Hey psych2goers, welcome back to another video. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD is a disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention or hyperactivity that interferes with functioning and development. It can make focusing on everyday tasks and routine challenging. ADHD doesn't mean that you cannot focus. In some cases, it means that you focus intensely on something that may not be a priority. Some people describe it as a constant feeling of being overwhelmed or paranoid. For years, people with ADHD were stigmatized and labeled as lazy, procrastinators, flaky or irresponsible. These labels only produce shame and prevent those with ADHD from seeking help. But please remember that these labels do not represent who you are. Before we begin, remember that this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis or treatment. With that said, here are five signs you might have ADHD. Number one, childhood history. It's common for people diagnosed with ADHD as adults to have exhibited symptoms during childhood even if they were not formally diagnosed. A reason you may not have been diagnosed is that ADHD shares similar symptoms with depression, mood swings, forgetfulness and an inability to focus. Number two, short attention span. Speaking of similarities between ADHD and depression, the most common similarity is short attention span. However, the difference between them is motivation. Someone with ADHD has a short attention span as a result of the condition. There is no definitive reason to explain why a short attention span is one of the symptoms. However, researchers believe that differences in brain structure might play a role. It's not that you're incapable of being focused. It's that something else caught your brain's attention. ADHD can also make you hyper-focused on something. It sounds paradoxical, but this too is seen as having a short attention span or to restate a selective attention span. Number three, leaving things unfinished. As a result of a short attention span, you might be prone to leaving things undone. Projects, housework, homework might be put off for another day or fall to the sidelines regardless of how enthusiastic you are to start them. Though frustrating and incredibly challenging, there are therapies that can help. Doctors typically prescribe medication as a form of treatment. Depending on your ADHD, they may prescribe stimulants or non-stimulants to help you focus. There is also the option of psychotherapy where a therapist might engage in behavioral therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy. Number four, poor impulse control. Another sign that you might have ADHD is poor impulse control. Now, this wouldn't be a one-off clothing splurge. This is more like doing something you know you should not do, like running a red light or maxing out your card on something you know you don't need. You may not even know why you do things. You just do them. That's what poor impulse control is. It's acting without any foresight, but impulse control is not always as dramatic. Sometimes it can be as subtle as having distractions for your distractions, interrupting conversations, engaging in risky behaviors, or spending large amounts of money when your bank account is low. Number five, inability to get organized. The last sign that you might have ADHD is that you cannot seem to get organized. Deadlines creep up out of the blue and priorities have gone out the window, but do not fret, there is hope. While calendars, planners, and bullet journals may work for some, they may not work in your case. However, alarms may help. Give yourself 30 minutes to an hour to complete something from your to-do list. After the alarm rings, move on to the next item, whether you finished the previous item or not. That way, you don't get stuck working on one thing. So, did you relate to any of these signs? I did. We hope you've learned about some of the different signs of ADHD. Consult a mental health professional if you identify with these signs. They can guide you through forms of therapy that can be greatly beneficial. Please like and share it with friends that might find some insight in this video too. Make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. All the references used are added in the description box below. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time.


Hello folks we started in just a minute Hey Matt. Hello. We'll see if anybody else joins us today All right. All right, we can go ahead and get started This is the meeting for Tuesday, August 25th 2020 and We are recording Drop the agenda into the sidebar here of which there is only one thing Did either of you have something to add to the agenda? No, I don't think so Okay. Oh the other thing that that isn't on the agenda is the new meeting time. It's obviously now I Updated the meeting in for those of us who had a meeting invite. You should have gotten it. Did you get it? Yes? We did good good means Dan got it, too And then I asked Amy to update the CNCF calendar so anybody else would be able to see it as well Okay, thank you Okay Then the only other thing was the helm hub migration Which as the ticket said obviously passed a vote and now we're working on it Yeah, that's great news. I don't know a timetable. I've been distracted the last two days with some other stuff But I hope to have it done within a couple of weeks. Is that timetable sound good to y'all? Yeah, it was great. Okay If there is anything else we can We can do to help you. Please. Let us know and if you think that we have a ticket to to try to Sketch up a bit of an experiment or something to remember what we were discussing about Automating a bit claiming the repository standard chip You think that's going to help and you know, we can try to move that Up to work on it sooner so that you don't have guys have to be dealing with this manually Yeah, it's not that many to deal with manually, but that would help But it's not in a rush I'm looking through the the things right now And everything appears to be on us at the moment and probably me which means later this week I'll get working on it or early next week Okay, yesterday, I mean before a new sir ask, I don't know if you saw that in the artifact room There was a user started a thread asking and how they could Claim the ownership of a repo and I replied to him. I don't know if you had a chance to see that Where's this? It's Is this He started a threat to start reply to my announcement telling that the repositories were now available in artifact tab. Ah There was yeah Okay, I will reply to him myself Okay, I'm just going to just reach out to me directly and we will do that awesome okay, you get some documentation up on the Helm hub so we can point people about on what to do Awesome Okay, okay, and that the documentation is in the to-do list and I'll reach out to him. Okay. All right Before I forget I'm gonna send you assume credentials As I said, I would do it last time and obviously I failed Those would be the credentials to host this meeting, right? Yes to host the meeting to log into that account if we need to create another meeting or anything like that Everybody all the maintainers should have it Okay They've been sent to you All right, um Is there anything else we should talk about today do you have enough to do yeah, we have lined up a few things like it's in the let me Sit here in the chat. I mean is the project we usually have so What we are working and what we are planning to do next but if there is something as you I Don't know if you want something to be prioritized or I Reply to I added a new comment to them Yeah, it's quite large it's about the issue we are experiencing with a repeat it emails And I think this is I don't know if you have seen it's super large. I brought it this morning is this comment Here too And I think Yeah, the parents related to what we saw remember when we were discussing this back in April about the packages that were frequently updated some of them Oh, who's the same? So I think this is still an issue and this is what's triggering those emails coming When they shouldn't so whenever you have some time if you don't mind I see Going through it because yeah, that's I mean I have I think I have explained it Hmm now I understand