This research paper discusses the development of a new type of flexible and highly malleable magnetic skin which can be used as a non-contact method of interacting with computers. The skin consists of an elastic matrix mixed with permanent magnetic powder and its properties can be adjusted depending on the ratio of these two materials. This skin can also be used for gesture recognition and magnetic positioning, allowing for easy touchless human-computer interactions. These interactions have been tested and found to be successful, providing a new way for future human-computer interaction. This article was authored by Jun Jie Zhang, Guan Yuan Chen, and Jian Ming Chen.


I do this for my father who I've only seen from time to time in my dreams.  I do this for, I do this for my sister, my wife and my kids cause they're part of the team. I do this for, all the naysayers and haters who made me one of the greatest. I know it kills you inside, that's why I do this for you. I do this for my father who I've only seen from time to time in my dreams.  I do this for, I do this for my sister, my wife and my kids cause they're part of the team. I do this for, all the naysayers and haters who made me one of the greatest. I know it kills you inside, that's why I do this for you. I do this for the kids who- We've woken up and this, this my friends, is how Littleton is meant to look. And the Littleton that I fall in love with every single time I come back.  So many memories. I love seeing my family, I love being back here. Unfortunately, life gets in the way and you know, unfortunately if I had have stayed here in Littleton, I most probably would not be where I am today.  You know, family, family, friends, home, it's everything man, it's everything. Makes me happy. Makes me really, really happy and content being back here every time.  And you know, I will go somewhere else. But there's no place like home man. There's no place like home. All right guys, so we're just heading to the gym and I thought I'd come to the cashmere one this time, just for old time's sake. I used to go to school around here, but this corner, major eight can drive. Well, well, well, what a, what a corner, what a corner, that's all we're going to say. Last time I came back, I actually told this story. Hang on, let me, let me just wipe the lens here. Last time I came back to New Zealand, I told this story to my subscribers. I'm going to tell it again. There's a good lesson in it. Last day of school in fifth form, I, I just got my driver's license. I just turned 15 in November.  First time I'd ever been allowed the car by myself. My dad allowed me to take the car to take it to my school prize giving, which was the last day of school.  And then after, after my prize giving, I, I got coached into, I got talked into going for a drive up the hills. Well, I'll tell you why, I never actually made it up the hills. Cashmere High School is about two kilometers away. We made it all the way down here. I was following him. Jesus Christ. Oh, I could add another crash then. Yeah, I was following my mate. He went down here and he did a little skid, a little skid here. He, he had a manual car. I had an auto. He did a little skid around the corner and I'd seen Tokyo drift. I'd seen, you know, fast and furious. I could do it. Fuck, I could drift, right? And easy, man. I mean, I've got an auto.  Well, clearly, clearly that's not true.    I got a massive cut in my forehead. Up until about three years after that, I kept on remembering the crash.  It was, it was, you know, really, really scary. And not only that, but God, it was embarrassing.  He was only 15 as well. He couldn't believe it. You know, he hadn't really been involved in any crashes. I hadn't been involved in any crashes. It was a huge, a huge shock. And it didn't, it still didn't, you know, it still didn't teach me the lessons I needed to be taught because I got taught them later in life when I got caught drink driving, et cetera. But that is another story. But yeah, as far as, you know, as far as New Zealand, letting 15 year olds drive on the roads, it is absolutely ludicrous. And thank God that they've raised it to 16 now, although it probably should be 18 because it's just, yeah, it's asking for trouble.  And I think that's the attitude of most, most kids, you know. So what can you do? You just got to be safe on the roads, guys, because you never know who's driving in the other car. It's probably not going to be your fault either. So anyways, we are here at Cashmere, anytime fitness, leg up. All right, guys, so halfway through chess session, we've done a flat press, which I never do. And we've also done a cable crossover. And am I the only one that can see this?  I mean, that crease that you see tensing, that should go right up my chest.  Oh God, I can't wait to get it done. Anyways, I'll be finishing this off. Tonight, I'm going out drinking, going to my mate's place, Adam with the child, but he doesn't have a child tonight, obviously, and a couple other guys from Cashmere High School that I used to know are coming too. So should be good. Should be good.


I'd like to begin by thanking you for being grateful for the prayer and the welcome to these lands, the historic and impressive day of aunts and the new pop peoples, and for starting us in a good way today. My goal for today, what I'd like to do is situate the discussion of restorative justice within a friend that includes and makes visible Indigenous law. The pictures on the slides, many of the slides have these ravers. They're Indigenous feminist ravens. They're born of national and international Indigenous feminist consciousness. And I understand tricksters to be the first law teachers for Indigenous peoples, so we have the trickster name and we're going to be joining us. The fun to do this framing of restorative justice is to provide some context, a job in terms of my work, and I want to explore an idea of Indigenous restorative justice and where that fits into Indigenous law, and then I want to provide some specific insights into pre-law and show how that works. So for a number of years I've been working with Indigenous communities across Canada, including Nygma peoples here, and Anishinaabe people, and few people, and so on. And in these partnerships, what we've been doing is substantively researching and articulating and restating Indigenous law, including Indigenous legal processes and institutions. So my starting place is that through time, every society has conflict, violence, and law abilities at some point or another. And I understand law to be in a distinct mode of governance, along with the governance of the society's social life, economic life, and political life. So the problems are universal, the human problems are universal, but the law and the way the society deals with those problems is distinct according to that society, and therefore it's societal and determined. So when thinking about justice here, and understanding it as a societal aspiration, we can see it as being a part of the kind of normative commitments that we make to one another, to our families and to our communities. It's the responsibility of every generation to take up those commitments, to undertake the work of justice. So across Canada, in this work with Indigenous law, a number of the aspirations that people hold have become clear. And these are just a small example. These are rights from the different legal orders that we've been working with. So what is community safety? There's fairness, there's inclusion, which includes those who have part and those who have been part. There's human dignity and there's human agency, and human agency is understood as individuals and as collective. So these are the kinds of aspirations that comprise justice in each Indigenous legal order. The reality is, and someone said this earlier, no society ever lives up to the aspirations. What's important is that we have an opportunity to try. And for Indigenous peoples, that's through Indigenous law. The late Nils Christie argued that if people don't have the right to determine the rights and wrongs that they're going to live by, they become paralyzed. He was speaking about industrialization and the centralization of the state in Scandinavia. But I think his insight applies equally to Indigenous societies in Canada and in the world over. In other words, the colonial suppression of Indigenous law has denied Indigenous peoples the collective responsibility of norm determination. To determine the society's rights and wrongs. So the question is, how has this fundamentally denied the people? How has that contributed to the levels of violence and conflict experienced in some of our communities? So it is the case that Indigenous law hasn't gone anywhere. But it's been undermined and there are gaps and in some places there are distortions. So there is no completely intact Indigenous law, Indigenous order of their readiness to bring into life with mere recognition. The work of the generations now is to thoughtfully rebuild Indigenous law. Some years ago, one of my brothers who had a long history of incarceration was convicted of a violent crime. Dave and Sandy who are here were the people that helped my family through that time. And it's not a story of a happy ending, but there are happy moments among continuing addictions and homelessness. My purpose in recounting this is to share two observations. One, restorative justice happens within and against the backdrop of Canadian law, no surprise. At all times, Canadian law and public legal institutions that