The narcissist doesn't want you to figure this out. When you first met the narcissist, it seemed like you had so much in common. You had similar interests and characteristics. You liked the same food or music. You liked the same TV shows or movies. The same hobbies or interests. You agreed on a lot of things. You shared the same perspectives and that is why you rarely argued. You rarely expressed a virgin or opposite views because it seemed like they agreed with everything you said. They were idealizing you. It's like they saw you as this perfect person who couldn't do anything wrong.   Everything they wanted you to be and that is what made them want to be involved with you because in that moment you were perfect. You couldn't do anything wrong. You were everything they needed at that time but of course it wasn't real. No one's perfect. We all have flaws and imperfections. We all make faults and mistakes but the narcissist lives in his fantasy world where everything is either good or bad and when they first met you, you were perfect to them but this was just the image they had of you in their minds and they weren't being real either. They mirrored you.  They showed you what they thought you wanted to see even though they weren't about any of that. They acted as though they liked the same things as you. They pretended to agree with everything you said and believed in even if they secretly had opposing views which made it seem like you had a lot in common. When really you were just interacting with that mirror image of yourself. You were falling in love with yourself because that's all that they were presenting back to you. Different parts of yourself, things that you like, things that you're about but they were never about any of that. Just remember all of the things they said they liked, things that you were supposed to have in common. Why aren't they engaged in any of those things now? Why aren't they involved in those activities or interests with you anymore? Why does every conversation you have with them end in an argument? When one of the main reasons why you got together was because you shared the same perspectives or views. What changed? The truth is the character the narcissist displayed to you in the beginning wasn't even real. They weren't really interested in any of those things but they knew that you were. They didn't really agree with anything you said or believed in but they knew that if they were to argue or disagree with you back then it's unlikely you would have stuck around. You can't really build anything with someone who has opposing views because they're constantly going to be going in a different direction to where you're going so they have to create the illusion that you have things in common. They have to create the illusion that you share the same perspectives so that you then think you're building something with them when in reality you're building on a weak foundation, something that was never real and that's why you're seeing now that the narcissist seems to like the opposite of everything that you like. They seem to argue or disagree with everything you say because when they first met you they lied to you. They displayed a false deceptive character who they thought was everything you wanted. Someone who had a lot of things in common with you. Someone who shared the same interests and characteristics. Someone who liked the same things and naturally this is someone that you would gravitate towards. It's someone you would want to be involved with because you seem so alike but you don't realize at the time that it's all fake. You don't realize that it's all a lie.  This image of perfection. Something that no one could ever live up to but this is how they have to see people in order to function. They have to be either all good or all bad.  They can only think in extremes. They cannot bring together the positive and negative qualities of themselves or other people into a cohesive, realistic whole. You're either perfect or either completely flawed. And when they first met you, they saw you as being perfect. You were everything they had been looking for. You couldn't do anything wrong. If you look back, you may even remember situations where you did make a fault or mistake. And the narcissist wasn't really bothered. They didn't make a big deal out of it. But if you were to make that mistake now, it would be a completely different story because now they are devaluing you. They are seeing you as being completely flawed. They have to see you in this way because it's clear that there's something wrong in your relationship. You're not getting on. They have to see you in this way to function. If they considered your positive qualities and characteristics, it would only trigger them to reflect and have there's something wrong with them. They have to see you as all bad to see themselves as all good. And they look at it as though you've changed. As though you're different than when they first met you. When in reality, they idealized you. They saw you as this perfect person, a stand in an expectation that no one could live up to. Because we all have flaws. We all make mistakes. But this is something that the narcissist cannot tolerate because they engage in black or white thinking. They see things in extremes. They turn molehills into mountains. And they have to point out any little thing that you're doing wrong. With a real or imagined to take the focus off themselves. You will find that you spend most of your time focusing on what you're meant to be doing wrong. Rather than their behavior. Rather than how they're constantly putting you down. This is the game they play. They want to keep you questioning yourself and doubting your own abilities. Instead of looking at how they're constantly criticizing you and not bringing anything to the table. And yet, when you first met them, it seemed like you had so much in common. It seemed like you liked a lot of the same things and you agreed on everything. But this is just something the narcissist doesn't want you to figure out. How they only pretended to like what you like. They pretended to be on the same page. And even if you questioned and confronted them on this, it wouldn't solve anything.  