All right, wonderful. Well, thanks everyone for being with us, and thanks Stefano for the introduction, and a particular thanks to the four presenters for giving us four really rich and interesting presentations. I've got the daunting task of in 10 minutes trying to sort of bring this all together into a single coherent discussion. So I'll do my best, but there was just so much in all four of these presentations that we obviously have a lot to get through. So I think, I mean, in some ways, all four of these projects are addressing a kind of timeless question, which is why do protests occur? Why does mobilization occur? But they're doing so in really interesting ways because they're asking this question in the sort of current contemporary historical moment, and putting that question into a global context. So we're living in this moment where protest appears to be on the rise over the last decade. Zakaria sort of alluded to this in the present others as well. Now we need to be a little bit careful about sort of making big conclusions about global trends. Some of the data that suggests protests is on the wife has some biases and problems, some frequency biases, but we're seeing this now across enough data sets and in enough different, it's operationalized in enough different ways that we can probably say conclusively that we're living in a global moment where protest is really at quite a high level. Well, it's not say unprecedented, but it is a sort of a moment in which protest seems to be dominating and across the world in a variety of different contexts and regions. And so these papers are sort of interrogating this question of why protest emerges in light of the various things that are going on around the world. So COVID-19, obviously a major factor, particularly in the first paper, economic changes, neoliberalism, and the changing nature of the global economy, democratic backsliding and populism. So how are these forces, which we're all very attuned to, how are they shaping dynamics of protest and changing the way in which mobilization occurs? So questions of why protest occurs, but also what form is it taking and how is that different than in earlier eras? And then what kinds of impacts is it having? Are the kinds of questions that these papers are dealing with and I think are really exciting. So I've got some suggestions and thoughts for the four authors. I'm gonna deal actually with the first paper by Mortorano and All and then the third paper on Iraq together because they both take a grievance approach to looking at protest. And I've got some thoughts about that. And then I'm gonna look at Zakaria and Alcindus papers because they're both dealing with the question of protest in Africa. So on the first two papers, because protest is a timeless question and it's been studied for so long, sometimes it's sort of difficult to deal with all of the existing arguments and literature that are out there. And I think both papers cited the original Ted Gur relative deprivation thesis as motivation and are really building on that thesis. I think it's important for both of these papers to think about some of the literature that's come between Gur's thesis and what we're dealing with today because for a long time grievance-based arguments really went out of fashion in social movement studies. And the reason that they went out of fashion is because people kind of made the argument that the correlation between where you see either absolute levels of grievances or relative levels of grievances, which was Gur's original point, the correlations with protest actually weren't very high. And so people came in, social movement scholars came in and they said, well, grievances are important, but they're not the only thing. You actually need a lot of other things to make protest happen. You need resources, you need organizations, you need networks, right? We have the classic menk or also in collective action problem that needs to be solved. So grievances are necessary, it was pointed out, but they're not sufficient for protest to occur. And I think both of these papers could do a little bit more to think about those kinds of critiques of the original grievances argument. Now I think actually recently we've been seeing a resurgence of grievance-based explanations for protest. So in that sense, both of the papers, I think maybe are part of a new wave or a new trend. But I do think for both of them that they need to think a little bit about what these other aspects of mobilization that a whole generation of scholars have pointed out are really important. So for the Francesco and co-authors paper on the United States and COVID-19, I think it's particularly important to think about the collective action problem and these sort of organizational dynamics of protest because we're talking about protest in the context of a pandemic. When organization presumably should be very difficult to accomplish. So I think the idea that grievances around inequalities and lockdowns could be behind these protests is compelling, but there's more work to be done and explaining to us how these protests came about and what the organizational basis for creating this mobilization really was in these counties that you're looking at. Another small question for that paper is to think a little bit about, well, and I wonder if the data actually exists for this. I think it might, because I think you're using a version of the ACLA data set to look at this, but are the protests actually about inequality and about COVID, right? Because if thinking about, you know, having lived through COVID in the United States and seen a lot of protests in the places I was living and others as well, a lot of the protests that took place actually weren't about COVID. So we had the Black Lives Matter movement taking place in the summer of 2020. And so I wonder if you can sort of get used maybe demands variables in the protest data that you have to get under a little bit. What are these protests really about? Because even if they're taking place in unequal neighborhoods and unequal counties, it's not necessarily the case that they would be about COVID specifically. So I'd like to maybe hear more about that if you have the data to answer that question. With Dan's presentation, I'm super interested in this paper. I'm doing research on Iraq and the T-Strength data myself. So this was very exciting. Couple of small questions in addition to the one I already mentioned about mobilization and organization. Is there a question on protest participation? I would love to see the same analysis on who participated in protest, not just who supports protest, potentially sort of a higher threshold, right? And maybe something interesting, you know, security I would imagine would play into that dynamic as well. I also think, again, getting back to this idea of sort of needing to engage with prior scholarship. I mean, one of the longest standing