Comic-hype, comic-hype, comic-hype, comic-hype, comic-hype. Gang, let's do a comic with God. I'm gonna smoke my cigar while we do this haul as a tribute to Jack Kirby. Okay, as a tribute to Jack Kirby. Gang, let me show you this. Let me show you one thing first. Okay. Check this out. Now, this is one on the more expensive side that we got. Okay. Actually, I'll show you what we got first. And then I'll give you the price. And then we'll take a look at each page. Oh, I gotta tell you the price. I always tell you the price. Check this out. I'm gonna show you what the price was, right? So, this is US dollars, right? And I'm gonna give you a little heads-up regarding eBay, right? So, we paid $275 US. This whole thing came out to us 27 items. Shipping was $26 US, right? And GST and taxes, that's GST and HST are taxes in Canada. Came out to $15.15. So, total $316.39 US, right? $316 US, okay? And that comes out to $420 Canadian or something like this. Okay. Now, check this out. This was what the payment was when I went to eBay to do checkout, right? This is the email that eBay sent me, okay, to make the payment, right? Now, the total, the sub-total is the same. $1632, the buy cost $275, which it does. The shipping was $26. And then the tax was 13% at $39. I was like, what? Why is there so much tax? I know I'm going to get dinged for tax, but why is there so much tax?  But it looks like they charge GST and PST and stuff like this, right? So, I went, wait a second. Now, if you know a little bit of mathematics, just a little bit of mathematics, if you add up these three numbers, $275, $275, $26 and $39, it's not $316, right? It comes out to, let me do it here, what does it come out to? $275 plus $16 plus $39. Is the wind too much, guys? Should I put the little thing? It comes out $230, right? So, you don't need money. You don't need money. We're only going to look for money, right? So this thing comes out, if you do that total, it comes out to $330. So there was, like, one of the reasons I'm pointing this out, this out is math robbery, math robbery. One of the reasons I'm pointing this out is, is people have faith in centralized systems. Please don't put your faith in decentralized systems or any emails or any invoice or anything you get from these institutions, because you have to appreciate that there's people just programming this stuff in. If they want to mess you up, just change the algorithm a little bit, right? You shouldn't trust them with your data. You shouldn't trust them with your finances. You shouldn't trust them for anything, right? They're just a tool you're using to get what you want and do what you need to do. Don't take anything they sent you at face value, okay? So the total for this haul was $316 U.S. Aligot converted it to pounds. It's 255 pounds, British pounds, okay? And $430 Canadian, okay? Aligot, putting your faith in an institution is like social suicide. It's like, forget the social aspect. It's suicide. Suicide. Now check this out. This is what we got. For that price, we bought 27 original art pieces from two different series that Image Comics put out. Ended up costing. I bought the pieces for $10 each. Arts. Yeah, yeah. Original pages. I hope it is. That's what it is. I'm 99.99% sure this is what we got, right? They're 26 original pieces from Image Comics. No Batman, Aligot. It's Image Comics. Aligot. I'll keep my eyes open, right? And one of the pieces is a sketch by an artist. And I'm going to tell you who these people are, okay? And we're going to smoke a cigar doing this whole thing. I know you had that. I was thinking about it. I knew you were going to ask.  Bertie Ur says I put my faith in Tesla autopilot and that the battery won't explode and it won't cost you by the time you have to replace it. Right now, by the time you have to replace it, it's like 15, 20 grand. And it won't cost you like 50 grand by the time you need to replace it. Mm-hmm. Plutonic Plurus. The movie, The Net with Sandra Bullock is a good movie, yeah? I'm going to make sure I don't damage this.  Okay, there's no art there. I'm going to crack that open, take a look in, just to make sure there's no art there. He's got good protection. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of a serious packaging job. Aligot looks like this font art piece. I don't have, I don't have. This is, these are recent, modern, well, recent comic book pages. Like the guy's like, and the person puts signature verification on this as well. I was going at it from a really tight location. So tightly packed. Look at this. It's still packed up here. Let's get rid of these sticky tape stuff, because we don't want it to snag anything. Yeah, barface. I guess I'd rather have some delicate overpack than under. Yeah, 100%. Evil X, how are you doing? Serious packing job. Look at this. And then, again, taped up on this side. Inside, right? Nice. 27 pages, should be. We need to have a little, a little strawberry strudel. Recycling Greta Thurmburg. Yeah, a birdie here. Recycling all the packaging. Recycling and Aligot saying Greta Thurmburg. Yes Greta, we will be. Use this cardboard to package up our yearly Twitch auction points and send out some packages. Oh, and the sketches here, nice. Where's the lid for this? Okay, we're almost there. And we are. Snap. Nice, nice, nice.   Let me show you this first. Kaz... Kazeksel. Hello, how are you doing? Doing good, I'm hoping you're doing well. I'm doing fantastic. Salute and welcome to our live stream. Take a look. Let me show you this one first. This one was the most expensive. Everything else was $10 US, $9.99 US. This one is from the artist. Okay, let me pronounce his name. He's a Vietnamese artist. Okay. Or a Vietnamese born American artist. Kho Hoi Pham. His legion original piece. And let me show his picture. I forgot to put the names on it. This is the artist. Okay. Original sketch piece, legion. And he's done a lot of work from 2007. Where is it? That's his signature. And he's done a lot of work for Marvel, this artist. Okay. So this one came out to like 1550, I believe. Great price. Great price. Okay, and legion. Fantastic character. As far as comic book adaptations, TV adaptations, legion series, comic book series. I forget who put it out. It might have been Netflix. I'm not sure. It was phenomenal. It was phenomenal. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I'm going to put this back in the protective casing. And then we're going to bring out these guys. So I don't think these guys are going to be in order. Are they in order? How am I going to do this? Okay, I'm going to put this one over here. Because we don't want to... I need to put these into something. Hmm. Okay, I got to set myself up here. So I'm going to do... Okay, this is what I'm going to do. Hold on a second gang. I'm going to do a little bit of rearranging here. I'm going to bring his picture down. These things are great. I take these over here. That's our cognac and dessert. And I'm going to lay out this thing. So we put the art in this. So, okay, let's do these one at a time. Because I loaded up the pages that appear in the comic itself. Colored what they look like. I don't know if these are in order. Let me see. These... No, there's another page. Let me pull out all of these. Because I want to show them to you in order. So that's the Legion one. I'm just going to put this one here. I'm looking for page 28. Let's check it out. Here it is. Nice. That's page 28. Excellent, excellent. These two pages are signed by the person. Check it out. So this is... This artist is... Let me read his name. He's a Canadian artist. Both of these are Canadian artists. And his name is... I'm going to copy his name in the chat. Both on Twitch. And on... This is the artist's name. You guys tell me how you pronounce that. I don't know how I pronounced that. The... Jibril Morissette Fan? Jibril Morissette Fan? I'm going to bring out the... Rumble Chat too. I'm going to post that on Rumble Chat as well. So here is... This is the artist. This guy. This is for... Glitter Bomb number one. So that's the cover. I have this issue. I don't know if I collected all four. So four issue mini series. So this is the cover for Glitter Bomb number one. And... We got... Page. I'm going to take the artist's picture down. 28. This is... Fantastic. Oh, Fan. Fantastic. Morissette Fan. So this is page 28. And this is what page 28 looks like when it's... Colored. And... The words are on there as well. Right? You did not just say that. Did you? Did you? Did you? It's really hard to read. Right? So that's page 28. Okay. Of Glitter Bomb number one. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. Very cool. Awesome. Awesome. And then... We have... Page 29. And here's... Hey, come on. And here's page 29. Okay. And these two... Looks like he's got a signature on there. Right? I want to move the water back. So... We don't get an accidental spill. Right? And I need to light the cigar. Because we've got to do Jack Kirby tribute. Right? So fantastic. Right? Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Let's see... What do I have? Cute up. Glitter Bomb... Number four. Check this out. We've got art from Glitter Bomb number four. Okay. That's page 11. That's page six. They're all... They're not all together. I've got to crack open the other one, too. Man. They're not. Oh, the bugger. If I cracked open the case... The package earlier, I would have put it all in order. Right? But these guys didn't ship it to me in order. So I'm going to do a little bit of pause while I sort these guys out. And I've got to go into this one. I've got to go into this one. So let me take these guys down. Jibri Morissette Fan is a Montreal comic book illustrator. He began his career in 2014 after completing his studies in cartoony. Mainly active in the American community. He has notably worked on titles such as All New World Marine, X-Men, Gold and Star-Lord of Marvel. Okay. Thank you, Elder God. No tape there. Yeah, no tape. That's good. So I want this here. Perfect. Nice. Very nice. Very nice. So, hopefully, maybe that's all the glitter bombs. I'm not sure. The mods need more than 500 yen. They do. Adramasai. What are you doing? So this is glitter bomb. Let's see what this one is. This is glitter bomb number four. Okay. And again, the artist is this guy. Boink! Right? Glitter bomb number four. Nice cover. I think I have this. I'm pretty sure I have this. Because this cover, when I looked at it, Cheryl, how are you doing? When I looked at it, it looked very familiar. Right? Yeah, Cheryl, we're doing the comic book haul. Ready for this? Ready for this? Here's... That's the cover for number four. That's that one. I'm supposed to have page eight. There it is. So what's this page six? It's not page six. That's wrong. Page eight. Right? Oh, I gotta be on this side. The cover reminds me of some gaga might wear on the red carpet. Yeah, and this thing is... Glitter bomb is very haul... It's about Hollywood and stuff, right? I'm gonna take the artist pick down again. Okay. So that's glitter bomb page... Page eight. Glitter bomb number four. Page eight. Fantastic. Fantastic. Cheryl, picked up these pieces for $10 each. 27th original art pieces. Oh, I gotta do... Oh, yeah, I'll just put it back here. This one... Oh, this is shelter. That's why it's not glitter bomb. Glitter bomb? