Well, great. Welcome to today's online workshop. As you can see, the topic for today is exploring some of the new 6.3 WordPress features. So just for clarification, this session is more of a tour through 6.3. We probably won't have time to look at some of the details or how certain features work. But yeah, we will get a good idea of what is landed with 6.3 and some of the cool new things you can do in the site editor. So you would have seen that WordPress 6.3 is called Lionel and yeah, it is named after the jazz musician Lionel Hampton and Lionel Hampton. And of course, all new releases are named after jazz musicians. So yeah, lovely tradition and yeah, something to take note of or just something interesting that I thought I'll share if you didn't know. So this latest version of WordPress 6.3 brings with it the ability to edit your site cohesively. You can now create and launch your site within the site editor because content templates and patterns have all been brought into the site editor. So I think this is one of the major things I want to highlight today is the cohesive editing editing experience that WordPress 6.3 brings to the table. So what am I going to try and achieve today? The things that I'm going to look at or discuss today is number one, navigating the new layout of the site editor, utilizing the command palette, one of my favorites, activating distraction-free mode, previewing block themes before activating them, using styles revisions, setting aspect ratios for images, adding and using the details block, adding footnotes, resizing the site editor to view it on smaller screens, and lastly the top toolbar enhancements. So yeah, all the things I want to try and cover today. So let's kick off, let's explore. I'm going to make my way to my test website and as mentioned, 6.3 brings with it the ability to edit your site cohesively. So we can do all of that in the site editor. So let's just check, I have installed the 2022 block theme and we are now going to make our way to the site editor or the editor to see what is new. Now you will immediately see that the sidebar is different than before. Previously you would have only seen templates and template parts. You will see a new enhanced site view sidebar, which allows you to navigate between navigation menus, styles, pages, templates, and patterns. And if you don't see template parts now, don't stress, template parts are now part of patterns because technically they are a reusable component of your site. So let's start at the top. So let's look at navigation menus. So say goodbye to the hassle of managing navigation menus within a template. So as you know, in the past you would have had to open the template, select the navigation menu and do any edits here. So I just want to turn the top toolbar off for now. So you would have had to come into the template every time. All right, but we don't have to. As you would have seen, I've selected my navigation. I clicked on the navigation tab there and it opened up the four navigation menus that I have created. So you can make simple edits. So let's open my lifestyle navigation menu. So you can make certain simple edits. So let's for example, select tips as one of my pages. You can move it up. You can move it down. And you can of course remove this navigation menu. You also have the option to drag and drop. So if I want to drag this up, you will see there's a shorter blue line and a longer blue line. If it's a longer blue line, of course it will just go below home. But if you want to make that navigation item a sub menu. If you scroll, if you drag it down and you'll see there's a shorter line. Let's do that. Now you will see that that navigation item is a sub menu of lifestyle. But of course I don't want that. I want it to be an item by itself. So yeah, you can make some simple, simple edits directly here in your sidebar. And if you click on the three vertical dots next to the name of that navigation menu, you can rename it, you can even duplicate it and you can delete it. And then if you click on the screen here, you will be able to also make certain certain changes without distractions. So let's just open the sidebar here. You will see I can edit individual items. But if I open my list view and I select the navigation block, you will see that it is locked. So I can't make any edits here. I can't make any styling changes here. I will have to go to the template and do it there. But of course, as I said, you can make some smaller changes. All right, so that is our navigation section. Next, we will see styles. So the style area or the styles area which was previously separate is also now available in the sidebar and granting you quick access to style customization. So you will be able to browse your style variations here and you will be able to quickly go to your style book. Or you can open up your overall style system. So if I click on this little I, it will take you to your style book. And just a reminder. So let's just click on here so that we'll open up our style book. Your style book is a visual representation of all the styles of your individual blocks. If you scroll down, you will notice all your blocks. So you'll see it's a visual representation of all your blocks and the way it has been styled. And you can of course make changes here and actually see the changes you are making. And any changes you make here will of course update across your entire website. It is global. Now the other cool thing that you will notice is that they've applied deep linking here. So whenever I click on a block, the settings will change to correlate with that block. So if I select the gallery block, the specific block settings in the styles interface will open. So that's a really cool feature as well. Again, then of course you are also able to go to your style system. If you click on edit styles and here of course you will be able to make any global style modifications.  But yeah, quick access in the new sidebar. Now the new thing you will see here is pages. So yeah, you actually now in the site editor are able to add new pages, edit your pages and manage your pages. So this is a great step forward for WordPress. So for example, you can open up one of your pages and then you can actually start modifying it and adding content. Let's create a new page and then we'll see this in action more. So I'm going to click on the plus icon next to pages and here you will be able now to create a new page. And then we can say create draft and now this new page has been created and I can edit it in the site editor. I can add the content here in the site editor. So let's scroll down a bit and let's open the list view. So one of the important things to take note of is that you will add your content to the post content block. You will notice that's also locked because you don't want to remove your post content block because then you won't be able to add content. To this page. So you can add content here. This is where all your content is added. But what if I now want to start modifying my template. So as you know, your template provides the structure or layout for for a page. And you usually create the structure and layout with headers and footers or header template parts and footer template parts. Now, let's say I'm in my page, I've added content and now I want to modify my header template part. That's part of my template. If I click on my my header, you will notice at the bottom it says edit your template to edit this block. So we cannot edit our headers and footers while we are adding content to our page. If you are in a page, you only add content. You can, you can, of course, change the title and you can upload a post featured image and you can add content. But of course, yeah, you won't be able to do anything either. And it says edit your table to edit this block. All right, so what do you want to what do you do if you want to edit the template? Well, if you open the settings, you will see this new tab. It says edit template. So whenever you are in a page, you can go to the bottom and say edit template. And of course that page was, was added to the page template. So now you will notice that the page template has opened up. And now we can't if I click on the post content block now, we can't do anything because we don't add content in the template, right? We, we add structure by by changing our header, footer, etc. So now when I go to my header, you will actually see it's purple. So the purple tells us number one, it is synced. So it will change across your site wherever this header or footer has been added. And here you can now start modifying your, your header and footer in your template. If you want to just focus on your header, you can click on edit. And you will go into template editing mode and you can make any changes here without distractions. The other option, of course, is also. Sorry, I went back into my page now. The other option, of course, is if you click on the three vertical dots and you say replace header, you can scroll through your existing template parts and, and patterns. So there's some, some headers that you can actually select from, from this list, you can replace it. This is a big step forward for, for WordPress. I just want to come here and, and, and speak about pages and templates for a moment because including pages and templates in the site editor brings a clear distinction between editing a pages content. And it's template and then hopefully making it easier for us to switch between the two modes and view them in the appropriate context. So if I want to add content, I go to a page. If I want to update my template, the header, the footer, I go to template. Something else that I also wanted to highlight, if you go to pages at the bottom, here's all