They're not going to come out and say that they married you and presented a false character to you. Narcissists only focus and get what they want. And they're not going to entertain anything that might be an obstacle to that. But they will exploit you and lie to you. Whatever it takes, if it means that they can get their needs met and when you question or confront them about it, they'll just deny it. They'll act like it never happened or they'll say that it's your fault but they're never going to own up to anything that they've done. There's always someone to blame. There's always something that someone else should have done when really they manipulated you. They took advantage of you. They made you believe in something that wasn't even real, just so they could get something out of you. And even though in the end they may get what they wanted from you, they're still going to lie about everything that happened up until that point. They framed you. It was a setup. They planted false evidence and witnesses. They tampered with the true evidence and made it appear as though you were to blame while they ran off with the goods and they knew exactly what they were doing the entire time. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. 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Good afternoon. I'm calling it. It's officially summer here in Seattle today a short video unapologetically shot in portrait mode I won't be there, but graduation at UW is this weekend Congratulations to my friends and my colleagues who are moving on to new things who are getting degrees Congratulations, it's a huge accomplishment and you all deserve them even though an astronomy. We often don't celebrate the master's degree I got a standalone master's degree and it was a huge deal for me So even if you're getting a master's degree as part of your PhD really congratulations. It's a big deal So the question I'm sure you're getting asked a lot is what are you doing this summer? I have a longer video in the works Discussing what you can do and what academics often do during the summer Here's my one piece of unsolicited advice if you were getting ready to go into grad school or become a postdoc if you can Take the summer off. I didn't take the summer off between my master's program my PhD program In fact, I moved up here early so I can get started on projects with the idea that maybe I'd take a little bit of time at September off and and of course it never happened I just worked straight through the summer and it's straight into the year and the summer after my PhD The IAU meeting was in Hawaii. So I was there for two weeks, which was fantastic But I only was able to take a couple days off in the middle and I didn't really take a break I've taken a few vacations over the last ten years at most a week-long trip But especially if you were heading into grad school and you have the opportunity to just take a month or two off This may be one of the last times in your life You're able to do this and really the best preparation you can do for your PhD program has arrived with a clear head That's it today. Congratulations to all those people earning degrees moving on Even if it just seems like an intermediate step in the long chain


Javier shares a fantastic tip with us We were talking about in 902 was sort of when we began the conversation about keyboards in general and Javier says, you know on the subject of keyboards He says I highly recommend if you're using a wireless keyboard that you keep a wired backup Somewhere nearby because sometimes when you boot your Mac some third-party wireless keyboards do not sync up with your Mac in time to do any of the startup key command combinations where you might need to go into single user mode or recovery mode or any of those things and If your Mac's having a Bluetooth problem, obviously, it's not going to connect at all So having the ability to plug in a keyboard now a lot of wireless keyboards also can be plugged in and Used wired so in that case the only backup that you need is simply a cable But bear that in mind at least think about what you would do if you needed to do that ahead of time So that you're not in that moment of troubleshooting where you're like, oh crap How do I do this and then maybe you can't or maybe you need to like literally go out and buy a different keyboard So Apple's keyboards most of them you just you can just plug in that's how you charge them anyway Most of them the newer ones are that way so and Brian 89 44 In our chat room at live dot Mac e-cup comm shares that he would recommend the same for mice as well I agree some sort of wired or wire a bull pointing device I know I have that problem I have a magic trackpad to in my office that I love and Occasionally it and it's Bluetooth, you know Occasionally if I have my phone in the wrong spot or some device in the wrong place or whatever it starts getting super janky and I just have a lightning cable there that that I could plug my phone into I rarely do But it's there for whatever I need and more often than not It's like oh time to plug in the the trackpad and as soon as I plug it in everything's fine And you know it just smoothing all that so