findings in the social movements literature is that the most agree to do not actually protest. And I think you're contributing to that and your findings align with that. But interestingly, most of those studies are about material deprivation. And so your paper comes in and brings security into the picture in a really interesting way. And so I would bring that out more, right? And I think in that way, you're actually adding something new to what is kind of a pretty well-established finding in the field. Okay, let me turn to the two papers that deal with the question of protest in Africa. And actually, there were some interesting ways in which these two presentations overlapped, which I thought was kind of exciting. Both of them are grappling with this recent protest wave that we've been seeing in Africa over the last decade. Both of them are grappling with the question of how the nature of protest during this wave is different, right? And I think there's some synergies between some of the conclusions you both are finding. These protests have been more horizontal. They have embraced deliberately in some cases a decentralized model of organization. They have eschewed formal politics, right? Alcindor talked a lot about how there's a sort of disdain for formal politics in these protest movements. And in some ways, both of these presentations reminded me a bit of the work of Asif Bayat and the concept of revolution, which he puts forward as an alternative to the sort of classic model of revolution. And I see both of these pieces of work as sort of in some ways building on those concepts and ideas. Alcindor's presentation brings up a really important problem with this type of mobilization. And this is a problem that we saw, of course, during the Arab Spring, which are a set of cases that I know quite well, which is what happens when these horizontally organized social movements actually achieve success and take power, right? What do they do with that power? Because there's an internal contradiction built into these movements, which is that by sort of treating the political realm as corrupt and as something that should be disdained, they end up with a major problem when they actually achieve their success and come to power and have to do the hard work of governing and engaging in politics and how to do that while maintaining the same set of principles. I think the jury is still out on how this works and I think Alcindor raised some really provocative ideas from some of the cases she talked about about how this might work successfully. I have some concerns with Tunisia as a case of success or a case that bears this model out as sort of showing that it can work. I think that the recent turn of events in Tunisia demonstrates really that there's some ways in which this type of politics can be co-opted for autocratic ends and shows really the limitations of this type of horizontal organizing when it comes to actually engaging in formal politics. So I would kind of chalk that case up as more sort of an example of this type of mobilization sort of failing. I think that the autocratic turn, or Kaïs Said is a really problematic turn of events and I think that, so we're still waiting, I think to see some good success stories of how this form of mobilization can bring about really substantial and transformative politics. I'm really excited by Zakari's presentation and it sounds like maybe a book. It seems like it has that level of scope. It is an impressive, the level of the kind of questions you're dealing with are very impressive. I guess one suggestion I have is, in classic comparative politics mode, thinking more about variation, even that economist map that you put up, there are some white countries there where we don't see a lot of protest. So why are we seeing protest at such a high level in some countries of Africa and not in other countries? And maybe looking at that cross-national variation, sounds like maybe you're already thinking about sub-national variation, which I think is great, but thinking a little bit about the cross-national variation there can get us towards some answers to these big questions you're posing. And then a question for both papers is to think a little more about regime type. And Zakari, I talked a little bit about this in your explanation, the failures of democracy in Africa since the 1990s, but the cases you're bringing up are cases of autocracy and democracy. And we seem to be seeing protest across both sets of cases. My sense is the dynamics of protest differ a lot between autocracies in Africa and democracies in Africa. And so I wonder if, can we get a single explanation account for both of those? Are there some differences in the nature of mobilization depending on regime type? I think that would be an interesting question to wrestle with. Certainly your argument about the failure of political parties works well for explaining protest in the democracies of the continent, but not so well for the autocracies, right? So I would push you on that a little bit. Same thing for Alcindor, how does the arguments that you're working through differ according to the regime type? And I think I'll leave it at that as we have 15 minutes left for Q&A. Thanks so much. Thank you, Gillian. Thank you for your comments and thank you for your perfect timing. Is it possible to have Alcindor on the big screen so that we don't forget about her or at least if she wants to join us and participate? So yes, do you want to move there so that you can actually face the audience? I'll stay here and direct the traffic. Yes, I already see a couple of hands. One there, two in the back. Yeah, we can start here. Yeah, yeah, okay. Hello. Thanks for these interesting presentations. My question is for Francisco and I'm Philip Verbin from the University of Libre de Brucell. Francisco, I didn't understand how inequality was measured. I assume it's measured at the county level and probably you have an income measure or a consumption measure. And so I was wondering if communities or counties are very, very poor, but they're not unequal. Let's say everybody is poor. Do they then turn up in your analysis because it may be that they're just very poor but not unequal. And then I would expect nevertheless a high level of protest because at a national level, they may be at the bottom end of inequality, but you don't see it within county because the majority of everybody is poor. So can you comment on that? Thank you. Yes, and there were two hands in the back. Okay. Tom Dierkes, I'm with the University of Basel and Swiss Peas. I have a question for Zach Manpilli on, because you talked about social movements and protest and the global order, obviously. Now I was wondering if you think about your other work on rebel groups. There I think there's quite a lot of literature that looks at the links between rebel groups and foreign powers. So during the Cold War, in the post-Cold War