Now, welcome to the third issue briefing of the day, day two of the annual meeting of the new champions, you will have noticed as we are going through the meeting, we are moving subtly from the science and technology, we had robots and mind reading and invisibility cloaks this morning, moving on to financial regulation and again here is another digital disruption most definitely on the business side of the meeting. We're talking about the sharing economy in this session. I'm very, very glad and proud to be joined by an expert not just in the sharing economy but or round in digital transformation and the effect it is having on job's employment and skills. It is Aaron Sunda Rarragen. He's a professor and the Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University here to answer any questions in true issue briefing style. We'll start with some mae'n fawr o gweithio'r cymrydau gwybodaeth ar Arun, a rydyn ni'n golygu gydag hynny o fynd i'w cwestiynau'r gwestiynau. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r cymrydau sefydlu'r gwestiynau arall yn y llunio'r gwestiynau. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r gwestiynau arall yn y sosial mediae ac mae'n gweithio'r gwestiynau arall yn y gwestiynau. Rydych yn gweithio'r gwestiynau ymlaen i gydag ymlaen ffôrwm.org. Arun, rydyn ni'n golygu'r gwestiynau yma? Well, I don't think it's going to spell the end of capitalism, it's just going to transform it into a world where capitalism is more crowd based rather than being industrial. If you think about it, the sharing economy's primary impact has been most saliently on the transportation industry. It's certainly got the automotive sector worried. Short term accommodation, the hotel industry is definitely sort of being disrupted in part by Airbnb. And so these are particular industries that seem to be changing quite significantly now because of the creation of peer to peer markets that threaten the traditional business model of industrially or institutionally provided accommodation or transportation. The industries that I see sort of following are likely to be perhaps sort of alternative energy, certainly healthcare. Additive manufacturing will create a whole host of peer to peer alternatives to traditional manufacturing, so those are the industries that might go. To address the issue of whether it's a flash in the pan or whether it's something that is here to stay, I definitely think it's here to stay. There are a number of ways in which it's going to redefine what we think of as a job. In 10 or 20 years from now, a much larger fraction of the world's population is going to make a living doing multiple things through platforms in some ways being micro entrepreneurs of sorts rather than holding one job in which they sort of work a fixed number of hours every week or every month and get paid by one institution. And so it's here to stay, it's hitting some industries now, it's going to sort of expand its scope of industrial disruption and it's going to redefine what it means to have a job. I suppose you couldn't have any clear indication that an economic transition's time has come than having the Premier of China mention it in his speech in the plenary session at this meeting indeed here today this morning. Give us an idea of what you think is transformational capability is for countries like China, other large markets as well as the markets there, the US where it's possibly the most advanced and most developed. Yes, I was happy to hear the Premier remark this morning that the mass entrepreneurship and innovation that is facilitated by the sharing economy is likely to improve the state of wealth distribution in China. And I think what he's alluding to is the fact that if more and more people own tiny businesses rather than just being providers of labour, they start to be owners of not just providers of labour but owners of capital as well. And as a consequence the fraction of the population that is able to innovate that owns their own business and that is part of the segment of the population that sort of is that faster growing segment, the segment where people who own capital tend to sort of see higher income growth rates than people who provide labour and so that will be equalizing in the long run. To me China is the biggest potential market for the sharing economy in the world, bigger than the United States for sure. The reasons for that are simple. Currently the major enabling technology for the sharing economy has been the smartphone, the fact that you've got a sort of internet enabled, high speed platform based computer that hundreds of millions of people carry around in their pockets. And so it allows you to sort of redefine how you consume. You don't have to own, maybe you can sort of get it when you need it. You can call a taxi on demand for example. So if you start with that point and you realize that China has 600 million smartphone users at this point, more than any other country, like there are two smartphone users in China for every smartphone user in the United States, more than two. And so the set of sort of the population, like the middle class and the upper middle class, even though their total spending power per person is lower, the sheer size of that segment in China over the coming decade is going to make this the biggest market for the sharing economy. At this point, DD Qwadi, who you'll see on a panel tomorrow, I believe has three times as many users as Uber just in China compared to Uber around the world. The Airbnb just made a significant sort of advance into China. The second largest Airbnb-like sort of company is based in China. And so I think that these countries, India, China, Brazil, Russia, will have to sort of create a large fraction of the world's work sort of in the coming decades. And I think a key enabling factor is going to be the sharing economy. The sort of like mass empowerment, mass entrepreneurship, mass innovation will have a much bigger impact on the countries which have a much greater need for job creation and job growth. It's interesting when you put it into the context of jobs and of course we do a lot of work here at the forum on the future of jobs and which industries will be most affected by disruption and transition. I guess it's interesting. The future of jobs is changing and of the 100 million plus jobs that need to be found just in Africa alone every year, they're not going to be created in factories or in shops and services. They're going to be created by people owning, actually having access to finance becoming investors in their own right. And in some sense this is very empowering because you don't have to actually depend on an industrial provider, a factory, sort of like a garment manufacturer, a call centre operator to be able to sort of create employment for hundreds of thousands or millions of people. Instead individuals can sort of sense what the market need is in their country and they are given access potentially to the capital and to the tools necessary to be able to sort of transform that understanding of a local market into a small business. And so to me there are often two scenarios that are painted about the on demand or gig economy that is sort of like associated with the sharing economy. One is if you're interested the forum published a blog post that sort of describes some of these issues this morning. But like you know one of the scenarios is always the empowered entrepreneur and this is the scenario that many of us believe in that like you know you will sort of scale the set of people who are able to actually sort of realise their dreams like you know sort of these platforms become gateways to innovation finishing school for entrepreneurs. And then there's the other scenario the more dystopian scenario where you have like you know sort of lots of people plugged into these platforms providing labour and the platform captures sort of like you know most of the economic rent. And so it's going to be interesting to see which of these two plays out more saliently but early indicators from my research and the research of others are that it will be the first scenario. Lots of points here I'd like to develop. Let's focus on China because this week Uber announced a large raising of capital to fund expansion, a billion dollars I believe. Leads to the question is that going to lead to a saturation of the market? Can the market just expand exponentially to suit the amount of capital there? Well that particular sector sort of point to point urban transportation is in a sort of dramatic growth phase. And I think that there are two things to take into consideration when thinking about like you know sort of the massive amounts of venture capital that are going into the sector. Uber has six billion dollars, they've got a billion dollars for China. Didi Qwadi which is sort of the market leader in China has close to four billion dollars in venture capital.  