We the topic for today is the ethics of progress and so this whole day this whole conference is about free market and environmentalism and climate policy and this stuff are all really technical issues, but we also thought it's not just about techniques, but also about ethics and Morality and we realized that I'm in personally at least I would like that my generation was becoming more and more pessimistic about the technology Innovation and progress and people tend to think more and more that it's bringing it brings more Troubles than actually that that it solves and so that's why we asked you to deliver a speech on The the ethics of progress and how we could defend innovation on moral grounds. So now with the floor is yours Thank you for inviting me. I apologize for not after Studying French for years not knowing any French. So this is all gonna be English I think one of the One of the most depressing things in the world right now Even more depressing the COVID is the fact that your generation is so depressed You live in amazing times you live in times of You know of incredible success For the human species We live longer We live healthier We live in a sense easier lives than we've ever lived before We have access to Values and to both material and spiritual That our ancestors could not have even imagined would exist never mind be as prevalent as they are today You know from your phone You have access to every piece of music ever written in human history at a marginal cost of zero You have access to all the great literature. You have access to movies to every work of art almost ever produced that it's two dimensions or in I'm not sure what dimension music is in three dimensions. I guess You have access to instantaneously at a marginal cost of zero life is amazing We drink the cleanest water. We've ever drunk as a human species We can you can open a tap in almost any country Anywhere today and drink its water without thinking twice We breathe some of the cleanest air We've ever breathed particularly in the West We don't have to deal with the stink of Ross manure We don't have to deal with the You know stink of agriculture of the stink of fires of the stink of living in Hudson and in Primitive primitive type of lodging. We live in beautiful apartments homes life is amazing and It it seems there's an entire generation growing up believing somehow That their lives are horrible That progress is bad for them that we need to slow down we need to stop we need a Value we need to change our values completely and and I think this is unbelievably tragic And it is if there is a cause for slowing down a progress if there is a cause of slowing down a press in Technology it is this attitude this attitude will bring about a Stoppage in progress of stopping in technology and stopping in the betterment of human life So why are people so depressed? Why are people so?  I mean just just a couple of years ago I remember every second story was about AI artificial intelligence Was going to take over our lives and kill us all or replace us or do something horrific to us That the future was bleak I mean, it's almost like Human beings have this need to believe the world is going to come to an end Right, we have in religion what are called millennial cults cults that every Few decades rise up and say okay, it's the end of the world now That you know this decade the end is gonna the world is gonna end Jesus is coming back and we're all gonna have You know, whatever happens when Jesus has come back. I I'm not up to my scriptures but This idea of end of world this idea of disaster this idea of we're killing ourselves is somehow Something that serves some psychological need that human beings have but it is counter To the fact counter to reality again life has never been better on planet earth and there's no reason to believe If we do the right things The life will not be better 100 years from now life won't be even better a thousand years from now human life progress is Movement Towards greater values Movement towards greater life movement towards better Greater when it comes to human life Progress is the recognition That human life Is the standard of value To evaluate something as good or evil when asked to have A standard by what standard? We are human Each one of us is is on standard. My life is my standard Rand. I ran teaches us The morality is not about sacrificing dying helping the humanity Morality is about living the best life you can live for yourself. It's about achieving your own happiness It's about discovering The values that are necessary to live a good life a successful life as a human being It means using your mind To choose the values. They're going to lead you towards success as a human being Spiritual material values the values necessary for you to thrive So morality is about the individual But if morality is about each individual pursuing his life making his life the best that it can be if morality is about each individual pursuing their happiness then progress in a in a social context is Individuals Making their lives better What is progress after all if not making my life better? And what we think about ethics in society Then what is what is it if if all individuals are pursuing their life pursuing their values trying to make their life better? As a group, what are they doing? Well, they're enhancing human life they're bettering human life And from a societal perspective what we need is to create a political system That enables people to pursue Their happiness that enables people as individuals to pursue the values necessary for them to live a good successful life so that which makes It possible for individuals to pursue a good life is the good That which damages it that which holds it back that which suppresses the ability of individuals to pursue their values to pursue their happiness is evil progress Is the manifestation of individuals pursuing their values? It's a manifestation of people wanting their life to get better It's not a decision we make Our responsibility as a as a you know group as a if we will Is to facilitate individual freedom? It's to facilitate the ability of individuals to live And the result of leaving individuals to live we've seen this time and time again all over the world everywhere is progress progress is the outcome the outcome Of leaving individuals free The outcome of individuals trying to make their lives as individuals better the outcome Of not trying to dictate to individuals what values they should pursue and how they should live freedom will always result in progress because human beings cannot stand for stagnation Stagnation when do we stagnate when is the time we're most stagnant or when we're dead Life requires an active process life requires constant engagement life requires The pursuit of values the constant pursuit of values so To be anti-progress It's to be anti-human life To be anti-progress It's to be anti-human freedom To be anti-progress progress It's to be on the side of death and destruction Which aren't necessarily immoral Life is the standard of morality human life is the standard of morality individual human life is the standard of morality and To advocate against progress is to advocate against individual human life It's to advocate in the against individual human progress Now many environmentalists Would argue that human beings are destroying the planet We're creating havoc You know in the environment, but what does that mean? Are we destroying the planet? Yes, absolutely Absolutely Everything that we have as human beings Has come from us reshaping our environment reshaping our planet Human beings are not neutral when it comes to survival We don't just accept the environment as it is and figure out How to live within it What do we do? We chop down trees and build huts We Take away grasslands and forests And plants agriculture We demolish Hills to use the the the you know the gravel the rock to make cement to build skyscrapers We pave roads From point A to point B when we need to get somewhere Human beings Change the environment It's how we survive It's how we progress It's how we live If we stop changing our environment We die as a species We cannot compete At the material level there eight billion people in the world today The only reason eight billion people can stay alive is because they're constantly reshaping nature around them They're constantly remaking the planet And they're constantly As we do this improving human life 30 years ago about 30 percent of the world Lived in extreme poverty Today eight percent of the world lives in extreme poverty. Hopefully within 20 years Zero percent of the world will live in extreme poverty The only way to do that is to change our environment The only way to do that Is to reshape The planet why do we care about the planet? Why do we care about the environment? Well, I care Only In the sense that it affects human life The standard is still the same The standard is human life If changing our environment is good for human life, then great If changing the environment is bad for human life, we need to solve the problem But the burden Needs to be to prove the changing stuff hurts human life because so far We've been changing the planet for the last I don't know how long have human beings been around but suddenly since agricultural revolution and even before that For 10,000 years and light keeps getting better human life keeps getting better We keep living longer longer healthier And cool. I mean look at this. I'm giving a lecture in france But well, unfortunately, I can't actually be in france Using a technology that just 10 years ago didn't really exist A company that most people around the world never heard of until recently called zoom In spite of authoritarian government shutting us down at home We are still communicating. We are still running conferences. We're still engaging in exchange Why because we've changed nature Turned it into a fiber optics put cables under the ocean with satellites into space So that we can communicate in spite of being thousands of miles away so The standard for environmentalism the standard for what Is good or bad Is human life not the state of the planet not some people's fears But what is objectively good or bad for human life? It's clearly if you're engaged in activity that is hurting other people that is literally destroying life And you and people can prove that then it is the role of government to stop you from engaging in those activities but We don't need you know Big government. We don't need large institutions whole agencies To tell us that that's been around in common law for hundreds of years so human being survived by changing their environment Environmental change is necessary for human survival and for human thriving progress Is necessary for human survival and human thriving When we stop progressing in history we decline in life generally not just when you talk about economic or social progress in life generally You either movement you're either moving forward Or you're moving backwards Standing still is not an option Living beings move they act It's either towards life Or towards death Progress is life.  