon.   But it's not even for kids, though. The X-Men animated series was pretty legit. Like it wasn't like, yeah, it's not like, it's not like an adult oriented anime. I watched it as a teenager. I loved it as a teenager. I was obsessed with it as a teenager. I watched it in my, what? Probably 10 or 11 or something like that? Maybe a little bit earlier, but it's not. That's probably about the same age when I watched it. I don't remember much of it, though.  It has adult threads. But it's not for adults only. It's vague enough it could be for kids. Did they put the older seasons on Disney Plus 2? I would think, right? No, because that would be cool. Because I don't remember anything about the series. I used to like it as a kid, but I just don't remember the plot or anything. It'd be cool to re-watch that. Yeah. I have to sign off. I just realized it's almost 90 years. So I gotta take T-Cloud. He's probably waiting for me. Take care. I love you both. I'll see you on the play. Yeah, happy leap day. Happy leap day. All right, leap day. We didn't mention that at all, did we? I know. He just left. We only get to do this once every four years. Yeah, it's my daughter's birthday. That's how I remembered. It's your dog's birthday? My daughter. Yeah, my dog daughter. Yeah, it's her birthday. Oh, I thought you said daughter, but I was like, I must have misheard. You must have said that. My dog daughter. Dog daughter, oh. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Really, they were born on leap day? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's crazy. How do dog years work on leap day? See, that's something that we're still figuring out. Is she one or is she four? Right. All right. All right. We're almost there. That's not for me. No, is this for me? I think this might be for David Dahl. Let's read it. Let's read it. Mike Thompson, Waffle House is horrible, but in a good way. Oh, and this one, let me see. I keep losing my place because it keeps jumping as I scroll back up to the top. But this one's for me. It was for Lance, but he just bounced. Creflo, half dollar with five dollars. We do not say joizy, shame on you Lance, we might say kuafi and water or water, but nobody says joizy. I think that's probably true. I don't think I've heard joizy. I have heard kuafi. Okay. Next one. Oh, this one is for me. Okay. So Jake has five dollars. Thank you. Recently started playing cyberpunk 2777 per LM recommendation. Now I can stop designing dicks. That's an interesting part of the character creator. Samen Baldur's Gate also. Creflo, half dollar with another super chat. Thank you so much. You've been so generous. Five dollars. Hate will definitely age you. Rabbi Schmulea is only 26. Oh my God. There is something to the hate aging you, though, for sure. Right. I can't stop designing dicks. I can't stop designing dicks. There is something to the hate aging you, though, for sure. Right. I really believe that. No, it definitely, I think it definitely does. Yeah. Okay. I mean, stress of any type will age you. Yeah. And what's more stressful than constantly feeling hatred and projecting that. Right. Right. That's a great point. We've got a couple in a row for you now. Lumpin Lodge with a super chat. Lance, I messaged you on the website. Missed Lance. I'm sorry. Corey Easterday with a $50 super chat. Oh my goodness. Corey, thank you so much. I appreciate it. I had a county judge remove my first amendment rights. He ordered, you can't talk about religion. It's unprecedented. Been trying to get on any show to discuss. Coff, Matt Coff. What? Corey, have you reached out to me? I'm really, first of all, Twitter DMs is a mess at this point. I received so much garbage mixed in with actual people trying to contact me that I cannot. And there's no way to really, like, sort of organize them. And so it's very stressful. It's very hard to figure out. And then email. I was extremely behind. So reach out to me again, send me all the details, information, any news stories. This is, tell me about what's going on. I need to know what's happening. Is it covered anywhere? Is there any legal, at least legal case, work up online somewhere I could read? Yeah. Interesting. What's going on? Why is this happening? OK. Got another one for you. For rest of the super chat, Facebook changed the rules.  