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crazy deal. Crazy deal. Glitter bomb page... Number four, page 10. Okay. It's glitter bomb. Glitter bomb, Valley of the Dolls. Valley of the Dolls. It's a horror, Cheryl. It's a horror comic. It's like Hollywood and the manga parasite. Number 10. Beautiful artwork, by the way. And these two artists are new to the scene, right? So new artists, even $10.  This is page 11. Okay, this is page 11. Fantastic. Like, if these artists are coming to a convention near me, I'm gonna take these pages and get them signed. Nice artwork. I like keeping the page up that's colored. Ya-geng? Very nice. He did the hair with a... Check out the hair. The girl's... The girl? He's using different type of... Like a brush felt to do it. Oh, that's the write-up for this character. Glitter bomb, yeah. I'm gonna read it. Cool? Cool. Farrah Doranti is a middle-aged actress hunting for her next gig in an industry where youth trumps experience. Her frustrations become emotional lure for something horrifying out beyond the water. Something ready to exact revenge on the shallow celebrity obsessed culture that's led her astray. This is glitter bomb number 12. Page 12. So we've got a sequence of pages here. Glitter bomb number 12. Or issue number 4, page 12. This one was actually my least favorite page of mine. There's some pages that really stood out. I really like the... The panel work of the faces speaking. I really like that style. Here's page 13 of glitter bomb. And they put... Usually they should have the name up there. Glitter bomb, issue number, and page number. Some of the other ones don't. This is page 13. Very cool, very cool. Nice, nice. Let me sort these guys out. So those are all the ones we got from glitter bomb. Okay, let me put these in a... And keep them in order. Are these in order now? I'm gonna take page 13, put it in order. And we'll put it with the sketch of... Whoops, with the sketch of Legion. Right? By the beautiful cover. So I'm gonna put this here. Actually I'll put it... What's this one? So that way we see. Let's close this up. So we don't lose any of it. Crazy price. Conquer... Conquer's yet. Conquer's. What are Conquer's? Is that to me? Salute gang. We got another comic book series that art for. That we're gonna take a look at now. Conquer. What's an autumn conquer? I'm gonna light the cigar. We gotta do the Jack Kirby tribute. Smoking the cigar. Handling comic book art. Oh, horse chestnuts. No, not yet. Horse chestnuts or chestnuts? Not neighbors, but our friends that are like, live three, four, about three, four blocks away from us. They have a big chestnut tree that we're gonna go when they're ready to harvest them. Oh, by the way, Cheryl. Should I bring all the harvest, all the green tomatoes? Check this out. Oh, nuts falling down. The tomatoes are like this. There's no risk of frost right now. Should I leave them on the vines or should I harvest them green and put them inside and let them ripen? We have a fair bed. We usually don't have this much. What do you think? Okay, I gotta put these guys in order. You're not in order. Okay. See, this one doesn't have the issue number on it, unfortunately. Tent together. Oh, okay, there it is. That one does. Oh, this one does. Number one, six, ten. Nice. Nice. This. This has got to be from one. Oh, that's page three. This one doesn't have a page number. Must be in the back. No, it's not. Oh, no, it's not. 15, 19, could be here. That's why artists need to number their pages. The series. Number six, number six, 18, 20, no number, no number, seven, six, seven. Okay, we'll try our best. Some of these don't have the issue number. No, we're not expecting frost. Not yet. But the temperature's gotten cold. So I'm going to keep them on the vines still, I think. All the guys saying winter is going to be late. I recommend leaving for a bit longer. Okay. Yeah, yeah. If we're not expecting frost, I'm not going to bring them in. I think it's going to be a brutal winter. The amount of fruit on the trees is insane. We'll talk about, as Canada is still subject to crown. It's okay, oh yeah, talking. Cheryl, if so, you can cut a vine and drape it somewhere warm or pull individuals, but put them in a bag. Put them in a bag. Okay. We have some. We'll put them in a bag. But good idea about a vine. But I'll leave them out. Leave them until frost is imminent. Okay. Done deal, Cheryl. Okay, game. This one. Let's get into the next series. Let's get into the next series. This artist is another Canadian artist and he's based in Vancouver. Okay. I'm going to post it on rumble chat. And I'll post it on our Twitch chat. Where is it?  Snow for weeks. I think so too, Elder God. I think so too. Johnny Christmas. Okay. Johnny Christmas. This is the artist. Okay. This is the artist. This has got to be it. So this is the artist. And this is sheltered number one. And I have this one as well. I'm pretty sure I have this. Yeah, I have this one, but I don't have some of the later issues. Right. I think that's when I was asked not to come back. Well, not to come back to the comic book store without wearing a tyrannical symbol on my face. Right. This is sheltered number one. Okay. That's the cover. This should be issue number three. And it is nice. I'm going to take the artist's face down. Salut to original art. Cheers again. So sheltered issue number one, page three. Okay. There it is. Christmas is a number one New York Times bestseller graphic novelist and author illustrator of the critically acclaimed middle, middle graphic grade graphic novel twin swim team, which was long listed for the national book award was a Cretta Scott King honor book for illustrator was named a Kirkus reviews best book of 2022 and received the Jane Adams book award honor. He calls Vancouver, British Columbia his home go plea redeem 10,000 points go plea just a heads up. You might want to hold your points. Thank you very much for redeeming points first of all that I'm going to do a salute to that salute. You let me know we're going to do an auction in November. If you don't want to redeem these points, I'll reject them and you can keep them for the auction. Salute. Okay. But send me a message. And if I do accidentally accept them, remind us that you redeem 10,000 points out of God. I'm pretty sure one of us will remember. And you can use those 10,000 points towards your auction that we're going to auction off stuff. Okay. In the name of auction, in the name of auction, nice artwork. He has a very nice style. So that's page number three from issue number one. This one should be page number six. Yes. Nice. Two months tonight till auction, assuming Chicho is available for the expected days. Indeed. Hopefully we will be. I love getting to see the black layer neat inside. Yeah. Yeah. Super cool. Like, and this is, they did, this is a blue line. Check it out. We got the blue lines there, rough layout. The pencils is done and the ink says on top. So this is three layers of art done. And then these are scanned. I believe the blue, the word blooms are, well, these are going to be put in digitally. The word blooms now. All of these are digital. Otherwise the word blooms would have been on the pages as well. Okay. So these are scanned, sent to whoever's going to do the coloring and the words, the text, and they put them on there, right? So this is the actual proof. This is the actual art. This is the actual art. Okay. This is like proof would be after it's been scanned, but this is the actual art. Like the artist sitting there, doing their thing, right? Nice. These are the actual pages, right? Crazy deal. This should be page 10. Let me check it out. Oh, where's page seven? We've got to find page seven. We've got to go in order. Okay. I'm going to bring up page seven because we've got to find it. It's not numbered properly. There it is. Oh, he did put the issue number on there. There it is. See, check out the issue number. The way he put it on there, he put it like this in blue. You'll barely be able to see it, right? Check it out. That's sheltered. Issue number one. That's a one there. Very hard to see. Where is it? There it is. One. And then page seven. Okay. Very freak brothers were awesome. I have some of the originals. Free freak brothers rocks. I hope they don't put words in their mouths. Cheryl, with all this winter talk, I better get decent snow this year or I'm going to lose it hilarious. Nice art. Yeah. Goose feathers. This is amazing. Dao. I think it's called Dao. This is really nice. Beautifully done. Page 10. Let's check it out. Yep. Nice. Here's page 10. Robert. Roger Crum did good cartoons with the Stone Ages. It's Robert Crum. I'm pretty sure it's Robert Crum hyperdome. Cheryl, but I had five degrees Celsius. F camping Friday into Saturday. It was a bit of jump into the deep end, but you know, have wool cap. Will travel. Indeed. We were at the beach yesterday actually at a DJ show, music show. Yes. This is his name. Jacket. Cost. D 300. Dao. D 300. Okay. This is cool. This should be. Oh, this isn't that. Okay. So this is another. See, this one doesn't have the issue number. He just put page 18. So I got to check it out. And then we're into. We're into shuttered number four. This is the cover for it. Okay. That's the cover. And the artist again is Johnny Christmas. This guy. Okay. Vancouver. Canadian based artists. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I thought about going and getting them showing you what the pages look like. But I decided to do this because I have some of these. The original first few issues. They're in boxes somewhere. Right. So this is page number six. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Page number six. Oops. Come on. Yeah. This is page number six. Issue number four. Page number six. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. Okay. I read one of the issues when it first came out, but I barely remembered it. But then I had a little recap of sort of what this is all about to a certain degree when I was digging up these pages. Nice work. We're missing a page. Page seven. Where is page seven? Okay. I got to bring up the page to be able to find it. We do have page seven. Oh, I saw that. Where is it? There it is. Nice. These look good. This is a nice page. Lots of detail in the top panel. Right. So this is page seven. Issue number four. Sheltered. Right. Nice. We'll do a close up look. Yeah.  They're actually for some of the artists. They put out just the artist renditions, just the black and white pages for a lot of artists. They've done it for Barry Windsor Smith. They've done it for some of the great artists. They're like thick books of just the original pencils and inks of just the black and white before anything else. The bubbles are there too, I believe. The bubbles are there too. Let me see. Oh, we're into issue number six. Oh, okay. So that doesn't belong there. And then the next one is this is the issue number six. We've got art from issue number six. This is the cover of issue number six. Okay. Again, the artist got to give respect to the artist. Johnny Christmas. Okay. Shelter number six. That's the cover. And let me take us, pick that again. This is page 18. Page 18. Page 18. There's even some white out here. Okay. And gang, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange. Free Assange. Free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist. He's been crucified. Page 19 for trying to be transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we, humanity, desperately needs in our societies. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or countless, countless resources available for free speech platforms. Now he's got numbers on the back of these. Oops, where is it? There it is. 150 on this and then 80 on another one. So I'm thinking maybe these were the prices that he had on them. I'm not 100% sure. Or there's something else. I don't know. Page 21 from issue number six. Okay. Focused. Now we're into issue number seven. This is a great cover. I don't think I have this. I would remember this cover. This is a great cover. I really like this cover. Oh my God, I'm building my channel points like a man. So issue number seven, sheltered. Okay. And this is page number one. Great. Page number one. Awesome. Nice comparison. They're heavier comic book boards. These are Cheryl, like you can buy these. These are specifically comic book size, comic book paper. They have the boundary set in, you know, if you're going to do bleed or not. You love having both of them. Yeah, yeah. I had to do it. I had to do it this way because it gives you amazing comparison. Fantastic. Blutonic florist before the auction. I will convert my points to Turkish lira. You won't be able to win anything. Nice artwork. Nice artwork. This is... So we only got one page from issue number 10, the 12. And then we got pages from issue number 10. Okay. Or sorry, we've got only one page from issue number seven. We've got a few pages, some pages from issue number 10. This is the cover of issue number 10. And the artist, again, is Johnny Christmas. Right? Each number is Blutonic florist size. So I have a challenge in my ink bot list to do a comic panel using the prompts. So this is helpful. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. And this is page number... We're going to find page number 12. That's page number 12. Okay. Hold on a second. Let me page... Find page number 12. It's a nice page this one. Where is it? That's not it. That's not it. That's not it. Hey, where's page number 12? I saw this. This is a great page. Nice page. What is it? I have a number in the back. See, I don't know. I don't think these are the prices in the back. Because this is a fantastic page. This is page number 12 from sheltered number 10. Okay. Yeah. Great colors on that cover. I love this guys. Just looking at the page. Looking out from the page, right? Looking at you directly, the reader. I think that's great. Looking at the camera, I guess. Nice pic. Nice pic. Nice scene. Nice panel. So that's number 12. Let's see if we got number 13 here. This is number 13. Sheltered number 10. Page number 13. Now that I have this artwork, I hope they make a TV series out of this series. How hilarious. Nice, nice, nice art. Detail galore. Let's see if we can focus this. Beautiful. Beautiful. Right? Nice panel. Nice panel. This, oh this is... What's this? The wrong page number on this. Let's see if this is it. Yeah, that's it. He's numbered this page 15. But when I was looking it up, it seems to be page 17. Okay. So I don't know if this was just misnumbered or if it was wrong online or what. Right? Collection, yeah. As far as I'm concerned, the collection is a commodity right now. This is an investment as far as I see it, right? $10 a pop. What the F? It's beautiful. If we had a large space where we had lots of walls, which we don't in this house, I'd frame some of these and put them up. I'd have the original comic sitting on the coffee table so people could read it. That's my ideal. Like, having a... Because when I used to teach, have a space where kids could come and study, I had a one-day set, a week where it was a drop in tutoring. People would just come and study. I had comic books laid out where they could just take a break and create an artistic space for people to learn. Right? Amazing. Hi from France. Zerylif. Zerylif. Zerylif. Salute. Salutations to our French brothers and sisters. Welcome to our live stream. The olive, how are you doing? This should be page 19. This is page 19. Issue number 10. Sheltered. Salut à toi. Thank you. Popping around to Chichot for coffee and comics is my bucket list. Awesome. Beautiful artwork, really. Evening, olive. This is a great panel. The neck... This is page number 21. This is one before the last page, I believe. This is page number 21. The next couple pages in this issue was pretty heavy. And it was beautifully portrayed artwork. It was beautifully portrayed. This is pretty phenomenal. Pretty cool. I won't give any spoilers. Lonely Piggy, how are you doing? Yo, glad to have caught another stream. Hope everyone's doing great. Doing fantastic Lonely Piggy. Lonely Piggy, I picked up some original art pieces. Couple of image comics. From a couple of image comics. This is from Sheltered. Issue number 10, page 21. I picked up 26 original art pages. For $10 each. U.S. And one sketch for $15.50. And we're just looking at them. I can see that. Good deals to be had. Great deals to be had. Amazing deals to be had. Amazing deals to be had. And amazing. Addition to the collection. Right? Smack their knee maybe. Pull their knee down. She fell down. What's going to happen? What's going to happen? Can I draw stuff like this? No, I can't. Maybe someone here can. Okay, this is a different issue. Okay. We got... This is the last issue that we got pages for. Okay. I'm only picky. I'll message you on Rumble Soon Chicho.  Thank you very much. Lonely Piggy for that. You've been thinking about it. And you reminded me to bring up the Rumble Chat. Sorry if I missed the Rumble Chat. Sheltered. How are you doing? Plutonic pluruses on there. Hostile. Okay. Next issue that we got pages for is issue number 15. I believe this is the last issue of the series. If I'm not mistaken. So this is the last issue of the series. Are they ink artists? Or are they in the industry? Are they ink artists? Or are they industry? Or are they ink artists by the same artists by Johnny Christmas if that's what you're asking, Cheryl? Oh, that was for... Okay. But again, this is Johnny Christmas doing the artwork that we're about to see for pages for issue number 15 of Sheltered. Lonely Piggy, I mean Gilded. Turned on my hand. Awesome. Oh, I gotta bring it back again. Hold on. Because when I do it on when I'm clicking on the OBS the the what do you call it? The rumble chat disappears. Just made some super dank tuna salad. Nice, Romulus. Nice. So this is issue number 18. Oh, I gotta bring it up because the wrong one here. Where's my issue number 18? Man, I had it here. I really like this this page. I really like this page. It's got a calm quietness to it. This is page number 18. Warzone Brooks, how are you doing? Phenomenal artwork. Punisher Max, how are you doing? Hope you're doing well. I really like this page. I think it's phenomenal page. Quiet, cool. Quiet, cool. Let's go from the top down. If you guys can read, I can't read the text. It's too small for me right now. Calm, quiet. And then panel 4. Smell. And I like the look on the girl's face. The eyes.   There's some darkness there. Super sharp. Super sharp. Lonely Piggy, by the way, Canadian artists. We got art from two different artists. Three different artists. One of them is Vietnamese American, US, and two of them were Canadian artists or are Canadian artists. Lonely Piggy, go Canada, go. And then we got page, this should be page 19. Page 19. Page 19. Hong Kong. And gang, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julien Assange, a publisher and journalist who have been crucified for trying to be transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately need in our societies. For more information see wikileaks.org defend.wikileaks.org or countless resources available on free speech platforms. Here's page 20. Warzone Brokes, do you think our masters will succeed converting the world to a capital global currency? If they do, it's only going to be for a short while hold out. And the only reason they will is because people will comply. And if those that comply with tyranny you know who your enemy is. Anybody that still complies with tyranny is pretty low IQ, man. Pretty low IQ. And this is the last page that we have. Page 21. And just from this artwork that I saw, I really like this character this girl. I don't know. I can't remember her if I read it. This is page 21. Issue number 15. Great character. Dark. Dark. Dark. So heavy. So much heaviness to her. And the artwork just shows it. Right? Just heavy. Yeah, cash uses the other guy says cash usage is up again. If and I can honestly tell you again if they go full on digital currency and they prevent people from accessing cash if they don't comply with tyranny I will do a general strike. I will send a message to the school, to my students and say that I refuse to teach them unless they are willing to do outside of tyrannical system business. Gang. Fantastic artwork. Fantastic artwork. Cash. Cash. Cash. Indeed. I'm going to take these down and again we got art from three different artists original art that's a beautiful cover. Oops, where to go? Beautiful cover. I really like this cover. Man. I pay more than 10 bucks for that. I pay a lot more than 10 bucks for that. Right? Hey, come on. Come on. Come on. Very nice. I'm going to put these in the cover in the sleeve so they're protected. I don't know if I can fit them all in this. It might be too thick. I might have to put some in the other one. But we'll see. A little bit on the thicker side. I'm going to take some out. I'm going to take issue number 15 out. I'm going to put it in the other one. Issue number 10. Let me make sure it starts from there. So they're not there isn't too much pressure on them. Let's take a look. A little bit rubs off here. That was like that before. And then I'm going to put it into this one. And this is from the other artists. And this is the sketch we got. Legion. And I'm going to put this one like this so we see it. So we know it's different. And I'll put a little note on these later to know what's in here. And I do have a portfolio for original art. I might have to get another one because these won't fit in there. I do want to protect these. I'll probably treat these better than most people. I treat my collection better than most people that I've known. Collectors anyway. Fantastic collection. And just a reminder just because they sent you an invoice check the info. This was the invoice how much they cost all this. $316 U.S. when I paid it. But the email that sent me the total was the same. But the shipping the taxes was over taxed or something. So it was all error. That's how reliable centralized institutions are. These programs working through well. Fantastic comic book haul gang. Very happy about these. Initially I was a little worried. I was like wow why am I getting these so cheap. And it was just no one was bidding. They're not hot. So people aren't bidding on it. It means you can get amazing deals. You can get amazing deals. Fantastic Fantastic. And thank you to the artists for creating such amazing artwork. Salute gang.