That's white small And anybody trying to stop us Is advocating for death and destruction advocating for poverty We've seen this we've seen civilizations Where progress has stopped When that happens People don't just stay at where they are Things get worse and things can get worse fast So environmentalists Who are claiming the progress is bad Don't understand what it takes To keep human beings alive To keep human beings to allow human beings to achieve happiness and success Environmentalists who advocate for the environment They think the environment has some value Beyond its value to us as human beings But when talking about value, Einwand always asks a very fundamental important question Value to whom And for what? To be a value it has to be a value for something There is no values external to human beings Unless you believe in aliens and god Then maybe there's a value to god and values to the aliens But the only thing we know out there that exists Is life on planet earth. You have to have a living thing that values something. Otherwise, it's not a value It's a value to somebody And for a particular purpose And the end of that purpose, the purpose Is your life Your successful life So the environment is a value to me because I breathe the air, I drink the water I live within it But it's also a value to me because it has the resources I need to consume It has the rare earth metals that make my iPhone possible It provides me with The trees that I need to chop down to build my house It provides me with all the resources I need to make my life better. So the environment is a value because I can exploit it. It's a value to me to the extent that I exploit it The idea of stopping the exploitation of the environment Is the idea of giving up on human life So to fight this I think there are two important points morally We have to understand that the standard of umbrella is human life And human life requires achievement It requires challenges It requires values And if for human life Requires progress The number of human beings on planet earth is probably going to grow at least for a while That acquires growth Necessitates growth If we care about poverty that necessitates growth if we care about Any individual being able to make the most of their life Then we value growth and progress So point one is Human life acquires progress and human life is the standard of value Therefore progress is small and second The consequence of progress are wonderful for human life I mean it's inspiring to see the technology It's inspiring to see the architecture It's inspiring to see the technology That that The modern world is comprised of It's inspiring to be able to be in my home in Puerto Rico And deliver these remarks to you Wherever you may be some of you in France They might even be some people on youtube from all over the world That's progress Life is pretty amazing Your life is pretty amazing if you take it seriously If you choose to make the most of it Don't let the The fear mongers depress you Into not wanting not striving Not pushing yourself to live to the max So live Progress is about life if we value life. We must value progress. Thank you Thank you very much Aaron for this inspiring speech. We we have some questions, but I'm going to start Maybe one for the being in this one very basic question about the maybe definition of this because we You talked a lot about progress But what is the relationship of progress with technology and innovation is Innovation and technology always a progress Or is it the same thing or can you have like a technology which is actually not a progress in the ethical sense And because you also say that the standard of morality is human life in other words, can we have Progress in like technological feeds fields, but which constitute a threat to human life I mean to the extent that a technological advance is a threat to human life Over time people will stop using it over time people will abandon it So to the extent that we value human life. Sure. I mean if you think about nuclear energy nuclear energy is Potentially immense progress and concrete immense progress, but it can also blow the world up and destroy all the human beings To the extent that it is has the capacity for destruction this technology It is so far being limited in its use We are not A suicidal species if you address people rationally and say look Technology x is suicidal. It will kill you Then people will stop using it But all evidence suggests That the overwhelming the overwhelming Technological progress that we have seen in the world over the last 250 years has been pro-human life Has been enhanced human life And not regressed it and the one technology that we are That has the potential to destroy human life, which is nuclear power. We have at least so far managed to Not use it in ways that are destructive We haven't used it in ways that are To its fullest potential. It's a progress either because of fear again. I mean Germany and much of europe is deep nuclearizing which is an Insane which is insanity right the united states hasn't built a nuclear power plant since the 1970s That is insanity, but that is driven by statuism not by the choices of individuals So the fear here is that if there is going to be a technology that is destructive to human being It will be brought about by status not by the marketplace And I know the obvious next question is I don't know. I'll let you ask it I don't know if that's the obvious next next question, but my next question was But the thing is technology now is getting so complex so much complex that it was in the past But do you think that we can completely control it? Is it possible that we actually lose control over technology and innovation? No Not if we're smart about And and there's no reason to think we're going to lose control over technology and innovation I mean, I know We all grew up with I mean you guys maybe this is even before your time with the terminator movies, right and where The technology wakes up and destroy decides it doesn't need us as human beings Even if that were possible and i'm dubious We're 100 with decades and decades and decades away from that kind of innovation. I mean ai Is really really good At fairly simple tasks We're still far away from the kind of conceptual thinking that human beings are capable of We're far far far away From even the the think about how we move just how I'm moving my hand. No robot can do that it can do that But it can't move it can barely stand if you've seen robots walk they can barely manage walking They can't get in and out of a car not yet, right? So we're way Way way way far away from this idea That the technology is going to become so amazing that somehow It's going to decide they don't need us now. Remember technology needs to be able to decide A decision requires consciousness A particular form of consciousness which we as human beings have that is capable of free will There is no indication That a computer is capable of consciousness And there's no indication and there's certainly no indication that we're anywhere near anywhere near Getting close to the ability to create such a computer And by the time we get to that point, I mean Now i'm speculating right now. We're talking about science science fiction At some point things will change that is at some point Will you be able to separate the technology from human beings? I mean when we get to the point where computers are that sophisticated Will we not also be bioengineering ourselves? Will we not also be making ourselves in a sense smarter? We will now then at that point integrating The technology the external technology chip technology with our own bodies and our own minds Who knows what the future has in store for us? I'm excited about it And to me it's bizarre to be scared of it to be afraid of it We as human beings control it Control the path that we're going to head towards it We are going to determine our future. What scares me is not technology What scares me is authoritarian Statism communism fascism, that's what scares me But if you leave it a visuals free to live and free to develop technology I mean good stuff happens every example in history is good stuff happens and believe me Every generation like your generation has been afraid of the future But stop it Learn from the past learn from what you see in front of you Technology is life enhancing So no, I I don't see technology turning against human beings and uh and and destroying us Uh, it just it just makes no sense if you want a more optimistic view of the future Think uh, Isaac Asimov's foundation series, uh, you know, which is I think a much healthier view of the future But look we're hundreds of years probably away from any of that. So stop worrying be happy Okay, but maybe uh apart from uh AI and uh Robo's taking over the world There's also the problem that there's so some technologies are also complex that we don't know We don't know all the implications and they can have some side effects and the question is So do we decide to use them to take the risk to reuse them? Why we don't know what may be all the all the implications Even though it might bring some good But also many bad side effects. Give me an example Uh, well, I was thinking about GMOs are fragmented for example in china that we used on uh on newborn babies uh, I think uh one scientist in china transform um the DGNA engineering on feed on on uh, you know on basically on fetuses. So so they yeah, exactly Which well he was targeting. I think uh one specific gene, but the thing you realize now We don't know what will be the oil implications and maybe the only way to know Is to figure it out the idea that we can come up with certainty about complex phenomena in advance without experimenting Is bizarre right so The precautionary principle is a death knell this idea that until we know it's a hundred percent safe But you never know something's a hundred three. I mean you wouldn't leave your home if you Won that premise Do I know a certainty?  Believe me. I can't control what the other drivers on the road are going to do That was a joke that didn't work. Um, so life is about life entails uncertainty And it entails trying to assess with the best available knowledge that we have What what are the risks involved? but just But there's no There's no point And there's no conceptual validity to the idea of Anything new? Oh They might be dangers. I don't know what the dangers are. I can't predict what the dangers are I have no evidence that there's any danger But they might be there. So look bioengineering Is really really tricky and it's not that we as a species it's dangerous If you screw up engineering a child's gene and let's say you cause them to be deformed or you cause them great pain That is a tragedy So you better get it right And to think that scientists and doctors don't care Of course they care They want to get it right And and the chinese scientists got it right There's no evidence that anything bad happened, but he's gone to jail. We'll never see him again. Right china has made him disappear But what exactly did he do wrong? He was a little ahead of his time. So was gala leo So was anybody who advanced human knowledge? Nothing there were no bad consequences as far as I know the babies born were fine Um, you cannot you cannot live Under the fear of something you have no evidence for So I mean imagine a world in which we can bioengineer diseases away If you have an inclination to Alzheimer's disease dementia We can we can change that gene so you never have to suffer from dementia Imagine if we can bioengineer so you don't have cancer I mean wow That is fantastic. That is so amazing And if we can today bioengineer food to have more vitamins and to to be more nutritious Fantastic and there's zero literally zero evidence The gmo in food is harmful to anybody So we use arbitrary statements arbitrary assertions about the danger of things In order to stop progress. That is anti-life All right, so if I understand well, I mean that for the question of how we handle risk we should just rely on the individual responsibility principle and not states our collective Regulations, well, I mean you could have collective regulations in the sense of if you're doing something that is clearly risky But for the state to get involved There has to be significant evidence of harm But as long as there's no significant evidence of harm the state has no role It's individual responsibility Markets responsibility you as a market participant should not buy a product. You know is harmful to other people It's the same as coven right now, right? It's your individual responsibility To figure out How to stay healthy The government cannot has no right to lock you up To tell you you can't live leave your home Because you might There's no evidence. You might be risky to other people now if you test positive Then the state has proof that you're dangerous Right because you could infect other people it can tell you to stay home But as long as you have not tested positive this state has no role the state can only act When it have positive substantial evidence that you are Dangerous that you are going to do harm to other people That makes sense. Yep. Thank you. Bob has a question on the chat here. Should I quickly answer this? Yes, of course Scary is not hostile AI but AI in hostile human hands. That's absolutely true And you can see that in china right now that's scary. So it's not the technology that's scary It's the hostile human hands that are scary. So again, put the responsibility where it belongs The responsibility for example for the use of AI for bad uses In china is on the chinese government that too is