Ojourno, Venezuela, or Bonanote, come with die. You can go to love in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go love in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German or Turkish or Japanese. But anyone from any corner of the earth can come to love in America and become an American. Welcome back to A Nation of Immigrants, a live, new talk show program featuring the lives of immigrants, knowledge, diversity, and inclusion. Brought to you by Kingsfield Law Office and Think Tank, Hawaii, we invite renowned immigrants to discuss their life stories, immigration adventures, and the contribution to cultural diversity. Today's guest is our good friend, Ellen Schley. Ellen is an artist, curator, and a social pioneer. Currently the Vice President for International Association for Female Art. She has been past president for the Minnesota Woman's Caucus for Art, co-founder of the Wave Gallery in Lower Town, St. Paul, in the early 1980s and on the board of WAN, W-A-R-M. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, including Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, International Design Center in Minneapolis, and had many of her images have been used for such organizations as Partners for Woman Equality, Code Pink, St. Anthony Park Neighbors for Peace, and Celebrity Yourself, her curatorial debut for the Woman and Many Project at the University Minnesota Catherine Nash Gallery, stretch her to a new level. Her work is in multiple private collections throughout the United States, Canada, China, and Africa. Welcome to the show, Ellen. We are so happy to have you on the show. I'm honored. Thank you. Thank you, Ellen. You know, we know each other for a number of years, and I know you are a second-generation Italian and or a Sicilian. And please tell us about your family and how they settled in Minnesota. I came to Minnesota over 40 years ago from Boston as a graduate student's wife. That was another life. I was a young mom. Originally, I was born in Washington, DC, where my parents, both first-generation Southern Italians, my father, Sicilian, and my mother from parts of Calabria, met after World War II. We moved back to my mom's childhood home in Providence, which was intensively settled by Southern Italians in the late 1800s, like 1890s, and very culturally immersed. Family was the bedrock of the community interaction there. And the home that I lived in was a tenement house built by my great-grandfather that extended families in one place in different apartments, where they depended on one another for food, economic, social, and daily interaction. Italian was spoken in that neighborhood and there was a parallel universe in that the culture was dominant. But there was also this theme of assimilation in my family, probably in other families around me, which directed them to become more like the predominant white culture. Wasp is what it was called, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, educated, affluent, and successfully successful by certain standards set by the American culture of the 50s. Most of my mother's family had left that community behind. And my mother's brothers and sisters had attended, in some cases, Ivy League schools and viewed parts of the Italian culture and behavior as contrary to succeeding in the American dream. Well, it's a beautiful American story. Your parents, I think the Sicilians make a pretty distinct distinction between being Sicilian and Italian. So I think you are both Sicilian and Italian and not obviously Minnesota and American. And have you got a chance to visit Italy? I have not had a chance to visit Italy, but ever. Circumstance has never allowed it, but I'm going this year. My cousin just got back last week from finding a villa in Tuscany. And so I'm going to have the opportunity to visit in the fall. And we're all going to converge and then be able to go out from that villa. I'm very excited. Looking forward to that. It's going to be perfect. I'm excited for you. Italy is just absolutely stunningly beautiful. I wrote these a few years ago, in a parallel universe. I really appreciate you mentioned parallel universe. I wrote this in one of my articles. I said in a parallel universe, once upon a time, I was Italian chef in Filance, Florence. I mastered Tuscany cuisine. I turned deceptively simple ingredients, flour, cheese, veggie, mushroom, and fresh fruit into his critically profound art of delicacy, completed by a sip of county tepidari. I have a tremendous affinity for all things Italian. And I firmly believe that I was Italian in one of my prior lives. But what would your prior life be like if you could imagine it? I love it. I love what you're talking about. I think I must have multiple parallel lives because I live in my imagination as an artist. I imagine myself for a long time a dancer as a young girl in kindergarten. My teacher gave me a picture of a ballerina. And I took ballet for about four or five years and received a book about being a ballerina. I then danced incessantly to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. And when I began to do my own process and art, I did multiple images of dancers with my brushstrokes in India, Inc. and devoting myself to a dancer series and doing pieces entitled Pockebel Canon in D major. And I think I did those pieces so I could live as a dancer through them and loving movement and music and the feeling of it seems to touch on the sacredness of life and the tenderness of human emotion across all boundaries. So I love it. Well, beautiful. Beautifully said. Thank you very much. And I believe all Italians are artists, natural born artists.  Tell us about your artistic background and what kind of art do you do? So I grew up the daughter of an artist. And so I was immersed in art from a very young age. So by the time I was, I would say, could hold something, my father put a pencil in my hand. We spent hours in museums, putting in museums and galleries in Washington DC, which is where I was born. And on most Sunday afternoons, I drew constantly. And by the time I was in high school and possibly earlier, I was doing portraits of people for money. The pertinent issue was that it was paradoxical at the time because my father could have been suffering from PSTD, which was unknown back then. And he struggled as an artist and died suddenly of a heart attack when I was about 17 years old. And so I was told not to do art. And so my mother's family urged me to major in something else. And I went on to school to major in English. And my brothers even went to the Rhode Island School of Design for a time, which is one of the best art schools in the country. And they were also discouraged from focusing on art, even though all of us were kind of driven by my dad and had it in our blood to do. So one of the most pivotal times when I started and began my own art, because I was doing portraits all the time, was when I came and moved out of my comfort zone of Providence and came to Minnesota. And during that time, I developed my own practice, which was a style that I had dabbed with in college, but never pursued. It was ink and brush. And it was an easy choice to overcome, because, frankly, it was economic. They were the tools I could afford, so a bottle of ink and brush. And I liked, but I began to like the simplicity and feeling of stretching this medium to the maximum of expression. My dad, he always talked about painting more than the eyes could see. And there was this quote that I think really influenced me, that he said, in art, I believe in art, what is important is not said is more important, if not more so, than what is explicit. I apologize for that. A detailed portrayal of the subject matter is of less importance to me than the emotional content or inner perception. So that really impacted me. And it's almost like I had to leave providence in order to get back to the authentic part of myself as an artist and also in understanding my identity as an Italian-American, both of which I felt like I had to dismiss in order to survive. That makes sense. Well, please elaborate that, that dismissal in order to survive. When we talk about assimilation or the inclusion, the question of assimilation inclusion. As a Chinese-American, I feel I don't need to dismiss my Chinese identity because I was trained as an artist in college as well. And you'll remember that. And then later, I went to law school in the United States. There are only two things that can bring me close to tears. There's Chinese literature and American law. And I see absolutely no conflict between these two. And because I'm a linear descendant of the Chinese-Arthur literature tradition, and at the same time, I'm proudly Asian-American. So I can understand why you see that identity is vitally important for an artist and an Italian-American artist. And please tell us more about your feeling and how do you think about this inclusion and assimilation issue? Well, I think that this is a really poignant issue because I spent so much time denying myself to be the artist that I really wanted to be, which was the path that my father was. I also, at the same time, was denying my own heritage of being Italian because at the time when I was younger and I was growing up, we were told not to speak Italian. We didn't learn a dual language. They told us to speak English because we were American. And so we really had a lot of pressure not to connect ourselves with our ancestry or our roots. I think that was just the culture of the 50s. That's changed now, which has actually allowed liberation for many of us who have spent so much time denying ourselves of the things that we're very much we have an affinity for. Food, one thing. The things that make us who we are as Italians, just the things that we relate to and connect ourselves to. For a long time, it was almost like we had to subdue it in order to survive. So it kind of recognized that the liberation of many of the cultural liberation that's happening for many immigrants and for Native Americans and for African Americans who have endured much more than I could ever imagine or believe could happen. I think it's been an unleashing for all of us of things that allow us to be more ourselves and be more authentic. And so I feel almost liberated by it. Absolutely. I agree with every word you just said. It's one of my friends who is a Chinese-American and who couldn't speak a word of Chinese because her parents prohibited her to learn and speak Chinese at home because they wanted her to be part of the simulation, to be assimilated, totally into the American society. Yeah, so I just by pure serendipity came to this country when I was already an adult. I came to this country 28 years old in 2000. And I'd just been lucky to come to this country at the right time in the right place and now in Minnesota. But I really appreciate that I can imagine the difficulty and the hardship you have endured and the cultural identity you try to build for yourself. Well, make sure that you're being recognized and valued.  