Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com. We're back, I appreciate everybody's patience today. Everything is fine now, so let's get back on track with 2020 Panini Immaculate Football. Pick your team number four, six box pick your team number four. Very big thank you to all of these folks who picked all of their team. We didn't have to do, we haven't done any fillers yet. We've got another break of this coming up later, but we have not done a single filler. So everyone's just been filling these breaks up the old fashioned way. So thank you very much for buying your team straight up. We really appreciate that. Let's see what's been marinating in here. Good luck everybody. That's right, Jose, we are back. Thanks for your patience everybody. Now the first few cases we've done looked pretty awesome, but I'll tell you what, an apology to the people in the first few breaks. We did not see any of the big quarterback, and we did see a Joe Burrow redemption, but we haven't seen the other big names. We're looking for those now. Although, no, we got a Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow. Okay, so maybe they weren't so, maybe we did get some of the big names. There's Jordan Love for Green Bay. I guess we just haven't seen Herbert and Tua. I keep forgetting about the Burrow because it was a redemption. All right, so Josh Proust with the Green Bay Packers. Next one, let's use it, do I have a blank card near me here? Yeah, let's use this blank card here to slow play the hits a little bit. There were a couple of bills as well in the first few. We got 30 out of 60, Tyree Kill for the Chiefs. It's gonna be for James Reyes. We got a Quad Relic, one happy person, three sad people. Old school guys, 11 out of 49, Derek Thomas. No, it's all one team. Derek Thomas, Len Doss, and Tony Gonzalez, and Patrick Mahomes, all Chiefs. Going to James Reyes. There you go, nice monument, that's pretty nice. We've got, oh, this is one person happy, one person sad. That's past and present, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes. 18 out of 49. It'll be a randomizer between the Pats. That's gonna be for Victor and the Chiefs, James. We'll set that back there next to the snowman so we can remind ourselves to randomize that. We've got Anthony McFarlane Jr. to 25, three color jersey and autograph for Michael Gallucci and the Steelers. Then we've got Michael Pittman Jr. 18 out of 99, nice shadow box autograph for the blue horseshoes Kurt Disser. And the redemption is, oh, premium patch autographs, Gold Joe Burrow. Joey B for Sean Maddock and the Bangles, nice. Sean, I can do Joe's autograph, I think. Something like that, that's close. I don't know if I got the B right. I need to practice this more often. And that's for Cincinnati and a free top loader, nice. All right, box two, got another blockchain card here. Looks like we have usually from the, at least according to the first few cases, there's champ Bailey for Denver. As far as the first few cases are concerned, looks like there's like two blockchain cards per case and then a few redemptions. Two to three redemptions, on average. That'll be for Kurt and Denver. We've got Odell Beckham Jr. 44 out of 60. He's looking like he's about to pass the ball there. That goes to Adam and the Browns. What's that gold number two, by the way, that Burrow? 25 maybe, to 10? Quad relic, Clyde Edwards-E-Lair. Nice, 45 out of 49. Two-color Quadrel, oh, maybe, should we give it three colors, a little bit of yellow peeking out right there. And then I'll go to James and the Chiefs. We got return of the Mac. Marlon Mack, 17 out of 25. That's a big numbers patch right there for Kurt and the Colts. James Morgan, jersey and autograph, 54 out of 99. Rookie, patch and auto for Mark the Set and the Jets. We've got players collection, triple relic and autograph, Calvin Ridley. Are we seeing a little more extra? Extra from Calvin Ridley's autograph? I like that, 37 out of 75. We got Corey and the Falcons. Maybe that he's not signing like 8,000 things a year. Work on his autograph a little bit. And you got a little extra. Got a little eye right there for Calvin or Ridley. Got a little dot there, that's nice. Falcons, Corey. And back here is Jerry Judy. 31 out of 99, patch autograph for Kurt and Denver, my rivals. Next box, redemption on the bottom. Rams Jerome Betis is on top. 27 out of 60. The bus going to Kurt and the Rams. We've got a four out of 15 Clyde Edward de Lair, Nike Swoosh Gloves. It's a pretty sharp looking card. That is for the Chiefs, James. Cleveland Pharrell, 51 out of 99. Nice, autograph for the Raiders. Tommy with that one. We've got Mark Gasnell for the Jets. 44 out of 57 for Mark and the Jets. Like the Jets could use a few Mark Gasnells on their team. One or two Mark Gasnells on that defense would be nice. All right, and one more than the Redempt. Oh, there he is, Justin Herbert. 21 out of 49. Shadow box autograph Justin Herbert going to Robert Wolfe and the Chargers. There you go, Robert, he's pretty good. So Joe Burrow redemption and a shadow box Justin Herbert in here. We're gonna find a Tua in here. Is this Tua? No, but it's our first Deandre Swift going to Aaron Salinas. There you go, Aaron. RPA of the Lions running back. We're halfway through the Six Fox break. We've got Bruce Smith, 24 out of 25. That's Redskins edition of Bruce Smith. Darwin with the Washington football team. We've got Henry Ruggs, the third. Nice triple relic to 49. Would have been nice to have Henry Ruggs in the game yesterday, but I don't know if he's willing to play defensive back though. Goes to Tommy and my Raiders. Ooh, a one of one Jalen Hertz pigskin logo. That's pretty nice. Richard Speranza with the Fly Eagles Fly. That is awesome. There you go, Richard S. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. First train whistle out of the case. We've got Tremaine Edmunds, two color patch and autograph, 69. Nice, out of 99. Buffalo. Jeff Mason with the Bills. And we've got Tyreek Hill. Nice, that's a great photography right there. But first I thought the card was upside down. 21 out of 25 signature moves. Tyreek Hill on card autograph for the Chiefs James with Kansas City. And we've got Van Jefferson, two color patch and autograph, 33 out of 99. That will be for Kurt Disser and the Rams. All right, two boxes to go. Sean Jasper still in the next room. You know what I didn't realize yesterday? Was that Marriota and Herbert were both Oregon quarterbacks. They were squaring up against each other. I'm not a big college guy. So I just didn't click for me until I heard on the radio last night. I was like, oh, it's interesting to see two Oregon. I was like, that's right. And was Herbert directly after Marriota? There was someone else in between. 2015. That's right, that's right. Teddy's Dolphins. And then it's Denver. Yeah, that's right, Marriota and Tua. Yes, that's actually true. Yeah, that is pretty cool. Kurt with the Rams. Jacob Eason, three out of 49. Two color triple relic. Justin, what's going on? You remember that two out of two Durant patch out of the Macblu that you got for nice. That's a memorable one. Kurt with the Colts. Another piece of the football. Three out of five, Joey Bosa. This time this has the Commissius autograph on there. Out of fives and under, get the train whistle. Robert Wolfe. All aboard the Big Head Express. Hoop, hoop. We got Devin McCordy, triple relic and autograph. 55 out of 99. Players collection. That'll be for Victor and the Pats. We got Joe Thysman, nice. Six out of 49, just one off the Jersey number as usual for the Washington football team, Durwin. And we got it for the Blue Horses, Michael Pittman Jr., two color patch and autograph. 15 out of 25. We're watching his former college team right now. Oregon up 28-17 on USC. With almost the entire fourth quarter left. It's Kurt with the Colts. Final box coming up. Oh, we got that randomizer in the back. The Brady and Mahomes. Shane, what's going on?  Enjoy the show, thank you for watching. I appreciate that. He's letting us know that Tuas are live in Immaculate. Good, he's not a redemption. So only Joe Burroughs a redemption then of the top quarterbacks in this draft. We got a shallow box here, so it looks like a redemption it is. Blank card to hide the hits. Kevin Green, Panthers edition 38 out of 60. Teddy was wearing a nice Kevin Green shirt the other week. There's Cole Comet, nine out of 10. Some nice color in there for Stephen Wright and the Bears. And we've got Kyle Dugger, 20 out of 25. Patriots autograph going out to Victor. Last few, we've got a Lance Briggs. Silver, ink, eye black autograph, 91 out of 99. I like this, I like this look that they have here. Bears, that'll be for Stephen Wright. Oh, Jalen Hurts. Rookie, eye black, jersey, and autograph. Four color patch, silver, ink, auto. Wright on the eye black. It's a sharp looking card right there for Richard Sparanza and the Fly Eagles Fly. And for a card where the black bleeds all the way to the edge, it's not so bad. Maybe a little thing right there, but I feel like it looks pretty good. So we've seen everyone, but Tua. And here's another DeAndre Swift for Aaron, nice. Nice DeAndre Swift. All right, there you go, boys and girls. That was Immaculate. Thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. And now let's randomize that Brady Mahomes dual relic. That is to 49. So let's flip back to random.org and a blank list. Let's get, that's New England edition of Tom Brady. And Mahomes, of course, is for KC, Kansas City. Team on top after 11, we'll get it, six and a five. Good luck, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11 in final time. After 11, it's New England, there you go. So apologies to James and the Chiefs, but it's, yeah, Victor and the Patriots. Gets his dual relic, there you go. And there you have it, boys and girls. Thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. More on the way, jazby's casebreaks.com. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time, bye.