the pages I've created. I know there's a lot of pages. This is a test website. But at the bottom you will see dynamic pages powered by templates. For example, the 404 in the search page are also now included under pages, which enhances the user experience. And the last thing I wanted to mention about templates is if I go to templates now and I click on the plus icon to add a new template, you will see some upgrades there as well. So this has also had an overhaul and a very nice new look and feel to adding a new template or of course a custom template. Right. I just want to duplicate this page because I wanted to also mention something else. I want to go to the front end of my website and show you something there. Okay, this is the front end of my website. So something else that's also landed with WordPress 6.3 is if you now click on edit site, you will not just be taken into the site editor as before. Let's see what happens. So if I say edit site, you will not just be taken into the general site editor. You will actually be taken into the specific template that is associated with the page that I clicked on. So that is also great. Now let's move on and talk about patterns. So we've looked at navigation styles pages and templates. Now let's talk about patterns. So you will see three things below patterns. You will see my patterns because 6.3 and provide you a way to create your own patterns, custom patterns. And then of course you will see your list of patterns that come with your theme. And then at the bottom you will see template parts. So that's important to take note of template parts are now part of of patterns. So they still call template parts your header and your footer template parts or general template parts. But they are now part of patterns. And as I mentioned, there are technically reusable components of your site. Okay, so at the top my patterns, you can now create synced or unsynced patterns. And synced patterns is what we used to call reusable blocks. Now at the moment you will see I have two patterns that I've created. The one has got a little purple icon here which shows me it is synced. It says there editing this pattern will also update anywhere it is used. So this pattern which I created if I add that pattern and if I make any changes to that pattern and it will update across my site. So if that pattern is actually used on two different pages, it will update in both areas because it is synced. And then this pattern you will see does not have the purple icon. That's because it is unsynced. So I can add it to a page the pattern I can make changes and it won't affect the original pattern because it is not synced. So next to patterns if you click on the plus icon, you will see I can create a pattern. So let's click on create pattern. Right, and let's call this example pattern. And here you will see the option to say synced or unsynced. So at the moment it is unsynced. If you want to sync it, you can select keep all pattern instances in sync. Editing the original pattern will also update anywhere the pattern is used. Okay, now I'm going to click create. And now you can start creating your pattern. Now, of course, to save time, I've already created a pattern just to show you. So I'm just going to grab this pattern. I'm going to copy this pattern. I'll paste it here. Right, great. I've created my pattern. I've created a synced pattern. And now I can save it. Okay, let's return now to our patterns area and let's reload. And now you will see I have a new synced pattern. So two synced patterns. I've got another example to show you to kind of hit this home. So you can also create patterns in your post editor.  I want to use this again. I want to add it to my patterns area. You can do so. So let's open our list view, select the pattern and click on the three vertical dots. And now you will see the option here create pattern or reusable blocks. So you will remember the term reusable blocks. So I can say create pattern. And now at the top it says reusable blocks are now synced patterns. A synced pattern will behave in exactly the same way as a reusable block. All right. So I can I say, let's just call it Tour de France pattern. But let's say now I actually don't want it to be synced. I can deselect that. And let's create this pattern. All right. It has been created. So let's go back, refresh. And now I have two unsynced patterns and I have to sync patterns. Now, if I return to my page, I also just wanted to show you.  You will see it says my patterns now. So here's of course all the patterns that come with your theme. But here are your patterns. But you will see, you will only see unsynced patterns here, not synced patterns. If you want to see your synced patterns or your old reusable blocks. You have to click on the sync patterns. This was usually called reusable blocks. But now it's called sync patterns. So next to media, you can click on sync patterns. And here you will actually see a preview of your of your synced patterns. So let's add one of our sync patterns. Now you will actually see when when you add a pattern. You can clearly see it's a pattern. It is more narrow. It will appear correctly on the front end. But it will, it will look this way on the back end. Now, if I select this sync pattern. And I click on the three vertical dots. You can actually ungroup it as well. So I just wanted to to mention that you can ungroup this. If you wish to make changes and not have it synced. All right. So that is synced and unsynced patterns. Next, of course, is your your general patterns. And now at the bottom, you will see your template parts. And your template parts will work as normal. You can manage your your header template parts here. And your footers and your your general template parts. Now, of course, if I click on the plus icon, you can also create a new template part. And yeah, you can create a header footer or general template part. So yeah, this is it works the same as before. It's just it's housed in a new in a new place. And housed under and the patterns. And of course, template parts are synced. And they are reusable components part of your site. All right, so that is the new site view sidebar. Let's move on to a new exciting edition called the command palette. So what is the command palette, the command palette is a new tool that allows you to simply complete tasks and navigate within the site editor. It is going to be a big time saver. So to access the command palette.  Or if you're on Windows, you can say control K. And there's two other ways of accessing accessing it as well. If you click on the search icon, it opens the command palette. And if you are in a in a template or page or if you're in the site editor, you can just click on the title bar and the command palette will also open up. So three different ways of accessing your command palette. So let me show you how it works. So I'm going to say command K. And I want to say, okay, I want to actually create a new page. Now, instead of going to pages, clicking on the plus icon to create, you can say new and you can actually add new page. And if I click on it, you can go ahead and start creating the page. So let me just jump back command K again. Let's say you want to modify header. Well, I can type in header and I can choose my my header from the command palette and I can I can modify it. Let's say you want to edit a template like the 404 template. I will just type in, sorry, I'll just type in 404 and I can go ahead and update the 404 template. If I type in open, you will see there are different things that you can open up. Open style revisions, open styles, open navigation. So yeah, a great way for you to save lots of time to navigate through the site and also to create new content types. So yeah, a really cool feature, the command palette is something that I'm going to use a lot and I hope you too. All right, so command K or control K on Windows. Next, I also want to talk about the distraction free mode that is also now available in the site editor. It was part of your post editor before, but now it's also part of your site editor. So let's say you want to create content. So I'm just going to open up one of my pages. So let's say I want to open up my bar page and I want to add content and work on my bar page. Now, of course, if I open up a block or click on a block, the block toolbar will open up. I can open up my list view. I can open up the settings. It can become busy very quickly. But let's say you want to focus on your content and actually get rid of all of the noise around you. If you click on the three vertical dots top right, you can select distraction free mode. It says right with calmness. So let's select that. And this allows you to focus entirely on your site's content while remaining within the editor. It's like a clutter free one to one preview of your site's content. So you will notice when it is enabled, any sidebars are closed. And if I click on a block, you will notice that toolbars fade away. So now that blocks toolbar will not appear. So now at the bottom, we can say, let's add new content. Now, what happens if you want to add a new block? Well, you can just type in forward slash. And of course, you can add a new block because you don't see the insert or the toolbar at all. But of course, you can use forward slash or slash commands. And if you want to undo or whatever, you may just go, you can just go to the top. You can hover. And there you can undo. You can see tools. And of course, you can toggle this option on and off whenever you need to. So let's put distraction free mode off. And now we are back to the normal way of editing your block toolbars appear. You can open up your sidebars, et cetera. So yeah, a wonderful way for your content to take center stage. If that is what you want to do. Right. Now we are going to talk about previewing your site using a different theme. And if that is something that you've always wanted to do, it is now possible with WordPress 6.3. You can preview block themes before activating them. So to do that, we need to go to our dashboard, go to appearance. Click on themes. So as mentioned before, I have activated the 2022 theme, but let's say, for example, I actually want to see what my website will look like using the frost block theme. You will see next to activate now there's an option to say live preview. So let's click on live preview. Now this is powered by the site editor. So number one, you can play around and see what your website will look like with the new theme. Number two, you will get a better feel for how the site editor to works, et cetera. So now we can actually start editing. You can make changes. So for example, let's open up about page again. You can see what my bar page will look like now. You can, of course, alter this. You can open the template. You can modify the header. You can modify the footer. And if you like what you've done. So let's say we want to add site tagline. Right. So we've made a change to our header, et cetera. We like all the changes we've made. Now we can actually choose to activate and save it. And if you click on activate and save, it will immediately reflect on the front end of your website.  