So, a 51-year-old comes with a left flank pain and blood in the urine, good performance status, slightly anemic, but otherwise, labs are within normal limits, CT chest is negative, and the patient is offered a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy. Here are the images. You can see a locally advanced tumor involving the left kidney. There's maybe some shoddy lymph nodes present here and here. No metastatic disease. Dr. Mateen, what are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, I think that's fine. You know, the best answer is to basically do whatever you're most comfortable with in terms of giving the patient the best cancer outcome. If you have the experience laparoscopically to do that and as well sample those lymph nodes, then you should. If you're uncomfortable, then either refer them or do it open. And so what would you do? Oh, I'd do a laparoscopic nephrectomy and do an emphatomectomy. And when you do a laparoscopic lymph node dissection, are you able to get to the interurata cable nodes, which are the nodes between the aorta and the vena cava? Yeah, we can. Now, whether that actually makes a difference or not for a patient like this is still a question. And, you know, I would at the very least do the ones between the aorta and the kidney. You know, there's talk about doing a frozen section, seeing if there is a disease there and then doing more. Is that what you do? No. No, I don't. I mean, we could discuss it, but you know, I don't. And I'm not sure there's much benefit in going, you know, interurata cable if there's multiple nodes present. Dr. Cram, what are your thoughts? I would do a laparoscopic nephrectomy on the left side and then do the lymph nodes just between the aorta and the kidney. I wouldn't necessarily go between the aorta and the vena cava. Dr. Chapin? I'd probably take a little bit of a different approach and I would actually do a nephrectomy with an extended lymph node dissection to include the interurata cable nodes. Whether this could be done with a robotic assistance would make me more comfortable for doing interurata cable with a minimally invasive approach. So I would do a robotic nephrectomy and an extended node dissection to include the interurata cables. Robotically. Correct. So the patient elected to have their surgery at home in Tennessee and they underwent a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy. And the pathology, which was reviewed here, showed a renal cell carcinoma 6 centimeters in size, clear cell type with focal sarcomatoid features, 10 percent, firm and nuclear grade 4, invasive into the renal sinus soft tissue, margins of resection negative, adrenal gland negative. So this would be a T3A N0 M0, Perman's grade 4, clear cell, renal cell carcinoma with negative margins, 10 percent sarcomatoid. Is it N0 or NX? NX. Well, the nodes that were removed were negative. Dr. Tenir, the patient comes to you and follow up. What do you tell them? They're at risk of recurrence because, again, size, the more than 4 centimeters, firm and nuclear grade 4, 10 percent sarcomatoid features. And as you said, T3A, if there is any clinical trial that they're interested in and they're eligible for it, I would offer them adjuvant trial. So you'd offer them an adjuvant clinical trial? Okay. And if they're not eligible for the adjuvant trial, how often would you follow this patient? I would follow the patient with a scan three months after surgery and then another one six months later after that surgery. So every six months? Yeah. Twice a year. Everyone agree or everyone disagree? I would follow the patient a bit closer. Although the cutoff for sarcomatoid, Dr. Tenir mentioned the 20 percent is not an absolute cutoff. This patient is at a very high risk of recurrence. And I would just observe every three to four months for at least the first two years just because of their high risk of recurrence. And like Dr. Tenir said, if the patient is eligible for a clinical trial, he should undergo or at least consider an adjuvant clinical trial. So the patient is observed postoperatively and he's told to come back six months for repeat imaging. He's asymptomatic. His CT chest remains negative. And he comes back with this. You can see he's got a rather large tumor involving his right kidney that extends really right up into the renal sinus and the renal hyalum. Two views. I trust these are adequate for you, Dr. Delacroix. Yes. Okay. Is that a positive lymph on the left? Yes. Where? Pariotic. Pariotic. On the right picture? No, that's cruise. That's cruise in the bow. So if you go back and look, there was a question of a hint of something sitting right here. I didn't want to point it out to you. Right there. And that was the genesis of this. So this would have supported doing closer follow-up. Dr. Latine, what do you think? So this came back and this grew this much in what, six months? One year? Six months. Wow. Yeah. Pretty aggressive. You know, I'd make sure he had recent restaging studies. They're all negative. And book them for a partial. Book them for a partial. Open. Yeah. And the likelihood of success? You know, again, I take the Delacro approach and ask for more images first. But assuming this is the worst that it is here, I think chances of success of actually removing the whole tumor and preserving the kidney at, say, greater than 90%, there would be risk of, what's that? 90%? Yeah. I think that's... Yeah. It's difficult. No question. Optimistic. Yeah. The whole kidney and, you know, I think we would give it the best shot we had to preserve the kidney and as well get the whole tumor out. Now, the alternative would be the clinical trial. You know, if there is one available in terms of treating the patient ahead of time in the hopes of getting that to shrink down. Dr. Karan, what are your thoughts? I think clinical trial will be my number one choice. I think this will be a quite a difficult partial nephrectomy. If the patient is willing to take the risk, then I would go for surgery. By saying risk, I mean the risk of ending with radical nephrectomy possibly. And what is that risk? I would quote the risk being higher than what Dr. Matins said. I would say, for me, I would say at least 50-50. But again, it still depends on the surgeon comfort and experience. But I would quote the patient 50-50 chance. Would he qualify for a new Edwin trial having had a previous cancer, even though it was treated? No. No. Dr. Delacroix, comes to New Orleans. Yeah, if I was seeing him in New Orleans, if he didn't qualify for a new Edwin trial, then I'd do an open partial on him. If he would qualify for a trial and be willing to travel, I'd tell him to get in his car and come see you for a trial. So that would be an easy one. What would I quote him? Numbers are, we try to objectify the, something that's not quantifiable. But I'd say 50-50. Yeah, I would definitely counsel the patient on the good possibility to wake up without a kidney in on dialysis. And I think this is important for the audience to see. So all of these guys either work together now or at least trained by the same people. And you can see that the variation in the, in their responses with regards to predicted risk of losing that kidney and so forth. So I personally thought when I saw this guy that he was going to lose his kidney, because, I mean, this right here, this tumor goes right up to where the vessels are entering into the renal sinus. And I thought that the likelihood of either leaving cancer behind to try and save the kidney or leaving it with no functional renal tissue were quite high. And so I said basically, your options are you could undergo a radical nephrectomy, go on dialysis, the possibility of a transplant two or three years down the line if you remain disease free. Or we could try targeted agents to see if we could get the tumor to shrink. So the patient underwent a biopsy. It showed high grade, clear cell, renal cell carcinoma. And he was offered nephrectomy versus pazopinib. Because the clinical trial, he's not eligible for a clinical trial with excitin. He decided to choose pazopinib. And he came, comes back 50 days after treatment with a CT chest that remains negative. And there are the films. And I would argue slightly bit easier to do a partial nephrectomy in that case. You can see the tumor here has shrunk dramatically. It's pulled itself out of the renal sinus and is much more amenable to partial nephrectomy from my perspective. You only want to write partial nephrectomy and it was a T1A, N0, M0, Herman's Grade 4 with extensive necrosis. So dramatic response. And, you know, again, admittedly this is an anecdote and you could maybe take 10 people and the other nine might not respond at all. But I felt that this was this guy's best hope at trying to save his kidney. Was that the newest TKI available at the time? No, excitin was available. So why did you choose that over, excitin had given your experience with excitin? I take that back. Excitin was available through a clinical trial mechanism, but it was not FDA approved. Right. Sorry. And had it occurred now, you would choose excitin based on your experience? For sure. For sure. Questions? No questions? Yeah. And I'm just going to ask, in the future, for future questions, please use the microphone so they can hear you on the YouTube broadcast, but I'll restate what you ask. Basically, you're saying why not just do the nephrectomy and then get a kidney transplant? Or just end up on dialysis? Sure. And well, in this case, if we had done an nephrectomy, he would have been on dialysis. The problem with transplant is in patients with cancer, they are not eligible for transplant unless they're disease free for at least two and some say three years, because the immunosuppression associated with transplant, if they had cancer, would let the cancer go berserk. And, you know, dialysis is not a cakewalk.  So that means that 50% of people are dead on dialysis at five years. So that's not exactly, you know, a good outcome either. I know this is a difficult question. How much work is being done right now on COS? We're talking about treatment here. I mean, that's the focus of this. I understand that. The question becomes, this individual had at once, was there any way of making a determination as to potential causes to help them avoid a recurrence or in some way looking at either environmental or genetic factors that might contribute to this and trying to treat that in the interim? I'll let Dr. Karam field that one. So as far as COS, I'm not aware of much research being actively done to look for a COS. We know there are some known risk factors. I think smoking is the one that most people would agree on. It's a very high risk factor for kidney cancer. There are other causes that are not as certain. I think they're more speculative, such as diabetes or high blood pressure or obesity as potential causes, but the link is not very strong. So we can't tell the patient if you lose weight, you will have less chance of kidney cancer. So these are associations. The main risk factor that we know of for sure are the genetic risk factors. So we know in about 5% of patients, genes play a major role. And this is something that would run in a family. But other than that, for kidney cancer itself, these are the main known risk factors. There are other cancers that happen in the kidney that are not labeled as kidney cancer that we know from environmental factors or from herbs and Dr. Matin might comment on that. But that's not kidney cancer itself. It's another subtype. Let me follow up because in my situation, I had a right in the front of me, my approximate cause was taking prozac. I had prozac. I became allergic to it, which caused vasculitis, which vasculitis is a known cause