that is something that won't be fixed for the stable repo All right And I know what's causing it and we have a helm issue for it. I learned about it recently and It probably won't be fixed in hell until helm 3.4 at the earliest Okay So then maybe we can even have called an exception for now for you guys so that because I'd like to re-enable This main notifications, but they're not going to work fine for you until that issue is fixed. So Yeah, or if yeah, at least if I've completely stick it and we have something so that you can opt out of the Notifications for a stable and incubator repose that would so yeah, we could opt out of the notifications that could be helpful Okay, okay cool. Then all right. Just yeah, I just wanted to let you know I know that those repos are going away anyway in the next few months. So it's not but But it was I couldn't understand why would you get in there and I started looking into this. Okay, this is the same issue as we as we saw back then so That also reminds me Some of there are a number of repos not just the helm ones That have errors like there's one called Seldon charts that we have And it has issues too. I don't know if it'll run into the same problem But we need to contact those maintainers or hand it off so they see the errors But there are a number of repositories that people have set up that do have errors Okay. Yeah, great. If the errors don't change, that's fine. The problem is when you know, there's start And disappearing and it's because of that because the packages are changing and Yeah, I'll have to push that up in The work we deal with I've got some work that I've got to deal with in the near term and then I'll try to get onto that shortly thereafter Awesome. Thank you very much Okay, but yeah, I think we don't have anything else on our side Okay Then I'll just take a quick couple notes on this, but then if there's nothing else we can go Okay That was a short quick meeting We'll be back in A couple of weeks and I think dan will be back his calendar said his availability started showing up again Then he before I moved the meeting here I did check his calendar to make sure that he typically would have time on it and he does So I would expect him back in a couple of weeks Awesome. That's great. Yep Cool. Thanks everyone. Well, good to talk.


What's up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health and what we try to do here is try to learn together different ways to improve our own mental and emotional well-being so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and if you're not yet follow me over on instagram and twitter at the Rewired Soul all right so yeah like like I said like this this is something major okay like I will tell you this I would not be alive today if I did not figure out how to take criticism like I was in my drug addiction for almost a decade and it was because I refused to change nobody could tell me what to do I felt like I knew what was best right like you don't know me I know me right why am I gonna do this this this this this this this this right and you know when I finally got to this point of surrender we often call it the gift of desperation I finally just threw my hands up in the air and said I have no clue what I'm doing please help me figure out how to do this and how to live right so it's so important that we take in different thoughts ideas criticisms and everything like that but at a certain point we have to separate what is you know uh meant to be constructive and help us become better people and what is people just being dicks or talking trash or they have no solution because like here's what we all have to realize there are people out there and I hate to break it to you this might be a little known secret but there are people out there who are just doing nothing but whining and complaining and have no solutions so anyways I want to start this video out with a little bit of a story I just finished this great book called moral tribes right and there's a story in there um I forgot who uh the professor was right but it's this like great professor intellectual I think he you know does debates and writes you know papers and everything like that and some jackass was challenging him to a debate and this jackass was a holocaust denier all right one of those people who denies that the holocaust happened and he kept trying to get this guy to debate him right he kept trying to get the professor to debate him and he's writing him letters and he's like what you scared you scared why don't you debate me you're mr smart science man why don't you debate me let's debate and argue the holocaust right so finally the professor gets back to him and he says I'll make you a deal all right he says I will debate with you about whether or not the holocaust happened if we do a series of three debates all right the first debate we're gonna do is over the existence of santa claus the second debate that we're gonna do is whether or not the earth is flat after that we'll debate whether or not the holocaust actually happened and what ended up happening was the jackass the holocaust denier ended up backing off and leaving him alone and do you know why that strategy worked because the professor was basically making a statement and saying I'm not gonna waste my time arguing with you over something that is stupid and a waste of my time and this is something that I think all of us can learn from because like how much time do we waste on these things and this is something that I'm trying to learn as well so I can make this channel better and provide more value to you like I in my video where I talked about I wasted the last six months of my life like I wasted six months of my life just trying to change people's opinions who who will never change right this waste of time and energy and so many of us do this but what actually inspired this video this morning was um there's there's a channel called optimus and no hate towards uh towards him like I this is more of a criticism if you will um but I was you know watching his stuff because recently there was some stuff going on in the youtube community about these things called pscores because youtube kind of you're not as transparent as it could be with us creators but anyways I was checking out this guy optimus's channel and he uh you know he he makes a lot of different videos and does a lot of commentary and stuff but anyways one of his most popular videos was about game theory the channel run by matpat right and like I I'm on the fence about matpat I don't love him or hate him like I think he's a cool dude and stuff but I haven't been like following him for years like other people have so anyways one of the the most viewed videos on optimus's channel was like game theory you know something like criticizing him right and the video started off pretty good I was interested to see where it was going like I was like okay because since I don't follow you know game theory or film theory forever like I want to see what other people have seen like through the transition right so it started out good and I was talking about something that a lot of creators do which is you know with uh the way monetization works and everything like that they try to stretch videos to 10 minutes and the video started off very strong great arguments great criticisms right where it was basically saying that he felt like game theory was trying to stretch their videos to 10 minutes just to hit that mark you know what I mean but it also helps with the algorithm and increase in watch time and all these other things right like it started off as a strong video but then I got to this part and let me play the full clip to give you some context may I add that matpat was also criticized during an ask me anything he did over on reddit and when this happened no matter how many upvotes it had no matter how popular the response was to matpat's questions if you criticized matpat he was not going to respond to you he basically just acted like your question didn't exist even though you could ask him anything if you asked him say why he was such a sellout which somebody actually did and it ended up being the most upvoted post on the entire AMA he just wasn't going to respond to you that's how he responds to criticism and I'm