Hi Maya, good afternoon. It's so nice to connect with you and I'm so excited to be hearing from you, another artist I'm excited about this conversation. I'm really looking forward to discussing art as a fuel for change in action Environmental issues, especially like climate change, that's something that's going to impact every area of human life When I think about the role of art, it is about telling these stories, about humanizing these stories Humanizing the stakes of what what's happening and how we all have to be a part of the solution I will tell you that as a 40 year old in New York City, so many of my peers right now when they think about climate change They can very tangibly relate it to their children What are we leaving behind for the generations that are coming after us? And how do we as humans begin to change and transform our behaviors, our practices To be healthier in relationship to the earth that we inhabit? You know generation Z, we have a lot of pressure to be the ones to fix everything And we want intergenerational collaboration, like this is an all hands on deck situation As a member of Gen Z, I feel like so many young people really feel like it could be too late The role of optimism in our lifetime and on the earth, I think it's a critical one I think optimism is a practice and we have to show up and actually believe that we matter And so in my practice, I'm always asking the question, guys, what impossible things can we do together? That we can only do together You know one of my dreams is to turn Times Square into a park that has trees and a river that's going through it When I think about urbanism and the evolution of cities, I wish there were ways for our streets and our traffic to not get in the way of public space How can we collaborate with other people to activate that? How can we be a catalyst for change? And also understanding how we can encourage other people who are in higher positions of power To really do that same thing So Maya, when we think about multinational corporations like Volvo, who have often been a part of the challenge, a part of the problem How do we think about those organizations, those companies being a part of the solution? I think there is a major responsibility on large corporations to make a really tangible shift Because they have been contributing to this problem in so many ways And they have to implement these solutions as soon as possible To understand that sustainability is not a trend, it's not a Fed, it's not a niche market to appeal to It is becoming the new standard of business And be transparent and be authentic and accountable with your consumer base What are their practices of finding the resources to make, for example with Volvo, the cars? Where are all the parts for the car coming from? The journey of those parts to the factories where they're being made The relationship of those factories to the neighborhoods that they're in One of the things that I really appreciate and that I love about Volvo's history They created the technology for the three-point seat belt They actually shared that technology with other companies so that all drivers could be safe I think this kind of thinking is essential towards the future We're at a time where we've never faced a challenge this big before But we also have so many incredible solutions So important that we consider these things not just for the sake of the bottom line of the company But for the sake of the bottom line of the earth


This week's federal executive council meeting, holding at the council chambers of the state house, Abuja. Those in attendance include Vice President Yemi Oshimbadro, Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, both Mustafa, Ministers of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adibayo, works in house in Babatinde Fashula, Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abu Bakar Malami, others are finance, Dr. Zainab Hamad, Environment Mohammad Abdelay, Federal Capital Territory Mohammad Bello, State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum, State for Environment, Sharim Ikerzo, amongst others. After the meeting later on, Wednesday afternoon, the president will depart Abuja for Kigali Rwanda to attend the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Governments meeting being held from June 28th to 26th, 2022. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome to Corpus Basics. This unit introduces you to the central principles of corpus linguistics as a discipline and to the use of linguistic corpora. We will look at the basic properties of corpora and we will deal with the historical development of corpus linguistics. Furthermore, we will look at the central principles of annotation and we will provide some well-known examples of popular modern corpora. At the end of this unit, you will understand the main principles of corpus linguistics and you will be ready for more detailed aspects of using corpora. So stay tuned for further insights into corpus linguistics and see you soon.


We good all right. What's up y'all? This is day number three at a seven for seven challenge And today we're talking about dynamic duos and should be cool I know there are a lot of dynamic duos in the current NBA, but I wonder if this compilation is gonna have like throwbacks and everything Well, we're gonna see some Michael with Scotty. We're gonna see worthy and Magic are we gonna see Gary Payton Shawn Kemp? Either way, I'll see how I go I mean starts off with Probably the best duo in the NBA right now James Harden and AD oh since Jaren Jackson junior and John Moran now this has potential to be one of the greatest duos in the future the NBA, bro I love this duo man. I just think they play very well together. I cannot wait to never mind never mind It's gonna spoil something. There it is There it is four years together in Miami and then multiple multiple all-star games on the same team James Harden runs to Westbrook looking good looking good This is one of the newer the newer dynamic duos even though Even though they wanted a newer dynamic duos, they wanted the older dynamic duos too You see what I'm saying? Okay, see and then put her back together now either way Great lob great lob back to the all-star game. Oh another dynamic duo won a championship together Speaking of that tonight as you're watching this at seven central time seven o'clock central time I'm gonna be live Re-watching game seven of the 2016 NBA finals on twitch house of highlights on twitch at seven o'clock. Please come out Game seven of 2016 Yeah, that dynamic duo was in it So that sounds interesting every Tuesday our house of highlights I'll rewatch an NBA game and that's the game we're watching today one of the greatest games ever All right. Oh, yeah, this is another future one. This is another future one Hey, man, they've only played together like 15 or so games, but there are so many all you highlights between the two Joel and Big Ben Benny Ben Ben I'm winning me over from a seven-footer. I'm telling you every time I see that I'm like and don't I'm tired of it I'm tired.  Who do that? I wasn't paying attention Who threw that last lot because I mean now I think we're now in the realm of craziness Deandre Jordan is dynamic do those were who? Spicer didn't we? That's fans. Let me know is this a real connection all season because I don't remember it. I Don't remember it Sabonis Sabonis and V.O. Now now I think this is a good. I think that could be a good one, too I think a big trade young and Jack Hollis the future You know that's Squidward me. Yeah future. Yes. That's what that is I was gonna say the same thing How many of these highlights were the big man the one throwing the lob to the guard type player? That's how good bad my the bio is when it comes to his playmaking Back to LeBron and a D. Just imagine being that big in that athletic, bro Like dog. It's crazy genetic freak Okay, okay. Oh man This is what they drafted him for This is what they drafted him for to be that dynamic duo with a d-book Another young duo this man. Mitchell. Do you see where he had to go to get that?  This is a great dynamic duo off the bench dynamic duo The picker roll is nasty sweet Lou to Montrezzel Yes, sir, uh-oh Dennis Smith junior adult and Mitchell Robison. I mean, okay Then this was junior asked for a trade. What am I thinking about when he was in Dallas? I think I'm thinking about when he was in Dallas my fault Okay, Lonzo and Cal Kuzma. I Mean, I guess that was a 25 win duo Yeah, I'm saying Okay, Ricky Rubio and Donovan Mitchell. Oh Donovan Mitchell Rick and Rudy go bear now This one may not be a dynamic duo for much longer. I'm sorry jazz fans. I have to say it but uh You know what went on mm-hmm eb in yanni Behind the back y'all knew it was coming when you see Yada's one on the floor You gotta get the ball to him because it guaranteed two points. That's a mouse bridges is Powerful he throws it down. Okay, Ben Simmons.  Wait Wait, wait, go back to that. Was I at this game? I might have been at that game. No joke. I Might have been at the game. I'm not I'm not even trolling. I might have been at that game Either way. All right next. Oh good D. Mo Bamba. Whoa Whoa Terrence Rawson Aaron Gordon, so it's a mobile though, man Well, Bob was one of my favorite players coming out of his draft class and I still believe he's gonna be good But he's just taking a long time to develop. That's all. This is a nice dynamic duo a wing dynamic duo Yes, sir He almost traveled he almost traveled because he had no way to go with the ball Luckily the magic are not very good and they gave him the easy bucket Chris Paul and Steven Adams Steven Adams is gonna be like marching or tied at the end of the day We're like he just plays with so many elite point guards in his career that force feed him That doesn't make him a bad NBA player But when you plan with the with these type of point guards Russell Westbrook Chris Paul type of point guards You're gonna get you're gonna get your buckets.  Oh another DeAndre Jordan one Okay, I maybe this was a connection Maybe this was a connection that I just didn't see the season. Uh-oh Give it to him Steph Give it back Just toying with them so that's a true holiday because he almost got to steal he almost got to steal He's that smart of a player on the defensive side of the ball. Oh, yeah honest a Little sidestep. There's literally nothing you can do about it literally nothing you can do about it at all ah Just man. It's crazy. Think how high some of these close to seven foot people be jumping man Boogie and Anthony Davis I remember when Boogie got traded here and people were tweeting out pictures of David Robinson and Tim Duncan. I was people I Was people in that situation Luke in poor zingas. Yes, sir Yes, sir. Now.  That was a good dynamic duo. I guess they butted heads and stuff But on court they play well together one game away from being in the NBA finals one game away What a pass But again, I've seen the same five Malik muck dunks on this channel a thousand times Blue no kabocha. Oh, don't jump my G. Actually, I respect you for jumping. I respect you not many people were gonna jump in that situation Vonte Vonte's got some good vision man Vonte's got some real good vision And like I said, this man just throws it down as hard as he can every time he jumps Eric Bledsoe to you What a pass from Eric Bledsoe What a pass it's your three defenders and still found the man that's an amazing pass He's not known for his playmaker, but that's how I'm usually showed it off Look at the center Look at the center throwing the lob to Full court. Hmm a full court one Beautiful Here's another poor zingas Luca one 73 Just ridiculous bro the people that go to my gym, maybe six five with no hops that man is seven three with bunnies It doesn't make sense. It literally doesn't make sense to me And I'm sitting at five eight. I got bunnies, but I'm sitting at five eight and these people are six feet Genetically just got it got it going on. I wish I could relate. I wish I could relate Unfortunately mom my dad is like six five ten and my mom is like five So, you know I'm saying I just I just wasn't blessed like that. I am convinced You cannot tell me otherwise and the dude that made these combinations is a Charlotte Hornets fan. It's too much Hornets It's too much Hornets, bro There's no reason for it to be that many Hornets highlights at any every video. This at least two Or zingas.  