of renal cell tumors, especially if it goes into the kidney which one did. And it was very definite that the prozac caused the vasculitis because I was off of it. Vasculitis went away, went back on it and within 24 hours, the vasculitis was back full blown. And it was a short period of time after that that the renal cell carcinoma was discovered. And I had been clear before that because I had had some physicals done because of leaving the army. And I had no indication of renal cell carcinoma at the time. After that, and after my surgery and surviving it, I posted some stories out on the kidney cancer website and I received numerous, numerous responses back from all over the world. People with an exact similar situation. I know that no real study had been done as to the relationship between those or a direct relationship between prozac and kidney cancer but the steps that were associated were repeated multiple times, which is why I brought up the question. It's an interesting thought and like you said, there is no study that will be interesting to gather the data, but the risk with all these studies, even the studies that show that smoking is a risk factor is that there is a lot of confounding. So let's say if theoretically that drug A causes kidney cancer but all the patients who took drug A also are smokers, then which one is it really? Is it the drug A that caused it? Is it the smoking or is it the combination of both? And there are other cancers like drugs that cause them, for example, bladder cancer and a certain diabetes medication. But again, it's hard to tease out which factor because we live in a complex environment. It could be the medication, the water, the smoking or other risk factors but it will be interesting to gather objective data and see if that holds true when we account for the other known risk factors too. And interestingly actually alcohol provides a protective effect on cancer. Well that's good to know. Except that puts you at risk for oral and not cancer. He's joking obviously. In the 10 or so cases that you presented, it's sort of hard for us to tell by looking at that the size, sometimes you've mentioned what they are. But there's only been one, maybe two where neo-adjuvant therapy was considered something to do and I wanted to be sure I understood were you saying that's only available in a clinical trial setting or it was only a particular type of neo-adjuvant that was available only in a clinical setting. And then why that particular 50-year-old, this is where I was saying it's hard for us to differentiate that 50-year-old one before this one, was there something about that tumor characteristic or was it the age or something that led you to the neo-adjuvant whereas you separately is you've talked about robotic versus open versus laparoscopic and made different decisions along the way. Maybe there'd be just a primer as to what those are and why you'd use them. So with regards to the neo-adjuvant therapy, I would say that neo-adjuvant therapy in 2013 is still the subject of a clinical trial. It is not the standard of care. But in that other case that I showed, the 50-year-old that received Pizopinib, his choices were nephrectomy dialysis versus, hey, let's try this and see if it works kind of thing. So he was sort of between a rock and a hard place, but it was by no means the standard of care and that's the way he was informed, told that this is not the standard of care, that this tumor could actually grow while on therapy, but that in my hands at least I felt that he was almost certainly likely to end up with nephrectomy and end up on dialysis. And with that informed consent he decided to try the drug, but it's definitely not the standard of care. And then let's see, Dr. Mateen perhaps you'd like to discuss the differences or why we're choosing robot for this and lap for that and open for this. Okay. So to try to keep this short, open has been around the longest, right? And that's what we have the most amount of data with and that's probably the one procedure that you could translate in Houston, Chicago. I don't know why I'm picking on Sri Lanka today. It's just Saturday morning. I don't know. But in other words it's well accepted pretty much anywhere. Laparoscopic procedures came into Bikidware introduced in the 90s, weren't really accepted until early part of the century. But a little bit more difficult for people to pick up on. It just requires a little bit of a different skill set. And then with robotic technology coming into play that basically allows surgeons to do laparoscopic surgery, but it's done without having to relearn a whole new skill set. So it's still laparoscopic when we do it robotically. It's just that it makes it easier for the surgeon to do. Now there's a lot of other details I'm kind of leaving out. Bottom line really is it comes down to the experience of the surgeon, the training and their comfort level with what's being presented in front of them. So I don't know if that helps answer your questions, but it's not written in a book as to what you should do when because it's continuously evolving area with sort of these technologies that are coming out. And then the exposure that urologists have to them as they're in training or in practice. So I'll just add to that that the reason to push less invasive approaches is the recovery. I don't know if you want to say anything about it. Please, yeah. I think patients that have laparoscopic surgery recover much faster and more quickly than open surgery. How are you doing? In our case, our doctor doesn't seem to be real concerned with my wife's kidney. She's in stage four. And is that because it's already left the kidney and gone to different parts of the body? Well, we're going to talk more about that in the afternoon session with metastatic disease. But in general, we use selection criteria that have been published in the literature, some by us, some by others, to select patients for surgery. Not all patients who present with metastatic disease in their kidney in place are good candidates for surgery. And in fact, in many cases, the surgery can be quite detrimental. And it just depends upon certain selection criteria, such as, you know, in general, patients need to should have clear cell histology. They should have a good performance status, absence of brain, liver, and bone metastases. Those are criteria that we would use to better select patients for surgery. But our experience has been like, for instance, if a patient has liver metastases and you take them to surgery to take out their kidney, the overwhelming majority of those patients will be dead in six months. And it's directly related to the to the surgery itself because of the debilitating effects of the surgery and the ability of their metastatic disease to sort of take off after surgery. So we use very strict criteria to select patients for surgery.


From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering QALIS Security Conference 2019. Welcome to you by QALIS. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in Las Vegas at the QALIS Security Conference here at the Bellagio. 19 years they've been doing this conference. It's our first time here, but we've got a real veteran who's been here for 16 years who can really add some depth and perspective. We're happy to welcome Samid Takar. He's the president and chief product officer for QALIS. Nice to see you. Thank you, Jeff. Thanks for having me. Pleasure. So I was just telling Lori before, getting ready for this day, listening to the earnings call, and you got a really nice shout out in the last earnings call and your promotion. And just to let everybody know what Samid's got underneath his plate, R&D, QA, Ops, product marketing and customer support and adding worldwide field sales ops.  Yeah, but the good thing is that no matter who you are, you only have 24 hours in the day. That's true. Just as Lee and I are on the da Vinci did. You just have to make the best of that time. But I am curious, because you've been here for a while. You've seen a lot of technology kind of waves and yet here you guys still are. You've got an architecture that's built to take advantage of things like open source, to take advantage of things like cloud, as you kind of take a breath between customer meetings and running from panel to panel. And you think about kind of the journey. What kind of strikes you that you guys are still here, still successful, still have a founding CEO? It's a unique position. Yeah, it's actually very interesting. And I've been here for 16 years, started as a software engineer and I've been doing a lot of stuff, doing product management now, engineering and all of that. And I think one thing that's really part of the DNA for us and which has really helped us keep growing is being innovative continuously, right? Because five years ago, nobody would have said container technology, Docker. So as new security, new infrastructure paradigms have come about, we've just been on our toes and making sure that we are addressing all these different newer areas. And so the key is not so much about what new technology is going to come because two years from now, there will be something that we don't even know about right now. What's key is that we have built a platform that we keep adding additional capabilities that continue to quickly and nimble be able to address customers' needs from that perspective. Yeah, we just had Lori on it. She talked quite a bit about your, kind of customer engagement model being different than the traditional ones, really trying to build a long lasting relationship and to collect that data from the customers to know what their priorities are all about. Yeah, and it's because we've been subscription based since day one. This is the, we're not incentivized to go and try to sell our customers big, fat, multi-million dollar deals then we don't disappear, like enterprise sales usually does on perpetual licenses. So we have to earn our keep and we want to make sure customers are, we understand their needs so that they actually buy and purchase only what they are going to use so we can go back and they can grow more. We show the value. And so that's a very different model. And at the end of the day, that is the model of the cloud. So everybody who is in this consumption based model has to ensure that they are every year going back and showing the value and earning their subscription back. So in that sense, security, not a lot of vendors have done that for a long time. We've been the ones since the beginning to kind of follow this model and it's worked very well for us. It's a great model. Customers are happy as we add more solutions. We show the value and it's very easy for them to upgrade and get additional value out of QALIS at a very reasonable cost to them. It's interesting, Filipe talked about an early conversation that he had with Marc Benioff at Salesforce and I would argue that it was really Salesforce to kind of crack the code in terms of enterprising being comfortable with a cloud based system and kind of pass the security and the trust and this and that. So to make that gamble on the cloud so early, very, very fortunate and for two of us. The other thing I think that does not get enough play which he just touched on is a subscription business model forces you to deliver every month. If they're paying every month, you got to deliver every month. This is a very different relationship than a once a year or not even once a year to go get that big lump sum and get the renewal because you're in bed with them every single day. Yeah, absolutely. So that's really a very interesting model. So as you look forward, I know you're just giving a talk on kind of starting to look at the next big wave