sitting there and I'm just like what like like seriously um that's that's not a criticism and this is something that we all need to acknowledge like the question why are you such a sellout that is not a criticism you know what I mean and the more we kind of sell the idea that something like that is a criticism the more people like me and you are gonna waste our time like here here's a good rule of thumb for criticisms all right like I said his video started off strong like hey I think that you're kind of like adding on to this video some unnecessary things uh like I do uh writing and sometimes we call that fluff you know and just kind of things that don't really add to the content like it started off good but a rule of thumb for criticism all right is do they offer a solution or could they offer a solution right so go back to that comment why are you such a sellout like there's no solution in there and if you look at it what do they mean what what solution could I even infer from why are you such a sellout right like what does that mean does it mean that you should still you know be independent and not like work with big brands or get as popular should you stay under these things you know and whatever like should you not you know progress and make money like what is it what is it or is a person you know making goofy content or have they like sort of censoring their stuff more like what does that mean but just the the the question why are you such a sellout that is not a criticism so why does this matter to you why does this matter to you the viewer well it is currently October 30th we have entered holiday season all right coming up you're gonna have Thanksgiving you're gonna have Christmas and you're gonna be around family members some of us have crazy family members right and you're gonna have people who are sitting there around the Thanksgiving table or whatever and they're gonna be criticizing you and if you get upset they're gonna talk about how you can't take criticism right but we need to look at this and say are they actually criticizing you like if they say Stephanie you know you're like all you do is date idiots right like if they're just talking shit to you they're not criticizing you or they tell you that you're wasting your life because they think that the job you picked isn't the right one like is that a criticism or is that an opinion right but there are many other examples so here's another example okay so my beautiful girlfriend Tristan over here just sitting there looking amazing she is an artist right now she does amazing art here's some of her art now imagine if somebody came up to her and was like you know what Tristan you shouldn't be drawing this stuff you should be drawing a pizza jumping out of an airplane on its 24th birthday that's what you should do and what if Tristan was like well I don't want to do that then imagine that person saying you just can't take criticism like do you know how silly that sounds right or maybe you're in an industry where you know you're creative in another way like picture like a chef all right a chef brings out a dish to two people okay and one person says huh this is good but I can do it could use some more salt right criticism solution right and then the other person says your face looks stupid you see the difference between those two so in order to improve and grow we need to take a look at what information is coming in and is that something we should be paying attention to or is it just a colossal waste of our time right because like I said especially when it comes to the internet but this is in life in general right there are people out there who are miserable and all they do is complain and they offer no solutions like I used to be that person I used to be such a miserable ass and all I did was whine and complain like one of the reasons I start every video with we talk about the problem but focus on the solution is because I used to just sit in the problem that's all I used to do and I would just sit there whining and complaining this should be this way this should be this way because I was miserable so I see other people who are like how I used to be and I'm like you are not offering a solution and I empathize with them I empathize and I'm just like okay right like because something that I used to do was I used to just think the whole world should be exactly the way I wanted it to right I just thought everything should be the way I like it my preferences my opinions are all that matters you know what I mean and then I was like wait I'm kind of a self-centered dick the whole world doesn't revolve around me you know what I mean like if I dislike something and it's not changing right and it's just my preference or it's my opinion I'm not gonna keep trying to force this thing to change I'm gonna walk away and leave so you know what like this video we just we gave you double the value so the first lesson is don't argue with idiots the second one is if you're like how I used to be like learn what your own criticisms are or are they opinions or are they preferences you know what I mean like I don't like seafood well I'm actually a vegetarian now but anyways like could you imagine me just keep telling a restaurant to stop serving seafood because I don't like it like what you know what I'm saying so anyways I want to do more videos like this with just little topics little tidbits little little sprinkles of little mental health advice like I said in my video yesterday I plan I plan on dedicating every day in November to a writing challenge and writing blogs and everything like that but I'm gonna try to do videos like this where I just hop in do some mental health advice things that I'm working on things that I think that might be able to benefit you and things like that these videos don't get as many views that's cool like those of you who watch this and you get some benefit like maybe maybe today you needed to hear to quit wasting your time arguing with idiots you know what I mean but I'm here for you baby that's how I roll 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 or buy my mental health books or merch all that good stuff all right thanks again for watching I'll see you next time


Good afternoon, everybody. You're all very welcome to Trinity College. He says as if he's just been given a professorship. My name is Barry Andrews. I'm the Director General of the Institute of International European Affairs. And this is the fifth in a series on populism that we are co-hosting with Trinity College Dublin since last summer. And we are working on a policy paper looking at the implications of the rise to prominence of populist parties across Europe and some of the implications for Ireland. And we're very, very privileged to be joined by a very distinguished speaker today, Dr. Lara Ferrara, who, a PhD, who is working incredibly hard in the European Parliament for the Chincustella movement as an MEP. Her list of rapporteurships is incredibly long and it really is quite excellent. To introduce today's event, what I'd like to ask Professor Kizam Arikan, who's the Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, who delivers a course on political psychology here in Trinity College to make some introductory remarks. Thank you. Thank you very much. So I am also at the same time today representing Trinity Research in Social Sciences, which is co-hosting this event with IIEA. Trinity Research in Social Sciences was founded in 2015 to support and advance world-leading research in the social sciences. It brings together social scientists from across the university and around the world and hosts various events with the aim of supporting and fostering social science research. Tris has recently started this exciting collaboration with the IIEA that includes a series of talks and workshops regarding current social and political issues, including Brexit, migration, and populism. And in fact, this is one of the talks in the series titled Populism and Challenges to the Liberal Order. In her address today, Dr. Ferrara will discuss the history and rise to the power of the five-star movement, which is a new grouping that became the largest political party in Italy in the March 2018 elections. She will argue that the five-star movement is a political