I was thinking this is gonna be only dynamic duos another one. She's Lazo's Lazo's playmaking is so ridiculous Uh-oh, uh-oh, so the speed in D Rose hit the overdrive. Never mind. Hey, Christopher there Hey, Christopher then shout out to them. I just did a video about this team on my YouTube channel the other YouTube channel Not that you try the other other YouTube channel, you know, we got three around here.  Oh, you know what's happening You know what's happening so many lives Somebody gonna have to count how many lives the this duo has at the end of their careers are playing together the fro The pass by Spence the fro having a hand-eye coordination to put that it's a play The little you see the fake pass to the whoo this man Jaws nasty Hmm see it all See it all. Oh man That just reminded me of something bro. Wow. Let me hit. I hit the Google notes, y'all. I Hit the I hit the Google notes. That's I just got reminded of something watching the drama red clip Boom Simple. All right. So yeah, this is a nice.  He's my favorite senator in the NBA on the court I'm not paying him a super max Personally, this is me though Okay, Rondo to LBJ They had their duels and their pass but now the teammates and one of them is still really good the other one He has moments He has his moments. I was at that game Bro, I'm at all of these games. I was literally at the game in Indiana. I Look, I've seen I think that's supposed to them. We need the Andrew Jordan. Maybe a better duo than I anticipate it I just saw him like four times this video Anthony Davis tap up to LeBron beautiful beautiful That's like a that's like a schoolyard play other than the fact that these dudes are Monsters and conduct the ball, but you know just tapping it above Oh Kevin Knox All right, Kev big Kev Bro Kevin Knox looks like my friend and his name is also Kevin So every time I see him it just throws me off because they look like twins and they're both named Kevin. I Guess it would make more sense if they're both last names or the same that they were related not the Kevin part But it's weird to see two Kevin's that look identical, but but my friend is like five eight not Six eight. Yeah, I'm saying I hope the odds at the video. I know I did a lot of rambling, but that was fun other than the fact that um Too much hornets


Are we balanced? See this is Marvin. Scoot this way a little bit. This is Marvin's. Hi welcome to vlog Thursday This is Marvin's way of Making sure things are right. Yes. Hold on. Hold on.  We are recording and the red light is on those are important things. Yes Yes, indeed not but you can't really the red light is on not much is getting recorded Well, actually like a silent it would be a silent and you don't want to watch this We have to do like title cards like old-fashioned Charlie Chaplin movies old-fashioned Charlie Chaplin movies will just hold up title cards So we can get it all transcribed and have the little words on the bottom Actually, I'm thinking about that. We should just make words on the bottom of some of this stuff Oh, yeah, we just sit here drinking our coffee. We'll just put it like a scroll Which is um so a little bit of feedback we've got in a vlog Thursday and people I guess listen I never thought about this But maybe we'll actually convert it into a podcast and make it like a 30-minute podcast But people tell me that they put it on and it is some background because we don't put a lot of visual things in there Which is fine. I mean this is that's actually a lot of what vlog Thursday is kind of to me the form We've created at least I think we're still creating it. Yeah, okay. They're creating as we speak Creating while we're creating what we're creating. Yes creating we're creating what we're creating and we're talking about Maybe I should make this a podcast and at the same time like I'll keep the video and keep the uploading video But that way there's a podcast where people just want to hear us ramble on and rant about things that we do on Thursday Tom says us ramble on he means him. I can't stop talking. Okay So I had a meeting with a guy named rocket yesterday his name was rocket isn't well his name's rocket man But it's not the way hold on hold on Be careful what you say You're gonna get tweeted about I'm gonna get tweeted about Um rocket man rocket man's really cool. Okay And not the rocket man. You may have seen in Twitter Not an old album from from my John John John But he happens to be a musician and it really got me thinking yeah, I know what are the odds again? I mean rocket man's a musician. It's never been done before.  He's gonna send me cuz I love some beat some use I he played some music sound that drum beats and I'm like, yeah, I was like techno say music I like he produces a few different genres, but um, I Then I met the steak Fridays that we go to and that was cool And I just went and hung out with them as you want to talk about YouTube and see he's not a very technical guy at all He's he's not even really aware that there's people being tweeted about named rocket man Like he's tweaked about me. No, no, no, not you. There's a whole nother story behind that one So back on topic right it made me think though So if you go to New York and I was just there not that long ago or you go over to LA you see a large creative community vibrant and easy to find because we're online and It's like if you looked at the coast and it sinks down to the whole Midwest it is here and I I made a kind of me reaching out to the YouTube's and The only other youtuber that's big that I'm aware of at the moment is like the Detroit boy He does really good tech reviews. He's one of the only big channels. I can name in the Midwest it was not it's just weird core of a There's people here that are creative that don't have outside influence So when he announces or actually he's got some promoters announced that rocker man's having a concert locally He gets all these people show up. He's played at all the big venues and but he's never website for them to go to like they don't know where he's playing next they just got to find out through word-of-mouth and He's really wants to be online, but there's a disconnect. I know try to figure out like there's a lot of talent to try I just found out About a few others people who are talented doing really cool stuff, but they don't have websites They don't have anything like you just have to try to find them They're concentrating on their art. They don't have time for websites. Well, and this is where the disconnect is So you look at the music industry and you have the promoters Sony records or whatever the company deals for years they were always able to take a procure talent and put it online and Of course the downside was the you know cities guys go cool on a millionaire record pusher Yeah, Sony took a 90% cut Sony made 90 million to your Yeah, not that that's wrong. I mean whatever that's here nor there The bigger thing is there's really not anyone trying to procure any of the art here And I'm trying to think about like is there ways I can help facilitate that with them I don't have time just to produce it all for them But it's not that hard and he was kind of surprised at how easy some of it was He's like really you can just do that and we started we had a great conversation with there's a talk with him See how I could help and it turned in and he's a really smart guy and he just doesn't he's kind of like Well as artists goes I don't want to participate in the system like yes of society. Yeah a certain extent I really just want to do my art But I have bills to pay so there's concerns He has like that he will not be able to live where he lives if he doesn't pay the bills Yeah, that's a very real concern So in he because he's a talented artist and produces music and has a big following So I talked to him about some ideas he's gonna pursue and it was just a really cool conversation But I made me think about the greater disconnect sometimes there is and how this little area We are here in Detroit Also, I may be producing some more Detroit videos like I want to go around Detroit and kind of show people what it is Because I notice when you search it there's just there's only a couple people I think there's one motorcycle vlogger, but he doesn't post for it off than I found there's not a lot of content creators I found I think we can I'll try to put some together that are actually putting a lot of things no offense to Just some of them that some of you are probably raging if you're in Detroit. You're looking this up You're like, oh, but I'm a content creator in I don't know any nice way But so many people just produce like really basic. There's not a lot of effort into the videos I know they're still trying and I'm willing to help there, but either doing it on their phone and doing on her phone It's kind of like I'm looking for people who are putting a really lot of effort into it To produce a really well produced thing and if you need help learning the cool There's you know, the best thing is I learned how to do YouTube on YouTube. Yeah, it's the snake eating the snake Yeah, I watched YouTube videos and that's where you kind of find your style as well I watched a lot of YouTube's I watched the DSLR noob is a great channel where you know, I know he posts a little bit differently now I haven't looked at a lot of his recent stuff So he kind of went into this long form format But he used to do a ton of videos and it's how I learned how to use the camera I'm using and everything else like it'd be less how'd you learn this actually pretty easy I went and watched youtubers learning how to do all this. So yeah, there's it's a much It's an interesting time that we're living in now Like I went to a trade school for media production and then did a degree in media production And all of that that I learned I could learn on YouTube now. I went to my couch. Yeah, I learned about media production Yeah, I mean it's it's a and the thing and the equipment has gotten so much smaller Oh, it's so much easier to use and so it really is a Great time. I to put it bluntly you have no excuse if you want to be doing this Yeah, no excuse and I I will admit to I started out I watched a lot of Casey Neistat stuff love his work and but I realized like I watched it I like he has a very Artistic production of his media. It's kind of funny is I one of my friends had pointed out it's go You know, I really like Casey's work. I'm like, oh, yeah, so it's about seven million other people Yeah, but I said but the thing is like he doesn't say a lot. I'm like, yeah That's what's interesting. He's very Cinemagraphic and I love that and I I really learned a lot from it And that's I use some of his cinematographic style when I wanted to produce some of the artsy things I did like if you look through my channel You'll find a video for TEDx Detroit that I did and I'm doing another one So I love the artistic take that I learned from him, which is cool But I realized that's not the style and I think sometimes people try to just mimic their go He's successful at mimic them and that's not always the best way to do it, you know You can learn a lot from there But you do start by copying and I think the best I think I may have said this before But just as an art teacher big I can't really even art school. Anyways, I love what he said this guy This kid was asking his teacher going, you know, I'm too worried I'm just gonna end up trying to copy Picasso all the time. You know, I'm not sure if I can find my style He goes, oh, it's really easy to find