What? No, they did not change the rules. They definitely did not. They definitely do not allow that stuff. Yeah. Mr. Rabbit, with $10. Thank you so much. Happy leap day, guys. There you go. Mr. Rabbit mentioned it, if we didn't. If you haven't, give Apple TV plus'seference show a shot. It's one of the best work thriller shows I've seen and thankfully it's getting a second season. Also a free Palestine. Yeah, here, here. I love seference. That is an amazing show. I agree with you. I watched it in 2022, basically binged it. And I have been dying for the second season to come out. Have you seen it, Matt? No, I have not seen that yet. Highly recommend it. It's basically a dystopian workplace thriller. Lots of mystery, really, really creative, really good. I love mysteries and thrillers. So my favorite genre of that in horror. My favorite genre of movie. Oh, yeah, you're gonna like this then. Lots of little Easter eggs, too, of like, not necessarily Easter eggs, but like clues. Just kind of like about the environment. Like, not to spoil it, but like, you know, when they're typing on the computer, there's no escape button. And if you notice that, it's like, oh, wait, they can't really, I don't want to get too much into it, but like it's very, very good. They are able to... Is it still on or has it been completed? Is it finished? No, no, no. There's only one season. And it's, yeah, so it's still going. It has the guy from Parks and Rec, Leslie Knopes' husband. I don't know the actor's name. Oh, I know you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, very good, though. Very... Just, you gotta check it out. It's amazing. Very dystopian, but good. It's what capitalism would do if they had the technology to do that. Okay, Baltazar, 228 with $20. Thank you so much. That's so kind. You sent so many super chats. I really appreciate that. Chrono Trigger is definitely worth playing. It's usually less than $15. It's only 15 hours long, but it has 13 different endings. Wow. It's also the first major game with New Game Plus, letting you replay and keep all your progress. You know, I've heard a lot of good things about Chrono Trigger. And the fact that it's only 15 hours long does make it enticing. So at some point I do want to check it out. Just my backlog is already pretty big. But yeah, if I could see it on steam and it's half off or something, I might have to check it out. Ignar Husky with $5. Oaks was a civil rights folk artist during the 60s, and unfortunately, unalived himself due to MLK dying and factionalized of the left at the time. Okay, well thank you for sharing about that. That's good to know. We also have this one here. The London Lodge with $2. Thank you so much. Tulsi Gabbertoli, Trump's VP, I'm calling it. I saw that she's hosting a fundraiser for him and she was also one of the people that was on the Fox News poll during his talent hall and he's like, oh yeah, yep. He kind of confirmed all of them. By the way, so this was like a little prophecy that I had. If you watched my War on Christmas 2022 video, maybe 2021 video, I pretend like Mike from the future and I talk about what happened after Trump Gabbert won the White House. I have like a fake CNN banner. So I'm hoping that that does not actually come to fruition. I wouldn't speak that into the universe, but yeah. Not for me. I think it might be for either, oh no, it's probably for David. Let me read that though. Lizzie Bennett with $5. Thank you so much. Final Fantasy VII was a game versus Gateway to Progressivism. Think about it, your party is avalanche and eco-terrorist group fighting Omega Corporation. Yeah, that makes sense. I could see that and I could see why, so it resonated with so many people, especially at the time. Like I went back and I watched a lot of footage from the old game and for coming out in the 90s, it looks pretty good. I have foam, I wish I was in on the hype, but I'm certainly catching up on it now. Okay, we got two left. One for you and for me. This one's yours. Here we go. Tokio Hans just celebrated my 40th on Wednesday. Please enjoy a part of my birthday money. Happy birthday, Tokio Hans. 40 is a big one. 40 is a big one.  No, I'm joking. 50 is not so bad anymore, I think. Still too young to be president. You've got 30 more years to go, bud. Before you can actually win, you've got to be in your 70s nowadays to be considered. 40 is a great number. Congratulations on the birthday. Not congratulations, I guess congratulations. That seems to be... No, that works. But happy birthday. Here's to 40 more, at least. Yeah. Balthazar 228, $5. Thank you, Balthazar. Rip my bad Canadian food pun. What books are on your bookshelf in the background, Mike? Any chance you'd post a pic in focus on Twitter? Yeah, of course. I can go through them really quick. There is the RVJK, FDR in Democracy. There's the Understanding Marks by Richard Wolf. I always recommend this to people who are interested in learning about Marks, but don't want to read the book that's like this thick. It's a good starter. And then there's a second book that I recommend that is... It was given to me in college or recommended to me in college. And that one's like the next one. So you don't have to read the full book. We've got Commandant by Rory Carroll. It's about Hugo Chavez. Love this book. Very interesting. Okay, I'm not going to take them out. But we have a couple of political science books about political parties. This is the Bible for people if you're curious about electoral reform. It's called The Politics of Electoral Systems. I've got Medicare for All, the deficit myth, and the Bernie Brooks. Yeah, so I'll post a picture, though. Wow, the whole library right there. That's all my books. No, no. Oh, and also, of course, we've got Michael Brooks. All right, against the web. Yes, very