Good day, fellow investors! Last week we discussed a lot of companies' earnings and put them into a long-term investing perspective. As I promised in this video, we will discuss the current macroeconomic perspective, especially focused on the Fed's shift in gears. So the Fed capitulated what does that mean for your investing style, for your portfolio and for the long-term perspective on stocks. I'll explain how we are probably going for a currency collapse. It's inevitable. It might happen sooner or later, nobody knows, but that's something to keep in mind when investing. The economy might collapse, might not collapse. It will be ups and downs, as it is always the case with the economy. However, on stocks, and that's the third pillar of today's discussion, stocks might not crash, so it might be actually the opposite that happens. However, there will be big differences there between great businesses and not so great businesses, which is something that one has to keep in mind. Before we start, I wish to thank you all for the great reviews on Amazon that I have been receiving for my book, Modern Value Investing. We are in the company of greatness on Amazon, on Amazon's bestseller lists. We have Nobel Prize winners like Schiller, legendary investors like Lynch and great trading books like Market Wizards selling at the same rate as the Modern Value Investing. So thank you, thank you for your support. Now, let's start with the news. The key piece of information that came out in the last few weeks was that the Fed has shifted gears. Practically, we can say the Fed capitulated under the pressure of higher interest rates. Everybody was against it from politicians. The economy started slowing down globally, and then the Fed said, okay, we're going to pause. The Federal Committee decided to be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate to support these outcomes. Then they finished with they are prepared to adjust any of the details for completing balance sheet normalization in light of economic and financial developments. Prior to the Fed's change in heart, there was this expectation that we are in for a global slowdown. After the Fed changed its rhetoric, said they will pause to keep the economy up. Stocks rallied after the bad end of the previous year. Stocks are the best January in the last 40 years. They are up 7% year to date in a big counterbalance to what happened over the last three months of 2018. So it's very interesting how things change quickly on the stock market. However, the key is that a 15% decline in the S&P 500 over the last quarter of 2018 and just the 100 basis points, 1% increase on the cost of borrowing for the US government led the Fed to stop with higher rates. The US five year treasury went from 1.6 the cost the yield for the government to the current 2.8 touched 3% and it's already much lower now. So the Fed capitulating means that the economy isn't doing good at all because it cannot sustain higher interest rates. We can see here that over the last 40 years the Fed would stop hiking constantly at lower lower rates. It is probable that the Fed just stopped hiking at an effective federal funds rate of just 2%. It was 5% before the 2007 crisis, around 7% before 2006%, 1990 something and around 10% before the 1990s. So we are constantly seeing lower lower interest rates and that is because the economy cannot sustain higher interest rates because of extremely high debt burdens. For example corporate debt in the US has almost doubled over the last 10 years. The situation is similar across the globe. Low interest rates of course you are going to borrow with low interest rates and then you have a big burden when interest rates start to go up. Governments are also too leveraged, budget deficits are piling all over the place. For example in the US even if the economy is doing good the budget deficits are increasing. Same situation across most of the modern world. Now if you increase interest rates then all the indebted corporations and government have higher interest payments and have higher debt refinancing costs and that's something simply unsustainable if there is a huge debt burden like we have seen for corporations and governments. Given that the central banks, the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of Japan have seen that they can help the economy by just simply printing money by expanding the balance sheets as soon as the economy starts showing signs of slowing down they will jump in and do again the same that did really well over the last 10 years. However the question is whether that is sustainable because we are already seeing the economy slowing down no matter the extremely low interest rates over the last 10 years. Truck orders have plunged over the last quarter indicating that the situation is not that good and that the previous transportation good might have been a bubble. We'll see what comes out of that but countries like Italy are now in a recession so two economic quarters of economic decline.  Germany manufacturing orders down 7% which is the lowest for about 5, 6, 7 years since 2012 and the last European recession. My conclusion is that there will be no more tightening there will be no more normalization because over the last 10 years politicians central bankers they are all high on low interest rates. Of course if you can borrow for 0, 1%, 2% if you can get free money it's like a junkie on drugs you get free money you can do whatever you want and there is no cost attached now in the future there will be.  Take the victory so when you have politicians like this pushing on the Fed not to raise interest rates anymore you know what is the situation. However we have to put this into a long-term investing perspective what to expect what to be prepared for and where to put our money. So let's see about that. The first situation is that there will be more and more and more money printing. The last recessions unveil the tool that hadn't been really used before it unveiled the possibility to use central banks balance sheet to help the economy. Before 2009 central banks balance sheets had been mostly flat and stable. After 2009 an explosion of money printing is what followed. We have already seen governments went on a landing spree corporations went on a landing spree and the key factor there is that no one that borrows money a corporation a government has the intention to ever repay that debt that's something crucial to understand you have to pay back your mortgage governments and corporations they have no intention to pay back the debt the only interest they have is to service the debt by paying the interest rate and then refinance again that's easily done when the interest rates are low but very difficult when the interest rates are high because your debt burden might bring you in trouble. This