your style. Go sit there stare at Picasso paint it And when it doesn't look like it everything that doesn't look like because it is your style Yeah Yeah, you can learn so much for the internet speaking of which will segue out that topic because Marvin hasn't heard this But this is something my kids said to me and I don't know if this is inappropriate so it might get cut So so did you ever did your dad ever say can you get me a beer and you went and got him a beer? Sure. Yeah, my grandpa. You say it could be a beer kid and I go over and get him a beer So kids are educated these days. Yeah, I say Marcus my son. Can you go get me a beer dad? That'll make me a minor in possession There's a pause and I'm like, well, how do I combat my son's knowledge now? Possession is I know he really just wanted to keep doing whatever he was doing and not get me a beer I could have easily got off the couch and done it, but I was like, you know, that's where you have children for Yeah, I was like kids and they can they can go to the fridge and get me beer I mean, it's like no dad. That'll make me a minor in possession Oh crap, oh, that's not it's great That's what your your son is good for a lot of good Comments Marcus says a lot of things. Yeah, I don't even know if they're all I mean There might be a little inappropriate times like they're very topical and my my son has that We tried to get him on to do stuff on the vlog his eyebrows are famous now I don't know if I should probably insert that clip if so I did review the server hasn't been delivered back So sitting over here. I told my son. I was like, hey, I want to see if this can stand up to a loving-year-old So all I did was hold the camera on them All that the only thing I had asked him to do was while the drives were running and the in the server Array over here, which is the Trunaster. I asked him to eject one of the drives He looks at the drive puts his finger on it turns back to the camera double taps the eyebrows is that like this He's definitely a showman that yeah, like it was unprompted Some people think I script my son to do these things my it's great because he just does things he writes little skits He wants to be an entertainer and and he should and he shouldn't he absolutely should be He's the teachers that talks so he's go fun with the teachers because he's a distraction in class or always the same with my son Like they start out with we know Marcus isn't malicious matter of fact. He's he's a pleasure to have in class, but But but he was not paying attention. He wasn't listening. He was encouraging the crowd to do something and yeah Yeah, that's he's we're either gonna end up dead by his hand or working for him one day. Yeah Yeah This could happen Well, I pull up in the school.   Yeah The other thing he said I do I stopped by 7-eleven and he grabbed some hot fries and some skittles They were three for a dollar and he's like a three for a dollar and I was like, so you need he's like holds them up He goes there. This is the currency of middle school. This is all I need And I'm like even the person who's that one person's like, okay, like He's figured this out he goes I know how to get people to do things this is the currency of middle school Yeah, and also I do is I can share this candy and I can get things done Cigarettes are the currency of prison, right? Yeah Smuggling hot fries into smuggling hot fries in Don't work done here. I got I got four hot fries for you if you help me out I know on to the next topic for a lot about that. Yeah, so we decided I did Decided I don't know if anyone there's no we in this actually. I just made a decision That's the best part about our own companies and I just do stuff. Yeah, and no Z. I how I get here is no one tells me no We try we try so I decided that I want to reply to everyone's email But as my channel goes 12,000 people by the way, thank you very much. Yeah. Yes We're excited about that and I really want to reply to every email But sometimes I that that could be a full-time job some I don't know what necessarily I don't mind people emailing me But occasionally I get emails and I'm sorry if I'm calling you out on this that what backup Should I use like the most basic and I'm like I need to I don't mind helping when there's some context around it But sometimes people just ask super vague questions, and I'm like I want to reply And I don't ever want to be excited, you know We did a live stream me and Willie how and someone said oh so and so channel isn't you know He's not that nice because he wants to charge stuff I'm like well he has like 50,000 subscribers, and I know him personally and the guy is getting I mean hundreds of emails a day At some point it would be a full-time job just to reply to all these questions, so I but a lot of you ask really good questions That I think should be public and the comment system on YouTube is just broken and ugly and I don't like it Because it's so hard to their comments are out of order It's hard for me to find if you reply to something that goes down to like a thread I can lose part of it because it becomes hard to find later and especially because comments are coming We have like a couple hundred videos on there. They're almost 300 comments come across all the videos So the notifications are everywhere so it makes it really hard to reply and it's hard to follow the message threads And it's harder reply cuz I can't just pause a picture someone asked a question. Where's this? I'm more than happy to post a screenshot because you're probably not the only one asking it That's one time out the bail of questions So you guys decide to email me and a lot of times I've actually replied with screenshots and I'm fine with that too I can only do so many at some point So my thought was I created a Facebook page. I have a link below it's a Facebook group that's open for you to join and I spend way too much time on Facebook and but Facebook offers a really easy platform for Posting message replies and picture replies and things like that I wouldn't mind some interaction people asking what videos they'd like me to cover or if there's a question on a video I don't mind responding like someone said like how do I do this thing? I can just grab a screenshot of it from the software or even take a picture of something because someone asked me a question about The the back panel I didn't something they had a question about because there's a wire that runs across here And I know it is so I can easily stamp a picture of it upload to Facebook I can do that right from my phone and reply and now I've not only answered a question for you But I've answered a question for anyone else is curious about it and not only that maybe they weren't curious about it Now I've got more engagement because ah, we didn't know it did that and actually the discussion I had with someone that was really good He's I know he's a regular watcher of this. I think it's really clever idea I don't know how to pursue it, but I didn't know this. He said hey Why not take free NAS? This is came a fork of a true NAS discussion He messaged me on Facebook, which is cool, and he says we could probably integrate all this and code it to a Create high availability and do this is and I think it's a fun side project It's it's goes beyond the scope of what I have time to do because it requires coding that goes beyond me But cool, it's open-source and you can do that But maybe if it was post in a public forum someone would go I'm a good coder and I know how to make that implement that feature and I would love that further discussion to go on So I want it to be bigger than just Tom's ideas And I love that and I looked at like some of the usual forum software I'm kind of mixed on it like I know how to set it up, but it's harder to manage and There's a couple other forms that are pretty good, but I kind of like I don't know maybe I'm biased I like the Facebook platform, but a lot of people do hate it and I I do understand is right away Someone's gonna see but that's you know Zuckerberg's playground and you're living in our ecosystem There's some good and bad to that I mean yes hosting it all yourself and self hosting it But that has its own challenges and do I want to take on another forum challenge and dealing with passwords and deal Yeah, I don't why when you have Facebook right there Yeah, so there's pros and cons It'd be better certainly, but yeah, it's I think it still works pretty well on and I want to hear your thoughts on this That's something that's important to me is if you are gonna use it Excuse me if you aren't gonna use it that it's not relevant at all at that point But if I can get some Traction and discussion going in there We can I haven't found any good Facebook forums because it part of it the problem is and I Have a friend who refuses to put a photo of himself or any of his family members or anything on Facebook He only uses Facebook for a few forum discussions and mostly Mike uses to post snarky comments You know who I'm talking about. I think so. Yeah, but his comments are so great He's really funny and So I understand and I encourage as I know a lot of my Linux and open source friends They refuse to put any photos of themselves on there.  It happens to be a lot It happens to be a lot happens to be a lot it's useful though sometimes much of it I actually have my own personal Facebook page and not that I mind people for enemy But I know I'm gonna run into the limit soon as I have a lot of friends I have a lot of technical discussions on there because I have numerous friends that are they work for large fortune one of them works for a fortune 100 company as a hacker and You know, I have some great discussions on Facebook with them. He's always that Screw this Facebook thing. He won't load it on his phone things like that But he that's what he does He's a pentester for a fortune 100 company like that's his day job He does get to post some about what he does. We have great discussions on it And rants on some of the tech things. So I do have good discussions on there I haven't found any good open source forums, but maybe I can help start that So it's the link will be in the below and they don't find it You have to create it. Yeah, so I'm gonna create it and I don't mind. I've admin communities before I Help out admin actually some YouTube communities online to help people get started So I'm quick to help a lot of those people who are you know, I kind of came in the beginning saying well some of you aren't doing that great of a job, but I also I Never complained about something unless I plan to do something sure it so I as much as I said in the beginning Yes, I've got places on there's you there's a YouTube creators groups that you can get into and I help admin them And I help reply to people I help suggest software It's part of the reason I do my review videos for like how I do my editing because I'm very open and I've actually Helped a few of them and a couple of never local I've talked to in stuff and showing what cameras I use and like hey These are the things I bought you can buy this stuff used for pretty cheap But my camera's like three years old you can find it used and it's the same camera I'm using right now. So because someone said your video are using much older ones Yeah, people say your videos look you know the like your higher quality. I'm like lighting Lighting highlights. Here's a cheap place. You can buy lights I've sent links to them and things like that Facebook facilitates me very easy because someone will ask me a question. I literally I'm like, I'll I Way too much time on my phone, but I'll take a picture something and just post it And that's kind of what I want to have for the forum on there. So That's uh that oh the video just before this one was the toe of Satan my god That stuff is insane Marvin. Would you like to try it? I would not know I would not this no this stuff This is dangerous. Yeah. Oh my goodness that in fact you here's the crazy thing