good book. Well, is there anything left on Twitch? Oh, I've got some Twitch. Just a few, yep. Okay. Valenova gave out 10 community gift subs and cheered 100 bits. Did you see 100 bits? Did you see Sam talk to A.I. Dave Rubin? He really seemed to love it. I saw that. Was it good? It was really good, yeah. I have to watch. Yeah, that's what A.I. is good for, like comedy bits and stuff like that. Absolutely. Fun little internet meme stuff. Took Johan's re-subscribe for one month and subscribe for 20 months. Oops, forgot to re-sub. Said Tokyo Hans. Thanks a lot, Tokio. Appreciate the support all the time everywhere. Valenova cheered 500 bits. New Amenhawk 3D video up. Did you guys see it? No, I haven't. Oh, I'll have to check it out. I watched all of his videos, so I will watch that for sure. He's the one who does the animations, right? Like the 3D animations. Yeah, he did the big Sam Cedar, Steven Crowder one. That was really good. H3. I'll have to check that out. They're always very good. Well, do you want to... So I saw actual Jake earlier in the chat. I didn't want to highlight it when we were talking about serious stuff, but do you want to rate him on Twitch? He's streaming right now. Who, who? I'm sorry. Actual Jake. Let me pull it up. Give me one second.  Hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, we've got two more super chats. Oh, we've got super chats? Let's see, real quick. Not me, all you. So we have Annie Fitzgerald with $5. Thank you, Annie. I emailed you, Mike. I was hoping to talk to you about my Washington 38 House campaign. I'd be first disabled, elected official if I win. Well, I'll check your email. I haven't been doing any candidate interviews this cycle, because it takes a lot of time for me to do interviews. They take forever to export and whatnot, so I'm not necessarily sure that I'm down to do interviews again, just because I think that it's not, it's too much effort. Just do it live. Just do it live stream. You don't gotta worry about any of that. It's live. Just do it. Yeah, and also part of the thing that I don't like about interviews is it kind of got people to think that you can run a successful campaign. Not saying this about you, Annie. While not really getting to know your district, you've just got to get on a couple of podcasts, and I think that getting back to the grassroots probably is is the most important thing. So, but yeah, I'll help to boost your campaign if I can at least on Twitter, Annie. And then we've got a gifted sub of Morbius Dragon. Thank you so much. Okay, are you all ready to raid, Jake? I'm gonna press start raid right now. Are you going to? Yep. I hit start raid. Let that fill up. All right, everybody, it was an absolute pleasure. I wanted to thank everyone too for all the super chats. It was, you know, December, January and February have been very slow. Oh, look, it just hit midnight here. It's March 1st. And this was like a big super chat day.  Yeah, this was a really big day, actually. Yeah, it was back to how it was when we first started when we were getting tons of super chats. One last super chat came in really quick from Creplo half dollar. Sorry for the last minute question, but where has AOC been? I haven't heard much from her about the Israeli occupation. She has made a couple of tweets that are good about this. I would like her to be better on the issue, but thankfully we do have folks like Rashida Tlaib who really speak out constantly, which is really valuable. But that's all we have, folks. I'm gonna hit raid. Are you ready? I'm gonna hit raid, too. Ready? Here we go. Peace, everyone. Have a great week. We'll see you next week, folks.


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا شفيعنا وقائدنا ومقررتي عيننا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتوح العارفين اللهم معلمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا الله today's session will focus on the fifth outer action that draws us closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and gets us more prepared for the day when we will leave this dunya to meet Allah سبحانه و تعالى this outer action is reciting the holy Quran the Quran is the words of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and it is divided into 140 chapters and each chapter each surah consists of individual verses so these chapters vary in length some surahs consist of a few lines while other surahs run for many pages and each 20 pages of the Quran is called a jizah so some surahs consist of more than one jizah for example surah al-Baqarah is about two and a half jizah while surah al-kawthar is one line and a few words سبحان الله reciting the Quran is an honorable act you are reading the words of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and it is an honor it is a blessing that Allah سبحانه و تعالى gives a chance to his servants to talk to him using his words so when you want to talk to Allah the best way is to read his words which are revealed to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم through جبريل عليه السلام and we all know