Told my chat. I want to see who can draw the best picture of juice world or the different laser Like this video if you like this idea, maybe I can do a part two or with a different artist Let me know in the comments below how y'all feel, but let's get straight to a chat. All right, let's see We start off with okay, so this Isn't a drawing Bo said W drawing it wins. It's crazy Looking in the mirror. I see different faces The worst thing about this is you're supposed to be in school.  No, bro We he's in math class right now instead of doing your math. He's drawing cracked out juice world, bro That's not even juice world that sauce planet. Okay, if you do this, this is kind of tough He kind of look like he has downs though, but for you to draw this I can't draw that good I'm gonna give you a W. That's a W. All you did was put dreads on a coconut. You're not slick This isn't juice world. Yeah, what is this? I don't even want to but what did you draw this song Pixar like Why is he why is he having a look like like he's easy busting and why is the neck dirty? And you have the nerve to sign off your name Brandon. You have some nerve juice did not die for this This is crazy. Let me put an ant here on his head Bro, you didn't even try the best picture we got so far is this one with the down Okay, this is kind of tough.  This is like this is cute world.  No, no, but pause angle.  Did somebody shoot him? Why is he why is his eyes red? Why is he laying down? It's somebody like what's going on and why is it 994? What is 994 chat? Is that some new some new useful thing? I haven't heard of spam 994 is in the comments.  He's racist. He has to be racist chat I can't let y'all keep getting away with this w drawing.  It's not possible Chat who is this because it can't be juice for a chat. Tell me who this is the baby The baby the best bro. Why does he have it? It's you You didn't draw this you didn't draw this. This is tough. This is a w I like this one. I like this one chat a on YouTube put a timestamp at whichever Drawing you like the most say this is the best one and just put a timestamp. I like this one This is a w.  I'm glad it's cool. It's not that it's not horrible You gave him slave lips. I'm not gonna cap this juice world or George Floyd. I can't breathe waiting on the exhale. No, that is crazy I'm not gonna lie something's not adding up right here. What am I looking at? This is not like what am I what what what what what is my eyes perceiving right now chat? Is this AI or this real like it's a drawing. This is a w drawing. I ain't glad this is one of my favorites I like this one, bro. I was gonna pick up my whole monitor and turn it to the sideways The fact that I got to do this to look at it, right? It's an L It's cool.  Why I like this This cool. This cool. It is giving off some like dark mystery vibes like a crime solver crime solver I like this one. This is w2. I like this. This looks like he's animated.  This is tough. I like this. I like this. This is w You put bodies in the okay. This one's tough, too I like this one. I actually like this one. Why you make his dress look like water? Where's his arm at? Why is he missing and why is his neck bigger than his head? Bro, bro's neck is chat his neck's like this. I ain't glad. This is low key how y'all next look chat I bet all y'all in the in the comments right now all y'all y'all next built like this Y'all got some long neck like yours bro chat my neck not long. I got a normal neck gay Bro, I said not like that chat chill. This is tough. You did good. You should have finished it though But you you were doing good so far. Hang on look at them lips though chat. Would y'all kiss those lips them luscious beautiful juicy Magnificent voluptuous Volume receiving lips chat.  I just respect other men's lips. I like this. This is tough I ain't got this is really good actually. I can see you really just did this with scratchy You just like I like this. I know I really do like this. I really do like this one. This one's that's a W I said draw a juice world not Squidward. This is what I'm talking about, bruh I give y'all one simple task and this is what y'all do bruh. Are you special in bro say it's ice spikes bro Bro, what dog? I'm I'm just not gonna deal with y'all chat my proud villager with This man he drew a pesn Spencer, bro And you know the craziest part about this we all see this dread and we know exactly which dread this is Is that not crazy? This is good, too Juice world 999 goodbye. Good riddance. Yeah get quick reply when you be texting me and yeah, huh? Oh, that's probably literally I'm I can't read that. I like that one. I like that one That's a good one, bro. Having a wooden pencil is crazy, bro.  Did you actually draw this chat? This is good.    That gotta be racist. Allie Lottie is as a furry little chat Yeah hanging out with y'all homeboys y'all at a party It's a 2am and all your all your boys got a girl You're the only one that don't got a girl yet You look to the right. You see a furry that looks like this looking at you giving you that wink wink You know what I'm saying? She's probably rolling at you too. That was cringy But she's rosy growling at you too. What y'all doing chat? What y'all doing? Hey me personally, man, I'm I'll take some furry cheeks. You know what I'm saying? Why not? This one looks cool too.  Did you do this on snapchat? Did you take a picture of me and then put it on? Bro, is this the potato? I think we're getting done chat.  You did not draw this packer Stop lying. You did not draw this if you did though.  I think some of y'all be capping bro and on that note. Um, I think we're done Subscribe like and comment. Hey chase you get my vote. I think you got the best picture I like yours. Let me know who y'all think has the best picture in the console. It's your boy biscuit and we out


My name is John Jacobi I'm the project lead for buddy press BB press One of the original founders of our camp Miami with David Bissett and everybody else ten years ago I'd no longer live in Miami, but happy to be back. I've been here every year for ten years super awesome This talk was originally like an hour and a half long. We're gonna do it in 15 minutes So if you want to be friends on Twitter get hub at JJJ My blog which is mostly pictures of my dog and rants about WordPress is JJJ out blog. Here we go This is what wordpress used to look like before it was wordpress 2003 this was B2 cafe log. There was no wordpress wordpress did not exist This website I think is still up and it still looks like this exactly the same as it did in 2003 Quotes from all sorts of all over the place so you can read them very quickly I'm gonna cruise through them because I think I have like 230 slides But you get the point blogging was kind of starting to be a thing people were starting to want a website for themselves Posting images and kind of going crazy trying to figure out how to do it. It wasn't real easy back in 2003 But by then The B2 software was kind of dormant the developer of it had kind of disappeared the project was still alive on Sourceforge, which is kind of like the old-school github, which some of you may remember But B2 had no activity the original author was gone And so what happened was Everyone got worried Everyone that was using B2 was like well, what am I gonna do with my blog? What is there's no software updates? I'm kind of out of luck And so Matt and Mike little Matt Malinwick Mike little Basically put out a comment in the B2 forums that said if you're serious about forking this and maintaining it. I'm with you Let's go do it together. Let's figure it out And that's essentially how WordPress was was born and this is what WordPress.org looked like Beautiful right elegant Apography amazing logo. Look at how gorgeous WordPress.org was in 2003, right? And eventually it got a little bit better It got dropshadows on the sides Sidebar eventually showed up man, we're evolving the web, right? It got longer and longer and eventually stuff started to move around a little bit Kind of crazy, but then we ended up with this style for a while on WordPress.org You can kind of watch it start to take shape a little bit. You can watch the styles change Look at where we started and then eventually where we ended up the images change the header images change that we've got very Grays, I learned that's a word grays. It's like beige, but gray This is everything's gray. You know different images And everything else I kind of stopped here because it kind of started to look the same I mean we have a new home page is kind of beautiful since word camp us last year But y'all can just go to wordpress.org and see that it's like nothing that's all that fascinating But the original version of WordPress was 0.72 which means very little right, but this is what we were working with back then You can kind of see pieces of it, right? Like if you think of WordPress like you're familiar with you see some stuff that kind of makes sense posts and edit and stuff is Kind of the same, but this is not the WordPress that you guys are installing today. This is a completely different thing And it dropped you straight into posts. There was no dashboard. There was no nothing like this was your WP admin This is what you saw and I think even originally like the rename happened, but for a long time we're like from that first version Everything was prefixed B2. It wasn't WP, right? so you bring the code over from B2 cafe log and The code was completely different. There's a whole big rename that happens and everything And this was the theme that WordPress came with you installed WordPress. This is what you got This was your blog Kind of a port from B2 with those a few little tweaks here and there But WordPress didn't really have themes support originally kind of nutty right like the economies are built entire communities businesses are built on WordPress themes at this point, but Originally it didn't have any of that functionality at all The WP admin continued to evolve we cleaned some things up We cut some stuff out note that there's still no visual editor yet. There's no tiny mce There's no Gutenberg. There's no anything fancy You had a text area and some buttons and that was what you did it made the bold tag for you revolutionary, right? and You know some things changed we had taxonomies tags we had categories some stuff started to get introduced But it's kind of ugly, right? This is not super cute in any way. That's still very grayish, but the theme was still the same