So yeah, a wonderful way to transition to a block theme and for you to test our different block themes and also learn more about block themes if you're still in the classic theme. All right. Next, I want to talk about styles revisions. A new feature that has landed with 6.3. So I'm just going to go out. You will notice I'm back. I've left the preview. And of course, nothing would have changed because I did not activate and save anything. I just explored. All right. So if you go to styles, you actually have more control over your styles now. So the new style revisions you can find is if you click on edit styles. And next to the little I style book, you can click on revisions. So what is styles revisions? And the new styles revisions feature adds a visual way to browse changes to your styles over time. So you can easily revert to a previous state. If you find a style you prefer or want to revert back to a previous version. So at the moment you will see I've got four revisions. One from eight days ago and here's one from two years ago. So let's say I actually preferred my style from two years ago. I can just go ahead and click on apply. And I can come back to revisions and revert back to my previous version if I wanted to. So yet at the top you'll see revisions are added to the timeline when style changes are saved. So it does also take the stress out of maybe if you've made a change, you don't like it, you can just quickly revert back. So that is styles revisions, a wonderful new feature. Now the next feature I want to talk about is aspect ratio controls. And this is something I'm passionate about because I have bumped into this problem quite a lot where you've added a pattern. But then when you change an image, the design that you had in mind changes because of the aspect ratios of the images are different because the aspect ratios of the images are different. So let me just show you, I've got two examples, same example. But so they've added aspect ratio controls to images. So if I open up my settings, you will notice if I select this image below aspect ratio, you can actually set the aspect ratio for an image. This enhancement ensures that patterns or group blocks containing images remain visually intact regardless of the dimensions of the upload images. So you can therefore select an aspect ratio and then any image you replace it with will change accordingly and maintain the aspect ratio set. And this of course allows you to keep the design integrity of that pattern. So let me show you what I mean. So at the top, I've actually not set any aspect ratio. But this is my pattern that I've created. And if I use this pattern again, I want it to look this way. So let's see if it will work that way. I'm going to select the image you will notice at the bottom, it just says original. I'm going to replace it with a new image now. And let's select a landscape image, because that's very different. Let's see what happens. Yeah, exactly what I don't want to happen happened that the style completely changed. But if I set it aspect ratio, my design integrity will be intact. So this one is similar. But yeah, you will notice I've set the aspect ratio portrait three by four. So now I'm going to click on replace. I'm going to select the same image. And now you will see that it maintains the aspect ratio set. And you will notice I've also selected the cover scale. And that ensures that the entire image fills out. So yeah, a great way to keep the design integrity of your patterns intact. I also want to introduce you to two new blocks that have been added. So the first one is called a details block or the details block. So this new block allows you to hide content until the reader chooses to engage with it and with a simple open close arrow icon. So as you will notice, I've already added four details blocks here. And if you click on the drop down, you will see more information. Let's go ahead and add one to show you how it works. So I'll say forward slash details, select the details block. And yeah, of course, where it says write summary, I will say summary. And yeah, you can add a hidden block. So this is the content.  And if you click on it again, it will close. You also have a few styling options. So let's select the plugins details block and then open up styles. You will notice you do have some styling options. And you can, for example, change the background color and below next to dimensions. You can click on options and let's say we want to add some more padding. We can add some padding. So yeah, the details block is a new addition. And I think this is something that will be used a lot in many different ways and so forth. The other new block I want to introduce you to is the footnotes block or adding footnotes. So this is not just for academia or for academic purposes. But let's say you want to reference something or you want to add a citation or you want to add a comment in a footnote. You can do so now in WordPress. So how do you go about doing it? You select the content you want to reference or site. And then you click in the blog toolbar, you click on the little arrow that says more. And then you select footnote. Now at the bottom, you can of course add a comment or citation. And of course next to that content, you will see a little one. If you add another one, it will be two, et cetera. So let me just save the draft here for a moment and let's preview it in the front end. You will notice if I click on the footnote or the one, it will jump down and it will show you the reference or the citation or the comment. All right, so that is footnotes. So there are two more things that I want to show you. And the first one is resizing your site editor to allow you to preview how it will appear on smaller screens. So let's jump back to the site editor. Yeah, I don't want to make any changes to my styles. All right, so let's open up my list view. All right. So if you open up your sidebar, you will now see if I have between the sidebar and the template or the page, there's a little blue line. It says drag to resize. And now we can actually in the site editor drag to see what your site or what your content will look like on smaller screens. And if you drag it all the way open, you can start editing. It will take you into editing view. And one more thing. They have added some enhancements to the top toolbar. So I'm just going to open up my about page again. Now, let's say, for example, you're one of those people that don't want your block toolbar to appear every time you're working a block. Maybe you want it static at the top. Now, of course, you know you can do that by clicking on the three vertical dots and selecting top toolbar. It says access all block and document tools in a single space. So let's select block toolbar. And you will see they've added more actions and they've made it more user friendly. And of course, when you select a block, the top toolbar will change accordingly. And you even have this option to hide the block tools or to open it up. So yes, welcome to WordPress 6.3. There are, of course, some more things, but this is all we have time for today. I'm going to end the recording now, but then we can stay and I'll listen to a few questions and some more feedback from you. So yeah, thank you very much for joining me today. We'll see each other next time.


What what comes through with hypothesis in terms of use user ease is is that it's just the pedagogical background of the teachers. I mean, I know that a lot of folks in hypothesis have teaching backgrounds and that comes through in terms of the ease and the facilitation of understanding and the direction of using the tool, integrating the tool applications to use and teaching and learning. So that was really, so I want to echo what Eric said on that. It's that's really good. Another thing too, I think that as a commonality, maybe that we all share is that kind of getting that feedback along that process. One of the things I never wanted my faculty to feel was that they were just hanging out there on their own in the plane.  I think that kind of that may have helped as well as in our process because it certainly gave me some feedback to think about, you know, what seemed to be a priority at least for some of the folks as they were responding in the process of the pilot. Thank you.