period where rebel groups would use certain language or be it Marxist, be it liberal to get support. And so you could say that maybe there was quite a clear relationship between what these groups were doing and this global order. Now, how would that work with the protest movements you describe? Like who can they go to? Or is this more a sort of abstract thing where we see economic conditions change and there is some sort of response to that but maybe not such a clear link as with the rebel groups that you looked at. Yeah. Yeah, I'm Darrell Sequerel. I have a question as regards how the authorities should react against a protest which is unjustified. For example, those who protest against vaccination against corona, thereby endangering innocent individuals who want to protect themselves against getting infected. Another example would be a protest where a group of people want to convert land into human use and destroy a rainforest for example that would lead to a long-term decline in their development but a short-term advantage. So here we have the need for specialized technical analysis of these issues and decisions based on those scientific technical analysis. Now, how does one deal with sort of shall we say, uninformed protesters who are short-term in their approach maybe have vested interest or are instigated by other parties to protest and are really unjustified in their protest? Thank you very much for your very interesting and motivating presentations as well. My name is Irmeli Mustolahti. I work with the University of Eastern Finland and especially I was very happy that you were raising up this issue relation to elite of civil society. And we are in our own research, we talk about suitcase and briefcase NGOs and also these type of advocacy organizations. And for example, this case which you were having a pictures from Tuara, from Tanzania, you don't really see these type of elite civil society or these so-called briefcase or suitcase NGOs there in the streets but there is the young men, young ladies who are so-called responsible sized to actually in those protest and movements. So how you see this type of NGOs which often are actually financed by donor aid who are rather the responsibleizing the youth to actually in this protest. Yeah, do you want to reply to the first round of questions or do you want to collect more? Please. We have some specific questions, other questions we are directed to all of you. Well, thank you for the questions actually before moving to Philip's question. I just wanted to mention something about what Kilian raised before and you are actually very right in discussing about which type of protest we are analyzing and we had this question too. And that's why I tried to mention but I didn't specify in the presentation that we actually look at COVID related protests. So protests that have COVID as their main topic and to compare with other types of protests we checked for 2020 year in which Black Lives Matter protests were very relevant actually the majority of protests in the US and there were also protests related to the elections to check if these stringency, this interaction between stringency of the measures and inequality affects also those protests and we interestingly find that it doesn't. So it does not have an impact on protests related to Black Lives Matter or to the elections, presidential elections, but it does only relate to COVID related protests. So just to, and with regards to inequality the question from Philip, yes indeed that it is income inequality and it's a genico-efficient from 2019 for each county and but you are very right in very poor counties this might be a problem because they might protest as well so that's why we also tried with the measure of poverty and interestingly found that there is no really a big impact of poverty on protest participation. Now the reason for this, it might be complicated actually what might be again from a net total evidence there is some scientific evidence on the fact that for example inequality increased after the 1980 Spanish influenza because the lower bracket lost most of their income so also an increase in poverty. So in that case inequality and poverty went hand in hand. Well in this case maybe the increase in inequality is due to richer households getting richer thanks to or as a consequence of the pandemic maybe this could be a justification. However, I agree with you that we could explore a bit more this element of the analysis. Thank you, I can leave the floor. Yeah, thank you, great questions. Let me take these, well let me start with the question about unruly protests and protests that are articulating agendas that we may not be comfortable with. And I think the question I would ask is how much do you believe in democracy? And if you believe in democracy then you have to accept that there are people who have views that are anathema to us. I don't want to romanticize protest. I don't want to romanticize activism. The groups that I'm interested in can as easily espouse agendas associated with the left of which I'm a part of as they can with the right, right? And that's just a reality but I tend to support protests because I tend to believe in democracy and I think that the nature of electoralism that has been implemented in African countries and across the world I would say has really reduced our capacity for choice, right? I'm an American citizen. I feel like I have no choice in the political process. And so I participate in protests because at least I can find a way to express myself democratically. Even if there are views that the political parties are not going to champion ever, right? And so I think it's important that to me as somebody who believes in democracy that we accept that protests may articulate things that we don't like but they should be allowed to move forward, right? And that may differ if you don't think democracy is desirable and I certainly respect that position as well. To the more specific questions, you know, I think the question of internationalism is hugely important here, right? And I think my work on violent groups deeply informs my work on social movements, right? Because I think increasingly I'm not convinced there's a divide between the two. I think the divide between violent and nonviolent activism is largely an artifact of government preferences, right? What I have seen is that with the groups that I study people move between these two forms of activism not based on any sort of moral agenda which is how we often frame it, right? But rather on tactical or strategic ones. So I know personally people who have participated in violent groups who then become nonviolent activists and back and forth, right? And their decision to participate in one or the other is not, as it's often framed, the result of their personal moral rectitude but rather the context in which they're operating at a particular moment and their calculation