They're trying to get as many people driving cars as possible to plug into their platforms. And you know a driver in Shanghai does nothing for the demand in Beijing. A driver in Dalian does nothing for like you know the demand in Shanghai. And so this is sort of a supply build out city by city. It's sort of like you know very capital intensive. And so like you know I fully expect that more and more capital will be sort of expanded in this growth phase. But these are small numbers if you put them into context. Right because if you think about it what eventually this industry will threaten is the automobile industry. The notion of owning your own car. The alternative being you sort of call one on demand whenever you need it as an alternative to car ownership. And if you think about that like you know the average car in the United States is used like five or six percent of the time. So it's got very low efficiency of use when it's being used it's sort of being used at 20 or 30 percent capacity. So you've got one to two percent and the things aren't very different in China or in Europe. And so you've got one to two percent capacity utilization for an industry that is often like you know a low double digit percentage of GDP. It's like you know a trillion dollar industry in the United States or close to a trillion dollar industry here. So when you put it into context like a few billion dollars into venture capital that like you know is shaping what might be the biggest disruptive threat to the automobile industry before autonomous vehicles become a reality. Then it's not such a large amount of money and I don't see any danger in market saturation in the near term. Okay so this point where I normally open the floor to questions. Do we have any questions. Lady there so two ladies lady there first please and then we'll go to this lady in the second row. Could you remind us where you're from and your name. It's working. Sorry can you start my question again please. It's working now. It's working now. You mentioned Professor you mentioned two points about one about the mobile user base and the consumer base in China. I just want to know besides these two and how do you how would you evaluate the the eco landscape of this. Shared economy in China and my second question is there there's enhanced competitions here in China for for the shared economies no matter it's transportation or housing. But on the same hands you mentioned that the premier appeal to more opening up to the new economies to the shared economies and the enterprise and the collaborative needs. Between Chinese companies and the international peers how would you think this factor will shape the industry in the next five years. Thank you. Okay I'll try and address your first question briefly and then maybe touch on your second. Yes like you know sort of a technology a technologically enabled population is an important part of like you know sort of a vibrant sharing economy. These technologies are fundamental enablers a digital trust infrastructure that is also emerging is another key enabler. I also think that an advantage that China has in sort of like you know being a promising sharing economy marketplace is that say take the United States a lot of consumption behaviors are already entrenched. People are used to owning their cars a vast majority of the population that is a potential car owner already owns a car. Like you know a large fraction of the population got used to staying in hotels and so there was sort of a big behavior shift that was needed before Airbnb got popular. And there is a huge behavioral shift that is necessary in the consumption patterns of US customers before Uber becomes a viable alternative to owning a car. In China on the other hand people are much sort of not as far advanced along in that sort of consumption cycle. A significant fraction of the population is just learning sort of consumption behaviors right and just scaling it. And so there's a very good chance that they will come of age as consumers in a world where the sharing economy alternatives are available. So we won't have to have to switch them from owning two cars to taking DD. They will just sort of start doing that as consumers and so the transition will be a lot easier to touch on your second question. You know I think the most you know I think whether it's a multinational platform or a China based platform that's less important actually. What's more important is that these platforms facilitate this kind of large scale entrepreneurship. You know people who are Uber drivers are sort of taking small loans and setting up their own small business right and this is happening. Millions of drivers now are providers of like you know transportation but they're doing it as a tiny business owner. So I think this is the kind of sort of mass entrepreneurship that is being enabled. When marketplaces like Alibaba and Etsy sort of take off your empowering millions of people to become manufacturers and retailers. Not large scale massive manufacturers and retailers like Walmart but manufacturers of one sort of like you know the makers that the premier mentioned that he had visited and sort of small scale retailers. And so whether it's through a multinational platform or whether it's through a domestic platform I think the critical element here is to make sure that the platform itself is facilitating enough entrepreneurship and innovation and not converting these providers into simply providers of labour that they should sort of retain some capital ownership as well. OK. The lady in the front row. I'm from Bloomberg Business Week. I want to ask a question to Chinese. So my question is that you have mentioned that in the shared economy there are some industries that might be changed including the alternative energies and the manufacturing industry. So my question is how in what way will the shared economy impact and change those industries. And the second question is in the development of the shared economy what might be the obstacles like the regulatory obstacles that may have the industry on the shared economy. So the question is about like in how exactly is the sharing economy going to change industries that I mentioned are on the horizon like manufacturing energy health care. And so if you think about it right now the provision of energy is largely centralized. There is sort of institutional industrial sort of scale production of power that is then distributed. And so it's you know it's an industry in which you have a few large providers. Like you know there are solutions emerging where someone can finance you know I can finance someone's solar panels. They can set up solar panels. They can become a provider of solar energy not just for themselves but for a couple of people who are close to them. And so at this point in time like you know individuals can start to sort of become producers of energy. Not just for themselves but through a peer-to-peer market for people in their local community. And so there is a lot of efficiency that is gained by this because you don't have to sort of transmit the power from sort of a distant source. So I think as the sort of localized alternative energy options start to take off through peer-to-peer markets we may see a decentralization of the supply of energy. Similarly in manufacturing we're seeing a transition away from reductive manufacturing. Like you know which is today's manufacturing model where you sort of take a sort of like you know you take sort of like raw material and then you reduce it to what it's supposed to be. And now we're seeing the emergence of increasingly sophisticated 3D printers which are additive manufacturing where you sort of create it from scratch. You create it from the material rather than taking the material and reducing it. As these 3D printers get more and more sophisticated again it decentralizes the manufacturing process. You know you don't need a large scale provider of smartphone covers for example. Any individual can design a smartphone cover today and can sell the design and someone prints it on the local 3D printer. And so this completely sort of is a rethinking of the model of mass manufacturing in which the manufacturing is decentralized and sort of put in the local community. Similarly I think in the provision of low end healthcare for example you cut your finger while cooking and like you know you need to get it stitched up. You know I think that there's a big market opportunity for peer to peer provision. Like you know qualified healthcare provider gets connected to you through a sharing economy marketplace and fulfills that by passing the need for example to go to an emergency room. And so in certain sectors I see that there is inefficiency in provision of certain things in the traditional industrial model. That as these technologies sort of progress alternative energy additive manufacturing we will see sort of a shift towards like you know sharing economy or peer to peer models. Any other questions? Lady in the third row. Ni haw, sy'r Laiser Tengyn. I'm from Tencent. And from your presentation I heard that the shared economy impacted housing and the transportation including the Airbnb, the emerging Airbnb and you also mentioned the potential in China of shared economy is higher than in US. But I have a question that China has a short house leasing company that just copy Airbnb. And actually there are less houses that are shared by the individuals than the houses shared by the intermediaries. So the intermediaries actually take over providing more housing resources. So in this situation when the shared economy really take off here in China that might be some people that might be impacted. So for this kind of issue how to deal with that? That you know there's certainly a question of is the supply going to come from individuals or is it going to come from new intermediaries. That sort of like say aggregate like you know hundreds of apartments and then start to provide them through like you know an Airbnb like platform. That's certainly a possibility. I think that what will determine the answer to that question will be two factors. One will be the regulatory issues that actually came up in a previous question. Right now there are regulatory barriers for example in the United States to being a large scale sort of like you know intermediary that is providing sort of apartments as hotels. And so that has been a barrier to the emergence of these intermediaries in the US. I'm not sure if similar regulatory barriers exist in China but you know that will be one determining factor. A second determining factor will be the amount of supply like you know the amount of excess capacity. If there is a lot of spare real estate then these intermediary model is more likely because they can just take over a bunch of apartments and repurpose them a short term accommodation. If on the other hand the real estate is being used efficiently and so you are tapping into small slices of availability of space someone's spare bedroom someone's apartment when they travel. That kind of situation is much more likely to lead to individuals being the suppliers rather than intermediaries. Aaron we're running out of time but I want to just pick up on one of the points you made which is actually going back to jobs. And you paint two scenarios. One is a virtuous scenario