Hello everyone. This is the Foundation Update video for July 2020. I'm Ashley and I'm the camp coordinator at Ecosystem Restoration Camps. So this is a little video to tell you about what we've been up to as a movement over the course of the month. And one of the major things we've been doing is raising funds for camp contour lines in Guatemala. They are a camp that supports local people to transition from slash and burn farming where they chop down rain forests to grow monocultures of corn, lots of chemicals. This causes biodiversity decreases. This causes carbon emissions going into the atmosphere. This causes erosion and doesn't make much money for the people who are selling this corn. It also is not good for their health because there's not a lot of nutrition in corn on its own. And the good news is that people are realizing that this is a real problem and they want to transition to reforestation with native and food-growing plants mixed together to resemble ancient food forests that would appear in the regions of Central and South America in the past. So this is all really exciting and we wanted to support this camp with the latest iteration of projects that they're working with. I've got some statistics here in my book. So they managed to raise 10,086 euros, the goal of 10,000 euros. And this was to plant 27,000 trees and that's a mixture of fruit trees and native leguminous species as well as a lot of annual plants as well for other food crops. This is money that they will use to plant up 36 new sites and train 82 people on how to create agroforests on contour. 2,500 people will ultimately benefit and 25 acres will be rehabilitative. So well done camp contour lines and if you donated thank you so much for being part of such an amazing transition towards regenerative way of living for these people. This is the way that all food, not all food, this is the way that a lot of food can be grown. It sequesters carbon, increases biodiversity, it reduces erosion, it reduces flooding and increases food security and the health of the people who are growing this food. The other crowdfunding that we were doing was with the camps in California. They have been fundraising to create a mobile kitchen that will rave between the different camps that they have in California for camp events so people will come and they will camp there and take part in the restoration and rehabilitation of those sites and the camp kitchen is a mobile kitchen so it all folds up into a truck so it can be folded out, folded back in again and used whenever there are camp events happening across California and their crowdfunding was also successful. They wanted to raise $12,000 and they have currently raised $12,926 so they've stretched their goal to 15,000 and yeah this is something that was made possible by various people but specifically a company called County Archer Provisions so thank you County Archer Provisions for helping this crowdfunding succeed and for everyone else who has donated to this course. We received 35 new camp applications which we're going through at the moment and they are very varied from all over the world from sites as small as 1.5 acres to 5,000 hectares and we're excited that so many of these partners seem to be fantastic places for ecosystem restoration camps to happen so watch this space and you'll soon see lots of new camps appearing on our website we're excited to tell you more about them. We have also been running our online course and right now the students are in module 3 they're just about to finish module 3 which is all about urban land restoring ecosystems in urban places and the course has been very well received it's been really enjoyed by 145 people who have signed up and we are now excited about launching the next iteration which will take place in January so if you're interested in taking the course head over to the gyro education website there's also a page on our website you can find out more about the course and sign up there's only 200 places and 160 people have said that they're interested so don't delay if you want to take the course then sign up as soon as you can. We're looking for a graphic designer or someone that can help us with formatting our reports schedules handbooks official documents using our house style so if you're interested if you're a graphic designer and you're interested in contributing towards the restoration of the earth then check out the vacancy on our website. So the camps haven't been able to open to international students or visitors over the last few months because of the coronavirus but they have been open to local people and Camp Alta Plano in Spain has been doing various initiatives in the community one of which being a kids camp and 20 people 20 children from the ages of 9 to 14 spent 10 days immersed in nature learning about habitats learning about erosion control rainwater harvesting they were spotting all the different species that exist at the camp now that it's coming back to life they slept in tents they wild swam and they yeah they had a truly immersed in nature experience which is really important for young people to make sure that they want to fight for it in the future. There is an experience coming up at Camp Alta Plano which is about regenerative culture so how can we not only regenerate the ecosystems and the landscapes but how can we regenerate ourselves and our societies and our economies so it's very holistic program that looks at the regeneration of soils of landscapes of the self and of culture and that's taking part taking place on the 15th of October to the 22nd of October so if you're interested go to the Camp Alta Plano page on our website check it out and I will close this broadcast with some wonderful news I added up all of the numbers of all of the trees and plants that have been planted across all of the camps since we began in 2017 and the total figure and it keeps changing all the time but for now it's 185,518 which is amazing and massive congratulations to all of our camp partners within this movement who have done so well in re-greening their sites we are very proud of you and we're very pleased and grateful that you want to call yourself an ecosystem restoration camp so that's all for now and I hope that you all have wonderful days wherever you are and I will see you next time


Thank you Victoria for the introduction and welcome all it Internet has become an integral part of our life and What if I tell you everything you do online or everything we do online leaves a trail of data? That data is being collected and analyzed and sold by companies Now a lot of us would think this is too abstract or even benign or both But in the next 15 minutes, I'll shed some light on these data practices Why we should be concerned and what exactly can we do? So we all I assume we all understand that we are not supposed to share our credit card numbers online, right? But yet there are some people who get way excited when they receive their new credit cards and they take a photograph and post it online So next time if you want to go online shopping, I highly recommend you follow this Twitter account You might just get a new credit card then it also so happens that because of We not being careful enough we go online and the whiteboard behind us actually has some username or password For example in these cases, right happens And I can give you more examples. I can go on and on about it, but it's fun But not for today rather I'll show you that even if you are careful and you are not sharing these things Explicitly online what companies on the internet know about you I would like you to imagine a scenario in physical world if a stranger Follows your every move which one do you take? Where do you live? Follows you everywhere on the street? It could be you your spouse your partner your kids If the strain same stranger also monitors all your internet history and computer usage If that stranger is actually tapping your calls or making a log who you call when you call and for how long or Imagine everybody everybody of us gets post at her home What if the person delivering the post reads all of your all of your mails and then keeps a copy of it and This stranger who has been following us around keeping tabs on our internet history Actually starts to share that information with other people without your consent Or even take photographs and publish them somewhere or just send you. Hey happy birthday. I saw you there at such and such time How many of us over here think this is some sort of stalking, right? If in the physical world this is stalking Then what about the digital world and how would you react if you know somebody is stalking you? How would you react? Would you take some action? Maybe like confront the the person who is Stalking you or maybe change your behavior or an extreme scenario. You might report it to the authorities, right? But I'll show you how relaxed we are when it comes to being stalking in the digital world following your every move Now we all use smartphones, right and smartphones by default are designed to track wherever you move On top of it you install apps, which also have the same permission to track you wherever you're moving We might assume that whatever web pages we visit in our browser are not known to anybody else, but that's a myth If you follow this chart Even if you do not have a Google account or a Facebook account or a Twitter account or as a matter of fact Even if you do not have Google or Facebook open in your browser right now, they can learn