both individual and whether or not violent or nonviolent activism is warranted in that given moment, right? And so I'm more interested in the synthesis that tries to bring together these two analyses. In the social sciences at least in the West we have a field of conflict studies and then we have a field of nonviolent social movement studies. And I think that division is increasingly nonsensical, right? So to the question of internationalism I think if we look at it historically, right? Part of what I'm trying to do here is to think back to earlier periods of global disruption. So the last time we had these major waves of global uprisings, 1940s, right? In the context of the anti-colonial struggles. The 1980s and 90s in the context of the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, right? Are we living through a similar period today? Now of course I think to come to the Killian's points that makes it difficult, it's hard to assess in the moment whether we're living through a similar period of global disruption but I have a sense that maybe we are, right? And that necessitates a global response. It necessitates coordination across borders and we have not seen to the extent that existed in the 1940s and in the 1980s and 90s the same level of coordination across borders. I think in the African context it's starting to emerge. There's a very interesting network called the Afriki Network which has tried to bring together many of the leading social movements in Africa. You know, I have worked with them. I've tried to get funding for them. I have failed to do that because foundations don't want to support social movements, right? They prefer to support NGOs which brings me to the question of what role are NGOs playing in this process? And I think that what I wasn't able to discuss in my presentation, again, I think there's good reason to push back against the tendency to individualize activism, right? To create these heroes who are centered in our stories of these social movements. This is why I'm leaning towards a more structural account, right? Because if we take a structural account of what's unfolding, we can situate the NGO within these larger structural processes, right? And at a core level, the NGO is not capable of bringing about transformative change. And that is a structural condition, right? NGOs have to operate according to the laws of the country in which they are based. And that means that if you're a foreign foundation, right, who's trying to give money to activists and you end up giving money to an NGO instead, you've already sort of shaped the field, right?  And that one type of political action will happen to be the one that fits within the domestic legal order and in essence reinforces unjust political systems. And that's a structural reality. It's not a moral failing. I don't blame people who work for NGOs. Those are my friends, right? I'm from a middle class educated background. They're my family members, like, I don't fault them for working for NGOs, but I do not conflate what they do with the kinds of uprisings that I'm interested in. They have a different politics, right? And that operates both at the domestic level, but is often determined by these global forces. So part of our NGO industry in the West is to take activists and transform them into NGOs. And that necessarily involves transforming their politics to participate in systems that I think we all would agree are fundamentally messed up politically and economically. So we need to be able to talk about this, right? We need to be able to discuss how we've arrived at a situation where we are reinforcing systems that we recognize as being problematic, rather than actually providing support to, again, the people who I think are the most impacted by global capitalism and the ones who are most likely to go out into the streets to protest things like a bread price increase, right? Attempts to take away their land. In Tanzania, these employer protests are not alone. It's happening now with the Maasai in the Northern part of the country as well as the government tries to take away their land in the name of tourism. You know, these, and I think everyone in here can think of these cases, right? Because their activism does not fit our preordained models for how they should be operating, we tend to dismiss them, or even worse, I think this is the logic of philanthropy capitalism, to discipline them in the context of the NGO. And I think that's really, really problematic. So I'm much more interested in a different type of internationalism, right? The type that we saw during the anti-colonial struggles where it was really a movement to movement type of transnationalism or internationalism rather than a foundation or government to movement internationalism, right? I know that's abstract, but I'm happy to talk about this more. No. Okay. No, I'm good. Everything you said resonates. I took copious notes. It's very early stage research. So, and we'll talk about, you know, data and other issues pertinent to Iraq. Okay. So we're running out of time, but I would like to hear if Alcindor wants to comment or respond to some of the questions. Well, maybe just a comment, given that we don't have much time. I just wanted to say that I really think that the central question, it's really about this global situation, you know, just to echo Zach Mampili on this, because also what I wanted to do with this presentation, which I didn't have much time, was to look at beyond the street protests, but also beyond the local. And what I've been observing with my research is that these movements are uniting beyond the borders of their own countries. For example, the Afriki Mwinda that Zach mentioned, it's a Pan-African organization. And it brings up a number of movements because people are realizing that the problem is not a leader. And in a paper that I wrote about this, I talk about these movements going beyond the leader. For example, when Ben Ali or Omar Bashir went, it wasn't enough for them to go because there is a whole system that is behind them that perpetuates itself. But it's also beyond the local because that is an international system that creates constraints to these movements. And they are realizing that it's beyond, it's a much bigger issue than a particular government, a particular leader, but it's a political system that they're dealing with. And my interlocutors in the field, they were very clear about rejecting a particular system, this idea of party politics, this idea of party elites, this idea of a civil society that is an elite. Why not go through to grassroots? Why not start from scratch? So these are some of the ideas that I see emerging. And thank you for mentioning Tunisia on this. But my view is that Tunisia is a really interesting case and we should look at it more closely because precisely what Kayisayed was doing was to try to break the very system, which is global, which is this idea of political parties, this idea of political parties around the elites, the oligarchies that are created. And they are also moving into civil society, which is serving that. And so how to break that, how to make municipalities and grassroots as the center of politics, just think about it. If a parliamentarian doesn't have to be from a political party and comes from the municipalities, somebody who's elected at the local level and has to respond to the local level, it completely changes the dynamic. It's true that he might now have been kind of taking a more autocratic turn, but it's interesting also to see what the Tunisian public opinion says about it. It's, most people, especially my interlocutors, are really keen for Sayed to move on.  