I'm always curious about, you know, everybody have a favorite artist, but I'm always more interested in asking a partying artist, a real artist like you, or who is your favorite artist? Well, I'm thinking of the artists that I have many of them. When I stirred first and because my father was so immersed in art and had many art books, I grew up looking at the books of Da Vinci or the art of Da Vinci and the Renaissance period. So that was part of my kind of inculturation initially into art or introduction into art. But I started to begin to search out women artists because I wanted to kind of understand it. I had started a collection of Georgia O'Keeves. And so I got very immersed in Georgia O'Keeves because she started talking about how when she was in art school, she developed her style of art through doing the masters. She kept thinking, how can I improve on the masters? They've already done it. And so she began to do her own art and then is what spoke to me. So I started to believe in myself and believe that I could develop my own art and that the only way that I could really perfect myself was by being myself and doing my art. And so I did it initially in a closet. I always say I did art in a closet because that's about all the space I had for it. But then I started to begin to do images that people were, and I did it with this ink and brush and people, it started speaking to people and people started wanting to have the pieces of which always surprised me. But it was really my process. So I started doing these black and white images and then another pivotal point was when I went to Boulder and those particular pieces were in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art as in a response to 9-11. I got there about a week or two before 9-11. And so the idea is that these pieces speak to the, one is it takes a village and spirit of community, but the idea is that we are trying to, in this day and age, develop a way of communicating with each other. And the pieces that spoke through me were about community and connection and the power of being able to work. If you look at the African saying it takes the village to raise a child, it means that we all kind of work together, which is how I grew up. So I realized that my art was really speaking through me at that particular time. And it was during that time that I then developed the ancestor series, if you could say that take the next piece of art as I added color to the work. And this is about, and the mountains in Boulder spoke to me, the environment spoke to me. So I started to add some color and this is about bound in green. And I started to begin to think about my dad and that was the first time probably in 40 years. It was like, again, the art and the environment was speaking through me through art, where I started to begin to do a process that was speaking from my center. And so I began to, so as far as my, I'm kind of skipping around talking about artists and my own process in connection with each other. I've really always focused on artists that speak to me in my art and my art process, like Kathy Colwitz was another artist who worked only in black and white. And then there was Kira Walker and who did a show at the Walker, whose work was in paper cutouts, black and white, and who spoke about slavery through that. So I very much connect to artists who work very personally, which connects to whatever is going on in their environment. I would say that's essentially what my process is. Yeah, wonderful. So I was stung by Kira Walker for a time I saw her work. And for the record, I'm a big fan of Kandinsky and Nishikawa. And for the Kandinsky is for the music, because the first time ever I realized that you can watch artwork and hear music that I hear that when I watch Kandinsky. And for Shikawa, obviously it's for the spirituality. This is absolutely faithful, but it's also a little bit of humorous in that. To be honest, I see music in your artwork as well. I see music and I see spirituality. But instead of Shikawa's playful humor, I saw a profound courage. And the subtitle of today's show is Creativity Takes Courage. I really appreciate your courage to make art and to make certain groups voice her. And I understand you're the vice president of the International Association for Female Artists, IAFA. And they are other artist organizations and you have the president of Women's Caucus for Art. And could you tell us that what distinguish IAFA from other artist organizations? So IAFA is an international, I'm sorry, international organization, the only one in the world that seeks to give artists a platform to be heard and now seen. And with the advent of the incredible virtual tools that we are now available, that are now available to everyone. And I say that with the recognition that no matter how hard we try, there will always be those that we can't reach. However, we believe and seek to give voice to everyone that we can. Artists of all media, performers, writers, photographers, playwrights, dancers, and so on. We have established several vehicles to do this and that have become popular, talking about current issues that encompass social justice and inequality. The world has been transformed even in the last few years with the pandemic to push us to new realities that we never thought would exist. And so he have been changed in a way by this. And I think that IAFA will be ahead of the curve in this way as we leave the local communities to establish their community connections created by their creativity. We are bringing this virtual world that we are coming to know and trying to raise consciousness and create a voice that unites people everywhere through art and the women artists that bring them that voice. Wonderful, thank you so much. I look forward to see more art events with IAFA and look forward to know more about your work and artists you represent and work with. We have a question from the audience from Tom. Tom said, you spoke of repressing your identification with the Italian-American heritage and of a liberation that followed. Is there an event that sparked or precipitated your liberation? That's a very good question. An event, one event. Is there a turning point? There are probably multiple, I think there are multiple turning points and one of the things that I recognize really has been in Minnesota. I've developed a community of people, of very diverse people that has helped me with this process in recognizing their own voice and in accepting and believing in themselves helped me understand that I had my own unique gifts at coming from the place that I came from. So I think it's hard to pick out one particular event. I could probably spend another half hour telling you about the multiple events that I did, I have experienced. Yeah, I agree. For me, there are multiple events as well and sometimes they're big turds. zig-zag is not just the most highway ride. And we have only a minute left but we normally end up our show with two questions to our distinguished guests. One is if you were given a sign of vice to yourself in your 20s, what would you say? A second question, any particular recommendations for both movie and you would like to share with our audience? Sure. This was a hard question about looking back at the 20s because I would like to sit down for about five hours with that person, but I think I would tell myself to be less hard on myself and to have more self-acceptance. And in Buddhism, I would say one of the sports, the blind attitudes, loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity and equanimity is considered the most important and that is remaining calm and even the most challenging situations of which I know many people and I've watched people and that have to do that and learn from them. So I would say that would be what I would say would be something that I would like to tell my 20-year-old self would be more self-acceptance and less judgment. And I would say as far as books and movies, I know we only have about a second left. I have a couple of books that I, well, I read Sid Hawthor right away and was totally attracted to that journey. And two of my favorites books are, one is a play and one is a book, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun, which is very, very meaningful. And, but I would say that I love anything philosophical and have always been attracted to the readings of Tick-Nop Pan and to Rumi's poems and things that enlighten and raise the spirit that is the most important thing to me. Great recommendation, absolutely right. And my recommendation will be simple, everything Italian. Italian food, Italian movie, Italian books. And go to Italy, you will feel that you're, I think everybody be in Italy, you will feel like this is home. And particularly you will feel like home because I felt like home. Well, we run off the time with a great honor and the pleasure to speak with you, Ellen. You know, Ellen, Italian American artist. Thank you. Vice President of International Association for Female Artist and her recommendation would be raising the song and to kill a Mockingbird or anything philosophical. Thank you so much, Ellen, great pleasure. I look forward to see more of your art. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, I love you. Ciao. Ciao. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawai.com. Mahalo.


Ever heard of the MBTI test? It's shorthand from Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. First published in 1943, it still holds significance today and is used in many circumstances, ranging from marital counseling and relationship compatibility to career selection and personal development. As lovers of psychology and personality types, we thought it would be fun to do a series on all 16 types. Today we'll be talking about INFJs, otherwise known as the Advocate. Here are seven fun secrets revealed about INFJs. 1. Their magical unicorns. Okay, not in a literal sense, but INFJs statistically have been reported as the rarest personality type. To be exact, only 1-2% of the world's population identify as INFJs with slightly more females than males.  2. They put the book in bookworm. As introverts, INFJs love to pass time with the good old reading hour. They enjoy learning new things and have a broad range of interests, whether it's history, Hogwarts, or psychology. If you find that your INFJ hasn't gotten back to your texts, they might just be visiting Platform 9 and 3 quarters. 3. They know how to climb the social ladder. Consider INFJs as the goats in society. They know how to climb a mountain when they see one. Ambitious, knowledge-seeking, and always open to self-improvement. This type does what it takes to reach their goals. If they aren't careful, however, they may push themselves too hard. 4. They see things and understand them. Think of Charlie from the Perks of Being a Wallflower, a classic INFJ or holding Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rock. The minute they walk into a room, they can absorb everyone's moods. 5. They love a good puzzle.  They never shy away from a good challenge. Deep thinkers with rich inner lives, INFJs enjoy problem-solving and reflecting on ethics. 6. They're classy AF. This type likes the finer things in life. Whether it means enjoying a good glass of wine or wearing a snazzy pair of oxfords, they strive for sophistication. It's important for them to look and feel good. You'll catch them owning one or two quality items instead of five cheap ones. 7. They make routine unboring. INFJs are masters at organizing, from filing papers at work and color-coding bookshelves to planning the week ahead with those nifty bullet journals. Meticulous about their details and regimens, you can always count on an INFJ to be prepared, punctual and persistent. Are you an INFJ? Do you identify with these traits? Please share your thoughts below. We'll be exploring the rest of the personality types, so stay tuned if we haven't covered yours yet. Our comment of the video goes to Vadde who wrote, You forgot crushing on a fictional character. That's very true. Stick around till the end of every video to see if your comment made it to our next video. Thanks for watching!