that the Quran is a complete program it's a complete school, it's a complete system for our lives so when we go to school we learn and when we read the Quran we learn we learn the teachings, we learn the rules we learn what's prohibited we learn what's permissible we learn what we can do, what we cannot do what is righteousness, what is faithfulness we know everything through the words of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and whenever we read the Quran and we pass by the ayah that starts by then we have to pay close attention to what's after these words why? because what's after these words these words are all those who believe so Allah سبحانه و تعالى is calling those who believe in him and what's he gonna tell them he's going to give them an order or to prohibit something that they cannot do يا أيها الذين آمنوا أقيموا الصلاة أو you who believe perform your prayers so of course the Quran is filled up with these examples so the Quran provides insights into almost all aspects of our lives and Quran always brings the reciter the one who reads the Quran closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and there is no book more significant than the Holy Quran in a Muslim's life because this is the book of Allah that includes his words it includes messages it includes it includes a whole program that when someone follows then he will be on the straight path and the straight path will lead us to the high heavens so Allah سبحانه و تعالى has revealed the Quran to see the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم over 1400 years ago and there are millions of copies of the Quran circulating in the world and these copies are all identical there is no change in a single letter no mistake in any single word and الله سبحانه و تعالى says in the Quran that he himself will guard this book and in Surah Al-Hijr ayah number 10 الله سبحانه و تعالى says surely it's we who have revealed the Quran and surely it's we who are its guardians so إنا نحن نزلنا ذكر و إنا له لحافظون this is these are the words of Allah سبحانه و تعالى this is the book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى that will be saved till the day after not a single alteration not a single addition not a single deletion nothing will happen to this book and do you know how or why how this will happen it's not only the Prince all over the world since the time of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم till today and till that day after there are people who are blessed with the ability to memorize the whole Quran so the Quran is protected in the hearts of people so whoever recites to someone who is a hafiz then he will immediately figure out any single small mistake with the recitation of course when he revealed the Quran to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that happened over years and every year جبريل عليه السلام used to review the Quran with Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم once every year Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم something that happened during the last year of his life and he said إن جبريل كان يعارضني القرآن كل سنة مرة وإنه عارضني العام مرتين ولا أراه إلا حضر أجني every year جبريل used to revise the Quran with me once only but this year he has done so twice and I think this pretends my death and there are two ayahs two surahs no one of them is an ayah the other one is a surah that when they were revealed Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم cried cried the ayah is اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الإسلام دينا today I have perfected your religion and and and so when Sayyidina Abu Bakr heard this ayah and he cried the other ayah that made him cry the other surah was so the first one was an ayah one verse the other one was a whole surah which was surah اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم محمد صورة الفتح إذا جاء نصر الله والفتح ورأيت الناس يدخلون في دين الله فسبح بحمد ربك وستوفر إنه كان تبوابة so in this surah إذا جاء نصر الله والفتح Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم knew that this is سورة النصر الله says when when the victory of Allah has come and the conquest نصر الله والفتح the victory and the conquest of Makkah ورأيت الناس يدخلون في دين الله أفواجه and you see the people entering into the religion of Allah in multitudes in groups فسبح بحمد ربك وستغفر then exalt Allah with praising exalt with praising الله سبحانه وتعالى and ask forgiveness of him إنه كان تبوابة indeed he is ever accepting of repentance so when this surah was revealed Sayyidina Abu Bakr cried because he understood that this is the announcement of the death of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that the death of Sayyidina Muhammad is close and it's near one of the miracles of the Quran is that reading it again and again never boards the reader reading a book any book more than a few times no matter how much you love it will make you get bored of it finally you memorized it so why would you read it again except reading the Quran the more you read it the more you