responsible. It's not the AI in and of itself Absolutely. Now, I am not that scared of it long term for this reason I believe that authoritarianism destroys innovation Authoritarianism makes progress technological progress ultimately impossible and as china returns to being more and more and more authoritarianism Technological advance will shrink and their ability to use technology. Well, we'll go away. So I don't believe in 1984 Not because I don't think there are bad people who would want it But because I think all world's depiction of the state Is of a state that's too efficacious too successful government Is not that good at what it does and it cannot co-scientists to Create the kind of technologies that can be that helpful. There's a reason uh soviet the nazi weapons were not as sophisticated and not as good as weapons made by free countries Under freedom people innovate and people create and people make stuff In ways that you cannot have Under authoritarianism. So I'm not that afraid of authoritarian governments As a threat to me. I'm afraid of my own authoritarian government. That's the case that jesus out of me But not because of the use of technology, but because of the ability to use force against me So, yes, I agree with you Robert. That is the fear But again, let's focus on what they and who the enemy is the enemy's not progress The enemy is authoritarian governments All right. Thank thank you very much. Um, I will move to another question from the public What what is the field where we could be much further in term when we could go much further in terms of progress And what would be do you have example of policies that should be banned today to a little more progress? So, uh, do I have examples of what should be banned? Uh example of policy, uh, of policies that should be banned today or policies or regulations That should be banned today to a little more progress Yeah, I mean almost all the regulations I mean, all right All the regulations that are in the books today in the european union in the united states of america, uh, holding back progress It's not an accident That the only progress real progress we see today is in technology is in the field of technology Because technology is not very regulated. There's almost no regulation of technology But we don't see a lot of progress in automobiles because it's been heavily heavily regulated We don't see a lot of progress in Airflight airplanes because they've been very very regulated We're seeing some progress in space travel Because people like elon musk and jeb bezos are pushing the envelope against Regulations we're seeing it in automobiles a little bit because elon musk is pushing the envelope Against regulation there, but even there he's cheating because he's getting government money a lot of it in order to do it It's very difficult to innovate in regulated industries And therefore the only way to progress the only way to innovate the only way to move forward as a species as a human beings Is to get government out of the way across the board You know Just any name pretty much any regulation right now That that the european union has on industry on You know with the exception of the only regulations that government should have these days And these are really laws that protect individuals You know if there's something that that that is is emitted into the air that clearly harms people Then you shouldn't do it. That's just you know, that's just Was protected under common law, right?  So I would abolish almost all of them Okay Thanks, uh, but or but uh, you also say that the role Of the other government was to stop activity that do destroy the environment as you just actually, uh, just No, I I don't the whole concept of the environment is a is a bad concept. I wish you I wish I there's no such thing as free might get environmentalism because environmentalism is not a legitimate concept Environmentalism is the idea that the environment Independent of human beings is what's important. The environment is not important What's important is human life So clean air is important in human life. So we're pro clean air clean water is important for human life So we're pro clean water. There are other things out there that might be important in human life But the standard is human life not the environment the environment does not exist You you you have to ask who's environment? And I would argue that the environment for human being the environment for human life is the best It's ever been in all of human history Yeah, I get your point the idea that it's always a relationship between us and the environment Uh, but again, what I wanted to say is there is no such thing as the environment, but yes us in nature I think that's that's that's a concept. That's a notion. This is it's not really precise But we still it's still really helpful like to talk about what's around us and also because this is where basically where we live And that does have an impact On our own lives our environment, right? So it's not the environment as a thing out there It's our environment. It's something that is ours So nature is out there nature is a thing Environment is not a thing environment is somebody's environment my environment. What's my environment like? What's your environment like? What's the environment for human beings? but Words matter And the environmentalists are very good at creating this notion that there's something out there that we need to protect That's independent of human beings No, there isn't It's again out so but but I'm sorry. I stopped your question in the middle Yeah, but that's quite linked. Oh, I think I can use another word for environment. Just what I mean, just I mean How do you protect? The place where you live because you know if the the place around you becomes Dirty is also Danger for for your health. So that's what it's all about when we talk about free market and environmentalism Even though might might not be the best work. They didn't use the word environmentalism I know I have a lot of friends who are free market environmentalists and but I I wish they'd use a different word How do we protect it from getting dirty? Well, we know how to protect it from getting dirty. It's very simple It's called private property The more private property we have the cleaner the world becomes If I own the river You don't throw your garbage in my river Just like you can't throw your garbage in my backyard If we found a way to privatize the oceans the oceans will be cleaner If we found a way to privatize the oceans, we wouldn't run out of fish Just like we don't run out of cows. We have more cows than we used to have why because we eat them The more cows we eat the more cows they are The same by the way with trees If you privatized all the forest if you privatized the amazon you would probably have more forest not less forest because There's value in having a forest whether it's to chop down the trees and replant So that you can use the wood or whether you want to preserve the forest But the way best way to preserve the forest is to own it because if you own the forest You could do whatever the hell you want with it including preserve it so This solution to cleanliness of private property and the idea is you can't dirty my property So you can't destroy my water and you can't destroy my air And if we understand if we have a concept around a proper definition of private property and how it applies to water How it applies to air how it applies to the oceans how it applies to all these things Then all of these so-called environmental problems go away Yeah, but that's a problem because I agree. I completely agree with you in theory But it's way more it's way harder to privatize the ocean or even the atmosphere and to privatize just the forest It is. So how do we actually do do it? That's that's what we should be focused on now Privatizing the ocean we might not privatize it in the same way as we privatize land For example in iceland they privatized fishing permits so that so that they privatize the fishing stock Which is an original way in a sense to apply property rights to fishing and to the ocean You're not going to privatize the air in the same way you privatize land. It's more You can't put stuff into the air that I breathe that damages me I have a lawsuit against you if you do. So it's not that hard. This is the problem. The problem is That starting about 120 years ago 30 years ago late 19th century early 20th century in america We started looking to government for solutions for all of our problems And we stopped innovating when it comes to private property So for example, I give you an example in the in the in the um The wild west in america There was a whole body of law being built up Around water rights and how to deal with water if your cows pooped Up on the in the stream and I drank the water. How do we resolve that dispute? And all of that there was a whole body of law built around that through common law All of that was stopped when the government Took over ownership of the land and of the rivers and of the lakes and of all this stuff So then it all went through regulations and controls and and topped down rather than bottom up Figuring out the issues of property rights. So the solution is freedom The solution is getting the government out of the way. We me and you can solve the problems I have no doubt in my mind The problem is when politicians don't allow us to solve the problems They interfere they intervene with regulations and controls and definitions and tell us what we can and cannot do So if we allow markets to function And if we allow common law and the legal system to properly function These problems that are associated with A filthy Property Can be solved. I have no doubt in my mind and some of them will be hard to solve And for example, one of the beauty in america a federalism each state being different Is that one state might solve them in one way individuals might solve them in one way in one state they might solve it in differently in another state and then We'll figure out what works better and we might adopt One method versus the other All right. Thank you very much. We have one last question if you have time Sure, I but I have to do it quickly. Yeah, go ahead. All right So what what do you think about the idea that resources are limited to me resources a resource Only as a consequence of somebody understanding how to use it There is no limited on as long as we have people thinking and the unlimited resource is the minds Yeah, so I encourage everybody to read julian simon He's an economist who wrote the ultimate resource Where he explains why resources are unlimited The only thing limited is our own Imagination right our own ability to to think to to conceive and the more people thinking The the the less limited resources are because there's more people trying to solve problems So no if the resources energy We will always discover new forms of energy even if one form of energy Uh, it goes it is limited Energy is not limited energy is unlimited. We will always innovate and discover more the same with food the same with everything So there is no such thing As unlimited is limited resources resources are unlimited In a sense that human ability to think is unlimited to innovate as unlimited to progress as unlimited All right. Thank you. Thank you very much My for for your time. I was really pleasure to have you Thank you inviting me and hopefully next time we could do it in person. I'd love to I'd love to be in paris right now Um, but this is uh, this is second best. It's it. Yes We hope the situation will be better than it. All right. Have a nice day. You too. Bye everybody. Bye. Bye