nothing fancy by 1.5 though UX started to be a thing like people liked it, but hated it and complained about it a lot and so 1.5 was like the most user-centric release ever and This is what your dashboard look like. So there was nothing there But cleaned up the UI a lot. There's a like legitimate toolbar. They're starting to be the semblance of a navigation at the top And believe it or not even though it's kind of not the prettiest thing Adoption was like on the uprise like people actually liked using WordPress even though it was you know not real beautiful You can kind of see the pieces again start to fit together And this is when themes kind of started to be a thing in 1.5 You could pick a theme and you could install a theme and make WordPress look like this Kubrick does anybody remember this who remembers this? Okay Someone needs to make a Gutenberg version of this Wouldn't that wouldn't that be cool give me some retro Kubrick theme that's blocks and fancy. I don't know I still like it WordPress to 2005 It starts to be Designy a little bit there starts to be people contributing to the dashboard area And that's this is when blue kind of first came in to the whole thing The same but different blue All right, and believe it or not. I went through and installed every version of WordPress to get these screenshots It started from the beginning installed the next one install the next one install the next one We have a posts list where you can see all of your posts This is kind of the beginning of list tables So you can see where a table starts to look like we are used to today before that we didn't really have this The introduction of meta boxes that you're kind of familiar with now This is the first version of those collapsed boxes on the left place to write your posts in the middle and It starts to take shape a little bit. There's a preview instead of the visual editor So you can't really there's no visual editor, but you can preview what you've written in WP admin Which is kind of gone away. There's a post preview. It's different now, but you know, it's there and The custom fields met a metadata is the first time that you're able to see any of that stuff But so it's kind of hard to believe that none of this existed in the very beginning this is all stuff that had to get bolted on and The options panel now looks a little bit more like what we're familiar with it looks more like options kind of like we have today and The theme got screenshots so you can kind of see a preview of what it is that you're about to activate Which was you know before you just activated it and like oh, okay? I guess that's what my website looks like now here You have a screenshot to see what it is that you're about to do But we still had good ol Kubrick We did have the color picker so that you could pick the background color It was kind of the first theme related setting was being able to sight from sidebars, but being able to pick the gradient of your blue or orange was nice And then about 2006 is really when wordpress MU multi-site now and BB press Really started to become things that power to everything so Matt has famously said if he could rewrite wordpress from scratch it would look a lot like BB press Eventually we turn to BB press into a plug-in and all that really cool old code Which is still public if you want to find it we did abandon it all and we turn to BB press into a plug-in But there's old history and really cool stuff and the original version of BB press also BB press is our Bolton board Sister project to wordpress, which is what we use to power all of the support forums on wordpress.org But he pressed it or BB pressed it or all of the international forums iOS forums the Android app forums all of those are BB press They still use wordpress for you know site related things, but the forums themselves use BB press Bolton board BB press 2007 the admin finally got refreshed it looks no different to me, but apparently it got refreshed and But you did have a dashboard you did have a feed there was stuff starting to come alive in the dashboard for the first time and Everything else kind of looks the same to me a little bit more blue But kind of looks the same Post preview was an iFrame Embedded in the post so you could write your post embedded in here you'd see it live as you typed and it would refresh kind of neat Uploads media became a thing options looks the same Yeah, 2.3 kind of the same we're gonna keep cruising through because I've got five minutes left and Here is like the first actual WP admin redesign where it starts to look a little bit different flat colors contrast But still kind of you know this is when I think Word people started to take wordpress seriously. There's organization. There were structure pages posts plug-ins themes flexibility post preview Publishers could write long posts and see them as they were writing them previous to this none of that technology existed So it was kind of you know crazy times And you know there's picture of Paul the dog. He's pretty cute But you know you can kind of start to see it take shape with Cooperq was still the default theme back then same old thing same old thing 2.7 usability testing like actual usability testing Jen Milo did actual tests and said Everyone universally hates WP admin. No one can find anything. No one can publish anything eyes Can't find anything accessibility is not good. And so we ended up with This looks kind of familiar right menus are collapsible, but up and down not side to side We have an actual dashboard now with some counts some things some status updates of what it is that's in wordpress still very gray but you know Screen options became a thing Post rows list table became a thing Visual editor is for sure in and kind of high priority all over the editing experience We had a quick menu which has kind of gone away now that we have the admin bar Post revisions came in so this is what the original version of revisions looked like if you had Drafts and revisions and you're saving updates to posts. You actually had a side-by-side diff This is a little bit different now, but under the core of it is kind of still the same and more media still Kubrick though kind of theme preview looks a little bit nicer, but This was like a big deal in 2.7 This was like the time when people took wordpress actually seriously because the menus made more sense Things were more organized plug-ins made more sense They had places to live and wordpress kind of started to become super kind of useful for the first time in a while But for a while it continued to stay almost exactly the same revisions everything else mostly identical It wasn't until 2010 that we started getting new default themes. We had some Google Gears is in there for a while that eventually died and went away We had a big intro blob for like explaining what wordpress was and before we had the credits page and the about page but there are lots of things that changed like trying to make wordpress more user-friendly and Some of them were good and some of them weren't all that good But otherwise you can see that wordpress again stayed mostly the same. It was the intro to menus 2010 was kind of a crazy year Multi-site got merged in custom post types happened custom taxonomies Lots of activity WP admin had actual like lots of accessibility testing for Contrast issues for keyboard users for non mouse users and on and on and on and on and on so WP admin Huge leaps forward for a lot to different audiences And this is the first time that we had a different default theme 2010 and from then on the naming conventions 11 12 and so on But it was kind of nice to have a refreshed Menu based theme because you could kind of start moving stuff around in a way that you weren't able to before and Come 3.1 Things got to be mostly the same But I'm gonna bounce ahead on my last minute. This is my favorite Design of wordpress personally. I don't know why just speaks to me in some way I like the flatness, but I like the lines. I like the contrast. This is probably my favorite one simple shortcut menu is nice 2013 theme that's kind of nuts, right? I guess I'll just pound right through all of this because you'll get the idea Until we eventually media media library is a critical point this has kind of stayed the same since media went in in 3.5 and Let's go to I'm gonna skip ahead to the this looks familiar, right? This is like the wordpress. You all know This is where we're pretty much at today, but it took us 15 years to get here Is kind of the point of my of this entire talk? there's a gentleman by the name of George Cordis that in 2013 or 14 came up with some flatter neater Transparency future ideas for what WP admin might look like. I thought it was really nice and kind of well thought out it looked pretty clever and Wordpressy to me, so I included these here as like think of where we could go eventually we're focusing on Gutenberg and crazy editing stuff like that's fine, but I kind of thought this was nice and That's it 15 minutes done Lightning talk not kidding rip through it all


At first I was kind of nervous because I never got into a piece of gear, looked old, so I didn't think it was going to be that great. But hopping into it, you know, I just made a couple passes and it was a little bumpy and a little rough. And after that, you know, like I said before, it's a lot easier to manipulate it and have full function of the tractor. You know, as soon as you get rolling with it, it's just smooth. A lot of plays into it. You have to look at the soil, you have to look at the surroundings, like is it a very wooded area? Is it rocky? We're going to run the boulders. So it's a lot of accomplishment when you look at it and you complete something. We are clearing out this whole road, widening it, making it easier for vehicles and other heavy equipment such as this to pass through this area on a Keodex K16. You know, there's a lot of different aspects to what we do for the Marine Corps. We're exercising all of them out here. So we're doing MHE, we're moving EOD around, and we're also going out there and constructing ranges for them and building ammo supply points for them and then doing the range improvement. So we're really kind of covering the full spectrum of what we do all on this one exercise. So since they're actually constructing things that are going to be here when we come back next year and the year after, so all the Marines are really excited to be out here doing this work out here with EOD.