is the federal government current expenditures for interest payments the blue line and you can see that from the 1990s the cost of the US government debt that exploded in the meantime didn't go up because the red line the interest rates the yield on the treasury went just down so that was the stabilizing fact factor for US government that were declining interest rates however interest rates hit almost zero and you cannot go lower than zero thus interest rates at some point have to go up however just look at what the 1% increase in the five-year treasury did to the interest payment burden for the US government so from stable in a range of 300 billion to 400 billion in the last few years it exploded to above 500 550 billion at the moment so just the 1% increase in interest rates imagine what would a free 4% increase in interest rates do to the US government interest payment not the debt the interest payment so when somebody has to borrow money just to pay the interest we have seen the interest cost is now 550 billion the budget deficit is 800 billion 1 billion 1 trillion so when the entity has to borrow just to pay the interest then that is usually something called a Ponzi scheme because when you have to borrow more just to pay the interest so you're not borrowing for economic benefits you are not borrowing for infrastructure for investments in education for increased productivity you are borrowing to pay the interest as that interest rates increases you know you are in a Ponzi scheme because you're just borrowing more and then increasing the problem which is that when that happens you know that down the line the situation doesn't look good the solution is very simple currency collapse you just let the currency be destroyed be worthless and that's something we have to be prepared because they are keeping interest rates low they will print they will do whatever it needs they will not contract the balance sheet the Fed's balance sheet so they will inflate the globe with cheap worthless currency which means that we have to stay protected against a currency collapse first later we can think about an economic collapse that might or not might might not happen and then about stocks crashing or stocks exploding we'll see about that now so the first thing you have to do is not to be a long-term debt owner because those are the suckers short-term debt is okay like Buffett has short-term treasuries because that usually saves you from inflation if inflation is 2% the yield on the treasury will be 2.5% on the long-term debt if you buy long-term debt for the long-term then you are the sucker because with the currency collapse after 10 20 years what you get back will be constantly worth less less less less and less and if there is inflation in the 1970s bonds were called certificates of confiscation so all those that had bonds most of them lost money over the long term you can bet on short-term bond movements lower interest rates etc but that's betting that's not investing for example if you take a normal diversified safe portfolio like my friend here that I analyzed in a video the US fixed income exposure was 48.50% by an investment bank managed for safety 48.50% of something that might be worthless over the next five to ten years is something extremely risky further any other pension fund in the world will be in trouble too while working in the Netherlands I had a pension fund ABP where the top investments are you guess it government bonds of course and the top investment is the French Republic France United States second Germany Great Britain Italy etc so what is the protection the protection is stocks might do actually very well as everybody will flood the market with liquidity the economy might do well those that have a mortgage might be very very happy if there is inflation and stocks over the long term they will be ups and downs there will be crashes there will be volatility but good businesses with low costs and that can transfer their costs to the customer will do well because the world will continue to spin if we look at the situation in Argentina you thought the SAP 500 did well over the last 10 15 years well look at the Argentinian stock market index it increased what 17 times however the Argentinian Peso did almost the opposite against the dollar so it's down 12 times nevertheless as there is more printing somewhere down the road there will be a currency collapse it might be chipped off little by little year by year and then we might have a big crash 10 20 percent inflation etc but that's something we have to focus on over the long term because short-term trade etc that's just noise budget noise the debt is the big elephant in the room and we have to focus on that and prepare carefully stocks especially great businesses and that's what I'm completely focused now to find great businesses I like to find great businesses cheap that are a margin of safety investment in commodities at the moment I find them the risk reward very positive there so that's one idea to be prepared so but again when I look at commodity sector I will make some videos about zinc miners over the next week so please subscribe to the channel then I see okay I need to look at 100 of them and maybe one of them is a good buy secondly if you don't want to dig deeper into commodities which is a complex thing you can buy great businesses and tomorrow we are going to analyze Disney which is a great business and you can see okay what can I expect from Disney in tomorrow's video so please again subscribe for that and the general message is the world will continue spinning we will continue living you will continue watching this YouTube channel reading books whatever you have been doing until now but the currency will be sacrificed and a great example to show that is Italy and stamps postal stamps things that you would put on a letter a long long time ago when we older people were still living let me show you in 1958 the normal Italian stamp was 25 lira 1998 the right one the normal Italian stamp was 800 lira so a 32 time increase in 40 years the