of trends. How do you get out ahead of it? What are you thinking about? What keeps you up at night? What are you excited about? So the very cool part about my job is that I also had engineering and product for quality and security. So we are living that digital transformation that our customers are going through as well. So we have a massive platform. We have like three trillion data points that we index. We have one million writes per second on Cassandra clusters. So we are dealing with the same infrastructure innovation that our customers are doing. And so that is helping us also learn how to secure our own platform. What our customers are thinking because as they are moving into DevOps, we have already moved into that. We have learned our lessons. So we relate to what they are going through. And that's really the next big thing is how do we enable security tools to really be built into the DevOps tool chain so that we eliminate a lot of the issues upfront before they ever even become an issue. And my talk this morning was about started with the notion of TTR, which is the time to remediate. And the best time to remediate is the time of zero. If you don't ever let the issue get into your production environment, you never have to worry about fixing it. And that's really the next big thing for us is how do we create a platform that helps customers not to look at security in multiple silos, but to have a single platform where they can go all the way from DevOps to production, to remediation, to response, all orchestrated to the same platform. Right, it's pretty interesting because that was Richard Clark's keynote, the author. We used to always break companies down into two buckets. Either those that have been breached and those that have been breached just don't know about it yet. And then he introduced his third concept, which is those that got breached but actually got on it, remediated it, maybe not to time zero, but in a way that it did not become a big issue. Because let's face it, you're going to get breached at some level. How do you keep it from becoming a big nightmare? Exactly, and that is really the only measure of effectiveness of your security, right? It's not about how many people you have, how many dollars you spend on security, how big your security team is, how many vendors you have, how quickly can you get in there, find and fix any issue that comes up. That's it, that's the only thing matter. If you can do that with no people and no resources that are being put to it with automation, then that's great. If you do that with 50 people, that's great. But you just need to be able to get to that point. And today, of course, with hybrid infrastructure, we are realizing quickly, throwing more people at the problem is not really solving the problem. We just cannot keep going. We need to leverage that same scalable technology that is being used in the digital transformation to provide that similar stuff from a security perspective to the customers as well. Right, and even if you wanted to hire the people, there aren't enough people. And that's another point. There aren't enough people, right? So the other thing that you must be really excited about is on the artificial intelligence and machine learning side. You know, a lot of buzz in the press talk about robots and machines and this type of stuff. But as you know, as we know, where that rubber really hits the road is applied AI and bringing the power of that technology to specific problems. Complete game changer, I would assume, for which you guys can do, looking forward. Yeah, I mean, you can really only have good machine learning and good AI if you really have a massive historic data that you can really mine to find out trends and understand how patterns have evolved, right? So only cloud-based solutions can actually do that because they have a large amount of customer telemetry that they can understand and do that. So from that sense, QOLIS platform is absolutely suited for that. But having said that, again, all of these have their specific application. So there's vendors who are coming out and claiming that machine learning is going to solve world hunger and everything's going to be great just because you have machine learning. But no, machine learning and the prediction that comes with that and the prioritization is one element of your toolkit. You still have to do your DevOps, you still have to fix things, you still have to do a lot of things. But then how do you predict out of all that chaos, how can you try to focus on some things that may become a real problem, which are not now? So that's really the exciting part is to be able to bring that as an additional toolkit for the customer in their arsenal is to be able to respond to threats much faster and better than they have in the past. Right, and as a cloud-based platform, you guys are sitting in the capitol seat for that. What about on the other side though, on the edge side? Another kind of new thing that's coming rapidly. Edges are messy, they don't have nice pristine data center, your environments, there's connectivity problems, power problems, all types of issues. As you look at kind of edge and IoT more generally, increasing the threat surface dramatically, how do you kind of think about that? How do you approach it to make it not necessarily a problem but really an opportunity for follow-ups? I mean, that's a great question because there is no magic pill for that, right? It's like you just have to be able to leverage continuous telemetry collection and data collection to be able to see these devices, see these patterns. And so that works really well for us because to be able to do that in a global organization almost every organization is global. Global organization has multiple infrastructure, multiple people in different locations, multiple offices. And if you look at the IoT architecture, it is about sensors that are pushing data into one common platform which controls them and which updates them and all of that. And that's the platform that Qualys has built since the beginning is multiple of these different sensors that are continuously collecting data, pushing it back into our platform and that's the only way you can get the visibility across your global infrastructure. So in many ways, we are well suited to do that and which is the big reason why we gave out our global IT asset inventory product for free, for customers because we truly believe that that's the first step for them to start to get secure and because we have the architecture and the platform, it becomes significantly easier for us to be able to give them that capability which is truly wide and not just say, oh, I have visibility in my cloud here but then container visibility is somewhere there and IoT visibility is somewhere else. We bring all of that together in one place. Right. All right, Spindle, I know you've got to run off to your next commitment. We could keep going but I think we'll have to leave it there again, congrats on your promotion. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, Smith, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE. We're at the Qualys security conference in Las Vegas. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. Thanks.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you including Rodrigo Smith Zapata, John and Becky Johnston and Chris Benito. Coming up on DTNS, how B Real wants to make money, Instacart wants to eat Amazon's lunch after it lets you buy the ingredients easily with their new technology. And some algorithms may soon host this show. D-I-D keeps advancing the way it is. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, September 19th, 2022 in Los Angeles. Am I Tom Merritt? From Studio Redwood, I think I'm Sarah Lane. I might be in Los Angeles. I'm Lamar Wilson. I'm pretty sure I'm Roger Chang. The show's pretty sure. That's what a D-I-D avatar would say. Tight broadcast already, everyone. Good work. Alright, we're going to get to that, the possibility that algorithms can just do all the video and we'll be able to relax and drink my ties. But first, let's talk about some tech things you should know. Texas HB20 is a law that bars platforms with more than 50 million users from acting to block, ban, remove, de-platform, demonetize, de-boost, restrict, or deny equal access or visibility to or otherwise discriminate against expression based on viewpoint. This law and a similar law in Florida have been making their way through the courts with the Supreme Court likely being the ultimate destination here. The latest hop for Texas's version of the law was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which just ruled that Texas HB20 does not violate the First Amendment rights of social media platforms. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that the Florida version of the law did violate First Amendment rights. The U.S. Supreme Court could now be asked to weigh in to resolve the conflict between the two decisions. Alright, we'll keep an eye on that one. According to John Petty Research in a forum post from a product manager, the graphics card manufacturer EVGA will no longer make GPUs for NVIDIA exiting the GPU market entirely. So they're not going to make GPUs for NVIDIA or anybody else. It will continue to sell the current generation cards until it runs out of stock. So if you see them on shelves, that's why. According to CEO Andrew Hahn, it made the move out of principle, citing a lack of communication from NVIDIA about new products. John Petty Research reports that the move comes as gross margins for GPU board partners continue to shrink down from over 20% in 2000 to less than 10% in 2020. We talked a little bit about this right as it broke on Friday's Good Day Internet. If you're a patron, you might want to check that out. The Wall Street Journal reports that shipments of industrial robots to China increased 45% on the year in 2021 to over 243,000, accounting for 49.9% of all shipments globally. Data from the International Federation of Robotics shows China installed nearly twice as many new robots at factories compared to the Americas and Europe. While global industrial robot installations grew 27% on the year in 2021, installations in China's automotive sector increased almost 90% on the year while electronic makers increased robot installs by 30%. A user on GTA forums posted 90 videos that they claim came from a test build of Grand Theft Auto 6. Footage lines up with previous leaks indicating the game will take place in Vice City and have multiple playable characters. The user claims they were also behind the recent cyber attack on Uber. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier's sources at game developer Rockstar confirmed the footage is legitimate, though it cautioned its early and unfinished. Rockstar said it recently suffered a network intrusion where somebody downloaded early development footage of the game. Tile has been providing a way for you to track lost items long before Apple and Samsung came along with their air tags and their smart tag competitors. Tile works differently, though, relying primarily on Bluetooth and other Tile users. Practically speaking, all our systems where you attach a small tracker to a thing. Maybe it's a keychain, maybe it's your suitcase handle, something that you don't want to go missing with the idea of being able to track it over the internet. But not everything works well with that system. For example, earbud cases, almost the same size as trackers, or books don't have a lot of attachment points. So Tile has launched something called QR code labels that don't have that same technology. You decide what people will see, what they'll see, when they scan the sticker. But the idea is to give them a way to tell you that they found your item, such as your email address. Hey Sarah, you left this book at the airport type thing. Tile has included QR codes on its trackers in the past, but these new labels are just the QR code.  