Welcome back to a new session on dentistry and more. So today's topic is about dental clinic, how to establish and how to maintain a dental clinic. So establishing and maintaining a dental office. So basically its definition is practice management, how do we practice will be managed. It's defined as the organization, administration and direction of a professional practice in a style that facilitates quality, client care, efficient use of time and personal, produce stress to staff at financial profitability. So this is a definition it says that proper organization, administration and direction of professional practice in such a way that there is efficient use of time and personal, reduce stress to staff and there is profit. So what are the factors to be considered before starting a dental clinic or establishing a dental practice? So we need to think about the place, location, building, financial assistance, equipments and instruments and designing of dental office. So what is the importance of place? You should think about the number of dentists practicing in that area and whether it is town or countryside, surrounded by many religious, it is good transport facility or not. In cities we should think of shopping complex areas or the out of the city which attracts more people and location to government offices, corporate and business houses as an advantage that employees can avail facilities and residential areas as another advantages like mothers and children would visit and always keep safety in mind where ladies can come without fear that is the importance of place. So sometimes question might ask is the importance of place and location. So last time it was asked like that. So importance of location and place of the dental clinic. So commonly asked question establishing a dental practice. So it is important chapter. So let's see what is the importance of building. The building should always be well ventilated, have proper water and drainage system with a proper power connection and if it is on the ground floor parking facility for both dentists and patients would be better and always select place where more areas available because we may have future expansion plans and we can also do little bit of alteration at home and do practice at home and always to have a on dental office or dental clinic rather than taking it on rent. Regarding financial assistance nowadays we get a launch from banks, private sectors and state financial corporations to establish a career but in new graduates, new graduates can always take up law from financial benefit or a private firm. So how to design a dental clinic. So always we should think of functional aesthetic and utility value. So always incorporate spacious waiting area, work area and dental chair, x-ray room, lab and restroom, furniture should be durable and aesthetic, there should be always sound proofing, post consideration, pediatric dental office, buffering the noise from reception area and placement of each electrical equipment should be considered while designing electrical connection and positioning of dental chair, wash basin, inlet and outlet of water, drainage should be very carefully taken because once it is set it is very difficult to alter its positions then floors and walls should be designed considering aesthetic and avoidance of dust accumulation. Work area with sufficient space for dental chair in supine position, separate x-ray room with lead barriers would be fine, separate chamber for autoclave and sterilization, compressor and generator should be kept as far as from the dental office. Always try to keep insurance but nowadays it is not possible, there is no dental insurance existing. So we know how dental chair is and how to keep a dental chair, what are the dental chair parts and also I am not going in detail about it, dental chair and dental tools and designing a dental office or dental clinic. So equipments and instruments should have basic instruments to run the clinic and we can select from a wide varieties of brands, we have local brands and international brands. Always should give importance to a reputation of the company because we need to have after sale services and always use autoclave instruments and types of practices like solar practices, the dentist manages all types of cases, group practices like dentist trained in different specialties like inter-rounder, speeder-rounder, processor-rounder, speeder-rounder all working in same office. Most of the people are doing solar practices with visiting specialists like single dentist manages his cases but all the specialists will call when cases arrives. So how to manage the personnel, so always we should have a good communication, regular staff meeting and encourage participation, full-time receptionist and dental assistant should be there and the dental team should be warm and positive and good personality always should have a good business association with a good dental lab just like dental care dental lab. Those which delivers work in time should be professionalism because we are keeping dates for our appointments so postponing the appointments would create a negative impression with our patients and good salaries and benefits for the working dentist for good job satisfaction. So patient sources from family, friends referral, referral by doctors and dentist referral by the already seen patients. So how do we manage patient? It is like a good communication skill always dentistry is not done by hands it is done by mouth so good communication is first and foremost thing you should have in dentistry should patient to ensure quality oral health services and motivation and keep an appointment diary for time management clinic should open much before schedule appointments to allow the autoplayment sterilization we are giving appointments at 10 o'clock clinic should be opened at 8 8 30 and keep all the sterilization other basic works. Explain about everything to patients diagnosis, investigation, treatment plans, cost of treatment and payment modes and after care extraction post instructions also should be given very clearly and how to maintain a denture and other educational in return format. So this is another short note which is frequently asked that is how to do record maintenance in a dental office. So maintaining records is a very critical part because it has a legal medical legal purpose record should be systematically maintained. Some people keep written records that is they have case files for each patient so each patient's data will be recorded like cases free dental and dental shots in phone consent such as some people have non-dental records like dental photographs, radiographs and syphilometry records so both written records and non-written records can be stored for each patient and reception it should maintain a book for accounts bills purchase or reports and instant equipments but nowadays all these papers and other things are replaced by dental softwares we have very good softwares which can do all these procedures all data storage we have because the keeping papers for each patient would lose a lot of space in our storage cupboard or any other place where we are planning to keep this file system but a laptop would do or would reduce entire this space and we can store up to many patients like hundreds thousand and lakhs of patients data can be stored in softwares or a computer so nowadays computers are very common in dentistry because of the ease of retrieval of data and many other advantages compared to the file system that is the paper system. So this is a important question that is how to manage record maintenance in a dental office and accounting and other financial aspects like we need to have a patient record with fees charged we need to inform it prior and the spare tax filing and factors influencing dental practices like legal each dentist must respect and be well aware of the loss because we are supposed to follow the dentist act and dentist law and ethical we need to have the ethical duties that is moral responsibility towards patients and personal we need to have a good physical health and mental health and we need to have vacation from work recreation environment social activities to provide a long a good mental health over a long period of work so what is economics economics is a study that concerns the relation between workers and their energy environment so in dentistry there is another topic so in dentistry concerned with unnecessary movement and wasted energy saving time and listening fatigue so because it is physically demanding profession managing or arranging or keeping the instruments or keeping the equipments and arranging the dental offices so that the least energy of the dentist is wasted for unnecessary things so if we are haphazardly keeping the instrument and we are not properly keeping the equipments there is a lot of stress creation inside it and there will be a lot of mental and physical stress will be created on the people who are working inside it so standing for longer period will cause varicose veins and musculoskeletal system consideration should start from positioning of dental chair in relation to door and patient but another parameter is entrance of life position base cabinet should have tops and comfortable height for dentists to work so the idea of economics is nothing but the dental clinic in such a way that it gives no unwanted stress for the patient so all the equipments lighting the sound system the instruments everything should be perfect harmonious relation with the environment so that we can do the work maximum we can offer maximum productivity for a patient what are the hazards is hazardous hazards like mercury postural problem electrical x-rays infections so these are the hazards which are seen so the most common questions asked one is economics what is economics then this record maintenance and the position and the location and placing of a dental clinic and maybe this might be asked for a short essay that is dental practice management or establishing and maintaining a dental clinic or a dental office okay so it is a very important chapter okay so I will come up with a new session on dentistry and math thank you


Growing up as title when I announce it. All right, next up we have false advertising. How modern ad platforms can be used for targeted exploitation? Please give Tyler Cook a warm Torcon welcome. All right, so I knew you had it in you. You got that great. The title's awesome. All right, so this is false advertising. And my name is Tyler Cook. I'm a digital advertiser. I work with Fortune 500 companies for a corporation called HZ out in Maryland. I'm very interested in cybersecurity and pen testing strictly from a hobby's perspective. And I use Python, Node, and PHP on a pretty much daily basis for my job. I'm really bad at designing PowerPoint presentations. This is as good as it's going to get, guys. It's not getting any better than this. And I'm also terrible at writing author bios, so that one right there. Yep, that's me. So what is a targeted attack? Well, in this case, I'm going to be teaching you how to turn ad platforms into a spearfishing campaign.  I'm also going to be teaching you about the security measures that those ad platforms have in place and how to bypass them. But unfortunately, before we begin, I need to cover some terminology. So I'm going to guess that no one else in this room also does marketing for Fortune 500 companies. So there's probably a lot of terms here that you're unfamiliar with. But that's OK. I'm going to get you up to speed as quick as I can. So an ad network. An ad network is a platform that lets you show ads through a specific service. In this case, it might be Facebook, it might be Twitter, YouTube, or LinkedIn. Now with each one of these ad platforms, there's going to be a form of pricing involved. And these prices usually come in one of three forms. That's called CPM. It's called CPC, or called CPA. CPM stands for cost per milli, or the cost for 1,000 people to see an ad. The cost per click, or CPC, is the cost for someone to click your ad. And the cost per action is the cost for someone to take action after viewing your ad. With every ad that's placed on a network, there's something called a click-through rate. So if two people click your ads after seeing it, after 100 people have seen it, it's a 2% click-through rate. And every ad network that is relatively modern is going to have something like a custom audience. They may have a different name for it, but by and large, you can Google whatever ad network and custom audience with it, and it will come up with a how-to on that platform to how to use a custom audience. But what a custom audience is, is an advertiser-generated list of users. This list will contain users' phone numbers or email addresses, and the ads will only be shown to users on that list. And each ad network will have a different requirement for the makeup of that list. So why social ad networks? When we're talking about modern ad networks, we tend to talk about social ad networks as the forefront from an advertiser's perspective. And that's because 70% of Americans log on to Facebook daily. 