Potentially huge portion of the websites that you visit you do not have to be a Facebook or a Google user for that You do not have to paste that link in Facebook Even if you open a new tab in your browser visit a webpage Facebook has the ability to learn it To the extent that Facebook can actually learn 27% of the web pages that you visit Now think about the web pages you've visited and just pick up randomly 27% of the webpage Facebook would know about them if you talk about Google Google actually knows 60% of your web history already This is without you explicitly sharing it with Google Now in the real world if somebody is listening to my phone calls or keeping a record. I'll be really paranoid, right? But somehow the apps that we install have the same permission they're gathering the same information and we somehow don't seem to care Similarly if the person delivering post at your house is reading your e reading your post you will be paranoid, right? But somehow all the email providers that we use online. They're doing the same thing They're reading what emails are coming to you and they're using the content of the email to recommend you better advertisements, right? What about sharing your personal information with others? How many of you have ever taken a quiz online on Facebook or generally? Yeah, right Now I'll just there's a company called Cambridge Analytica. I'll not discuss details about this company But basically it said we will pay you $2 if you take an online quiz people said good But if you have to take that online quiz you have to log in using your Facebook account People gave consent. They said fine. We can do that now in lieu of their Cambridge Analytica got access to the Facebook data those people had which is fine because those people gave consent to Cambridge Analytica But what Cambridge Analytica or Facebook never mentioned is we also have access to your friends data because that's how the permission model worked in Facebook so now imagine out of all the friends you have on Facebook Some random person some one of your friends decides to take an online quiz for $2 and because that person takes the quiz Your Facebook data is now being shared to a company. You have never even heard about and this is a true story. It's not a myth How about taking your photographs? Does anybody know what's there is this on the left side? Okay, so this is actually a project that is being carried out at Berlin Bono So basically they've placed cameras and as you move at Berlin Bono They face they use facial recognition to see who this person is right now We can say okay government needs to do that for security reason blah blah blah blah bullshit and then let's take a commercial example This is Facebook Facebook for a long time ran a feature upload a photograph on Facebook Facebook based on its facial recognition database will auto tag the person in the Photo and if you're one of the person you will receive a notification like this There is some Amanda release who some odd reason took a photograph and uploaded that photograph Who you are not even friend with but has two mutual friends with you has tagged the photo of you now first That person takes a photograph of you second thanks to Facebook that person can also recognize who you are because of its facial algorithm right and Hence comes comes the question if for all these same things we are so paranoid in the digital world Why in the physical world why in the digital world? We are so relaxed. I have some hypothesis first either. We are not aware That's possible second. We are aware, but we do not understand the implications Third we do not care But before moving into all these three points. I would like to share with you Why these companies really want to stalk you online? How many of us use Facebook here? Come on. Come on. I know everybody uses it How many of us pay for Facebook? No one Very nice If most of us use Facebook and none of us face for Facebook can somebody answer this simple question How does Facebook make money? Very nice. So everybody understands that Facebook makes money by advertisement, right? The business model of Facebook is advertisements I'll even take it to a higher level the business model of Facebook is Sharing promoted content and the way to share promoted content is by advertisement So it might would might be a product. It might be a particular campaign It might be a particular post that people want to advertise, right? Now unlike traditional mechanisms of advertisement, which we see in the offline world newspapers and television in the online world advertisement is highly targeted For example, if I have to sell a bicycle, I would go to Facebook that Facebook I want to advertise I would say I want to advertise bicycles to people of such-and-such age range of gender maybe only male Who live in 20 miles of my store and have searched for bicycles online, right? Fair enough. Facebook will let me do that But this gets even creepier Facebook also provides you granular attributes per person and I can even run targeted ads based on religion Ethnicity and sexual preferences of a person and this is again a true story in US Facebook allowed real estate companies to run advertisement to not only exclude people Based on a certain religion or certain ethnicity. So imagine you want to Advertise a house and you can say I would do not want this advertisement to be shown to people in Munich from India Right, that's that's the power of Facebook And It does not matter that I've put this information somewhere that my religion is XYZ my ethnicity is XYZ or my sexual preferences are someone something else There's all this information can be gathered by these trails of data that we are that we are leaving online for example Based on just solely or Facebook likes with a reasonable accuracy It can be predicted whether your parents are divorced or not It can be predicted what your gender is it can be predicted what your political views is what your religion is With only access to your phone call records and app usage or The way you type on your desktop or your mobile phone companies Can actually predict your personality and this attribute is used for targeted advertisement Think about it for a second. Most of the services or the apps that we use on the web are free and The only way they can earn money is advertisement and in order to convert you They have to target you with the right kind of ad that you would click So when you visit a website or when you visit Facebook Facebook will try and fetch the best ad for you and in order to do that It will take all the data you have and sell it So you are actually not the consumer. You are actually not the customer. You're actually the product being sown online I've given examples of Facebook and Google. So you might wonder, yeah, I find Facebook and Google are evil, but that's not the case I only shared examples of Facebook or Google because these are the companies that we interact with There is an invisible billion dollar market, which is only specializing in data collection and advertisement The companies we never even hear about the companies we will never directly interact with But these companies are collecting your data 24 by 7 and in most of the cases without consent Now how do they gather data? There are three primary ways One they want to gather as much activity as you do on your mobile phone and web browsing There's a common term called third-party tracking which these data collectors use Second even if you stop doing everything online, they also want to know what you do offline So they will go to partners like loyalty cards, survey forms and feedbacks and collect that and buy that information Once they have information from these two sources Then they will exchange information among themselves to see how big of a data set can we make according to for a person Once they gather all this information, they will start to create a detailed dossier about you online and keep it up to date So for example, it would say that person XYZ This is the sexual preference of that person the number of children purchases religion health interests and all these things So there are about 3000 to about 30,000 attributes that each company has on each person and then this data is available for advertisers or use cases that have never been mentioned in the public public profiles How easy is it to buy data? Let's just try and answer this question So there is this website exact data whose sole purpose to exist on the internet is to sell your information That's the sole purpose, right? With merely five clicks you go on that website with merely five clicks You will be able to select that I want name address postal code of person of a certain religion of Person having two or more children of person who has Children age between two to five and that data is readily available if you want bulk orders you can call them and negotiate the price The intention of the buyer is never checked now this data can be used for anything This data could be used for spreading hate This data could be used to target children lure them into illicit activities or brainwash them All right, so the intent of buyer is never known and these websites do not care Government surveillance right now there is a huge role that government should build surveillance systems I beg to disagree Governments do not need to build their surveillance systems because the internet companies have already done for them All they need to do is access did it access this data from these companies It could be by force it