feel you want to read the more every single time you read a khatm you start a new khatm so the heart gets connected to the Quran and when the heart when Allah سبحانه وتعالى finds that looks at your heart and finds his book in your heart and finds the love of the one whom his book was revealed to in your heart the love of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم then he will be happy with this heart and you will ask how can we raise our children how can we make our children hafiz you start with young age they are still young enroll them in schools for memorizing the Quran get them prepared to be of those whom Allah سبحانه وتعالى love them love their heart because it's filled with the light of the Noor of the Holy Quran if we ask ourselves okay what are the benefits of reciting the Quran daily why should we recite Quran before answering this important question I will emphasize that if you want your heart to be connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى get your heart connected to the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى get your heart connected to the to the words of Allah so why what are the benefits of reciting the Quran first of all the heart must be firmly firmly attached firmly in love firmly secured with the Book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when the heart is then the body and the speech and your words will do the same when your heart is applying is working on the ayahs of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then you feel that you're reading about being faithful you cannot not to be faithful you are reading about being righteous you feel that you have to be righteous you're reading about Allah سبحانه وتعالى is over watching over you watching you then you want Allah to see you on worship state you don't want Allah to see you in disobedience state no so the Quran the chapters of the Quran will protect you when you memorize the Quran then the Quran is the one who protects you and when you read the Quran what will you find you'll find stories of the Prophet stories of the messengers stories of the previous nations and why are these stories mentioned it's not just a book of stories but it's mentioned so that we conclude the wisdom behind each and every story that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has put in the Quran so when you will get closer to Allah when you read his words and you calm yourself you calm your soul if if you are in any problem by reciting the Quran so you feel the powerful and the exceptional impact of the verses of the Quran especially when you understand the meanings behind each verse so when you read the Quran you read the the explanation of the ayat why these ayats were revealed what's the wisdom so what is the lesson behind these ayats so when you understand then when you recite the Quran you feel the Quran brings tranquility it has a special outstanding impact on the heart and on the soul it gives the reciter peace it gives him comfort whenever he had any problem he would start praying and when you pray the Quran so the Quran gives you comfort why because it nurtures the heart it nurtures the soul it eliminates anxiety when you read it and you understand it there will be no doubts you will feel that it's a complete system it will guide you to the right path to enlighten your heart and الله سبحانه وتعالى said in Surat Al-Rahad in ayat 13 surely the remembrance of Allah do hearts find comfort in the remembrance of Allah so this is Surat Al-Rahad and this is ayat 13 when Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed these words Allah understands Allah gives people tranquility remembering Allah سبحانه وتعالى will put ease in your heart and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say in one of the narrations مجتمع قوم في بيت من بيوت الله يتدارسون القرآن إلا مجتمع قوم في بيت من بيوت الله يتلون كتاب الله يتدارسونه بينهم إلا نزلت عليه مسكينة وغشيتهم الرحمة وحفتهم الملائكة وذكرهم الله في من عنده سبحان الله what an amazing حديث so الله no people gather for people that assemble in the house of Allah سبحانه وتعالى or in a group to recite the book of Allah to learn it and teach it to understand it except tranquility descends upon them and mercy involves them وغشيتهم الرحمة وحفتهم الملائكة the angels will surround them وذكرهم الله في من عنده and Allah will mention them among those who are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى so what الله سبحانه وتعالى will remember them with a group who are better than those who are together these are the angels and there will be a reward for reciting the Quran so reciting the Quran will make you gain more rewards that increase your scale in the hereafter سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said لا فله به حسنة والحسنة بعشر أمثالها so whoever recites a letter of the book of Allah will be credited with a good deed and a good deed is multiplied into 10 لا أقول أليف لا ميم حرف ولكن أليف ولا من حرف وميم حرف I do not say that the word is counted as one letter but is one letter is one letter and is one