You can buy them now from Tile. For $14.99, you get 15 total labels. Yeah, I mean the idea would be contact info. Like contact me here, but I guess if you had a disposable email address just for that purpose. I'd be a little weird putting my contact info available to anybody who could see the QR code on my textbook. But yeah, maybe you got to pay for them too, which is weird. Well, yeah, I mean you pay for that for the service, right? What do you want that book, Lamar, that you left behind? In 1999, not that much. You know, yeah, your mileage may vary. You can do it for other things besides 1999 era textbooks. I'm not sure what else I would use it on either. All right, let's talk a little more about groceries. Let's do it. So when you think about technology for retail stores, grocery stores being included in that, you might start with Amazon's Just Walkout technology. We've talked about it on the show quite a bit in the past. That technology is slowly rolling out to more Whole Foods locations at the moment, but it's definitely not the only game in town. In fact, Instacard announced a new connected store platform that combines new and existing technologies to help retailers create a personalized experience and better bridge online and in store shopping. Now that sounds like a lot of marketing speak. So Tom, what's going on here? Yeah, so one of the elements would be called scan and pay. Not sure how this is going to work in practice, but the idea is to do what you do at the Apple Store with the Apple Store app. You would scan an item and then pay for it with your phone. How they tell whether you paid for it or not is the part that I'm unclear on. But if they can make that work, that seems pretty convenient and easy for grocery stores to put in place. However, if they want something a little more sophisticated and with more obvious, secure elements, Instacard also updated its caper cart smart system. Instacard acquired caper AI last year and the new generation of the caper carts, the second gen, way less. They're easier to push around. They're larger though, 65% more capacity. And they work the way the Amazon carts at the Amazon Fresh Store work. That isn't just Walkout. That's the one that has scales and sensors and computer vision. So as you put things in the cart, your item is scanned and taught it up for you to be able to pay for it. With the Instacard caper cart, you can also link your shopping list to the cart using a QR code and it'll automatically check things off your shopping list as you put them in the cart. Once you're done, you pay right from the cart. Other in-store tech includes something called carrot tags. Users can select an item on a phone and the corresponding tag on the shelf will flash LEDs to let you know where it is. I like this. Yeah, I know. I like this too. If you happen to be like, well, I love cheez-its, but there's like 16,000 types of cheez-its these days and I would really like just the kind that I'm looking for. This would help you do that.  Carrot tags can also show product information like whether something is gluten-free, maybe it's kosher, that kind of stuff. And then there's department orders, which lets you order from delis or bakeries on your phone and then pick up your items when they're ready. I mean, they're within the store themselves, but it's the particular sections. So nowhere standing in line, waiting for number 57 to be called. But I'm 56. Yeah, exactly. The first of these is going to be a Bristol Farms in Irvine, California, right down there in Orange County. They will use caper carts, scan and pay. So maybe I can run down there and see how it works. Shopping lists, syncing, and the carrot tags so that you can find your cheez-its. Instacart is also working with Wake Fern food if you have any grocery stores in that chain. And they're going to implement the caper carts. And Schnooks, the friendliest stores in town, are going to use the carrot tags in their stores. There's a few other stores in the works as well. So what do you think Lamar, because you and I have experienced both the Amazon fresh version of this and the Whole Foods Just Walkout version of this. What do you think of Instacart's entry into this race? I like their entry. I like the fact that they are bigger in the sense that they've got more relationships with other grocery stores. There's a chance for more people to be able to use this. And listen, I believe there is just the one with the phone, right? You can scan items with your phone. I really like that idea. So like here's my scenario. Scan items with my phone, go through the store, click checkout on the app. You know, like the Whole Foods where we visit it.   And so now stores will may have to accept that a certain percentage is going to be stolen. A certain percentage is going to be not scanned properly, but they already factored it into prices today. So I just think if they, you know, you take a loss, but you get a more efficient system. You know, think about how grocery stores are today. You got frozen items. You got heated items. And you're sitting there for 20 minutes in line because there's 17 lines that are just packed because it's after work. You know, so they will make the money up if more people can flow through more. But you got to take that risk of, yeah, there will be some, you know, unscrupulous people or just some mistakes made. But we got to fix grocery stores. And I think Instacart's idea is what the phone is really smart. Yeah, that's my campaign thing. I want to go run for office. Fixed grocery stores. It was very inspirational. Very, very passionate. You know, my first reaction was like, didn't Instacart used to work with Whole Foods, which it did. Yep, it did. That was pre, you know, Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods. And it was phased out. I see them around. I may not be totally at the target market because I'm in a little bit more of a rural area. But the idea of the carrot tags, it really appeals to me. You know, I don't currently, I don't know, care for somebody who has extremely strict dietary restrictions. You know, and it's not me either. But something like this would be the difference between, you know, we made the cheeset joke like, oh, there's so many different kinds of cheesets. But if somebody actually needs something where, you know, an ingredient either is there or is not there. I think that that makes a lot of sense. And just the idea that this would be rolled out to something that isn't necessarily owned by Amazon. And I have no problem with Amazon, honestly, like I'm not an Amazon hater. I use them every day. But this just opens up more opportunities and Bristol Firms is a nice store. Instacart is showing that they are competitive and they're not just going to roll over because Amazon's coming into their space. They have better relationships with more grocery stores than Amazon does. Amazon wants to sell their just walk out stuff. But to do just walk out, you have to put in a lot of equipment. You have to hang sensors everywhere. You have to deal with customers who don't like the fact that there are sensors and cameras hanging everywhere. Instacart is showing like, hey, you can just do scan and pay at the very minimum. Or you can do our carts.  We will provide stuff. You know us. You work with us. We want you to succeed. We're not competing with you through Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. I think Instacart is doing an excellent job here. And Batfink was like, is this a solution looking for a problem? No. If you haven't stood in a long grocery line, well, gosh, bless you, Batfink. But at least in my local grocery store, I'm like Lamar. Like at certain times of day, it can just be a nightmare. And being able to just check out fast and get out of there is a huge advantage. And it's going to make people want to go to your grocery store more if you're the one that gets it first. So I think it's smart of Instacart to push this out here. And I think they've got a chance of getting more uptake than Amazon does. Well, and that whole, before we move on, the whole idea of, well, but there's self-checkouts at most grocery stores now, right? Yeah. It depends on what you're buying. And almost every time I do it, something goes wrong. And somebody who works at the store has to come and help me. You know, it always seemed like a stopgap measure. Well, that could happen with these two, right? It could. But if this was any way more seamless, I'd be into it. It's going to be faster, even with problems than the self-checkout. And the self-checkout is faster than the human checkout lines. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about social media. The stately quadril continues. Meta is implementing features seen on TikTok announcing a new Facebook Reels API, which will let third-party apps use a share-to-reels feature to post Reels and post to pages they are admins of. Of course, TikTok is not immune to this dance. Having recently announced the very B Real sounding TikTok now. We talked about that last week. But if B Real really wants to play this game, Lamar, it's going to need to step up its own game. Absolutely. And B Real is playing the game by trying to copy, well, having an app that generates revenue. Get it? No? Okay. The natural time sources say that B Real began by exploring monetizing its system. So the plans don't call for advertising yet. Instead, it's looking at in-app purchases. What I thought was pretty interesting. Now, advertising isn't completely off the table long-term, but it won't be considered anytime soon. And the main photo sharing aspect of B Real would remain free. So, Tom, what does it look like then? Yeah. So if B Real seems to be imitating anyone with its monetization plan, it's probably Discord. Discord, you pay a monthly fee for bonus features. You get Nitro. You get stickers. It doesn't look like B Real is going to do this anytime soon though. So we won't be finding out right away. Reportedly, they're not looking to implement any plans until the second half of next year. They still have a lot of bugs to squash, given the meteoric rise in usage. The Financial Times says there are more than 15 million daily active users right now up from 10,000 a year ago. I think the basic question here with B Real has always been, okay, lots of people seem to like to use it. Not everybody, but 15 million people do. How are they going to not ruin it? Because the attraction for people who do like it is, it's once a day, I see my friends. I don't have to share this publicly if I don't want to. That's great. And in-app purchases where you buy features and stickers could be the way that they keep that sensibility and yet still maybe encourage people to spend a little money with them.  