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards up in one box a 22 penny certified football for David G It's a good luck here David. Let's see what we got in here for you, man See if we can pull something big. I always a big fan of certified. I have to say I'm so I'm all in got Jonathan Taylor. That's an orange TJ or TJ JJ Watt to 149 for the Cardinals Next up we've got a Josh Jacobs on the teal 10 out of 50 seal of approval for the Raiders Back and Jerome Ford to 399 for the Bronx Three number cards in that pack not too bad not off to too bad of a start there. I gotta say all right onto the next one Here we go. See what we got CD there's gonna be a dirt car 29 out of 75 on the blue For the Raiders the Raiders filler card Mark Andrews seal of approval Zeke Elliott and Austin Eckler redemption nice There's a drew lock in there as a gold team Aaron Rodgers Alan we got Sam Williams Had great week or a great game last week two sacks and one was a strip sack for the Cowboys nice one there He's looking like a could be a stud take one of our fillers here Say in lions redemption. All right You've got certified freshman fabrics mirror signatures pink 215 Traylon Berks for the Titans nice one there congrats David Potentially one of Malik Willis his favorite targets when he is 100% healthy. Yes.  It's like 50 50 various Leonard We've got Danny Gray on the new generation Jersey to fit 64 out of 349 for the Niners we've got Kyler Murray on the red it's 65 out of 99 Jamison Williams, right the Lions guy. I think Jamison Williams. So you're thinking of Mack Jones and Miles Garrett Pack for you here David There's a Russell Wilson Broncos country less ride 349 the ride and it's bush crashing Certified stars a rod base there Yeah, no, I don't think no damn Jamison Williams. Definitely isn't live in this Got an auto or something coming up. We've got Pierre strong junior. That is nice gold nine out of 25 two colored patch Very solid. There you go Always nice to get multiple colors on these new generation patches. So congrats on that there, David got Matt Stafford certified stars So the boss got round wheels on it finally. Yeah, honestly, no kidding six. No kidding Dark horses, Justin Fields base One more square wheels Aaron Donald Antoine Randall L for the Steelers 19 out of 25 That is actually really cool six would love this one. I'm sure yeah, there he is Six and twitch chat talking about how much he wants it Antoine Randall L dude. That's really cool, man Yeah, I think he's a perfect passer rating in his entire career nice one there for the Steelers Dobbins Brown cup Jamison Williams Sam Darnold and Matt Judon last pack of the break here. Good luck here David I like that Antoine Randall L. I do even though he's a Steeler I think that's a cool start then is Desmond Ritter and base that'll do it for your break there, David Congrats again on all your hits. We'll get them right out. See ya, buddy


Internal Revenue Service IRS tax news, Treasury, IRS provide transitional guidance for broker reporting on digital assets. Oh, so now the IRS is guiding my investment broker. I mean that's great. Am I supposed to be happy about that?  I mean can you imagine the daddy deer saying don't worry Bambi, just follow these lions. Everything will be fine.   Subsidies funded through collusion with the pharmaceutical companies. Or at least that's what I heard. Anyways, first to joke, President Biden is at his wit's end. I'm at my wit's end. Wit's end! Unfortunately, his wit's end at the same spot they begin. Perhaps I can divine a solution to this funny problem. His wit curve being less than huge. But it would require that you don't worry. Everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Oh come on man. No, I'm serious.  No, I'm serious. Let me conclude by summarizing President Biden's entire wit curve. Period. Yeah, you're far. Whatever you need will be fine.  I are 2022-227 December 23, 2022 Washington. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced today that brokers are not required to report additional information with respect to dispositions of digital assets until final regulations are issued under section 6045 and 6045A. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Infrastructure Act enacted in 2021 amended provisions in section 6045 and 6045A to clarify and expand the rules regarding reporting of information on digital assets by brokers. Brokers are still required to comply with existing laws and regulations. Further details are in announcement 223-02. There's a link to that here posted today on irs.gov, irs.gov, irs.gov, v for victory over stuff. So this transitional guidance applies only to information returns filed for or furnished by brokers. In contrast, taxpayers are still required to report any income they receive from transactions involving digital assets. They are also required to answer the digital asset question on page one of either form 1040 or form 1040 SR. So the iris is kind of focusing in on those digital assets. That's another area that they haven't got a real kind of stranglehold on at this point in time. And I would expect, of course, this whole issue with the Sam Bankman and that whole FTX thing, which is just crazy kind of thing that was going on for so long, will probably increase. They're going to use that on the goods and bads to increase good regulations and bad regulations. I would suspect. So we'll see what happens. You'd think something has to happen. You got some guy just stealing money in the Bahamas. That's kind of something. Something's funny here. But in any case, we'll see what happens. It'll be interesting. So see the instructions to these forms for details for more information, including a set of frequently asked questions. You can visit the digital asset page on irs.gov, irs.gov, irs.gov. There's a link to the digital assets as well as links to all this other stuff here, and there'll be a link to this in the description.


Thank you very much. President Kagami, Mr. Carlos Lim, co-chairs of our commission. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to be with you here once again for this four meeting of the broadband commission. I'm grateful to our co-chairs, His Excellency Porokagami and Mr. Carlos Lim for their personal presence. I'm also very grateful to my co-vice chair, Madam Andrea Ozure, who is here for the first time. I'm sure that under their leadership, we shall further strengthen our mission. I wish to welcome new commissioners and our guest participants.  As many of you will recognize, I'm pleased to say that the commission goes from strength to strength. This year, also saw the launch of our updated global broadband target to bring online the worth 3.8 billion people currently not connect to the internet at the special session in Davos in January, attended by many of you as well as heads of UN agencies and industry CEOs. The targets track some of the most important policy priorities in broadband, and we continue to receive widespread media interest in them. The commission benefited from a truly memorable spring session in Kigali, Rwanda in May, co-hosted by our co-chair, His Excellency President Porokagami of Rwanda and Carlos Lim, and then we have co-host at Mr. Mats Grignard of the GSMA for co-hosting. And all participants were very honored to be invited to join the Transform Africa Summit. Memorandum's event, which demonstrated that Africa does not only follow, but can also lead the way in technological development. The commission continues to host a number of very active working groups with three reports published today, and I should like to commend all the working group chairs on the thorough and extensive work they have undertaken over the last year. We have seen important policy recommendations emerging in the area of digital health, epidemic, preparedness and digital entrepreneurship. Distinguished colleagues, this year's State of Broadband 2018 report published at ITU telecom 2018 last week shows that the milestone of the 50-50 moment of internet connectivity is likely to be achieved very soon. From Humber beginnings only three decades ago, getting half of the world population online is an incredible achievement. However, as everyone in this room knows, this is not just a number of games, but it's vitally important to foster high-quality comprehensive digital skills and build national competitiveness in the ICT sector. So our first session today considers how the web will change as more people come online. Are we headed towards cultural and linguistic diversity or dominance? And will real world trends in the loss of languages accelerate or be reversed as the web grows to include the next four billion people? Meanwhile, the policy landscape must also change to accommodate the growth of the internet. More and more of our real world processes are moving online, including personal identification, verification and authentication, banking and voting as well as all sorts of purchases and reservations. We heard this year's global symposium for regulators here in Geneva in July from senior policy makers how they are realizing the importance of regulatory safeguards for data and data protection as a vital step for joining the digital economy. So our second session here this morning, we are examining how the landscape for tech regulation is changing. We have seen significant recent policy developments, and I look forward to hearing what commissioners have to say about these subjects, and I cannot finish without mentioning the new commissioners who are joining us here today for the first time. So I would like to ask you to give a warm welcome to our commissioners. Thank you very much. President Kagami, Mr. Carlos Slim, co-chairs of our commission. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to be with you here once again for this four meeting of the broadband commission. I'm grateful to our co-chairs, His Excellency Porokagami and Mr. Carlos Slim, for their personal presence. I'm also very grateful to my co-vice chair, Madam Andrea Ozure, who is here for the first time. I'm sure that under their leadership, we shall further strengthen our mission. I wish to welcome new commissioners and our guest participants.  As many of you will recognize, I'm pleased to say that the commission goes from strength to strength. This year also saw the launch of our updated global broadband targets to bring online the world's 3.8 billion people currently not connected to the Internet at the special session in Davos in January, attended by many of you as well as heads of UN agencies and industry CEOs. The targets track some of the most important policy priorities in broadband, and we continue to receive widespread media interest in them. The commission benefited from a truly memorable spring session in Kigali, Rwanda in May. Co-hosted by our co-chair is Excellency President Procargami of Rwanda and Carlos Lee. And then we have co-host at Mr. Mats Grignard of the GSMA for co-hosting. And all participants were very honored to be invited to join the Transform Africa Summit. Memorandum's event which demonstrated that Africa does not only follow but can also lead the way in technological development. The commission continues to host a number of very active working groups with three reports published today. And I should like to commend all the working group chairs on the thorough and extensive work they have undertaken over the last year. We have seen important policy recommendations emerging in the area of digital health, epidemic, pre-paragraphiness and digital entrepreneurship. Distinguished colleagues, this year's State of Broadband 2018 report published at ITU telecom 2018 last week shows that the milestone of the 50-50 moment of internet connectivity is likely to be achieved very soon. From humble beginnings only three decades ago, getting half of the world population online is an incredible achievement. However, as everyone in this room knows, this is not just a number of games, but it's vitally important to foster high-quality comprehensive digital skills and build national competitiveness in the ICT sector. So our first session today considers how the web will change as more people come online. Are we headed towards cultural and linguistic diversity or dominance? And will real world trends in the laws of languages accelerate or be reversed as a web grows to include the next four billion people? Meanwhile, the policy landscape must also change to accommodate the growth of the internet. More and more of our real world processes are moving online, including personal identification, verification and authentication, banking and voting, as well as all sorts of purchases and reservations. We heard this year's global symposium for regulators here in Geneva in July from senior policy makers how they are realizing the importance of regulatory safeguards for data and data protection as a vital step for joining the digital economy. So our second session here this morning, we are examining how the landscape for tech regulation is changing. We have seen significant recent policy developments and I look forward to hearing what commissioners have to say about these subjects.