Companies are deploying more and more AIML and data analytics into their intelligent applications. But how many are really truly getting those into production at scale? It starts with a connected team. Companies must bring together developers, IT operations, data scientists, and ML engineers to best operationalize ML ops. Here are some things to consider when taking this on. Build a data strategy. Answer questions like, how will this data be gathered and stored? How will it be used to provide insights? Develop a plan to handle cleansing, storing, securing, preparing, and monitoring this data to prevent inaccurate predictions. Provide data scientists and developers easy self-service access to tools. You can't impose overly restrictive access to data science tools or have users wait forever for a help ticket to get answered and expect success. Create a collaborative environment. ML ops integrates data scientists into the DevOps CICD workflow for the entire AIML life cycle. Use a common hybrid cloud application development platform based on containers, integrated DevOps capabilities, and a technology ecosystem to speed up your workflow. A hybrid cloud approach lets you move from the edge to the data center to the public cloud as workloads and data locality demand. Choosing a hybrid cloud platform powered by Kubernetes and DevOps capabilities provides consistency across all these footprints as you develop, test, and manage applications. And finally, choose open. Open source keeps users from being locked into restrictions imposed by a single cloud provider and gives everyone access to a wide breadth of technologies. Here at Red Hat, we keep these considerations in mind. We've developed Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. We hope to give data scientists and developers a powerful AI platform to do what they do best, build intelligent applications.


Welcome to the ST stand at Embedded World where Giuliana Coro has joined me now to talk about a new dynamic tag series called the ST25DV. A new series that is not just new but unique. Yeah indeed. It is in the ST25DV is the new addition to the ST25 family. It's a dynamic tag of products which is having an iron ice core interface together with an RF contactless interface. It's unique because we are bringing together the fast transfer mode capabilities over long distances together with the convenience of the NFC. Indeed it supports the ISO standard 15693 together with the NFC forum type 5 and it also has the highest memory of the market. Indeed it can go up to 60k in bit memory and indeed it also has an energy ablution capability and offer a low power mode. So for customers watching now what are the benefits they can look forward to? Well this device is perfectly suited for example for helping customers make more smooth their operation during the manufacturing floor. We can embed this device in any product so that the product can be configured conveniently in a contactless way all along their production line up until the final stages when the products are already boxed and just go ready for shipment and can be configured for example for languages for different countries. Again in a contactless way thanks to the RFID ISO standard 15693 is important. So Juliana what of the diagnostics flag up that the embedded MCU needs a firmware upgrade? Indeed this device thanks to the fast transfer mode allow a simple smartphone to become a diagnostic tool for you to detect problems on the field. You can see it here because it follows a real-time communication between the MCU and the smartphone for example. And imagine how easy it can be to do a firmware upgrade through a smartphone thanks to the fast transfer mode. You can even use your smartphone here to dialogue and do firmware upgrades with your washing machine at home. Okay what about developers watching us now what's the message to them? It's very easy to integrate the ST25DV into their products. ST is providing a complete ecosystem of support tools from the antenna design also for the MCU firmware as well as support for the software of the RFID reader all together. And they can discover the products features through the ST25DV Discovery Kit and then take benefit of the STM32 ecosystem when developing their product thanks to the new nuclear board for the ST25DV. And finally what about availability? Well the ST25DV Discovery Kit are available now and samples can be ordered through distribution or at our local Salesforce. It's lovely to talk to you thanks for your time. Thank you for your time.


The clear night sky offers one of the most beautiful views in nature. The eye adapts to the dark and the pupil widens to collect more light, and thus allow fainter stars to become visible. But the light collecting area of the human eye is tiny. To peer much deeper into the night sky, astronomers need telescopes with enormous primary mirrors to do a much better job. This is the ESOcast, cutting-edge science and life behind the scenes of ESO, the European Southern Observatory, exploring the ultimate frontier with our host Dr J, aka Dr Joe Liske. Why do astronomers want to have bigger and bigger telescopes? Well, it's pretty simple actually. There's only two reasons. The number one reason is that the bigger the primary mirror of your telescope, the more light you can collect per unit time, and that means you can observe fainter and fainter objects. The number two reason is that the resolution of your telescope, that is the sharpness of the images that you can make with your telescope, depends on the size of the primary mirror. The bigger your telescope, the sharper the images you can make. But what are the limits? How big can you make a telescope? And what are the challenges encountered by telescope builders in making bigger and bigger mirrors? Since the invention of the reflecting telescope, mirrors have become larger and larger. When ESO's 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla started operations in 1977, it was a typical example of the classical design of the largest telescopes of that period. The primary mirror consisted of a single glass dish with a diameter of 3.6 metres. In order to make such a big mirror stiff and solid, it has to be relatively thick, which makes it very heavy. The 3.6-metre mirror is about half a metre thick and weighs some 11 tonnes. To allow this very weighty mirror to be pointed precisely, a massive yet precisely balanced telescope structure can be built around it. Telescopes with even larger, thicker and hence heavier mirrors have been constructed, but eventually it became obvious that the limit of the classical design had been reached. Did telescope engineers have to give up at this point and stop dreaming of even bigger telescopes? Well, of course not. But paving the way to larger and lighter mirrors required some innovative thinking. The result was ESO's new technology telescope, or NTT for short. The NTT was a truly revolutionary telescope at the time it was built, because it featured a system called active optics. Now, before the invention of active optics, telescope mirrors had to be thick and therefore heavy in order to be stiff. But with active optics, telescope mirrors could be allowed to be flexible and therefore relatively light and thin. The thin mirror of the NTT is even more likely to bend due to gravity. With active optics, the flexible mirror is placed on a complex support system with computer-controlled actuators that adjust the shape of the mirror and compensate for the bending of the mirror during observations. This way, the best possible image quality is preserved at all times. The NTT was a tremendous success. Although its main mirror is 3.6 metres in diameter, it is only 24 centimetres thick. The new mirror design made it possible to break the 6-metre barrier of classical telescopes and strive for larger mirrors in the 8-metre class. Telescopes like ESO's Very Large Telescope, or VLT. The VLT consists of four unit telescopes with primary mirrors of 8.2 metres diameter. Each mirror blank is only 17.5 centimetres thick and weighs only some 23 tonnes. Naturally, active optics plays a vital role here. The shape of the mirror is actively controlled by means of 150 axial force actuators. Based on the latest available technology, the VLT delivers images of outstanding optical quality. But a solid single-piece 8-metre mirror is pretty much at the limit of what can be handled, transported and maintained. To be able to construct telescopes with even larger light-collecting areas, you really have no choice but to split up the primary mirror into individual pieces called segments. It was the concept of a segmented primary mirror that allowed astronomers and engineers to conceive of truly gigantic telescopes. Telescopes such as the future European Extremely Large Telescope which is currently in its early stages of construction. The EEL team will have a gigantic main mirror 39 metres in diameter. It will be made up of 798 individual hexagonal segments about 1.4 metres wide and just 5 centimetres thick. Each segment and its position with respect to the neighbouring segments are computer-controlled by the active optics system to maintain the perfect overall shape of the main mirror and its outstanding surface precision. All in all, the main mirror offers an unprecedented light-collecting area of 978 square metres which will collect about 15 times more light than any other existing telescope. With its 39-metre primary mirror the European Extremely Large Telescope will be by far the largest optical and near-infrared telescope in the world and not just at the time of its completion but for decades to come. However, I'm sure that won't stop the engineers from conceiving of ways to build even larger telescopes. Who knows what size barrier will be cracked in the distant future? This is Dr Jay, signing off for the ESOcast. Join me again next time for another cosmic adventure. That's one small step for man.