You would think this is just cinnamon candy. I mean the thought is this is just cinnamon. No But no no no biohazard right there matter of fact They interviewed the people that did the toe of Satan that the guy of the crater I found a video of him on there and Yeah, they have to wear special hazmat suits to cook the stuff full respirators because the mist coming off Or they do yeah, well the thing here that it had um, it's insane when we read the 9 million Scoville unit chili extract Yeah, it's added to it like on top of the already, you know chili act other chili extract and this it's it's I We I think the challenge is yet you're supposed to hold the toe in your mouth for five minutes Yeah, I made it well you and I both made it Maybe a minute round it up and say a minute, but I don't think it was even close to that. Yeah. Yeah, it was Watch the video watch the video. It's it's insane. You'll be amazed at how well how well and how poorly Steve did yes I'm gonna give a shout out because it's it's on its way. I got a message from one of my other tech friends I want to say he's in Indiana Stackhouse. I think it's Stackhouse technologies Stackhouse's last name and like I'm not clever I named my company after my last name warrants not a great name, but his last name Stackhouse I think it's way cooler. That's a cool name. That's a cool name. So you name his tech company after himself And that's not bad. That's not bad. The problem. We run into around here is Lawrence technology services being so close to Lawrence Tech The school yeah, so that's and so they see it on the shirt and they're like oh Lawrence Tech My brother went there and I'm like did we fix his computer? Yeah, that's very so I'm not always clever at things that's what speaking of things that I might be a little clever at the last thing We're gonna talk about yeah, Marvin's Marvin's Spearheading this yeah We are spearheading where we are He knows yeah, we're developing a let's call it an arm of of Lawrence technology services called LTS creative web marketing So we have been doing so well our own stuff and we've helped other clients to Kind of get things started with their website and their social presence And so we're gonna we're gonna make that an arm of the business.  Yeah, you more clients part of This beat this comes back to I don't complain about things unless I plan to do something about them So I just seen a gap in the market There's there's the demand is really high on a lot of the people who need marketing Especially in our areas and even outside areas because we're gonna do this at a large scale as the plan and I'm like You know, we do so much on our own Why not do it for others and then part of the thing that was really interesting is what? Marvin went to a talk put on by Google did part of the talk and he talked about how a lot of what you do is supposed to be personal Mm-hmm, and I think they said what was almost 50% of your I was really shocked at the numbers They it's they they call it to 50 30 20 rule 50% of your content should not be related to what your business is At all like it like we do with the eating hot food and yeah, the Satan's toe thing 50% of your content should just be like sharing Sharing things and and putting out there 30% should be related to your business, but not your business and then 20% should be what should be your business particularly so You've got what 80% of what you're putting out there is is not related to your business But it's there to draw people in so that then they will see your business Because if I'm not interested in Free Nass Yeah, right. I may not be interested in it. It could be something useful to me as a business owner But I don't know about it. I'm not interested in it, but I will watch these idiots eat hot food Yeah, and here's what's so weird about how this works and I was just in another marketing discussion On another forum and on Facebook which part of why this is our message replies that I should turn my phone off But anyways, let's put it down here anyways I think what people don't realize is when you start marketing yourself personally because reality is We got a pretty website and lots of IT companies have a pretty website What happens is people buy from people they like especially on the B2B side So they know us in so many times people like oh, yeah, I was watching your spicy challenge You guys do computer stuff There's some of the weirdest things like my personal reactions on Facebook people joking around with about stuff is Turned into I mean I can track almost a hundred thousand dollars in sales off of one time when me joking around with Corey and Someone says yeah while you were joking around you do that wiring thing and I'm like you do the wiring thing and that person said hey I want you to come bid this wiring thing and it turned out to be a big client of ours now because we started doing the wiring Now we've done wiring for all I didn't realize so many companies this person owned So wiring thing was like two hundred thousand dollars in two years in sales just this one client You're just like All because we posted something on Facebook about the wiring thing as they write which is which is fine But you need the interaction also becomes really entertaining when there when one of us goes out to a client and we this is how we know who watches the videos you're like Hey, he's spicy lately. Yeah, you know and we've even had clients come here I want to want to try that a good in messages and it creates engagement because If they're not into technology, they're into whatever the business they do They're happy that we're taking care of their technology, but the other side of it is they How do you engage someone that you know where the computer geeks and they're the you know people in their industry So it becomes an easy relatable thing when you're doing something I don't know what your spicy challenges or that's something you want to do But being relatable and showing that is a big part of marketing is showing the person behind it Simon Sinek just said it best people don't just buy what you do. They buy why you do it So people care about people who are doing something and they're interested in the person behind it And when once all things become kind of commoditized and equal they're going well Why would I want this or that they're like well? I know that this brand, you know and Tesla comes up a lot in They're very interesting because Elon Musk is giving away all those patents and doing all these other things and that and so People kind of buy into the ethos of it. Maybe you hate them Maybe you love them, but there's still something interesting to be said there for why that brand keeps doing what they do And I might do a whole video. I thought about ranching about that because someone there's a great tech on charcoal about why do people think Elon Musk's company supposed to make money He's going to Mars companies are incidental if they make money cool.  Well, if they spent nine billion R&D, I'm assuming in the hundreds of billions. Yeah, but it's 92 million dollars I think that was the totals for that was their profit. Yeah Basically some of these companies they're not trying to just rake in cash They're taking and doing so much in R&D and investment which is really interesting. It's a different is a different dynamic So yeah, we'll get too far off topic on that. Um, the last thing I'm going to talk about before we wrap this up is obsessive behaviors Because I'm doing it right now. Yeah What's that? What's that? So This is a little weird segue, but I caught myself doing I'm trying to stop.  I have to file them all the time. Okay. Yeah, I don't know It's just a weird thing. I was thinking about it because my kids we had a great discussion my daughter studying psychology and We're talking about serial killers We talked about all kinds of crazy things all the time and in the minds of people and part of her interest is watching her dad obsessively do things I'm at least self-aware. I know I'm doing a quick tangent. I would not be surprised if social services ends up calling Tom today And now he's like, yeah, we talked about serial killers we have my daughter and she's old enough to read these books and She's older, but she's she has a deep fascination with the psychology of people and we were talking about family members And I won't go into discussion about how off the wall some of the people that are in my family are But there's also the same thing and it's it comes back to I've always disliked the What was it all things in moderation? Okay, yeah, do you know what no one cares about? Moderation, do you know why because you care if I walked over a hill or do you care if I climbed Mount Everest?   I said we're showing your age The gray hair The gray hair helps show my age for the film work.  I yeah That is what they call it back in the 90s. I do have a degree in film studies. So film studies Which is a fancy way of saying movie watcher.  She's not really an online person, but I bet I could get her she doesn't ever work Thursdays actually Oh, then yeah, she should be here. Yeah I want to know and I have to ask her before I reveal anything about her because she's very Personal and lives in the she she would be happy if someone just gave her a bunch of paint let her draw in a Hole somewhere like in a basement and no interaction with humans for a long period of time. She's fine with that Yeah, Marvin's know my sister for a long yeah, yeah, she's a person of extremes And I want to see if she's willing to talk about it publicly I'm not positive what or not she is so if she is maybe she may be a fun guest to have on the show Yeah, cuz as crazy as I am with my obsessive habits We've all got them. Yeah, they're we well. Yeah, you do mine is you know I have to make sure that the hot water tank isn't leaking every time I go downstairs. Yeah Weird things why cuz I went downstairs one time and there was water all over the floor So I'm friends with the guy who actually did my home inspection that's what he obviously does for a living and He laughed because I had found a problem under my house because I go through my crawl space every two weeks and inspect Things because I'm obsessive because I found a problem years ago and I had to be fixed and now every two weeks I go under and crazy as this sounds I found a pipe with a drip because I swear I can hear it so I crawled around and checked every I have a big 2000s-square-foot ranch on a girl's base so I didn't crawl around and I found a pipe that dripped once every minute Well, I mean that happened here too. We try not not to be a drip But Tom is he vane focuses in on water sounds.  It's like a like a spidey sense He came in once and I was in the ceiling. I did I came in. I was like What are you doing is like something's dripping up here? I wasn't I I found the Noise though. I did I I turns out to be the heater Well at the time is AC causing the pipe to pausing it to contract just a little bit I actually moved and put a spacer in I Go crazy the soundproofing isn't just so I can record. It's so I can live exactly All right, we run this card out. Let's uh, yeah, let's let's shut it down So down like Thursday, let us know about all the things we talked about join the forum If you're interested in think the forums are horrible idea Let me know throw things in the comments or jump on the Facebook and throw them in the comments there Whatever works for you and if you want us to do your social media and your website contact us. We will Me yeah I am busy looking for drips. I'm gonna be busy. I'll be in the ceiling somewhere obsessing over something. Yes


Hey D-Class, James here. We just started a brand spanking new podcast with the Vulcan and Sumerian called the Special Containment Podcast. Each episode will have a special guest that's involved in the SCP community, so come by, it's a good time. Links are in the description. That said, enjoy the new episode. We should wrap this up. Be quiet, my show's on.


