Good afternoon everyone. This is Melissa with the stockswish.com and welcome. Welcome to Apple. I did a preview of this yesterday before the earnings and lo and behold Apple did in fact gap down on the earnings. So Apple is really, really lower now. It's one of these things where when I did the preview on the earnings I said that Apple had to come up and gap up to 600 to correct the chart. Apple had to gap up to here to be back in an uptrend. Apple actually was not in an uptrend. All of this here is nothing. It's just Apple trading and I know that a lot of people read Apple that it was corrected back in an uptrend and that was false. That wasn't correct. It's very important to understand how to reprice and trends and it's not about pivots. If every lower high and higher low and higher high and lower high determined a trend then people would never get stopped out of trades and it'd be very easy to trade actually. And it's not about the pivots. It's about reading gaps. That's what tells you. Gaps make the trend set the trend and change the trend in the chart. So Apple was very close to correction and when I did the preview video yesterday I said Apple absolutely without a shout of it out had to get up to 600 yesterday to correct the chart and be back in an uptrend and it didn't do it. It did not do it and it had to do it because it was too close to the number not to do it. So the fact that Apple gap down today is actually tremendously horrific for the stock. I don't know if anybody actually knows that except for people that reprice in the matter that I do but it is. This is very bad for Apple here today. I know it doesn't seem like it is but it is because Apple is confirming today that it is going to halt the downtrend and it is not going to do a correction back into an uptrend. Today is the confirmation. The confirmation of Apple doesn't break 500 today it will tomorrow. I actually did short this. I'm actually in this short now. If this is so late to be in a trade here but I didn't get this this morning and then I was wishing I had and wishing I had and wishing I had and it did a beautiful beautiful beautiful five minute here and I just decided to do it. So first of all let's just go over it. Let's just go over the whole thing. Here's the five minute.  Broke the low but bounced hard and ran up to the absolute last resistance level that it had to hold on from where it opened in the morning. Okay which was 5.15 you actually could have shorted at 5.15. I gave the number in the room at 8 o'clock in the morning that 5.15 was a resistance. You have shorted it at 5.15. So that was the confirmation then even though went over the high of the day and even though it was late I said Apple is going to go back down and go right again today. Apple was right here. Flipped went green. I said Apple is going to go back down right again today. So here was the short. You didn't need any more confirmation this because it triggered and you had the number and the time of the day was good and the gap was great. The gap today in Apple was just tremendously terrific. Fantastic. Fabulous. 23 points. Then you could have also done this. It was a huge stop. I mean every stop in this today is huge. Actually this is probably the best stop this had all day. I guess that's why I decided to do it. Anyways broken here. Rallied up here. Time of the day to enter trades around lunch is not the best but many many many many many many many times things break in the afternoon. So when Apple ran up here and didn't get over 5.11 and did a retest here. I mean this is actually perfect people. Did not get over 5.11 and did a retest here for the number. I decided to do this. This is the best stop that Apple had all day and this is a crazy stock to trade when it moves but it's fun. I gotta tell you that. This is one of these ones where I still think that Apple could break the load today and break $500 but I'm out of half the trade because this is just too much in here. Came down in here. Let's go to the one minute. And the other problem is you can't lower the stop. So if you're in a trade and you can't lower the stop to stay in into the bigger number you only got two choices. A. Take half the trade off. B.  Or three stay with the whole trade but if you're up too much that doesn't make sense. So unfortunately it's one of these things where I want to try to stay through this basically in the clothes now if I can. And the stop on this can't really be lowered to stay through the larger move. And at this point now if the rest of it trails it does because it just can't be lowered. Here's it. Here's it is on the one minute. It's really really nice. So this is a nice trade here. Okay. And this is what I mean by this as well. Look at that bar. But you know it's just one of these things in Apple. This is how this stock is. Time of the day is good here though. Two o'clock. Two o'clock I'm still breaking. So the first target is the low of the day which is 502 something and after that I mean it's just until it falls in the clothes. I mean this is this is the reason why I'm still in half this trade. I think this falls and drops right into the clothes. So let's go over the gap. I did not short Apple when it first broke. And I also didn't take a core trade in Apple or a swing trade in Apple to the downside or anything like that. You know in last year in 2000 and well 2013 yeah. I've got to tell you though when you get to a point in your trading where you're seeing things and your your trading and your trading is doing very well and you're seeing things before they happen. It helps your confidence a lot. It helps this thing called conviction. Something that I talk about just a tremendous amount because it's real. It's not like this make believe fantasy thing. This idea of having conviction and believing in what you do helps you train the market successfully because it helps you take risk. And so even if you don't take a trade like I did not take a swing or core trade in Apple. I'm not Apple overnight or anything. I mean this right now is a day trade. I'll be flat this before the end of the day. But you know seeing this and seeing the bigger picture here play out helps my conviction in what I do as a day trader and eventually at some point to take overnight trades as well because I'm tracking them too. And so all of this is good. You really in order to take risks you have to have confidence and conviction in what you do. And I think it lessens the risk of the trade because you're never going to get around the fact that you're risking money to take a trade. So you have to find a way to get around it emotionally which is having conviction and believing in what you do which I do. I believe highly in what I do and every time I see it play out even in calls that are that are calls that no one else would make. It really really helps my conviction which is what happened here in Apple. So the original target that I had an Apple that I announced and did a video on a year ago last summer whenever it was is in play and Apple is going to continue now to the downside and the target on Apple the first target on Apple for an overnight longer term trade is three seventy three sixty five three sixty three fifty five and three fifty Apple without a shot of a doubt is going to get to three sixty three fifty five three fifty. I mean it is now it's confirming it. So this is a short it's been a short it was never not a short ever since it gap down here and it's been running red and all of this in here all this is going on is people now realizing that they don't want to buy back into Apple. So that's one of these things that there was an article this morning somewhere Carl Carl Icon somebody put it in the room was buying more of Apple today. One man alone could not hold up and support a stock. It's just not possible at least not a stock like this. So you know but Carl Icon can buy Apple here at five hundred four hundred three hundred six hundred he can buy it anywhere he wants and and stick with the trade deal longer term trade until Apple does correct itself. He can be in this trade forever if he wants to probably but the fact is that Apple is heading lower next right now today and and and until it corrects itself back and up trend which what I'm saying here is important about this gap today is that is it a very significant gap for this chart. It's confirming the downside direction. It's confirming that it is going to go to three sixty three fifty five three fifty and Carl Icon can buy all of it that he wants but if no one else wants to buy Apple and put Apple back up in an uptrend it's not going to go there and when the earnings came out last night they didn't want to buy it. The power is a B the power of many people the people that control the stock did not want to buy Apple and instead what happened was they sold out of some more of their long position in it. When the shorting comes into Apple the large shorting I don't think it's going to be till probably you know under 400 and heavily under 350 and so that's why this is you know these are some very significant areas in here because I think shorting could come into Apple which is not happening right now more selling came into Apple today at three fifteen more selling came in here. Some people bought this here but do you see more sellers took it took it out and held it down it's very easy to reprice