He was in government for a couple of years, everything he was proposed would not pass in parliament. It was blocked exactly because he was going against the people who are in parliament. So, you know, it's true that he's becoming an autocrat, it's true that, but I think there is a lot to be unpacked there and there is interesting things going on. And I think we should just be open and see what it takes us. And as I ended in my presentation, you know, only time will tell, but something is brewing. That is, you know, we're living in a very interesting moment, I think. Thank you.


So if you've watched my channel for the last couple weeks, you'll know that I'm in the process of Kind of fortifying my privacy a little bit and all this was spawned by the last past fiasco and Over the course of this next year I've decided that I'm gonna try to be more conscientious when it comes to my privacy and my data and all that stuff So I've already talked about a couple things but today what I want to discuss is my browser strategy So over the course of the last two years or so I've switched browsers many different times I've made many different videos. I've switched away from Firefox. I've gone back to Firefox. I've switched to cute browser I've gone back to Firefox. I switched to brave. I went back to Firefox. I switched to edge I went to fight back to Firefox. I switched to several other browser browsers. I went back to Firefox You get the idea. I always come crawling back to Firefox because Firefox is pretty good It's open source and it does most of the things that I like it to do and specifically allows me to Alter the way that looks more than any other browser out there because of user Chrome, right? So I truly like Firefox despite the fact that I'm always kind of in the back of my mind Looking for something better. But now that I'm thinking more about my privacy I've started to consider the fact that one browser really isn't enough and The reason why I say that is because what I want to do is kind of compartmentalize my web browsing. So Unfortunately, Google is going to be continue to be a part of my life whether I like it or not my Google account can't go away I use it for YouTube. I use it for my Google Docs, which I have to use for work. So unfortunately, I'm still going to be a consumer of Google products whether I like it or not, but I want to Compartmentalize those things into their own browser now I know there are ways to do this within within like one browser like there are Firefox profiles You could technically use those but those are kind of at least from my experience kind of a pain in the butt In order to switch between them. So what I've decided to do is Have a multi browser strategy and this is going to play into when I eventually start virtualizing more of my stuff Later on in the year But right now what I've decided to do is Anything that I have to be signed into is going to be in one browser So that includes Google if I'm signed into Facebook for whatever reason because I still have a Facebook account for family reasons If I'm signed into mastodon things like that anything that I'm signed into will be in one browser and that's fine I just will know that in that browser. I know I'm going to be tracked because there's very little I can do about it Now obviously I still plan to take some precautionary measures in that browser to Limit the amount of tracking that happens. So I'll turn off as many of the trackers as possible I'll use you block origin and all the stuff that you can do in order to kind of prevent yourself from being tracked but it's still going to happen and of course if you're signed into something You're gonna get tracked whether you like it or not no matter what your browser settings are So that one browser is going to be where I do all my work when I have to be signed into something And then I'm going to have another browser where I never sign into anything and it's going to be a completely different browser It's not going to be a copy of the same browser right now I'm thinking about it being cute browser because I I've always liked cute browser And I've always wanted to give it a true and honest to God's try like something that I Stick with for multiple months and see if I can actually make it work And that's where the majority of my browsing and internet activity is going to happen when I don't have to be Signed in to something so the idea here is to ensure that I have Containerized if you want to use a hot buzzword all of my browsing history and stuff like that into places where I can kind of Have as much control over it as possible Now I am considering like I said cute browser for one of these It's the other browser that I haven't quite decided on yet And I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be Firefox But I don't think that I'm going to go away from the Firefox family of browsers I think it's going to be LibreWolf. I've tried LibreWolf in the past I've been unsatisfied with it in the past simply because when you are logged in to something It tends to log out even if you haven't remembered cookies and stuff like that and in the past I I despise having to log into stuff every time I open the browser like I wanted to just stay logged in Especially these days when you have to use 2FA for everything. I don't want to be logged into everything now. I understand trying to Be more privacy and data conscientious Leaving something logged in all the time is not the best practice. I can understand that and maybe at least with some things I can log out when I'm done with them and log back in when I go back but things like the YouTube channel which I'm almost constantly at and Things like mastodon stuff like that. I don't want to have to sign out, right? I want to just have to be a little something like mastodons actually open all the time in a browser tab in a pin tab and Signing out of that when I'm done with it, even if I'm not ever done with it I don't know It's just that that whole process is something that I'm gonna have to think about in my mind in order to actually You know figure out the best way to go about not only protecting my privacy a little bit But also