How women force men into divorce. Okay, so one of two things could happen, so let's start with scenario number one. Everything's going good in the marriage. It's fresh, the sex life is good, and there's still some attraction between the two. Then all of a sudden, boom, she gets fat. And she has every excuse in the book for getting fat.  And now, Mr. Blue Pill doesn't want to touch her with a 10 foot pole. He is totally unattracted to her.   He keeps going to work, his family life is pretty decent, he loves his son and daughter, and he eventually gets promoted to regional manager. Hey, that's a big accomplishment, right? Then one day at the office, a brand new employee is hired under him. Fresh out of college, and she's the ripe age of 22.    She lays down her seduction skills, she gives him her number, and they meet up in a motel after work.   Everything is going good for the next few days until, oh god, somebody found out. Mr. Blue Pill doesn't realize how fast chick gossip could spread.    Scenario number two, his wife actually stays thin and attractive.   Work harder, work longer, put in in 110%. She keeps nagging at him to do the things that will earn the family some more money. Then, one day, he lands a big, hot shot position at the company. The money is pouring in and the family life couldn't be better. But there's only one problem. Mr. Blue Pill isn't work like all the time. He's under intense stress. He has no time to give his wife a good fucking.  Plus, he can't even get hard anymore.  Maybe the good money will keep his wife sticking around. So a few years pass, the pay raises come in, company bonuses are added to the salary. All that good stuff. His financial life is thriving.   She tries to explain herself. He was the only man that would pay attention to me. You only care about your job. And then, boom, the divorce papers are presented to him. She cries to the judge that she was mistreated. She tells the judge she was neglected. She tells the judge she was emotionally abandoned. And that's why she cheated. And boom, she's granded like 80% of his net worth. Shit.


Hey guys, so this week I was going to do a review of the new movie, Doolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr. But as it doesn't look very good, I have been held up in my house, in my apartment place for a couple of days, working on a Witcher video that I have been trying to get out. I can never seem to get, like, what I truly want filmed to come out, or, you know, the video never quite feels right, so I keep putting it off. I'm trying to get that out to you guys as soon as I can. That and Doolittle doesn't look very good, and I've been having emotional bouts because I am, for whatever reason, suddenly extremely sad about my grandmother passing over six months ago. I'm going to talk about JoJo Rabbit, one of my favorite movies from 2019. I don't care. I'm talking about it because it's my channel and I can do what I want. Anyway, JoJo Rabbit was directed by Taiko Watiki, and it follows JoJo Wexler, a young Nazi child whose dream is to get into the SS, so he can become best friends with Hitler.  This movie is so freaking cute. I loved this movie. When I watched it, my brother and I watched it, we freaking loved it. This movie, it's just, I loved this movie. It was so much fun. Only Taiko Watiki, you know the guy who directed Ragnarok, could pull off JoJo Rabbit. Only he could have pulled this off, and he did a phenomenal freaking job with it. I think one of my favorite moments of the entire movie, Hey, so I am editing my JoJo Rabbit, and I realized I didn't actually mention my favorite part of the movie.  It is hilarious, and it's the best used PG-13 F-bomb ever. And so, yeah, I felt like that needed to be in this.  Now back with the rest of the review. It balanced the humor with the horror of what Nazi Germany was really, really well. It just, it did a phenomenal job. And you know what, screw it, I'm going to expose the two. Sam Rockwell's character in the movie, I cannot remember his name right now.   And seriously, early on in the film, the whole reason that JoJo ends up working with the people that he does throughout the film, is because early on in the movie, he ends up nearly blowing himself up with a grenade. Basically, Sam Rockwell's character was teaching people how, was teaching the young SS members that wanted to blah, blah, blah, how to use grenades.   So he blows up at his responses. Yeah, don't do that. It's super funny. I love it so much. It is hilarious.  That's so dumb, but I love it so much. Theon, the actor that plays Theon, I'm never gonna remember his name. He'll always be Theon Greyjoy to me. That actor does a great job. His, how he plays off of Sam Rockwell's character is really, really well done. The two of them have a great on-screen chemistry together. I'm not a huge fan of Rebel Wilson, just throwing that out there. I thought she did really funny, she was really, really funny in this. ScarJo's character is really, really well done. And honestly, this movie is just a lot of fun. I highly recommend that you go watch it if you haven't. For me, the movie was really high. I'm not gonna do my whole role thing. This movie, this video is not really as critical. I haven't seen it in a minute. And I don't know, I was gonna talk about it when it came out. I never, didn't have the time to film that show, that video. So I just ended up doing it now. Because you know, it got nominated for the Oscars. We got it back at the movie theater, and so I decided to talk about it. But anyway, I loved the movie. I think you guys will too, if you go and watch it. It is really funny. Highly recommend it. And yeah, sorry about the more rambly nature of this video guys. I just wanted to get something out this week. And I decided to make it JoJo because I love JoJo a lot. It was an extremely good movie. It's somehow a feel good movie, despite the subject matter. I highly recommend that you go watch it if you haven't. But yeah. Again, sorry this video was a little more rambly. I just thought I needed to get something out this week. But hopefully I'll be able to get that Witcher video to you guys soon enough. And I'll hopefully be able to start doing more critical style reviews in the future. But for now, peace out guys.


We also might see your name. We will see your name on a list or two. We got a list revealed to us yesterday. We want to take a look at with you. It is, of course, the 15 finalists announced for the 2023 pro football hall of fame. Anybody stick out to Joe Thomas, Dwight Freeney, Darrell Rivas, Darren Woodson?  I always watched him growing up. And three that stick out, honestly, are Patrick Willis, Darrell Rivas, and Joe Thomas. They were the 07 draft class with me.  Not just football players, but leaders, great men. Anyone you asked about those guys were probably the best teammate. They were accountable. They worked their tails off, both mentally, physically. They're students of the game. Like those guys are the ones that you looked up to when you were playing the game as teammates, whether you're the Niners, Jets, or the Browns. So very cool to see. And it puts things in perspective that I've played with those guys, competed against them, and we're fans of those guys. And just awesome to see. It means that I'm really old too.  I guess I look at that list and I'm like, those guys are eligible. Wettel was out here winning ships. Oh my gosh. It's five, 10 months ago. What are we talking about? When that moment in that day comes for you to be on that list. What will that mean to you? I don't know if that's ever gonna happen, but I try to live with, prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and live with no grit. So it's hard to even fathom something like that because those guys is just incredible talents and incredible human beings. So I don't know. I don't really stress or worry about it. It would be an honor, but it's a long ways away to even start thinking about it. But I did everything I could and gave a mile and I can lay it and sleep at night. No one I did that. And you got the hardware too, my friend. Now you are doing the little grandpa rocking chair vibe right now. I don't really know. There's a lot of this going on. It's a new year, 2023, new beginnings. I'm still trying. I'm still hurt over my youth getting taken to the woodshed by Penn State. Oh, I know. It's never good to have back-to-back Rose Bowl losses, so I'm still like, but hey, it's, we're all right. We're okay. We're okay. The youth are okay. The arrow is going up for us. So it was an amazing atmosphere out there, like 60, 70,000 Utah fans, just the support and great environment, just, you know, fun to butt the loss.  We appreciate you happy belated birthday and we always love having you, but especially with your thoughts as a legend in this league. So we appreciate you and we will see you next week. He's got to get the youths in there. Just got to watch it in.