for me this is what I teach people to do read gaps but you also have to reprice what's happening here with Apple the people in control or who the people in control are not the bulls okay Apple got sold off here the people in control are not going to let Apple get back over five fifteen today okay I didn't let it get over five fifteen this morning even through the rally even where it got bought here do you see because more selling pressure came down on Apple here at five fifteen right at the number that I said so it's two more hours left in the day amount of half this train there's no place else to put this up I got probably the best entry this about that there was today I wish to would have got it this morning I watched it but I took my outfit for one second and missed the trigger and that's how it is Apple will close today bearish in this gap and if it does not break five hundred dollars today it will tomorrow I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past Apple to actually gap down tomorrow no matter what it does today whether it breaks five hundred breaks new low breaks low the day because it's not going to get to the dream target here today which was four eighty so Apple could gap down here tomorrow I think it does I think it does actually I'm seeing this here but we'll see where this goes here to the end of the day I'm really happy I did an afternoon trade here it's okay to do an afternoon trade once in a blue moon I don't really like to trade the afternoon but every once in a while you get a good get a good trade you get a good setup you get a good entry and then you just feel like you got to do it and good practice for anyone that traded Apple today because it was one of those gaps that I had so much conviction in so much conviction and the overall chart so I teach people how to read gaps and rate gaps in the golden gap class but in the trends class I actually review Apple I have had it in the class ever since all last year all my all the goings on about Apple I have all the detailed numbers everything the whole thing in the class and I know that people that did the class are watching this one of my clients today's been whoever since I did the class has been watching Apple to see if it plays out the way I thought and obviously saw the gap down here today so it is what it is this is Melissa with the stops stockswish.com if you'd like to take the next golden gap class it's February 8th and 9th you can email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com Apple is down it's been a downtrend again this is something that probably no one else but me read it this way or very few people anyways nobody I know nothing I've ever seen out there on the internet you really have to understand price and gaps and there are people that do or there wouldn't be people that make millions and billions of dollars in the market but I'll say one thing this was challenging to read it this way I did a great job doing it Apple is in a downtrend has been in a downtrend has stated a downtrend is in a downtrend is going to continue in the downtrend and it's going to 360 355 350 and if you are still in Apple long and you want to be in it for a long long long long time great but it's one of these things where if you're up in Apple money you know you got to really think about taking possibly some of your profits out Apple is going to drop big time here and I don't know the timing of when okay but today confirms the downtrends intact and staying there and that Apple is not going to go back into an uptrend here anytime soon and I actually don't think it's going to this whole year now because this gap today was really really bad so it's very important to learn how to re-gaps I don't think anybody that trades in markets should not know how to re-gaps I think if you trade in the live market you need to understand gaps and know how to read them whether you trade them or not as a day trader swing trader court trade is up to you but if you don't understand how to re-gaps you don't know how to read this right here today and you might have tried to buy it you might be buying it now you might think this is a buy here and you might think it's the best buy in the world or some kind of cheap buy but it's not it's a short it's a short as a day trade it's a short as a swing trade it's a confirmation of a short as an overnight trade too and Apple's in a downtrend so you don't buy stuff that's in a downtrend okay really really something here so we'll see where this goes today and when it does tomorrow this is Melissa with the stockswish.com if you'd like more information email me at melissa at the stockswish.com thanks everybody have a great day


further ado, Charles, and Autumn, it is over to you. All right, thank you everybody for coming today. We're so excited to have you, and Autumn, if you want to share your screen, we can kick off this workshop. Are you seeing the presentation now? I am, awesome, thank you so much. We are here to talk about creating counter-media texts in the open with Annotate EdTech. My name is Charles Logan. I use he, him, his pronouns. I'm a PhD student in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, which is just north of Chicago, and I'm very excited to be joined by Autumn. Hi everybody, my name is Autumn Keynes. I go by pronouns of she, her, hers, and I am an instructional designer at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and you can reach out to me on Twitter at handle, at Autumn with two M's, A-U-T-U-M-M. We did want to begin with land acknowledgments. I am an uninvited visitor on the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa, as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk nations. These homelands were a site of trade, travel, gathering, and healing for more than a dozen other native tribes and are still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois. I also want to acknowledge that in addition to land being taken and erased from Indigenous peoples, part of the Settler Colonials Project is also erasing Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing. And we heard a little bit about this last week in Keynotes, and so I was actually reading this paper from Dr. Megan Bang, a native scholar at Northwestern, and I'm very lucky and grateful to be learning with in the Learning Sciences Program. And I wanted to share her work in this paper in particular, because for me, it resonated a lot with what some of the conversations were happening last week around thinking about epistemic violence, thinking about ways in which closure may actually be preferable to openness. And so to me, it's important to share this work because I continue to learn from it, and so I wanted to share it with everybody today. My institution does not have a statement, so I do not have a statement that was developed in conjunction with native peoples acknowledging the land, and so I'm very sensitive to that. But I am aware that I live and work on the territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and I acknowledge that the land that we now call the United States was taken in incongruable ways from indigenous peoples. I'm interested in these histories, and I'm seeking teachers and resources. And to come to this land acknowledgement, that I wrote myself because my institution doesn't have one, I've listed some resources there at the bottom, and we will make the links available after the fact. All right, so what are we gonna do today? We are gonna get to the annotation and the discussion, which is gonna be the heart of our session today. Before we do that though, we thought it was important to provide a little bit of history and context before we could sort of dive into the margins and get annotating. So next slide. I made this meme because I think it helps to illustrate the genesis of annotate ed tech. So over the course of the past year and a half, two years, I have been as long as well as many others frustrated by some of the rhetoric that online proctoring CEOs and companies use to sell their products, which in my opinion, are racist, ableist, privacy-invading surveillance tech. And yet a lot of the CEOs, both on their websites, as well as letters to senators here in the United States, sort of praise their surveillance with language of equity and integrity. And so to me, that was troubling. And so I wanted to sort of push back against that language and push back against those narratives in a critical fashion. And so annotate ed tech was sort of born out of that frustration. Real quickly, so I had this idea of what if we use social annotation to construct some counter narratives. And so I went to Autumn and Nathan Schneider and Aaron Glass, all of whom are part of a group called Ethical EdTech. And I said, hey, what if we did this thing? And they would say, hey, that sounds cool. And so they were very supportive.  