Hi everyone, this is AliceGal. In the previous video, we looked at our second normal form game, Dancing or Running, and we tried to apply dominant strategy equilibrium solution concept to the game, but unfortunately there is no dominant strategy equilibrium, so this solution concept does not give us a prediction of how the players would behave in this game. But based on our intuition, there are some clear outcomes that are reasonable outcomes, such as both going dancing and running. It turns out that we can formalize our intuition using a different concept called the Nash equilibrium. Let's take a look. The hero of her story is John Nash. He was an American mathematician. He made a lot of important contributions to game theory and various branches of mathematics. So he obtained his PhD from Princeton, and during that time, as part of his PhD thesis, he worked out the idea of the Nash equilibrium. And this idea, and with his other contributions to economics and mathematics, eventually won him the Nobel Prize in Economics. To give you a bit of a sense in terms of the history and how life was like at the time, and also about this historical figure, I want to show you John Nash's one-page paper on Nash equilibrium and also his PhD thesis. By working on the project, you should have had some experienced reading research papers and you know what they should look like. But back then, you can see this is John Nash's one-page paper on Nash equilibrium. And you can see this paper is still mostly, this one is printed, but a lot of the paper back then are type-setted by a typewriter. And this is the seminal paper on Nash equilibrium. I look at how short it is and look at the fact that there is one foot node and two citations at the end of the paper. And then that's it. Here is John Nash's PhD thesis. It's on non-cooperative games. That's one of the central topics in game theory. And now you can see that this is entirely written on typewriter, right? Physically typed out by John Nash. And let's scroll down and look at a few more details. So if we go to the body of the thesis, you can see all of these equations. So they were not able to write out a lot of mathematical notations using typewriters. So you need to type most of the text and then write in all the formulas. So this is the last page of the PhD thesis. And you can see the bibliography again. Only has two things where one of the two things is Nash's own paper. This was just something interesting to show you to help you get a sense of history. Another way you can get to know a bit more history about John Nash is by the film, A Beautiful Mind. But unfortunately, my personal opinion is that A Beautiful Mind is not a very good and accurate depiction of Nash's life. In contrast to, for example, the imitation game, I thought that was really good for telling stories about Alan Turing and the theory of everything. I thought that was a great film for telling stories about Stephen Hawking. But not about A Beautiful Mind. I thought A Beautiful Mind had a little bit too much about the stories on the mental illness that Nash had been through. And I didn't think it was very accurate. And also, there were some criticism about the fact that the concept of Nash's equilibrium was really not very accurately described in that film. Anyway, if you're curious, you should take a look. But I would take it as a grain of salt. So one of the main contributions by John Nash is the concept of Nash's equilibrium. And not only did he propose the concept of Nash's equilibrium, he also was able to prove that every finite game has at least one Nash's equilibrium. And this is a remarkable result, right? Because there is an endless number of games you can construct out there. And this is a really, really general statement. The statement means that if you give me a finite game, then I'm guaranteed to be able to describe, to derive a Nash equilibrium of the game. So it means potentially we can use the Nash equilibrium solution concept to predict how players behave in any finite game. That also makes Nash equilibrium a really applicable and useful solution concept, right? Because like we've seen with dominant strategy equilibrium, if we have a game where there's no dominant strategy, equilibrium, then this solution concept is not useful for that game, for making predictions of that game. All right, enough stories about histories. Let's look at the technical details about what is a Nash equilibrium. So the concept of Nash equilibrium is based on this idea of best response. Best response is defined as follows. First of all, we have a strategy profile. The strategy profile consists of a strategy for player i and then some set of strategies for all the other players. Now, when can we claim that the strategy for player i, sigma i here, is a best response to all of the other agent strategies? Well, we can claim this if the following inequality holds. So in this inequality, notice that on either side, we are fixing the other agent strategies. So for some fixed set of strategies for all of these other agents, then we are comparing sigma i with any other strategy for agent i, so sigma i prime. And if you look at the quantifier at the back, the quantifier is saying we are comparing sigma i with all other possible strategies for this agent. So sigma i prime can change where sigma i state is fixed. So the inequality says, well, sigma i gives agent i weekly higher utility than any other strategy for agent i. Notice the inequality here is greater than or equal to. So it's possible that there's a tie, but even in the event of a tie, sigma i is still weakly better than any other strategy. So in short, this definition says that given what the other agents are doing, sigma i is the best choice for me compared to any other strategy for me. So I am playing my best response if I am playing the best strategy for myself, given that the strategies for all other agents are fixed. Given the concept of best response is quite easy to define Nash equilibrium. Nash equilibrium simply says that a strategy profile is a Nash equilibrium if every agent is playing a best response to all other agent strategies. So as long as every agent strategy satisfies the definition of best response, then we're good. You can see that Nash equilibrium is trying to characterize a stable set of strategies. The set of strategy is stable because while fixing what all other agents are doing, then I don't want to change to another strategy because the current strategy I'm playing is already the best option, weekly best option, because it's greater than or equal to. If every agent thinks they're playing their best option, then nobody wants to switch to another strategy. So another way of characterizing Nash equilibrium is that no single agent wants to deviate to another strategy if the strategy profile is at a Nash equilibrium. All right, let's now apply the Nash equilibrium solution concept to our game. So our dancing we're running game, let's only consider pure strategy Nash equilibrium, which means we don't want to consider any mixed strategy, any distributions, we are only going to consider the player's actions. So given that which of the outcomes are possible Nash equilibrium of this game, is it just dancing, dancing, is it just running, running, or both dancing, dancing, and running, running, or maybe the game has more than two Nash equilibrium? So which one of these is the correct answer? Take some time, think about this yourself, and then keep watching for the answer. The correct answer is C. Both of the two outcomes dancing, dancing, and running, running are both Nash equilibrium of this game. So you can see that by using the Nash equilibrium concept perfectly captures our intuition, right? Our intuition tells us that these two are both plausible outcomes, and so does Nash equilibrium. Check out the separate video for more detailed explanation of why these two outcomes are both Nash equilibrium. That's everything for this video. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now.


100% go-go-go. There's a lot of cross-training involved. It is a 40-man crew. Normally a ship this size has 150-200 people. So there's a lot of work to be done on here. The commissioning crew and the work we do here will have an impact on this ship 20 years from now. These ships have the ability to operate in shallow waters other major warships can't. This is one of the most versatile, most valuable ships in the Navy. Fast, agile and adaptable platform we can bring in different modules to perform different missions. Underway is a lot simpler to manage things. You don't have to worry about manning so many spaces, getting out and checking so many things. It's all at a console or all at you know a click of a mouse button. If somebody is looking to get out of their comfort zone and do something different this is absolutely the program to get into.