it operates through are visible and present. The second observation is that my family is a creed. And while we worked to include my grandmother and the things that were important to us, creed law wasn't a visible part of that process. So it was a situation of asymmetry. And it's highly problematic because on the one hand we have fully developed articulated Canadian law and all of its institutions and on the other side you have people acting on legal applications but Indigenous law remains invisible. So through the Indigenous Law Research Unit, we've worked with over 40 Indigenous communities. And one of the major research projects which was national was to look at what are the legitimate responses in this legal order to harms and injuries. Generally, there were a range of responses that were consistent and they included everything from healing to compensation to reconciliation as well as a range of sanctions and incapacitation that community safety was at issue. Colonial history has meant that the state has assumed their responsibility and monopoly for responses to serious issues, leaving only responses to the minor issues on the hands of Indigenous communities. In fact, sometimes Indigenous law is described as if it never had any way of dealing with serious crime or as if Indigenous societies never needed that. As if Indigenous law was only ever about healing, arguably a historic possibility. So this raises questions today about the efficacy of Indigenous law. If its scope and understanding of it is restricted to lesser harms, the point is that within Indigenous law there are a range of legitimate responses to harms and injuries. And it is possible to situate restorative justice as one legitimate response within the range of Indigenous responses to harms and injuries. But that can only happen if Indigenous law is visible and if there's a symmetrical relationship between Indigenous law and Canadian law. And that has to happen in every instance and around every Indigenous person. So this means not equating restorative justice with a full representation of Indigenous law. It means seeing the invisibility of Indigenous law. And it means supporting Indigenous communities to restore and rebuild law and to figure out what a symmetrical relationship would look like between our communities. So one of the bare-mount challenges of today for our communities is to rebuild Indigenous lawfulness. It's my contention that it's the undermining of Indigenous law and the resulting lawlessness caused by napses of both Indigenous law and Canadian law which has created the conditions of violence and conflict. There's no room for idealization here. The community's got to form that. There is and always is both the promise of law and the potential failure of law because it always reflects the overarching political dynamics in any communities and we see that in Canada. There are also the conditions of violence which have led to the missing and learning of Indigenous women and girls. It's all part of the same thing. So if we turn to tree law, which Indigenous law and Indigenous legal orders in Canada are organized on a non-state decentralized basis for the most part. The authority for law in its operation operates through more horizontal legal institutions. So the starting place is to take Indigenous law seriously as law and we work with Indigenous legal precedent which is part of the public memory contained in oral histories and in stories and we undertake a partnership with communities and this is not an analysis of the stories based on different research questions. And there's a couple of things that we insist on. One is that we cite every source because other people have to be able to go to that source and disagree with you and say, actually I have a different interpretation of what that story means. That's the collaboration that's in this other part of law. The other is to insist on absolute transparency so that every assumption about families, gender, communities and everything else are laid bare in our public conversation. I think that helps. Very well. So this is the framework. Once we've gone through all the stories from 40 to 100 stories per legal question this is how we organize it. The intent is to supplement Indigenous legal processes to create something that people can add to and change as they apply Indigenous law. And in the time that we have, we're just going to focus on one of these. What are the range of legal responses and what principles govern those responses for a free society in this example? Another question just as a reference talks about four of the legitimate decision-makers. In increased society there are four legitimate authority decision-making groups. So these include leaders, medicine people, elders and the community. And what's really important to be looking at these is the nuance that's involved. And so the elders, for instance, in pre-legal decision-making if there's danger involved, their role is directed. If there's not, their role is persuasive. So it's important to look at the different kinds of ways and different legal problems at a simplification with which just this legal order operates. So the principles. There's a principle of healing and when someone is becoming or has become dangerous to others, that's the predominant approach, is one of healing. There's the principle of avoidance or separation and this is the removal of the harmful actor or a dangerous person for actively avoiding them. There's different ways that people do this. Sometimes the whole community moves, sometimes the person is removed. This is a way of signaling inappropriate disapproval of inappropriate behaviors and it's about dealing with situations where their conflict might in and of itself cause more harm to the community. There's a principle of acknowledging responsibility as a remedy. These should be recognizable to many of the ways that I've heard people talk about restorative justice. So here a wrong doer can remedy harms by taking responsibility. There's different ways that they can do that. There's also compensation and restitution that are part of this legal process. There's a principle of reintegration where it's possible and it's safe to do so the person who committed the harms is reintegrated back into the community. But there's no idealization here. People are practical and so there's an ongoing responsibility to support and observe that person and their interactions and continuing interactions in this community. There's a principle of natural or spiritual consequences and sometimes it's a matter of people stepping back and allowing those consequences to take place. Sometimes the people will undertake additional kinds of actions in order to deal with and respond to harms. And usually the consequences are proportionate to the harm that's been committed. The proportionality is actually another level of threat that runs through the different legal orders. There's a principle of incapacitation so I want to be very clear about advocating capital punishment. These were legitimate responses in the past just as they were in the Canadian industry and elsewhere. So in some of the older stories and these were rare occurrences but where there was extreme or ongoing harm and there was no other response the group would take action to prevent future harms and there would be sometimes execution and this has been written about in pathologies actually under the guise of discussions about the way to go or when to go. There are also substantive and procedural rights within free law and the substantive rights include safety and protection. They include the right to help when one is vulnerable or one is incapable of taking care of themselves and there are procedural rights the right to be heard the right to have cases looked into and to have evidence to support whatever happened and open and collective decision making around individuals. So what does it mean? It means moving beyond Indigenous law by declaration to knowing what to do when the law is broken which is what we have to do with the whole law. It means rebuilding the legal institutions through which law operates and this means looking at past and present legal institutions and law and looking at where there's contradictions or where there's reconciliation that hasn't gone within our own societies. So why does restorative justice matter to Indigenous law and vice versa? It's one way, I think, to resist fundamentalisms within Indigenous law. It's a way of opening up other courses of conversation that are critical to ask critical questions about what is going on and how power is a part of every human dynamic. It's also, I think, necessary for restorative justice to resist romanticization and simplification about Indigenous law. So with the Indigenous law research unit we have a website we've created a number of resources including 13 videos that take out issues of gender in Indigenous law and tough questions within Indigenous law as well as the introduction. There's a range of papers, there's a graphic narrative on pre-criminal law. The report that I'm drawing from the CRE CRE Legal Traditions Report is available online. If the communities agree we share the information from the research that we've conducted with them and we make that available. So we just finished a really wonderful toolkit on gendered Indigenous law and it includes a complete case book which is often different from public CRE and gendered law and we have a bunch of other kinds of things that may be of interest to you as well. Thank you for your questions.