practically where people are empowered by the sharing economy and another one is whether the platform comes off best. There's going to be winners and losers for sure and I think believe you've done some research into which various industries. Either way there's going to be a lot of work in terms of gearing people up for this new structure of work. Getting them to think like entrepreneurs getting governments to provide safety nets to give a bit of security and to cover the move towards a more flexible style of working. That's going to cause a bit of pain in the short term. What's your view on how to manage that process as sustainably and stably as possible? On the provision of the safety net I think that's going to be one of the big challenges of the next couple of decades. We have evolved into economies where in a number of countries the provision of the things that we're proud of. The things that we associate with progress like income stability, paid vacations, health benefits, insurance, worker protections. All of those things are tied very closely to having a full time job. We're going to have to start decoupling that and we have to come up with a new funding model for these benefits because they don't come free. At this point in a number of economies they are funded largely by the company that you work for. We have to invent new ways of funding these capital contributions to society. I think that for some countries there will be a greater role that government will play. I think in other countries, in particular in the United States and the UK, I think that there are going to be new government individual market partnerships where the individual somehow contributes to the provision of the safety net. The government provides a tax break like the platform or some other sort of corporate entity that you might be connected with also might play a role. But it's not going to be an easy transition. It's a time when we need to be vigilant because it's very easy to imagine a situation in which these hard-won protections sort of slip away gradually over time. Then we look back in a decade and we say, hey, this has led to a lot of economic efficiency but I'll be really better off. Of course also when business leaders are under pressure actually raise wages for the benefit of wider economic growth. So again you're having downward pressure on wages through the growth of the sharing economy sometimes. I think that in that sense what the eventual ownership structure of the platforms is is going to play a critical role in determining how the spoils are divided. There are a number of proponents of the idea that much like a worker cooperative, a platform might be owned by its providers. That's an extreme scenario. I think that there may be sort of a middle ground where key providers take sort of stock ownership stakes in a platform in the same way that employees have in certain companies. But this has to be structured in a slightly different way. But I think as we sort of spread ownership among the base of people who are the suppliers, we will naturally probably end up with sort of a more robust funding model for these capital contributions. I think what government should be doing is realizing that the idea that your workforce is a set of people who work for one company and receive a salary is a 20th century notion. And the 21st century workforce is going to be in a much larger way a group of entrepreneurs rather than a group of salaried workers. And finally, would you agree then that the most critical factor that will underpin the success of the sharing economy is getting that platform right and getting the safeguards in place and the regulation in place to make sure that it's geared towards providing that kind of framework that protects workers and wages. Absolutely. I think in the early days of the sharing economy, which is over the last five years, the key regulatory battles that have been fought have been on consumer protection.  But I think over the next five years, the key regulatory battles are on the provider protection or the worker protection. And so certainly sort of those are the critical policy choices for the next few years. Aaron Cymdorarrager. It's been a pleasure having you down here in the issue briefing room. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for joining us here today and thank you for watching online. This issue briefing is now closed.


What's really the purpose of life, if you can keep a good side of that? To live totally means, before you fall dead, every aspect of life has been explored. Nothing has been left unexplored. Even if you do not explore the cosmos, at least this piece of life, you must know it in its entirety. That much you must do to yourself. Join Sadguru in the Mystic Eye program on May 19th at the Excel London.


The Tree Extraction Project conducted by Eurostr and ISPRS aimed to assess the accuracy and feasibility of automated tree extraction methods from laser scanning data. The final report by Cardinan and Hypa, 2008, found that there was significant variation in the quality of published methods depending on the forest type and laser point density. This paper further examined the results of the experiment and concluded that the most accurate methods were those which detected trees in the dominant, codominant and suppressed tree layers. These methods also had higher accuracy when it came to locating the tree's exact position compared to manual processing. Furthermore, the accuracy of tree height was greater than 0.5 meters in all tree heights, with the best methods achieving up to 1 meter in accuracy. Based on these results, the authors recommend that minimum curvature-based tree detection combined with point cloud-based cluster detection should be used for suppressed trees in order to achieve the highest level of accuracy in forest inventories. This article was authored by Baron Michael Wolfe, Ji Cheng Wu, Xiao Wei Yu, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


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From the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering AT&T Spark. Now, here's Jeff Frick. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco at the AT&T Spark event. It's all about 5G. 5G is this huge revolution. I haven't got a definitive number, but it's something on the order of 100x, improvement of speed and data throughput. There's a lot of excitement, but one of the things that Les talked about here, was actually up on the keynote, was really the role of open source. And AT&T talked a lot about open source and how important that it is, and really redefining the company around the speed of software development versus the speed of hardware development. And that's a big piece of it. We're excited to have somebody who knows all about open source. Our next guest is Jeff McCaffer. He's the director of open source progress officer at Microsoft. Did I get that right, Jeff? No, well, it's the open source programs office. Programs officer, so you're all about open source. So first off, welcome. Thank you very much, Jeff. Good to be here. So Microsoft, no one would have ever thought, I mean, I'm predating myself 15 years ago, that Microsoft would be a big component of open source, but in fact, they're a huge proponent of open source. Absolutely, even just not so long ago. It was not the foremost in everybody's mind that Microsoft would be doing open source, but now it's a core part of our company. It's a core part of how we work and our engagement with the rest of the industry. So it's really growing and it's continuing to grow. So how did it kind of get there? And what are some of the real key components that you have to worry about in your role of managing, participating in all these various communities all over the place? Yeah, well, I mean, it's been a long road, but it's really the way software is happening today. You mentioned in the intro about the speed of software versus hardware and software just going so fast. And you can aspire to be world-class, but when everybody else starts there with open source, it's really hard to start from zero and get to there. So we're really happy to be using open source and contributing. One of the real challenges we've had going forward is the scale. Simply we've got literally millions of uses of open source across all of our products and services and managing that, keeping track of it, engaging with all those communities and everything is a real big challenge. So we've been building policies and tools and changing the culture to understand that you need to engage, push fixes back, all those sorts of things. And then when we look at our releasing our software, we have thousands of open source repositories on GitHub, thousands of developers at Microsoft working on GitHub repositories our own and others in the community. So it's just managing all of that as being a really big challenge. Right, and it's interesting because the open source projects themselves, you've seen it time and time again, they fork and they go a lot different directions. There's sometimes disagreement about direction and prioritization. So you've got to kind of manage that within the open source thread, but as well as within where those products play a role in your products. Right, right. And we've taken a sort of federated model in the company, we're very diverse as you know. And so my team sort of helps put guidelines in place for project teams to run. And then those project teams run their own program, how they engage with open source, however they want to, and sort of at the level they want to that matches their business requirements. So it ranges everywhere from people who are fully open source to folks who are just using a little bit of stuff here and there within their products. Right, I wonder if you could speak a little to open source and the role that it plays in employee happiness, employee retention. Because there's so much goodness and you see it at these shows where there's particular contributors that they're rock stars in their community. They've made super important contributions, they've managed the community. And I always think