Maintaining some form of convenience So that's something that I'm gonna have to think about and like I said, I'm considering LibreWolf There are other ones called. I think there's one called water fox out there. I've never tried that one I think there are other options. So that second browser Where it's gonna be stuff where most of my stuff is going to be logged in it's something that I'm gonna have to Figure out what that's gonna be. So the whole point of my video is that I think that for many for at least for the last two years or so I've been very uninterested Let's just say in having multi browser strategy a lot of people I know who have commented on my videos about browsers in the past I've told me Use more than one browser because there is no perfect browser out there And the best way to have all the features that you want and have more control is to use multiple browsers But I've been very resistant to it because it seems like such a hassle, right? If I want to visit something I just want to open a browser and go and it's much easier if that browser is the same browser every single time Especially if you have that browser open all the time like I have Firefox open all the time So I just go there and go to the website that I need to go to I don't have to constantly consciously think about What browser to open depending on where I'm going and that's going to be the biggest challenge of this is to Actually follow the plan, right? If I'm going to go watch a YouTube video and I don't need to be logged in to do so I need to remember that I can't just go to Firefox Which will probably always be open and watch the YouTube video. I need to go to cute browser or whatever I choose and Go there to watch the the YouTube video or whatever it happens to be right so Actually following along with the plan is probably going to be the hardest step because Habits are really hard to Get over right. I'm very I'm very habit-oriented and right now my habit is to go to Firefox and do whatever I need to do splitting that into two different places where each browser has its own use case is going to take some Alteration of muscle memory so that's going to be a process that I'm definitely going to have to Deal with over the next few months as I get used to this new plan that I have in order to you know Combat my data being literally everywhere for free, right? So that's step one of my browser strategy Step two will be to slowly eliminate accounts that I don't need and this has Less to do with the browser and more to do with the internet in general obviously But I have accounts to a lot of different things that I don't really need anymore So I'm gonna slowly try to get myself away from having a Facebook account and I've like I said I've kept that because a family and how I'm going to get the rest of my family to not keep me on Facebook I don't know yet. That's something that I want to do I've already deleted both of my Instagram accounts that happened in December So that's something that I've gone away from I probably will keep mastered on because it's open source and not horrible But that's probably my only social account other than YouTube that I'm gonna keep well Odyssey I suppose but those three are the only ones that I want to keep by but I have Accounts for other things like I still have a Twitter account even though I don't post to it I also have a personal Twitter account that I've had since 2000 like seven or 2008 something like that that one's gonna be hard to give up because You know, it's the first social account that I really ever had other than Facebook And you know, I've put a lot of effort into it Even if I don't have a ton of followers and there's a lot of people on there that I follow that I have no other way of you know kind of interacting with so that's gonna be one That's gonna be hard to get rid of even if I don't interact on it very often I don't know it's gonna be something to think about in the future But there are a lot of accounts like that that I can jettison over the next month or so to try to Remove my footprint from the internet in certain places where it doesn't really need to be so those are the two Areas that I wanted to talk about in terms of the internet today in my privacy journey I don't know these videos really haven't been doing all that great because I don't I guess Privacy isn't something that a lot of people care about if they're on YouTube I guess I mean I that makes a whole lot of sense because if you're on YouTube you pretty much given up, right? You've laid down and handed Google your data. I'm right there with you all But so the these videos haven't done all that well, but I'm gonna keep doing them doing them They're my it's it's my journey and I want to document a little bit So that's it for this video if you Like these videos make sure you hit the like button and the subscribe button and leave a comment all that stuff Hack the ag algorithm as mental outlaw would say I truly do appreciate all that stuff If you want to follow me on master's honor odyssey those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the linux cast you can support me on Libera pay or YouTube both of those links will be in the video description Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube you guys are all Absolutely amazing without you the challenges would not be anywhere near where it is right now So thank you so very much for your support. 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Oh, yes, that that's really important. I'm Beverly errands. And the project, this this game is we don't have a name. It's, you know, the name of the original game was evicted. But we're thinking of calling it rent, the rent hike or something like that or rent the hiking, which was like some pun or something Dakota came up with. And so it is basically where the player is playing a renter.  Everything's going well. You're just making your living hand to mouth, day to day paycheck to paycheck.  But it's not just one rent hike. The landlord says you know what your rent is going up $100 the first month $200 the next month $300 the next month $500 the next month because you know what I want you out of here. Because I can rent this place out more for more money but I can't just kick you out because we have a just cause eviction law in Seattle. In other words, I need a just cause to get you out. So I know you can't afford this rent.  