79% of all internet users and 69% of American adults use Facebook. And globally, people spend 50 minutes on social media every day. That's a ton of time. So on that time where they're browsing, surfing, looking at cat videos, they're gonna see a lot of ads, right? And a lot of times, people are gonna ignore those ads, but out of all of those ads, some people are gonna click them because they resonate with them. Now what makes these social networks highly targeted? Well, I've already discussed sort of the custom audiences. Most modern ad networks will use a small list of these people, and the minimum size that we'll be discussing today is 20, right? The other benefits that an ad network might have over a mail phishing campaign is the ability to select devices ahead of time. So if you're going to advertise at someone, you might select that you only want people on an iPhone to see your ads. You only want someone on a desktop computer to see your ads, or you only want someone with a specific browser to see your ads. You can also do what's called day and time parting. Ads can be shown to users at a specific time of day, such as 3 p.m. on a Monday, or noon on a Sunday or Saturday. This helps you ensure that if a user's at work, they're probably gonna see your ads on a Monday through Friday or if they're at home. This depends on how you wanna set up an attack. Ad networks also have a couple of unique features that other phishing platforms might not have. You can stop a campaign in real time and start it back up again. So unlike a traditional phishing campaign, where once you've sent it out, it might be there and it might be there in evidence forever, with us you can just sort of stop it whenever you want and turn it back on. You can update the creative. If something's not working, you can change it in real time. And lastly, it's pay as performance. So the more money you're paying, or as long as you continue to put money in, you'll continue to get clicks in. People will keep clicking on your ads and landing on whatever landing page you want to send them. In this particular presentation, I'm gonna go only two networks, but there are plenty more out there and you can use these same techniques to exploit them. The first is Facebook and the reason I'm going to be using it is because it has 1.86 billion users. It's simply massive user base is a perfect way of reaching almost anyone. The second is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has 106 million people and 29% usage amongst Americans. Now on Facebook, as mentioned, we already have the 79% of American internet users, but what we also have is we have a very small custom audience size. Some other networks out there have a minimum size of 150 or some more have 500, but with Facebook, it's only 20 verified accounts. And this custom audience size can be made up of emails or phone numbers. The cost format is cost per milli or cost per click, whatever you choose, and the preferred ad method on Facebook is the newsfeed ads, which we'll cover a bit later. On LinkedIn, the big defining factor is the ability to reach 22% of CEOs in the United States and 36% of C-suite executives. It has precise targeting. So its user list is only one. You only do one person to target and it can find them. It's a cost per action based advertisement, which means it is $10 per action. However, if a person does take action from that ad, you're automatically refunded within 90 days. So that means you can keep sending as many of them as you wanted, as long as people are taking action on them. Now, unlike traditional spearfishing campaigns, advertisements require a little bit of work to get them up and running. And in advertisement, there's two very important parts. The first is the ad, and the second is the landing page. The ad is the creative that gets the attention. It gets the clicks. This needs to be important enough to get a target's interest, and then get them to click. The landing page is a destination where your target will arrive after clicking a link. This is where your payload will be delivered from. Sorry, I seem to, sorry about that guys, I seem to have clicked. There we go, sorry. Building the perfect ad. When we're talking about ads, there's four very important parts. The first is it's well researched. The second is it's attention grabbing. The third is it has motivating copy. And last but not least, it follows the rules. When we're talking about ad research, we want to appeal to a target's wants and needs. The easiest way to do this is to think of celebrities, influencers, or companies that a target might go to and rely on from information, find them and to put them into three free tools that advertisers such as myself use every day. The first one is ad espresso. The second is big, big ads. And the last is ads vantage. These tools let you put in a corporation or an influencer or a network and actually see the ads those corporations have put out. And by doing that, you can copy what has been successful. Success, as you'll see, is measured from social metrics such as the likes, the shares, and the clicks at the very bottom of the ads. So you'll actually be able to see what was successful for the advertisers in the past and then sort of base your attacks on that. However, you might run into some industries where there aren't a whole lot of likes and there aren't a whole lot of clicks and there aren't a whole lot of things being shared. And when in doubt, it's important to deliver, or sorry, to go back to one of the three big drivers of action. The first is health. Everyone wants to be healthier. Everyone wants to be living longer and be stronger. And an article titled four office habits that are shortening your life appeals to pretty much a broad spectrum of people who are living in an office cubicle. Wealth is, everyone wants to be richer. Everyone wants to make more money. And so you're always gonna see job titles or postings for getting a better job, getting better at interviewing, getting your own business off the ground while working at a crappy job. And last is relationships. Most people are longing for the social approval of others. They loathe the idea of being seen negatively. So they are always going to be following into traps of clickbait articles such as four things you're doing that your employees hate. Once you've figured out what kind of copy is going to drive and motivate your audience, you're gonna need to think of the kinds of images that they're going to click on. Once again, I'd refer back to Facebook groups, social circles, and those tools I mentioned earlier. To find what kinds of images tend to get high clicks. You'll see that, you'll see time and time again there's certain imagery that your audience sort of clicks on or relies on as a method of, that is important to me, right? Now, Facebook traditionally has a very bland color scheme. It's very blue and white. Sometimes images don't stand out against it. A trick that advertisers use in order to get clicks even from audiences that are not tended to click is to increase the saturation. On the image on the right, on the left hand side, you'll see that the saturation is normal. But on the right hand side of it, I've actually increased the saturation by 40% to have it stand out. This is something I use to get clicks quite often. Finding ad copy that motivates. When you're looking through the tools I mentioned, you're gonna start seeing these little formulas pop up in the titles below. You'll start seeing these 12 awesome HubSpot resources that won't cost you a dime. You'll start seeing little things like that, like blank ways to do blank, or when a free blank, or blank things you're doing wrong, or blank job openings in blank. These are little formulas. They're formulas that advertisers in that industry know work, so they're gonna keep using it and keep running that pony into the ground. That's what you should be doing. You should be finding those formulas and applying them to your article. You'll look for ads, once again, with a lot of shares, a lot of high comments, and a lot of social reactions. This post right over here is from HubSpot. They build software for marketers. This particular post has 3,000 likes and 185 shares. HubSpot is very good at finding imagery that sticks out. In this case, the orange free button, or orange free banner, sort of sticks out against the blue color scheme. And last but not least, though it is not the most exciting part, you have to follow the rules when it comes to building your ads. The ad copy you're making, it must be in line with the policies of each network. So I've included here two links to Facebook and LinkedIn's Terms and Policy Guides, but every ad network has these. The reason you're gonna wanna follow this when it comes to your ads is because there is automated and manual moderation, and we want to prevent the automated moderation from finding us so that we can bypass the manual moderation, and I'll get more into that later. But right now, it's important to understand that the automated moderation is what stops most people from launching a phishing campaign on these kinds of networks. So if you can just follow the rules that the automated moderation follows and looks at, you'll be better and more likely to get past the manual reviews later. So now that I've talked about ads, I'm gonna move on to the landing pages. What to keep in mind when you're building the Perfect Lander is that you can borrow existing landing pages and articles and promote them yourself. Facebook doesn't have a, they don't have a copy policy. There's nothing against copying someone else's creative and publishing it as your own. Your ads must match your landing pages, though. Your landing pages can be built easily, so even if you're not a developer, even if you don't like developing websites, you don't have to worry, because that can be done very quickly, and your target doesn't ever have to see your landing page, and I'll get into that more in a minute. When we're looking at borrowing content as advertisers, a lot of times what we will do is we'll find an article that worked for a particular target market, and we will either modify it manually and sort of make it our own, or what we will do is we'll throw it into something called a spinner. There's a website called Word AI, and that will rewrite entire paragraphs, change sentence structure, and make copied articles that your own. This uses artificial intelligence to rewrite them, and so far, none of the advertisements I've ever made has ever been flagged or stopped as duplicated copy because Facebook just doesn't look at it like that. Facebook looks at it as a, you want to promote content, I don't care where it's from, we just want money. When it comes to ads, though, it's important to have something called content continuity. You do not want to send someone an ad that says we're hiring in this area, then click on it and then see a piece of content for boating or fishing, right? You want your ads to match your landing page. You want to ensure that there's a seamless experience between what your user expects when they click an ad and what they get when they've arrived at the landing page. For the most part, advertisers such as myself are busy or very lazy people, depending on how you look at it. We don't spend a lot of time crafting landing pages. What we do instead is we look at plugins on WordPress or we look at software like lead pages to build our landing pages for us and then we sort of craft the content that we've been taking and mold that into the landing page, right? So when someone comes in to an ad expecting to see a four hire page, we're going to set up a landing page very quickly and then direct our users to that. Instead of designing a custom four hire page, we're just gonna find a plugin that'll help us do it very quickly. There's no need to get very technical with this because when you're