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Hey, this is Brett and this 2013 Ford F350 Crew Cab Long Box Lariat Dual Re-Wheel is stock number 13007Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2013 Ford F350 has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm gonna go all the way around inside underneath start it up and take a look under the hood. Oxford white is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4k so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet smartphone or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive consider clicking the subscribe button to my YouTube channel in the lower right hand part of the screen. Click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the polished aluminum rims and it has general grabber HTS tires. These are LT 245 75 R17s and these front tires are they look brand new still have the little wear line on them so brand new tires in the front frame and under body for being a nine-year-old vehicle looks pretty good just a little bit of light corrosion on the bolts and stuff. Rims got just a little bit of oxidization on there but that's why we do the videos because these are used trucks. Headlight lenses are crystal clear and the front bumper and lower balance are in very nice condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there and it does come with the factory fog lights. You get the chrome trimmed grille for logos in nice shape and the hood is in fantastic condition as well. Didn't see any dents or dings on there it does have the cab lights up there as well and the passenger side front fender looks really good too. Didn't see any dents or dings on their passenger side rim. Pretty nice shape no major scuffs or scrapes and as you go down this side of this 2013 Ford F350 true cab Lariat Dooley. Take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back room is in pretty nice shape and back tires look like they have right around half the tread left on them. Does have the camper package with the anti sway bars frame and underbody looks pretty good. I always like looking at the bed rails those are in pretty nice shape and as all the remaining factory exhaust frame and underbody other than being a little dusty is in really nice shape and the lower rockers all look really good as well. Does have some aftermarket chrome step bars the dually tubs are in nice shape didn't see a major denser cracks on there and coming around to the back rear bumpers in great condition has the backup parking sensors full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring the tailgate is in very nice shape as well does have a locking tailgate it also has the backup camera the tailgate step assist you get a factory Ford fold-up tonneau cover and that looks like it's in pretty nice shape as well comes with a spring and bed liner and the bed is in really nice condition I didn't see any major imperfections back here looks pretty good there's your tailgate step assist tailgate shuts nice and solidly and needs to go down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side no major denser dings in the box dually tub looks pretty good and this back rim both the same condition as the rest down the rest of the side of the truck the doors and the cab all look really good didn't see any denser dings on the doors does have the driver side door code entry and if you ever wanted to find out what your door code is for your 11 to 16 super duty I have a video showing you how to do that in the upper right hand part of the screen for your own personal truck heated mirrors built in directional signals power fold-in power telescope out I'll show you how those work in just a second inside the lariat package gives you the tan leather interior there are no rips or tears on the seats do you get the both front seats are power factory floor mats passenger seat looks really good as well and you do get power pedals auto headlamps power windows power locks power mirrors sony sound system memory driver seat and then these this is how you power fold your mirrors and power telescope we have to ignition on for that to work so I'll show you that in a second show you the back seats real quick no rips or tears back here these seats look like they've hardly ever been sat in very nice and clean power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost these seats fold up you get a lockable storage container back here that locks with the ignition key and the carpeting and floor mats are in really nice shape you also get a hundred ten volt hundred fifty watt plug-in side curtain airbags and behind the back seats are is where your subwoofer is as well as your latch tether anchors child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good we'll hop inside check out the miles radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior get the built-forward tough animation there I'll dim it down so you can maybe I won't dim it down but 46,130 miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean these mirrors like I said do power fold in I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly and then they do telescope out and in and one more time out and in get the leather wrap steering wheel information and cruise controls on the left bluetooth and audio controls on the right this one comes with the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift this one has the my Ford touch radio you get on your heated and cooled seat buttons you get your radio controls right here and FM and Sirius and this one has does not have the nav system it does have a CD player though traction control turned out four-wheel drive climate controls down here including your dual climate controls has the factory brake controller and four up-fitter switches 110 volt 150 watt plug-in and the passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well and once again that headliner is in nice shape I didn't see any rips or tears and you do get map lights and your power sliding rear window button right there also has the backup camera and you can see that that is working nicely we'll start it up and take a look under the hood starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that I would personally like the thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this truck you know for being a 2013 this thing is in really nice shape I didn't see a single dent on it under the hood we have a 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine engine base very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe to and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go you can see the shocks to do it a nice job holding that hood up there is your emissions sticker and I always forget to show the door stickers so I will do that real quick here there is your tire and loading information sticker and your VIN sticker really nice ride and I would highly recommend this 2013 Ford F350 crew cab long box duly lary it from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck 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You're so lucky because we have with us on this panel a security expert, a startup technologist who was also once an activist, and a technologist who is now a policy fellow, a policy technologist. So we have it all covered on this panel. I think it's all about power. When you think about Corey talking about monopolies and we're talking about centralization. And that consolidates power. Smaller players, the ability to do new things. It gives us the ability to make choices between who will provide us with resources and services. And it all works together. It all interoperates. That is in a sense the original power of the internet. That's what email is. I mean now it's becoming centralized. Like there are five email providers, but there used to be thousands, tens of thousands. And no matter who you got your email from, no matter how you read your email, anyone else can email you. That is decentralization. And the more we have those types of protocols on the internet, the more we reduce the power of the large tech monopolies and the better we are in every respect. So when I think of a decentralized web, I think of the original web. And you will find through history, this is an accordion of centralization and decentralization. As different areas of the stack get in concentrated power and then society does something to them and then decentralizes, then decentralizes. And now we're in an area of, I think, great centralization. I think we can see it in the lack of interesting things. Platforms that you just mentioned take a form that we describe as federated. Which basically just means that it's just as if, so to take the short form social media example, Twitter for example, it's just as if there were a whole lot of different Twitters. But anybody from one Twitter could follow someone from another Twitter. And just by saying their name at a domain. And if that sounds familiar, it's because that's how email works. And email is a federated system. You can send an email from your university.edu account to your homes.gmail.com account. Sorry for saying that. And again, presuming that people doesn't deem you to be as famer in some way or shape or form that is only known to their unique algorithms, the email will go through and it will work. So the Fediverse, as it's described, is exactly just that. Except we use short form social media instead. And so you can go out and pick a Fediverse server that you want to join, which everybody seems incredibly intimidated by, but it's actually just as simple as choosing an email provider and everybody did that. So it's going to be okay. And then you just start following whoever you want to follow. And the only real difference from Twitter is that you just have to put an app domain name after the username to fully get to the person you're going for. And the other really, and what I think is the coolest part of the Fediverse, is that I've been talking about it as sort of a Twitter analog, but it isn't. It's not a Twitter analog. It's a protocol. And what that means is that anybody can build anything that is sort of even vaguely social media-esque on top of what's called activity code, which is the name for the protocol that underlies Mastodon and all the rest of these services. And it will be able to talk to the entirety of the rest of the Fediverse. This is what I think is really amazing and it's really hard to get people to grasp until they actually see it in action. So see if you can picture this, right? So you've got your favorite YouTube content creator, I guess is the term we're using these days. But you want to follow them on YouTube? You can only follow them on YouTube. That's the way it goes. On the Fediverse, there's a YouTube equivalent. It's called PeerTube. There's actually probably more than one, but PeerTube is the biggest one. And it's exactly the same. It's just YouTube. You can upload videos, you can comment videos, you can like videos, you can do whatever. But what's really cool about it is that from your Mastodon account, you can follow your favorite creator on their PeerTube account. And the way around, if they want to, if this PeerTube wants to follow you on Mastodon, they can do that. And when your favorite creator posts a new post, it shows up in your Twitter-esque timeline on Mastodon. That's pretty cool. That's handy, right? Now I'm going to look at one place to see when my favorite content creators post something new. But it goes deeper than that.  