Hello people. I believe a lot of you have heard about blockchain and yeah, there are a lot of nice technologies But they have some issues as well and that Nickerson will speak about the ethical Considerations of blockchain She's from software freedom conservancy and I believe you will have a good introduction to the subject from her Thank you Awesome, it's great here to be here at FASDM and I'm really excited to talk to you guys about blockchain. I Am not a blockchain hater, but after 13 years of working in free software. I'm always suspicious of new technology Right, so we should always be a little suspicious and you know read the back of the box so to speak Which I guess is also known as source code But so I'm not a hater nor like a superfan But I have some I have some questions and some concerns and I know when we when we say blockchain I don't know how many people are in this room But I'm pretty sure that there are that many number of ideas of what we mean when we say blockchain So there are a lot of different things. I'm gonna speak generally and I'm not gonna call out specific coins or specific efforts but to think of it like I want us to think about the Technology in general and what heading in that direction means for us as technologists and what our responsibility is So the promise of blockchain is pretty great like most technology that people get excited about sounds pretty great on the front end of course Transparency and financial dealings and other dealings that sounds pretty great Like I know anyone who's like had a mobile phone has probably been like what the heck does this contract mean and why does it? Why do I keep getting these extra fees? So if you could have transparency with some of your other financial dealings That would be a real bonus the other thing Is decentralization I spent a long time working on new media goblin because I care deeply about centralization Decentralization I have a lot of worries about what the continual centralizing of online stuff means for us and you know having I mean science fiction fan I've read a lot of books where there's like three companies that control the entire world and when I first started reading those books I was like, oh man, that's ridiculous. That would never happen, but it turns out that's gonna be five So I have concerns like the decentralized power is a real bonus for me when we talk about the way that blockchain could work right and then efficiency like As a person who's done a lot of non-profit work, I've done a lot of office work I've done a lot of like work on systems that were designed by someone else who never intended to use them and I'm like, how come we have to type this in twice and it's like oh Because the person who designed the system is never gonna type anything in here So efficiency the idea of making mundane Transactions, especially mundane accounting transactions more efficient like Sings to my soul. I I imagine that there are office employees Which if we could gather up all of their wasted work, we could probably build a thousand pyramids With staplers probably, but you know what I mean? It's uh, so the efficiency part I like So well, we're gonna talk about the past and we're gonna talk about ledgers which have been around for a really long time One thing that I found really interesting is that Before like the 15th century We had like a huge mess as far as accounting systems like everyone had their own thing like Oh, I write on sticks like oh, I like to notch sticks. I like to keep stuff on paper like oh I like to write down like every day like what happened And then you just flip back through like the whole like last four years to see who owes what so this guy invited invented double entry accounting which you know, it's a It's not the most exciting invention. So like, you know, he's not like there's not like statues Like there are of like Galileo and things like that But double entry accounting was this huge early interoperability thing It meant that like your books and my books we could we could get the same thing going from one to the other It's like oh, here's the list of credits on mine and the list of debits on mine The same thing on yours as opposed to like what do I do with these sticks? How do I know that those mean I owe you money that seems weird So this was great for everyone who could read for folks who can read Written down ledgers are awesome if you can't read which wasn't everyone in the 14th century Then you still can't really look at the system of debits and credits and have confidence that the person Who is telling you you owe the money is being honest, which is a shame so that is That is a tricky thing So when we think about Replacing a lot of our existing systems with blockchains It's it's incumbent on us to make sure that everyone has access to it like a sort of literacy like a contract literacy Especially if we're gonna like transcend local government and have a situation where people are just sort of beholden to the system and not Without like some of the governmental controls that exist in their specific location Humor Abbey did this early Before Humor Abbey the rules of the land were at the whim of the king You could get brought in for any offense and And then the punishment could be anything Humor Abbey wrote down like if you steal you lose a hand if you kill someone Well, it wasn't I don't want to make it sound like it was this great egalitarian thing It was like if you kill someone who is rich you die if you kill someone who's poor you have to give up a cow It was it wasn't perfect But at least you knew what it was it was written down. And so it was like transparency so I think about the kinds of things that we might codify and And wanting to make sure that the folks that we codify for them We codify those things for are able to understand what we've done because one person's Like just business is another person's like very personal tragedy or emptying of their bank account or Even a massacre it could be like oh, you know for me. It's just business. So when I think about like You know what we might make efficient It's really important that like we understand what just business means for all of the members of that transaction in some of the things that we've normalized with Ledgers and treaties and things in the past are things that probably should not have been normalized So this this is a painting of the Treaty of Penn Which is the eastern part of the United States? So the native people are signing a contract here saying like yes all of this land you can do stuff on it Was there an equal understanding of how long that contract was intended to last or how exclusive that contract was intended to be Almost certainly not so you've got like but it's a contract So like you know later folks can go back and be like well your signatures on this This is a contract and you know, it's just business And they're like wait, I I don't understand So our understanding of what is up for grabs and what saleable might not match People that we're able to interact with on the other end so that and There's always a possibility for a real imbalance in power. So I talked about the mobile Contracts earlier, but there are a lot of things like that like I don't this room might have a higher than average number of people That actually read terms of service How many oh? Just a little higher than average. They're boring my dad's a lawyer. He doesn't read them either but but so for contracts that update over time The party who's drafted the contract and has the domain specific expertise is always going to write them in their favor So it'll be like oh the rate will increase according to this particular parameter that as the You know the company with like several hundred people employed Looking at this market understand very well how that will tip whereas the individual person looking at that contract might be like Yeah, I guess like more service. I pay a little more that seems okay like without really understanding the mechanisms by which that will happen And they could be very very efficient It could like boom because that's that's what we want from blockchain is for it to be very very efficient so we worry about the things that we might make normal and the Kinds of transactions that we could provide cover for in systems, and I know they're not all Anonymous some are some are not it depends on Well depends on how much you're willing to put in right? But it's incumbent on us as the people creating these platforms to understand what we might be making it easy for something to be normal and then You know so if we change the rules new rules mean new responsibilities, and and that means that we have to Do some sort of Hammurabi-esque thing where we make it clear what the new rules are And that's just the tip of the iceberg like stuff that I mean like just thinking about stuff that could happen Or that has already happened. We have like new kinds of things that could happen One of the things that if you're always talking about is like oh We're finally gonna like throw off the tyranny of governance of government, which is like okay I mean like so is this cat stealing? I mean it didn't pay for pizza I don't know any cats that have money, but like most of us would be like it's like a illegal activity I guess I don't care right and there are a lot of things in that category where it's like Yeah, I guess I don't care if people want to do that It may interest you to know that People have been using ledgers To falsify all kinds of activities like so this is an interesting example where in the US trucks they drive across countries is really big and They keep a ledger talking about how much they've slept and this is supposed to keep the other motorists safe So that everyone knows like oh well you should you should have slept this much so the but they keep two ledgers because You make more money if you go across faster and you don't have to split the pay for the trip with a second driver So what happens is they keep two sets of ledgers? So we might we might by having stuff that is a little bit more anonymized on the the inputs Be able to see situations where people could sort local law like and you might think like well I know how much sleep I need why is the government got to get involved, but when the the the balance on that on the other end is like 18 Miller going across the median and plowing into a bunch of cars and it's like well We perhaps have an interest there that we would want to keep in track so There are legitimate reasons for having government control on things and So so I worry about the things where people are like oh, hey, it's fine like I'm I'm good the government doesn't need to keep track of me I can just do these things because It doesn't always work so So transparency and control and efficiency there's always gonna be like competing competing interests here and I think that we may find that there are a lot of things that we agree on we might not agree on some things, you know like but Perhaps understanding where we've been and what's happening now We can extrapolate and hopefully avoid some of the things that we all agree would be bad so You know, what if we end up like accidentally coding a dystopia and I said that it's like Uses and crazy right like oh, we're just gonna have three companies from the world and it's like oh Didn't work out as crazy as I thought like what if we like I didn't mean to Accidentally code a new feudal regime where like everyone is beholden to like a particular company or You know, I didn't mean to accelerate capitalism so that we ended up with like people living in Underground bunkers and then like 10 billionaires. I think we still have 20 so we may be doing okay But and so and I don't think any I don't think anyone in this room if that was like a button that said like dystopia Plus a bonus of 500 bucks Not code the dystopia would like would pick the 500 bucks like it's never gonna be that obvious But some of the things that we lay down in technology at the early stages end up perpetuating so So this symbol is like an example of something that got used