We use Zoom as well as a rise up etherpad and etherpads are open software collaborative writing documents in conjunction with Hypothesis, the social annotation tool that we're gonna use today. And we were able to create 95 annotations and responses, conversations on the websites of three of the major online proctoring or invigilation or invigilation, as I think it's known outside of the United States. As a means of producing what Raimi Collier and Ontario Garcia describe as a counter narrative or an alternative to conventional methods and messages. So in my mind, annotate EdTech is sort of this movable feast. It's this thing that sort of a learning experience aimed at, for me, sort of bringing that degree of criticality towards narratives that are sold by EdTech companies and then often taken up by institutions and then, of course, use, I would argue, against students. And so we're gonna be thinking about creating a counter narrative together today. And Autumn, I think this is this. I thought it was the next one. Okay, oh yeah, you're right. This is Hypothesis. This is what it looks like. So I will say as a reminder, we are using Hypothesis. You will need a Hypothesis account if you would like to annotate today. You do not need to annotate to participate. You can still read the annotations and that's totally fine. And I do wanna recognize that one of the companies that we are going to be annotating some of their language is extraordinary litigious as well as problematic. So totally understand if folks would rather sort of watch the annotation and then join the conversation or not be in the chat, whatever sort of engagement looks like for you today, fantastic. But this is the interface for Hypothesis on the right-hand side. And so what you see here is that production of that counter narrative. Here are three different examples of this is taken from the proctor you created a student bill of rights. And so we don't know if any students were involved in the creation of this document or teachers or if it was just sort of company folks. And so we see here in the first annotation is this close reading asking questions about the kind of underlying assumptions and language used by the ed tech company and then working together to expand that knowledge. And to me that's a really powerful way of thinking about annotation is again creating those counter narratives in community. And so that to me is one of the really powerful ways of using social annotation. And just in the spirit of making this part the participation that we're inviting you to be a part of today, making it your own is that it doesn't have to just be for today. So I'll draw your attention. Again, these are screenshots from the last annotated tech that was run. And you'll notice that the one on the left from Valerie November 16th was done on the actual day of the event and the next one from a cog dog is November 17th. So don't feel like you also have to stop annotating after this event is over. If you wanna go back and continue to read or if you wanna pass the annotation link on to others feel free to do that. You can really kind of make this your own. It doesn't have to be just tied to this particular event. You can also stretch this out over time as well. Actually, what do you mind going back to the previous slide? I just wanna point to I think another powerful way of learning that these two annotations point out is using the affordances of the open web. And so you have here a sort of collection of hyperlinks of resources. And so to me that's another powerful element of annotated ed tech is both the careful reading of the text that's on the screen but the way in which that text is in conversation with others. And so using hyperlinks using as we'll see on the next slide images as a way to create a really kind of rich and robust set of resources. And so here we have a sticker that was actually placed on the one of the company websites by the profit of innovation doom as the person's username. And this sticker actually comes from something that Chris Gillard, a professor and tech critic has said and actually I think, I don't know if Autumn has more of these stickers but I know she and Chris were mailing them out to folks who requested. And then on the right is actually a GIF. So you can use GIFs in hypothesis. Again, thinking about that word integrity and really reading closely and the language that these companies use to sell their products and sort of poking fun in this case, using humor as a means of surfacing some problematic uses of the language, certainly in this person's opinion. So I wanna point those out. And both of these images and then the individual annotations as well as the conversation get at I think a key idea that I wanna point out in the next slide. And that is this, that annotation carries with it political and social aspects to it. And so this is a quote from Ramey Clears and a lot of work in social annotation. And then I just wanna draw everybody's attention to a distinction that he makes between defacing something which he argues centers the ideology of white supremacy versus using sort of the language around graffiti. And that graffiti as he argues and I would agree is more of these intentional marks of justice directed counter narratives. And here he shares an example of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. And this place has become a kind of gathering point for Black Lives Matter protesters here in the U.S. And so yeah, absolutely maha. And I think sort of in that spirit of criticality but also of creating justice oriented graffiti that's what we're gonna be thinking about today as we move into our annotation portion and thinking about partnerships between ed tech companies that have a very kind of specific way of thinking about teaching and learning teachers and students. And so we're gonna provide a little bit more context now about the companies that we're gonna be engaging with today. So the article that we are going to annotate is a press release about a top hat partnering with Proctorio to deliver free secure online proctored tests and exams remotely. We'll be getting you a link to the article that will enable the hypothesis annotation here in just a second unless somebody's already done that. I should say too, I can't see the chat right now. The only thing I can see is the, and I hear the little bings coming in so I know that folks are chatting but yeah, I can't see the chat right now. Just FYI on that. And we just wanted to- I just put the link, sorry, I didn't interrupt. I just put the link to the hypothesis enabled press release. So yes, please do you tweet away. Yeah, and if you wanna share that out, you absolutely can. We would love to invite more people to come in and annotate with us. But before we get started on this, I wanna recognize that not everybody knows what remote proctoring is. We are talking to a global audience and some people don't even call it proctoring. Like Charles just said, they call it invigilation. And so I wanted to talk a little bit about the harms of remote proctoring. And so we're talking about Proctorio when we talk about the proctoring piece of this. This is kind of a little bit of a complicated piece because we're basically talking about a partnership that's being created between two companies. One of the companies is Proctorio and they do remote proctoring. And there are problems with remote proctoring on a number of different levels. We have lots of examples of this technology in particular being racist and ableist. It is a 100% algorithmic proctoring. There is no humans involved in this case. And it's not to say that human proctoring in a remote setting is okay or good. That has a whole other set of problems as well. But we see people with darker faces who cannot be picked up by the algorithm, which puts them in a situation where things are much different and they get disenfranchised in really problematic ways. The proctoring companies will tell you, oh, they can just call the helpline and they'll let them in or they'll help them troubleshoot it. But we have just some really dehumanizing factors. People asking, people being asked to shine their lights on their face with fell ash lights and just can be really problematic. There's many, many examples of this technology not working. The companies, of course, will tell you that, oh, it's 100% every time you can completely control your exams and your tests. But there's many, many examples of students finding ways around. Humans are very inventive. So it is not 100%. There are many examples of it not working. It's very expensive. There are lots of cost concerns. Data security concerns, there are many, not put this, well, I can't say with this particular company, but with many of these remote proctoring companies, there are several instances of data breaches, that kind of thing. So what's happening with these data and how well are they being secured? Privacy concerns. So just the fact that students are asked to put themselves on camera, they have no choice. They have to do a room scan. So they're, and we're not talking about like a shared testing environment, right? We're talking about people's bedrooms, people's living rooms, shared spaces, that kind of thing. And then just what this does to the normalization of surveillance culture, that we're talking about a school environment where students are learning about the world around them and about what kind of people they are going to be in society and when this is made normal in a school environment. This easily becomes something that can perpetuate out into other parts of society. And so like I said, the article is about, it's an announcement, it's a press release of something that I call a fourth party integration. That is a thing that is out there a fourth party vendor. And what this is, as an institution, you make a partnership