letter so the more you read the Quran the more reward you will get from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ask ask people to recite and to increase their relationship with the Quran and we all know that Quran is the best protector for the reciters it saves from the devil so once you read Surah Al-Baqarah when you recite Surah Al-Baqarah when you recite the devil will be outcasted for three days out of your home and this is why the people of Allah read Surah Al-Baqarah at least twice every week so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said about the Quran and whoever recites it in his house at night Shaytan will not enter his house for three nights and whoever recites it during the day Shaytan will not enter his house for three days also of the benefits of reciting the Quran we know that there are certain Surahs in the Quran that have special merits but before entering before talking about this I want to emphasize something very important that Shaytan محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has talked about and when he was talking to his companions about the Quran he was telling them that the Quran is an intercessor for the one who is reading it and Shaytan محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said recite the Quran يقرأ القرآن فإنه يأتي شفي عن يوم القيادة before يقرأ القرآن فإنه يأتي as an intercessor for its reciters on the day of resurrection and of course Shaytan محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he encouraged his companions to read the Quran and he said the one who has devoted to the Quran will be told to recite and ascend so يقول سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لوم القيامة يقول لقارئ القرآن يقرأ ورقي فإن منزلتك عند آخر آية تقرأها وقما كما قال سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so recite the Quran because he will reach his abode when he comes to the last verse he recites some people will say well we are not Arab speakers so when we we find it difficult to read the Quran so what happened there will be double reward for reciting the Quran hardly so many non-Arab Muslims find it difficult to read the Quran because they are not fluent in Arabic or sometimes they do not know Arabic there are people who can read the Quran and they cannot read anything in Arabic Arabic language they cannot read any other book so Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said to those who read it with difficulty so he he said يقرأوا القرآن وهو ماهي فيه فله أجرم والذي يقرأوا القرآن وهو يتحتعوا فيه فله أجرام او كما قال the one who is proficient in the recitation of the Quran will be with the honorable and obedient scribes the angels مع السفارة الكرام البرارة and the one who recites the Quran finds it difficult to recite and he is doing his best because he feels there is a special attachment to the Quran then he so he does his best to recite it in the best way he will have two rewards فله أشران so you don't have any excuse that okay I don't speak the language I so there will be help from Allah سبحانه وتعالى for those who who want to learn his words there will be divine help and they will they themselves will say oh when I started it was so difficult but now I'm more fluent it gets easier so the more you practice it the more you find it easier so as we mentioned that of the benefits of reciting the Quran it guides us to the straight path so it teaches us the ethical values that we should follow and what good deeds that we should do so that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will be satisfied with us if we talk a little bit about the secrets for reciting the Quran or what should we do what are the etiquettes for reciting the Quran there are some important things that we have to to mention and first of all when we want to read the Quran we have to to remember that we are not reading any book it's the book of Allah so we have to read it with while we are on وضوء state it's better to have وضوء to read the Quran and to read it with respect to read it clearly to try to understand it now some people will say if I don't have وضوء then I don't read the Quran say no and you can read the Quran of course you can when you go to bed you might have وضوء or you might not have وضوء before you fall asleep and we will talk about this which is what's the weird of the Quran what's the routine of the Quran you read آية الكرسي you read the 3 قولs and you ask سبحانه وتعالى you make دعاء and this is your weird of the Quran before you go to bed now you can be on a وضوء state or you might not be having a وضوء state that's fine so someone might ask when is the best time to read the Quran I would say at night why there's no one nothing to distract you you are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى 100% to earn our sleep everyone is sleeping you are alone with Allah سبحانه وتعالى ألا يحب كل حبيب أن يختري بهبيب doesn't everyone who is in love like to be alone with the one who we love we love Allah سبحانه وتعالى so قيام الليل is a manifestation of our love to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so