current price is 0.95 euros that's almost 2000 lira so over the last 60 years the price of sending a letter in Italy has increased 100 times so that is what I call a currency collapse a currency sacrifice however Italy is still incurring in debt people are still lending money to Italy but that's the problem of those suckers that are doing that so tomorrow Disney Sunday we continue with insights from Warren Buffett letters to shareholders and then from Monday Tuesday I have a lot of material on zinc zinc miners Glencore Anglo-American and I'll try to put them into a valuable perspective for you and don't forget I'm launching my newsletter with a weekly overview of the articles of the content of the research that I do so please subscribe to my newsletter and you can find the link on my blog below in the description of the video thank you for watching looking 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Alright guys, welcome back to the channel, if you're new, my name is Bobby, guys. Today no reaction video, today no history video, but I simply want to read you an email of a viewer of mine. With no further ado, hello Bobby, you are a modern hero, I don't know about that. I'm born in Macedonia, lived in the UK, now I'm with my family in Bulgaria. I never forget the day when I was a kid and my friends discovered I have grandparents in Bulgaria. They pushed me, spit on me, at my school. The teachers pretended not to see that they were insulting me. I was 14 years old, and now I'm 23. I changed two schools, I was thinking about suicide. After that we moved to Sofia, Sofia is in Bulgaria. When people are by no means evil, everyone who meets me speaks with me about the pain of Macedonia. Now I fully understand why. Be careful, because I saw in a Reddit thread that Macedonian people ask about you. Do you have family in Macedonia? To chase them. They discussed reporting your YouTube channel to local authorities as hateful and tried to take it down. Please, please, please, don't let them do that, because now I know I'm not alone. If you ever disappeared, I will be broken again. Please be stronger than ever, fight for good and truth, take care. And maybe one day I will be able to return to the home I dream of every night. Of course I'm gonna keep the viewer anonymous, but I want to say thank you very much for your email. This is nothing but pure evil. Those people follow lies. This is something that we see all across the globe. It does not matter if it is veganism, Macedonism, liberalism, what have you. It is always lies and propaganda.  Don't you see what they're doing? The exact same people that spit on people because they are Bulgarian or because they actually identify with truth are the same people that flag your videos.  Many people try to dox me. Many people send me mails every single day.  It fills me with joy because those people are exposing themselves. Nothing more, nothing less. I said it many times before, it is an absolute delusion to believe that 1.5 million people in a small country somehow have the truth and everybody else is conspiring against them. It doesn't matter if it is Bulgaria or Greece, no, it is the whole planet. It is Germany, it is England, it is America, it is France. Nobody is conspiring against 1.5 Slavs in northern Macedonia. How does that make sense? It doesn't. It is people that willingly want to live in a lie. From Bulgaria we see nothing but love, nothing but support. Why is nobody asking the question that just after Macedonia exited Yugoslavia, Bulgaria was supporting? Bulgaria was always there for us. No matter who you talk to they will show you nothing but love.  Therefore, dear viewer, don't you worry, I am used to it by now. Back in the day when I stopped veganism out of a sudden I was getting hate mail after hate mail, threat after threat. And what happened? I am still here. Video flag after video flag. Copyright strike after copyright strike. I am still here and I am going nowhere. Just as the vegans you are exposing yourself. As hateful you want to enter the EU, how do you want to do this?  How do you want to enter the EU? By celebrating the death of your very neighbors. Not very European of you. It won't happen. Our haters are our biggest fans. Keyboard warriors are the biggest supporters. They generate the clicks, they bring the viewers and more and more people see the truth. Alright guys, but this is it for today's video. Just a quick rant so you can see what I deal with on a daily basis. The truth will be hated but the truth will prevail. Alright, but this is it for today's video. If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel, all the links are in the description box below. Thank you very much. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Typically what one does when they do this is think something like this. That's not right because the angle from here to here is 90 degrees. The angle from here to here is 180. What we know is that there is a theory called valence shell electron repulsion theory that is the electrons are going to make a cloud and that cloud is going to repel other electrons and push them as far apart as possible. So you see these are 90 degrees. They're a lot closer. So we need to move our toothpicks so that they're about 109 degrees apart so that the distance from here to here is 109, from here to here is 109, from here to here is 109, and here is 109. So you need to practice that and try to envision what that's going to look like. So that's our tetrahedron. I want to help you make the first model. First let's look at methane, CH4. You know if you have a carbon you need to draw the Lewis structure. That would give you four electrons around the carbon and four from the hydrogen. And then we would need to attach a hydrogen to each one of these carbons. So here we have our carbon, we put a hydrogen on each one of these, and now we have a tetrahedron. So your task is to make the Lewis structure for each atom, connect it to the other atoms to make the molecule, sketch the geometry, and then discuss the angles and the hybridization.