In 2017 we started working on different causes, so we launched Mapa del Coalimento, which is a platform for victims of and survivors of sexual violence to find therapists and lawyers that want to give them free services. And Beta, our feminist chatbot, she operates on Facebook and gives a large constituency of young women opportunities for campaigning for reproductive rights in Brazil. And last year we did a few solidarity campaigns. I brought two here that have become larger projects. Somos Cria was a massive, they're both crowdfunding campaigns, Somos Cria was a massive crowdfunding campaign to support local schools that prep black women, young black women for university so they can actually take the entrance exams and pass, which is very hard in Brazil for public universities. And we did that campaign after a local congresswoman, Marielle Franco, was assassinated in March last year, about a year ago now. And she had herself been through one of these schools and made it to university thanks to that. So we thought it was a good way of paying tribute to her and to her path. And we just heard last week that 102 black women that went to these prep schools essentially for the year after the campaign actually made it to university just last week, so that's really great. And we also did a huge crowdfunding campaign after Bolsonaro was elected and we re-granted all the money to 10 local organizations that work with victims of hate crime. So that's sort of the kind of work that we do. We became essentially known in Brazil after we did this one campaign, there was a video about it, I'm not sure if the video is going to play, so I will just tell you what it was. We essentially in 2012 launched a campaign to save a local public school in Rio. We had just started our work and we launched this campaign to save a local public school from demolition. It was going to become a parking lot near the Maracanã stadium in the lead up to the World Cup. And the kids and the teachers and the parents, yeah, I know. I say this now but it's kind of ridiculous, isn't it? I just become used to the stories, I don't get surprised anymore, but yeah, it was one of the best public schools in the state of Rio and the local school community really organized and rallied around it and I think our team then helped them organize on a massive scale, get other citizens involved and more notoriously, we planted a webcam in front of the school using the balcony of one of the buildings. There we talked to this really sweet elderly couple that landed at their balcony for a few months and we had a webcam monitoring the school 24-7. People could watch it online and if they saw all those are coming, they could press a button and other people who had previously signed up received text messages and physically came to the school. So that happened three times during the time that we were campaigning and of course the press loved it, it just lent its health to great photo ops. Just a bunch of people sitting outside of this school and keeping the bulldozers out and after a while it became kind of ugly for the governor and he decided to just let it be, so the school was still standing and that's how we essentially got started and that was our very first big campaign in the city of Rio. I've already told you a little bit about the projects but just so you know how we think about them, would you think that some of our projects are more activist oriented, so more resistance oriented in a way and some other projects are more solidarity oriented and I guess the question then going back to what we were speaking about in the beginning is, is this work effective against platform strongmen and in order to answer that question I'm going to introduce you to Brazil's first platform strongman who is not Bolsonaro, a few years prior to Bolsonaro even being considered a viable candidate. This guy became mayor of São Paulo, meet João Doria, this not very handsome man actually, yeah I know. Anyway João Doria was the host of the apprentice Brazil rings a bell right? I know history just repeats itself very quickly now too which is kind of weird. Anyway so he was the host of the apprentice, he was a television personality, he got elected to be mayor of the of São Paulo, the biggest one of the biggest cities in the world, definitely the biggest city in Brazil and he was a very social media driven mayor, he was on Facebook every day all day long essentially doing live streaming from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. the following day, he made a point of making sure that people knew that he would wake up early, that was a thing, so he would always live stream something at like 5 30 a.m. showing how early he was working, I don't know what that was about but anyway. So this is just a few examples of how he presented himself as a mayor and as a candidate, he would also do that, he would wear the uniforms of different sort of categories of workers in the city of São Paulo and take pictures wearing the different uniforms, it was very Sesame Street like, we don't know what was going on, anyway but that was him. Just a few more pictures just because I love it, look at that the rodeo hatch, isn't it amazing? Oh and this gesture means accelerate São Paulo because, and that's when it becomes interesting, João Doria was elected after a previous mayor, Fernando Adagio from the workers party had implemented a bunch of policies to restrict cars and the velocity of cars in the city of São Paulo, so much of his platform was actually around sort of undoing the policies of his predecessor and saying that his predecessor had de-accelerated or slowed down the city of São Paulo, so he would accelerate it again. Fernando Adagio then went on to run for president and lost to Bolsonaro just a few months ago, but when Doria took power his main campaign promise was to undo everything that his predecessor had done and I am by no means implying that his predecessor had only done good things, Adagio did some pretty bad things too, but the policies that he had implemented around car restrictions were actually quite successful from a scientific point of view. They had improved quality of light, they had improved actual traffic patterns, they had improved the quality of the air and they had contributed to diminishing that in due to car crashes and other traffic related issues. Now when Fernando Adagio was mayor, before Doria was elected, we had run one campaign also around cars as means a Sampa through a local organization in São Paulo for a policy that Adagio was not implementing on his own. So it was around cars, it was around an issue that we knew that he cared about, but it was not something that he wanted to do on his own and the campaign that we had run was around opening streets for pedestrians on Sundays. It was called Paulista Bertha and he focused on Avenida Paulista, which is sort of the most important avenue in São Paulo, but he also included 38 other important avenues that we wanted to ensure that people had access to on Sundays, especially given that São Paulo has very few green spaces, very few sort of spaces for families to take their kids to during the weekends. So it was a very simple thing, but Adagio was not very keen on doing that, mostly because the commercial associations, so the neighborhoods and commercial associations around these streets were very, very powerful and all of them were opposed to precluding cars from using these streets on the weekend. The people who lived around the streets were overwhelmingly in favor of this policy, but the commercial associations were not and Adagio was already essentially fighting with a bunch of people who didn't want to pick up that fight. We ran this campaign, we won the campaign, it was a massive campaign that lasted for over a year, engaged thousands of citizens in São Paulo and we won it and Adagio finally opened a bunch of streets, 38 streets throughout the city for pedestrians. It was the first step of recognizing the cars don't necessarily need to own our cities. When Doria was elected of his whole Accelerate São Paulo business, we were very worried. We said, OK, he's going to throw this policy in the mix and undo that one too. So we ran a campaign on him right after he was elected during that period in between the election and him actually taking office saying, please, don't undo this. We like this. This has been a success. Just let it be. Don't go in your fur of undoing everything that Adagio has done and undo this too. And this is the answer that we got from him, Joan Doria. That's his actual email address. My designer was very nice and essentially blurred the rest of it. I don't know why. I don't think he would all email him now, but he answered the way this campaign was built. It was an email pressure campaign. So essentially we had a web page where people could come in and they just left their sort of basic name, last name email address and we had a pre-populated message that was sent from the citizen's email address directly to the Joan Doria's email address. So he got about 40,000 emails in the first eight hours, which I'm sure he noticed. And then he answered. I'm not sure if he answered all 40,000 of them, but he definitely answered a bunch because we got a bunch of different members of Minha Sampa than emailing us and saying, hey, this is so exciting. And his answer was very short, was Paulista will keep being open on Sundays. It's working well. It was adopted by the population. And then we asked for a meeting with him just to make sure that there wasn't any mixed messages that he actually mentioned what he said on the email. Sometimes politicians will do that to us. They will publicly say that they are agreeing with a campaign, but then go back or there'll be caveats. And what he told us in the meeting was quite interesting. He said this was not an adagy policy. This was not done by my predecessor. This was done in spite of him. This was done because people pressured him and therefore I don't need to undo it. I think this is an important insight for how we deal with platform strongmen. And the inside is this. Even if we have people that we like in power, politicians that we love, politicians that are doing well or implementing good policies. If they're doing these things in a very orthocratic way without any link to the population, it'll be very easy for these platform strongmen once they take power and they will in some of our countries. I don't think there's a lot we can do about that. But it will be very easy for them to undo whatever policies we like. Our best hope for a continuation of public policy is to ensure that these policies are actually backed by the population. Democratic society is not just democratic governments. We need that. Otherwise, as public sentiment swings, as governments change, we will lose the policies that we hold dear. And I think technology has a very strong role to play in terms of fostering that kind of activism that leads to that popular support that will then give us hope for keeping our policies in place. That's the post that we did right after Doria said that he was going to keep the avenue open. Now continuing on, because the story is not finished yet, Doria is now governor of Sao Paulo. He won the last elections, so he's no longer mayor, his governor. Yeah, there he is, celebrating his victory with a Brazilian flag. And again, before Doria took power as governor, we had already launched the platform that I mentioned to you a few minutes ago, Mapado Coalimento, which links survivors of sexual violence with a network of volunteers that provide them with free services. We started with just mental health services because that was something that was lacking in the public health system in Brazil. Would you have some mental health services in the public health system, but not enough? It's not very well organized. And now we expanded it to legal services as well. Now it's almost 3,000 volunteers that have gone through our vetting process. We have a lot more that actually signed up, but we have a pretty strong vetting process for this. And over 2,000 women that got assistance through the platform every week because the therapy sessions are weekly. So now we're handling weekly sessions for over 2,000 women. That was something that we had already implemented about a year before Doria was elected. The week after he took office as governor, he said he actually vetoed an