temporarily Just to go like okay. We'll put the at symbol in the middle of email And I had actually never thought about this but there are people that find it bothersome and in fact the person who first put the at symbol into our email has since Apologized she's like I'm so sorry. I didn't realize we were all gonna have to type this forever in our email for the end of Days so like when email is created it was like oh what's gonna happen? And it's like well, let's just try this for now and now we you know, we're never gonna get rid of the at symbol So it's so some of the choices that we make early on may have repercussions later on Like more serious ones like I actually don't mind the at symbol So where are we now? We have you know, we have folks nerdy folks using blockchain awesome You know and it's it's fun We have a lot of people doing Speculation which you know the tulip metaphor is like okay. Yeah but What I think about is like who actually benefits from speculation like I actually don't care if very wealthy people want to like play games with money and Lose like yachts and stuff to each other. I don't have a yacht. So there's not a whole lot of like. Oh, that's sad You lost one of your yachts but a Lot of these kinds of schemes there are a lot of folks who are susceptible to these get rich quick schemes like I don't know how many of you have aging parents where you've gotten to the point where they can't spend money without someone else seeing it But people who come susceptible to these things I worked at This was a gross job but I worked at a place where we called people on the phone and asked them for money and There was a company you could buy lists from of people who specifically are susceptible to get rich quick schemes and They're like, oh These people work for a couple years and then lose their whole fortune over and over and over again Because they just know they're never going to be rich the regular way so it's So there are people who can be exploited when there are systems that promise like great rewards Just read this very dense 70 page contract and then wait a few weeks, and you'll probably be rich So there's a lot of potential for exploitation there Another thing I thought was interesting is Because the end-to-end situation with black chains provides, you know a certain certainty of like what's happening in the network This is I pay and it's intended for people who are fleeing a country as a refugee So they can take their bank account with them And it's the key is their eye Which I guess is it's better than the situation where you don't get to take your money with you at all But it also creates kind of this gross weird market for eyes Because you can't like so your password gets hacked, right? Okay. You change it like You don't only do that once if you have two eyes And then you're out of eyes And like yeah, like I don't know about you but when I watch movies and they take someone's eye out for like a So so like I worry about the ways they're like oh, it's great like so like a Unholy mashup of biometrics and blockchain Some problems Had to point that You know, there's been a lot of talk about like hackers and dark web and people using blockchain to money launder and do all kinds of transactions Many of those people have been caught because they didn't understand the traffic analysis situation They're like oh, I just made my name like lead hacker money launder or 72 and But then like actual money goes into my bank account from some country. That's very far away from where I live So of course that looks suspicious So the you know the money lenders who didn't get caught I don't know. Maybe they're using Zcash now or something else or maybe they've they've seen the light and stopped laundering money nah, no one believes that but you know, so So people are using some of the blockchain systems for nefarious purposes, right? and Then I'm also I'm also kind of worried that most of the blockchain Or most of the Bitcoin money when we talk about those applications are in just a couple of places not quite one maybe and maybe nine somewhere maybe between those it's I think it's like three top coins, but You know, it's not like when I when I think about this promise of decentralization I wasn't picturing replacing like three companies running the world with like three Bitcoin companies running the world So we haven't quite gotten to a place where we have a lot of like smaller coins that are really gaining a lot of traction and Then of course the government's been spending a lot of time looking at like how can they use this blockchain thing? They're not they're like a little more savvy. I think the internet they didn't catch on for a little bit but governments largely understand the internet now and And they also largely understand blockchain and they've gotten really good at doing the traffic analysis for those systems that Provide encryption from end-to-end and figuring out how to find the end points and of course We need to talk about the massive power usage What we'll talk about a little bit some of the ways to ameliorate that but You know, and I know I know there's a couple of you thinking like but fiat power I mean fiat money also uses power and it's like yes But if we're gonna do more bigger complicated things and we want more people to be using Blockchains and bitcoins for their stuff then we're going to have massive power usage and we're gonna have to address that And some folks are like what about Quebec? They set up a whole thing over there by the hydroelectric thing Like hydro actually is well, it's better than nuclear power because it probably won't blow up and create like a Chernobyl like system, but Hydro floods huge piles of land and disrupts habitats displaces people all kinds of stuff So hydro is not like a perfect magic You know, we could talk about solar. I was thinking about You know solar block chains like that might be okay, right? But yeah, so the power thing is an issue So what we talk about we talk about improving black chain And and there are a lot of talks about it.  They fixed it No, but there are like a ton of groups that are looking at You know how to do smart contracts for humanitarian stuff These folks are looking at like policy especially in the European Union The MIT Sloan School, which is their business school. So MIT is largely known for its tech stuff So they have this tech and business like kind of experiment going on and then the Institute for black chain studies at Purdue So there's like there's so many different iterations and ideas out there like the the sheer volume of academic papers on Black chain and what it could do and what it might do is it's staggering. It's like there's like so much stuff But nobody actually has anything that I think addresses some of the core things with black chain, which is that Both both the proof of stake and the proof of work end up as this Very efficient mechanism to make it easy for the richer participants to become richer While the poor participants don't and so In my mind like the the thing that we are making efficient if all we are making efficient is a system where rich people get richer They don't need our help. They're actually doing really good already. I don't know if you've noticed I don't want to put a picture of like, you know, Jeff Bezos up or anything But like they don't really need our help getting richer. So None of those academics are looking at it from that direction. They're all kind of thinking about like, oh, well What kinds of smart contracts shall we have or like, you know, how shall we go and take take the blockchain to the rest of the world? So, you know, so I'm worried that we're not looking at the things that we ought to be looking at so the contract we talked a little bit about how Contracts if you're not like contract literate, which I I don't know how we ended up in a society with a whole Profession that is dedicated to writing dense non-human readable contracts. But here we are Even if the transactions are transparent and easy to understand if the contract itself is not easy to understand then we have problems The nodes This is another thing like like, oh, you can't you know, you can't game the the coins and the and the blockchain systems because You would have to take over 51% of the network Well, you can actually do that and it turns out now it only needs to be 34% of the network so the nodes like the idea that Individually they couldn't take over the network, but collectively they could so so there there are some issues there to look at And a lot of the a lot of the blockchain systems take that into account as like, you know Just a cost of doing business like the the network will be attacked every so often and we'll lose a chunk of money and you know So so there are people talking about how do we how do we spread that? You know system out with the nodes so that we're more robust and less likely to be hacked And then this one is very Interesting especially with some of the less like not the Bitcoin stuff But other places where you're like, oh, we're gonna do these contracts or we're gonna try and set up these You know systems that will help people in more remote places things like that the initiator which is that's like the beginning of the chain right so like You know if if you couldn't get things in and you couldn't get things out like nobody would really care about any of the Blockchain stuff because what what use would it be it would just be this theoretical exercise, but at some point it has to start in the real world and and so you have like a Like a situation where like what if nobody's seen the initial input so you've taken an initial input that maybe no one's seen and Then put it into a system that is then like, you know This is inviably accurate like we can guarantee that it is completely You know what you're what you're looking at is completely correct except for the very first step Which is actually a really big one so the land in Florida if you don't know this was like a you know people went to Florida part of weird part of the US That mostly looks like this actually not like Miami Vice we did there is that too, but but most of it looks like this and So people went back up to like New England and the Midwest and said hey, I bought land in Florida It's amazing and they showed them this picture of a beach and stuff And they're like, you know, I mean, it's too bad. You weren't able to get in on this deal with me I mean, you know, and then the other person like I wish I had bought band in Florida And they're like well, I mean I did buy two plots So can maybe sell you one and then they sold it like it became this huge thing where each of them sold You know at a upsell over and over again So like, you know, eventually someone went down and was like I own a swamp full of angry Alligators and I paid like half the cost of my house for it and The alligators won't even leave like so you end up with this like so what I'm saying is that the initial point From the real world that goes in and then becomes codified and certified and guaranteed to be correct is important So that's one of the things that we look at So the future so like, you know, I want us to think like what kind of future are we building with with these new technologies and You know a lot of people are like we're building this amazing paradise.  