building an attack page for your audience, you have to understand that there's two different ways people are gonna see it. They're gonna see what you want them to see and the moderation team are gonna see something else. The moderation team is who you're building these landing pages for, right? They're the ones who are gonna make all the approval. The users are who are going to be fish. They're going to be attacked. And how we're gonna separate that is through something called cloaking. What cloaking does is, just as I described, a user will see one landing page. A moderation team will see another, right? This is very powerful for what are called blackout advertisers because it lets us promote products or services that are not allowed on certain ad networks. However, in your cases, you could show whatever you wanted. There's literally no limitation to what can or cannot be cloaked. Right now, there's people using it for dating apps or gambling. However, you could use it for drive-by-download kits, phishing pages, or remote exploit kits. You're completely left to your own devices when it comes to that. However, not every page needs cloaking. If you were to take someone to a landing page, right, and it's for a job offer, and at the end of them filling out their information, they were to get a PDF or a file downloaded or a piece of media that they would click on and execute and read more information from that, Facebook's not gonna go through that long, tedious process. There's no manual reviewer who's ever gonna put their information into those documents. That's not what they judge on. They judge on the landing page's aesthetics and what it looks like, right? So if it's not an obvious attack, you don't need to cloak it. However, if it is obvious, if a user is clicking an ad and then landing on a phishing page for something like their Facebook login, you're gonna need to cloak that. When you're looking at cloaking, the easiest way to ensure success is to wait 24 hours. Usually, the moderation has 24 hours to respond to every landing page that goes through their system before approving it or denying it. So in other words, if you were to not set your cloaker to live for 24 to 48 hours after launching the campaign, the moderation team has already moved on. They're going to rely on other metrics to see if they need to come back and look at the landing page, such as the bounce rate I mentioned earlier. Recommended cloakers. This is the part that gets a little tricky. When I first wrote this brief to submit for TourCon, what I found was that several of the cloakers I was going to recommend were completely closed and had gone out of business by the time I was ready to write to this PowerPoint. Unfortunately, Facebook catches on that people are cloaking and they begin to look and find the methods that people are using. The cloakers I've recommended below are the three that I've used in the past that are still available and still working. Many of them, but not all of them have a free trial. So you can go on, get a cloaker right now, set up a campaign right now, bring traffic to it and not pay a dime for it. Now, here comes the fun part. Launching on Facebook. You cannot set up advertisements without having a business page. A business page is nothing more than a user account who has created a page from that. It's literally just go to the Facebook page, click on the cog, click create a page and set up a business. Ideally, you want it to be somewhat focused around the targets you're going after, but it doesn't have to be. I've included a little video for how to do that. Obviously, when it comes to advertisement, money is involved.  So you're gonna need to configure a payment information. It's very simple, you literally go in, click configure payment information and put your payment information in. The next comes custom audiences. This is where you're gonna wanna upload a list of emails or phone numbers into Facebook and Facebook is going to figure out who they belong to and then target them. These emails and phone numbers can come from anything. Business cards here at TourCon. You could take those and create a custom audience out of them. If they're linked to Facebook in any way, Facebook will say they're valuable and as long as you have at least 20 of them that are right, Facebook will let you show ads to these people. I highly recommend including more than 20 in your list just in case you need more than 20. So when you put 20 in and Facebook says only 15 are confirmed, you gotta find five more. So I do recommend finding more than 20 when you first upload the list. These lists can be a CSV. They can be copy and pasted data or they can be imported from Mailchimp. I've also included another YouTube video below to watch how you can set up a custom audience. All right, so using the custom audiences. Once your list has been built and you're ready to use them, you'll see a list displayed of all the custom audiences you have. Just by clicking on that list, Facebook will let you create an ad for that. A lot of times what I'll do when I'm building an ad off of a custom audience is I'll click the list and then I will add filtering on top of it to ensure that I'm getting the right person. For instance, maybe the product or service I'm trying to sell has a different angle for men versus women. Maybe it has a different angle for people who are located in a different part of the country or maybe I'm trying to add a different device segmentation on top of it or a different geographic location on top of it. This is where you would do that. You would add in the times of day, the geography, the devices you want to target, whatever is important to your particular campaign. Next is choosing the right ad type. I mentioned earlier that I think Facebook news feeds are the de facto successful ad on Facebook and there's a reason for it. These ads take up the most space on Facebook so therefore they're going to get the most attention. They're also eligible for both mobile and desktop traffic so you don't need to create a series of ads for mobile versus a series of ads for desktop. Whatever you're trying to launch, it will work on both. When you're coming to disguising this attack, I highly recommend using Facebook as a viral content or white paper approach. On the right, you're going to see a person named Frank Kern. He created this ad and what he's trying to pitch is he's trying to pitch training for marketers. You'd go, you'd click on the ad, you'd arrive at a landing page that would want your email and then he'd try to sell you things later. But if you look, he actually has 4.9,000 shares or sorry, likes and 1.3,000 shares and 294 comments which is a ton of social traction and social proof. And we're going to sort of clone that because after you've built your ad and you push it out there you're going to want to make it look like people have trusted this product or this service or this ad and also added likes and shares and comments to it. The easiest way to do that is to buy that traction off of a site like rfollower.com or shopfbelikes. These services will let you buy as many likes and shares and comments and reactions as you want. And so therefore to look more authentic and people will sort of trust it as a well liked and well traction ad versus something that only 20 people are going to see. Now we're going to talk to launch on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a far more simple beast. It has a much higher open rate than traditional email. It's at 85% of open rates, right? Versus a 24% for traditional email. It's targeted and that you can only send it to any one person that you're not connected to and there's no cloaking required. You don't need to buy a cloaker, you don't need to worry about custom audience list because the minimum size on LinkedIn is just one person. To get started with setting up an email, all you have to do is upgrade your account. There are three different types of accounts that LinkedIn offers. The first is career, the second is business and the third is sales. Every single one of these accounts gets a certain number of emails with them automatically. The first to career being three, business 10, sales 25 and they each cost a certain different amount. However, if you were to run out of those emails you can buy new ones for $10 each. When you're looking at sending an email, you should find the target. Just by buying LinkedIn premium or any form of premium account, you're gonna get access to a higher grade search engine. The search engine's gonna let you type in a company name and then find people of a certain job function. So for instance, if you wanted to find people who worked as secretaries or people who did not work in cybersecurity who might understand that this is a phishing technique, you could completely avoid those people.  It's one click launch. Just by finding that person, clicking on their name, you're gonna get the opportunity to send them an email. When it comes to writing that email, I highly recommend that you use it as a hiring outreach or a products and services outreach. LinkedIn has shown that these are the two outreach through emails that get the most traction and people click on them and interact with them. However, just like any phishing campaign, if you can get a little bit more creative in your copy, it's all limited to you. So if you wanna get more creative and see if it works, go for it. Once again, if you do get any traction whatsoever, LinkedIn will refund you $10 or your email within 90 days. You can tailor this approach. So I don't recommend sending a CEO a hiring offer or a junior level position of product and services. Just sort of target the person, know what their interests are before you reach out to them. So I've talked a little bit about these attacks and there's not a whole lot on the internet I could find to people using this as a very targeted way of attack. However, what I did see is there's a lot of companies who are aware that this might be a method of attack and are looking to stop it. I found that there's a company called Piehole that's made a network-wide ad blocker and another company called Metix which makes another network-wide ad blocker. I would highly recommend using a form of network-wide ad blocker even if it's the freeware one like Piehole on your corporate networks just because people are gonna bring in external devices like their phones, it may not have ad blockers automatically installed. That doesn't mean you shouldn't encourage them to include an ad blocker on their home computers and their phones just for their due diligence but that's be the way that I would stop these techniques. To wrap things up, I hope you have a general idea of how to set up and get approved on various ad networks to avoid the automated reviewers and know that you can bypass the manual reviewers entirely with something like Cloakers. I hope that you have a very basic and brief understanding of how one might go about securing against this type of attack. Thanks and any questions? Sure, so what a Cloaker is doing is a Cloaker is a piece of software that sits in between you and your landing page. You're going to send ad traffic to the cloaking page. They're going to first look at the traffic that's coming in and they're gonna determine based on thousands of other advertisers that are using this source. Hey, we're seeing the same IP range. That's Facebook. Hey, we're seeing the same footprint. That's also Facebook or that's LinkedIn or that's Twitter. And then they're gonna say if that is part of our block list, then revert them to this landing page. If it's not, revert them to this. They don't care what it is that you're advertising or what pages you're sending it to. They just care what is a reviewer and what's not a reviewer. Yeah, so Facebook's moderation team and every ad network's moderation team is huge, right? They don't rely on humans initially. They tend to rely on robots first and then they have a lot of reviewers in third world countries that go and click the ads. I've seen Cloakers work with just, just by like a homebrew Cloaker work, just by having a geo target, like a really specific geo target around the city that they wanted to find people in underneath their belief that they didn't know where the reviewer was coming from but they knew where it wasn't going to be. So they knew it wasn't going to be, and let's say Rockville, Maryland, but they knew that it could be anywhere outside that. So the network they were gonna target was Rockville. So therefore if someone clicked the ad and they were in Rockville, Maryland, then show them the phishing page. If they weren't in Rockville, Maryland, show them anything else. So that's another way one could go about doing that. Sure. Oh, so spear phishing through social networks and social media? So primarily through social networks and social media is I don't see a ton of these. What I was seeing a while back ago and how I got thinking about this is I was seeing LinkedIn in-mails come through me for someone initially saying that they were hiring. And I clicked on this hiring campaign and I was like, what is this? Why, like it looks just like a hiring page but it wants me to download this PDF.  