initiative by the local parliament to implement 24-hour police stations for women in the state of São Paulo. So one of the sort of older demands of the movements that are comprised of sexual violence survivors in Brazil is that there are the be specialized police stations that are staffed by women and they're open 24 hours so that women that are victims of violence can go to a safe place where they know they will not be dismissed as so often happens in sort of normal police stations. And this has been an demand that has been building up. Minha Sampa actually did a campaign, our organization in São Paulo did a campaign to open the very first police station of that kind in the city of São Paulo and we won. It's been open for a few years now. But then the local parliament in São Paulo on its own, we didn't have any campaign pressuring them, passed a bill essentially that would essentially ensure that there would be a number of these police stations in different zones in the state of São Paulo available to women 24 hours a day and João Doria vetoed it. Those are the sort of headlines. Doria Veta Project, Doria Veta means veto. Right after that happened we launched a campaign and that campaign what was different about it is that we didn't launch it to our normal sort of base of activists. We actually launched it to the volunteers that were working with us in Mapa do Colimento. People that had been essentially flexing their civic muscle for a while through the solidarity network that we had built. And that solidarity network had kept them connected to this issue even as Brazil was sort of torn apart by what was a very heated election, a very polarizing election. So inside of that community we had people that had voted for different candidates and we certainly most have had people that voted for Doria himself. But we had sort of built that community based on this idea that women need specialized assistance and we were actually providing that assistance to some extent ourselves. But there are certain kinds of assistance that need to come from government. And we launched this campaign to that member base and he said the government just vetoed this. We need this to actually go through and we know that you care about this issue because we've been dedicating hours of your life every week to helping other women. We need you to get engaged in this. And because these were people that were already engaged at a higher level, we didn't necessarily need to ask them to send an email only. We could ask them to do more involved things, higher barrier to entry things, show up in person at his office, send physical letters to his office, all kinds of actions that are a little bit harder to take but they really show a politician that there is popular support for something. It was a very successful campaign. It was very quick and then he went back and said yes I will open the 24-hour police stations. This just happened. This was just a few weeks ago because it just took office as governor.  If that's the price we have to pay, it's okay. There you go. There he is with some of the police officers that are going to be staffing these stations and of course he made a video and he also uses that for his own platform and we know that but that's his logic and we sort of have to play with what we have and this is how policy is being decided upon today which is not necessarily a good thing but it is what it is and if we don't do it well, if we don't play this game well enough, we are going to lose. I think we already are losing but there you go. Through this work we've been essentially growing quite rapidly. We're now a bit over 1.3 million people in terms of membership. These are people that are members of our different civic engagement structures in different cities. We have trained over 150 activists in the past few years in 20 cities. More than 3 countries is kind of a weird phrase in 4 countries and raise a lot of money through crowdfunding and we have these permanent networks in 13 different cities in Brazil. We have created in 13 cities. We have 7 that are really active today and 6 that are a bit less active so we don't count them in necessarily when we do multi-city campaigns. What I want to leave you with and what I always tell my team and the volunteers and the members that work with us is that in spite of the very tough times that we're facing as activists, as promoters of the resistance and the solidarity that we need to move forward, we are playing the long game. I don't think we're going to see a lot of victories in the next couple of years, maybe not in the next few years really, with the exception of sort of very specific policy victories that I think we can still have and I've just shown you a few examples of how that can happen. But in spite of that, I am certain, I am convinced that a new generation is rising and that generation is better than us. It's more connected, more open, more queer, more tolerant, less cynical and more honest than what we've seen before. I'm not talking about my daughter's generation that will be too far away in the future. I am not that pessimistic but I'm talking about the 15 and 16 year olds of the world who are surprising as every day of their creativity and their ability to organize and that's our membership in the work that we do is mostly quite young, 16 to 29 is our main age bracket so we deal with people like that every day and we know that they are the real deal. They're doing really interesting work and they will save our democracies if we let them, if we don't make our democracy so impermeable to public participation that they don't even have a chance. As NOSAs and I think as a sector in general, I hope that we can be the generation's first school of democracy. I hope we can beat these new authoritarian movements quickly and effectively and resist but also reinvent, rebuild, regenerate because if we don't challenge ourselves to create institutions that are truly radically different from what we've seen before, platform strongmen will keep on dominating them and doing whatever they want with them and it will be a very hard world to live in in a few years from now but I don't think we're necessarily headed there because there is incredible energy in the sector that we can channel for good and I hope we do it together so thank you. We've got 10 or 15 minute for questions. I guess, Alessandra, do you want to handle the questions yourself or? Perfect. No, no, no, over to you. So I've got a question whilst you're getting ready which is it strikes me the the role for technology is perhaps less important than the personal connections that are formed on the ground and so on so I'd be interested in the kind of the interaction between those two things and then open up to the floor. So the way we see ourselves it is organized, it's not digital activists, right? We organize people and that may be through a campaign, that may be for a solidarity effort, it may be for different things and I think what technology does is that it makes organizing cheaper and more accessible at a scale that is relevant to a city like Sao Paulo, a city of 12, 13 million people. So I think technology is actually quite vital. We wouldn't be able to do the work that we do without good technology simply because we wouldn't have the resources to operate at this scale without technology. However, we don't see it as a lens in itself, we do see it as a means for effective organizing and effective organizing is your right based on building personal connections that last, building identification to a cause and to a community. People will work together in spite of their political differences if they trust each other on some level. So what we found is that making sure that people see the humanity in each other and they have a common cause, a common ground is actually quite powerful if you do it over time in spite of other differences that may arise and I think technology if used badly can actually go in the opposite direction of that. It can actually make people blind to what is common in them and to what unites them because it sort of creates this veil, very easily you could do that, but it can also actually do the opposite thing, help you find your peers, help you find your civic soulmates in this sort of sea of craziness that we're living in. There's a question over there. Hi, Luke from Grassroots. The question particularly, I really like the thank you very much for the framing of beating platform strongmen on their own ground and a very tactical question on that. One of the things that's been reported on quite a bit from the Brazilian election as something very innovative and very aggressive use of technology was the Bolsonaro campaign's use of WhatsApp groups at scale. It's been particularly reported in terms of sort of fake news, but actually it looks like from the outside it was really important in terms of organizing and getting people to act. Can you describe a bit more about sort of in learning from the enemy, how they actually did that in terms of getting people to actually act and what we can learn from what they did there? Yeah, so a few things. We did quite a lot of thinking around this and some research and some espionage as well so I can share what I know, but I think my first thought is we don't know enough. We need more research on this and it's hard to have research on what happens on WhatsApp because it's encrypted because it's not sort of a public timeline like what we see on Facebook. But what we do know is that most of the WhatsApp groups that were activated by the Bolsonaro campaign were actually not created as Bolsonaro campaign WhatsApp groups. They were created as neighborhood groups. They were created during the truck driver strike that happened earlier in the year. They were created for other uses and then sort of Bolsonaro campaign there sort of took over in a way and then they became very active during the campaign. I think that's an important insight and it goes back to what I was saying about personal connection. It's once you've built a group that is already connecting about something that is of common interest to everyone and that group has been effective over time. It is a lot easier for the organizers of that group or the most sort of prominent de facto leaders of the group to then introduce a new mission and the mission may be a little expose on Ado and that be well received by the other members of the group. So that's one one thought. The second thought is that the kind of messaging that Bolsonaro was using just travels well on WhatsApp. And I think that's an unfortunate side effect of the architecture of our social networks is that they do favor sort of very superficial fake information very sensationalist. And I don't think we can necessarily beat them at this game because that would be unethical. But we can we can work on language when we talk about issues so they don't seem so lofty and sort of far away from people. So very basic insight but I think very important. And then I think the third thing which requires a larger conversation with Facebook essentially is that the same things that make what's up amazing for some types of activist work encryption the fact that you can do so much in a private way is also allowing crimes to be committed in a way in electoral crimes included in a way that goes unchecked. And we just don't have an answer a good enough answer for that yet but we do we need one. I don't think the answer is getting rid of these things. We do work with WhatsApp and Rio as well around police violence. We do collaborative reporting of police violence through WhatsApp. And the reason we do it through WhatsApp it's because of encryption and the fact that everyone has WhatsApp. So I don't think we should lose it. I think what's up is actually an amazing technology very valuable to activists in many ways but the impact on the elections was terrible and that's something that we need to look at but not necessarily just a civil society also as the largest sector. I think there was a question over there and one over here. I'll go there and I'll go back to you. I won't forget you. Yes. Hi. Miha Sifri from Civic Hall. Thank you for that wonderful presentation. I have to say coming to this conference now for many years it's really striking to hear a keynote that is so activist or as opposed to neutral in the way that civic tech works. So question joke. Are you sure your last