It's gonna be great And I like hammocks don't get me wrong, you know, or or we're gonna be rich. It's gonna be great We're gonna have like money for all the things We could like build this new economy where we could fund niche musicians We could you know Fund the development and creation of like smaller stuff like crowdfunding but like with a little bit of different kind of responsibility In there some things that might be legal in one place and not in another or paid for in another place Like, you know, one place has good healthcare one place doesn't for instance We could get We can end up with jet packs. I was always sad that we didn't get jet packs I feel like we were promised jet packs, right? The reason we don't have jet packs is because Insurance companies are like wait what you guys are gonna fly around in three-dimensional space and you want what no No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that But if we could ensure Ourselves like all of us who wanted jet packs, then maybe it would be okay So that's like a thing You know, we might even be able to manage the three-dimensional traffic in real time in an Inviable thing because you know timing actually matters when you have a lot of people flying around in jet packs And that's one of the things that black chain is really good at securing and and saying like yes This is this exactly happened at this time, right? And so like yes, you can take your jet pack in there, which would be great Um on the on the darker end of it like you know, like I said before we with a potential to like very efficiently Create a situation where the rich get much much richer very quickly and then everybody else kind of suffers This is from a movie called metropolis where they literally everyone who is not a billionaire lives in the basement And they they like work at a factory and crank things for like 12 hours a day in great coveralls You know, we'll probably still be allowed to have like fun spandex outfits or whatever, but I You know, I don't want to live in the basement just saying It's probably gonna end up somewhere in the middle I don't think we're either gonna end up with the like, you know Amazing like redistributed wealth hammock wonderland where nobody has to work again Nor the Fritz Lang metropolis like, you know, except for 12 of us. Everyone lives in the basement But it's probably gonna involve more suits than we think like this idea of like, oh, it's gonna be this great you know like power to the people but Like I said, we've already seen a lot of like government interest in losing blockchain we've seen a lot of We've seen a lot of banking like traditional banks Goldman Sachs is like really interested in black chain And they want to like see how they can Make things happen there Which is you know, when you think about like, oh, we're redistributing power I didn't really think of Goldman Sachs is first on the list Again, they're probably doing okay with us Another thing that I think is really interesting is the like hybrid semi anonymous But like still connected to a bank solution. So So DigiCash is an early example of this that got thwarted because of the software patents on it Which I thought was really like, oh, yeah, another thing that we Through by the wayside because of software patents And that's not that there aren't software patents on other blockchain stuff currently But the ones on that we're holding DigiCash back have expired So what DigiCash does is it has a nut like they have a better anonymization on the way in to the blockchain but then you still have a thing where the recipient gets money and It goes into an actual bank so they can be audited and taxed and you know can't take money for weird illegal stuff so easily So those hybrid solutions might end up actually being pretty good If if people were building them there's right now There's DigiCash, and then there's a good new project called a good new taller where they're looking at that It has a ways to go as far as user friendliness. I'll say You know, but they're they're writing papers Like I said if if writing academic papers turns out to be the solution to the you know Utopia where blockchain controls everything then we're doing our best There's a lot of papers The other thing I like I think about is like the the socials So we have a lot of like kind of lifestyle brands like like Facebook and Twitter and Apple And some of them already have ways to pay within the app And so like so on the like terrifying things we should try to not have happened like Rewarding people for their social behavior for as if it were like some work in a blockchain system would be pretty terrible I already like It already feels to me like people are sort of fake on social media But if like not all people of course and not all the time, but If if we allowed a system where Fractional changes in behavior could be financially rewarded on social media. I think that'd be pretty gross or you know Other companies like Amazon that sell you things like having you be able to like do product reviews Because you can already do like a product review and get like a five dollar credit or like a lot of them have whoops Like bring a friend and you get like ten dollar credit So like companies already looking at these ways like how can we make it seem? Like how can we financially reward you for pretending to be more excited about our product and our company? and so like they're already like looking at these things but You know if we if we've got a lot of folks that are Not employed or underemployed then you know I don't want to see this like kind of feudal company town thing where Everyone is behaving in the way that the company wants them to behave so that they can get their crumbs and there's their things delivered that worries me so So like the idea of having like a having Work being done on a social network. I think is like that. We should not we should not build that There is some legislation that's looking at how to like control some of the blockchain stuff Unfortunately like Well, each country is a little different but Politicians tend to listen to folks who already have more money Then they do to individuals so a lot of the legislation that's being talked about would would just make it more efficient and get things out of the way for Larger players to come into the space and not necessarily support and bring in smaller players China actually just recently is looking at legislation I think it would take effect to the middle of this month that would make anonymous blockchains illegal So that's like not for the individual user that obviously is for the government's interest So, you know, so the legislation that's being talked about is not going to be like, oh sweet We're gonna, you know, nothing to like protect individuals is being discussed so much as like It's it really all tends to go more towards we want to make sure the government gets its revenue and its taxes and its share of the of the, you know, this whole thing that is happening There's even like a discussion Like it came all the way back around again where they're like, maybe we should turn our regular like government-issued money into like Bitcoin And let's see. I think Venezuela is talking about this I don't know if that could possibly help the situation there at all And then there's like a dude in Puerto Rico who is like we should just have a Puerto Rican like State-level Bitcoin Yeah, I'm not like I'm not certain that that person has like the best interest of Puerto Rico at heart Like it's sort of sort of like oh and then you know, but it would all be me Like I would issue these coins and then like basically I'd own Puerto Rico and it's like So like some of the government-issued coins Don't have Like it it works the whole decentralization Idea that was part of the promise and then on top of that it brings it back to this like weird like wait So now instead of like, you know owing the IRS we owe the government Bitcoin guy Like I don't know how that works but it's Yeah, again, we would have like this Currency being issued without having any of the accountability that we would have whatever, you know the diffuse responsibility or accountability that we have with governments currently and then we've been looking at some of the Some of this reminds me of some of the utility deregulation stuff where It's like instead of taking on any responsibility We're just sort of like let the bigger fish eat the smaller fish until there are no small fish So what can we do? so first of all Like all of the all of the technology on top of this should remain free and open source software I think that's really really critical. Like we can at least maintain that level of transparency. I think that's really critical Also the conversations that we have about Like oh, what should we like should we have Bitcoin instead of our regular fiat money for the entire like Island of Puerto Rico, like there should be community voices at the table and not just the person who's willing to fund it But this is the case in a lot of in a lot of ways like I think When we let government and business like decide What technology should be possible without community voices at the table? We don't end up with good outcomes I'd love to see us do more solar power I don't know if that's like it within scope for this room But maybe you'll get to build something that helps people mine with solar solar power and that would be great it would also kind of like Restore some of the historic inequalities that we have built in we're like weirdly the places with less Sun have more money So that would be kind of nice, right? It would be like a good evening out I also think that So one of the things that worries me when I see people talking about like disrupting certain systems and replacing them with blockchain is that We haven't even really done a good job of getting electricity and internet to people. So like so this is from the this is from the US like in the 1920s or so and The like dense places cities They all got electrical power right away because it was very lucrative to set up a network for dense densely populated areas And then like the rural parts of the country were like We would we've been left in the dark literally And so they ended up forming citizen utility boards and stringing up their own electrical power because they didn't want to wait for companies to do it And so they did this In a lot of different places it happened again with internet because like companies like Verizon were like yeah Yeah, we're gonna wire up all of Kansas. Don't you worry for folks who are not from the US, Kansas is pretty sparse So they did Topeka which is the like the little dense spot in Kansas And then they just sort of didn't get around to the blanker spots and they kept not doing it They asked for government subsidies to help them with this herculean task of Setting up internet and the rest of the rural parts of Kansas and then kept coming back every two years to be like It was actually really hard So we need more money from the government to do the thing we promised to do a couple years ago so So blockchain is built on it's a layered you can't have it without Electricity and you can't have it without internet So if we put a lot of important things over there without taking care of the lower layers then We are really doing a great job of exacerbating the difference between haves and have-nots in our society Obviously centralization if we end up with like three Blockchain companies instead of three other companies controlling all our stuff. That's not good. We need to have Decentralized network and that means we need to create a system where a lot of different entities can come in We can't just have like three coins or like one contract place. So it has to be a whole bunch And so and I think we're gonna have to support in the same way that we would support a citizens utility board or like a You know neighborhood mesh network people putting together their own, you know like kind of homegrown types of systems That would compete with the ones that are more funded so So I was giving us a lot of thought I have some more reading if you want to do some more reading on this and take a look at What you may do and in the second one in particular is about the the broadband Well, I Work at the software freedom Consumersy that just went by we have a booth in the K room if you want to come down and talk to us and then Going the wrong way, let's see And then I would be happy to take all a couple of questions from you and then we can break for lunch. Thank you Yes Thank you that Nickerson. I think we have five minutes for questions and answers. Please Stay here and don't disturb if they are questions. So are there any questions? Okay, I'll be over here for a little bit you like packing up if people want to ask a not for the whole room question Thank you again. Thank you