could be by subpoena It could be by partnering or in itself using their platform for example Governments could you could use Facebook or Google advertisement to target a certain set of people right? So what can we do? Let's come to the main meat. What should we do? First and foremost we need to be aware and vigilant about a digital Digital privacy the same way we are vigilant vigilant about our physical privacy right in order to learn more I highly recommend you follow these sources So these are website f.org who tracks dot me crack labs, which will tell you more about what you can do about your online privacy Second thanks to these regulations like GDPR and e privacy. We have more rights about our online privacy There are a lot of people who argue that I have nothing to hide So I do not give a shit about privacy, but I beg to differ again Privacy is not about something to hide it is about your right It is route right to transparency right to share what information do you want to share with which companies and keep it to yourself? And GDPR is the first step in that direction Because of GDPR you can actually question all these companies what data they have on you You can question them you have to delete my data or you can question them How do you process this data if these companies fail to comply they have to face hefty penalties So you can actually send a letter to Facebook and tell ask Facebook What data do you have about me which is not shared by me on the platform and you should get your data back You can move and you can adopt two tools like for example, let's say you want to curb How online how your website history is being shared with other companies? So you could use one of these extensions for example you block origin privacy badger put it in your browser And it will help you stop leaking information to Google or Facebook If you want alternative to search engine like Google you could use search engine like want dug the go clicks Etc. As a matter of fact if you really want the browser to protect your protect your online privacy by default You could again opt into browsers like Brave Tor Firefox clicks So there are multiple options you can we'll have these slides online so you can take a look So depending on which layer do you want to protect you can you can do that? In the end I would just like to say all hope is not lost Thanks to the scandals of Facebook Camry Giannitica a much needed discussion on your online privacy is happening Thanks to GDPR. We have much more control on the companies that were Unregulated before and thanks to the companies I showed you in the previous slide who are building better products and preserving our privacy online. Thank you Thank you very much Conor by the way We just published the post in our Facebook page with the resources that Conor suggested to us that you can have a Look and find out more and now we're ready to take some questions. So yes, please You can contact contact company and Request that your information be deleted How can you actually confirm that they've deleted your information and they haven't already sold it to 10,000 different companies? the question is how to get to Make sure that the company actually deletes your information if you asked to for for this and How to know that it wasn't sold yet to many other companies already? So it's a valid question. So first of all every website or every invisible website Needs to list on their website or something all data protection officer So they have to give an email address or a physical address where you can contact that person, right? Now once you have that address now the question is how do we ensure that the data is actually deleted, right? It's it's hard But if you request them that you have to delete the data and they do not delete it You can they can be audited and once they are audited and it is found that the data is actually not deleted even on request They can be fined for it Second they also have to tell you have to they have to take your consent So I don't know how many people remember but probably in the last few weeks You would have seen spam of emails coming up. Hey, we miss you our privacy policy and blah, blah, blah They were not being good to you, right? It was because of GDPR law that they had to really ask for your consent, right? So once you even ask them to delete it if they want to collect more information about you They will have to take another consent from it And this all happens if they get audited and they get caught which is more likely to happen because then you can complain that Hey, I requested my data to be deleted, but it's not deleted. So what what's happening there? Second the second point like if the company has already shared that information for example Facebook has already shared that information camera's analytics now this this is like the tricky tricky part because first Now onwards companies need to declare that your data is being shared with these parties and companies need to create a process to help you Delete that information across so it's not like if one website says I share your data with ten websites So you as a customer need to go to those ten ten websites. That's why now if you visit a website They will open a pop-up which has a lot of buttons for each of these each of these third parties So it's tricky and these are still very early days for companies who are complying with GDPR So let's see but I'm still hopeful that there will be processes which will help you Thank you Connor. Let's have one more question. Yes, please Hey Yeah, I have a question being such a digital privacy with I was wondering if What's your private? What's your personal approach towards all this stuff?   So easier one first, I don't use WhatsApp me and my complete family uses something called signal So that's one way second. Yes I am still on Facebook, but I use Facebook in a very in a totally different browser that I do not use for Visiting any other website There is something called in one of the resources I've also mentioned something called data detox, which is basically it's a eight-day model that you can follow which will help you Which will help you reduce your network footprint, right? So for example on Facebook, I Manually review all the privacy settings that I have. I do not want targeted advertisements, etc, etc So there are multiple steps depending on what threat model Do you think is the best for you or for your family like a lot of people in my family are not on Facebook anymore? I am there. I could say I like to keep my enemies closer, whatever But yeah, so it depends what you want to do But there are alternatives which respect your privacy for basically all the things that we use and in today's world You do not have to really choose between convenience and privacy because there are companies who are building products Which will get you convenience and privacy. So you should opt for those products Thank you Conor. I suggest the next questions would take to the break discuss over beer I see there are more questions. So please approach Conor and now let's thank him for a great talk


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Countdown for Blastoff. X minus five. Four. Three. Two. X minus one. Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you'll live in a million or could be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy's science fiction magazine presents X minus one. Tonight, the discovery of Mourniel Matherway by William Tenth. Everyone is astonished at the change in Mourniel Matherway since he was discovered. Everyone, that is, but me. They remember him as an unbathed and untalented Greenwich Village painter who began almost every second sentence with I and ended every third one with me. You see, I understand the change in him because I was there the day he was discovered. We were talking about his discovery that day. I was sitting carefully balanced on the one wooden chair in his cold little Bleecker Street studio because I was too sophisticated to sit in the easy chair. Come on, Dave, take a comfortable seat. No, no, Mourniel, no. I know about that chair. Now, what do you mean? It's the only comfortable chair in the room. Now, look at it, broken down spring, very high in the front and low in the back. Sure, it conforms with the position of the spine. Yeah, sure, sure. And when you sit in it, things begin sliding out of your pockets. Loose change, keys, wallets, anything. What do you do, Mourniel? Pay the rent on your studio with that easy chair? Well, as a matter of fact, it is rather profitable. And that's why I'll sit on the wooden chair, if you don't mind. Oh, now don't be bourgeois. Well, I notice you always sit on the bed. That's because I'm a good host. Well, how's the painting going? Oh, great, great. Fabulous. You selling the painting? No. You know, Dave, I can't wait for the day when some dealer, some critic with an ounce of brain sees my work. I can't miss, Dave. I know I can't miss. I'm just too good. Sometimes I get frightened at how good I am. It's almost too much talent for one man. Well, there's always... Not that it's too much talent for me. I'm big enough to carry it, fortunately. I'm large enough of soul. Oh, good. I'm glad to hear it. You know what I was thinking about this morning. No, but to tell you the truth... I was thinking about Picasso, Dave. Picasso and Roure. I'd just gone for a walk through the Pushcart area to have my breakfast. You know the old hands quicker than the eyes. I know. I've seen you do it. You're the only man I know who