I have no personal vendetta against stickers. But when you say features and stickers, it's like, okay, well, stickers aside, what would the features be? That's the question. What other features would I be willing to plunk down on B Real for? Would it be more retakes, extra time? Mm-hmm. I mean, I don't think they want to do filters because they want to do B Real, but maybe there's some like sharpening or image improvement, lighting, something like that. I mean, I don't know. I always love these platforms that, and I'm not a B Real user. I signed up today for the first time. I know. I'm very late to the game. Thank you for funding me, too. I appreciate it. Welcome, Yash, you, Lamar, Eileen, a couple other people. We're done. But this idea of something being so sort of simple, so kind of antithesis of that social media, Instagram model kind of stuff, and people going, yeah, we like this. This is fun. This is a fun kind of a game, right? Because there's a time element to it. And for the company to be like, okay, how do we not ruin this but also make it more complex? Yeah. Which is what people kind of, they loved the non-complexity about it. Not necessarily make it more complex, but give you something that is worth paying for. Yeah. And also, I was thinking just from a person who deals with products like you all do, what if, for monetization, for both of us, maybe to encourage people to want to use it, whatever picture I take of, they're probably scanning them anyway. And there's a TV in the back or a product I'm showing. And what if some monetization sharing can be like, oh, do you like that? Here's a link below or click it. I mean, that's already happening. YouTube, I believe, has been trying to do that for quite a while. But something like that. It's almost like an associate link of something. Yeah. Where I make something if I want to, and like everybody is driven by that, but then they could make some money too. That would be advertising though. And they're saying they don't want to do advertising. Is it advertising? Is it advertising? It's an affiliate program. Which I think a lot of people would look at as advertising. Yeah. Huh. Okay. But I don't know. Maybe they'll be able to get away with it. I'm just saying if they did it, I think a lot of people would point and accuse them. That's right. Maybe all they need is stickers. I mean, stickers are the things that all the journalists came up with. Be Real hasn't said anything. So we shouldn't condemn them like, the only idea they have is stickers. The only idea we have as journalists is stickers. Unfortunately.  Yeah. Sure. You might like stickers or not. You know, many people would be like, I'm just there. I am very anxious. Doesn't mean anything to me. You weren't, you said you weren't anti-sticker. I am. I'm on the record. I don't like stickers. I don't care. No stickers on Be Real. No stickers from Tile. Like stickers out. Yeah. No, I'm anti-sticker. Discord. Don't even send Lamar a sticker. No, they already know. I called them. I called them. I said, don't send me stickers. Yeah. I called them on the phone. Hi, Mr. Discord. This is Lamar. Wow. You got to give me Discord's number. I'm a rotary phone. I did. Yeah. Well, folks, you don't have to use a rotary phone to get in touch with us if you don't want to. We also have electronic mail. But if you don't know our address, well, here it is. Email us. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Last year, the genealogy service MyHeritage got some press when they offered deep nostalgia that uses some technology from DID to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. In March, the service expanded to let users add voices to the animated pictures. This was powered by DID, an Israeli startup that developed a video reenactment technology.  We talked about that. Integrating the tech into the short-form video app, Josh, which is very popular in India. But what else has it got going on, Sarah? Well, Tom, I'm glad you asked. It's launching its own consumer-facing platform called the Creative Reality Studio. So you can either select a pre-created presenter or, perhaps more impressive, upload your own still image. Paid users can access premium presenters who are more expressive, better facial expressions, hand movements than the default ones, just kind of the better options. However, once you get the animation going, you can then type in text to be synthesized into speech. Basically, you're making the avatar talk as if you would, and it's not so much an avatar as kind of looking like a real person. Maybe yourself, maybe somebody else. You can also upload a pre-recorded audio clip that would be used as is. And the animation of the still image will still look like a video of the person in the image speaking the words that you provided. The idea of being able to have it do a foreign language in your voice, very appealing. DID is also trying to stay ahead of any controversy with this tech. It uses Microsoft Azure's text moderation API to filter offensive language, filters out famous people's images. The filter is pretty conservative. It blocked me. I couldn't make one of myself. You're famous, Tom.  It's pretty far out there. The terms of service also prohibit political videos. So if they catch you trying to do a political video, a violation would result in account suspension and removal of that video just to try to dissuade people from using it for that. So if you're thinking, OK, what are the use cases here? Customer service portals, great one. Corporate training, marketing videos. DID also launched a PowerPoint plugin that can have a preset digital presenter read slides. If you happen to be using PowerPoint all that often, you might think, well, that would make sense. But DID would also like to develop real-time video call translation. So you could tell a version of you what to say without actually having to be on camera. And it could find a role in the metaverse. Whatever the metaverse ends up being, I don't hate the idea of having a bad day and saying, DTNS, this is the version of me you get. Yeah, I think on the mundane end is the HR department that doesn't have time to shoot videos for all its training materials, looks at this as a godsend. Like, OK, we can just put the manuals in and have people speak them in normal language. And on the other end is the metaverse, and the actual Sarah Lane can talk and do things without Sarah having to do a live stream of her actual self. Lamar, where do you fall in that spectrum? What do you like? Yeah, we were talking pre-show, and Roger had this crazy idea about this, like, replacing, like, my YouTube videos in a sense of, like, I don't feel like being on. I can input the text and have some... And as silly as it sounded, I'm actually really intrigued by the idea of... Because you mentioned, like, 80% of YouTube could probably use something like this, like the videos. And I'm very intrigued now. I wouldn't want to lose revenue myself doing it, but, you know, like Sarah said, if I had a bad day or a bad week, but I got to get some context out about the new iPhone, I can be there without being there. I'm very intrigued, Dennis. The part I would like, if they can get the voice synthesis to mimic you, I don't think that's what it does yet. But it could get there very easily. Then being able to take a video I do and say, all right, have it translate that video into 128 languages, go. And then suddenly, my video is available to 128 times the number of people. Not exactly, but you know what I mean. It's available to a lot more people in their language. And it's still me. It's still me saying it. Yeah. I assumed with this that you gave them a sample of your voice, and then, over time, they would learn to synthesize that. Right now, it's you choose a pre-made voice, or you can upload yourself recording, and it'll match the video to your voice. That's the mistake I thought I was doing. That technology you're talking about can happen. This company isn't offering it yet, but they say they could. So that might come down the line. Yeah. Yeah, if anybody out there is saying, wait, this is the perfect use case. You guys just aren't talking about it yet. Do email us. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. All right. I guess we're going right into the mail bag. I guess we are. So Mike wrote in, this was in response to our conversation we had with Tim Stevens on Friday's show about Mustangs. Mike says, I've owned a couple Mustang GTs, including on the FoxBody models that the new gauges can emulate. And I really like the new model. However, I think you oversold the outlaw drifting inspired handbrake. Looks more like a traditional center console mounted parking brake handle found on a lot of performance cars than the vertically mounted handbrake found in modern drift cars. I also don't think this item encourages people to brake the laws any more than accelerator pedals or on virtually any car produced today does. If the speed limit in almost every location is 75 miles per hour or less, why not question every car that can exceed that speed? No, it's a fair question, Mike. And I think maybe we confused folks a little. So I appreciate the chance to clarify. Tim and I weren't saying that the existence of the feature was the problem. What we were marveling at, I would say, is that Ford was promoting it. So an analogy would be if Ford introduced the accelerator for the first time and said, well, if this accelerator, everybody can go 150 miles an hour and you're in a country where that's never legal. It would be surprising that they would be promoting the breaking the law aspect of it. So yes, it wasn't the fact of the handbrake necessarily. It was the fact that Ford was like, here's what you can do with this handbrake. Totally illegal stuff that surprised Tim and I, I think. I mean, I don't know. I feel like sometimes it's like, well, you wouldn't, right? Well, yeah. And that's the cool thing about this. If you're the company introducing something, you are now liable because they're like, well, but Ford told me I could do it, right? So I just wanted to add one thing to what Mike was asking a question about the parking brake. So the parking brake is fully digital. There's no mechanical linkage. It's run by a computer. And that drifting mode is enabled when you enable the car in track mode. So it's not like when you have it in a regular street mode that you can drive, that you can tear around a corner and hit the brake, the handbrake, and do a drift around a corner because you feel like it. It's a very specific mode that's enabled when you go into a track mode. Now what's really fascinating is because it is digital, you can enable different sensitivities and different performance levels depending on how they program it for different use case scenarios. So it is, I know it just looks like a standard parking brake, but it's actually really cool because it's stuff that you normally wouldn't be able to do in a car without spending a lot more money into customizing it. You can put it in track mode when you're not on a track, right? Yes. But to get to the point of Mike's email, that's the part that surprised us. Not that they had made something that you could do that with but that they had used it as an example. I guess what Ford would say was like, oh, we were pointing out that it had to be in track mode and you shouldn't use track mode if you're not on a private track, right? And I will add really shortly that it's something that car manufacturers have been doing with the performance cars for at least the past decade where they have, for example, the previous Gen Mustang, they had a drag start mode that would allow you to do a drag start at high RPMs for doing like bracket racing or something. And so it's, I mean, whether or not it's a good idea, I mean, that's still a question of the debate, but car companies have been allowing little bits like this in track mode operation on their performance cars for a number of years. I feel like we're making a mountain out of a bull hill here, don't you? Definitely. Drifting for all. Drift to your hearts if you want it. Legally on a private track. Yes, yeah, but also have caution. Thanks to Lamar Wilson, a very cautious person. You know, really a model for the rest of us. Lamar, what have you been up to lately? I guess I am. Yeah, I make fun short form vertical videos on nearly every platform, so you can find me at lamar.tv at your platform of choice. This time this week I am unboxing and showing how I have set up a $1,500 router. And so that's pretty fascinating. So stay tuned for that. I did not have to pay for it. Excellent. $1,500. You get to keep it though. It's better. I do, but the video is the... Not. Yeah. But I really do like it. It's awesome. You know, we also like brand new bosses, and we have one. And you know what, we're on a roll. All last week we had new bosses on every single show, and we do this week. We're on a roll again with Alexander joining us. Alexander is our brand new boss. Thank you so much, Alexander. Thank you, Alexander. Thank you. Keeping the streak going. Appreciate it. Indeed. 