If I reply to it as if I just replied to a tweet, it shows up as a comment on PeerTube. All of these things are connected to each other. And that's the like-bulb moment for a lot of people that said, hey, you know what, wait, I don't need the permission of somebody else. I just implement this protocol. I just write some code that, or frankly use somebody else's code that they've already written to interact with ActivityBub. And I get all of this for free. And it works across all of these platforms in a way that they make sense depending on the platform. So, you know, a reply on a Mastodon looks like a comment on PeerTube and so on and so forth.  There's an Instagram equivalent called PixelPet. There is a Goodreads equivalent called Bookworm. There are others I'm going into now. But that's sort of permissionless kind of, hey, you know what, I'm just going to implement the protocol and we're going to interact with the whole rest of the world that's out there without having to say, hey, please, Mr. Real and Musk, can I use your API? And that is really the incredible power of the fediverse and of the protocol itself. So, the word I want you to learn here is generative. And what these open systems are, are generative. That you can do a new thing with the protocol without anyone's permission. So, I mean, I sort of baked off solid before, but we have it a little bit out now. Solid is a personal data store. The idea is that right now, your data is stored by the company with which you create it. Your Fitbit data is stored by Fitbit. Your email is with your email provider. Your tweets are with Twitter. And you can't put them together. And you can't create something that uses them in an interesting way because they are separate silos and they're all controlled and, you know, very, very securely by the companies that add on them. If you had this kind of federated system or a federated system of your data, like solid, you can invent something new. So, like some app that marries your Fitbit data with your refrigerator data and your thermostat and, you know, what your doctor's data feeders made that up.  And that's the value of a distributed system that people can just make it up and make up something new and different and it'll be cool. And you've never thought of it before until you see it. Important controversies here are an important kind of nuance to these things that I think matter a lot. And I think one way to get out is to talk about how some of the picture that we just heard about, the federated, the sort of Fediverse, all these sort of federated sites playing together, breaks down in reality and how also I think the sort of idea of the personal data store breaks down and how I think we do need not a lot of new tech, or maybe not any new tech, but we need to get better at applying some of the tech that we have because there are some technical challenges here that aren't just policy challenges. So the way I'm... So first of all, I'll say how many people here have their own server? So not that many, right? Not a majority. We're in a very specialized context here, right? So you can imagine that the incidents of having one's own server here is higher than it typically would be. So most people don't have their own servers. My former organization, to solve the problem that I described before, actually did end up using Matrix, and it's great because we have our own server. We have a CTO who can maintain it, who can run it, and having that is necessary to getting the security properties or most of the security properties in Matrix because if you don't have that, they break down someone spectacularly, or at least until recently they did. And so there's a way in which, first of all, to access the full power of these things, you need your own server. One thing that Corey said earlier about Macedon is not actually true, as I understand it. You cannot just move your account from one service to another when your server had been table-flips, and it's like, I don't want to do this anymore. You can't just get out. They have to let you out because you don't have anything that you can just take somewhere else. You have to almost set up an email forward. And so that's really, really different than the ability to leave when you want. They still have the ability to make your 300,000 followers go away. So to look at it from that perspective, as Fight for the Future, or an activist organization, how do we preserve more as a political campaign? How do you preserve your access to your audience built up over time? Well, you might say, you don't want to just use some Rando server, obviously. And you don't want to use a big company server because you can be censored by them if you're in conflict with them.  Okay, great. But what server are all the people who follow you using? Right? And if they're all using G, because that's the problem that exists for email, we can use our own email services. We can switch, as Bruce said, from email to email. But if all of our subscribers are using Gmail, and Gmail wants to block us, then we're dependent on Gmail for that relationship. It's two-sided. And if you actually look at how, even the systems like, and I've talked to the Blue Sky founder, Jay Graver, who actually used to work at Fight for the Future, was a campaigner with us before they learned to code, and now they're making decentralized Twitter. But I talked to Jay Graver about how this, like, games out, or how it plays out in terms of the game theory of it. And it's almost like nation states. But there is a dynamic where you end up flocking to whichever server is biggest. So the dynamic that Bruce talks about a lot in his work too, like feudal security. Anyway, the way it plays out is if you're a Fight for the Future and you want to maintain access to your audience, the best thing you can do is be on a server that has all the Taylor Swift's of the world and all the people that nobody is ever going to block. And so you're going to flock to the biggest service that is like that, and probably that biggest service is going to have something pretty similar to the rule of law, like a very transparent, consistent set of criteria that if you meet these criteria, we are not going to block you. And then you can be sure that your audience will have access to that because no one is going to want to run a service on their side that doesn't let them see Taylor Swift or the sort of biggest folks in the world. And then you get into what happens. What if somebody is really popular with one group and really anti-popular with another group and you can get fissures, right? Almost like sanctions where different services end up kind of blocking each other in a retaliatory way. It gets weird. But the tendency is for there to be a few big operators and that is in fact what has happened with email, right? Most of us email, you can theoretically run your own server, most people don't. And so the reason and motivation for my project Quiet is that I'm really interested in how we can get past that dynamic where as it seems has happened with email, even when we have open protocols, over time it tends to people blocking to whichever party runs the most secure, reliable, and more or less okay for most people's service and kind of getting locked in there. And I think we do need some tech for that because your laptop is not the same as a server. I'm sure you can have all your data on your laptop with your laptops going online and offline every time you close it.  And so what the software and what the tech needs to do in order to deal with that and create a consistent user experience that feels like you're using Slack, when everybody's devices are going on and offline in that way is actually quite nuanced and interesting. And it can be done for the team collaboration case right now. And that's why I'm tackling this and making Slack and not trying to make Twitter in this peer-to-peer way. To make Twitter in this totally peer-to-peer way on devices that are going on and offline all the time, that's still an interesting academic research area in the field of peer science. That's a big question. But it would be great if we could do it and quickly to close, I think, here's the reason why. There's this long history of open source getting us out of jams when it comes to monopolies and competition in the history of tech. Like, it happened with Microsoft in the 90s. The open source web browser, the open source lamp, SAP Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP let people make applications to distribute them directly to users, kind of going around doing an end-run around Microsoft's electrification, maybe, of Microsoft's operating system and get access to build applications. That's where the entire field of big Silicon Valley and tech companies started, essentially, Google, Amazon, or things like Dropbox. They all came from this ability to just build and distribute directly to users via the web. And all of that was based on open source software. All the products we used are at, like, 90 or 99% open source, depending on how you measure them. And the