can ask directions to Houston Street and fill his pockets full of bananas at the same time. Oh, well, society owes the artist something. Anyway, I started to think about the art of modern painting. I think about that a lot, Dave. It troubles me. You do, huh? Well, I... I was thinking, who is really doing important work in painting today? Who is really an unquestionable great? I could think of only three names. Picasso, Roure and me. Well, naturally. Just three names no more. Oh, it made me feel very lonely, Dave. Yeah, well, I can see that. And then I asked myself, why is this so? Has absolute genius always been so rare? Why has my impending discovery been delayed so long? Why have I thought about it for a long time, Dave? I've thought about it humbly, carefully, because it's an important question. And this is the answer I came up with. Don't bother waiting for the answer that Morniel came up with. It turned out to be a theory of aesthetics. I'd heard at least a dozen times before from a dozen other painters in the village. Morniel was a bad painter. There was no question about it. I say that not only from my opinion. I've roomed with two modern painters and I've been married for a year to another. Well, for example, a friend of mine, a fine critic of modern art, took a look at one of Morniel's paintings which he hung over my fireplace in spite of my protests and just kind of stared slack-jawed. What... What does he call that technique? Well, he says it's smudge on smudge. Well, I can believe it. Smudge on smudge, white on white. None-objectivism, neo-extractionism. Call it what you like. There's nothing there, nothing. It doesn't even have the interest of those paintings that chimpanzee did a couple of years ago. He's just another of those loudmouth, frowsy, frustrated dilettants that infest the village. Why do you waste your time with him? Well, for one thing, he lives right around the corner and he's kind of colorful in his own sick way. And he does have one great talent. It's not in painting. No, no. Now, you see, I just get by as far as living expenses are concerned. Things like good paper to write on, my library... I can't touch him. And sometimes the yearning gets too great. You know, a newly published collection by Wallace Stevens. Well, if I find one I want, I just go over to Mourniel's and tell him about it. He doesn't lend you money. Oh, no, no. Now, you see, we go out to the bookstore and we come in separately. And then I start a conversation with the proprietor about some very expensive out-of-print item I'm thinking of ordering, and Mourniel just says, what's Mourniel's browsing? Well, what happens? Well, while I'm keeping the proprietor talking, Mourniel snaffles the Stevens. Isn't that just a little bit... Oh, well, I intend to pay for them, of course, as soon as I'm a little ahead. Well, why does he do this for you? Oh, well, I pay off. I go through the same routine at an art supply store so Mourniel can get canvas and paint and brushes. Of course, I really have to pay for Mourniel's browsing. I have to suffer through listening to him Oh, it does. Yes, you see, I intend to pay for my things, but I know he doesn't. And that's why my conscience bothers me. Well, here he was the day he was discovered sitting in his room, and Mourniel was running on about his own genius. No, I can't be as unique as I feel. Other people must be born with the potential of such great talent, but it's destroyed in them before they can reach artistic maturity. Why, how? Well, let's examine the role that society plays What's that? Are you going to high-five, sir? Nonsense. That's a crass materialistic concept that I think something is happening. Hey, why don't you put the purple lights in? Purple? What's that? It's shimmering. It's coming right through the wall. It looks like a box. We can't both be having an artistic vision. You're not the type. Mourniel Mathaway? Who are you? Where did you come from? You are Mourniel Mathaway? Yes, yes, yes. Meetings from 2487 AD. Oh, 2487 AD? I realize this is a difficult phenomenon for you to grasp entirely, but here I am. We will now indulge in the 20th-century custom of shaky hands. Mr. Mourniel Mathaway? Oh, well, sure, sure, sure. Shake, yes. And you, sir? Yeah, yeah, sure. I don't mind. Shake. What a moment! What a supreme moment!  What's so special about it? Are you the inventor of time travel? No, no, no. Time travel was invented while that was after your time. It's hardly worth going into at the moment, especially since I only have half an hour. Why half an hour? The skin drum can only be maintained at lock. The skin drum is, well, call it the transmitting device. It enables me to appear in your period. There is such an enormous expenditure of power required that a trip into the past is made only every 50 years. The privilege is awarded as a sort of gobel. I believe I have the word right. It is gobel, isn't it? The award made in your time? Well, you wouldn't mean nobel by any chance with the Nobel Prize. That's it! The Nobel Prize. A trip is awarded to outstanding scholars as a kind of Nobel Prize. Once every 50 years, the man selected by the Garter Max is the most preeminent, that sort of thing, you know. Up to now, of course, it's always gone to historians or they put it away on the Siege of Troy and the first atom bomb explosion at Los Alamos or the, well, the discovery of America, things like that. But this year... Yes? Well, what kind of scholar are you? I am an art scholar. My specialty is art history and my special field in art history is... What? What? What? You, Mr. Mathaway. In my own period, I may say without much contradiction, I am the greatest living authority on the life and works of Morniel Mathaway. My special field is you. Dave. Dave, did you hear that? Dave. Dave! I heard. Do you mean... Do you mean that I... Famous? That famous? Famous? You, my dear sir, are beyond fame. You are one of the immortals the human race has produced. That famous? That famous? Who is the man with whom modern painting and its full glory is said to have definitely begun? Who is the man whose designs and color have dominated architecture for the past five centuries? Who is responsible for the arrangement of our cities? The shape of our artifacts? The texture of our clothing? Me. No other man in the history of art has exerted such a massive influence over design. To whom can I compare you, sir? To what other artist in history can I possibly compare you? Rembrandt? Da Vinci? Rembrandt and Da Vinci in the same breath as you.  They lacked your universality, your taste for the cosmic. Wow! Mr. Glesko, excuse me. Do you happen to know of a poet named David Danziger? Did much of his work survive? Is that you? Yes, that's me. Dave Danziger? Well, no, no, no. I don't think so. The only poet I can remember for this time and this part of the world is Peter Tebb. Tebb never heard of him. Then this must have been before he was discovered. But you see, I am an art scholar. Well, you see, checking my chronometer, I see my time is getting short. But it is an overwhelming delight for me to be standing in your studio, Mr. Mathaway, and looking at you at last in the flesh. I wonder if you would mind obliging me with a small favor. Oh, sure, sure. You name it. Nothing's too good for you. What do you want? I wonder... I'm sure you don't mind. Could you possibly let me look at your painting, the one that you're working on at this very moment? Well, sure, sure. I have one right over here. Just, uh, I'll pull the easel around. There you are. I intend to call this Figured Figurines Number 29. Hmm? But this... What's the matter? Well, surely this... this isn't your work, Mr. Mathaway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's my work, all right. Figured Figurines Number 29. Recognize it? No, I do not recognize it, and that is a fact for which I am extremely grateful. Could I see something else, please? Something a little later? Well, that's the latest. Everything else is earlier. Here, here, you might like this.  I think it's the best of my early period. Oh, oh, dear. You know, what this looks like, a smear as a paint on top of other smears of paint? Right. Only I call it Smudge on Smudge. But you probably know all about that being such an authority on me. And now, here we have Figured Figurines Number 12. Do you, do you mind leaving these Figurines, Mr. Mathaway? I'd like to see something of yours with, with color, with color and form. Well, I haven't done any real color work for a long time. Oh, wait a minute. Wait. I, I have one over here somewhere. An old canvas. I was going to paint over it. Ah, ah, here we are. This is one of the few examples of my mauve and mottled period that I've kept. No, no, no. I can't imagine why. It's positively, it's... Oh, oh, dear. Oh, now wait a minute. Let me show you some of my intestinal period. Ah, here. I have a particularly good one. It's called Large Intestine Rampant. You like it? No. Oh, please, please.  Well, take the comfortable chair. And here's another one called Small Intestine Incisive. Oh, it's rather good, don't you think? I managed to avoid completely any definite line.  