with Top Hat, let's say, but then all of a sudden Top Hat announces that there's a new feature that they have. And if you go to Top Hat's website, you don't look at this press release, but if you just go to their website and click on the page about their remote proctoring, you would have no idea that the remote proctoring is from Proctorio. There's no mention of Proctorio on that site. There's screenshots of the tool and if you're familiar with Proctorio, you might be able to see and recognize that the Proctorio is the tool. But yeah, you would have no idea. You, as an institution, would not have signed an agreement with Proctorio. You wouldn't necessarily have any idea that this is going on. This also is a huge loophole. So there's a lot of institutions that are trying to set some limits on the number of vendors that they're interfacing with because this opens up all kinds of problems for data security and that kind of thing. So this is a huge loophole to that. Now, all of a sudden, your students, you and your students' data are going to be interfacing with being collected by, stored by Proctorio and you really had no idea. You signed up for Top Hat. And this begs the question, what is Top Hat? Top Hat, they call themselves an active learning platform and they do a bunch of different things. So they have textbooks. You can buy your textbooks through them. They have an annotation tool so we're gonna be using Hypothesis today but like Top Hat has their own annotation tool. They do remote proctoring by reselling Proctorio even though that's not entirely clear at the front end. They also have a clicker, kind of like a response system type of tool and they provide some learning analytics as well. So just to give you a little bit of an idea of the tool that we're going to be, or I'm sorry, the article that we're going to be annotating, that's kind of the different players that are involved and the article itself is a press release about a partnership between the two. Okay, let's get annotating. So as I mentioned earlier, you do need an Hypothesis account in order to annotate. You will not need one if you just wanna observe and see the annotations. I think Autumn is gonna demonstrate what that looks like here in a second. I did put that link in the chat as well as Autumn, I'll let you know that I put the against online proctoring open library that we have been and other folks have been helping to curate. Autumn also has a really wonderful fellow on Twitter which she's definitely do, a kind of ongoing lit review in which she sort of calls out and shares different articles. There is a depressingly large number of them. And so as we move into annotation, what we're gonna do is we'll just turn off our, I mean, everyone's camera I think is off right now and audio, but we'll just have some quiet annotation time. I'll be in the chat if people have questions. If at any point you do wanna just sort of ask a question, please do that in the chat. You can turn your camera on and your mic on. So we'll be able to have some annotation time. As we annotate you might be considering some of the questions that we've listed here. I'm really, as I said, overall the aim of thinking about what is the narrative that these companies are telling and selling about their products and where might we produce a counter narrative? And so that's sort of the goal for our annotation time and then we're gonna have a little bit of time at the end, maybe 10 minutes or so, to sort of debrief, share any noticeings and think about broadly where annotate ed tech might fit into your teaching and learning practices and contexts. So I think that's that part Autumn. If you wanna, oh yeah, that's a good question. We use the annotate ed tech and it is important for accessibility reasons to capitalize the E in ed and the T in tech. So if you are going to use the hashtag, please make sure you do that. That's a great question Ma, thanks. Yeah, I think we're probably ready for the demoing. Are you able to see the article now? Yeah. Okay. And so, yeah, when you first come to the text that we're going to be annotating, you will see the article. You may wanna take a moment to kind of read through it and see what's going on with it and think about your annotations. And then basically there should be a little sidebar over here. You'll notice that there's a little arrow and an I and a little page. And I usually just start with the arrow to open up the sidebar. You'll notice that there's page notes here. So Charles has started us off with an initial page note with those questions that you might wanna think about while you're annotating. And then the individual annotations will be over here on the side. To make an annotation, it's pretty simple. You can just highlight and then you wanna go to annotate, not highlight. Your highlights are private to you. Your annotations will be public to anybody who's on this article with the hypothesis link or with the hypothesis plugin. And then when I click on annotate and say, and when I'm ready, go to the public. And notice that if anybody wants to respond to that question, you can come over here to reply and make a reply there. And it looks like we've already got some new annotations coming in. I can tell because there's a red circle with a download kind of arrow here. And when I click on that, I'll get my new annotations will pop in. And I see Mehabeli and Carolyn are in here already jumping into some stuff. So now I'll be quiet. Charles, if you have anything else you'd like to add and just let people annotate. Yeah, the only other thing I would add is that if you do, I see some folks doing it, wanna add the annotate edtech tag or any even the OER by domain is 21 tag two. And the reason why that is potentially helpful is that once you click that tag, you'll be in conversation, not only obviously with what we're doing today, but you'll also be able to call up annotations from any other annotation that has been tagged. So that's the usefulness of the tag there. Yeah, and so it's about 10, 30 AM my time here in the central time zone in the US. So why don't we spend maybe about 15 minutes on them or so? And we'll see. I mean, if there's a lot of energy in the margins then we can take it longer. But yeah, our goal is really just to have that quiet work time now. If you have questions, please do unmute yourself and ask or use the chat and otherwise happy annotating, happy counter-narrative writing. And we'll debrief here in about 15 minutes or so. It will annotate for about another three minutes and then come back and sort of debrief on the experience. Lots of really wonderful conversations on things. I'm really good. Okay, I've got 10, 48 my time. And so I wanna make sure that we have enough time to just sort of debrief. And I'm curious as folks looked at the article and the annotations, what struck you? Was there anything in particular that you were surprised that made you angry, frustrated? What kind of, yeah, struck you about the narrative that emerged about education and teaching and learning from this and any of the comments that you read or left? And you can respond to the chat if you wanna unmute yourself. Mejha's back, welcome back Mejha. We were just saying we're just gonna open it up for conversation about what we just did, about what we just saw. And you can feel free to jump in. It looks like Carolyn has her hand raised. Hi, thank you so much for doing this. And I was just gonna pipe in and respond to Logan's question. I think something that was significant to me was the peppering of potentially positive terms or terms that are attractive to engage educators, the peppering of words like active learning, integrity and like pedagogical approach. It's just kind of this peppering of these words that are kind of in some ways being co-opted in the actual overall message to me being expressed in the press release. So I think that was something that, so often I found myself pausing and being like, how are they defining that? I don't think it's the same way that I might necessarily define that term. Yeah, that's a great point. Were there other words or phrases that anyone else noticed as sort of, yeah, language that I'm, yeah, integrity of exams, yeah. Students. Yeah, that's when Mahaa makes me think about some of Autumn's work that she's done around weaponization of care and that it's not caring for students, but about students. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm expanding that article actually into a more full-length article. So I've been, I'm actually in the middle of drafting it. So it's very, very at the forefront of my mind. And I think it's, yes, I attended your workshop on the, I believe you were citing Jane Toronto and I usually go through Nell Nottings, but this idea of there's a difference between caring for and caring about, and caring about ideas and things is much different than caring for people. And so we see this division of caring about integrity, comparing about caring about rigor, caring about these ideas, but what about caring for students and the vulnerable students who could potentially be harmed in these spaces, right? Other noticings about either the language from the press release or any of the conversation that was happening in the annotations. I mean, one of the things that I'm really sensitive to is this partnership that this has just passed off as like, oh, there's a new feature. We have, we now can offer you this thing and thinking about what about the people who don't want that? What about the top hat customers who signed, who didn't sign up for that? And now all of a sudden there's this free thing that is available to them. I will say, I do believe that they only offered it free for a certain amount of time. And we saw this specifically around the time of the pandemic, right? All of these, the beginning of the pandemic, I should say, because we're still in the pandemic, but we saw a lot of companies come out with this, oh, we wanna care for your language. Oh, we went, Alan, we're gonna give you something for free, right? So I do think they rolled that back a bit and that now you have to, students actually have to pay specifically for like the tests that they're going to be offered. So it's not an improvement, but yeah, it just strikes me about how these partnerships can impact us, especially if you're like an administrator at an institution, you didn't sign up for this. You didn't vet this product, you didn't have a committee that looked at this product and figured out if it was the right thing for your institution and the right thing for your students. And now all of a sudden, guess what? You're now a proctorial customer, just like that. And that just seems really problematic to me. I'm also thinking about language around seamless, I think, I don't know if efficiency is in there, but I think so much of it, selling, right, on the one hand, I understand you want your technology to work, but also this notion of, I think it sort of bleeds into teaching and learning as seamless as smooth and what happens when that kind of vision of education is one that is widely adopted, rather than education as learning as challenging, as rough in places and rather than trying to smooth away all of the difficulties where those challenges really be embraced rather than everything happening seamlessly. That being said, you do want your technology to work like today, right? So that's interesting, that tension, I suppose. I love this little back and forth between Mehta and Sincolson and here with the no choice to refuse, that makes me think about the Against Surveillance event that happened last year, and I believe it was in Mehta's session with Benjamin D'Axiater and Savva Sahleising and Chris Gillier, that was one of the, when they talked about care in some of these spaces that when you are presented with this caring language, if you're presented with some of these welcoming statements, ask yourself, well, what does it mean for me to refuse if I were to say no to this gift that you're offering me? Am I even able to refuse it? And that is of what I believe is a key, that's a key indicator for anybody who's trying to figure out, is this real care or is this a weaponization of care? If you can't refuse it, if you can't say no, is there something right about that? That is true as well. I'm not sure if I'm staying here. Yeah, name right there, but yeah, the institutions definitely have a lot of influence here. And it's bigger than just any one technology tool. We're not picking on any one technology tool here or even a set of technologies because this is a systemic problem that we have in the idea that we think about the assessments that we give. It's in our accrediting agencies, it's in our institutions, it's a lot bigger than just trying to talk about problematic technologies. Yeah, it's been interesting to see it just reading a comment about, as the rise of these technologies, and again, I wanna echo what Autumn said, it's not one particular type of technology, but it seems like in conjunction with that conversation of assessment, as these technologies have risen sort of exposed sort of maybe less effective ways of assessment that at least, and maybe it's my echo chamber on Twitter, the rise of ungrading and really more and more folks who are embracing forms of ungrading as a means of sort of pushing back against a more sort of skills-based assessment, or rather not sort of embracing a wider range of types of assessment. Yeah, right? And I will add that one of the things that technology always seems to do, right, is that it exacerbates, it amplifies, it makes things more efficient, it streamlines things. And so even though I wanna say, like I don't wanna target any one particular technology or any set of technologies, I've done in-person proctoring before, and I've seen the harms that can come from that, the student anxiety, I've worked the accommodations room with people who have a differing set of needs that the accommodations don't always account for, and I've seen just really horrible things happen there, and so I do know that this technology is just gonna amplify those horrible things that come just with this type of testing. Thank you so much for coming. So I'm just curious, in our last two minutes, I know, I think take a sort of step back and think about social annotation as a broader phenomenon in particular to sort of annotate ed tech, and if folks have ideas or ways in which they envision using something like this in your own teaching practice, in one minute or less. And if you don't, that's fine too. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's that normalization of surveillance that Autumn talked about. I think we may be out of time. We'll just give you a conversation. I was just about to say that was absolutely, absolutely fascinating. And yeah, I had lots of things running through my mind there at the end about neoliberalism and education and lots of different, lots of different things, which I'm currently writing my thesis on. So yeah, that was great to be part of and moderate for you.  So thank you everybody for taking part today. I'm just gonna...


Hi everyone, I'm Raif Derrazy and in this video I'm going to cover the very recent announcement of the great results of American gene technologies AGT-103T phase one clinical trial. Don't worry about what all that means just yet I'll explain but it is testing for the safety and efficacy of a potential HIV cure So before we dive right in let me go over a little bit about what American gene technologies is and reading the description from their website It says American gene technologies is a pioneering biotech company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland That's using gene therapy to cure humanity's most deadly diseases American gene is creating the foundation for a fundamentally new approach to medicine much like Apple's iOS platform for the iPhone We're building a gene therapy platform So other scientists can build on its approach to develop new cures much like software developers creating apps for the iPhone This will significantly cut the time and costs of developing new drugs for a variety of diseases So they're not just creating They're not developing cures alone They're developing a platform from which other researchers companies, etc. Organizations can develop cures Making the whole process more efficient. It sounds like okay So into the crux of the video this past Friday June 9th today Saturday, so it was just yesterday for me Jeff Galvin the CEO of American gene technologies announced live on YouTube a Summary of the results of their AGT-103T phase 1 clinical trial as Stated on their website AGT-103T is a single dose autologous cell therapy Delivering gene therapy modified HIV specific CD4 T cells to persons with HIV disease. I know it's a mouthful Here I'll try to break it down a little bit for you. So autologous simply means that it's sample tissue or cells taken from your own body and then that Sample is then reintroduced into your body after it's been modified So CD4 T cells white blood cells have been taken from a person Modified through gene therapy and then injected back into that same person Hoping to create some sort of result So one of the first things that Jeff starts off by saying is that they were able to accomplish both Safety and efficacy in this phase one clinical trial So starting with safety they had seven participants in the clinical trial 100% of them Did not experience any serious adverse health events. So that was like a big Milestone for them to accomplish that and then the second part is efficacy They took out the CD4 cells of these seven participants modified them through gene therapy and then put them back in their respective bodies and the cells did behave the way that They were hoping and expecting They were designed through the gene therapy to actually fight HIV. The problem is with HIV is that it cripples CD4's ability to do its job and actually kills the CD4 cells in our body so they were able to Change the CD4 cells the white blood cells in a way that it was actually able to trigger an immune response an immune Cascade as Jeff phrased it in his announcement and even without having them remove their antiretrovirals from the regimen They were still able to notice an effect that these newly modified CD4 T cells were having on the body and the immune system response So they were super happy with with the results thus far But then they decided to ask the seven participants who would be willing to go off of their ARVs So that they could continue to study the effects of these modified CD4 cells on the body six participants decided to go off of ARV and when they did their They had a normal