association without ideologies but with ideas, principles, and values that wants to put the needs and the rights of the citizens at the heart of political decision-making. So it is our pleasure. Thank you. Just to introduce the speaker, Lara Ferrara is a member of the European Parliament with the five-star movement, which, as Ghazan has just described, describes itself as an Italian political movement that promotes direct participation of citizens in the management of public affairs. Following her election to the European Parliament in 2014, she was appointed Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, and she's also a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justices, and Home Affairs. She previously worked as a lawyer, and she received her PhD in Theory and History of Human Rights at the University of Florence. Prior to this, she received her MA in Law from the University of Bologna, and her BA in Law from the University of Calabria. So please put your phones on silent, if you would, if you would, and also the opening remarks are on the record, and the Q&A is under Chatham House Rule. Dr. Lara Ferrara. So good afternoon. Thank you very much for inviting me to deliver a speech at this prestigious institute here in Dublin. So my name is Lara Ferrara, and I'm an Italian member of the European Parliament since 2014. This is my very first political as well as institutional experience, even if I have on my shoulders years of activism in the field of human rights. When I ran from the European Parliament, I was only 30 years old citizen without public institutional experiences, exactly like the other 16 EP members and the other 150 members of the Italian Parliament elected within the five-star movement. You should now ask you how it is possible that a group of simple citizens, even if very confident in the necessity to drive a political change through democratic institutions, could run for a seat and win at the very first attempt becoming the spokesperson of the first Italian political movement. All of this has been possible thanks to the idea of two persons, Bepe Grillo and Gian Roberto Casaleggio, the two founding fathers of the five-star movement. They took account of the huge distance of citizens from political institutions that has been caused by professional politicians, a distance that on the one side left politician free to serve their own interests more than the public interest with consequence in terms of corruption, risk management and inefficiency. On another side, this distance resulted in a great discontent as well as in the spread of a sentiment of disaffection towards the democratic institutions such as the parliament suffered by the Italian citizens. In this connection, Bepe Grillo and Gian Roberto Casaleggio understood that it was necessary to cut the distance in order to give back the political power as well as the sovereignty to the people. The main instrument to cut this distance, in their opinion, was to promote the participation of the people to the decisional power through all the possible direct democracies means. Therefore, in the 2005, they started promoting the self-organization of group of citizens through several local meet-up all over the country, having always as a guide and a point of reference the blog Bepegrillo.it that during those years was one of the most prominent and followed political and information blog of the world. Through the internet and the social gathering and meeting platforms, thousands of citizens who followed the blog Bepegrillo.it and Grillo's shows met daily together to learn, deepen, talk about issues of society and to carry out concrete battles on renewable energy, sustainable mobility, zero waste, fight against corruption and mafias, public water, ethical economy, fight against land consolidation, participated in direct democracy and many others. So the goal was not to occupy a seat in a city council or in parliament, but to be informed, to inform people to change society and politics with new projects that arise directly from citizens themselves. In this connection, citizens started to bring their voices to the municipalities through popular petitions and motions of popular initiatives. Meetup, an international instrument, became in Italy the first spontaneous gathering opportunity for social utility, a tool to share ideas and proposals. And in a short time, the groups born on the internet challenged the political and institutional system of the country, promoting renewal from below and people started to respond by creating a critical mass able to reason on real problems and sustainable solutions. Two years after the first political public reunion of the blog followers and activists that has been held in Bologna on the 80th of September, 2007, Beppe John Roberto decided to found the movement with the aim to actively participate into the political and decisional process through the elections. So on the 8th of March, 2009, in Florence, was launched the project, Liste Civicae, five-star, so five-star, civic lists project. Each star representing a fundamental battle of meetups, the public water, zero waste and sustainable development, renewable energies and energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, connectivity. These are the five-star. In the municipal elections of May 2009, more than 45-star municipal councillors have been elected. In summer 2009, Beppe Grillo decides to be candidate to the post of secretary of the Democratic Party, but his candidacy was excluded by the board of the Democratic Party. And this was the last attempt to try to have a dialogue with the traditional party system. In this occasion, Piero Facino, one of the most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party, said about Beppe Grillo, let's make a party of his own and let's see how much votes he takes. And it was a sort of prophecy for us because in the 4th of October 2009, at the Teatro Smeraldo in Milan, Beppe Grillo and John Roberto Casaleggio announced the birth of five-star movement and launched a program with the idea of creating a new civic awareness through the use of internet as a mean for democratic democracy and collective participation as a new way to do politics. A movement and not a party outside the traditional left-right paradigms. So the movement was born on the day when San Francesco, the patron saint of Italy, he celebrated with the aim of raising it to a dimension that is not that narrow and myopic of politics, but that without limits of the spirit and of human beings. So the five-star movement contains in five points the five-stars, the main key points of the program that I said to you before. The pivotal bottles carried out by the five-star movement are clear and insensitive. Stop the privilege of the political class, stop to condemn that people in the parliament, stop to the waste of public money, more transparency and accessibility to public records. Furthermore, the characteristics required to be candidates and therefore future members of public bodies represented an absolute novelty in the Italian political landscape and a specific future of the five-star movement. So candidates must be without criminal records. Members of the parliament have to cut drastically their salaries. Maximum two electoral mandates are allowed. Independency from any other party it has no political alliances. So the five-star movement does not have party structures made of secretariat and intermediaries, but each one can be registered to the movement blog via internet in a certified way through his identity card. Each member of the movement can vote and make direct decisions or make proposals through the internet blog. In October 2012, Bepe Grillo swam the Strait of Messina that divide the Italian peninsula from Sicily to demonstrate that nothing is impossible. And in the regional elections, always in 2012, the five-star movement becomes the first political force of the Sicilian regional assembly. It was the first boom of the five-star movement and this huge success was followed by the incredible result of the national elections of 2013 when the five-star movement became at its first attempt the first political force represented in the Italian parliament. After five years of strong opposition against the traditional