I don't suppose you ever drink of glyphax. Oh, no, no. Of course you don't do it. It hasn't been invented yet. Oh, now here's one that's bound to be great. It's called Fly Ash. I painted it by coating the canvas with slow-setting glue and leaving it out on the window for about two and a half hours. Notice the delicate deposit of soot. No, no, no, please. Please, Ms. Mathaway, please, please. Oh, I've got lots more. You know, I don't understand this. All of these canvases. This is obviously before you discover yourself in your true technique. But I'm looking for a sign! A hint to the genius that is to come. And I find... Well, how about this one? Here, here. Oh, please, please, please. Oh, take that away. Oh, dear. Oh, dear, no, no. Look, I'll have to leave soon. I don't understand this at all. Let me show you something here, gentlemen. Here. A pocket edition of the source book. The Complete Paintings of Morniel Mathaway, 1928, 1996. Were you born in 1928? Yep. May 23rd, 1928. Here. Look at the first painting. Oh, that... that's beautiful. I mean, the color, that's incredible. Oh. Oh, well, that stuff. Oh, why didn't you tell me you wanted that kind of stuff? You mean... you mean you have paintings like this, too? No, no, no. Not paintings. One painting. Oh, I did it last week as a sort of an experiment, but I wasn't satisfied with the way it turned out, so I gave it to the girl downstairs. Would you like to look at it? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Very much, very much. Well, here, I'll just toss you a book on the bed. Come on, it won't take a minute or two. Oh, she's not home. I thought she'd be home now. Oh, I did so want you to see that painting. I want to see it. I want to see anything that looks like your mature work, but time is getting short. I'll tell you what. Anita here has a couple of cats that she asked me to feed when she's away for a while, so she's given me the key to her apartment. Suppose I, uh, browse upstairs and get it. But she... Suppose I browse through my room and get it. Get it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you go ahead and browse, sure. Fine, fine, but please hurry. Oh, sure, sure, I'll hurry. I won't take long browsing. Well, that was it, the high sign. I'd seen Mournial Math away in action too many times as a shoplifter not to understand it. He was going upstairs to lift that book that he'd dropped on the bed. I knew he hadn't ever painted a picture on the book, but he would now. Only he wouldn't paint them. He'd copy them. Well, I started talking automatically. You, uh, paint yourself, Mr. Glassfield? No, no, no, no, I... Of course I wanted to be an artist when I was a boy. I imagine every critic starts out that way, but I found it far easier to write about paintings than to do them. Once I began reading the life of Mournial Math away, I knew I had found my field. Not only do I empathize closely with his paintings, but just so much like a person I could have known and liked. That's one of the things that puzzles me. He's quite different from what I had imagined. Yes, I bet he is. Of course history has a way of adding romance to an important figure. Oh, dear, I'm running out of time here. Do you think you'll be back with the keys soon? I practically no time left. I've just got to get upstairs to the time translator. I just can't wait. I'll have to hurry now. Oh, dear, I did want to see an original Math away. I did want to. Oh, what's the matter? The time translator, it isn't here. It's gone. The book is gone, too. And Math away, he stranded me here. He must have figured out that getting inside and closing the door made it return. Yeah, he's a great figure, and he'll probably figure out a very plausible story to tell the people in your time to explain how the whole thing happened. Why should he work his head off in the 20th century when he can be an outstanding hero-worship celebrity in the 25th? That's what'll happen if he asks him to paint merely one picture. I don't know if he knows he can no longer add anything of importance to it. He'll no doubt end up giving lectures on himself. Don't worry, he'll make out. It's you I'm worried about.  Are they likely to send a rescue party at you? No. Every scholar who wins the award has to sign a waiver of responsibility in case he doesn't return. No, I'm... I'm stuck here. Tell me, is it... is it very bad living in this period? Well, not so bad. Of course, you'll need a Social Security card, and I don't know how you go about getting one at your age, and the immigration authorities may want to question you since you're sort of an illegal alien. Oh, dear, dear. That's awful. Wait a minute. It needn't be. I'll tell you what. Monio has a Social Security card. He had a job a couple of years ago. He keeps his birth certificate and that draw along with his other papers.  That's what you think I could. Well, would I be... Well, won't his friends, his relatives... No, he hasn't got any family, and I'm about the only friend he's got. You could get away with it. Maybe draw a beard and dye it blonde. Naturally, the big problem would be earning a living. Being a specialist on math away and the art movements derived from him wouldn't get you set on an awful lot right now. But I could paint. I've always dreamed of being an artist. I don't have much talent, but there are all kinds of artistic novelties I know about, all kinds of graphic innovations that don't exist in your time. Surely that would be enough, even without talent, to make a living for me on some third or fourth rate level. Yeah, certainly was. But not on a third or fourth rate level. Mr. Glescu, that is Monio Mathaway, is the finest painter alive today and the unhappiest. After his last wildly successful exhibition, I remember he said to me, What's the matter with all these people praising me like that? I don't have an ounce of real talent in me. All my work is completely derivative. I've tried, I've tried to do something, anything that was completely my own, but I'm so steeped in Mathaway that I can't seem to make my own personality come through.  Well, then who's is it? Mathaway's, of course. We thought there couldn't be a time paradox. I wish you could read all the scientific papers on the subject. They fill whole libraries because it isn't possible that time specialists argue for a painting to be copied from a future reproduction and so have no original artist. But that's what I'm doing. I'm copying from that book by memory. Oh, look, Glescu, that is, Mathaway, don't knock yourself out. But it's dishonest. No, it isn't. You're deliberately trying not to copy those paintings. You're working so hard at it that you refuse to think about that book or even discuss it. As a matter of fact, when I tried to get you to talk about it a little while ago, you couldn't actually remember it. That's true, that's true.  You're actually painting those pictures. You're not copying them from memory. I know in my heart that they're not mine. All right, I'll forget it.  Then besides, a buck is a buck. You have just heard X-1 presented by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features LULU by Clifford D. Simac, a story which demonstrates that a spaceship should be a darb, a smasher, a pip, a butte. But man, all battle stations, if it ever becomes a sweetheart of a ship. Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today. Tonight, X-1 has brought you the discovery of Monial Mathaway, a story from the pages of Galaxy written by William 10 and adapted for radio by Ernest Kanoy. Featured in our cast were Leon Jani as Mathaway, Guy Rep as the critic, Wendell Holmes as Glasgow, and Bless Damon as Dave, your announcer Fred Collins. X-1 was directed by Daniel Sutter and is an NBC radio network production.


The family of murdered Mrs. Oluwa Bameshe has called on the Deliga State Government and the State Police Command to apprehend everyone involved in her killing and bring them to Boke, plus the Africa correspondent love Ikuku Yedukun, who was at the family home reports. It is graveyard silence at the murdered Oluwa Bameshe's family house. The gloomy atmosphere greets her so loudly as we make our way in. The reality of the pains and trauma from the gruesome mother of Bameshe is all registered on faces here. For the traumatized aged parents of Bameshe, the last child on the family tree, her demise is one death to many. Oluwa Bameshe went missing After boarding her Legos B.L.T. last week, her lifeless body was later found on top of Keter Bridge along Ogogoro Village on Legos Island. It's a pity that what we need is justice. We can't go silent again because it's terrible. I love entering B.L.T., but the way these things happen, I'm scared to be seen say. This sad occurrence may have thrown up many questions on safety of passengers on B.L.T., known to be much more comfortable and organized. How many vehicles do we have that have internal cameras that can be able to get voice and visual and audio? Because you will need virtual and audio in those kinds of buses. So where is the control room for Legos City Transport? Where you have a dedicated camera setting and different kinds of people are seated there trained to monitor, listen in and visualize activities on the bus. But the police spokesman in Legos assures of the people's safety. He praised Bameshe's bravery for recording and sending a video to her friend while in distress. He risked our distress numbers to call when in danger. Should anyone be in distress, they can always call our control room numbers<PHONE_NUMBER>2. I want to call another one 080 651 543 38 and another one 080 632 992 64 or that is still they can call a toll-free lines 767 or 112. The mood here says it all. But there's one thing that the family is asking for that justice be served and all culpable be brought to bulk. From the family house of the late Bameshe here in Ayobo, Love Ikuku Oyedoku. Plus, TV News. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.