back, if you're the person managing that person back at the office, how much time do they put into their open source efforts? How much time do they put in their company efforts? How much other time is really the company software that's built on top of that open source? And how do you manage that? Because it is a really important piece for a lot of people's personas and their self-value. Yeah, well, and there's been a lot of research that says also that high performing teams, one of the traits of high performing teams is engaging in open source. And at the personal level of individuals, there's kind of a different set of possibilities there. Either you're engaging in open source for part of your product work, right? So that's sponsored by the company. Or you might be doing some things on the side or some tangential range in between there, right? And sort of all of those, you need to drive to the appropriate level. The folks who are working on it day to day for the company, there's some really interesting dynamics that can get set up, super exciting for the team. Sometimes they can get a little waylaid maybe, but you want to keep them on task. But then also the folks who are doing it of their own volition, like on their own time and that sort of thing, that also brings back a bunch of energy and everything into the workplace. New technologies that they'll discover in their area and they'll bring back the energy and the excitement about engaging back to the regular team. So there's lots of possibilities there. So what brings you here? What brings you at AT&T Spark today? Well, they invited me to speak on a panel earlier today about open source and the future of open source. And so I had, there were a couple of other people from Linux Foundation and from AT&T. So we had a good conversation on stage. Yeah, it's pretty interesting how pretty much all these projects eventually get put into the Linux Foundation that they've just kind of become this de facto steward for a wide variety of open source projects. Yeah, there's a number of different foundations. Linux Foundation is certainly one of the better known ones. The Eclipse Foundation, Apache, been around lots of times doing lots of good things. So there's a ton of amazing projects out there in all of these foundations. And it's just super exciting to see them all be engaging like in this sort of cohesive way, right? And with a good governance model. So give you the last word. One of my favorite lines always is open source. Is open source just free like a puppy? Yes, it's totally free like a puppy.  You know, what is one of the things about open source that most people miss? One of the really positive attributes that most people just don't see. And what's one of the, you know, your kind of biggest kind of ongoing challenges that's just part of operating in this open source world? Well, I mean, I phrase it in challenges and opportunities, right? There are obviously lots of challenges like I was saying with scale and managing security and the culture change that goes around collaboration and that sort of thing. The opportunities I think are boundless really. I mean, there's one of the most gratifying things that you can see as an open source project is people take your technology and use it in ways you never imagined, right? So we can think of that as our products too and we take our products and they've got open source APIs, they've got open source frameworks and such and people take them and do amazing things with them that we never imagined possible. And that part is really exciting and invigorating. All right, Jeff. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes. Congrats on all your work and I guess we'll see you in Orlando in a month or so. Okay, possibly. All right, he's Jeff. I'm Jeff, all Jeff's here. We're at the Palace Fine Arts at AT&T Spark. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


Dorsey's Twitter resignation sparks fears of more internet censorship. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has resigned as CEO of the company, leading anyone who's been paying close attention to the rise of Silicon Valley Internet censorship to voice concerns that the platform's relatively lenient attitude towards speech compared to other major social media services may be drawing to a close. Hard not to see this as bad news, tweeted Glenn Greenwald in response to Dorsey's announcement. I don't think it's been fully appreciated that on key Silicon Valley issues, including decentralization, transparency, and free speech, Jack has been far better than most and way more responsive to critiques. We'll see what happens, but it seems not great. Anyone who harbors concerns that social media have already grown too intolerant of dissenting opinions, too inclined to silence viewpoints that depart from liberal orthodoxy, should worry about Dorsey leaving, writes Reasons Robbie Sove. That's because the long-serving CEO has occasionally articulated an ideological commitment to the principles of free speech. Of all the tech industry pioneers who have been hauled before Congress to answer absurd questions, he was by far the most hostile to the idea that the government should serve as the Internet's speech police. Dorsey's resignement comes the year after it was reported that his removal was being pursued by virulent neoconservative billionaire Paul Singer, whose Elliott Management Corp had just purchased a significant share of the company. Twitter has been far from perfect when it comes to refraining from interfering with free expression on its platform. It just banned multiple accounts supporting the governments of Ethiopia and Atria against US-backed militants on what appears to be no legitimate basis mere hours ago, after censoring trends in Ethiopia earlier this month, and has a long-standing pattern of censoring the speech of empire-targeted populations. Still, Twitter has been a free speech paradise compared to other mainstream platforms like Facebook or YouTube, largely because, unlike those outlets, it doesn't participate in the large-scale algorithmic suppression of unauthorized perspectives and the artificial uplifting of authorized ones. And we are seeing some indication that that may be one of the changes we'll see in the platform going forward. Twitter users are sharing around a 2020 quote by Dorsey's replacement Parag Agrabal, Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation. The kinds of things that we do about this is focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed. One of the changes today that we see is speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard. The scarce commodity today is attention. There's a lot of content out there. A lot of tweets out there. Not all of it gets attention. Some subset of it gets attention. And so increasingly our role is moving toward how we recommend content. And that sort of is a struggle that we're working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we're building, how we direct people's attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory. A lot of the commentary we are seeing on this paragraph tends to focus on the bit at the beginning about having no commitment to free speech. And not nearly enough attention is going to the latter half. Agrival's notion that it is Twitter's place to recommend content and implement recommendation systems sounds far too similar to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's comments earlier this year when she admitted at a World Economic Forum summit that the platform had been elevating mainstream news sources on important political issues and hiding borderline content. When we deal with information, we want to make sure that the sources we're recommending are authoritative news, medical science, etc. Wojcicki said. And we also have created a category of more borderline content where sometimes we'll see people looking at content that's lower quality and borderline. And so we want to be careful about not over recommending that. So that's a content that stays on the platform, but is not something we're going to recommend. And so our algorithms have definitely evolved in terms of handling all these different content types. This is a kind of censorship that Twitter has been relatively free from, and it is by far the worst kind. While you will routinely see Twitter posts going viral from people with peripheral political perspectives like communism or anti-war activism, you will virtually never see this occur on outlets like Facebook or YouTube because their algorithms are stacked in favor of authoritative sources like the New York Times and CNN, which hardly ever give voice to such perspectives. So we could soon be looking at a Twitter where communists, anarchists, conspiracy analysts, COVID skeptics, anti-war activists, supporters of empire-targeted governments, and other perspectives considered borderline by Silicon Valley narrative managers, could receive very little visibility on people's feeds, while authorized opinion havers like blue checkmark reporters from mainstream media outlets are given greater amplification. This is the most pernicious form of internet censorship because unlike permanent bans, it goes unseen and unacknowledged. And if you point out that your account isn't getting the kind of traction it used to, you can be dismissed as just paranoid and told that your content probably just hasn't been that good lately. On a platform like Twitter where high-profile influencers tend to gravitate to share ideas and information, this can lead to a dynamic where unauthorized thought becomes far more marginalized than it previously was. It should be obvious to everyone that humanity is headed down a dark path if worldwide public speech is regulated by monopolistic oligarchs with a vested interest in preserving the status quo and a steadily increasing alignment with government institutions. If every platform people congregate to in large numbers becomes subjected to iron-fisted establishment narrative management, it will greatly hinder humanity's efforts to become a conscious species that has a truth-based relationship with the world.