I'm going to keep it going up bam bam, until I push you out. This family this character goes and they look for another place to live but they can't find any place. They can't find any place that's affordable that will take them and their little girl. Right. They can't find any place to live so they're stuck there in that apartment paying that rent. Every month that rent's going up because you know what they can jack it up. They can jack it up as much as they want as long as they give you the proper notice. Right. If it's over 10, 10% you got 60 days notice. That's all right. It's going up $3,000 in three months. What are you going to do about it? You can't do anything about it because that is the way the laws are written here in this city and in this state in a state that makes it illegal to put in place rent control so little old ladies can be pushed out of their homes and onto the street because they can't afford $2,000 a month rent. So that's what this game is about. You get to play this renter, you get to see what it's like to be a renter with no place to go, forced to pay rent that's going up over and over again. You and your spouse and your little kid paying it, paying it, paying it. You can't get a better job.  You got a job that you call me. You're on call. You say, Oh, I'm ready to work today and they call you in when they need you. You're looking for work. You know, sometimes you may have to make tough decisions. Sometimes you may not pay the electricity. Sometimes you may not buy food. And so these are the things that you have to make a decision about in this game. Sounds pretty intense. Yeah, it is intense. And you know what's so funny is that originally, so Amy was the one who kind of pitched the idea of like having in set characters. And I really like that idea. And so we bought her on our team for that reason, but then we started talking about and we were like, we want to, you know, create empathy and Jim who is our legal guy who has been helping with concept and some of the writing. He really brought in the idea of like, we want the player to empathize with this character. You can't really, you put distances, it's distance there if you make that character insect. So we went, we got away the end, you left the insect idea alone and made the made actual human faces so that people could see another human being and see that this is a human being that is going through this so that they can connect with that. So it is intense and it's going to be an intense experience, but there will be some humor. You know, like, there's this one scenario where you have an opportunity to take in a pet. And so, you know, you you're you're in the kitchen making breakfast for your family and all of a sudden you hear this meowing coming from outside in the alleyway.  And you have to decide, are you going to adopt that cat? You know, if you adopt that cat, it's going to cost you money. You got to get the got to get rid of those fleas, right? You got to feed that cat. Your daughter, if you get it, your daughter will be happy. It'll increase because like in our game, we have stress levels and health levels. So like, depending on your, your choices, the family stress level will go up and down depending on your choices, your income will go up and down. So in this case, you are going to have like a deduction of income if you take in that cat because it's maintenance to take care of that cat, right? But your little girl will be happy and happiness to your family go up. So, you know, it's kind of like those types of like, you know, I feel like it's like a little bit of humor, kind of dark humor, but it's still, you know, something in there. That's like that. That's not, it's not all dark. Nice. Well, it sounds like there's a good mixture in there. Can I have you say your name one more time because you did introduce yourself off of a laugh. So it was super loud. Okay. Beverly Arons. I'm Beverly Arons. I'm a writer. I am, I've been involved with games now trying to develop games and putting together concepts and working on teams. For two years now. And so I actually did create it one puzzle game demo with a group of with one other developer and a visual artist. The game, we just have a demo. We never actually completed it because I think it was too big. And so now this is like the second. Well, I have other games that I, you know, kind of mapped out. And so I would say, but this is the second team that I've been on where we've we've created something. And I think that by the end of tomorrow we'll have a playable product. And some of those people we're going to continue on after this is over and continue to develop this game and to its completion. Nice. What do you think about this game jam having the theme of being social justice and teaching people about the law? I love that. You know, I think that a lot of people don't understand the law. In the case of renters, a lot of renters don't understand their rights. Especially in today's current environment, they may find themselves faced with various issues that they don't know how to deal with. Some unscrupulous landlord may decide to give them a rent hike without proper notice, and they may not even realize that it's improper notice. So a game like this can show them, show them, not tell them, but show them what is the law? What is right? What is wrong? What do you do? So a game jam like this is a great because it allows teams to come together and create a game, but it also produces something of value, a public good for the community. And it gives people a fun way or at least an engaging way and an accessible way for them to learn about the law as it relates to their personal life. Because how many people are going to go to the law website and start looking up Washington state legal codes? Nine times out of ten, the average person isn't going to do that. So if you can frame the law, frame your rights, information about consumer rights, debtor rights, renter rights in a game or in some type of media that is engaging, you can get across that valuable information to the people who need it. That's brilliant. I mean, it's a perfect reason why to participate in a creative endeavor like this. What do you think about having people who are not generally associated with game jams here, primarily the law people? I love that idea. I've only ever been to one other game jam and that was for board games. I do belong to developers group and one of the things that I've seen is that there aren't a lot of intersections of different people coming together. Sometimes you just have only developers there and maybe some visual arts people and audio people. But the idea of bringing in legal professionals in to guide that process, who are not necessarily involved in games, I think has created an opportunity for really extraordinary things to happen. Do you have any closing comments or anything else that has stuck out to you, particularly about this game jam so far? This is an extremely organized game jam. I'm very grateful for the organizers that put it together. The people are great, very pleasant to work with, professional, skilled, talented individuals. And I feel like I would definitely do this again. I give it five stars. Yeah, I think that's all I want to say. Awesome. Well, thank you very much Beverly. You're welcome.