parties, we won the national elections of the 4th of March 2018 with the 32% of score. Unfortunately due to a bad electoral law written against us, as frankly said by the other traditional parties, we had to search an agreement with other political forces elected in the parliament in order to form a government and enforce the points of our electoral program. First of all, the introduction of the Radito-Dicitatin that is the main point for us. It has the minimum income to struggle poverty and then the reform of the pension scheme law to let people go to pension and create new jobs. But I will talk about this topic later. So now I would like to tell you what is in a nutshell the five-star movement before introducing the argument of direct democracy. The five-star movement is a free association of citizens is not a political party nor it will become in the future. The movement has no leftist or rightist ideologies but just ideas. And it wants to achieve an efficient and effective exchange of opinions and democratic considerations outside of association and party ties and without the mediation of governing or representative bodies. The movement aims at recognizing to the totality of citizens the role of government and address usually allocated to few people. It's an ambitious goal that we will pursue through the affirmation of direct democracy that in our opinion is the future of democracy. In the future in fact, parliaments could be considerated obsolete thanks to the evolution of internet and digital technologies. The legislative power then will be exercised directly by citizens. Today somebody still think that internet does not allow participation in political life. Somebody are still convinced that the 19th century model of organizing politics is here to stay. There are nowadays systems able to connect a large number of people that have also emerging properties that are going to produce revolutionary changes. These systems allow us to build the communities based on models of production and distribution of knowledge and imaginable until a few years ago. This is also happening for models of democratic participation in political life. Connecting people, giving them the opportunity to share resources, to decide, to train, to take actions on their territory. Brings out from forms of digital and participatory citizenships that until a few years ago were very hard even to imagine. According with these thoughts, Rousseau, the operating system of five-star movement has been developed. The goal of Rousseau is the management of the five-star movement in its various elective components, Italian and European parliaments, regional and municipal councils, as well as the participation of the members of the five-star movement, first of all their activists. Through, for example, the drafting of laws and the vote for the choice of electoral lists or to settle position within the five-star movement. Anyone can access the Rousseau website as a guest, but to access all the functions, it is necessary to be enrolled in the five-star movement by a verified registration that requires the exhibition of a certified document. Since its launch, Rousseau has developed 11 functions and today Rousseau has over 100,000 registered members. Since we're starting voting online, there have been 232 votes on Rousseau. Rousseau is the more clear proof that a new model of participation is possible. And Rousseau shows that the concept of democracy is evolving. In our opinion, democracy is, in general terms, having the opportunity to participate proactively to all the democratic decisions of the community where we live at every level, local, regional, national, European. And in this connection, democracy is to be free to choose once our candidates. Since the establishment of the five-star movement, there were 72 votes to choose our candidates at all levels. The prime minister candidate, the president of the republic, the candidates to the Italian and European Parliament, but also the governors of the regions, mayoral candidates and civic councillors candidates in the municipalities. In our opinion, democracy is to define the government programs together. Just to give you an example, the program that led the five-star movement to the government has been proactively written and voted on Rousseau by its members that expressed more than 2.4 million preferences spread over 26 votes, 104 questions, and 348 priorities. Democracy is also to decide what to finance in order to decide where to allocate the salary cuts of regional councillors of the five-star movement. The members have evaluated over 350 projects for an amount of 1.2 million euro. Democracy is also giving a personal contribution to shape and draft a law to be proposed in the parliament. Through Lex Parliament, Lex Regions, and Lex Europa, the five-star movement community has been able to participate in the drafting of over 600 acts presented by its own spokespersons who have seen more than 90,000 Rousseau members' interventions among amendments, changes, objections, suggestions, or report of the effects of form. So democracy is also sharing good practices. On the sharing function of the platform, our spokesmen in the region and in the municipality have shared more than 3,000 acts between proposals for board resolutions, motions, agenda, bills, and the electoral programs. The concept of democracy means also studying the e-learning application on the platform and the training in the training meetings on the territories have promoted participation in curses and days of study for more than 14,000 people. Democracy is to be proactive on one-star territory. It's just one year from its release that call to action function gave birth to 4,148 active citizenship initiatives organized from below. About 70 events each week will more than 400 with the official events that the local spokespersons of the five-star movement have organized in their territories and loaded on the activism function in just over six months. Democracy is to imagine the future. We have built a model of participation in political life that is unique in the world. With the Rousseau Open Academy, we decided to go farther and we believe that democracy is more than a vote on a ballot but a free and conscious exercise of the new individual and collective rights allowed by the use of internet. We are experiencing a new season of participatory democracy in which we must be protagonists. On the basis of this consideration, maybe I think that you can say that Rousseau is not just a trend and direct and participated democracy as I said before is the future. So considering what I said until now, you could think that our movement exists and acts only on internet but nothing could be more wrong. On the most important, one of the most important strong point of the five-star movement is indeed the local participation and the activism of their members whether or not they have been elected in some public body. We all mobilise our own capacities in order to be social actors rather than passive subjects. Each of us is committed to manage the resources, make decisions and control the activities that affect our political and social lives applying the principle one worth one. In this connection, every weekend we are present in our territory to listen to the people, to explain our parliamentary or administrative activities, to decide together what actions has to be taken to face both local and national problems. It's therefore easy to understand how strong and vital are the ties between citizens, activists and spokespersons of the five-star movement elected in the institutions at every level. Now it's time to talk about our government action. As you know, with 32% of votes, we won the last national elections in Italy. Even if we don't have the absolute majority of seats in the parliament, we didn't escape from the responsibility to form a government. In this connection we presented to the parliament our programme and priorities in order to see which political force would like to take the honour and the responsibilities to change Italy with us according to this premises. Only one party, the League of Matteo Salvini, accepted this challenge. Therefore, we signed a contract of government that doesn't mean a typical political alliance, but