My name is Doug O'Keefe. I co-produce these chats with Christina, who's here and she's doing the filming for us this evening. And with Mistress Joanne Gatti, the purpose of these chats is to record for posterity the stories of the people who shape our community. I have the pleasure this evening of interviewing March Summit under an hour. And then at that point we will turn off the cameras and we'll have an open Q&A and you can ask whatever you'd like to ask. That's when some of the best questions come up. Well, March, let's just start right at the beginning. Please tell us where you grew up and a bit about your family. Originally I was raised by my grandparents and I grew up on the north side in the Logan Square area. And I actually went to that school that called on fire and I can't remember the name of it. Our Lady of the Angels of Christ. I actually went there before the fire. And then my grandparents raised us, my brother and I, until I was 12.  So we moved to the south side towards Avenue and I went to Chicago Vocational High School. Graduated from there, maybe. And that's about it. Did you know anyone who was lost in the fire at the school? No, no. That was a little after I was there. But I remember, that's loud. I remember when I was on the north side with my grandparents behind our house where we lived. There was this big commotion of cars on the streets. And there was a German couple that they arrested for because it was from the war and they were spies.  Do you know what spying they were doing? For Germany. You don't know, was it atomic secrets? No, I wasn't old enough to really comprehend all of that, you know. I could care less who they were spying for. Well, as a youngster, you worked for the local phone company and you had a very interesting experience there. Please tell us a bit about that. Yeah, during high school I worked part-time for the phone company. And then when I graduated, I went full-time. And I had already come out. When I was in high school at 14, I met my first girl there. And that was it.  And I said, fine. And of course my darling brother said, you could stay in my house, just leave my girl alone.  So I went for the phone company. And I was always out. I mean, I looked at me. There's nothing feminine about me, you know. But I would have problems at work with the bosses. So then I would find out who their girlfriend was because they were usually married and having girls on the side. So I would make sure I got involved with their girlfriend and take them out for a couple drinks, take them home, have a little fun, let them go back. And then the boss never bothered me anymore. It was wonderful. And that was in the 50s, so yeah. I was a bad kid. Yeah. Well, how did you know that these women would be amiable to that? Oh, they let you know. There was no problem there. How did they let you know? They just say, I'd say, would you like to go out and have a drink? And they'd say, I'd love to. And I said, can you get your boyfriend to give us the money? And they'd say, yep. And I said, OK, let's go. So let's take a step back. You mentioned your mother didn't take you coming out. What was your relationship there? How did that transpire? With my mother? Yes. I didn't like her. See, my grandparents, when my grandmother, her and I, before she passed away, we had a long talk. And she told me that when my mother was pregnant with me, my brother was always in Europe. And I was the one coming out. But she had gone upstairs. She was living, I guess, what would be my dad's house. But I never met the man, so I don't know who to know who he was. She tried to abort me by throwing herself down the stairs. She took hot muds through baths. She beat on her stomach. And when she was going to be born, she went up to the attic and something to my grandmother, who lived just a half of life, a way to come over. And she went up there. And I was out. And my mother was sitting there. And my grandmother says, tie the cord. You've got to cut the cord. And tie it. And she wouldn't do it. If it wasn't for my grandmother, I wouldn't be here to aggravate all these women. So I was not wanted to be in with, so I didn't care. When we were preparing for this chat and discussing some of its topics, you mentioned Calumet City afforded you quite an outlet. So please tell us about that. Calumet City, well, first there was a bar I believe it's around 99th of the Southwest Highway called Little's. And she was a gay woman who ran a bar. And we were allowed to go in to the side door. And she would put us up and say, oh, there's my bubble tea. And all these straight people bought it. But we couldn't dance or anything. We could just drink in her bar and have fun. And that got boring. So then I found Calumet City. So state line is where the gay bars are. And it was the music box, which was the woman's bar. And right next door was the ups and downs, which was later called Mr. B's. And then later on, when the music box closed, down the street was our place, which was the bus bar because that was mixed. And I love mixed bars, you know. Why did Calumet City have these things about the city of Chicago? Because they didn't have Mayor Daley out there. He didn't like us. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Fascinating. Mm-hmm. What strong memories do you have about your days in Calumet City? Anything stand out for you that was unique to that situation? Yeah. I met a lot of interesting people there. I mean, people would think it was weird because some of the hookers used to come in our bars because it was safe. They could come in there and have an actual drink and not have to produce, you know. And I would talk to them because they were interesting.  And it's not that, you know.  You know, or something like that. Or wear a feather and run around naked and, you know, and tap the doodle-doo and the guy can talk, you know. And then they call us queer. Okay. Outlights. I mean, I loved it because I had learned so many things from these people. They were interesting.  Oh.  Please tell us a bit about that. It was very hard.   You had to have a fast car. That's the first thing. If you didn't want to get beat up, you had to have a fast car. So I had a GTO, which was pretty fast.  And so you had to take them off running. You had to be very careful in those days, you know. If it wasn't the mayor's people getting it, it was the teenagers, you know. What was the duress code you mentioned? No. You couldn't wear fly-front pants. It should stay buttoned like a man's. So if you were in a bar, like when the volleyball got raided, we all had to run in a van and turn our pants around, put them on backwards so we could get out actually. That was called male impersonation. I didn't have anything down there. I wasn't impersonating anybody. I used to don't wear it public. You know, I needed it. I just didn't. I just didn't. But wasn't it something like you had to have three items of women clothing? Yeah. That was hard because I didn't like to wear brows. You know, I still don't. My aunt bought me a training bra. They called it, you know. And worked. They trained them. They stood up and I didn't have to wear it anymore. I was like, alright, I like this. They trained them. They got out of it. Well, at least tell us about the Chicago Bar Ways. You had to keep something in your shoes. Yeah, money. To be allowed anybody that got caught. I was in the Midget Bar. I'm a matriosh of the Keds. We were out there. I can't remember exactly where. It was on the second floor. The first floor was a straight bar. You went upstairs in the back of the bar. There was this room.  And if the cops came, you just go to the window, kick out the screen and jump on the second floor and take it off from it. But then the cops got wise and they were waiting down below underneath the windows for you. Especially during elections, you really had to be careful. They took you to State Street with all the hookers and throw you in there to sell the hookers. So much fun. What did it cost to mail somebody out? 20 hours. Get back then. Do you know how many of these raids you ended up being a part of? I didn't get caught. I was a good runner. I didn't want to spend the night there. I'd mail a lot of people out. But I never got caught because I ran. Or I was smart enough that I'd drive back to Cadillac City and hang out with Derek. This is how we say it there.  So what do you want? Wow. You're a high school girlfriend. Let's take a look. You're a high school girlfriend. Your high school girlfriend. Let's take a step back. You mentioned your high school girlfriend. You had a very convoluted relationship there. Please tell us a bit about that. Oh. Well, she was... I met her in high school and we went out. It was really cool. Like almost downtown. We went to the movies and I drove her home all the way back there. There was a hail storm. I was 43rd in the house and I lived in 100th. So she said, no, you better stay overnight. It's not good driving home. I said, okay, so I called my mom. I said, I'm not going to come home. That was the end of it. We were friends, you know. But then later on, I would call her up and say, hey, you want to go to the show? She'd go, no, I have something to do. I went, hmm, okay. But in the meantime, you want to go do something? She said, no, Pat and I are... Oh, okay. She said, we're going to the show. I said, listen, can you wait? No, she lived in 63rd. So I drove to 63rd. I got in her car. We drove to Pat's house. I got in the bathroom and I needed a blanket. I waited for her. I took the horn for her to come out. She came out and she went, hi, buddy. And I jumped out and went, hi, buddy. So we went out and got drunk. And getting drunk in those days was going by in a bottle of orange juice and a bottle of vodka and sitting in your car, you know. Yep. This is beautiful. Tell us a little bit about your work that you were doing at that time for the phone company. I remember when we were talking about this, you had a very interesting system that you were employing there at your work. I worked on a mainframe, and Watts systems, you know, which I don't know if anybody remembers what Watts were. It's a special system that the phone company made up for businesses. And I would have to do research for my boss all the time. And then I'd do it all and then she'd take all the credit and get the dinner and get the candy and all that stuff. So they set up a big, big thing that they wanted done and she said to me, can you do it? I said, sure. In the morning it was