immune response to HIV When I say normal, I mean a risk a response to HIV Whereas those of us like me if I were to go off ARV my immune system wouldn't respond to normally like it does to other diseases So what happens is the CD4's actually tell the CD8? Cells to attack the virus Usually I'll use myself as an example when I had HIV and I was not on ARV's because I was not diagnosed I didn't know at the time my CD4's were steadily declining and at the same time my CD8 cells were doing nothing because the CD4's were Being killed off and they also weren't telling the CD8's to attack the HIV That's what usually happens But these modified CD4's in these Participants these six participants who agreed to go off of ARVs were behaving in a way that was good The CD4's remained stable They weren't dying off and they were telling the CD8's to attack the virus Then Jeff asked the remaining six participants if they would be willing again to go into ATI or Analytic treatment interruption which just means that they were taking off their normal treatment your normal ARV regimen in order to further study what was going on in their body of the six remaining four participants agreed to do it all four participants had significant viral suppression and immediate immune response Some had a viral suppression as Jeff said of two logs or 100x less virus than what they had in the previous ATI when they were taken off of their ARVs So even a while later, I'm not sure the exact amount of time between the two ATI's Their body was continuing to respond to the virus in a healthy way, which is you know, of course Really positive for their findings There will be an article coming out later this summer that will explain the data They collected as well as their findings and the next step is rolling into phase two pending FDA approval, which they're pretty confident that they'll get there's no reason why they wouldn't and In that they will be optimizing this same protocol So that's that's pretty substantial exciting news. It was seven participants It's not a huge amount of people, but I assume that in phase two they would expand that and I don't know anything about the participants I'm curious to know if it was male female just male, you know, what was their ethnic backgrounds things like that a lot of times in these Studies and clinical trials There is a lack of diversity in that sense, so I'd be interested to know more about that Maybe that's something we'll get in the Published data later this summer Okay, and then the next big announcement that Jeff via American gene technologies made was that they're rolling out a completely new Company called ad immune. I'll put the logo up here So you can see that and it's entirely separate from American gene technologies and its purpose Solely is to focus on therapies that treat and cure HIV Whereas AGT addresses multiple different kinds of diseases ad immune will be focusing 100% of its energy and its resources on HIV cure research Cool, so it'll be really interesting to see how that develops to I've been following you can see find their socials On social media they created accounts for ad immune on most social places I'll link those down in this description below so you can find that there as well as well as American gene technologies And then that way hopefully you can follow along just as I am and then once they announced the new company ad immune They've then focused on a bit of time on in new investment opportunities They are partnering with an investment firm based in New York called 10x capital whose CEO is Hans Thomas The implication is that once institutional investors are interested Which they are at this point as evidenced by 10x capital when it willing to partner with them they're you know a big investment firm that's on Wall Street, and I know that they're listed on the Nasdaq and Once that happens you get institutional interest It's a good sign of the sentiment that investors Perceive that there's a viable product here that at some point in the near future There can be there's profit to be made and I know I know can be an uncomfortable topic to address financial incentives when it comes to something like HIV and The fact that it's been a source of so much pain and heartache and trauma for so many millions of people around the world but It's important to acknowledge and be aware that companies put in Years and years sometimes decades of research experimentation and resources into their work and they should be compensated for that Without some kind of financial incentive private companies wouldn't be able to stay in business Yes, the you know the US government and nonprofits could Potentially finance something like that, but for a private company to do that They need to be able to have financial incentive So I'm all for it. I think it's great. It's good news. I do as always want to stress a bit of cautious Hopeful optimism, you know, it's easy to kind of let the cart get in front of the horse, especially when it's something that you Are personally invested in you know it impacts millions of people around the world and it's it's very emotional for a lot of us And like I said, so many people have an experience trauma when it comes to HIV So the idea of a cure it's easy once you find this little morsel of hope to kind of jump on that and get overly excited and and forget that you know a lot of a lot of these things Don't necessarily pan out or they may pan out But it's gonna take probably a lot longer than we hope it would that's just the reality of it But that doesn't mean that we can't celebrate and be excited about the milestones along the way and speaking of milestones Adamine actually has some milestones listed on their website They had a countdown from like 10 to 0 and we've been through I'll show you 1098 here Starting with the clinical trial being allowed by the FDA then phase one began and then the first participant enrolled in October of 2020 and then we moved into Milestone seven which is the first product passes release Testing and then six the first patient was infused with their own modified CD4s Five three patients with no serious adverse events DSMB accelerates trial and then four first five patients show critical efficacy Markers it's kind of cool that they're showing the progress as it as it goes along and then here upcoming milestones first human efficacy phase two approval phase two completed and then By the way, if you hear snoring, that's dookie snoring next to me And then finally zero biologics license agreement You can check that on their website. I'll have links like I said down below. You can check out Adamine You can check out American gene technologies Head up their socials Follow them So you can stay up to date on the latest Last year. I did actually Jeff the CEO of AGT invited me on his channel for an interview So you can see that on their YouTube channel. I'll put a link to that in the box down below as well Also, let me know if you're interested in having Jeff Galvin on for an interview. He's the CEO of American gene technologies I think he's also Leading the charge on Adamine as well. So I'll bring him on. We'll do an interview. We could talk about AGT We can talk about Adamine. We can talk about these latest findings with the clinical trial Whatever other questions comments you guys might have please put them in the comments below I'll take a look. Maybe I'll include it in the interview and I'll also put a link to the official announcement that he did on YouTube that link will be found below as well Okay, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed this little announcement update video I would like to do and I'm working towards wanting to do maybe weekly news updates and just kind of aggregate a bunch of The latest HIV news that I find online through articles reddit, etc. And Present them in a weekly video. That's that's a big lift for me It's a big goal, but I'm letting you know That's a goal that I'm working towards it might start out that I'll do it once every month or once every couple weeks Whatever, but the goal is to to work up to doing that once every week So we kind of keep this conversation rolling. Alright like this video if you like to subscribe if you haven't already hit that bell You know what to do share this with anybody who might find this exciting useful Hopeful or reassuring and I'll see you guys in the next one. Cheers


This study investigated a novel copper nanoparticle supported on a graphene-like material, Cuglm, as a catalyst for the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride, NaBH4. The Cuglm catalyst was found to be effective in generating high volumes of hydrogen gas from NaBH4 with minimal loss in activity after repeated use. This catalyst could potentially provide a viable alternative to current hydrogen production methods, making it an attractive option for the development of a hydrogen economy. This article was authored by Kikwatch, Eric Beeler, and Tarek M. Abdelfada.


The abstract states that a new quantitative systems pharmacology model has been developed to account for differences between patients in a phase i clinical trial. It suggests that the drug may be more effective against tumours in patients with slower growing cancer or those with higher levels of T cells. This article was authored by Monica Isuzilo, Kai Chung Lee, Kapil Gadka, and others.