Like, this is so shady. So I then send it through a virus session. Of course it comes back positive all the way. And I was like, ah, I see it. Yeah, I was like, oh, I see this. I see what's going on. And then it got me thinking, well, people do this every day. Like, I advertise every day. I bring people into whatever pages I want and no one questions it, right? What makes an ad successful? What makes an ad not successful? And that's the way. Sure, yeah. So Facebook doesn't like admitting that phishing and cloaking are a thing, right? They tried really hard to prevent people from cloaking. But as I said, what they're doing is looking for where traffic is going and shutting down those pages so that when I said there was a lot of cloakers earlier that had been shut down, what that means is you could still use those services. But if you put your ad through that service, right, it would, you'd send traffic there. And Facebook would say, oh, we know this. Like, your account's getting shut down immediately. Right, those cloakers just don't work anymore. And so they're the first ones to admit, we're not working. Right, and you're gonna start, you'll start seeing other people review them and say, if you Google cloaker's name and then 2017 or whatever year it is, you'll start seeing people say, my account's all got shut down. Why are my accounts getting shut down? I was doing so much traffic with them. Why are my accounts getting shut down? It's because the cloaker doesn't work anymore. These three of the three that I know right now that are working, that I tested and I can say, this was working today. I know they'll work today. I don't know that they'll necessarily work tomorrow. So, sorry, if you wanted to make your own cloaking service, sure, sure. Yep. Yep. Yeah. If it goes through, it goes. Yeah, that's the primary way that people are doing it. Most people I know who have set up cloaking services, they are advertisers like me. They do a lot of volume for a lot of people and they're able to track and install their own scripts on the people they're advertising for websites and they say, this is what we're seeing. We're seeing all of these same IP ranges. I get, I best if we filter those out, we know who the moderation team is. No, we don't share with each other.  We talk and we say, oh, this is what's working for me. So, every time you change a landing page, right, it's going to, Facebook's gonna see that you've changed it on their side and they're gonna say, oh, well, something's changed. Go back and remoderate it, right? The cloaking page prevents that and just that page never changes, but where it redirects to changes. But I guess if you really wanted to set up a series of redirects, you could try and see how long that worked. With targeted lists, you're not gonna get as much moderation. So, if you're targeting 20 people, you're not gonna get as much heavy moderation as if you're spending like 50 grand a day on Facebook. Yeah, if you want them just to fill in whatever, if you want a form on the landing page, you don't even a cloaker, you know? Yeah, just make the user go through a little bit more work, that's all. Yeah? Your credit card will be blacklisted, you'll need a new credit card, right?  So there are still some out there, but people aren't sharing which ones those are. I'd be very careful. Maybe, I mean, you could just get a new credit card through Capital One or whatever if you're willing to risk your own credit. But there's nothing illegal about cloaking. It just violates the terms of service. There is stuff illegal about phishing and using it for malicious attacks, but cloaking in itself is not illegal. I've worked some really obtrusive ads that have worked. And I used to work for a huge marketing company called Agora, they're very much intrusive ads and we were seeing success. It tends more to work towards the age of the audience. The older someone is, the less familiar they are with the internet and how those things work, the more they're gonna just allow things to, oh wait, of course it works. I saw it, I read it on the internet. But the younger they are, the more tech savvy they are, like the more educated they are, the more they're gonna be very, you know, the more they're gonna scrutinize the ads that you're putting out. Any other questions? We good? Yeah? Sure. Yeah? Sure. You go to the service and you link to the post that your ad is. Every ad you create is also a post on that page that you're going to create. Right, they're one and the same. Just because people who you're advertising to are gonna see that post, anyone who were to like that page, they would also see every one of your posts. They're not separate from each other. You're going to have them like that post and the people who are seeing your ad are gonna see the likes on that ad. So they're gonna see, they're gonna think the ad is a lot more traction than it actually does. So when I talk to my Facebook executives and Facebook reps, so every year I meet with Facebook reps and all that and I ask them stuff like, Cloaking, hey, is Cloaking working? Is Cloaking working?  They go through and they prove the ads and they check. And I do sort of poke around and ask them questions about that. But it's not something that they're gonna tell me the exact services they go through. I do know a few years back there was a leaked manual for what Facebook review teams do look like or look for when it comes to advertising. But I don't know how relevant that is and up to date that is in 2017. The Facebook moderation team? Yeah, maybe. I mean, maybe someone's like, hey, I want the Facebook moderation team phished, right? Maybe that's it.  I'm not, I don't know if Facebook moderation team has up-to-date antiviruses or anything like that or if they're doing it from their home network, I don't know what the setup is. Yeah, or if it's in the, yeah. I don't know what their setup is, but yeah, technically you could. There's nothing stopping you from doing that. That's the fun part. Thank you.


Hey everyone, my name is Rob Greenfield and you may know me for one of my recent adventures of growing and foraging 100% of my food for a year. So that means an entire year without grocery stores or restaurants, not even a drink at a bar or even gifts of food from friends. I literally had to either grow in my garden or forage from nature, everything that I ate down to the salt, the oil, the protein, the fat, the calories, you name it. And today I'm going to share 12 lessons that I learned from a year of growing and foraging all my food. Now that might sound intimidating to some of you, but the really good news is that in many ways I am still a beginner at heart. When I started this, I was very minimally experienced and so I have this experience, but at the same time remember what it's like to be very much at the beginning. So I'm excited to share this with you and help you to, if you've never grown food before, begin your journey, inspire you. And if you've already been growing some food, inspire you and help you to grow a lot more food. Lesson number one is to seek out and utilize local resources. When I first began my journey, what I did is I went to a web browser, Google being one of the most common ones. And I just started to search everything that I needed to know. I was searching how much water do you put on a carrot seed, how much sunlight does kale need, how far apart do I plant seeds?  A little while I started to realize the key is seeking out local resources. One of the big breakthroughs for me was finding a local planting calendar that told me all of this information. And so some of my top recommendations would be finding local books. You can check the local library to see what you might find for that. You can also still use the Internet with things like YouTube channels and websites and social media pages, but try to find people that are in your area for that. The community garden is a great resource just to show up at the community garden and start to talk to other gardeners. The reality is that gardeners enjoy other gardeners and they often really enjoy sharing their knowledge. So there are so many resources locally, definitely seeking out local meetup classes, volunteer opportunities, nurseries and seed companies. Every way that you can plug into the local community is a great way to get started and be really focused on your climate and what works well in your area. Lesson number two is to seek out local plants. A lot of people that I meet when they're starting to garden, they go to Home Depot and loosed by their fruit trees and their plants. And one of my top recommendations is really seeking out local plants. And there's a lot of reasons why. But one of the really big reasons is that what is a local plant, what is adapted to your region is more likely to do well. It's used to the pests or the insects. It knows the weather, the extreme heat or the extreme cold. Maybe it's been through those. It knows the weather, the rain patterns. So plants have this information in them. And the more that you can seek out local plants, the more likely your plants are to be able to succeed. So the way you do this, there's local nurseries. Again, not the big box nurseries that could be getting those plants from all over the country. But finding local nurseries that really work in plants that are of your region. And then local seed companies. Now, a lot of damage has been done to our seeds over the last decades and 100 plus years. And a lot of people think there's not local seed companies out there. But the truth is Monsanto and these other GMO corporations have far from taken over all of the local seed companies. There are a lot of them out there. In fact, when I was in Florida beginning this year, I talked to a lot of local permacultists and they said, oh, there's no local seed companies around here. I found three within a couple of hundred miles. And all of them were really excited to be able to provide seeds. And then the other thing is just connecting with other people. Seeds don't have to be monetized at all. Seeds are one of our greatest forms of freedom, as well as cuttings of plants. So when you're going to other community gardens or you're stopping in people's front yards that are growing food and you're talking to them, you can either trade or purchase four plants that are growing in that area. And that's one of the best ways to seek out the plants that do really well and will help you to grow more abundantly and easily. Lesson three is don't get your advice of what you're going to grow in the garden from your supermarket aisles. Find out what grows really well in your area. And again, this ties back into local information. So ask people that have been growing food in your area for a long time. What grows so well that you end up with too much of it? What grows so well that it becomes a weed that you have to deal with? Like mint, for example. Ask people, you know, what are the foods like zucchini that at the end of the season, there's more than anyone can handle and that they have to try to pawn it off or leave it on people's doorsteps? So find out what has the fewest pests. What can handle the lack of rain or the abundance of rain in your area? What can handle the extreme heat? For example, when I was in Florida, big tomatoes don't grow well there. But the Everglades tomato, a very small, delicious tomato grows wonderfully and self-seeds and comes back year after year. So one way that I did this is I went to the community gardens and I just checked to see what was thriving and I would go to all of my friends' gardens and local farms and I would see what was thriving. I would make these patterns myself and talk to other people. So absolutely do not walk down the grocery store aisles and say, I like strawberries in December when you can't do that once you start really growing