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Hi, Gary, what's impressed you most with what you've seen from Garrett Cole so far?  How has your relationship grown since the beginning of spring training and how much more comfortable do you feel catching him in regards to being on the same page? Yeah, just like you mentioned, you know, the more you work, the more you get to know a person, the best opportunity you have to build a relationship, you know, going back to spring training. For me, it was a matter of trying to get an idea and understanding of how he likes to attack hitters.  What have you thought of the intensity that he brings to the ballpark every day?  Thank you, Meredith. Next question will come from Brendan Cuddy. Brendan, please unmute. Gary, thanks for taking the time, Barlin, thank you. Gary, what do you think of the fake crowd noise? Yeah, something new for sure, right?  But to be honest, you know, when I'm on the field and really paying attention to what my pitchers are doing out there and just focus on the task at hand. Thank you. Thank you. Next question will come from Eric Boland. Eric, please unmute. Hey, Gary, sorry about that. I'm just curious. Domingo Hermón posted something on Instagram earlier tonight saying that he was leaving baseball. I'm just curious if you were in contact with him at all during the hiatus and if you would, any indication something like this was coming? Well, I have a little time that I don't talk to him. I have more than two months that I don't talk to Hermón. But I'm getting out of the game right now. In fact, I haven't even picked up my phone, and no one has told me anything. I hadn't found out about that news, that he was leaving the field right now. I wanted to ask if you had any communication with him during the hiatus or if you hadn't talked to him. Yeah, you know, it's been a while since I've spoken to Domingo. But you know, I just came out of the game. So it's the first time I'm hearing about it. So you don't have much information on the topic. Thank you, Eric. Next question from Christi Eckert. Christi, could you please unmute? Hey, Gary. I'm just curious how you feel at the play at this point. And you have, I think, six days left. Where do you feel you are in your preparation for real games? Every day that goes by, you know, you just feel better and better. Like you said, there's about six days left, you know, to get ready for the regular season. But we've got to keep working. You know, I keep doing that. My work is continuous in the cage with the head coaches. And like you said, you know, not many days to be ready to start season. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take the next one from Marley Rivera. Marley, could you please unmute? And Gary, when you look at the next July 23rd opening day, when do you start doing the regular work, really, to face the other defenders, to study the defenders of the nationals? Can you do that during this period that you don't even know who's going to be in the line-up? Thank you. Thank you very much, Gary. Appreciate the time.


Greetings and salutations! Today I thought to just make a shorter video, obviously there are a lot of interesting and important topics to talk about, but I thought to just make a shorter video talking about a somewhat common question, and that is what I listen to when I train. And I do have a rather large and glorious Spotify list, which I will link in the description box below and my little cuddle princess has something to add, I don't know if you can hear her, but yeah anyway, I have had that list for quite some time And since I have in my most recent videos talked a bit about my other social media and platforms etc, I have not mentioned my epic Spotify playlist, so I thought to just throw that out there and it also explains quite well what I do listen to before and during the temple of iron Basically it's a metal list as you can see from most of the songs, so a lot of Amon Amarth, Sabaton etc, so I have during the last actually 8 years now I have collected good heavy and testosterone metal songs that I thought the purpose of them when I listen to them is that I should get pumped up enough to hit the gym So the criteria for most of the songs was that whenever I stumbled upon them I added them to the list Then I will admit though that there are plenty of these songs that are quite bad in retrospect, so you can find some gems in the list and some other songs may not be as testosteroneous and metal as they should be But anyway, the point being when I train and when I try to get hyped up to train is that I just want to invoke the primordial beast within me and for me metal has always been the best way to get to that stage So yes I just wanted to have that said and yeah, at the same time respond to the question what kind of music I listen to So yeah in terms of training it's most usually metal and then otherwise I listen to some classic music, some film music, some video game music, so epic music to put it simply So yeah, that's about it, you can follow me on Spotify if you wish and then also if you are already looking through my description box be sure to follow on telegram too So anyway, I hope you're having a pleasant day ahead and worry not I have some cool videos incoming XOXO BOOM


Welcome to part two. In part one of this two-part series, we broke down white privilege and black anxiety. With everything going on in the world today, we need to have a better understanding about what the African-American community is going through and why these protests and riots and everything like that are happening. So in part two of this video, we're going to be diving more into crowd psychology. How do peaceful protests turn into rioting and looting? Not only are we going to get into the mind of crowd psychology, we're also going to find out what we can do to start having better solutions. So how do we get to the place where Jake Paul was caught looting and then denied it? How did peaceful protests quickly escalate to various riots around the country? Everything started within days of the death of George Floyd when people from the community of Minneapolis started to gather together to peacefully protest his death. As discussed earlier, the entire country has reached a boiling point from being quarantined, the death of Ahmad Arbery, primarily white individuals armed with guns taking over capital buildings and then the death of George Floyd. After seeing a black man suffocated to death as four officers refused to acknowledge his humanity, it was hard for anyone to sit and simply do nothing. Soon, peaceful protests were appearing throughout the entire country as people demanded change. These protests are something that both liberals and conservatives can get behind and for once not be divided. One of the things that makes the United States a great country is that it was founded on our ability to have freedom of speech and the right to protest against a government that we feel is not doing what's right. The founding fathers of the United States escaped tyranny in England so they could have the freedom to say and believe what they want. Over the centuries, we've seen how varied views, morals, and opinions can be from one party to the next. But one thing we can all unite around is that we have the freedom to say what we want and act when we see injustices in our country. Regardless of our political affiliations, what makes us American is our right to speak up. As Americans, we have the freedom to disagree with why people are protesting but we all must come together and respect each other's right to protest. We live in very divisive times when it comes to politics and as a liberal, I know it can be easy to have prejudices against conservatives. Regardless of the conservative views I disagree with, I know that it would be ignorant to believe that all conservatives are simply morally corrupt people. I personally know conservatives were some of the nicest people I've ever met. As someone who is half black, I started to think how unfair it is of me to judge conservatives without fully understanding your point of view. So in the same way we want people to learn about racism and the struggle of African Americans, I decided that I wanted to understand the moral philosophy and psychology of conservatives. Now, you might be wondering if I was red-pilled, but that's not the case. I'm still quite liberal, but I did read a book that completely changed my perception of the world when it comes to political views. In The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Hyde, Hyde explains how neither party lacks morals, but we put more weight on certain morals. Hyde argues that essentially we all have the same morals, but we liberals value certain morals more than others. Something I learned about conservatives is that one of the values they cherish more than liberals is tradition and history. When I understood this about conservatives, I started to understand more and more why they talk about the Constitution so much and our freedom as Americans. So when these protests started, I knew that even though some conservatives may disagree with why people are protesting, they respect our right to protest. In fact, one video went viral of two white men discussing how their group was trying to protect protesters. But then something happened. Peaceful protests started turning into riots, and riots started turning into looting and vandalism. Sadly, we've even seen more death as well. In St. Louis, retired police Captain David Dorn was shot and killed while trying to protect local businesses from being looted. Peaceful protesters have been trying to stop people like Jake Paul and others from turning to violence and chaos. Yes, there are some people who are angry and they feel the only thing they can do is cause destruction. The reality we all need to face is that what we're seeing is far more complex than what we're seeing on the surface. President Trump and others would have you believe that all protesters are looters or thugs as he sends out tweets saying things like this. If you watch fake news, CNN or MSDNC, you would think that the killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, and Tifa and others would be the nicest, kindest, most wonderful people in the whole wide world. No, they are what they are, very bad for our country. Meanwhile, you have people like the son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tweeting out as my father explained during his lifetime, a riot is the language of the unheard. So, is Martin Luther King III justifying riots? Is President Trump right that all protesters are looters? And should we assume that everybody who looks like Jake Paul is damaging what the rest of us are trying to accomplish? Well, it's not a simple answer. So first, we need to understand crowd psychology. The first psychological study into the phenomenon of what takes place in crowds came from the French polymath, Gustave Le Bon. In 1895, Le Bon released his groundbreaking book The Crowd, a study of the popular mind. He claims that there are several key characteristics of crowds, which