West Africa, Gold, Koba Resources, Ed, how are you today? Very well. Thank you very much for asking. You're at PDAC. What's your number one objective while you're here? Our number one objective is to communicate the opportunity that we have to potential investors in operating companies as we are raising capital to expand our drill program that we have set for this year. And of course, you just, I just read a Halgarten Plus company report about you. And Christopher Eccleston's words to me were close ology. This is a close ology play. Would you agree with him? Absolutely. I mean, we're less than nine kilometers away from an operating mine, which is the area of mine site. We have the same, the same package in terms of geology as our neighbor. So we have no money to invest in terms of infrastructure. So it's a no brainer. It's completely what we consider a brownfield project close to a mine. So for those of you out there that are going gold, we're watching gold right now. Let's start with a proper introduction to Koba Resources. Can you provide an overview of what Koba Resources is? What Koba is a junior miner, obviously. We've come to the table on the TSXV last March. But we've been in existence for more than seven years. We were private up until then, exploring on that license that we have, which was granted to us in 2019. We have a good sizeable chunk of high net worth individuals that are shareholders. I would say among 25 of these guys are geologists or mine engineers who have seen the quality of the project and have decided to put their own money into it. We have a couple of institutional shareholders, which are Gold 2000 from Switzerland, Delbert Capital from Vancouver, who have seen the opportunity as well. And believe in the story, we just talked about the crossology and the opportunity that represents probably being able to drill this thing, define a resource, and sell it to our next door neighbor in a couple of years. So it's really considered as a short-term investment. One of the things that I found very intriguing about this story was how often your management team actually goes over there. Honestly, we rarely see that in a lot of these companies. The backgrounds of your very experienced professional team is impressive. I encourage you to go check their website out and do the research too. Can you tell me what was so remarkable about this exploration play that you were able to put such a great man together? Well, initially it was a small alluvial play, and we made a discovery, a very important discovery, which changed our focus going forward. So we changed the project into a hard rock play. And we had to convince the government to remove the dedication of that area to small permits to a large play, which we were successful in doing over a period of time. And once that was done, right after COVID, we did a geochem program and an airborne survey, a mag survey, which revealed quite interestingly some great structures. From there on, we continued some minimal geology. But what was great for us was to attract the former drill manager at Perseus, who had drilled 160,000 meters leading up to the DFS. He came on board with us, and he recognized the quality of the project. He saw similarities with the next-door neighbor, and he felt that this was the largest geochem anomaly in the region other than the Yahweh mine site. And since then, what we've done is we've also brought on board the structural geologists that worked at Perseus for seven years, came over to our property, looked at what we got, and he says, yes, you have basically the same geology as the next-door neighbor. So with that being said, we were able to attract high-quality people, and we recently added to our board of directors, Brian Scott, who is a former VP of geology and technical services of V2 Gold. Brian just retired in December, and we gave him the opportunity to come on board, and he said immediately, yes, he feels that this is a great opportunity. So we're excited to have him on board with us with all his experience and baggage that he brings from having explored the world. In attracting such substantial professionals with extraordinary geological backgrounds, obviously you have drilling results that I'm certain you would love to update us with. Would you mind telling us a little bit more about this? Yeah, thank you. These drill results were published last summer. We had a successful 6,000-meter RC program, and subsequently to that trenching, the numbers are just fantastic for us and have proven the size of the targets. So with that being said, what we've done since that, we've put together a drill program for diamond drilling to really understand the structure of what is going on. So that first 5,000 meters that we're going to be doing is basically to put 10, 15 holes on each of those three targets, give or take, in order to understand the structure. Once that is done, and we've got that managed well, we plan on drilling an extra 20 to 25,000 meters this year alone in probably the same amount for next year, because our objective is to drill, drill, drill as much as we can over the next two years or less, bring it to a resource stage, and probably flip this property to an operating company who would be interested in developing it. Now, mind you that the next door neighbor is probably the prime target for this, having spent $400 million before pouring their first ounce of gold. So I think as their resource gets depleted over time, we are a natural fit to substitute our resource to their operating mill. So right now, I'm just going to change the course of this conversation. Obviously, you believe gold is where the action is at, yes? Definitely, definitely. And I think today it's at 2090, give or take. I think it's going to go up. I'm not a predictor of $2,500 an ounce, but I think the circumstances are that the gold is going to continue to go up or at least stay stable at these prices, and our share price is very not expensive, I would say. It is a great opportunity for the investor, and it's not a long-term investment like I just explained what we're doing because of your initial question of clothesology. So for the typical investor, he has to look at this as a potential investment for two to three years maximum. Well, it sounds to me as well that if you're into drilling results, which we have a huge audience that loves drilling results, watching your results is going to be a lot of fun. It will. And I would tell your audience to go look at the press releases of the past in the last several months, where you can see the drill results and look at those numbers. They're fantastic. They're as good, if not better, than the next door neighbor in terms of the surface numbers. Obviously, the RC program did reveal some great results, but we're expecting the diamond drill program to be even better. Well, for everybody interested in cover resources and of course, checking out those previous drilling results, please go to their website. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.


Hi, beautiful. There was a potential of an offer from another competing brand that would not have allowed me to make today's video reviewing the Shark Flex Styler. And I obviously declined that offer. I may have not got the bag today, but I hope I got the respect. So today I will be talking about the Shark Flex Styler, which has been out for like a year now. And girl, I have not heard about it once.  So I'm here to give you a late review and show you what I think about it because it's far less money than its competitors. Love Dyson, but it may have some competition. Let's get into another messy dysfunctional review by me. And let's see if this is worth your money. I'm gonna make it nice and short and sweet, okay? Because you know what?  So I'm not gonna get technical today. I'm just gonna give you first impressions, very surface level, things that whatever. This doesn't need to be complicated. Nobody cares about the amount of airflow or the amount of like heat distributed onto the hair. It's like, unless you're like a hairstylist, maybe you care. But like other people, girl, let's just chill a little bit. Just tell me the things I need to know. And that's what I'm here for. Okay, we have the box in front of me. Let's go for it. The Shark Flex Style. I feel like it should have been the Flex Styler. That's my first little pointer, good box.  I don't know why nobody watches them. All right, directions. Never needed them, never used them in my life. How to do it, how to use it. Okay, that's pretty informative, that's nice. That's nice, I like that. But we got YouTube videos for that. Just kidding, it's actually really useful in the queue. Awesome. Won't be needing that either. Important safety instructions? I don't know, safety. All right, off the bat guys, it looks like Dyson. I mean, obviously people have been taking a lot of inspiration from Dyson. So let me look up the price for you because I honestly didn't do any research before. This particular kit, which is the straight and wavy kit, is $269. Still at a relatively expensive price point, but if we compare to its clear competitor, the Dyson Airwrap is $600. If I can do math correctly, which I can't, so I'm gonna look it up, what that difference is.  Damn it, I should really figure these things out beforehand, shouldn't I? There are so many different prices. Just depends what stuff you get in your kit with Dyson. Same with this one, but I'm gonna go with the lowest price point for Dyson just to give it a competitive edge. Okay, we're going with the base model, which I think is $550. That sounds like the right thing. $550 minus $269. This is taking me way too long. This is $281 cheaper. That is a significant, significant difference. That is about half of the price, the Dyson Airwrap. Even if it did half the amount of good that the Dyson Airwrap does, I would say this is probably still better, but I'm guessing it does more than half as good.  