just a written agreement with a number of political goal that we are committed to reach in the next five years. I try to summarize some of these goals. First of all, public water. That is also one of our stars. Public water so means that the protection of the water as a common good as a referendum will express it in 2011. Environment, green economy and zero waste. Environment sustainability through the carbonized and the economy, energy efficiency and renewable sources, support of the green economy, research innovation and training for ecological worker development and promotion of the circular economy. Bank for investments and savings, establishment of an investment bank for small and medium enterprises, saving protection, separation between a credit bank and an investment bank. Conflict of interests, prediction of conflicts of interests in the presence of interference between a public interest and another public or private interest that could influence the objective exercise of a public function, regardless of an economic advantage. Application of the law also for non-governmental positions. Another main point is the defense, protection of the armed forces personnel, hiring new resources with increased resources and endowments, rationalization of resources in military expenditure also with reference to the reform of the abandoned real estate assets. Review the international mission in relation to the actual national interest. About foreign affairs, acknowledgement of our membership of the Atlantic Alliance as well as of our alliance with the United States of America, openness to Russia to strengthen trade relations. About rapid and efficient justice, the separation of judiciary career, simplification and reduction of trials, enhancement of legitimate defense, tightening penalties for sexual violence, fair compensation for victims of violent crimes, prescription reform of crimes, penalty increases for theft, robbery, fraud, speeding up of trials, class actions for citizens and business, reduction of access to justice codes and building of new prisons. Immigration, so overcoming the doubling regulation, respect for the principle of first sharing of responsibilities between EU countries, repeated procedures for verifying the rights to refugee status, transparency of public funds for the reception system, cooperation between countries. About job, introduction of the minimum early wage, reduction of the tax wage and simplification of bureaucratic procedures, strengthening of employment centers, contrast to the precariousness and to the effects of the job act, strengthening of work training pathways. About the fight against corruption, increased penalties for crimes against the public administration, interdiction from public offices for corrupts and corrupting, introduction of undercover agent and provocative agent, strengthening of the national anti-corruption authority, more protection for whistleblowers, strengthening interceptions especially for corruption, strengthening of the crime on political mafia exchange vote. About the income of citizenship and pension of citizenship. The introduction of the citizenship income as a basic income for Italian citizens aimed at job reintegration. The support will amount to 780 euros per month per person based on the OECD scale for larger households. The beneficiary of the income will have to adhere to the job offers coming from the employment centers, maximum three proposals within two years and in case of refusal to benefit disease. An investment of two billion euros for the reform of employment centers. Introduction of the pension of citizenship in order to guarantee a minimum pension for those living below the minimum poverty line. About the institutional reforms of autonomy and democracy. Reduction of the numbers of the members of the parliament. Introduction of the mandate constraint for members of the parliament. Strengthening of direct democracy, regional autonomy and a guarantee of funds in favor of local authorities. Introduction of a proactive referendum. Quorum suppression for abrogative referendums. Strengthening of the legislative initiative. Transparency on the financing of foundations connected to political parties. Evaluation of the performance of the public administration managers. Spending review laws and simplifying the public administration. About the health care. Strengthening of funds for the public health service. Protection of regional autonomy in the organization of health services. Fight against ways, corruption and inefficiencies. About security, legality and law enforcement. Increase of funds, means and equipment. Stuff increase. Reorganization of the local police with increase of means and tasks. Serious contrast to bullying. Contrast to gambling. Speeding up of evictions for illegal occupants and repatriation of foreign illegal abusers. Investments in road safety. About the cuts of the costs of politics, costs of institutions and gold pensions. Cuts in costs of politics of useless bodies and privileges. Equalization of the social security system of parliamentarians, regional councillors, et cetera, to the social security system in force for all citizens, even for the past. Reduction of blue cars, state aircraft and personal escort services. Cuts in gold pensions not justified by the contributions paid. About transport, infrastructure and telecommunication. Reduction of the use of vehicles powered by diesel and petrol engines. Incentives for hybrid and electric vehicles. National infrastructure plan for the recharge of vehicles powered by electricity. Strengthening of electric car sharing. Development of urban and extra urban cycle networks. Investment of resources to equip ports and modernization and up-grinding of rail lines. About European Union. The revision of the European governmental agreements. The fight against the counterfeiting and falsification of Made in Italy products. Rediscussed the Italian contribution to the EU. Opposition to international free trade agreements such as TRETA, MES, China and TTIP. Some of the most symbolic goals of our contract of government have been already introduced in the first budget law that our government drafted. First of all, the introduction of the income and of the pension of citizenship. So these are, in a synthesis, yeah, the principal items that you'll find in the contract of government between us and the League of Matteo Salvini. So often the five-star movement is accused of populism. In the negative sense of the word, that means demagogy, cultural roughness, inconclusive rebellion. Honestly, we are not afraid to be called populists. In our opinion, indeed, we believe that if democracy is government of the people, populism means people's movement. Therefore, it is a synonymous of democracy. We just think that we have no leftist or rightist ideologies. We think that we are simply on the side of citizens. And in this sense, we are proud to be considered populist. But there is no doubt that our political action is concrete and aim at putting people's needs and rights at the heart of political decisions. Unfortunately, the European Union of the last years seems to have forget that it has been established to create an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe in which decisions are taken as openly as possible and as closely as possible to the citizen. This is, we can find it in the article one of the EU Treaty. In the last decades, it seems that the main concern of EU was to protect banks and financial powers. Anyone concerns about the solidarity principles like the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean and the fall of solidarity towards Italy is showing. So therefore, we believe that this Europe doesn't work properly in the interest of their citizens, but one thing must be clear. We are not against Europe. We are critical with this situation, but we would like to strengthen it, renewing the spirit of solidarity and attention to the people aimed by the founding fathers. In this connection, we would like to propose a sort of third way to improve the rights as well as the economical and social conditions of European citizens. So thank you for your attention and I remain here at your disposal for clarification and questions. Thank you very much.