At COP, we have the opportunity to finally get on agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, addressing carbon markets and ensuring that the targets set six years ago are achieved. For the first time, different countries on the earth have a common objective because we want to restore the balance of the environment. We want to stop the global warming and we are now aiming at the same directions. The main opportunity in COP26 that this is the last chance for us to commit to below 1.5 degrees, we have seen how the global crisis can affect the global economy and world leaders have to act now for the mitigating and adaptation to climate change because we wouldn't be able maybe to control any unforeseen climate crisis in the future, unlike we did with the COVID crisis. The first opportunity is that there is global awareness created because of these, you know, observed climate extremes. The second one is that there is improved scientific evidence with high level of confidence that can provide strong foundation for decision-making. The third one is that there is these technological solutions, the advancement in technological solutions getting more affordable and more accessible. It's a big opportunity to address every other crisis because they are all interconnected. If we talk about justice, social justice, food production, the loss of biodiversity, all crises are connected. So our big opportunity is to rethink everything. I think the main barriers to change is ultimately this silo-driven mentality where you've got civil society, state, academia and the private corporation all saying very different things. Ultimately we need to bring these four spheres of influence together to shape positive change and I believe that we are all getting to a mindset where the time to act is now and what better way than seeing civil society, state, corporation and academia pulling together to make a difference. The net zero transition pathway touches upon all parts of the economy. So we're all collectively responsible from the producers to the exporters to the consumers but things are just not moving fast enough. The current carbon budget left for the world is shrinking year on year. We not only need to invest in nature-based solutions for example but we also need to ensure that countries and sectors abide by their commitments in a consistent and transparent way. Mandatory disclosure and reporting alike global standards should be introduced without delay. One of the most common barriers is the limited knowledge of mid-level management of climate risk related issues, their consequences on business and even on their personal lives. Another common barrier but also an opportunity is the lack of access of funding and capex expenditure for increasing energy efficiency operations. The main barrier is I think the lack of commitment at different levels especially by you know like developed countries because they have commitments towards developing countries. There are more promises and you know very ambitious ambitions of promises but there is less action. On the other hand developing countries have more strategies and an action plan for less implementation. We need to translate these promises into actions and strategies into investment plans and actions on the ground. Those most affected by the crisis are now not being heard and those looking to make a change did not have incentives. I would summarize as three piece, number one polarization of developments, number two politicalization of relationship or country-to-country relationship in terms of our differences as a humankind and number three procrastination in our discussion and actions in terms of the climate. I'm expecting from the leaders to keep the momentum of strategy and commitment and mobilizing finance and also utilizing COP 27 which most probably will take place in Egypt in Africa to concentrate more on the global south and that climate action on the global south. So both COP 26 and COP 27 I'm expecting a lot from leaders to commit more to climate action mitigation and adaptation. I want to see more integration of the scientific approaches to decision-making and I would really like to see realistic targets associated with dates that are not 2050 or 2030. We do need to be looking at short-term and measure impact and progress in the short term. We are living in an increasingly dense world and spatial sustainability needs to be a counterpoint to social sustainability. We need to think about cultural preservation and the ability to preserve who we are and understand where we are going. Finally, let's use technology wisely to ensure that it enhances our lives and also can actually help reduce our overall consumption and thus lead to a greener future for future generations. This journey has to be as inclusive as possible and create new jobs, sectors and provide opportunity for enhanced prosperity. The most significant contribution that we can make to tackling climate change is financing the transition to net zero. Financing is key to building a sustainable future and one of the most important aspects is to ensure that it flows to all parts of the world. The recent wave of net zero emissions pledges from many countries is most promising and this momentum needs to increase but ensuring that pledges are translated into immediate actions, long-term strategies and of course effectively implemented is the type of leadership we need now. We need leaders who believe in the science behind climate change. We need leaders at every level, young and seasoned to bring their passion and action into the communities who most need support. This isn't a question of racing against the clock. We need to stop and restart with a sustainable mindset.


Welcome to another edition of Haiti. Haiti is a series of videos I do where I respond to viewer questions and comments. These questions and comments typically come from the comments posted on the videos on YouTube and Odyssey. Sometimes these questions and comments come through social media such as Mastodon, Reddit, sometimes through email. And the very first question I want to respond to is, Haiti, it's time for an update since Firefox is dead and Audacity is gone. I'm curious, what other software suggestions do you have for the common user? Well, that is kind of a deep question, especially if you're talking about all software like everything you should use on a computer for a common Linux desktop user. That's an entire video. That's an entire series of videos. I'm not going to get into that. But he specifically mentioned that Firefox is dead and Audacity is gone. Well, Firefox is not dead, but a lot of people have problems with the direction Firefox is going. And that's part of the reason why Firefox here in recent years has lost a lot of its market share. Firefox is definitely on the decline. I think it's definitely a dying project. And nobody can deny that. Even people that are fanboys of Firefox, you know, a lot of people want Firefox to succeed. I want Firefox to succeed because it means a lot to free and open source software. But the problem is the people running Firefox, they are not taking it in a direction that it needs to go. And unfortunately, it's losing market share. Google Chrome keeps gaining influence. You know, it dominates the browser market share. Audacity, of course, is now essentially spyware. But we have forks, right? And that's the thing people don't understand with free and open source software. Both Firefox and Audacity are licensed under free and open source licenses, which means they can be forked and they have been forked many, many, many times. There are a ton of Firefox forks out there you could use if you love Firefox. One of my favorites is LibreWolf, which is essentially straight Firefox, except it doesn't have a lot of the problems that Firefox has. You won't have pocket installed by default. You won't have DRM actually installed by default either. It's mainly for privacy and security. So you're going to have to enable DRM in LibreWolf, which is just a checkbox, something you take in the settings. For example, if you want to watch Netflix. But the great thing about LibreWolf is AdLock is built into it, which is a feature I know a lot of people find useful. So I would say check out LibreWolf. And for Audacity, I made a video a few weeks ago about two popular Audacity forks, Audacium and Tenacity. And I've got both installed on my computer. I use them all the time to edit audio for my videos. As a matter of fact, this video I'm making right now, I'm probably going to have to edit some of the audio, clean up some of the audio on my shotgun mic here. And I'm going to do that probably in Audacium. Moving on to the next comment is a comment that I got from literally dozens of people on my video the other day about the top five Arch Linux based distributions.  They haven't had an official release in a long time. The last official ISO was something like a year ago. And I said, I don't like installing rolling release distributions from such old ISOs. So that, you know, prevents me from really recommending Artix to people. People are like, hey, DT, you're wrong about Artix as the rolling release comment and the ISOs being old. There's weekly ISOs. Artix is always up to date. Well, here's the thing. If you're going to make a comment like that, that a weekly build or a daily build or a nightly build of a Linux distribution means that that Linux distribution is always up to date, you know, that those nightly builds, those daily builds, those weekly builds actually count as official ISOs, then literally you could say every Linux distribution is always up to date, right? That's essentially what you guys are trying to tell me is, you know, these automatic builds, right? Because it's an automatic server that spits out these daily ISOs or these weekly ISOs for many distributions. Many of the distributions that actually see active development do push out daily builds or weekly builds, but those are not official ISOs, right? There's a reason they don't call that an official release. They don't put it out there for public consumption. Because nobody really tests that thing. That's just something that, you know, they're servers, they have a build server that spits that thing out, you know, once a day or once a week, but those are not official releases and there could be problems with that and that's why I don't install daily builds or weekly builds on this channel. Like I don't do a distro review or a first look at a distro and then go grab a daily build or a weekly build because that thing could have bugs. And if I do run into problems with that and then people are going to complain, well, that's not even the official ISO. That's a daily