We have this thing. It uses the air to curl your hair, right? If you've never seen one of these before, this is what it looks like. It feels like great quality. Like it's not giving AliExpress, oh, it does show you on the top, the right versus the left. Other competitors do not do that, which is kind of cool, but the Dyson in particular does have these things now that actually switch directions, so that's cool. It has a concentrated nozzle, which normal. This one has these two brushes, which this feels very good. This is like heavy and the bristles feel like really great. These usually feel like a little bit too light for my liking and this is sick. For blowing out straight hair, having something with a hybrid of these bristles mixed with the natural bristles slash, God, I have to look up so much stuff today. What are these bristles? I'm so hot, so hot in here. Smoothing bristles and straightening bristles. Okay. Whatever.  I love things with grips. I want to be hands-on, baby. I want to get in there, I want to get my face in there and just look. Feels great, feels very sturdy. I love the shape of this. It's very unique and different and I'm digging this. The color of it, I sometimes forget that the brands actually watch these videos. And then I watch them back and I'm like, but like, we're all friends here. I'm rooting for all of you.  All right, we got these satisfying shits on here. I love these things. My reviews are so dumb. Danger, keep away from water.   I'm like, I will say this feels heavy. Heaviness can be a thing that you maybe are interested in. I love very light tools. This is heavy. It's not remarkably more heavy than any competing brand, but it definitely has some more weight to it, which is a big downside to me and kind of is upsetting because it's had a lot going for itself besides that. Let's change the color ways. It's not bad. It's just like gray. Like make this pink or something or like black. It looks like a shark tool. I wouldn't say the shark is the most like fancy looking, but they do have a lot of great practical, useful products. Okay, well, I just get, let me just get to the good part, right? Like we know this thing looks like this, but we also know this thing does this. And can I tell you that that way it clicked? I don't want to attend this. I do that again for you. Things that click into place. I could spend a whole video just redoing this part of it. I won't do that today, love. So this is the main call out, right?  Miss Maddie Quinn, hey, you are here to do the testing and don't ask me to do the test on myself. I will do these things on myself in the future when I have the hair for it, but unfortunately hair takes like two years to grow. Let me speak into the mic louder. Unfortunately hair takes two years to get the length that I want it to. And we're only like eight months into it. So I need to let it grow longer before I can start testing these tools on myself.  It's how rude of me. See what you guys made me do, see what you made me do? Let me see how loud this thing is. It's loud. Maybe it isn't even louder than say other tools are, but it has that loud screeching noise. It's like, it was a terrible reenactment of it.  It's not good. I would level low pitch. Great, we know that you clean this with this. It has the same level, like it has the same levels as any other blow dryer, a cool button, and then it has three of the warm and three of the air and then on and on switch.  Oh, okay. Sorry. I was just gonna say something else and then I got completely distracted. The second most satisfying thing of today's video, which is this. Do you take this? Watch this, ready? But this is kind of like wobbly. You can tell that there's some parts of this that just have not been as well done as say Dyson would do it. It feels kind of like a toy, but hey, it's still $300 cheaper. Let me just blow dry. Let me get a little feel for this. Can y'all just give me a second? Like, damn, I'm trying to enjoy this. Feels good. The only thing is, maybe you can hear it. It wobbles. I'm just being picky. Wobbly, wobbly, wobbly. That's how I feel about it. But if it does its job and it's not that expensive for this kind of tool, then wobble away, I guess. It dried the hair how I expected any blow dryer to dry the hair. In a decent amount of time, I'm not about to do some stopwatch. And be like, this one dried the hair this fast and that one didn't do it as fast. Like, you're cutting what? Two minutes after drying time. That's great if you're working in a salon, but I'm sure most of you guys aren't. It works for your one sweet blow dryer. Let's take this off. All right, let's move on to the next tool. Let me switch Aruni her around. I'm gonna use this. I will say this thing is huge.  I'm not that big, but I'm not this small. It's like, it's like you could literally get enough sort of size with this thing. So far, guys, let me just get on my microphone here. I was expecting to be loving everything because I've seen so many people review this and be like, oh my God, I'm obsessed with it. Like everything's perfect and everything's great. Maybe I have just like way too high standards, which I'm sure is true. I do a very expensive taste in this thing. I'll keep reviewing it, but so far it's good. Not great. It keeps getting worse. I strongly dislike this brush. I get that this is supposed to be a smoothing brush. You know, some sort of boar or faux boar brush is good. This one just has too much tension. There's too many bristles on here. It doesn't glide through the hair. It's very, very hard to get it through the hair. And it's taking forever to dry. I don't know if it's her hair or it's this or I don't know what's going on, but not having a great experience. Everything feels a little bit rickety and even when it's straight, this goes like this. I would never use this brush. So let's try this one. I just think it's really bad. Why am I being so cut through today? What is wrong with me? Onto the next tool. Hopefully this one can be much better. This is just a flat brush sort of thing. So hopefully it just smooths her hair out and kind of preps it for this sort of air wrapping mechanism, if you will. Her hair looks frizzy. I don't like this one either. It dried the hair, but to a state that I just don't think is good. Don't understand. I don't know. I don't wanna say things on the internet that I don't know for sure, but I'm just giving you my first impressions of this product. Take it with a grain of salt. Maybe it would work better on a different head of hair, but her hair is not very complicated. As you can see, this is how it looks way. It's just slightly wavy. It's just not really doing the job. I think they should be more ceramic. They need to be able to heat up in order to smooth the hair more. Get some of this frizz and curl out. Ceramic brushes make it much easier to smooth hair in general. Like even curly hair, wavy hair, any type of hair texture is much more easy to smooth out. I do like natural bristle brushes or faux natural. I think for these purposes, when you're just trying to do like a quick style, you should really be doing ceramic. That's my recommendation, shark. All right, let's use the main attraction, which is the sort of air wraps thing. Not the air wrap, but a thing that wraps with air and makes your hair curly. Okay, great. These things confuse me every time. Okay, so obviously it's curly. Let me just rake it out a little bit. It's pretty and that took five seconds. I mean, her hair was already dry, but like she has a lot of curl for just the amount of time I've just spent on that. It was really easy. I mean, that's pretty much like my full review about this. What I wanna do now is get my Dyson air wrap out and just touch all the tools one by one again and make sure I'm not going crazy. We'll do a little fast forward here. They're showing me trying all the other tools from a Dyson. So I can now actually compare the competitor to this on the same head of hair, because I'm just a little runoff here. I have a lot of opinions going on. Just hold on a damn second. I'm done. I was trying to style this side and I literally can't do it. Hold on, it's not all negative. I need this to be longer, you know? They do have longer ones. These now I just don't have it. And with her length, it's like impossible to get this thing wrapped around. Clearly it dried her hair. It did a nice job. We'll go over the rest in a second. Let me sit down. Gosh, you guys really got me worked out today with this one, huh? All right, well now that I've been talking for three hours and sweating for 10, if it's so hard, I have some opinions. This is half the price as it's competitor. I will say it is nearly as good. I will say the Dyson feels better, looks better, is sexier, works better in a lot of ways, but not everybody can afford $600 of sexy. So this being half the price is really good. It's a really good product. I like it. I will probably personally stick with the Dyson. It's so much lighter. It's a huge factor for me. It's quieter, also huge for me. And then as for the accessories, there's things I like about the Dyson accessories. There's things I like about the Shark accessories and there's things I don't like about both of them. So they kind of like even out. That's kind of it. Like, fuck, that's the T. It's good. Is it great for the price? Yeah. Is it great in general? I wouldn't give it the great mark. I would give it the pretty damn good mark. I'll leave it there. I think I've done enough. I've said enough things. I've given enough opinions. If you want it, I would say get it. And if you want to splurge on a product that I think is a teeny bit better, get the Dyson. But overall, these two tools are great to have in your bathroom. Very useful for many things. I'm sure we're gonna see a lot more of these come out very soon. If we could get something in the middle of these two, in the middle price range, I think it would be sick. Well, that's all for today, guys. I'll make sure you check out my haircare line and my hair color line with the links right down below. New products coming very soon. And of course, there is a link right down below if you want to shop the Shark Flex Style. There you go. Thank you guys for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.