name is in Cortez because you sure remind me of AOC a very interesting new political actor in the United States. And so that gets my question which is number one. Do you think personally that you might enter politics. Do you think being in politics may be the best vehicle for the type of work that you're describing. And then the second question is do you worry about your own safety. Okay. So first question I've already entered politics but not in an actual way. I know what you mean. Do I think about running for office. Yes. Not now. If I say no I think that will be a lie. I love politics and I love policy and I think there is a scale to whatever the state does. That is just amazing. So I would love to be a part of that at some point in my life. But the way that the political system is organized in Brazil right now would make it very hard for someone like me to have any impact. And I think I've been working with this for long enough now to know that it is often an illusion just how much impact you can have from the within. I'm not I'm not disagreeing that big change also needs to happen from within. But I think we oftentimes assign way too much power to whomever is holding the pen. When in reality that person is subject to so many types of pressure from everywhere party pressure constituency pressure funder pressure etc. That I think for now at least for me a more effective way of having that kind of impact is actually organizing a new kind of pressure so that everyone who's already in politics is also subject to citizen pressure. Otherwise they're just responding to interests that are well better organized than we are. And I think we have a potential for having more power than we exert as citizens. It's just a matter of sort of organizing ourselves better. So that's for the first one on safety. Yes I do. We faced some pretty serious threats about a year and a half ago.  But I don't really count that in. I think that's sort of like a dog that barks but doesn't necessarily bite. But we did face some serious threats about a year and a half ago because of the work that we do on police violence and we realize that that piece of work was actually making we would have to create security protocols around it that would then have to sort of be applied to the entire organization. So we are actually trying to spin that piece of work out precisely because of that because it wasn't just me. I was definitely more in the spotlight but my entire staff was very scared. And we work with a pretty diverse staff. So people that come from different walks of life. Some people that live in favelas and Rio there are subject to sort of all kinds of different political rule. And I think even though the threats that were made to me were more public. I think that the threats that are made to them are much more serious. So I do worry about my safety. I worry about the safety of my team a lot more than I worry about my own because I'm not AOC. I love her but I'm not her. And I come from a at least on my mother's side wealthy background which in a country in a very very unequal country like Brazil gives me some level of protection. I don't kid myself into thinking that that will make me invincible. But it is different from being say a black woman in Islam in Rio and I do have black women who lives in the two that live in slums in Rio and or whose families do in my staff. So that's what I'm mostly worried about now. And that's why when both are not a one the crowdfunding campaign that we ran was to support very small organizations that work directly with victims of hate crime. It wasn't necessarily to support us. But then again yes it's a it's a weird situation in Brazil. So yeah some level of scared I think it's it's prudent. But I say I tell myself this will sound very strange in English.  So I will not let fear keep me or anyone that I work with from speaking up and actually doing this work because I think that fear is both on our own other platforms. They play very well with the resemblance of the democratic normalcy. So they will say and claim because they were elected that all is well for our democracy. There's nothing wrong. They're not doing anything that should be considered reason for being alarmed.  With that said I was friends close friends with Maria Lee. So we've had our share of loss and violence in Brazil in the past year. And so we sort of need to keep an eye out. There was a question here that I don't want to forget. And then I think we're going to run out of time. But I'll be around. I'm not going to be around me. I'm going to be around for like a few minutes after this and then I'm going to have to leave. You have my baby a little bit but I'll be back later and then tomorrow. So we want to talk more. I'm here. Yes. Okay thank you Alessandra. This was a very inspiring and useful frame. You know the resist and regenerate. And a great flow from the presentation. Because just before you went into that historical perspective. I wanted immediately to ask you how did all your work since 2011 play into this kind of politics rising. Why did that happen despite so many groups doing this work. So it's fantastic. Like the way you put there. My question is if you can say a bit more about what notion do you think we need to give to solidarity in that context. And you spoke about solidarity at scale. And you know I can see this in a platform about like women that have been through violence. But that solidarity between people that dehumanize other members in the community and the people who are dehumanized black women migrants in Brazil or in other contexts. How do when we don't have the personal connection as in like people working in the neighborhood. And I know that's a very hard question. Just your thinking on like how do we do solidarity at scale. When we have these polarizing situations. And maybe just to put this into context like I co-lead the global strategy program for Amnesty International. And I'd love to talk to everybody about it but we're at some point in the next month like launching this bigger consultation on like how does Amnesty need to transform the way we do solidarity. Being that it's a big organization built on like the concept of international solidarity. But now we're at another moment in time and we're going to use tech to do that etc etc. And it's great if we can start collectively thinking about these questions. Okay. Hard questions to answer quickly but I'll give you just a few thoughts. From a tactical perspective I think that again you don't you you cannot stand in solidarity with someone that you don't see as an equal as a human being. That doesn't necessarily mean that you need to know them personally. That doesn't necessarily mean that you need to agree with them on every issue. But it does mean that you have to see the humanity in them. And I think what makes us sensible to the humanity in others is different for everyone. But it's definitely not necessarily the demographic data that most political organizers historically work with. So it's not necessarily age. It's not necessarily social class. Like that's sort of the the traditional categories for targeting political messaging are already blurred. And I think the platform strongmen were actually the first ones to notice that and that's why they moved into working with psychological analysis, targeting their messaging, not necessarily through the traditional demographic categories but ways of thinking. So some people are more easily convinced by numbers. I'm going to give them numbers. Some people are more easily convinced by emotional stories. I'm going to give them that. They're doing that they're doing that too better than we are. But when it comes to solidarity the things that makes us sensible to the humanity in others are different. But there are a few common traits and I think we can if we have a large community of members I'm sure have you could get data on this if you if you applied some data science to it. What we've done with our database is try to identify these traits and it's not we started our biggest solidarity platform with survivors of sexual violence not just because it is a huge issue in Brazil because it was a real need. Those are of course big factors into making that decision but also because we realized that after the very young people our biggest membership was actually amongst 35 to 55 year old women with children so it's essentially young young youngish I guess sorry mums that that we see the most action and we realized that knowing that someone was also struggling to raise their children or were facing some of the same issues that he were as a mother actually made you a lot more sensible to their struggle in spite of differences in class race etc etc. So I think we can find bridges like that of course in an ideal world I'm a humanist I would love for people to just see the humanity in everyone just because they're human beings but that's just not necessarily how people operate and again I think that part of our struggle with platform strongmen and with sort of far right populists in general is that we oftentimes don't want to work with the realities of how people get engaged politically because we will like those realities to be different so we sort of already operate on the assumption that they are but they're not people want to be on whatsapp and saying like they want the gossipy aspect of politics to be served to them and they will stand in solidarity a lot easier if you give them something to identify with and if you do that over time I think that's also key especially for international organizations that often not saying it's the case with MSD I don't know the work well enough but that often sort of come in in moments of crisis and just run one campaign and then go out what we've learned is that in order to build trust in a community the community and the team and the team with the community and the community and and amongst itself you need time milhiu for instance we took a poll after Bolsonaro was elected and we realized that about 20 percent of our members voted for him about 30 percent of them self-identified evangelical Christians and they're not leaving the community even though we took a very strong stance against most of what he was saying but we never said that he was equal to his followers I think that's one thing people vote for candidates in spite of disagreeing with them on some issues we all do that I know it's harder for us to accept that people would do that when the issues are our women inferior to men and like oh you shouldn't you shouldn't vote for someone who thinks that or who says publicly I would rather have a dead son than a gay son but the reality is that people voted for some people voted for him for other reasons in spite of that and just equating his hideousness to meaning that everyone who voted for him is also hideous will not help us ask them to stand in solidarity with people that are being targeted by these policies so we realize that we have enough people in our community that like him to some extent enough to vote for him they still participate in our campaigns because we've been around for seven years now so we've done so many things in Rio that people know that they can trust us that we are on their side in spite of whomever is sitting in power we don't change our stances we're also we're always working for policies that better the lives of people in cities even as governments change and the fact that we have survived these swings also makes it easier for people to be standing in solidarity with us and with each other within the communities that we have created I think this is it thank you so much for having me and I'll talk to you very soon that was an amazing start thank you so much you're just as governments change you're understanding how we need to change and consider our own practice in response to that is just such an important critical message right at this moment in time so refreshment break now just in the back of the room and this room there's going to be evaluating the impacts of voter information campaigns then upstairs to the right across Nishato there'll be two sessions can parliament's harmless collective intelligence and urban outfitting civic tech for this city context all three sessions will start at 1145 just as I mentioned give yourself five minutes to get across to the chateau and don't forget your OECD page which we'll need thank you very much