build. That's a weekly build. Of course it has bugs. Nobody tested that. Why are you using that DT? But then I've got other people telling me go grab a weekly build because it's just like an official ISO, right? It's like an official point release. No, it's not, right? And you're lying to yourself if you're trying to convince yourself that a daily build or a weekly build of an ISO is the same as an actual thoroughly tested release, an official release of a distribution because it's just not. And the next question is, hey, DT, first of all, I love your channel. New supporter here. I appreciate your support. And then he goes on to say, just wondering if there is an uninstalled script for DTOS. I was also wondering if there are dot files to pull the individual configs from. I love DTOS and I would love to piece it together. All right. Well, let's start with, is there an uninstalled script for DTOS? No, there isn't. And I really can't make one because the way DTOS is set up, it installs all of the packages I use, all the programs I use on my desktop, plus some custom packages that I build and maintain my own repository of software for Arch Linux. And it installs all of my packages and programs, fake files and everything from the ground up, assuming that you install it from a base Arch Linux install, but even you can install it on Arch base distributions like Manjaro, Arco, Endeavor, things like that. But I have it set up, assuming that many people will install it from a base Arch install, meaning nothing is installed, right? The base Arch install is essentially when you run the packstrap command for installing Arch and installs the Linux kernel and the init system and a few base packages, but it doesn't install anything else. There's no graphical environment, no graphical programs installed of any kind, but my DTOS script does install the X11 server, right? Xorg it installs all of the desktop environment, the login manager, all the graphical programs you're going to use on your system. And I can't have a script that just uninstalls everything that DTOS installs because if I just reverse the script and just say uninstall everything that DTOS would normally install, well it's going to uninstall Xorg, it's going to uninstall video drivers, it's going to uninstall a lot of important stuff, so I really can't have an uninstall script for it, but if you want to uninstall the packages, some of the packages that got installed, which you could do, there is a file in the DTOS repository on GitLab it's called PackageList and it's a line by line listing of every package that gets installed when DTOS is run. So what you could do is go in there and just look for some of the programs that you know over want and just uninstall them yourself. Now you also asked, are there dot files for individual configs? So you don't want the entire DTOS, right? You just want specific configs, like you just want my Xmognad config, nothing else, or you just want my Doomy Max config, nothing else. Yeah, you can go get all of that from my dot files repository on my GitLab. So don't go to the DTOS repository, go to my dot files repository, and in the dot files repository those are my personal configs for everything on my computer. Every window manager I've ever used, every text editor, anything that has a config file practically, is in my dot files repository. Moving on to the next question. Hey DT, do you encrypt your ARCO installation? I'm wanting to try ARCO but want to have encryption and I get a video tutorial, smiley face. I don't know if there's a need to do a tutorial, I'm assuming you're just talking about your basic hard disk encryption and I'm assuming ARCO probably has a box that you just tick on during the installation. Many Linux distributions do these days where during the installers, the Calamari's installer, whatever installer they happen to be using, what most distributions now will have a box where you check, yes, you want to encrypt your drive then you give a password and then that's it, right? You've got encryption meaning that when you reboot your computer or start up your computer you actually have to enter a password before your computer or boot up and anybody can actually access anything on the drives on your computer. It's not hard, you really don't need a video installation on it. Now you asked me personally, do I encrypt my drives? No, I don't because I'm in a unique situation where nobody really has access to my machines, especially my towers, you know, my workstations. Nobody is going to steal them, they're not in a position where that's an option, they're not in a position where people are using these computers other than me. Now if I had laptops that I carried around all the time, then I would strongly urge you to actually encrypt those devices because anybody can steal a laptop, right? Or you could just lose a laptop, right? You could, I don't know, get on a bus with your laptop bag and forget to grab it on your way out. Well now anybody can just pick up your laptop and they could eventually access the data on those drives if you didn't have it encrypted. So for laptops, I would always encrypt the drives for workstations. You make that decision yourself but for me, I don't bother on my workstations. And the next comment I want to read is one I get on almost every video I've ever made since the beginning of time by thousands of people. ADT, I see you are using the clear command a lot, try control plus L instead, you will not go back. So what he's talking about here is in a terminal, when I want to clear the screen, I type the word clear and it clears the screen, right? He's saying that you could just hit a key binding for the clear command control L and he is right. Control L does work sometimes. It depends on the shell you are in and it also depends on what mode you are in within that shell. For example, on the bash shell by default the bash shell uses Emacs key bindings, Emacs like key bindings. And in Emacs, those of you that have used it, a lot of key bindings involving the control key such as control L and that is why that key binding is there. I actually don't use Emacs key bindings in my shell. I actually set the bash shell not to use Emacs mode but to use VI mode or VIM mode, right? So it uses VIM like key bindings. So control L in my terminal actually doesn't do anything in the bash shell or in the ZSH shell either because I think I have that set to also not use that command. So for me, I do have to type the clear command but even if I didn't, even if I did use Emacs bindings, I still would type the clear command on my videos. I do that is because I want it to be obvious to people, hey, I just cleared the terminal by typing the clear command or if I just do a key binding and I don't actually mention the key binding or what it does, people are going to wonder, well, how did he get a new screen, a fresh screen on his terminal? How did he do that? Well, by typing the clear command, it's obvious to a new user who doesn't know much about the terminal exactly what I did. But the biggest reason that I type clear instead of using control L is because I know it annoys the hell out of people and I and when I say I've literally got thousands of comments about not using control L, I'm serious, thousands of comments. This helps me in the YouTube algorithms. I will never use control L because I want to always type clear on every single video I do is because I know I'm going to get a few people that actually leave me comments about it and you guys really help me in the YouTube rankings. And another comment I want to address is, hey, DT, your Gemini server is down. I've gotten this hundreds of times. Yes, I did videos a couple of years ago about Gemini and I set up a Gemini server. I had a Gemini website essentially of what is called a Gemini capsule and I do like Gemini. I still like Gemini. I no longer have that server there because I just couldn't keep up with it. I like making videos. I don't like maintaining websites, gopher holes, Gemini capsules. I don't like any of this stuff. I don't like maintaining my mastodon instance or any of that stuff. I do that stuff mainly for proof of concept because you guys want some of this stuff up but I don't like it and it's time consuming. I spend as much time on all of this stuff that you guys don't even see on camera as what I do on camera. And again, most of it is stuff I don't want to be doing anyway. But the Gemini capsule, you know, I have to maintain a website because everybody's on the web. So I'm maintaining my own website and I'm maintaining my own Gemini capsule. That's double the work, right? And what I was eventually thinking of doing, I never got around to it, was I was thinking I was eventually going to set up a website that was written in org mode where org mode through org export would export to HTML for a website and it would also export to gem text which is the syntax for Gemini. That way I could write everything in org, just have all of my org documents export to a website and a Gemini capsule. I never got around to that. That's a big project and again, it's something that really doesn't interest me. I don't like the web.  It's just not something, it's not something I want to be taking up my free time essentially because that's what it would be doing. It takes up my free time. I spend all day every day working on these videos, right? Thinking about these videos doing show notes and getting ready to do all of this which I really love and then in my free time I'm going to be building websites that are associated with the channel. No, I don't want to do that or hanging out on social media, you know, promoting the channel. No, I don't want to do that when I'm not doing this. I want to be doing stuff with family and real friends and real life and I don't want nothing to do with all that stuff. That's why I let the Gemini capsule go, I may eventually, my website go, I may eventually let everything go.  I just hate it. I really do. I know a lot of you guys are probably, that's weird because I love hanging out on the internet all day. I'm to the point where I just really just want to check out from the whole internet at this point. And the next comment is one I got from a couple of dozen people. Hey DT, great video, thanks for it. If I was hanging out with you in a friendly video chat during this recording I'd say that your next alias needed to be SBRC equals source dot bash RC. That should be your second alias. So this came from a video I did where I showed you some of what I thought were the most useful bash aliases for anybody using Ubuntu. And I said the very first thing you want to alias is upgrading your system. So sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. Make an alias for that command because you're going to be doing that command in the terminal all the time. And then the second alias is saying well you should probably make the second alias sourcing the bash RC because that's useful if you're constantly adding aliases, right? So you could resource the bash RC and I knew people were going to leave that comment. This is another one.  