companies that build these products, their giant software teams just work on this tiny sliver at the top to differentiate the stuff that's specific to the thing that they're building. But they collaborate on this huge open source stack underneath them. The problem is what's happened is that, right now, that open source software is sort of free and accessible to everyone in practice. Like, you can go and look at the code that drives these big services, but the ability to package it all up and run it at scale in a way that's reliable is a highly specialized and intensive set of skills that's very locked up in these organizations that just happened to get there first and have to solve those problems first. Now they rent it out to the rest of us, but for an increasingly high toll. And the way to get around that is to try to wrap up some of this operational capacity that these companies supported internally and package that up with the open source code itself. So if you... The contrast between Matrix and Quiet is that if you had the code for Matrix, you would still have to find someone to run your server before you were doing it yourself. Whereas... So the operational capacity does not come with the code. Whereas if I give you Quiet, you don't need anything else. It just works and it will connect to the devices of different people in your team. The operational capacity comes with the code. And so that I think is, in a sense, a response to Bruce, that there is some text up that we need that can bring some of this magic of open source software and generativeness to the problems we're facing with Big Tech if we solve a couple of specific problems. We'll take a quick second to quibble with your characterization and say that part of the reason that not everything is scaling and dominating is because not everybody wants to scale and dominate everything. It's actually a requirement for humankind to dominate everything. It's okay to have small things every once in a while. To answer the actual question that you're asking. So the fundamental issue is that all of the problems that you might encounter trying to run a centralized service, say social media service, absolutely exist in the decentralized world. You have to solve all of them. You have to solve some new ones sometimes, actually. And they don't get any easier necessarily just because you're running a decentralized service. You still have to tackle all the same problems. One problem that you just sort of alluded to is that oftentimes you don't have nearly the resources that a huge centralized service has. Either because the customers are paying for it or because you're advertising to them. And so we're seeing kind of play out now in real time this sort of these two sweet spots in the Fediverse. At the large end where you can sort of approximate being a small Twitter, right? So if you're like Macedona Social where most people are, you have some resources or if you can get people to kick in $45 a month, which, yes, $45 is not much, but if you get all of your users to do it, maybe you've got something to work with. And at the other end, you've got this sweet spot of hey, I'm running a friends and family server for 30 to 50 of my best friends.  And so I don't have to expend a lot of resources in running it or administrating it or whatever. And then you have all of the stuff in the middle where you don't have the resources, but you also can't trust everybody on the server. And that's where we're seeing the people table flipping. The admins are saying, you know, this is not worth it. This is not what I signed up for. This is not fun. I'm getting yelled at basically by everybody for everything all of the time. And nobody's giving me any money for this. And so, you know, this is one of the forces that tends to trend life generally, things back towards centralization, right? Is that centralization is efficiency. Centralization is greater resources. And combating that and trying to drive a wedge away from that is both finally important and also very difficult because our capitalist system is set up to drive for efficiency. And so pushing against that is really hard. And you end up, but you do have to deal with all of these. The same problems, privacy, security, harassment, management, moderation, et cetera, et cetera. All of these problems still exist in the Federalist.  I'm told, what are your friends' sons post national secrets? Just grew to his group. And suddenly the FBI is raiding everything and then ruining your day. Actually, I have a different quibble. Actually, that's a quibble. I think you explained the benefit. If you have your email hosted by somebody, maybe schnari.com is hosted somewhere, and they suddenly go out of business or get weird, I can move it. I can move it tomorrow. There's no problem. I just move it. That's the benefit of a distributed system. Now, you're right. We all could run our own email servers, but we don't. We likely pick someone. But it'd be great if there were 10,000 we could pick from. And so if you have a pod where you keep your data, using the solid protocol, you could run your own solid server. You're probably not. You're probably going to coast it somewhere. But you'll be able to move it. If you don't like the way Google is treating it, you go somewhere else. And hopefully, there will be tens of thousands. I think you're right. The dynamics of our markets push towards centralization. But we can deal with that as well if we choose to. We choose as a matter of policy to allow the big to grow bigger, because that's what the big like, and the big controlled lobbying gull is the control of the policy. But we can choose another path. I think there's a funny thing that happens in the tech policy space, like after the Snowden revelations, we find out the NSA is spying on everyone. And I don't know, others here probably saw this too, but there's this funny dynamic where all the tech people said, there's no way tech is ever going to solve this. We need policy solutions. We need some type of Congressional interaction. And then all the tech, all the policy and politics people said, there's no way policy is ever going to solve this. Like the national security narrative has a total grip on everything. We need tech interventions. And I think that happens here to some extent, right, where it's easier. And I think one fun thing for being someone who's like really deep and gets deep in tech and gets deep in politics is that the answer is sometimes both or neither or one or the other, depending, not always both though. Sometimes it really is like policy can only, you know, the privacy space, there's no tech intervention that can help you against light display readers, none that I know of or against satellites just watching you walk around. That's not a tech thing. That's a policy thing. On the other hand, there's no policy conversation we're ever going to have that's going to get us global private money because no government is going to allow that. So if that's what you want and think is important, you have to do it with tech. So I think there's like a thing here where in this case the tech intervention might be pretty good because yes, in general corporate America, we do let things get really big or the world does let things get really big. But in some parts of tech that hasn't been a problem, it's not a problem that Postgres is really big or that... It's a database for those of you who don't know. Yeah, sorry. So Postgres is a database that runs most of databaseing right now on the internet. And it's not a problem that Linux has gotten really big. Linux is another big fundamental piece of the stack or Ubuntu, that Ubuntu has gotten really big. It's the leading Linux distribution or was written until recently, but it's one of the big ones for servers. When these things get really big, it doesn't matter because they're open source, they're multi-stakeholder, they're points of collaboration across lots of different companies and organizations that have lots of different interests and needs. And in that collaboration around these shared license code, all these companies get what they want. They can be not just companies, but individuals and organizations. They can all be very productive, maximally productive. They can have the best database, the best distro that humanity can come up with at any given point without having to do much work to get that. And it doesn't matter how big it gets. The bigger it gets, the better. I mean, the bigger Wikipedia gets, like if it stays high quality, better. We all share in that. That's like a common resource. So if we can move some of these things from the space of the private and the control and then maintained by somebody into the space of this is code, this is non-scarce, infinitely copyable, common resource that we all share, the bigness isn't as much of a problem anymore. And then it doesn't matter that we're so bad at dealing with bigness, right? And so that is where tech can help. And specifically, one way we can do that is by making apps where you don't need to run your own server and where running your own server isn't just a theoretical thing you can do. It's just like kind of what everybody's doing, although you don't think of it as server. It's just the app is on your phone doing the thing. That's what's interesting about that line of tech is that we can create a new thing that no matter how big it gets, it will have the same maliciousness over time as Linux or as Postgres. These very, very neutral tools that become shared points of collaboration. Yeah, that certainly was a big part of it. And although I think, as Ross mentioned, abuse is also a part of it. So not just spam, but usage that some subset of users might consider legitimate uses, but some broader set of users consider important. That's also a piece of it. The big open networks case is really difficult. Yeah, to throw a bit of a wrench in here, one thing that came up was that whoever's dealing with it is in a position of not being paid to deal with it. And money came up as an important piece of this a couple of times in talking about it. Well, there's no money for this. There's no money for that. And these big companies have money, but these small operators don't. And it is notable that there is a piece of the