what do you talk to your lover you say the words that he loves and the words that Allah سبحانه وتعالى love is his words the Quran so when you read the Quran at night your heart is clear so you receive the light of the Quran way more than when you read it during the day and this person is talking to you when you are answering that one so at night you are alone with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and سبحانه وتعالى now we come to the point that we mentioned earlier that there are certain surahs in the Quran that have special benefits or special merits so what are these these stories what are these these ayas are these surahs I will start with the very first Surah of the Quran Surah Al-Fatiha أبسعيد ساد قال لي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ألا أعلمك أعظم سورة في القرآن قبل أن تخرج من المسرد فأخذ بيدي فلما أردنا أن نخرج قلت بلا يا رسول الله قال قلت يا رسول الله وعلي منك أعظم سورة في القرآن قال رسول الله الحمد لله رب العالمين and he recited the these surah هي السبع المثاني والقرآن العظيم الذي اوتيته سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to him shall I teach you the greatest surah in the Quran before you leave the mosque and then he took he took him by the hand and when they were walking they were they said to سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم what is it and said الحمد لله رب العالمين he recited سورة الفاتحة and he said السبع المثاني and by السبع المثاني سورة الفاتحة is called السبع المثاني so another name for سورة الفاتحة السبع المثاني and what does this mean what does these two words mean سبع is seven and the مثاني is the repeated so it's the seven repeated so this is called السبع المثاني and we repeat سورة الفاتحة in every prayer so it's a seven that are repeated a lot and so it is السبع المثاني and the great Quran which is given to me how come that سورة الفاتحة is the great Quran it is said those who explain the Quran المفسيرون they said that سورة الفاتحة talks about is a summary for the whole Quran and books and books were written about just the the explanation of سورة الفاتحة سبحان الله again another that gives us the benefits of other سورة أبو الدرداء رضي الله عنه قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حفظ عشر آيات من أول سورة الكاف عصمة من الدجال وفي رواية من آخر سورة الكاف so أبو الدرداء رضي الله عنه reported that say in the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said whoever commits whoever memorizes the first 10 آيات من سورة الكاف will be protected from the الدجال from the antichrist and in another narration it is the last 10 آيات of سورة الكاف سبحان الله so another another let's talk about سورة الميك سورة الميك تحمي صاحبها من عذاب القبر so سورة الميك protects the one who reads it from the punishment of the grave after death سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says read Sura الميك to protect yourself from the punishment of the grave again another Sura of course each and every Sura has some secrets and secrets and lights and insights but I'm just talking about just a few few examples we know that when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم went with for the journey of الإسراط والمعراج he came back with two the last two آيات of Sura to al-Baqarah and they were given to him as a gift to his ummah so these are the last two آيات of Sura to al-Baqarah are like great treasure from the treasure of the paradise those who recite Sura to al-Baqarah and Sura to al-Imran what is the secret for that what's the benefit of that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says يأتي القرآن وأهلوه الذين يعملون به في الدنيا تقدمون Sura to al-Baqarah وآيات عمران تأتيان كأنهما غيابتان بينهما أو كأنهما غمامتان سوداوان أو كأنهما ظلتهم من طير صواف تجادلان عن صاحبهما سو سورة البقرة وآيات عمران سوف يكون أبدا so they will come those two Suras if they were they were shades between which there is illumination or as if they were two shades two shady clouds or as if they were shadows of lines of birds so what would they come they would come arguing on behalf of those who reside them and we all know Sura to al-Mulk Sura to al-Mulk تجادل عن صاحبها يوم القيامة وتمنع عذاب القبر so Sura to al-Mulk will argue with Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the day of judgment and it will save the person who resides it from the punishment of the grave Sura to al-Waqarah ابن مسعود قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم منقرأ Sura to al-Waqarah في كل ليلة لم تصبه فاقة أبدا so ابن مسعود رضي الله عنه said whoever resides Sura to al-Waqarah every night will never be afflicted by want will not be poor and ابن مسعود himself used to order his daughters to recite Sura to al-Waqarah every night now some people would say but we cannot read so what do we do and as I just mentioned just learn the alphabet learn the how to connect the letters how to form words how to read them when you finish this this first step then there are there are plenty of resources available online that provide recitation listen listen to reciters and I would recommend