I take advantage of you guys and this is something that is a good tip for content creators if you're thinking about starting a video channel, a YouTube channel, or Odyssey channel is you know if you want to drive comments, right? And drive a discussion. You know sometimes you have to play the game a little bit and I knew I typed source dot bash RC. I typed that command on that video at least 20 times probably and I knew it while I was doing it. Man people are going to tell me to alias this but I'm not going to alias it because I want them to tell me to alias it in the comments because again the more comments you get the better you rank in the YouTube algorithms. So again I just probably I don't want to you know make it sound like that I'm purposely taking advantage of you guys the viewers because I do love you guys. You guys are really wanting the channel successful and wanting the community around the channel is successful but sometimes I do have to play the game and I hope you guys understand that. And the final question is hey DT what would you do if Windows became open source? And people have asked this question to me several times over the years this this one keeps coming up.  So what if Windows was open source? Would you use Windows? Well it's Linux you're gonna be proprietary or it's Linux you're gonna be free and open source. I said if Linux is still free and open source it's still a better operating system than Windows. Like it's not just the freedom aspect of it it's just Linux is better. Linux is more flexible it's more customizable. Linux is more secure. Linux more private. It's Linux I have fun using Linux. Windows is frustrating. When I was a Windows user I never realized it how much pain and suffering in my life was caused by using that horrible operating system. It doesn't matter what Windows is licensed under. Well I won't say it doesn't matter. I would love for Windows to be licensed under a free and open source license but I mean Linux is not the only free and open source operating system out there right? There's a million of them. I mean if you count each Linux distribution as its own operating system and then you've got all the various VSD operating systems and there's a whole bunch of them and then you've got free operating systems like Haiku, ReactOS and some other you know really niche operating systems. You got the various UNIX operating systems, Solaris, OpenIndiana, things like that out there. They're all free and open source right? I don't use all of that. I don't use any of that other than Linux. Why? Because I like Linux right? It's not just the licensing. Now if Windows was open source would I actually do stuff with it? Would I have it installed? Would I keep a virtual machine of it around? Would I demonstrate Windows stuff on camera? Would I actually start giving Windows coverage on my channel? Yes I would because at the end of the day I do like to promote free and open source software and if Windows was free and open source software even if I personally didn't use it I would still give it coverage just because I want to promote anybody that is also promoting free and open source software and Microsoft was really invested in free and open source software and made Windows FOSS. Yeah I would definitely give it time on the channel just like I give VSD you know time on the channel on occasion or some of the various flavors of UNIX you know even though I don't use those operating systems they're free and open source software they deserve a little love to and I would cover Windows on this channel if it was ever truly open source. Now before I go I need to thank the producers of this episode of HeyDT. I'm talking about Devin, Gabe, James, Matt, Michael, Mitchell, Paul, Scott, Wes, Akami, Chuck, Commander, Angry, Diokai, Dylan, George, Lee, Linux, Ninja, Maxim, Mike, Erion, Alexander, Peace, Arch, and Fedor, Polly, Tect, Red Prophet, Stephen, and Willy. These guys they're my highest tiered patrons over on Patreon without these guys. This episode you just watched would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen. All these names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. It's just me and you guys, the community. If you like my work and want to help support me please subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. Alright guys, peace.


A semi-logarithmic chart, and you thought there wasn't math in psychology. There is lots of it. For those of you that don't understand that, go away now. Just leave. Just counting. Anyway, off the topic. Semi-logarithmic charts. It's a two-dimensional graph with a lot of logarithmic scale. I have a hard time saying that word. A logarithmic scale on the y-axis, right? So this one. So that equal distances on that y-axis represent changes in behavior that are of equal proportions. You wonder why I keep looking over here, because this definition is pretty good, and this is kind of a tricky thing to say. So again, you're going to need to look up what logarithms are and logarithmic data and representations. But a logarithmic chart literally just shows you that proportions of responding. It's one way to think of it. It's pretty useful in the lab. The lab that I used to hang out in. They used it all the time to look at all sorts of stuff. So it's powerful, and it gives you these relative rates of responding in a sense. So anyway, useful. See you.


Happy New Year, Freedom Family! We paid you three days early, $3.4 million for all your hard work in December. And this is 2021. What a great way to celebrate. It is the end of the year of hindsight. Why? Because hindsight is 2020, right? 2020, bye-bye. 2021, I'm so excited. What are your New Year's resolutions, Freedom Family? We have one guy who has a lot of New Year's resolutions. Yeah, this guy, Brad Hawn. He is the first recipient of the Freedom Scholarship. Click that I to see this video behind me, which explains why we chose him, his story, and what he's going to do over the next seven years. This is a seven-year plan, guys. Brad will be committed to freedom for seven years, where we pay him a full-time salary so he could focus on becoming a creator right now, and he quit his full-time job so that he could do this. That's why it's a seven-year plan, because we believe it'll take seven years for Brad to become the next PewDiePie. Well, he won't become the next PewDiePie, but someone who can make a career just in video, pay for all his bills and expenses through doing what he loves. That's the whole point of the Freedom Scholarship. If you feel you're a deserving member, just watch that video and then email support.freedom.tm and explain why you think you deserve to be the next recipient. Brad will interview you, and then we will decide as a team who to pick. So far, there is no second recipient, and many of you have applied, so keep applying if you feel you deserve it. In game publishing, remember this video? I said we were a 2X game publisher because we published two games. Now we're a 10X, 10X publisher because we've signed 10 games to publish in 2021. That's an amazing milestone for the Freedom Games team. They are the ones who are signing all of these games that you will get to play for free because you're a Freedom Partner, and we also have the 110% revenue share for everyone who makes videos about the games we publish. Click that eye to see this video behind me that explains the 110% revenue share, how to get it, how to use the Freedom Dashboard to receive the 110%, and I hope you enjoy this really unique, special thing only Freedom offers its partners. We are building music.tm. This is the website behind me. That'll be a new dashboard for all you Music Promo channels looking to get deals with all the major record labels. This will be the matchmaking platform that connects industry, music industry, with YouTubers who want that music legitimately legally with full permission, no risk of copyright strikes or demonetizations when you use music.tm as the way you get your permissions for commercial music from Backstreet Boys and other famous artists. And what's this? These are our blog stats, I'll move myself, for our new OVob, MgN.tv. You can see the spike in traffic right there. Let me move myself so I can point to it right there. That shows how effective blogging is to get you more views. You can get the same spike in traffic by following OVob, one video, one blog. I have videos documenting this, but the concept is simple. Open up a blog at the top of each WordPress post. Let me show you. You post your video and then you write descriptive editorial text beneath it. For example, Genshin Impact. There's the video and there's your descriptive editorial text. And by the way, we have a little dark mode button. It's pretty cool, huh? Now that's not the only site. That was MgN.tv. This is worldofwarcraft.mgn.tv. Let me show you the blog. Same concept, OVob style, huge spike in views lately, where we write all about the new Shadowlands expansion for World of Warcraft. And I'll give you one example. Open up this blog. There is the video, always at the top, just like on YouTube, followed by good screenshots, edit, compelling editorial text, keyword rich, to get Google SEO love in addition to YouTube SEO love. And the beat goes on. These are the same weekly stats for our World of Warcraft video site. And this is the Destiny 2 video site. Let me go to the weeks. You can see, again, a big spike. OVob works, guys. And I'm excited to say that the traffic is scaling. I bet in six months these numbers will look just like these little ones from back in November. But we'll see. And if you wanna start your own blog, you know how it works, email support at freedom.tm. Tell us the name of the blog you want, and we're happy to host it for you so you can get busy writing. Or contact us on Discord. The link is down there in the description below so you can hit us up on Discord, the MGM or the Freedom Discord. Look for any admins, and we're happy to help you answer your questions and give you a place to start OVob. 