supposed to be you I called in sick. Oh, pity, she didn't have nothing to turn in. She wasn't happy with me. She couldn't be there to candy with me, you know. What were the logs though that you had to maintain at that time? You said that you had the log calls or something like this and people would take your logs. You had to type, when you were typing for whenever the operator would fill out a paper form and you had to take those and actually type out a bill from all of those. And then they'd go into another room and they'd calculate what it cost them to do all that. Those were the days I tell you. IBM cards were fun. But your dad had an interesting hobby. Please, speak with us a little bit about his movies. Yeah, well, my stepfather. I've never done my dad. I love my stepbrother. I already had him for four years and then he died. But he taught himself everything. He only went to the second grade of grammar school and he was so intelligent. He taught himself to be a photographer and to develop pictures and he would do trick photography and things that nobody was doing, you know. That dark room and I would work with them. Then he'd go to the mill and he'd go to work and lock it up. I know what's in there. So I thought, hmm, never lock the door on Marlon's because he doesn't like that. So I thought I ought to get in. I got in, found the projector because he would get these guys from the mill that would come and he'd say when so-and-so would come he's going to give you four hours but I knew they were slow with the bag and I'm thinking, why don't you pay four hours for a Mickey Mouse though? And it was silent. It wasn't even sound, you know. So I set up the projector and I called my brother one day and I said, what? You gotta see what I found. I was porno movies. It was fun. Who was he like? Who was appearing at him? I don't know. They were silent movies. They were horrible. They were horrible. It didn't look like fun to me. I'm gonna tell ya.  Oh God, don't break that up. Everybody hates what I say. But I am.   Because I love their company and they're not drama. You know what I mean? Well, you're drama to yourselves and they're drama to themselves but you and me, we don't do drama. You know what I'm saying? We have fun together. In fact, I found a picture of all my old, I called my old girlfriends and I gave them all girls names. Dan was Dan of May because he was Polish. There was a whole bunch of them and they're all still alive. I'm happy. They're all over the country now but I found them all. They're all my girlfriends. Tell us a little bit about them. What about them stands out for you? Oh, the fun we used to have. We'd go to parties. We'd go to straight places and like this one guy, Dan, he was a good dancer and we'd dance together and nobody realized we'd be doing attraction and stuff and he'd say, do you think they're going to know?  I'm doing the lead. They don't know it. I'm doing the boy's part and he's doing the girl's part. We come out of the dance room and they go, hey, you guys are good dancers. Thank you. I can't follow. I've never followed in my life and I take my little boys and they follow for me. I just never learned to go backwards. And I can't wear heels either. So I can't make ginger oddries either. How did you enter the bar business? That was a quirk. At one point I was working for a colleague feedback at night. I would be like her kind of a half-assed manager because I was working downtown for shell oil and computers and I would get off at midnight and she said to me, would you mind going in? She had to get in this, which was a great drag bar. And she said, would you mind going down and just, you know, watching the bar clock it out and tell me what I need to order, put the money away and stuff like that. I said, sure, no problem. I started hanging around different places and I ran into a guy that wanted to get rid of PQ's, was called and I used to hang out and then I heard that Eddie Dugud was going to open a bistro and I said to him, you better clean this bar up because I'm going to tell you something. Right now you're packed to the reactors but once Eddie Dugud opens you guys aren't going to have any business. No, no, no, no, we'll be okay. Eddie, you can open. You could go to through PQ's with a full stick sideways and not hit anybody. So he got frustrated and I said, okay, I'll tell you what. I'll run this bar. Let me clean it up.  And we did. It was a great bar. Everybody was welcome and we had fun. We had a ball team and my daughter was the good luck charm to the ball players. It was a great bar and when it finally went down I was sorry to have to close it but it got to the point where I had to close it. What years did you have that? 70 to 73. But it was a lot of people don't notice but one new year's day after the bars you don't get liquor deliveries right after the new year's eve so we opened that night and we were running out of vodka and it was about 15 to 20 below zero and I said, well let me put it on the street because I do a couple of the bars on the Erie and the gay boys had a bar but theirs was closed so I went to Joams which was on State Mary I said, do you have any extra vodka?  I said, I don't know, let me think I was in the bar I said to him, how many people you can get he said, I think I can get one I said, okay, me, my daughter you, and he had me be there at 9 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday at the Evergreen so we met there of course we called Kit Duffy in the meantime told him what we were doing went there, loaded up four shopping carts heat to the rafters with everything we could find and we'd stop in the middle of aisles shopping because we'd be talking and blocking the aisles but I said, no perishables in the carts so I don't want to do it so we did that and when we got ready to leave our carts in each aisle and nobody could move them and we walked outside and Kit Duffy came in and she said they will be back every Saturday morning unless you put a retraction in the paper and make a sizeable donation to an AIDS organization and he said, hold on got out his check book it's $500 enough he said yes, in fact that it was so he brought out a check she came out and she said, okay, it's done so we thought, that was easy so we went and had breakfast and I said, what did you do about the city hall bullshit, you know so I thought about it, we designed a stamp we got $17 million stamp and not a lot of people like Kevin running in their wallet it had to be a red stamp we got to make it red so it shows up, you know what was the city hall doing that was so bad it wouldn't pass the ordinance what impact do you feel the gay dollars had for the city for the community I think it helped get it passed because nature's health couldn't get it passed it was a bad one but Frank and I both paid for it he got audited for four years I got audited for four years you don't mess with the government unless you're ready to take the ship and then throw it, should it I said, okay, fine I'm not doing nothing wrong but then when it came time they wanted to make a bigger L I ain't giving up them how did the community respond to the gay dollar campaign no, nothing but as a bar owner and as an established member of the community how did you confront the AIDS crisis that was hard that was hard, I lost a lot of friends a lot of friends and all you do is visit a banana hospital and offer to be helpful that's all you could do I mean I cracked a couple of them in the head at your shades and I said, I hope you have a rubber on that thing in your mouth, you know I mean, you guys didn't come out seriously you didn't take it too seriously for a long time and then they said wouldn't they come out with this thing dental dams for women by getting a ham sandwich through a plastic bag dental dam you don't want to eat it, don't go make sure what's going in there before you get there that's all sorry, you know me you can tell me by now I can't change by the way my daughter is 40 oh my god how did you come to have your daughters on you when I had the Miz one of my customers she said to me, why don't you know you'd make a great parent you'd like kids, I said I do I get involved with women that have kids I could care less about the women I like the kids and I didn't like the way they treated them she said, well why don't you be a foster parent think about that so I did I got four foster teenagers my first one was Brighton and then I got three other teenagers so they were very troubled kids and I had problems with them I really didn't want to go into too much detail but I had to give them back because they created problems for me with Tonya I almost lost her but I kept Tonya I had Dr. Tonya and I kept Tonya in touch with her real mother because you should know who your parents were not that I ever found out a very old man a garbage man, who knows but I wanted her to know that this is the woman that gave birth to her where is she now? in Virginia that's why I need a copy of this what does she do in Virginia? she plays mommy she has two wonderful children my granddaughter is gorgeous my grandson is autistic he doesn't talk so she's very useful but she married a great man I made sure whenever she brought him home not married, that's not marriage material nope, that's not marriage material I took him out for her when she was younger when this age thing started and I said you better be down, she's going to be making it with some boys eventually brought some rubbers home I said no love, no love wow you're telling me it's 14 I said if you think they're not doing it at 14 you must be dreaming somewhere honey we don't do it at 14 we didn't even know what it was all about at 14 but these kids nowadays they know everything so I taught her it's okay as long as you're protected how different rather than we rephrased that you've seen the community evolve over the years how different is it now from when you were young I liked it better back then it was closer, more camaraderie more friends you could walk into a bar and they didn't have to be wondering if you know anybody in that bar or if anybody I'm walking into a bar now and they look at me like what the fuck are you doing here I said I'm here to check the bar stool I got for you it's just that's part of I guess growing up but I liked it when we had our own places and we had neat things and it's great people found out we had better bars than they did so now they want to hang out in our bars tell us a bit about your movie crimes of hate that was, yeah