your own food. Or I like, I don't know, blueberries. And then you find out that blueberries require generally more acidic soil and you don't have acidic soil. So instead, find out what grows out really well in your area and start with that. Lesson four is to volunteer with local gardeners and farmers. When I started this project of trying to grow all of my food, I was the only one that was, you know, doing just that. But I was far from the only one that was, you know, growing an abundance of food. So my key was to give my time and energy to other people who have that information and make an exchange. So volunteering at local farms is a great way to start. You can find farms through the website WOOF, which stands for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms. And then volunteering at community gardens, talking to people in the community, just anybody who's got an at-home garden, most gardeners need help with weeding and sort of the grunt work of gardening. And if you're willing to help out with those sorts of things, you can very quickly become a best friend of a gardener or farmer. Put your time, put your energy and put your resources into this. And as you become friends and, you know, you build up this trust and this camaraderie with other gardeners and farmers, they're going to share knowledge, they're going to share insight, they're going to share plants and seeds with you. So definitely plug in and you don't have to do it alone. Now, gardening can be a really nice thing to do alone, but a lot of people really like to garden with community. So do it. There are so many gardeners out there. Get involved, volunteer and be in the garden and make it make it a satisfying, you know, soul quenching experience with other people as well, if that's what you desire. Lesson five is to start small and grow from there. Now, for my year, I actually planted gardens in six different spots throughout the neighborhood right at the beginning because I didn't have land of my own. I was actually gardening in other people's front yards and doing a little bit of an exchange and this was overwhelming. I also started with trying to grow a little bit of everything, also very overwhelming. And I've seen this as something that people do because gardening is really exciting. Growing food is really exciting, but it's very easy to feel like you want to do it all right at the start. And the problem is, is if you don't have the time and the energy for all of it, it can actually really set you backwards because it can become so overwhelming that you lose it all. So my recommendation is really to start small. Your first year, it could be five to 10 different foods, you know, for example, tomatoes and basil and mint and peppers and, you know, five to 10 different plants and then each season or each year adding on another five or 10. And if you just do that for five years, then we're talking about growing 25 to 50 different species and that's some real abundance. So definitely start small, you know, really sit down with yourself and ask yourself how much time and energy you have. Be realistic with yourself, start there and then add on each year, whether it's number of plants or the size of your garden. Start where you can be realistic with yourself and then grow year after year after year until you get to the point of having that absolute garden of your dreams. But I'll be straightforward with you. Probably you're not going to get your garden of your dreams overnight or in the first year, that's something that's going to take time, dedication and sticking to it. Lesson six is to make convenient systems. The reality is that most of the people that are, you know, getting started with gardening, they today in the 21st century, most of us have sort of a limitation of time and energy with all the things that are going on. So it's really important to make systems that are convenient enough that are going to actually keep you gardening rather than turn it into a chore. An easy example of this is if you put your garden, you know, on the far side of your property, where it's kind of out of sight, out of mind, it's it's going to be much easier to neglect. Whereas if you put it right outside your back door near your patio or even out your front door next to your front sidewalk, where you're going to see it every day, as you walk past it, you're going to see, Oh, I need to remove some some insects from this plant or Oh, the plants need to be watered. So putting it in an area that's convenient, the same with watering. If you have to walk two minutes to go get water to put on your garden, that's going to make it much less likely that you're going to water. But even even if it's just a 20 second walk to get water, so making your systems like water, a convenient, easy to do thing. My big lesson was I spread my gardens out in six different yards throughout the neighborhood, and most people aren't going to do that. That's, you know, sort of an extreme example. But boy, was that tiring having to bring my tools to all these different spots and to have to go from place to place. And really, it's hard to keep on top of, you know, starting with one area of your property and and getting adjusted to that and getting that down before adding on to another area. Now, of course, if you're starting a fruit tree that's easy to maintain a fruit tree orchard and then you have your annual garden in two different places, that's easier. But if you're putting annuals in multiple places of your property, that's going to be pretty inconvenient and is sort of this could be setting yourself up at the beginning for some struggles. So making convenient systems, thinking about your systems as you're designing them and and really thinking about your own energy, your own time and whether you're going to be able to manage them. Lesson seven is one that I'm very excited about, and that is eat the weeds. I can't tell you how many gardeners that I meet that are just pulling out every weed that they find in their garden. And they're many, many times they're actually cursing them and putting all this negative energy into them. And I come along and I tell them that's that's edible. That's lamb's quarter, purslane or dandelion or pokeweed. There are so many plants that we are pulling out and destroying that not only turn out that they're edible and nutritious, but a lot of them are more nutritious than the very plants that we're growing and they grow really well. I mean, that's what weeds do. They're prolific and they produce. So eating the weeds and combining foraging with gardening is one of the most convenient things we can do and one of the ways we can really utilize that land, because again, these things are growing whether we want them to or not compared to a lot of the plants we're growing that we're struggling to grow. And here we could be eating these weeds. So learn the weeds of your area. Realize that weeds are just a human made concept. There is no such thing as a weed. That's just us deciding one thing is inferior or undesirable. But every plant is a beneficial plant to humanity. Every plant can be worked with as an ally and every plant has its place. So eat the weeds. Lesson eight, this was a really beautiful lesson that I learned and that is you don't need to fall for the chemical mindset. I made it through my entire year, growing a hundred different species of food in my garden, and I didn't use a single pesticide, not even an organic one like BT, for example, or Neem. Now, there are there are some really good natural pesticides out there that work, but I made it through my entire year without using a single one of them. So don't fall for this idea that you need chemicals in order to grow food. Humanity has grown food long before chemicals ever existed. And in so many ways, the chemicals they they're sold as our friends, but they are very much our foe, both for the overall environment, for other species and for ourselves. A couple of key things with that. Number one, biodiversity. If you're growing just a few crops and you're growing large rows of the same crop, that is going to be a more challenging situation. But if you have a garden with 50 different species growing in it, most of these insects, they eat particular plants. So if you have one particular insect that comes in and you have only a few of that plant and they're spread out in different spots and they're actually a little bit harder to find or get to or crawl to, you're going to have that pest not become a big problem. So biodiversity is key. That's the opposite of a monocrop. Another really big one is to grow in abundance of plants. Honestly, if you have just a few plants on your balcony, you know, if you have a couple of pests, it's going to be a lot harder to to not focus on those pests and to to feel that. But if you have a garden with many more plants and abundance, you're going to have a much more much easier time accepting it. And I'll give you one example. One of the gardens that I had, the person who owned that land that I was gardening on, she would come out and her focus was always on, oh, the kale has aphids or the cucumbers have caterpillars on them. She would always be focusing on that one or two pests. And my response was, yeah, but we've got 50 different species. And the other 48 have no problem whatsoever right now. So because I was growing in abundance of plants and again, diversity, I didn't have to worry about it. The tomatoes didn't work this time. No big deal. There's other foods that are growing. So it's this chemical mindset that can really take over where you think the solution is a chemical that I can use. But really what you want to look at is also, why is this a problem in the first place? You can look at plants having an immune system just like we do, although they don't have an immune system.  And if our plants are weak because they're not getting enough nutrients, the soil is poor, they're not getting enough water, that's what opens them up more likely to insects or what we call pests that are going to be problems. So thinking holistically about taking care of the plants first and foremost is another really important one to avoid the chemical mindset. Instead, be in the mindset of working with the plants, asking them what they need and giving them what they need in order to thrive. Lesson nine is to transition into perennials. Now, a lot of permacultures out there are pretty much anti-annuals. But one thing you'll see at Wild Abundance is they do a mixture of perennials and annuals. And I think that is a really good way to do it. For me, when I was just getting started and I was trying to go from growing literally 0% of my food to growing 100% of my food, I found that the best thing to do was to do a mixture of annuals and perennials because annuals are going to give you quick production and they're going to, you know, within a couple of months, within a few months of starting your garden, you can be eating a lot of food with annuals. Perennials, on the other hand, are going to take more time to really start producing. So if you don't know the difference between an annual and a perennial, an annual is something that basically produces once and then it's done. You know, generally things like arugula or kale or broccoli, these are annuals. Although you can have annuals that last a long time and you keep cutting and getting more. But the idea is the plant goes through one cycle and it dies. Whereas perennials, you plant them and the idea is they'll live for years, decades, potentially even centuries. The oak is an amazing example of a perennial. There's oak trees out there that have been producing acorns for hundreds of years. Fruit trees like apple trees, pears, plums, if you're in the South, mangoes, for example. These are all perennials. And there's a lot of perennial greens that keep coming back year after year. Rhubarb is a great perennial. You plant rhubarb in for 25 years, you can be getting rhubarb. Versus lettuce, you're replanting that over and over. So my suggestion is to start with a mixture of annuals and perennials. But in time, phase the annuals out to more and more perennials. And the reason why is that perennials generally are more able to work with the environment as far as being able to handle drought. They don't have as many pests. They don't need to be cared for as much. They don't have to be planted each year. And so, for one, they take a lot less time and energy and they just keep on producing. And secondly, they're a lot more resilient to