a very important page which is tenzil.net that's t-a-n-z-i-l dot n-e-t tenzil.net this is an amazing website it has the page of the Quran and to the left it has a lot that so many information the first thing to the left of the page you will have a search it has a search engine if you know a word in the Quran and you write it it will give you all the ayahs that contain that has this word that you are searching and it will give you a list of all the ayahs and you can click on anyone any certain verse so to read the word that is in this ayah and next to the search engine you will have another way to search if you know the surah and you know what ayah is the word you can just click on that and below that there is a recitation and if you click on the arrow you will find a lot of reciters maybe you can find at least 20 reciters or maybe more and you can listen to them and below that there is a translation if you want to understand what you are reciting or what you are hearing so this is an important a very useful helpful website it is called and you can use it as one of the resources that is online and if you know how to recite then the next step is to memorize one time one of my students who was working on تجويد إجازا she was reciting the whole Quran and she was looking for to get تجويد إجازا one time she said to me I want to memorize can you test me and I said yes by the way this person is a non-Arab speaker who knows how to speak Arabic but she knows how to read the Quran this is a special blessing and there are many people like this but what's so different in her when she said can you test me and I said of course so the next time she came and she started reading the Quran by heart she started first page second page third page fourth page not a single mistake and when she when she stopped I said to her can you tell me what is the secret you are not an Arab speaker so when you when you read you do not understand the meanings of what you are reading normally Arab speakers when they memorize they connect the words together they connect the stories together how are you doing it and she said read each page 100 times 50 on one day 50 times and the next day I review it 50 times until by the end of the 100 times that I read it I I can see it while I am closing my eyes I can see it in front of me I can see the page in front of me I am closing my eyes imagine the connection the the faithfulness the truthfulness of the sincerity of how connected the heart of this person is to the Quran and Subhanallah so there are so many ways that you can get yourself connected to the Quran and as I mentioned children to be connected to the Quran start with them when they are young Subhanallah the words of Allah just hit your heart even if you don't understand them when you listen to a reciter who reads beautifully from his heart you feel that it's not him who is reading it's his heart who is reading so you feel that there is a connection between your heart and the words that you are listening to and you feel that there is a special light that has got into your heart this is the secret of the Quran this is the miracle of the Quran which was revealed to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW 1400 years ago and it's will continue till the day after and those who recited the Quran the words of Allah will be highly rewarded on the Day of Judgement وصلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لي جلالي وشيكا والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


The level of nitrosamines in bacon is so high that these carcinogens have been discovered even in the vapors from fried bacon.  Well, one of the more potent carcinogenic nitrosamines is in those fumes. You're breathing it in. In fact, if you're going to cook something like bacon and eggs, the barbecue people have the right idea. Do it outdoors in the fresh air. The amount of deposited particles deep into the lung of an individual indoors exceeded by up to 10 times the amount received by an individual at the same time period outdoors. Just don't run around or play frisbee or anything near the grill, as the number of deposited particles significantly increases with exercise, just because you're inhaling greater lung volumes. It's kind of the second-hand smoke of the meat world. What about tempeh bacon? Tempeh is probably the closest plant-based thing to cured meat. It's a fermented soybean product. Airborne mutagens produced by frying beef, pork, and a soy-based food. What do you think they found? Airborne cooking byproducts from frying burgers, bacon, and tempeh were collected, extracted, and tested for mutagenicity, the ability to damage and mutate DNA. Fumes generated by frying pork and beef were mutagenic, especially the bacon, found 15 times worse than the beef, but no mutagenicity was detected in fumes from frying tempeh burgers. The researchers suggest that this may explain both the increased risk of respiratory tract cancer among cooks, as well as the lower proportion of deaths from respiratory diseases and lung cancer among vegetarians.