makes them so difficult to manage. And these characteristics include impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, absence of judgment of the critical spirit, and exaggeration of sentiments. Before we move forward, it's also important to note that Gustave Le Bon didn't research crowd psychology with good intentions. Le Bon was a 19th century social climber and cloud chaser. His goal was to teach people in power, crowd psychology, so they could manipulate the lower classes. In the last century, crowd psychology has been studied more thoroughly and is used to train some police departments in hopes to manage riots and chaos. Crowd psychology can have both good as well as terrible aspects. On the good side, people feel more connected in crowds, and these connections can improve your mental health. In Stanford psychologist Dr. Kelly McGonagall's newest book, The Joy of Movement, she has a chapter dedicated to studies that have been conducted of what happens when people move in unison. When tribes in Africa dance together, they strengthen their bonds and overall well-being. Being part of a community is one of the best things you can do for your mental health. But it also comes with its downsides. This is also why there's such camaraderie as sporting events where people join together for a chance or do the way. These can bring people together. Moving together in crowds also promotes conformity, and it can be used to the advantage of leaders and other people in power. When soldiers, police officers, and others march in unison, they feel part of a whole. While this is good when a group is fighting a good fight, it can be a sort of hypnosis for evil like we've seen from World War II Germany or what goes on in North Korea. But what about the average person in crowds? Well, as Le Bon argued, and what we've seen proven since the crowd's publication in 1895, is that the characteristic of these crowds is quite accurate. There's an incapacity for reason, an absence of judgment, impulsivity, but worst of all, a loss of autonomy. When you're part of a crowd, you lose your sense of self. You're no longer you. You're like one atom that makes up a whole. When people lose this sense of autonomy and individuality, they do things that they would never do on their own. When you're part of a crowd, you can get lost in the crowd. Like Dr. Kelly McGonagall discusses, this can be used for good, but like we've seen with recent riots and looting, this can turn into something terrible. Alone, a person can be an upstanding and completely rational person, but when emotionally charged by a crowd and while lacking autonomy, they can become dangerous. A crowd can turn into chaos, and all accountability can go out the window. A person who would never vandalize or steal in their life may smash windows, burn cars, and loot when they're part of a crowd. Without that personal autonomy, morals can slip away, and people feel that they can't be held accountable for what they do when they're lost in the crowd. It's also important to understand that much like our trauma responses, these are often unconscious. Some people go to a protest with every intention of being peaceful, but when the emotions of the crowd rises, a peaceful protester can turn into a looter if they lose their sense of self. What we also need to realize is that we're seeing the same crowd psychology with the police. Over the last week, we've seen countless videos of police officers assaulting protesters, which is completely insane seeing as how people are protesting police violence. So why are the police being so violent? Because they're lost in the crowd. We often forget that police officers are just human beings, and they could be the same victims of psychological flaws as the rest of us. As these officers are in their large groups, they also lose their autonomy. These police officers can shoot rubber bullets, pepper spray people, and beat people with metal rods while believing they're protected by the anonymity of the crowd. I don't know about you, but when I watch these videos of police officers in full riot gear beating civilians, I can't tell one of them from the rest. But was MLK the third right to cite his father's code of rioting being the language of the unheard? Currently, his tweet has over 2.1 million likes and 559,000 retweets. Since then, we've seen people use it in whatever context they see fits their narrative. Many people are pointing out that when MLK Jr said this, he wasn't promoting riots. MLK was a man of peaceful protest and nonviolent resistance. But he said this to help people understand why people riot. We must understand that you can explain why something is happening without condoning the action itself. So why are riots the language of the unheard? First, we must turn to the groundbreaking work of the famous psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman. Seligman and his fellow researchers discovered what they called learned helplessness.  So the dog would have to jump over to avoid being shocked. With another group of dogs, they did the same thing. But both sides of the box would shock him. The dog quickly learned that if he jumped over, he would be shocked anyways. Eventually, these dogs just stopped jumping, even when they stopped electrocuting one side of the box, giving the dog a place of safety. At first, Seligman and his team thought these dogs must have some sort of defect, but then they altered their understanding of what was happening, which was learned helplessness. These dogs realized that whether they tried to avoid the shock or not, they were getting shocked. So they just gave up. Later, this same study was done with humans, but with an annoying sound instead. For one group, they could make this sound stop by hitting a sequence of buttons. For another group, the sound wouldn't stop no matter which buttons they pressed. Due to learned helplessness, group two just stopped trying to press the buttons and gave up. They even put group two in a room where all they had to do was simply wave their hand to make the sound stop. But these people felt so defeated that they didn't even discover how simple it was to turn the sound off. Now that you understand learned helplessness, imagine being black in America.  Although many people maintain hope and continue to march and protest, we have millions of African Americans who have developed learned helplessness and have just given up. But how does that explain riots and vandalism? If learned helplessness results in taking no action at all, what's happening with those who are angry? Something people don't realize about learned helplessness is that when some people reach this point, they realize that they have nothing to lose. And this is how a lot of people are starting to feel. In a study from Dirk Lindebaum and Giannis Gabriel titled, Anger and Organization Studies from Social Disorder and Moral Order, they state, In this essay, we oppose current conceptualizations of anger as at least a temporary individual psychological disorder and as the cause of social disorder. We develop the view that anger can be a profoundly moral emotion aimed at maintaining moral order and restoring social order when this has been ruptured. Moral anger is distinguished from other types of anger, like the ones arising from routine frustration, breakdowns of communication, and ego violations. Through a close reading of the jury drama, 12 Angry Men, we demonstrate that moral anger has an information dimension signaling a rupture of moral code as well as an inergic dimension as a source of energy aimed at putting right a wrong. We conclude that a world without anger would be possibly a compliant and quiescent world, but not a just world. The researchers discuss and analyze the source of social anger, but something we started to see with some of the vandalism and looting was that it wasn't coming from people of color who have felt unheard and helpless. We started to see white people were using these protests as another way to exploit their white privilege and avoid consequences.  We must understand black anxiety and the fact that black people have become the whipping boy as a result of white privilege and this is why people have become so outraged at people like Jake Paul as well as others taking advantage of this time that's meant to speak up about change through peaceful protest. After a slew of video and photo evidence was presented showcasing Jake Paul actively participating in looting and vandalism in Arizona, he presented a statement in an effort to clear his name. To be absolutely clear, neither I nor anyone in our group was engaged in any looting or vandalism. For context we spent the day doing our part to peacefully protest one of the most horrific injustices our country has ever seen which led us to being tear gas for filming the events and brutality that were unfolding in Arizona. We were gassed and forced to keep moving on foot. We filmed everything we saw in an effort to share our experience and bring more attention to the anger felt in every neighborhood we traveled through. We were strictly documenting, not engaging. I do not condone violence, looting, or breaking the law. However, I understand the anger and frustration that led to the destruction we witnessed and while it's not the answer it's important that people see it and collectively figure out how to move forward in a healthy way. We are all doing the best we can to be helpful and raise awareness. This is not the time to attack each other, it's time to join together and evolve. Some people reading this were gullible enough to believe Jake Paul but others, especially people of color, saw this as just another example of white privilege. Much like Central Park Karen, Jake Paul and others exploit their white privilege to claim innocence while they act oblivious to what they're doing. In order to truly understand how to start repairing this country, we not only need to admit that white privilege is not a myth, but we need to understand how and why it hides in plain sight. So why do people like Jake Paul deny using their white privilege when it's so blatant to others? And why was it such a bold move for his brother Logan Paul to acknowledge his white privilege on his recent podcast? In their article, Heard Invisibility, the Psychology of Racial Privilege, Lowry and Phillips argue that white people have motives for denying their privilege and many aren't even aware that they're doing it. In this study, they argue that there are two primary reasons white people deny their privilege. First, whites want to feel innocent and the basic desire to think well of the self-constrained acceptable means of maintaining dominance and the privilege it entails. For a white person like Jake Paul to admit his privilege, it would also make him question whether or not he deserves everything he has in life. Our ego provides us with self-confidence and tells us that meritocracy exists. We didn't get to where we are because of the color of our skin. We got there because we're great at what we do. Jake Paul also claims innocence because to admit to his white privilege would also have to mean that we live in a system that holds down people of color and that he might be contributing to it. So in an effort to protect that innocence, he denies that it exists. Lowry and Phillips go on to say that the second reason is as follows. Whites want to maintain privilege and racial privileges depend on the stability of an unequal racialized social system that tends to provoke resistance. This puts pressure on individuals to hide privilege and its illegitimacy from others. They're arguing that we love our privilege. Being white has a ton of perks to it. In an old Chris Rock stand-up, Rock jokes that there's a one-legged white bellboy in the lobby who wouldn't trade places with them and then Rock reminds the audience that he's rich.  