you know made a lot of friends with that one that was Gary Chichester and Bill Vonnardy who had lost a friend who was beaten and murdered behind Christopher Street and there was they were attacking and raping gay men and killing them and so nobody was doing anything about it and the bars more or less put pressure on the papers if you produce anything you can put advertisement in there the Lerner Booster kept putting things in there so we decided we were going to produce this movie crimes of hate so we had everyone on Halsted Street we interviewed people there and they all admitted that even if they got jumped they never reported everybody was afraid to report you got to report, you can't be afraid and that's the way it started so it aired three times on channel 19 mm-hmm it was really fun all of us on a Saturday morning downtown at Chicago Cable Access RJ and Gary Chichester drunk out of our minds still in the morning trying to do camera work oh my god it was fun, we drove crazy but you had to take the class to be able to get the cameras out you know who carried the camera not the big guys this one why were you having to carry it because I'm the only smart one no, I had worked with cameras before so I liked it it was interesting I thought it was a pretty good little piece we did we proved our point how do you see the community today regarding that violence issue is it a better situation? no, it's still happening on Halston Street there are problems, there always will be I mean I don't care how many rules and laws you pass you have to reach the people and stop pointing fingers at everybody you know I mean if if you take a black man and rip this skin off do you know he's black? no, do you know what I'm saying stop, not this you know and we don't want us children thank you very much you need that for the straight voice what's the biggest nice conception about you? that I don't have any heart what are you laughing for? you have to go home with me tonight I want you to all know the love of my life right here Janane and I met on Facebook and we were on app and it was just kippetson I was kippetsing with maybe from Starbase we always kippets on Facebook about certain stuff and she joined it she's interesting and we got to talk and I said we'd like to meet for a coffee I said well we can meet for something I don't know I was just looking for a friend I had just finished my boutwood cancer I just got a gear clear I was looking for anybody because I was balled at it by then and I had this crazy hand that my friend Ari who was the very beginning of my talks was my type buddy she came in from Phoenix, Arizona in front of this crazy baseball cap with air sticking up out of it and I all thought I never lost my hair and I would get in the elevator and say goodnight but she's like well we can meet for coffee well in the meantime she gave me her phone number and I had found out that she had a lover for 40 years who passed away from lung cancer and I thought oh god I have to tell her I'm balled I'm going to meet her which is going to go for a walk around the lake so I don't know if you know it but chemo is natural right? where are you? it is natural it steps the shit out of you and so I tried a walk I tried to exercise as much as I can because I've lost a lot of strength and I said to her I don't know I just want you to know that when you meet me I'm going to be balled because I just finished my chemo and she said that's okay she said no I know people that are balled so we met and we walked around the lake we had a nice talk and we partnered our ways and when I got home it was an email from her and she said I won't give you a microphone and she said if you're not really interested so that's what you should say she said I have feelings and if you're not interested let's cut it off right now I said no I'm not ready to cut it off because I think I finally met my soul mate yep you go back in time and revisit any spot in your history what would you want to revisit and why? hmm I don't think I want to go back there no no I mean it's memories and I liked them but some of it wasn't good times you know I had a lot of rough times in my life I lost my house I didn't have a house, there was a running house and a fire and Thanksgiving I spent watching it burn down I had nothing I had a couple of fires like that and that day you couldn't get renters insurance so everything in your home was a total loss yeah so no I like it where I'm at right now hmm well that concludes the formal interview this lady sure went through everything that I had to ask


This video will help explain the process for using ST devices with ISPU, the Intelligent Sensor Processing Unit, and leverage the ST MEMS ecosystem of tools and libraries. In this tutorial, we will be expanding on the previous videos and covering the Algo Builder tool and how to utilize it to quickly make a visualization for your ISPU output. The first step will be downloading the Algo Builder design application from the ST website. Search for Algo Builder and choose the development tool. After that, scroll down to the Get Software section of the page. From here, download the ST MEMS Algo Builder and accept the agreement to start your download. Now that we have Algo Builder installed, I will guide you through the process of setting up your Algo Builder application for the first time. Once you have launched your Algo Builder application, your screen should look like the one shown. First we will go to File, then Application Settings, and finally browse the executable locations for Unicleo, GUI, and STM32 cube IDE, which you used and installed in the previous videos. This will allow you to build designs, generate the C code, build the firmware, program your target hardware, and finally launch the Unicleo GUI all from Algo Builder. We will then select our tool chain slash IDE as STM32 cube IDE and then choose our target as the Nucleo F401 with the XNucleo IKS01 A3 shield and the LSM6DSO16IS.  Next I will hit Ctrl S to save our design and I will navigate to the ISPUTDEMO folder we just set up and save our design to that location. Algo Builder uses predefined code blocks to quickly allow you to implement proof of concept projects without the need to write code. You can drag and drop blocks from the library shown on the left. For this project we will be using the ISPU block from the Sensor Hub folder. We can drag the ISPU block to the design area. Most of the blocks will have properties you can edit. For the ISPU block it allows us to load a UCF file similar to how we loaded a UCF file into the Datalog extender application in the previous video. We will navigate to where we downloaded the XCube ISPU package, then from there to the ISPU folder, and then finally from the ISPU folder to the Sensor Fusion 6x Output folder to find the pre-generated UCF file included in the XCube ISPU package. Once you have loaded the UCF you can once again click on the ISPU block. As you can see the ISPU block has gained outputs based on the JSON file included in the output folder where the UCF was located. You can then view the ISPU blocks description which will now show the outputs gained from this JSON file. We can verify this by navigating to the XCube ISPU package folder in our File Explorer. From there once again navigate to the ISPU folder, then the Sensor Fusion 6x folder and finally the Output folder where we can open the JSON file and compare. While we are navigating the XCube ISPU package we can take this time to look up the sensor settings this project was built with. By navigating back one folder to the Sensor Fusion 6x folder we can now click on the ISPU folder instead of the output. This takes us to the project files for the Sensor Fusion 6x. In this folder there is a configuration text file. This will show us the ODR and the full scale of the accelerometer and gyroscope. We can use this information to edit our sensor hub block in AlgoBuilder to match the value shown. In this case a data rate of 104, the accelerometer full scale of 8G and the gyroscope full scale of 2K DPS. Now we need a way to visualize our ISPU output. To do this we will be using the Fusion block found in the display folder of the block library. Drag the Fusion block into the design area. In the Fusion properties you can see a drop down for the model name. We will be using the head model for this demo but you can use whatever you like most. As you can see the Fusion block only takes a single input of four floats. Our ISPU block is outputting the four quaternos as separate floats. To solve this we will need to use a MUX to configure the ISPU output into the correct input for the Fusion display. We can search for the MUX using the filter in the library. And from there choose the MUX float block. As you can see the MUX float block is currently only accepting three inputs. In the settings for the MUX float you need to change the number from three to four. Having done this you can now connect everything. The sensor hub to the ISPU, each output of the ISPU block to the MUX, and finally the MUX to the Fusion. At this point you can save your design by pressing control S. After saving you can now generate the C code by pressing on the button the top bar labeled generate C code. Once the code has been properly generated you can then build the firmware by pressing the button to its right. Don't worry if it takes a few moments that's normal. During this time you can make sure that your hardware is properly connected to your computer via USB. You can now use the button labeled program target to program the firmware to your Nucleo. After that has completed we can now launch the Unicleo GUI from the button on the top bar. You should now see the Unicleo GUI interface as shown here. This should be familiar from the previous video. The first step is to connect to the correct COM port where your Nucleo is connected. Once that is done you can press start to begin reading data off the serial. You can confirm that this is working by using the live log in the user messages to view the Quaternos being calculated in real time by the ISPU. Finally you can click on the sensor fusion button on the left side of the Unicleo GUI to bring up a visual model of the sensor fusion output which you then can move by moving the hardware in real time and see the results. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this information helpful. Don't be afraid to play around more with the tools shown in this video and make your own Algo Builder project with the ISPU.