The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the Files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. Later in the program, we will bring you an important message from Mr. J. Edgar Hoover on our nation's internal security. From time to time in the 30s and early 40s, most men and women ask themselves, what will I be doing when I'm 65 years old? What are my chances of being 100% self-supporting when it's time to stop work? Well, that's largely up to you and the decision you make right now. One such opportunity for an important decision will be offered to you in our middle commercial. It tells about the Equitable Society's independent 60s plan. This plan means exactly what it says. Financial independence for you in your 60s. Do you like that idea? Then please listen carefully to this important message from the Equitable Society coming in about 14 minutes. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Robbery. It's title, Old Mother Larsonie. What kind of homes do criminals come from? That's a question frequently asked of members of the FBI. The average person usually visualizes a dark crowded tenement in the slum area of a large city as the typical breeding ground of delinquency. Actually, of course, in millions of such homes, conscientious parents who rarely put their hearts into their job overcome the handicaps of poverty and bad environment. Their children grow up to be successful men and women and good citizens. The truth is that criminal homes are found in good neighborhoods as well as bad. In city and country and small towns. Almost always, the common denominator is a parent who for one reason or another cannot measure up to the responsibilities of parenthood. In tonight's case, from the official files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, you will meet such a parent and two sons who are the inevitable products of the kind of upbringing they received. Tonight's FBI file opens on a river running past a large Midwestern city. It is late evening as a small boat drifts aimlessly toward a barge loaded with freight cars. In the rear of the small boat, a man lies motionless. In the prow stands a tall, heavy set man. As he sees a figure move on the barge, he lifts his head and yells, Buy some. Then you buy. We've got to get money for more wine. Buy one, mister. Ten cents. A nickel. Free for nothing. You'll be my friend. Will you get out of here if I do? Sure, sure. We get wine money someplace else. Not a fish like this. That's fine. Well, mister, you take it. Okay, Danny. Come on, boy, let's get to work. Meanwhile, in the same city, in the basement of a large office building, an FBI agent is practicing at an indoor pistol range. He is firing his last rounds as Agent Jim Taylor approaches. Can I see you a minute? Yeah, sure, Jim. I just got a call. They want us upstairs. Tell me you're handing back his cases while he's out. Yeah, that's right. Well, we might be getting a lead on those stolen watches. I haven't hit that file yet. Quite likely. Yeah, thanks. Can you fill me in? Yeah. About six months ago, two men knocked out the watchman at the freight yard, broke the seal in a car from New York, and stole almost 300 wristwatches. Quite a haul. About $6,000 worth. Oh, this is the only elevator running tonight. The only description we got was that one of the men was tall and heavy set. It all happened at night, and the watchman never did get a good look at them. And you say we may be getting a lead? Yeah. We had the list of serial numbers inside the watch cases, and it just paid off. Oh, how? Well, a soldier in Korea returned one of the stolen watches to the factory to be repaired. The Army sent a cable for us and found out the watch was bought at a local store. Which one? A little place on Broadway, Calhoun's jewelry shop. Is he a fence? No, I went to see him. He's giving us full cooperation. Well, can he help? Yeah, he remembered buying the watches from an itinerant salesman. Gave him the name of yours, and a good description, I sent them both along to watchmen. Go ahead, In-Larry. Yeah, thanks. 16, please. Does Calhoun have any idea what the salesman's name was? Nobody promised to come by the office tonight, go through our file of pictures. That was this afternoon. Uh-huh. When he called a couple of minutes ago to report the salesman came back to the store. Tonight? Yeah. Wanted to sell Calhoun binoculars this time. And instead of stalling, Calhoun accused him of selling stolen watches. Said he was taking him to the police. Well, a mention of that, salesman ran. To get away? Yeah. You say Calhoun's coming to the office? Yeah, he's on his way now, so let's lay out those pictures. Cotton, come in, come in. You? Where are the dead-end kids? Not home yet. Come on, out into the kitchen. I'm cooking something special for them. Al told me, Danny and him were getting some binoculars tonight. How, how'd they make out? Oh, I don't know. They never bother me with business. Fried onions. Ah, wonderful. How soon they'll be back? Who knows about them? If you could tell where they'll be the next minute, would they be my babies? Babies? You couldn't hide them in Grand Canyon.  No, thanks again. I got to meet my girl. You don't know when they'll be back, huh? No. Well, I got to see him and get those binoculars. It was the first thing in the morning. Why so fast? Last time, with the watchers, you said it was better to leave them for a little while. Well, that was different. Mr. Martin, you're not in some trouble. Me? Say, you want to know how lucky I am? I win crooked rapples. Oh, you're like my boy. Always fun comes first. Say, you know what they did to me last night? No. When I sleep, I sleep. The building could fall down.  I'll give a gift to them. Then they gave me get up and cook them a whole meal in the middle of the night. Mrs. Barion, I'd like to stick around and hear how you locked each other in the gas chamber, but I can't see.  The jewelry store was here, Larry. Yeah, when? While you were in with the SAC, he went through our pictures, no luck. Anything else we can do tonight? Nothing I can think of. Oh, will you take that, Jim? Yeah. Taylor speaking. Yes, Captain? When? Any descriptions? What'd they get? Yes. Yes, right away, thanks for calling. Larry, it was Captain Jones' first precinct. Another interstate freight car was broken into tonight. This one was on a barge. Two men did the job, got three crates of binoculars. That's what the salesman offered Calhoun. And the ammo used tonight was the same as on the wristwatch theft. Did they leave any evidence this time? The railroad police are waiting for us to inspect. Larry, will you run up to Pier 11? I'll cover the hospital. Yeah, hospital? Well, the watchman passed out after reporting the robbery. He's at emergency ward now. I'll wait to see him and try to get some dope on the two thieves. Gets of binoculars. Pretty good, eh? Hey, what's that I smell of? Meatballs and fried onions. Well, come on, let's get at them. Looks good, man. I tried to give some to your friend, Mr. Martin. Oh, is he here? Oh, didn't I tell you? No. I guess all the excitement had made me forget. He wants you to call him. Uh, first, Willie. I don't understand, Mr. Martin. Last time, he said you should hold the watches. Tonight, he wanted the glasses right away. With the solemn? Yeah, he wants them tomorrow morning. That's funny. Why'd she want them so quick? I don't know. Maybe we should find out. Yeah. Oh, Al. You forgot. Huh? Come on, let's press it. What, you brought me something? Yeah, yeah, go get it. Yeah, sure. What is it? We picked out the best pair of binoculars for you. What do I need with them? You'll be able to see in the windows on the next block. I don't know anybody there. Well, you didn't know the people across the street when you started looking in their place. But who conceited the next block? Well, with these glasses, it'll be like you're in the same room. Here, my hair. Take a look, huh? All right. Oh, that's wonderful. Okay, Bob. Put them down. You'll wear them out. Washington sent anything yet? Yeah, Larry, that I didn't just came through. Oh, who is it? Somebody named Eric Martin. His pictures are on the way. How come we didn't have one? No local arrest record. Oh. He's from back east originally. Been convicted four times on confidence charges, twice for handling stolen goods. Sounds like the right man. I've sent out a warrant on him. I wish we could get something on those other two. I got zero at the bar. Huh? Not a single print inside or outside the freight car. Well, that about matches with the watchman contributed. Couldn't he give you any description? Well, nothing we don't know. The one who did the slugging was big and heavy set. So all we got to work on is the ident on Eric Martin. Yeah, but that might be enough. We can find him, Larry. We might come up with a whole trail. King size hangover. Well, those crates in the truck, is that the merchandise? Uh-huh. Well, let's have the keys. Keys to what? The truck. Got to live with that stuff this morning. When's all the big jokes today? In those bottles I emptied last night. Well, let's have the keys and I'll get started. Wait a minute. I want to talk to you. Al. Al. Yeah. Eric is here. You don't feel so good today. Oh, it's a matter. Look, I came here to get some binoculars, not to have a physical exam. He wants to take the truck and deliver the binoculars to some guy. Who's the guy? Did I ask you where you stole them? Come on, come on. I'm in a hurry. Before you go, we ought to have a drink. Well, that I can use. All right, I'll go get the bottle. Did you get those lugs off? Oh, no, no. Ah, I got them. If I tell this one to see, Eric. Oh? He said you checked out. Where you living? Well, no place. I figured when I got my piece of this action, I'd move to nicer zone. I couldn't find you to tell. I went to see a girlfriend. What a hangover she had. Yeah, well, I'll match mine with anybody's. I took her out and bought her a drink. Well, you drink first. You guys, that might be gasoline. Okay, okay. Now, come on, come on. Let's have it. Hey, Eric. Your girl says you did a lot of talking last night. You ever see a silent drunk? Huh? He says he even told her that cops were looking for you, but you didn't care. He said you were making a big score today and you'd pick her up and take her away with you. I'll have to change brands. Those three crates are making a nice score, wouldn't they? Oh, no. You don't think he was going to grab the stuff and run? Ask him. Oh, listen, you ought to know that I wouldn't pull a thing like that. After what she has told me, I'm not so sure. Oh, look, Al, we're pals. How do you explain what she told me? Well, it's perfectly logical. I figured all the money I'd be getting from you.  