decentralization space, a small piece, I would say, in terms of significance, but a big piece in terms of the amount of money going into it. Cryptocurrency, where there are building blocks for building money into these systems. And I don't think there are great examples for projects that have kind of threaded the needle in terms of building a cryptocurrency solution to problems so multifaceted as the kinds of problems that a master's on and then would have to encounter. But it's conceivable. You know, we have an open source programmable basis for building you get paid into these systems. So it could be you get paid if you do a really good job handling spam abuse. You get paid if you do a really good job creating a culture or creating a set of mores for a certain part of this community. There's also, we're seeing other, you know, I'm talking about the technical versus policy kind of solutions or we're seeing really interesting stuff happening, again, in the sort of master on hosting space with basically like user-owned cooperatives, where again, you know, a lot of servers are like, hey, yeah, if you could chip in a couple bucks to help maintain this stuff, that'd be great. Social.coop, which is a user-owned cooperative master on server, is like, in order to join, you must up, you need to, I don't even know how much it is, X number of dollars. And that goes toward running the server and maintain the server and paying people to do the things that keep the server in a nice place and so on and so forth. And if you don't need a blockchain for that, you just need a social construct as old as literally human beings, a cooperative, in order to make it happen. Although spam is an interesting example of the way it's built, leads to the tech. Back when there are 10,000, since the thousands of email servers, you had had anti-spam on your email client. I remember Udora used to do anti-spam on the client. And that's because that was the best place to do it. As you moved into a centralized model, the spam is being dealt with at Gmail, right, at Apple. In the middle, you remember those spam proxies that you would hire them and then they would clean your email pipe before it got to you. So there are different ways to implement this depending on the architecture of the overall system, how centralized versus decentralized it is. So I mean, if whatever it is running is decentralized, they will be decentralized solutions. And then it might be something running on your computer that cleans out the spam and hates speech whatever it is you don't want to see. And it might be something more centralized, but it really depends on what's being done and with a mix of centralized versus decentralized. Nothing is wholly decentralized. The very fact that you're going to buy a laptop by Dell or a compact or one of a dozen companies is a point of centralization. The chips, the different services, the operating systems, they're all, you know, there are different numbers of them and it's often not big numbers. So depending on where those centralizations are, you'll see different types of solutions. Let's talk about money a little bit because so far we've talked in very utopian terms, right? It doesn't take a lot of money. You can keep it small and bespoke. But the truth is that when we started this conversation, Ross and some of us in 2016, we thought it wouldn't scale because there wouldn't be money in it and you need money to scale. But what happened is cryptonomics happened, cryptocurrencies happened. And instead of these decentralized companies going to a VC and saying, okay, give me this amount of money and then the VC has a lot of say in how you monetize, how you grow, what your goals are. These decentralized protocols found that they could just offer an ICO and sell tokens and raise literally billions of dollars if you're Ethereum or your Filecoin or your Zcash. And they use those tokens to build their technology and in some cases to pay the open source community that builds that. Has anything we talked about done that? Linux didn't or actually didn't. Macedon didn't. Ethereum. Ethereum, Matrix, Filecoin have all. Does Matrix did? No. So I don't think that's the thing. That's true. Yeah, so nothing we talked about does that. But some of the stuff that we have talked about has these holes in it where no one's really sure what to do. Like there's this problem of if I put a video out into the world or I put a lot of video out into the world. Video is fun because it's just a lot of data. I put a lot of HD video out into the world. I want to make a new YouTube alternative and people are or you have a messaging app and it's using everyone's sending videos to each other. There's something we're like that does at a certain size that does become a scarce resource. Like you have to keep that video maybe forever. Maybe users probably want you to keep it up forever. You have to transcode it into a bunch of formats. There's different, there's computer requirements just to get it to show on all the different devices and there's always more devices. And you have to solve these questions of who does that work. Is it the work of the person receiving the feed? Is it the work of the person putting the video out into the world? And there is like scarcity there. And where there's scarcity, where there's some scarce resource where you can't just like copy things infinitely the way you can with code. Where there's like a computer using electricity using hard disk space. There's some balancing and interest you need to figure out between the different participants in the system. And in some cases there's enough just general goodwill and there's a small amount of data that it just all works out. And a good example of this is something like Tor where there's a network where people volunteer to run servers and it's available to the world. Everyone can use it for private browsing which works. But a Tor type network wouldn't be able to run YouTube and I don't think anyone here is arguing that it could. And it's not clear where that line is and whether you could have YouTube operate at the scale that YouTube operates at a global scale with a global ability to pay to maintain it. Because some people might be spending 45 bucks a year on a Macedon service but like not everyone in the world is going to do that. And at some point you might need some piece where you actually have to pay for that electricity and pay for that hard drive space. And what's cool about the cryptocurrency piece being built into this and what's useful for it is that it handles those cases, conversations. But I do think that there is a sliver of situations in which blockchain solves an actual problem that actual people have. I think if people are familiar with the Gardner hype cycle the problem is we hit the top of the blockchain type peak or whatever and it just so happened that that peak was also defrauding a massive number of people out of their hard-earned cash. And so now we're heading into the trough of wow that was really a poor idea. But I do think that eventually we will come out on the other side of that with a handful of really good uses for blockchain and hopefully only just those handful and not all of the massive fraud that went along with it. But there are some cases where this is a usual data structure and like you said, it's a community playing for some common sort of thing. I think identity management is actually another one. But yeah, we're unfortunately not there.  So I think to challenge the concept a little bit especially these days I'm not necessarily sure that everybody has to pick the same protocol as long as the protocols are open and we have a way to translate between them. And so like if some folks want to run Blue Sky and some folks want to run ActivityBub or AT protocol, sorry, which is the protocol underneath Blue Sky, I think we can probably find ways to make those talk to one another especially if they're sort of going out of the same general thing which appears to be social media exchange and post kind of stuff. But I think the point is still kind of taken we do need to sort of, it's good it's good to try a whole bunch of different things to see what works and what doesn't work but it's also good that at the end of the day everybody can sort of talk to one another. And we are, especially in the kind of the social media setting we're still in the kind of try a bunch of different things mode, right? So Blue Sky or the AT protocol has a couple of different things about it that are I think manifestly better than Macedon. I think Macedon has some things that are better than Blue Sky but trying to do things and seeing what sticks is a good thing at the end of the day but I think that as time goes on we'll start to see a coalescing around a couple of different protocols at the most that tick all the boxes and that everyone can kind of agree yeah we're going to, this is what we're going to use going forward. In a sense, protocol is the heart of internet coverage the internet works not because anybody forces anybody to do anything but if you don't follow the protocols you can't talk to anybody. So whether it's the ITF which is very distributed, bottom up they vote by humming, no joke Solidus W3C protocol World Wide Web Consortium and these are all tech organizations building protocols so that things can talk to things not really run by companies they're involved but their power is iffy depending on which one and this feels like a really decent model as most of us say the telephony protocols which are very much where governments pushing the protocols down to the telecom monopolies to the people. Internet I think is a better system. I think it's really hard, oh jump in quickly, it's super quick idea the one really hard thing in this space and actually I think this is the answer to the reason why none of this stuff is doing that well is that if you have to innovate on protocols and stack in order to build your product you're kind of like breaking the rules of how to make product. The start-up way to make product is you just cobble something together to see if it fits the needs of the people you're building for and try to get traction and then you kind of build it out from there and what's been great about the centralized stack is it's