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What's this problem? Why is he hating so much?   Oh It's like a string. Could you even swallow hair? Hey Siri? Could you swallow hair as popular science explains? Hair mostly comprises keratin a protein that poses no threat when eaten protein Wait, bro, bro. I'm like 40 grams of protein behind. I'm trying to build muscle. Hold on. Of course Bakugo is number one, okay?    You always have a guy in anime that looks like they haven't slept man Are the employees starting to put themselves in anime? I mean as a W Nothing like a night swim when you have the power of the world in your hands That person who god oh, yeah, God don't start the crying do not start it That's not all might that's um All might I meant um all night, you know night. I wouldn't they put two and two together.   I've been there man. It's the rich city Salary like Don't start crying.   We need some tragedy like seriously. I need him to die. I need him to die I like him though. I'm not even lying.     If my mom thinks I'm cool.  I would have literally went to school.  All right, so I'm guessing we're gonna learn these characters now We're gonna meet the class The tea. Oh, no, that's not the teacher.   We just got to new school You signed character The top two it's awesome Ten yeah, ten yeah, nice. I like ten you Let's not start picking on him. All right.  I already see what is that is that is that jigglypuff Ohio? I still can't believe it man imagine every morning in Japan the first word you need to hear is Ohio.  I love his look. He's so cool Yeah, let's just keep saying how much of a miracle it is that he's here.     Who else would it be? He does. I'm grim Joe. Yeah, me it is. Yeah, me Bro, it's like the same character.  Man, he's just high. That's it. We all got high in school I saw what I saw what eyes in wait a minute Now he's in school He looks dapper man, okay, what's his name? Wait a minute, man You know what he looks like you look like Jim Carrey from the mask right now. Oh, this is gonna be fun I saw what and all might together What is your raptor?  Can't even tell what it is.  What's his name? I'm um, um, um, um, um, Buko All right, I like I like uh look all might on on cocaine and then this teacher's on um on What's it called? He's on his seventh blunt.  Oh wait. I can't wait to meet Falco. Holy shit, man Oh How do you not pause John Cena Is here I can't do it. Okay.   Oh, it should be one of them And a blast come on.   That better not be you that cool. I swear to God Eraser head Bro, that sounds like a slur.  They call me eight head now y'all call me forehead I've downgraded I like their suits man. They look like they're about to do on BMX Throw one for all it This is how you It should do your class nice Tell them you get last place.  That's how you get them to work nice You know what I agree with these lessons.  I think you got the wrong country What what is this if you wanted to go talk with your friends at Mickey D's at the school too bad He couldn't say McDonald's he has to say what we say so now I know in Japan.  I Can't believe I'm on the gym trainer number one is here Brock You think it's so determined you take out the sippy cup I believe in you Pikachu or peach you Nice 50 me are you just let's just run.  What is this thing on the left? Is it a lizard? I'm trying to observe What's that bow on his back? I don't know if it's a girl or boy yet. I don't know Wait a minute.  Isn't it? It's a frog Propellers on his ankles Engine oh nice now we get to learn their powers What that tongue do nah, stop it. I don't know what it is yet He's gonna fly now Zero gravity. I knew it y'all trying to spoil me their court. He needs to run when you can fly She's cute.   Naval laser more like the nut laser They hate him already like I do Here we go. Of course He's gonna lose Have you seen the Fire Lord fly Dead that's not fair Wow We use his feet.    What is he what what's going on? What I need to know is race Octopuses are sexy.   What do you just do what? Did he just deactivate all? For one or something wait a racer head meaning he erases a quark or something that's what I'm guessing And he just saved him from breaking his arm I Swear y'all gonna think I watched it before I swear I didn't bro. I'm just thinking I'm just thinking I'm in hyperdrive right now Man, I'm really attached to this anime so far bro. I promise I swear to God. I didn't watch this I swear to God his name is a racer head of your race the quark. You was trying to save him. I Went on my knees for y'all.   Oh One finger let's go. He's willing to break one finger That's cool. I like that. He was able to focus it in one finger.  Let's go He's my hero He idolizes or just admires Dexter, I love it I want to see Zuko my baby go I Wonder why he's so angry man. Jesus Christ. Come on.  That's a racer head for you No, no, no, no cost. Yeah, man. That's a second time.  It's like taking the ruler out I have dry eyes I wish my teachers were this cool except they were predators Decoo raised so hard. He lost his eyes Not Decoo button button Oh, there you are. It's your finger. All right.  He does have a punchable face. He's jealous Because Decoo has a hot mom What does he have? Nothing.  It's the worst.  Do I even have to say why it's a girl? But but I thought it was John Cena, but I guess it's Joanne Cena Anyone new? Okay, so this guy is a is not it's like a furry. He's just furry man And and and we're just supposed to accept this no explanation yet no explanation at all We are just supposed to accept that there's a bird with human traits. We're just supposed to accept Falco at this point He pisses me off just standing man Bakugo got bumped a three.  I think that's his name Todoroki.  What's he laughs?  Oh, it shows over guys get out. It's over that who's expelled. He said he could do what he wants That is lying Just to pass your limits typical Yami It just turned into an impact frame I don't know who this guy is I've never seen him Wonder if any of them die The old lady.   Isn't she? No, I don't want to see it keep it in the manga You punished the whole class of last year's first years with expulsion he expelled the whole class I wish I was in that class so I wouldn't have to go to school Of course he did he's not gonna admit it to you Even though cut I just don't know. He just gave himself out It's your finger here old the recovery. Oh I hear sucking.   I do it all the time do it to you I'll wait.  I love it. I'm that cool.  What's who stop doing right now? What's he doing? He went back to the Orange Islands.   You don't go to sleep. You don't see your family work work work Here we go. The man whom I respect most is my father Bro, most of these characters don't have a father I don't know what that is. Does he have like a a faucet attached to his mouth? Is he like a sink sink a man? What else are we gonna see in this school? I'm ready man every day is a new journey He's the here we go That's totally normal. I used to go to class every day like that.  He's happy to hear that Wait, we're gonna get outfits aren't we?  I think this song was made for my hero Oh Shit not he's a tough man. Let's see. All right. All right. All right. I don't even know names yet All I know is Bakugou. I already forgot her name. Um, would I would I would a rocker would a rocker would a rocker Bro, she looks sick in that that tight suit not saying in a weird way I know that that actually sounds weird.  Aren't they like 12 years old? What what it what is dude, dude, dude, and then you got um, um, what's it called? Daniel LaRusso over here. Oh my god. The bird has like a cape. He's like a vampire.  Oh, he's ice man. And then you have the um, the the the the busty the busty um jigglypuff awesome Great, great. Remember when you were 12 years old your parents let me you leave the house like this good old days They look really cool Too cool Except for him.  Oh, okay, wait, that's him I That's so cool. Bakugo is lit. No.   You know what I mean?  I'm sorry mom. I'm sorry. I'm sorry mom Gaslight again.  Is that like the hentai kid? Wait a minute. It's the same teeth. I said that He's so attentive questioning everything. I love him I can't get over the soup bro.  Oh, he's team c. All right. You know what word i'm thinking of What is he looking at?  No, no joanne sena. I can't believe it. I never thought I'd see that pairing. It's the pairing of my dreams Love this. She looks like diva.  Why does he hate him so much bro? I want to smack him up I want to get a bucket of water and throw it at him. Is he just like intimidated? Is he jealous?   That has to be it. That's the name of the episode.  I love it. Why does he make fun of him?  They respect each other and it's nice and wholesome No, haram This is cool.  We just have to attack their rocket ship. That's it How about we use that on um, I'm bakugo.   Hold me back. I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill him I got the thumbnail face on look at him. That's probably gonna be my thumbnail for this video What what what is this the frogs do this? It this is new to me This is bird of a mouth. Does he talk?   Oh that takes me all my power bro awful one.  I feel so good after that What bullies get what they deserve Yeah, I did. I said he did that in the first episode. He wrote like he looks like a gremlin. Wait a minute It's gonna mean wait, wait, wait, what's it gonna mean?