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Hello Socap, we're so glad you're here. I'm just curious how many of you are here for the very first time? Wow, welcome. We hope that you are going to have a splendid time and become a part of this amazing Socap family. If you haven't caught on to this yet, this is our 10th annual Socap event held right here at Fort Mason and we're so excited about that. In these years since 2008, so much has changed. The world has changed for the good because of so many initiatives and ideas and organizations. The work that you all have done and will continue to change because of the work that you are about to do. It has also changed for the not so good in so many ways. And some of that we can actually see evidenced outside our window with the haze that we see around us. Caused by the fires that are happening. The worst fire in California in modern history. There are people who are not here today because their homes and lives have been impacted by those fires. People whose homes have burned. We want to keep remembering them and the people whose lives have been impacted in the hurricanes and in so many different ways. That's why we're here. We're here to do the work that needs to be done to change the world for good. And we're so glad that you have come to join us. We hope that while you are here that you will get the knowledge that you need to help you do your work better. That you will find those partners, the people you did not yet know. Someone who will give you that spark of inspiration or just that right connection you need to do your work even better. And we also hope to inspire you. And we're so glad to bring this first group of folks out to the stage for some of that inspiration. The woman who is coming out to the stage has been a mentor to me and many, many, many others. She was a mentor to Tim Freundlich and Kevin Jones as they started their first fund with Good Capital. And a mentor as we launched SoCAP in 2008. And she will tell us about some of the work that she's doing now with Culture Bank. And introduce us to some new friends who will talk to us about ways that we can make our lives more delightful and more impactful. So Penelope Douglas, can you come to the stage? Here she is. Hi everybody. Thank you. I am so excited to be here and I was saying to somebody. Thank you. Can you hear me all right? Better? So excited to be here. Is that sounding all right? Is it sounding all right? I only have this mic. How am I sounding now? I'll be subdued. I'm very excited to be here. But I can't speak any more loudly than this in order not to cause interference. Today's theme, the theme of the opening plenary, is we are here and we are inspired. And so, of course, what I took a minute to think about before today, by the way, when you come to the opening plenary, I don't know how you all feel, but I always feel a little bit like I've just landed on Mars again for the first time, even though it's the 10th time. So we're all sort of getting acquainted again. And I really anticipate that feeling, but it always makes me a little nervous. But the theme of today is we're here and we're inspired. And I took a moment over the last couple of days to think a little more deeply, think a little more deeply, think a lot more deeply about what gives me inspiration, what allows me to be inspired. And I arrived at something very simple, but in truth, it's something I don't think about as much as I probably should. And I realized that the reason that I'm inspired is because I know I'm beloved. I'm inspired because I know I'm beloved. And yet, when I left Fort Mason yesterday after an event, I walked outside and immediately encountered people that I know do not feel beloved. And then I, of course, can think about the millions of people around the world who are not inspired, perhaps, and perhaps in part that's because they or their communities do not feel beloved. I also have access and the opportunity to bring you assets of value that include my creativity as an artist and as a social entrepreneur. I get to collaborate. I get to radically collaborate. I get to try to overcome my fear, which is a huge thing for me. I'm always thinking about trying to overcome my fear. And one of the ways that I do that is I try to use all my senses. So these are the things that I think about when I come to you starting off a plenary where the theme is we're here and we're inspired. It's both about my inspiration and also about what might be happening in the world that doesn't provide that. I'm also here very, very excitedly to kick off the beginning of a spotlight series at Socap that is about something that is work that I'm doing now, and it's called Culture Bank. And so I couldn't be more excited and proud to introduce our first session of our spotlight series on Culture Bank by introducing three phenomenal people, three globally renowned creative professionals.


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What's up, everyone? So this has been the craziest week in stock market history, right? In my seven years of trading, I have never seen action like this, never, never, never. I have never seen so much dumb, uneducated money in the market that has started to gamble. People are treating the stock market like a casino. They're just rolling the dice on these random stocks and nine out of 10 times it doesn't work out. And nine out of 10 times, when it goes down, who's left to make money? It's people like us that understand these pump and dumps, right? So this was a crazy week for me. I started off Monday with a $95,000 day. I got too confident and lost $26,000 on Tuesday. Wednesday I had a nice recovery day at $12,000, Thursday I had a monster day at $30,000, and today I made almost $40,000. So for the week, I am up over $150,000, and last week I made over $400,000 too. So in about a month, I am almost at $500,000 in profits, which is insane because last year I made over a million dollars trading for one hour, and this year trading for one hour.  And in my mind, guys, I have no arbitrary targets. I don't want to make $2 million, $3 million, $5 million, $10 million this year. I don't care about that. I don't set targets for myself like that. All I care about is the day to day, I want to be able to show up, make money, and walk away and then count it when it is done. See all these guys on Twitter and Instagram saying that they want to have a $10, $20,000, $30 million a year, and what ends up happening is they get in their head. They start to push, they start to force, they start to trade based on that number instead of trading based on that play. So I have no arbitrary targets, guys. I just want to show up and make money every single day. That's my goal, right? So what happened in this market? So I know I mentioned a couple of videos before, but we have entered a market where people are just gambling on random stocks. Ever since the GameStop dilemma, ever since what happened to AMC and GameStop, I could ask any person on the street and they will know what happened. We went to the club. The bottle girl was long. I went to the bathroom. Four guys on the bathroom were long. My cousin's long. My uncle's long. This guy's long. That guy's long. Every single person that had a day trading account somehow, some way went long in AMC and GameStop. They were trying to join the cult against the suits. They were trying to fight the hedge funds. They were trying to be the little guy that wins. You know what, guys? The stock market is rigged, right? It is rigged in the favor of the hedge funds and the big money, but that does not mean that you cannot profit from it, right? You have to use their same tactics against them. That is why we are here, guys, educating you on these kind of secret strategies to profit in the market, right? GameStop last week was around $400 to $500. This morning it was at $50, guys. $50. It is down 90%. If you put in $1,000, you're left with probably $100 on your account. A lot of people made a lot of money, but I guarantee that those people that made that money did not sell. The only way you could lock in your profits is sell. I see all these experts on the internet. Don't sell. Ride it to the moon. It's going to $10,000. It's going to $5,000. Don't sell. Don't sell. Don't let the short sellers win. You know what? In the game of the stock market, you are in it for yourself.  It is your money. You have to do what is right for you. Now, all those people lost all of their profits on GameStop. It all came to people like me. It all came to people like Bow. It all came to the people in MIC because the stock market is a game of educated people taking the money from the uneducated hands, guys. This week we had a lot of sympathy runners. Last week GameStop and AMC ran. What happened this week? All of the pumpers, all of the insiders, all of the big money is looking for the next one. Hey, guys, this stock, A-R-E-C is the next GameStop. This stock, L-I-Z-I is the new AMC. This stock, I already forgot the tickers from today. All these tickers from today, JG, JD, whatever it was, this is the new one of the day. What else was moving today, guys? I forget already, but all these new stocks, guys, are what we call sympathy plays, A-M-E, L-A-I-X, A-A-C-G, like all of these stocks, guys, are up on no news, right? So let me hold off for a second. So in this market, guys, you're having stocks that are going up 300, 500, 800, 1,000 percent on no news, no catalyst, no signal, no nothing. The only reason why they are up is because there are chat rooms pumping these stocks. Let me explain to you how a pump and dump works, right? The chat room insiders find a stock, they buy it at $5, and they alert to the people in their room. This stock is going to 10. The people in the chat start buying at 6, they start buying at 7, and then the insider that bought at 5 that alerted to in the first place is selling. So while you are buying, they are selling into you.   