really easy to do that up to like 10,000 users or something and by the time you have 10,000 users you know you're on to something or you have an idea that you're on to something. The hard part about defining protocols up front is that we still don't know what the thing needs to do in order to attract the new product to be specific, needs to do in order to attract people away from the old products. It maybe isn't even enough that it has to just do the same thing the old products do just as well. It might need to do some new thing and figuring out what that is depending on what that is it changes what the protocol needs to do and what the stack needs to do and that interplay is really, really hard and so if we over define standards up front you could end up making it so that great you have a standard but no one wants to use your thing because there's some subtle difference between what the standard does and what people want and so what I'm trying to do is really let the work I'm doing be led by what I think people want and then work backwards to find the stack and then hopefully something will emerge that is some kind of consensus. So this is kind of secreted by design you know hopefully we get for new things I mean lots of organizations try to push this but the market doesn't reward that their market rewards you know fast and barely works not secure I can be secure I can be more secure than his protocol and I'm six months later and he wins so I'm not going to do that so it's a bunch of forces going on but you know I mean don't disthearally found us the internet they made smart choices given the hardware and software of the time I think what we may say I completely agree with Bruce like the internet that we have is the internet that we are going to have like no one's going to tear out of TCPIP and start over from the beginning but you know path dependence thousands of years the AIs what the hell is this thing what is it here but I think one interesting thing to sort of keep an eye on is this concept of like overlay overlay networks which basically you know underneath it is still using TCPIP because that's just we're going to be stuck with that forever I mean we can't even get IPv6 to work like we're not upending anything else but on top of that we are seeing some people starting to develop interesting networks on top of that that do have that are say encrypted from the get go or have more of like a mesh kind of framework than a spoke kind of framework so there is sort of some play happening there that may lead to interesting things that live on top of what we today call the internet but are not I don't think actually fully replace it at a base level


So the solstice of heroes is back and let's be honest, it's more or less the same thing as last year as you would imagine so in reality the challenges and methods in completing them are more or less the same. Today I bring you what in my opinion is the fastest way, the fastest method in getting those orbs completed for certain armor piece challenges. How's it going guys my name's dpj and today I bring you another d2 video if you do enjoy living a life really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. So solstice is here and it's main reward is pretty looking armor. A lot of these armor pieces are too upgrade then require you to generate orbs, solar, void and arc. Some generating strikes others not, well today people I bring you what in my opinion the fastest methods in doing this for certain pieces of armor and well it's the same as the last year. So to generate orbs at a crazy fast rate head to neccess and load into artifacts edge then follow this path I take. Down here every 10 or so minutes the enemy moves off against each other and from this little hole in the wall they spawn at a crazy rate. Here you can generate a ton of orbs. Now if you have to do this with a strike load up a strike are neccess and head here. Obviously it's easier in a team of three to do, solar or Q you know that a player will pull you forward. Weapons to use here for solar you want to use the sunshot 100% it's the best by far for creating orbs of any kind but in reality any solar weapon will work arc orbs are best created in my opinion where there's trinity ghoul this is amazing especially if you have the catalyst too and void I was having a great time with the ruinous effigy but the guverton lands also works amazing here also so head here with your weapons at hand wait for the enemy to move off against each other and then get to work another place the enemy moves off against each other quite often is on earth so load into the truss land by devrim and here within this back corner the enemy also moves off against each other spawning in hundreds of enemies which will make it easy work of generating orbs for your armor challenges again if this needs to be done within a strike you can do this within the lake of shadows just selected after director and then just head here which is right at the start of strike and wait for this to happen and I hope this helps people now I know all g players will remember all these strats and if you can think of any other tips to help new players drop a comment down below so people can see but on that note guys we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like who helps out if you're new around here want to see more d2 be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I'll see you on that next one


So it's Saturday afternoon and we're heading to the gardening shop to pick up a few Plants, so it's been a few hours yesterday going through Plants that are good at detox to find the air pulling up pollutants from aldehyde VOC's Got a pretty comprehensive list here. It's about 15 or 18 plants on there just go through and get some of the inexpensive ones for some of the bathroom and the living area in that and Yeah, should be cool. I might turn into an article in a few weeks time. So keep an eye out for that These are organic 100% organic water for you woman free GMO free chemical free chlorine free interesting Free range chickens from both stocks and Hulks band. I really like liver in my diet from a health point of view I've talked about how you use this liver powder in the past.  You know in the past I got found when I have that paté with like the actual liver I almost feel a little bit better afterwards compared to when I have delivered powder I'm gonna give it a go and I'm making some myself. I'm gonna mix it up a little bit and add some like Mushrooms and bacon to it as well to get into it got some onions and shallots on the Oil there for our cooking away into add on garlic, but I don't have any and then I'm gonna add the chicken livers and then I'm probably gonna add Some mushroom and a little bit of bacon as well once it's all cooked put it in a food processor Blend it all up a little bit of butter to that and then I'm putting the fridge and while that's happening. I've got um, I Got some chicken broth that I cooked this morning. I'm gonna turn into the soup for dinner. So So the mushrooms there probably a little bit too much, but anyway, I got some shiitake mushrooms and Some shiitake mushrooms over there and some butter mushrooms. So I'm gonna chuck them in with the bacon and the onion and then liver's going. The chicken liver mix is done You get to eat that just as it is Some people would but that's not what I'm doing this for. I'm going to make paté So what I'm gonna do now is put it into this food processor Mix it up a bit at the bottom of the salt and pepper meant to add cream, but I don't have any yeah It's not really the best sweet, but it's kind of a guy thing more for function rather than a Taste and all that pencil stuff, but no, I'm sure it tastes good anyway. All right, so let's go do this All right, so it's looking pretty good. Now what I'm gonna do is add in Some of the butter and blend that through and then just some salt and pepper All right, let's have a look. Looks good It's based in regards to liver, paté. So what I'm gonna do now is Pour this into this dish Just grease it up with some butter and then I'm going to leave that in the fridge for a while to let it set and then I'm gonna cut it up and freeze some of it sweet, so that's all done and In case you're wondering, that's if you're thinking that's a lot of paté Yeah, it's a lot. I think I overdid it with the mushrooms and the bacon and the onions and That's what you get when you don't pull the recipes and make it up as you go So I'll leave it in the fridge for a while and we'll come back later while I do the dishes and finish dinner And in case you're wondering what it tastes like. I know you're not meant to have a paté warm, but it's actually really good Not really good You could have that Just on its own warm Maybe I'll have some with dinner All right, so I put it out of the fridge Rick has already cut a little little bit out. Just so it tastes good So all I'm gonna do now is slice it up put it in bags, put it back in the freezer and Leave some in the fridge for us to eat this week This week's book is Tribe of Mentors By Tim Ferriss. Actually, this was a gift So thank you for the gift to me this book But yeah, it's funny this this time last year I got another book of his. It's called Tools of Titans And that was like my summer holiday read. So I got this Christmas time this year as well another book of Tim Ferriss and Yeah, it's been my summer holiday read however. I've decided that this book I'm not gonna read start to finish like I usually do Because what happened with the Tools of Titan book is it was just full of notes You know like every second page is like oh, I need to read this or I need to go check this link out Or this website or it was a quote that was really powerful I didn't think one thing about and stuff. It was too much. It was like oh my god I was like stimulation overload so it's similar with this book and I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna read this all in one hit instead I'm just gonna leave it here in my reading room or in the living room or next to my desk or whatever And just every now and then throughout the year I'm just gonna read like a few pages and Use that as like ongoing inspiration But anyway, if you haven't read any of Tim Ferriss's stuff check it out He started with