Now, look, if you don't want to believe me, we'll call the deal out. It ain't that easy. No, look, don't, don't. I want to talk about it some more. Don't help. Don't. I don't feel good, honestly. You mean you need some air? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I need air. Well, we can take care of that. We'll take you for a little ride in our boat. We will return in just a minute to tonight's exciting case from the official file of your FBI. But now, listen. Mailman's here early today, Essie. Guess he's got a check from the Equitable Society. Every month, right on the dot, those equitable checks come to members who have paid up their Equitable Independent 60s plan. They're checks that mean financial independence for life after you're 65 years old. And here's Mr. Robert Buckner, who started one of those plans almost 30 years ago.  Yep, 1950 was quitting time for me. I resigned from my job and I'm here to say I've been having a mighty good time ever since. In other words, Mr. Buckner, you're now enjoying the three freedoms that go with an independent 60s plan. First, freedom from money worries and job worries. Financial independence. Nobody will ever have to help me to get along, Mr. Keating. My monthly equitable check takes care of that. Second, with an equitable independent 60s plan, you're free to live anywhere you please. I'm living in a little town down on the Gulf Coast. My wife and I have always dreamed of a spot like that. Third, freedom to do the things you've always wanted to do. I like to fool around in my home workshop, turning out old rustic furniture, even pick up a little extra money selling it. You know, Mr. Keating, the best thing that ever happened to me was when my Equitable Society representative proved that you don't have to make a lot of money to afford an independent 60s plan. That's a fact. You don't have to earn big money to begin an equitable independent 60s plan. Ask your equitable representative to explain why you probably have a big head start towards independent 60s because of your social security and the life insurance you already own. Often only a small amount of additional insurance is all that's required. A few dollars a week did it for me. Friends, why not profit by Mr. Buckner's experience? Phone your Equitable Society representative without delay, or send a postcard care of this station to the Equitable Society. That's E-Q-U-Y-T-A-B-L-E. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. And now back to the FBI file. Old Mother Larsonie. In tonight's FBI file, we have met a woman wholly unfit to bring up children. Naturally, her own moral irresponsibility and emotional immaturity were transferred to her sons. Small wonder they developed into criminals. That may seem unimportant to you since this type of parent is fortunately rare. However, parental selfishness and neglect are not rare. And it is probably true that a major part of all delinquency can be traced to either parental neglect or indifference. Awareness of this is largely responsible for the development of parent training courses, guidance clinics, and social service organizations which are available nowadays to almost everyone. Parents are urged to take advantage of them. Any parent who has any reason to feel that his children are getting out of hand should take prompt advantage of this expert assistance. Remember, in nine cases out of ten, it takes a delinquent or indifferent parent to rear a delinquent child. Tonight's FBI file continues later that day at the local FBI field office. Special Agent Taylor has just entered. Larry, we just missed Eric Martin. Where? At the Star Hotel he checked out this morning. No forwarding address, naturally. No. And a man was there before me, questioned everybody, trying to find out where Martin went. Who was he? I didn't get a name, but I got a description. He was about six feet three, very heavy set, dark hair, and a scar on his left cheek that looked like a knife wound. The man who slugged those watchmen? That's what I figure. Police are checking their files now. Well, I wish I could throw something into the pot. No. No word on the binoculars? The police questioned all suspected fences. There hasn't been a trace of them. Martin, finding out he was wanted, maybe they decided to go under for a while. Could be. If they did, we ought to... Pardon me, Alan. Yeah, sure. Taylor speaking. Yes, Captain? Oh, when? Where was that? Yo. Yes. Yes, of course. Thanks for calling. Well, our suspect must have caught up with Eric Martin. His body was just fished out of the river. Huh? Come on, Larry. Let's get over to the morgue. Did he sell those things? Nah. We were busy saying goodbye to a friend. Oh, I'm sure glad you have so many friends. Yeah, we got one less now. Who? Eric. He was gonna cheat us. Oh, Mr. Martin? Uh-huh. Me and Jenny went for a boat ride with him. He fell overboard. Oh, that's too bad. I was fixing lunch for him, too. Well, he wasn't very happy, anyway. No. It's a shame he had to have his accident before he did that business for you. That way, at least, it had died rich. Ha, ha, ha. Well, he told me the name of the man who wanted to buy the binoculars. Oh, that was nice. Yeah, after we eat, I'll get somebody else to go see him. We can go ourselves. Keep the money in the family. But ma... Son, the way prices are today, a person's gotta try to keep every dollar he steals. You the man to see the Martin buddy? Yes, that's right. Over here. Thanks. That's him. Yeah, it's Martin, all right. Mm-hmm. That's a bad-head one. Uh-huh. Mark's on his face, Larry. He looks like he's beaten. Yeah. Is the medical reporting yet? Just came down. Oh, thanks very much. There's a death skull fracture. Dead when he hit the worm. Uh, how about Martin's belongings? Over on the table. Thanks very much. Yeah, he didn't have very much. Auto keys. Any numbers on the other side? Uh, no. All right, be tough to trace. Well, this key's got a number on it. That's all. Let me take a look at that. I got the same kind of key last month, and I rented a locker at the airport, and one company owns all those lockers. Let's call them, Larry, and see where this key belongs. There's another bank of lockers, Larry. Eight, three, seven... There it is. There's a bag, Jim. Opener, will you? Right. One change, and a bottle opener. This porter's tag on the handle has number 17 on it. Let's try and find him. Yeah, located at number 17. You remember Martin? Yeah, he was here this morning. With anyone? No, along. Come on. Where are we going? Porter saw Martin going out that door. He took a cab to start a might now where he went. Larry, we're closing in. What did you find? The starter remembers Martin taking a cab. Where to? He doesn't know, but this morning's drivers have cached in, so let's hit the cab garage and start checking trip records. You all, Mr. Wilson? Yes, ma'am. I have binoculars here in this box. How much will you give me? Well, I'll have to see them first. Go ahead, open it. These are quite good. How much? $20. Oh, Mr. Wilson, they're worth more. Not to me. Well, all right. One more? How many more? Nine dozen. I couldn't buy that many without knowing where you got them. Well, my husband, he has a trucking business. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. Right now it's bad. One of his customers, he can't pay the bill. He told my husband to keep the goods. And these binoculars are the goods? Yeah. Or where are the others? In the truck outside. Come on, I'll show you. I can't leave the store right now, but perhaps you wouldn't mind showing them to these gentlemen. Oh, you want to see the glasses? Yes, ma'am. Are you the owner? No, Mrs. Baryon. Well, who told you my name? We're special agents of the FBI. We just arrested your sons outside. Come on, we can all ride down to headquarters together. Mrs. Baryon and her two sons, Albert and Daniel, were turned over to local authorities. They were tried and convicted in a state court on a charge of murder. In checking the cab records, special agents Taylor and Dodge found that one trip made at the time Eric Martin left the railroad station had been from the terminal to Wilson's pawn shop. Since that was a likely place to dispose of binoculars, they waited in the hope someone would appear and try to consummate the sale. And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is a vital message on our nation's internal security from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Hoover's message is, and I quote, the term subversive activities applies to activities on the part of any individual or organization which is intended to forcibly overthrow the American government or to give aid to its enemies. Your FBI has been entrusted with the duty of coordinating the investigation of subversive activity on a national basis. All law enforcement agencies, patriotic organizations and loyal citizens are requested to report information relating to subversive activities to the FBI immediately. This is an important contribution that the private citizen can make to the nation's security program. Now, two final questions on the cost of the Equitable Society's independent 60s plan. Mr. Keating, I'm 33 years old. How long before I should start one of these plans? Start right now. The sooner you begin, the lower your yearly cost will be. Is there any fixed amount of money I have to pay? No, the amount of your independent 60s plan is strictly up to you. Your Equitable Society man takes into account your present salary, your future income under social security, and the life insurance you now own. A comparatively small amount of additional life insurance may be all that's required. Get the exact figure from your Equitable Society representative or send a postcard care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Its subject, homicide. Its title, The Night Rider. The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious. And any similarity thereof to the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental. Tonight, the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner. The author was Jerry D. Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. Others in the cast were Tony Barrett, Ted DeCorsier, Charles Maxwell, John Mitchum, Jeanette Nolan, Victor Rodman, and John Sheehan. This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling transcribed story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Knight Rider on this is your FBI. Stay tuned for the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. There's fun for the whole family when Ozzie and Harriet come your way next. This program came to you from Hollywood.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Words with Oxy, my name's David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the British monarchy cards from Luxe playing cards. Luxe playing cards, you might remember I did a review for them back a while ago, the Aves deck, the bird deck. If you'd like to learn more about Luxe, you can visit them at luxeplayingcards.com. This was a Kickstarter successfully funded and the artist for this deck is a man named Nam Tybin. He's based out of the Philippines. There was two versions of this deck released with the Kickstarter. There was this version, which is the standard tally ho tuckcase. And then there was a King Henry VIII tuckcase. This year, 2015, King Henry VIII is going to be 524. And so to honor that, Luxe released 524 of the special edition tuckcase.  It says British monarchy tally ho cards and then it has the Luxe symbol right there in the corner. This side says that they're printed from the United States playing card company. This side says linoid finish made in the USA. The bottom has some ad copy about Luxe and the top is gold. And it did say something under the tuxil, but can't read it now. There's the original Luxe tuxil right there. And of course, the back design of the tuckcase is the back design of the cards. That is pretty much it for the tuckcase. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are printed from the United States playing card company and they are done on their retail thin stock. They do have a modern cut and they do have air cushion finish. And if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. The back design of this is very ornate and it keeps with the entire theme of the deck. The back illustrates the crown, which alludes to the infamous war of the roses in England. You will notice that this deck does have a British monarchy theme throughout, but also trying to tie it into the respected brand of tally ho. And so tally ho has a circle back design. And so that's what Luxe tried to do is incorporate the circle back design into a back design that honors the British monarchy. With this deck, you're going to get a couple of things. The first of which is you're going to get a double backer, which is always cool for magic tricks. And then the other thing you're going to get is you're going to get two jokers. Now one of these jokers is Oliver Cromwell. He was an English military and political leader and he was later a Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. This joker is Anne Boleyn. She's one of the most famous queens in English history, even though she only reigned for three years. She didn't give Henry the 8th son and shows she was unjustly accused of witchcraft and she was executed. They were all false charges, but her daughter, Elizabeth, would become one of England's most greatest queens. Your pips and indices cards are all completely redone and original. You've got original center placement of the pips. You've got an original font over there in the corner. The pips you can see even have like a kind of little gold outline that surrounds the coloring.  They are all based on famous British monarchy from centuries past. Your Ace of Spades is really big, very ornate. It still carries that same gold black theme that you see through the coloring of the deck. This is Tally Ho playing cards made in the USA and the center is the British monarchy crown surrounded by some vinework. The other aces in this deck are also unique. The ace of hearts is a throne. The ace of clubs is that little ball ornament that royalty carries and the ace of diamonds is a knight's helmet. Well that is it for this deck review. As always, recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just to stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. Now if you want to follow me on social media, you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore


Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. We're going to do a very brief review of Ubuntu 20.10 now I've decided to do Reviews a little differently than the rest of the YouTube Linux community You know district tube or you know The Linux experiment or whatever would go through and they'd install it and show you how they installed it and go through the applications stuff They can do that and that works for them. What I've decided to do is Hit the microphone with my headphones Totally guys. I'm doing that. Anyways, what I've decided to do is go through and Just talk about my experiences and using it now because I mean anybody can go to the Ubuntu website and you'll look at the release notes Anybody can watch any of the dozens of youtubers out there who went through and installed Ubuntu You know step-by-step and then explained what's new and all that stuff. I'm not going to do that Because that would be a waste of time because there are dozens of YouTube's out there that done already done that Instead I could have said I'm just gonna talk about my experience and using it so The first thing I will tell you is that I'm beginning to change my thoughts on gnome For years gnome has just been so slow. It's been so slow people. It's just it's so slow It's unusable now part of the reasons why it is faster for me as I've been using it mostly in a virtual box in a virtual box Animations aren't here. So I'm not sure if this is the case on bare metal. I haven't used it on bare metal all that much I use it on my lap that for a little while. I but that's been ages ago So I don't know I don't really remember if The animation is there, but I remember it being even fast on there So that's one thing is it used to be you have to wait for ages for the icons to unfurl and this amazingly idiotic Animation and it's just not it was completely useless Excuse me it's okay Socially distancing anyways, it's just a cough Every and you can hear everybody running away from me as you speak anyways That's the first thing I noticed about it about 2010 is that for the first time in ages gnome is fast enough I mean launch times are amazing For the most part in almost every application. It just still starts right up And it's a little slower here on this virtual machine than what I experienced when I used on my laptop for a little while but For the most part. It's very very Responsive responsive in a way that gnome and Ubuntu really haven't been in the past and last year they introduced this new theme called yaru or something like that That may not be what it's called. I'm not sure But it was very Inconsistent last year. So that's another thing. I've noticed is that the theming this year is is much better you know consistency wise and I've also believed if I remember right here, you can also choose a dark for the first time I Believe ever this might have happened in April I'm not sure because I didn't try the April April release, but you can change the dark theme without installing gnome tweaks That's awesome. I Mean it is just awesome. Now. I know that there's still reasons to install gnom tweaks. I know there's a Evidently doesn't come pre-installed. I actually haven't done any extensions on this at all but There's still reasons to install gnom tweaks. You can install them themes that way and you can go through and install extensions that way I believe but Really This is all you'll ever need if you like You know, if you'd like the theme that comes with that and that's really great I think it'd be awesome if they gave you built in the option to actually change themes here if it was just between two or three themes or Um, just give us the the ability to change the accent. What if I don't like orange? What if I wanted to be blue or something because blue would look really good with his accent with this, you know theme But no, you can't do that and you can see how quickly it switches. I mean, it's just I mean, it's good It's not something that you really You don't have to think about and that's really the way it should be so theming Speed those are the two things I've really noticed the other big thing the big changes the last time I've used the boots I'm not sure if this is doing 2010 or if it was 2004 that this is different, but the Ubuntu software, which is now a fork of minimum software is now completely all snaps. I believe But more than that, it's more fleshed out than it has ever been before This is actually beginning to look more like a store Whereas before you come in here and some of these icons are missing You know, if you clicked on something here, it wouldn't have screenshots. It was just, you know, text It would have a place for screenshots, but they'd be empty You still can't make these any bigger which is annoying. I think like what if I want to What if I want to, you know Zoom in and I can't see that. I mean, that's that's dumb. So that's still annoying But the fact that there's now screenshots, I mean That's great, you know Now not every developer, not every program is gonna have those probably the more obscure The application probably the less likely it's gonna like see this one here.  