weather, to insects, to, you know, the general struggles of gardening. So start with annuals and perennials. Continue with annuals and perennials, but move more and more into perennials over time. Lesson 10 is let thy food be thy medicine. So during my entire year of growing and foraging all my food, I never got sick once. And one of the rules was no pills, no pharmaceuticals. My food was my medicine. I had to grow all of my own medicine or forage my own medicine as well. And so there's a lot of obvious foods that are medicine. You have things like ginger or turmeric or garlic or elderberries, these really medicinal foods. But the reality is that every single thing that we eat is either our medicine or our internal destroyers. Every food that we put into our body that is healthy, that is providing us with nourishment, whether it be vegetables, fruit, meat, oils and fats, you know, calories and grains, all of these are our medicine because they are preventative medicine. They are providing us with what we need in order to be healthy whole humans. And then you have your really super medicinal foods that you can grow and that you can forge as well. So let thy food be thy medicine. That was one of the most beautiful examples for me from my year. One of the most beautiful lessons was really seeing that that is possible and stepping away from this big pharmaceutical industry. The mainstream industries would like us to believe that food can't provide us with what we need and that we need these pills and all these supplements that come from them, that they make massive amounts of money, billions of dollars on. But the pharmaceutical industries, big pharma, this is some of the most corrupt industries on our earth. And to be able to produce our own medicine is one of the most empowering things that we can do as humans, along with growing our own food. And these two things, totally inseparable. It's a really holistic approach, the idea of let thy food be thy medicine. Maybe sounds cliche. It sounds like something that was said by Hippocrates, I believe, hundreds of years ago, but it could not be more true with everything that we eat. Lesson 11, most things in themselves aren't necessarily that hard, but doing it all is. When you start to look at gardening and simple living, sustainable living, regenerative living, you start to see that most individual things really aren't that complicated. They really aren't that hard, but trying to do it all with our busy lives. Many of us with jobs and children and maybe parents to take care of, you know, so many responsibilities and things going on, bringing it all together is what can be the most difficult. And so a lot of people through my year, they would comment on social media and they would just say, well, why aren't you doing this? Like, why don't you have avocados? And it's like, well, avocados take seven years or more to be really producing. So looking at holistically, this idea of sustenance, gardening and really producing a lot of our own food individually, growing garlic isn't really generally very hard, but growing 100 different things and then having the time to plant garlic at the right time that year or, you know, your peanuts, they get dug up by squirrels and you just don't have the energy there, the time to plant the peanuts again. Peanuts aren't that hard to grow, but one year they might not work out because there's so many other things that are going on when you're trying to pull it all together. So with that being the case, one thing for me that is a big reminder is that it goes back to the same thing with starting small with gardening. And it's the same with when you're trying to put it all together is adding in one thing at a time or a few things at a time and sort of getting competent at that, mastering that and then adding in one more thing. And as you're building these systems that work and you're building these resilient systems, then you'll be able to really sustainably. And I mean, your time, your energy sustainably be able to bring all the pieces of the puzzle together because the reality of our lives is when we're talking about growing and foraging all of our food, you can't separate that from everything else.  Our desire for love, for for intimacy, our desire for feeling a strong sense of purpose in the world.  So just realizing that that everything is connected and that, again, things are going to take time and just building up each little thing one at a time to put together that whole grand picture that is your dream. Lesson 12 is to practice an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity mindset. Now, a really big part of this is that what I've seen over and over with, especially with new gardeners, really, they have this fear of killing anything. You know, even to the point where they don't want to harvest their food because it looks nice in the garden, they don't want to kill it. Or they a thing that I commonly see is people say, oh, my lettuce bolted and I did something wrong. Well, no, actually, lettuce has a lifespan. It lives that lifespan and it's going to seed and it's going to die. So one of the big things with this abundance mindset rather than the scarcity mindset is to realize that to be a good gardener, which is to grow food, which is to be a creator of life, you also have to be a good killer in order to create food, to grow food. You actually have to be good at killing things as well. And when you really look at it, you realize that killing is not this finite thing. Death is life and life is death. This is a cycle of life that you'll really start to tune into in your garden. And that's one element of the abundance mindset. If you're thinking abundantly, you're OK with death and you're not just OK with it, you're happy with that. It's part of it. And so start to try to look at things from a place of abundance rather than from a mindset of scarcity. And that can really, really flip your entire experience and relationship with your garden. I really hope that you've gained some very valuable experience and knowledge through the lessons that I learned from my year of growing and foraging all my food. And remember that you are you. You can only be you and you can only be in the time and the place that you are currently in. And so you have to work there. You have to start where you are. You have to work with the setting that you're in and grow from there. So some of the things that I've said, maybe not applicable to you, but some of them are. So choose the the lessons that are most valuable to you and select those and start working with them. And this year that I did was in Florida. But I have to say that the greatest abundance that I've ever experienced has been in these colder climates, like Northern Wisconsin where I'm originally from. I have seen abundance there, like I've never experienced in these warmer climates like Florida. So wherever you are, be excited because the earth is an abundant place and we can live in abundance. And I'm actually planning on another year of growing and foraging all of my food. And this time it will be in a much colder climate. And I'm excited to share that with you all. Very excited to be a part of the Wild Abundance Online Gardening School. I think this is an amazing resource that you should definitely tell all of your friends about. I think it's one of the greatest resources out there to really empower us to break free from the corporate food mindset and really start to live with our communities and live with ourselves as individuals together to be able to be independent of these broken systems and instead create regenerative systems that are just, that are equitable and that are serving all of humanity and the other species that we share the earth with. So really wonderful to spend this time with you and I'll see you all again soon, hopefully in the garden.


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Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Welcome to today's edition of Yup That Existed. This time, it's Radical Rex. Err, wait, I gotta say it right. Totally Radical Rex, man. Check it out. It's a gnarly T-Rex threatened sub-pavement!  He's a rad! He's a rad! He's my real cool Radical Rex. He's my real cool Radical Rex. He's my real cool Radical Rex. Yeah, that's what passed for entertainment back in October 1994 when this game was released. It was made by Beam Software based out of Australia, which is a good thing because they've made some quality stuff in the past like the SNES ports of Shadowrun, Smash TV and True Lies.  And believe it or not, Radical Rex does in fact have a lot of charm. I mean, look how the game starts.  It has such strong poochy the dog vibes. And this is the real thing. This is organic poochy in the wild. Alright, to be fair, some of the charm does work as intended, like how Rex yells at you to start the game. And this one does have a bit of a Joe and Mack vibe to it, especially when it comes to the size of your sprite relative to the screen and your surroundings, how your character moves, and the settings of course have that prehistoric vibe and everything looks nice. But this game has some major flaws that I'll get to in a little bit, but first the basics. You get 1 health meter and 5 lives with 1 continue to get through 10 levels.  And you collect all the items and the who's it's and what's it's and all that platformer stuff that's in a million other games.  I mean it's a nice idea, it works just fine in Super Adventure Island, but in Radical Rex you move way too fast and you die over and over with barely enough time to react to what you're flying into. Now sometimes games like this can work, I call them pick up and die games where you need to die a million times to learn the layout to proceed with the game, but in this one your margin for error is so tiny that it's next to impossible to react in time to whatever obstacle is thrown in your way so you end up just bouncing out of control. In other words this is one of those games where instead of you playing the game the game plays you to paraphrase an old philosopher by the name of Yakov Smirnov.  The level design doesn't do this game any favors either, they just don't lend themselves well to going really fast, it's just a really really poor man's sonic, in terms of how the layout is supposed to work for the skateboard it's just bad. And plus the settings aren't that great either, here you get swallowed by a dinosaur and you have to explore its insides and find your way out its ass or something, but apparently this dinosaur's stomach doubles as a trampoline because you just bounce around uncontrollably without having any idea where to go.  It's one of those slow jumps where your character needs a frame or two to wind up. I don't know stuff like that always throws me off.  If you're basing your judgment of this game just on the footage and you ignore my rambling then you probably think this game looks pretty good and you'd be right. This totally looks like a Joe and Mac spinoff and there's clearly been some thought put into this game like being able to make out with fish to take their oxygen underwater. Wait what?  Again, if you think this game looks good you're better off with claymates or arty lightfoot or zero the kamikaze squirrel or skyblazer or smart ball or sparkster or cybernator or run saver and hopefully you get the idea by now. You know sometimes when writing these reviews I imagine myself in sixth grade daydreaming about playing video games so much that I would try to make every homework assignment to be video game related somehow. It was one of the only ways I could make myself do homework that I didn't care about but in this daydream my English teacher gives me an assignment saying that I need to write an 800 word essay on the game Radical Rex. That's what games like this feel like to me, sure I could really ham it up like I used to do in English class and talk about how Radical Rex ultimately stands as a testament to the relentless march of progress and its legacy will forever be as a fossil lost in the sands of time. You know something like that but hey instead it could just keep talking like a totally outrageous 90s dude but nah let's just call this game slightly below average and move on with our lives. Radical Rex was also released for Genesis Sega CD and Windows and if you want to play those knock yourself out but as far as the Super Nintendo Edition goes you can find a lot better. Alright that's all for now and I want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day.