like his book started with like the four hour workweek or the four hour body or something like that He's got some amazing books and also his podcast is really really good and as he continues to grow He's meeting more and more interesting and Very knowledgeable people and a lot of these people's thoughts and ideas in this book So I recommend it if you ever read it yourself, let me know below Let me know your favorite page or your favorite guru mentor so to speak because I'll skip ahead to it I didn't read that so I'm gonna go read a little bit now So I'm sitting here on my patio, which is now becoming a bit of a jungle. Check this out Got tomato plants coming up through the dick yeah, but anyway, I've got some parcels today and I was a bit of a theme anti-radiation stuff So what have I got here? I've got some YouTube headsets instead of using your typical like headsets Which have the wiring going straight into your head and then a little speakers This is all happening down here, and then that just pumps ear into the headset So you don't have that um electrical device right in the head Second thing I got is from faradays.co. So this is I think it's a Kickstarter campaign I'll put the links in the notes below to the Kickstarter. I don't know if it's in it or not So you can go over look, but I think you can also go direct to this site So it's the Faraday's box of brief boxes like so, but they've got a silver lining panel inside it and the idea is it will block emf, electromagnetic fields Exposure into the sensitive parts, which is important because that's been shown to reduce Spoon count and testosterone and I'm sure it's gonna cause a whole ton of issues in regards to health and wellness and fertility and Cancer later on in life. So um, yeah, I mean, I haven't tried these yet Um, I'm gonna have to figure out how to quantify it maybe using my cornet meter and doing some testing But yeah, they hopefully they work and I'm sure they're not gonna do any harm So yeah, definitely when I'm traveling and stuff, I think I'm gonna be wearing these Because on a day-to-day front, I you know, we're underwear I just work from home. I'm just in my shorts. So I don't need these but when I'm going out in public I think all going well if they're comfortable and they do what they're meant to do. They may be my go-to choice. So That's cool exciting new stuff in the world of Alex this week. So quick workout today. I'm just gonna do some Squats and push-ups and that's it push-ups. I'll just take the failure squats I'll work up to get a little bit heavier later in the set But uh, nothing too fancy nice day, so I'll do a warm-up out here before going inside


profiting off of lies and conspiracy theories and I don't really see how things get better, how we move on as a country until this informational environment is cleaned up. This age of social media that we live in now is creating hate platforms in the U.S. and we're going to have to find a way to get that under control. Many of these platforms have no rules at all and they are just rabbit holes of misinformation and hate speech. How important is it to regulate parlor and platforms like it? Big tech's role poisoning minds with false information has also been an issue for years. They've made millions of dollars on these channels that are poisoning people's minds. Many have been calling on the tech titans to do more. These executives don't want any more blood on their hands. Even with these mainstream digital platforms turning their backs on this kind of audiology, at least for now, in the eyes of some too little too late. Now. Now. I mean now. I mean they're a little slow on the uptake. For many, the move and suspensions by Facebook and Instagram are too little too late.   Too little too late but it is still a historic moment for big technology companies. The only peril as I can watch as I watch this that I can think of is the take down of Islamist terrorism social media discussions. ISIS is the only parallel. There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deep programmed. Do you have any idea how we start that process? Much less completed. And on that note, there's never been a better time to get a VPN. Because these people aren't just going to come after the big folks out there, the big pundits. They're going to come after the little guys too. If you're saying something that they don't like, they might come after your employer and pressure them to fire you. So you need a VPN when you're out there browsing the internet. A new survey reports that an overwhelming 85% of Americans believe that at least one tech company is spying on them through the apps on their smartphones. Two-thirds of those ass claim that they've seen ads for products that they've talked about but never actually searched for online. This is exactly why I use Virtual Shield. Virtual Shield prevents advertisers, corporations, and my ISP from keeping tabs on me. Virtual Shield does all of these things and more. Get the Virtual Shield link in my description or in the pinned comment. I mean, Jim Shudo there who was comparing essentially his political opposition to ISIS, that guy used to work in the Biden Obama administration. And now he's going to be essentially working for Biden again as an information minister, as a state media propagandist. It's just so obvious what their ploy is here. For years, they've been demonizing their political opposition as racist, sexist, all these loaded words that are supposed to just end the argument. They use these words in place of arguments so that they don't have to bother winning in the arena of ideas. They don't have to convince anybody.  And they just automatically win the argument. It seems like calling us racist just kind of lost this punch. So now they've escalated to calling us white supremacists. And so it's like, where do we go from there? Literal Nazis, they're calling us that too. And I think this is the danger. The argument that they were making there is that there's these people out there and they're plotting violence on all these platforms.  And don't think for a second that it's just these some random fringe platform. I mean, they're going to go after Fox News as well, which is a whole other can of worms because that's their business competition. And there should be people asking questions about this. Their ploy is clearly to connect anybody that might be critical of their networks or the Democrat party, connect them to the most fringe elements of the right. And so there is right wing violence. I condemn right wing violence. I condemn what happened in the Capitol on the 6th. I think it was disgusting. I think anybody who was involved and what happened to that officer losing his life, they should be prosecuted and they should pay a price. I'm on board with that totally. And like I said before, I'm consistent because I said the same thing about BLM and Antifa, who also acted like domestic terrorists, still act like domestic terrorists. But the difference is, they are being judged by the standard of mostly peaceful, but you get people that got really violent in the Capitol. And I'm not talking about the people who just walked in and strolled along, weren't supposed to be there and then walked out. I'm talking about the people who got really violent. That is literally a fringe minority. The vast majority of people there were peaceful. The media knows this, but they're not going to hold, they can't possibly hold their political opposition to that standard because there's too much to gain, too much power to gain by taking advantage of the situation because it flows right into their rhetoric for the last four years. And so now they're going to use this to just crush their political opposition. And if that happens, it is happening. It's not even speculating at this point, it's not hypothetical, but I don't see how you can call this a United States of America anymore at that point because they're essentially just going to shut down the voices of 75 million people in this country. Another guy on there said that these people, they're making millions of dollars, these platforms. So is the media. And I got to say, if the media was judged by the same standards that they're judging all these other platforms, that they're demonizing as these horrible dens of violence and domestic terrorism planning, look, there's already laws against that. If there are people planning violence on any of the platforms, whether it be Parler, Twitter, Facebook, whatever, the FBI is going to be alerted. It's already illegal. They're just using this as an excuse to shut up their opposition.  The fact is, if CNN and MSNBC were judged by their own standards, they would be shut down. I mean, CNN has been inciting violence for the last four years. You had ICE facility attacks that were incited by stuff that AOC was saying and stuff that was on CNN. They actually promoted the organization where two of the attackers came from. Then you have the GOP baseball game shooting. That guy was a Democrat who posted frequently on Facebook and if you read his postings, it's all the stuff you're hearing on MSNBC and CNN. And on MSNBC, it's a very welcoming home of critical race conspiracy theory, with people like Joy Reid constantly spouting out, bringing on guests like this grifter, the founder of the 1619 project. These media outlets and corporations that are claiming they don't want to be associated with violence or with violent ideologies, really. Then why are you supporting BLM? These corporations are just throwing money at the Democrat Party and BLM. BLM is connected to plenty of violent incidents. Just in name one, Dallas, where five police were ambushed and murdered. There were several others hurt, seriously injured. At a BLM rally, where they were calling for violence against police. And you think that these aren't being driven by the media's cherry-picked stories and their cherry-picked data? Of course they are. At the very least, it's debatable.  It would have to be them. And they're not gonna incriminate themselves. Anyway, just wanted to say something quickly about that video because it was just driving me nuts. I know how y'all feel out there. I'm right there with you. But just try to stay positive. Above all, stay peaceful, and I'll see you all next video.