Otherwise, you should just stick with PPAs, you know, whatever Or the or you shouldn't be able allowed to have reviews or whatever I think that that's just It would make sense because The more fleshed out the Ubuntu software becomes like reviews and stuff and maybe eventually they'll bring in ability to, you know, donate to The developers whatever like elementary does The more fleshed out it is the better it is for new users because it looks more and more like like Apple's app store And really that's what you want to be compared to So as you can see that the speed of this is fairly impressive now I will say when you first launch it after a Reboot it's a little slow and switch between categories here as you can tell just It drags a little bit now. I'm not sure again if this is because of I'm on a VM Or if it's just that way all the time. I didn't really test that You can you can also see how sometimes sluggish it is scrolling So this is it's a Ubuntu software is actually where I've spent most of my time critiquing because the screenshots that Not being able to make those bigger annoys me the slowness of it sometimes is annoying but it's still Miles away from where it used to be it's getting really really good and I'm really really impressed if you can fix you know, it's just the the little details and It's gonna be good. I mean, it's gonna be probably even now. I believe I Would say that of the stores on all the on all the Linux distros The Ubuntu software store is the best I don't care for elementaries mainly because it it's This is I'm a big open source kind of guy and I know that developers need to get paid I want them to get paid but The way the elementaries The elementary store comes off as these things have to be paid for even though you cannot pay for them It always seems a little shady to me. I don't know. That's just my maybe I'll make a video on that someday But that's beside the point. I really do truly believe that Ubuntu software is the best right now purely open source Store, you know, whatever It's very very good Even with the if they can make this faster and they can make it so that you can actually, you know Make these things bigger so I can actually see what that's, you know, the You know, I just thought maybe if I hit the space bar, it would make it bigger, but it doesn't anyways, that is The Ubuntu software store other than that there weren't that many great big huge In your face consumer facing features for Ubuntu 2010. They just weren't this is a very Very fairly quiet launch The last thing I just want to talk about is stability. It's this is probably the most stable Ubuntu I've tried and granted most of my time has been spending it and you know watching it or playing around with it in a Vm But it's been very very stable. I mean usually the interim Ubuntu releases are a little Wonky every once in a while because they're not long-term support and you know things break But I haven't any experiences in with problem any problems with this at all It's just been very very good If you're into Ubuntu, I don't think that there's any reason for you not to upgrade you now Excuse me the One thing I'd say against that is that if you're using the LTS, there's no reason for it upgrade Mainly because there's no new standard. I mean, there's no huge features that you need to have Really the only Thing you would be missing out is bleeding edge hardware support and even then that stuff's almost always Backported into the LTS. So you're probably gonna get that as well. So if you're on 1910 or 1904 and You enjoy the interim Ubuntu releases. I'd say go and upgrade because this is really good. You won't regret it You're not gonna see much new but it's faster. That's really where where you're gonna see your differences is that it's faster Compared to the LTS now I wouldn't say it's that much faster because the LTS was still pretty fast from what I remember I didn't play around much with the LTS, but it was still better than any can own before it So anyways, that's just a real quick review. I will get better at these as I go along. I'll make more notes Anyways, if you enjoyed this video Make sure you give us a thumbs up or thumbs down or a subscribe any of that stuff we really do appreciate it our Podcast, which is the Linux cast which is where we get the name for the channel if you didn't know Records every Sunday and we usually post it later that evening out here on YouTube and on anchor So give the those a subscribe if you want to you can check out all of our places to subscribe at Linux cast The Linux cast org and we'll see you next time. Thanks for watching


The life of an entrepreneur entails building relations with everyone right from the top executive to the lowest and the corporate hierarchy. Hello there, this is Bhavya Karshal and here are four things to remember for building excellent relationships in an organization. Welcoming feedback is one of the easiest ways to improve customer or investor relations.  Four things meaningful relationships in the organization will ensure that you make your place in the business ecosystem. It is also one of the best strategies that an entrepreneur can use to market himself, his product or his venture. Raising a standard amount in a funding round or closing career with ample profit can give an entrepreneur his biggest height. However, becoming arrogant or having the awareness that he or she is superior can ruin relations and also bring downfall of the organization. The best way to develop excellent relations in and out of the organization is to remain true to oneself and one's vision and try to communicate the same to whoever you cross your path with.


All right, get comfortable feeling uncomfortable. Are you in your comfort zone where everything's safe and nice and pleasant and dull and boring and nothing's really happening in your life? Will you have to get comfortable feeling uncomfortable? Uncomfortable in the sense that you push yourself. You push yourself to try a new hobby, to meet someone new, to join a new group, to go for a promotion, to try a new career, to push yourself, to start a new exercise routine. You have to get uncomfortable in order to grow, in order to pursue what it is that you wanna do in life. I've just read a great book called The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford who was Michael Jordan's mental coach. He also coached Kobe Bryant at the Lakers and he says in this book, if you get too comfortable in life, you don't grow. But if you wanna pursue excellence and high performance, then you have to be willing to get uncomfortable. Love it or not, to learn you've got to take risks and stretch yourself. You've got to romance the unknown. You've got to romance the unknown. I love that phrase. Let me give you an example when I got uncomfortable just the other day. So I haven't been to my gym, the Equinox gym on Sunset Boulevard for about two months now. And because it's like two miles extra down the road than where I usually go to the gym here at the Crunch gym on Sunset Boulevard. So I don't wanna spend those extra seven or eight minutes going to the gym when there's a closer one right here. But on Saturday, I was like, you know what? I've got to get uncomfortable to put myself into a new environment, to meet new people, to just see what happens in a new social environment. So I went the extra seven minutes. It was only seven minutes, but I pushed myself and I went there. And when I walked in, I started working out at the bench. And I looked up and who was looking down at me? But the Rock, the Hollywood movie star, The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, who was working out there. And he gave me a kind of look because I accidentally stole his bench. I'm like doing this thing and I looked up and I was like, is this yours? And he's like, yeah. I was like, well, I'm not gonna mess with The Rock. So I gave him back his bench. So all of a sudden now I've got this great story about how I met the Hollywood movie star, The Rock. I pushed myself into my discomfort zone. And all of a sudden this amazing thing happened. Then I ran into another friend of mine, Whitney, who I haven't seen in a year. And I got talking to her and she said, oh, I'm gonna do cryotherapy after this. And cryotherapy is when he's standing in the cold and like for like two minutes. And it's really great for inflammation in your body. It like makes you like feel so much better. It gets rid of aches and pains. I've always wanted to do it, but I just haven't pushed myself to do it. And she says, come with me. So we go afterwards. I put it on my Instagram. Here's a photo of me and Whitney just before we jumped into the cold with cryotherapy. And I experienced this amazing new thing. You can check that out on my Instagram at James Swannick. So I pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Okay, I moved into discomfort. And when I moved into discomfort, I got comfortable with new stories, new environments. I met The Rock for goodness sake. I ran into an old friend. After we did the cryotherapy, we then went and had lunch.  I'm going to be hosting 10 people in my apartment on Thursday night to do a mastermind group where we're going to talk about love, health, wealth and happiness. And it all came because I pushed myself past my comfort zone. So get comfortable feeling uncomfortable.  Push yourself to go out a little bit more. Push yourself to eat better. Push yourself to exercise more. Get out of that comfort zone because when you get out of that comfort zone and into the discomfort zone, that is where the real breakthroughs come. That is where you live the life that you've always wanted to live. So romance the unknown, push yourself and get comfortable feeling uncomfortable.


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