They are selling, and the stock plummets. It crashes. It gets destroyed and never comes back because there is no real reason for these stocks to be up. So this week, guys, was one of the craziest weeks in the stock market because all of those people that made money on GameStop, all of those people that made money on AMC started gambling it on stocks that had no news just because of the hype, just because they wanted to join what was going on. For people like me, for people like MIC, oh my God, these are the best times of the year. These months, these weeks can make your entire year. As you saw this month made my entire year, which is crazy, right? Now how can you profit from these trades? What can you do to not be part of the dumb money? What can you do to keep this money in your pockets, guys? And we say it all the time. It is a game of education. You guys that are new, you have no idea what you're doing. You guys are following Wall Street bets. You guys are following these Discord rooms. You guys are following these screen share alert rooms. And let me tell you something. If you want to make money fast in the stock market, you will lose every time because someone like me that has put in seven years of work is going to come and take your money, guys. So in this market, in this market, oh my God, you need to know which stocks to avoid and which stocks to buy. Today, Bao made a shitload of money going long. He made a lot of money going long. Bao, what was that stock you went long today? Bao went long around $3 or $4 and the stock hit $14. So as Bao is going long these hot stocks, I am going short these shitty stocks. Bao went long AAME around $3.50 or $4. And I saw him selling all the way up into $13 or $14, guys. So while Bao is focusing on these hot stocks on the front side of the move, I am over here looking for stocks like LIZI on the first red day. I am looking for stocks like GameStop to short on bounces. I am looking for stocks like AMC to short on bounces. So we have a system here, guys. We have a system. We go long the hot stocks in the morning. And then when the momentum shifts, we pile drive, we bulldoze, we short them, right? We bet against them because as a short seller, we have an edge. These stocks have no news. They have dilution. They have insiders that want to sell. And the best part is that they are up on pumps. 99% of a time when a pump happens, there will be a dump, guys. There will be a dump. So in this market, you are seeing me day in and day out. I post my trades on Instagram. I post my profits on Instagram. Instagram.com slash myinvestingclub. You can see every single day, this week, I have sized up, right? So normally, guys, I want to give you guys some understanding of my size and my account and what I am doing. Normally, guys, I trade about 5,000 shares max size. This week, I up my size to about 20,000 shares because there was more opportunity, right? There was more of an edge. There was no news and pump and dumps and more of an edge. So I wanted to use more money. And then yesterday, I found myself getting really confident. I started having a big winning streak. I started to ignore my rules. I started to get a little bit lazy with my risk. And I just barely made it alive yesterday. And that, to me, was a signal, yo, I need to slow down. So you know what I did today? I contacted my broker and I said, I want you to limit me to 2,000 shares max size. So today, with 2,000 shares max size, I was able to make almost $40,000, guys. And that proves that it is not about the size. It is about how you use it, right? So in this market, we have so much range. Again, that stock, AAME, that bow went long, had about $10 worth of range, guys. So you don't need much size to make money. Because there is so much range and so much room for these stocks to move up and down, all you need is a little bit of size to be able to stay calm and deal with the range.  So again, this is not a market to size in on right now. And that is only because there's so much range on these stocks that you do not need size. Oftentimes, using too much size can hurt you in this market, guys. So you need to understand that there is a lot of uneducated money entering the market. And if you want to learn how to profit on it, you need to learn the process. You need to show up every day. You need to be here early, and you need to take it seriously. I have so many friends and so many family that are messaging me every single day that they want to get into the market. They want to learn how to make money. They want to get rich, all the stuff. And I tell them your success is a direct correlation of how much work you put in. I know that a lot of people that join will not watch the videos, will not participate, will not attend the webinars. You know what? Those people will never make it because they don't have the work ethic. Me as a trader who's been here for seven years, who's made half a million dollars so far in one month, I am still the guy that watches all of the videos, guys. Before an MIC video is uploaded into the library, I personally watch it so that I could get educated to approve it and then post it for the members. So if me, your mentor, is watching all of the videos that we are posting because I believe in the education that we offer, what is your excuse not to watch it, guys? So I mean, we've been very long overdue for a trader clinic. If you guys know, a trader clinic is a webinar that is exclusive for lifetime members only. And to be honest, guys, I've been so busy with trading, so busy with MIC, so busy with life that I haven't had the opportunity to get on and do a trader clinic. So to be honest, guys, next week, I want to plan a trader clinic for the lifetime members to talk about how to make money in this market, how to take advantage of this market. And this is only for lifetime members, guys. So if you are a lifetime member, I'll see you next week.  We manually review all of your applications. So there's a little bit of a waiting list right now, so you guys could go and apply. But in terms of the market, do you guys have any questions for me? I want to open this up to a brief Q&A, because to be honest, guys, I'm really tired today. I didn't really want to do a video today, but there's so many lessons that we had to go over that it kind of made me upset if I just took off. So I want to be able to talk to you guys. So let me know if you guys have any questions. Let's start running through a brief Q&A here. Also congrats to Steven, who won our lifetime membership giveaway on Wednesday. You deserve it, bro. This guy commented 100 times on our YouTube videos to get it, and he won. So let's open it up to a Q&A, guys. I am here to answer your questions.  Actually, there might be, but just ask it anyway, and I'll filter through it. How long do you think this market will last? To be honest, I think this market is going to last for the next one or two years. I think that there's so much money entering the market right now that I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. So the sooner you get educated, the sooner you will make money. Starting out, should I watch MIC videos only? Yes, you should start with Faye's study guide. Faye has a cheat sheet study guide of all the main videos you should be watching. How much money can you make with three euros? Just go to roulette, bro. You're never going to make it. What is my stock price range? I like stocks between $1 and $10 the most. What is the best setup that you traded today? I went long GameStop today at like $55, and I sold at $65, and then it went to $90. This was in the watch list this morning for members. How do you have conviction in your trade? After you see your trades and your setups working over and over again, you get more confident in them. So the real answer is the more screen time you have, the more you'll see these setups happen, and the more confident you will get. Which tickers did you trade today? Go to myinstagram.com slash myinvestingclub. Look at my profits, and you will see exactly which ticker I traded with how much money I made on each ticker. A midtown went long today AAME at $3.88. So members are learning which stocks to go long and which stocks to go short. Great job, guys. It is a really, really, really big week for MIC members.  So congrats, guys. Is it possible to grow an account only going long? 100 million percent yes. Harry has unbelievable videos on going long, and I actually went long today too. As long as you guys join and look at the watch list, you will have all the plays that you need, guys. In this market, the edge is to go long pre-market, to go short at the open, and then to go long at zombie times. What are my favorite setups? I like the first red day setup a lot. I know I mean crushed it today.  He called it. Great job, bro. He was a moderator that killed it. He's been stocking that for a couple of days, and I was even stocking it, but there were so many other plays I didn't have the opportunity to short that one. Any other questions, guys? Yeah, I missed LIZI, man. That was a home run trade. Watch list for options? Yes, we have large caps and options watch list, and today in our large cap watch list, we even mentioned GameStop long as well. So you could have almost doubled your money had you got a long GameStop today in our watch list. I 100% think as a new trader, you need to study first, or else you will be destroyed. Best long play to start with is the first bounce strategy. Did you have a stop on GameStop? Of course I had a stop on GameStop. Any other questions, guys? Have you ever trading hedge pairs?  This is why you guys don't get it, man.   I don't even know what that is, man. And you guys are talking about it? Guys, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.  Broke hedge pair.   And this is why. This is why people are so fooled.  And to be honest, they just say that because they are insecure and they got no idea what they're doing. We keep it simple. The reason why our members are profitable is because we focus on the lines and the process, guys. It is not a coincidence. I'm up half a million dollars, man.  Hedge pairs, this guy. That's some shit, man. It's not on buying dogecoin, right? We're not buying dogecoin. We're not buying hedge pairs. We're trading these pump and dumps. Any other questions, guys? Who is my broker? I use Cobra Trading. All right, guys. I'm a little bit tired, so I think I'm gonna wrap it up. If you guys want any special discounts, I know you guys made it to the end of this video. So Text Tosh at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Text him hedge pairs.  So Text Tosh 213-458, hedge pairs. And I'll give you guys a big discount to join today. Join and start studying over the weekend so you can start making a shitload of money starting on Monday. So thank you, guys. I'm gonna rest up and get back to answering DMs on MIC. Have a good day.


How did almost 90% of the snow crab population disappear? The answer is darker than you think. It's not because we've been eating too much of them. They're actually feasting on each other. But weirdly enough, the snow crab population boomed a couple years ago. So why are they going full handable lector on each other? It's because the larger crab population depletes resources in the area and warmer temperatures force them to expend more calories. You could say all that makes a crab hangry, so they have to resort to cannibalism. Experts also believe that some snow crabs are migrating out of their usual habitat for colder waters further north. Others think a disease might be causing this disappearance. Or that the warmer waters invite more predators. Regardless of what caused it, Alaska canceled the snow crab season for the first time ever. So if you actually see it on the menu, consider ordering something else to give these poor guys a break.