You can either tell people about this error and forfeit the money or you can pretend like it's completely normal and justify why you should keep it.  The two authors know that not every white person exploits white privilege, but they also explain how people like Jake Paul pass their privilege on to others. Lowry and Phillips explain this by comparing herd invisibility to herd immunity, which a lot of us have recently learned about. We suggest that individual innocence projects infuse into broader practices, policies, and structures. When individuals work to maintain their own innocence, they shape shared social experiences, letting that innocence ripple beyond the individual. In turn, whites benefit from herd invisibility that emerges at the social level. We conceptualize herd invisibility by following the herd immunity model of vaccination. When enough individuals are vaccinated, the incidence of disease is reduced for the entire population, protecting those who are not vaccinated. Similarly, herd invisibility protects innocence and privileges for all whites, even without every individual white person acting on individual innocence or maintenance motives. So, even though there are those who aren't exploiting their white privilege like Jake Paul, other whites are still benefiting from it. If we're going to tackle the issue of white privilege and people like Jake Paul continuing to make black people the whipping boy when it comes to crimes that are committed, we need to start addressing the subject. But as you've learned, one of the main reasons white people don't call out other white people on their privilege as much as they should is because this privilege has a ton of perks. More importantly, we don't have these conversations largely because of white fragility. If any part of this video has made you uncomfortable thus far, you're more than likely suffering from white fragility. As a half black man who looks white, I too can relate to some of the symptoms of white fragility. But I finally took the steps necessary to address it. A year or two ago, I came across the book White Fragility. Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Dr. Robin D'Angelo, but I avoided it. I figured this was some social justice book that was just going to beat down white people and tell them how terrible they are. But in light of recent events, I wanted to understand why our country is the way it is, and it's time to educate myself even if I ignorantly think I'm going to disagree with the premise. I ended up binging D'Angelo's book White Fragility in about a day. And I think this should be a must read for any white person who says they want to help make changes to society, but don't know how. This book is going to make you uncomfortable. But right now we're dealing with an issue that's going to require all of us to get uncomfortable. Dr. D'Angelo touches on white privilege a few times throughout the book, but the core of this book is about how defensive white people get in conversations around race and why. D'Angelo is a white woman and she doesn't claim to have all the answers, but she believes the solution starts with us becoming self-aware of the major problem around white fragility. She brings up countless arguments and studies to explain white fragility, but I think the best one is in the chapter, The Good Slash Bad Binding. Basically, she discusses how we trick ourselves into believing that any form of racism means that you're some card-holding clan member, but that's not the case.  But in most cases, it means that you may not fully understand why what you did could be considered racist. Unfortunately, due to white fragility, pointing out forms of racism makes white people immediately jump on the defensive. I think what I found most fascinating about this book is how Dr. D'Angelo explains how liberal progressives actually have more racist tendencies than most even though they believe they are helping. Because of this idea of complete innocence, progressives believe that there's nothing they're possibly doing in their life that's problematic. I believe that a great example is Jake Paul, while not personally knowing him or his politics, but my guess is that he leans more towards the liberal side. Even with his liberal views, his looting is taking advantage of a system that provides him with privilege while oppressing people of color. He also didn't see anything problematic with his racist comments towards the Martinez twins when they were part of Team 10. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if Central Park Karen also identifies as a liberal, and this is the point that Dr. Robin D'Angelo is trying to stress to a liberal and progressive audience.  So far, we've discussed how the deaths of Amon Arbery and George Floyd have brought us to where we're at. We have a better understanding of crowd psychology and how peaceful protests can turn into riots and looting, as well as possible reasons why police are attacking civilians. We've learned about the contrast between black anxiety and white privilege, and now it's time to figure out where we go from here. For anyone who feels helpless, psychologist Martin Seligman has found the trip of learned helplessness is learned optimism. Each one of us must clutch onto the belief that if we take action, we can make change happen. But although I've trained myself to be optimistic, I'm also a realist. Like many of the psychologists and authors we've discussed thus far, I don't think we'll ever fully eradicate racism. But I do think there are steps we can collectively take to make this world a better place for the people of all colors. If you've made it to the end of this video, you've already taken a great first step. You've confronted your white fragility and are willing to listen to some of the difficult truths. Right now, we're seeing many other people take action and march alongside African-Americans and the black lives not in movement. We must remember that now is a time for people to continue challenging their fragility and listen to people of color to better understand what we can do to that change. Next, I truly believe that education is the key. Dr. Robin D'Angelo says that something white people need to stop doing is relying on black people to take on the burden of educating them about racism. Racism is a problem white people have and D'Angelo says that if you were diagnosed with an illness, you do the research and educate yourself. Although I'm half black, I too benefit from white privilege based on the luck of the genetic law. I will never have to experience what people like my father and other family members have to experience. So I've decided to educate myself so I can become a better ally and advocate for equal rights in the fight against racism. Recently, I purchased the following books, White Fragility by Dr. Robin D'Angelo, How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston, Malcolm and Me by Ishmael Reed, Bias, Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, Blind Spot by Mazurin Benaji and Anthony Greenwald, How to Be an Anti-Racist by Dr. Eberm Kengyu. And I also highly suggest Born a Crime by the Daily Show host Trevor Miller. If you're trying to figure out what you can do, education is a great place to start. I provided affiliate links down in the description below to all of the books I've listed. If we really want to make a change, the bare minimum we can do is read books to educate ourselves about what black people are going through and what we can do to help. Most of all, we need self-awareness. Neil Brennan is a comedian and former writer of The Chappelle's Show.  And even he can admit with everything he does to support black people, he's made a million racial mistakes, but he tries to learn from them. Jenna Marbles is another great example of self-awareness. Like Logan Paul, a while back she was able to publicly acknowledge her white privilege. The only way any of us can solve a problem is to start by acknowledging that the problem exists.  Until these problems are facing confronted, little can be done to make effective change, and the change starts with you and me. Systemic racism and police brutality is a major problem that must be addressed, but these problems can't be resolved overnight. We live in a country that's been propped up by racism and oppression, but that doesn't mean that we give up. Each one of us has the power to make a small difference, and as you can see, when each of us comes together to do our part, we can make amazing things happen.  When we're able to do this, we can practice compassionate empathy and turn this into a world that we're all proud to live in. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for making it again through one of these very long video essays. I absolutely love making these. I'm glad that you guys are enjoying them as well. And like I mentioned, make sure you check out the description down below. I put all the books that I've been reading lately, and a great place to start is just by educating yourself, understanding what is going on in this world, what people are going through, what we can do to make this world a better place. All right, and do me a favor, share this video and help spread some awareness, because once we become more self-aware, we can start working on these problems together. All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel over on Patreon, as well as everybody who supports the channel by buying my mental health books at therewiredsoul.com and everybody who gets merged from the merch store. You're all awesome. All right, thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


And several persons have reportedly been killed and others injured in an area of bombardment in Buwari community and that's in Unusari local government area of Yobes state. A source in the community confirmed the incident and those injured in the incident are receiving treatment at the general hospitals in Geydam and Gashor. Another source, Haruna Ali said that three Toyota Hilux vehicles brought the injured victims to Geydam General Hospital. The community is located 20 km from Kanama, the headquarters of Unusari local government area in the northeast part of the state.


Hello and welcome to another episode of Freightfully Forgotten Brews. And today we're gonna feature my Munich Dunkle that I coined the Dark Crystal. Yeah, yeah.  But I used all crystal hops in it. Okay, yeah. And then I was struggling to see the thing is too, so I was struggling to find a name and I looked at the hops and I was like, well crystal hops and it was pretty dark, dark crystal. Okay. And I figured too, well it kind of fits in the horror thing because in the Muppet World it's pretty dark. Dark crystal is kind of like the horror movie of the Muppet World. I never used dark crystal grain though.  Yeah. I know, sorry. I should have but for the re-brew. Okay. So I'm gonna try it. So what's the recipe? So anyways, I did four kilograms Munich Two six ounces aromatic malt and four ounces chocolate malt. And then I used 1.5 ounces of crystal hops for 60 minutes and just half an ounce of crystal hops for zero minutes. So she came out to about 26 IBUs and I used that S-23 logger yeast and about 5%. It's got a nice color like it's not dark dark but it's like a nice good dark brown. It's actually just where I wanted it. Yeah, it's very nice. Yeah, it's very good. So next time yeah, I even put it here too. Next time add four ounces of dark crystal. Yeah. Or a Kera aroma I think is some kind of deal. So till next time. Keep drinking.


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