Cool. Thank you so much, and thank you so much to Catherine for that really inspiring talk that got me into the sphere of all things open. So, hi everyone. I'm Anne. I'm an anthropologist and I guess a person that has a crush on DataViz and visual storytelling. I'm also an ex-fellow of the Open Knowledge Fictionless Data Program. I hope you all tuned in yesterday to fellow fellows talking about these tools, but today I'll actually be talking about something a little bit different. My co-conspirator, Miriam Matheson, and I have been working on a project on supply chains for the past couple of months, and today we kind of wanted to talk more about the methodology of the project and what it means to kind of, especially as a researcher, to kind of try and make something more engaging in the process of doing research. I'll tell you more about what I mean in a second. So, over the past couple of months, and really over the past number of years, both of us in different ways have been focused on supply chains. And just to have a sense of shared definitions, supply chains, while I put a definition here from the ILO, it's really thought of those kind of everything something goes through from its raw material all the way to its final product. I want to push back against that definition a little bit, but essentially a supply chain is kind of everything in that process, all the industries, all the people, everything involved in that. You might be more familiar, of course, with these sorts of charts, right, but try and kind of take this process that's so global that encompasses so many different things and puts them in much more of a visual format, makes it a lot easier to digest, right? But of course, if there's anything that the past year has shown us, it's that all of these supply chains are incredibly vulnerable. We've seen so many maps, of course, about how international trade has been totally disrupted, about how all the supply chains for everything that we use have been changed because of the pandemic, but then at the same time, while we have these kind of big picture ideas of what COVID-19 has done to supply chains as we know them, and also these photos are very specific instances or specific effects of that disruption. I especially really was honestly shocked by these huge piles of potatoes that were found in, for example, in Idaho here when there was no one to buy their potatoes. And so it's kind of, in many ways, it felt like we were almost going back and forth between these very, very global understandings of what a supply chain is and also these very specific instances of what that disruption looks like in real time. And of course, alongside all of this were a lot of different things happening at the same time, everything from protests and labor movements popping up worldwide as these supply chains were being disrupted, especially across the government and delivery industries, but also unofficial forms of media popping up, like farmers joining TikTok. Clearly, I'm really into the potato fetters and just grabbed a couple of these from Twitter and from TikTok here. And really kind of, again, around these global things and very specific instances of human experiences. And similarly, our interest kind of collectively really rose throughout the same period. So this is just a screenshot from Google's like news database and showed that there was a really big spike right on this time, March through May 2020. But that kind of ever since then, there's overall a larger interest, there's also these oscillations just like everything else, especially with the news cycle. So really, as Miriam and I started talking more and more during this time period, around this time last year, when all these stories were coming up, we were really thinking, OK, well, supply chains, they really only become visible to the public when they don't work. As researchers, we've kind of been looking at these processes for a long time, but in a way, they've always been vulnerable. Just enough and just on time is the management mentality behind supply chains. And of course, something like this was this type of disruption on a global scale was perhaps bound to happen at some point. And of course, as the kind of last graph showed, popular coverage is very cyclical. And because of this, the gap that we were seeing and kind of what was reported on, kind of in the news cycle was in many ways very different from what we were seeing on officially on Twitter and social media. Ask a lot of questions about who's covered, what is it? And we were wondering if there's any way to bridge this gap. Of course, researchers always love the CSFs, love putting everything into spreadsheets, but these are perhaps not as impactful as photographs like this. Again, just so many potatoes. So really, when we started talking about possibility of doing something together related to supply chains, we were asking ourselves, as researchers, how can we create this repository of information that is more than just a collection, but is also visually engaging, that grabs people, that impacts you and in an emotional way, like somebody like Davis or digital art, but is also something that we can build upon over time that is a sustainable resource and is something that can be something that we can learn from as we grow over time and give us an excuse to learn from many others. And so the first step kind of in this process, in a lot of ways, was us very much kind of experimenting with what it meant to talk about supply chains to crowdsource a bit. We joined this website called Arena and actually, finally enough, Arena is kind of like a social network for more visual work and for link sharing. Very organically, people started to, almost like a chain, adding their own research or their own stories to collections of links and resources that we were gathering together and in many ways, kind of got us thinking, okay, so we hear so much about the crowd, we hear so much about the potential for crowdsourcing. It sounds like there's actually other people that are interested in this sort of research driven, but also visual at the same time. Second step was writing an essay together about an essay, 10 sentences, that in many ways tried to summarize years of research about supply chains in a way that we thought might engage humans and not other academics. And that eventually became the open page of supply chains to us. I know I haven't talked a bit about the website, but I swear that it's coming. Third step, after we'd kind of tried to ground ourselves in the research that we were doing, we thought, okay, how can we take this out in a more active way to people? How can we talk about something that's so global, again, so big, and ground it in specific instances, or honestly, see how people are thinking about it as well, because perhaps we are too deep too quickly. So this is a screenshot from the first workshop that we ran out in Mozilla Fest this past spring, back in March. Really fun, really interesting experience to just kind of engage how everyone is thinking about these different processes. We really didn't know who to expect, who we were going to chat with, and then ended up being a bunch of different people across a bunch of different industries that very organically, when they themselves were trying to understand and ground the headlines that they were seeing in supply chains and something more concrete, very much started connecting between all their different brainstorms with each other. And this web emerged kind of organically over time, and we kept thinking, this is something that we want to continue. And so pretty organically from that, we started this supply chain's reading group where a couple of us get together every two weeks to talk about either a case study or a kind of larger theoretical reading in a way that helped us to understand these sorts of complex phenomena. And for us, kind of every step through this process was very much us trying to ground these processes in something very specific, but also it felt like together we were creating a sort of, collectively creating a kind of story around our language that could help us to tell a story around supply chains or perhaps many other stories. Finally, we're in this process, very much in this process right now, but we started kind of transmitting all these things that we were collecting from either peoples individually or all these different groups into just many, many spreadsheets and are very much trying to create like a shared language or a way through which, again as researchers, we could turn them into interesting people. So that a learning experience would be seen if