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Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2020-2021 upper deck SP game used hockey five box break three random teams each number nine so 10 spots where we get 300 teams in NHL and all-card ship the ducks and coyotes are a combo spot in this break so there you go uh here is the list of customers from Mark Liebscher down to Stephen Kendrick with last spot mojo and the teams the ducks coyote combo spot down to the Winnipeg Jets coyotes obviously would be right there alphabetically so since every spot gets you three teams we need to triple up this list so you can see Stephen Kendrick last spot mojo once twice and three times dice roll randomized both lists and pair them up three to four seven times good luck seventh final time from Richard Miller down to Jack Basmajan and seven times on the teams seventh and final time lots of stuff ducks coyotes combo spot down to the Dallas Stars so seven times on the teams seven times on the customers and seven times on the dice uh Gucci if you click on the pinned comment in the chat uh you'll see our schedule and also you'll see a kind of wall of like orange and yellow that's all like suggested breaks that are closest to going tonight uh get in on stuff Richard Miller ducks coyotes combo spot and the kings steven kendrick devils matty matt blackhawks chaun matty blues steven george sabers matty matt's wings and flyers mark Liebscher avalanche jack basmajan knights steven george hurricanes richard miller sharks chaun oliri penguins wild leafs predators jets and panthers steven kendrick senators chaun oliri with the flames uh mark Liebscher with the rangers shaun matty jackets jack basmajan with the capitals steven george with the knucks shaun matty with the lightning shaun oliri with the broons and canadiens mark Liebscher with the oilers steven kendrick islanders and jack basmajan with the stars no problem at all man but yeah check out that list lots of breaks uh in there that are you know that you can help get going tonight so trade window is open if anybody is interested in potential trades later dude have a good night in case i need them so there's the full list guys if anybody wants to do any trades let us know but if not then we'll go ahead and close the trade window and start ripping it's a double inch of lay 303 that's pretty good as an eagles fan i'm excited for a reed debt nurse he had a very nice outing his first uh outing out in triplet so it looks like there's no talks of trades so let's go ahead and print rip so here you go here is our sp game used so i lied i told people that there wasn't more this is actually a 10 box uh case so and this is a five box break so the second half of this will actually be for um so i will load the next one of those into the store so dice for to figure out which five boxes we're gonna do one two three for the boxes on the left four five six for the boxes on the right good luck it's a one so we're going to have boxes on the left these boxes here will be for break 10 which hopefully we can do later on tonight see you dude have a good night stickers and here is that final list in person so steven kandrick last by mojo devils islanders senators for year three first up for the canadians out of 135 saku koibu montreal canadians is shana leary and alias peterson 114 out of 265 for the canucks and steven george very cool all-star game netcord anthony du claire that is three out of 35 for the senators auto senators is steven kendrick that's super cool how it's clear all the way through st louis Missouri du claire completed the nhl fastest skater circuit in 14.005 seconds that's from the st louis all-star game and bow and byram nice rookie relic for the avalanche and mark leapshire you've got a dual relic banner year tyler sagin for the dallas stars two-color patch on the bottom so jersey and that's part of the banner actually i guess all-star game banner dallas stars jack bezmajan and jumbo relic all-star game 2020 banner year as well victor headman for the tampon bay lightning that is shon matik felipe millett to 299 that is washington capitals and jack bezmajan and for the golden knights gaige quinney to 299 knights jack bezmajan really nice patch here two out of three supreme gloves olof colzig old school capitals jack bezmajan that's very cool i kind of like the old school uh capitals jerseys morgan geeky rookie relic for the canes that is steven george and alec regula rookie relic for the blackhawks mathew matz and clayton keller relic for the coyotes part of the combo spot duct coyotes for richard miller andre vazlowski to 265 for the lightning shon matik and set jones to 165 for the bluejackets shon matik and yegor charon gov govitch rookie auto for the devils and steven kendrick more all-star game relic this is anthony du claire again for the senators 53 out of 150 part of the jersey there senators steven kendrick last spot mojo and you've got a duel of travis connectney and tj oshi flyers as mathew matz capitals as jack bezmajan that will not be randomized between those two teams at the end of the break and for the kings stadium series fabric adrian kempé kings and richard miller kevin haze to 165 for the flyers and mathew matz and for the vegas golden knights keegan colsar to 199 golden knights jack bezmajan and chain bowers three-color jersey and auto or patch auto rookies for the avalanche 19 out of 35 colorado avalanche mark leapshire very nice patch there all-star game jersey mathew barzol that is out of 150 for the islanders and steven kendrick matias kiv linux i believe rip he's the one that uh unfortunately on fourth of july took a mortar to his chest but saved multiple people in the act so columbus bluejack it's sean matik and nhl heritage classic johnny goudreau banner year relic for the flames and sean oliri matias brome to 299 for the red wings mathew matz anthony monta to 165 for the red wings mathew matz and andre vazlesky very nice jersey and auto that is 13 out of 15 for the Tampa Bay lightning and sean matik that's vazlesky keandre miller rookie jersey for the rangers and mark leapshire dual relic ryan o'reilly and jordan bennington both for the blues and sean matik back to back for the blues first year all-star jordan bennington relic and that's also for sean matik the blues there you go that's the break we've got one randomizer to do which is the dual relic of travis connectney and tj oshee that'll be between the flyers and the capitals so we'll pop back over here there's flyers and capitals dice roll for the randomizer team on top after one and a two three times gets that dual relic good luck one two and third and final time that's going to go to the flyers stay with the flyers and mathew matz there you go mathew and there's philadelphia for that and that wraps up the break guys that was 2020-2021 upper deck sp game used hockey five box break three random teams each number nine from jaspyscasebreaks.com second half of that case number 10 going into the store now jaspyscasebreaks.com thanks for hanging out we'll see you next time