anyone has any experience with this sort of translation if you have any tips for us, get in touch. And then finally, we're right now working on kind of these two main vocal cries. So raw materials and extraction economies is kind of what we focus on while Miriam's much more than the transport and shipping arenas. We're right now in the process of very organically trying to turn them into visual material. And for us, in many ways, for us kind of redefining what data this is into visualizing information in a way that humans will like kind of change the game for us, especially as researchers that want to get past papers. So just to ground it again in something real, we, these are a couple screenshots from our database that's growing slowly over time. And we just actually released all of these sheets open to the public. So if you have anything that you'd like to input, if you have any comments, please, please feel free to do so. Very much following in the spirit of what Catherine was saying, I think the openness of the project is really so important for us because we've learned so much from all these different public events that we've been a part of and different people and different groups that we've interacted with, but at the same time, it's definitely something that we would keep on doing otherwise. So again, I'm going to say this a million times, but really, I think in these sorts of projects, we want to try and go back and forth between these very global, like big data ideas, trade analytics, for example, to specific individual stories. This obviously is a mock up because coconuts are not mined and hard to go, but I think it's, in many ways, it's trying to give you an example of what we mean by this, where we want to be able to put all these different types of material about supply chains in one place so that can be something that you can explore, that you can discover, that you can kind of look at over time, that also grows over time. And we simply just want to be stewards of that. So just to put it in a different way, mixing the visual with the numerical, hopefully put together will create a format for us to create more of an inclusive, decentralized way of sharing stories from and about the supply chain for such a complex set of industries. They're also very decentralized and global themselves. These are a couple of phases. We're now kind of somewhere between phase one and phase two. If you want to join the reading group, please get in touch. We'd love to have you. If you have any interest in getting involved in either digital art, do research on supply chains, get involved in any way. Give us some guidance on the tech side. Please, please reach out. But the goal is eventually to kind of, you know, we began with the technology industry, but really to expand into other industries. I showed you all lots of photos of potatoes earlier. For example, food is something that's something we're really interested in expanding to as well. But we kind of want to stay away from two things, two problems that we see with this sort of project. One is kind of information glut. Neil Postman, who's a media theorist from the late 10th century, put this really well when he said pre-internet, pre-printing press in many ways. We suffered collectively from a kind of information scarcity. But today we have another problem, which is the opposite, which is that we're surrounded by too much information and we're flooded with it. Therefore, we don't necessarily know what to do with it. And so, especially with something like supply chains or even thinking about, you know, the number of headlines we were surrounded by last year, we wanted to make sure that, you know, the experience on supply chains that us would be something that's a little bit more serendipitous, but also not overwhelming. It's something that people could return back to. But at the same time, it doesn't simply turn into a spectacle. I guess this is, again, like maybe something that comes from the researcher instinct. But I think Bell Hooks put this really wonderfully when she talked about the analogy of the classroom, where, you know, even the most engaged classroom, the most engaged syllabi, could be ruined by too large of a size. And so, while we want to, you know, grow and expand, ultimately the idea is that the quality of information, the quality of the stories, the types of things that we want to collect and sort of into this space we want to be really intentional about. Because otherwise, it might just become another place of entertainment. And if another person's stories or an entire industry's stories becomes nothing but a spectacle, it doesn't really help us to care about all of the people or the processes that are made invisible because of it. Yeah, so with that in mind, this is kind of what we were looking to do, moving forward. But ultimately, just with the goal of, you know, combining visual storytelling with crowd-sourced research, but making sure that it's something that we can build on over time and making sure that, you know, ultimately the goal is to not only educate, but to help people, you know, understand these processes a little bit more, while we ourselves are learning more about them. I guess that's all from me. If you want to reach out, feel free to send us an email at our collective email with Miriam and I or reach out to me individually over email. We'd love to get any questions, any comments, critiques, anything at all, really. Miriam is also in the chat, so she'll be able to answer some things as well. Maybe we can get her changed in. Thanks so much, everyone. And thank you so much for that was a really, really great and interesting talk and we have four minutes left, so I'm just going to roll straight in to ask you some questions if that's okay. Cool. And the first question is, has it been easy or hard to find data about this? Because I imagine that some of it's hidden or not openly available for commercial reasons. Easy or hard? And if hard, why hard? It's absolutely so, so different. Depending on what part of the supply chain that you're looking at. So very interestingly, I found that there was a lot of information about, for example, when it came to labor on the mining side of things and also the manufacturing side of things. A lot of investigative reporting going on, but everything in between. So smelting, refining different parts of the manufacturing process. A lot of the shipping and anything related to logistics not very reported on. And so we have this huge gaps in information. Where literally certain types of elements would also be called something else by the time they reach another part of the supply chain. So half the work I think is trying to create a shared language around supply chains or at least a language that we can operate off of and making a database that makes sense. But I think actually one of the most interesting things was the types of information that we didn't expect to come across. And I'm going to cite Miriam here because she always comes back to me. So she focuses more so on the logistics, shipping side of things. And was telling me about these YouTube videos and these podcasts that Seaman, the ones who are operating boats that move around the world make about their experience. Almost like blogging. So see if they are blogging is really big. And it was cool because as someone that's reads off a lot of labor and extraction seeing someone blogging about their work experience in the middle of the Pacific I think gives you a completely different insight into what it's actually like to be within that industry. And I think it's that sort of contradiction that we really wanted to highlight or at least put up on equal terms in a lot of ways. Long answer to your question but thanks so much. That was a great one. That was a good answer. It was really interesting. Thank you. I'm going to ask you a question but it's going to be a short answer if that's okay. And maybe you can expand on it later in Slack. It's a question that I have as well actually. So who's your intended audience for this type of data? And do you find you think about tailoring it towards different groups? I think for now it's almost like we just want to get as much information as possible but what's been interesting is for example in the reading group of people who join have different ideas of what they want to do forward. So for example there's very much an interest in this sort of collection in these is legal evidence for example or like advocacy evidence. And I think that that's something that we're definitely interested in too but I feel like we've got to dig through the massive data first.