To build the Kanye half cup of crazy, you're going to start by adding one ounce of Kovacier. Now some of the inspiration for this drink was taking off of his old drink, the Malibuja, which is where the Malibu comes in, of one ounce. The original was grey goose vodka and Malibu, but it's kind of a boring drink. I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh Walt Disney. Next we'll have an eighth of an ounce of Kubler Absinthe. Now if you don't have Kubler Absinthe, you can substitute other absinths, but keep in mind that different absinths have very different flavors, so you can mix and match to play with the one that you like best. Looking at these ingredients, you might think that they don't go together, but actually it surprisingly comes together quite nicely with a lot of individual flavors fighting to be the one that is most pronounced. You ain't got the answers, man! Kind of like what we think is going on in Kanye's head right now, just so many competing voices and yes men driving him to do really strange things. Thank you so much for watching, and please remember to always drink responsibly because everybody likes to make friends, but no one likes to make them in a prison shower. We're going to need to do another one of that. That was perfect! That wasn't.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Philip Shane, Paul Boyer, and Brad. Coming up on DTNS, social networks are having an identity crisis. Who really owns AI art, and why dead spiders are smarter than you think? Sorry. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, July 28, 2022. From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Rich Trafalino. In Los Angeles, I'm Lamar Wilson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We are going to talk more social network identity crises, that dead spider thing. You might get prickly over the thought, but it might be kind of cool. But first, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Yeah, let's keep things congressional. The U.S. Senate and House passed a $52 billion Chips and Science Act of 2022, a.k.a. Chips Plus, to address the chip shortage. This bill does create $52 billion to fund the U.S.-based chip manufacturers for companies like Intel, Texas Instruments, and Micron Technology. It now goes to President Biden for signature. In other legislative news, Senate Democrats announced a deal on a budget reconciliation package that includes $369 billion for climate and energy measures aimed at cutting carbon emissions 40% by 2030. This includes an extension of the $7,500 federal tax credit for the purchase of new clean vehicles, things like plug-in hybrids or full electric vehicles, and eliminates the current $200,000 vehicle cap per manufacturer. So that goes away and applies to all EV models if this bill goes on to pass. It would provide a also a $4,000 tax credit for the purchase of used clean vehicles for the first time. It's usually only been available for brand new ones. Unlike the House-approved Build Back Better bill, the Senate bill does not include credits for e-bikes or tax credits for unionized automakers. Google announced it will delay the phasing out of third-party cookies in Chrome again until the second half of 2024. You might recall that Google first committed to ending third-party cookie support in Chrome in 2022 this year, but two years after the company began working on its privacy sandbox. Google's Privacy Sandbox VP Anthony Chavez says, quote, the most consistent feedback we've received is the need for more time to evaluate and test the new privacy sandbox technologies before deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome. Well in Q2, Meta earned $2.46 per share on revenue of $28.82 billion, both missing analyst estimates. This marks the first time Meta saw revenue decline on the year in a quarter down almost 1%, so not precipitously, but still it's the first time. Its reality labs division generated $452 million in revenue, seems like a lot of money, but it lost $2.8 billion in the quarter, which seems like more money. Meta grew monthly and daily active users across all of its platforms 4% on the year. Meta also named CFO David Wenner as its first chief strategy officer as of November 1st, and current VP of finance Susan Lee will take over as CFO. In other meta news, Axios sources say Meta began informing roughly 50 news partners in the U.S. this week that it no longer plans to pay for content to run on the Facebook News tab. Back in 2019, Facebook brokered multiple three-year deals with publishers for content worth a total of $105 million. You may do the math and see 2022 is three years later. We have had quite a week of earnings, so we'll give you another one. Comcast reported that Peacock paid subscriber numbers remained flat on the quarter in its Q2 at $13 million out of an overall 28 million monthly active accounts. Losses at Peacock grew 28% on the year to $467 million. Comcast's broadband business didn't really fare any better reporting flat subscriber numbers at $32.2 million in its Q2. The last time Comcast failed to add at least 100,000 new subscribers in a quarter came in 2008, during the financial crisis, adding $65,000. The Wall Street Journal sources say Jack Ma plans to relinquish some of his voting power over control of the FinTech giant and financial. Ma doesn't hold an executive role or sit on the board of Ant Financial, but currently does control an entity with 50.52% of its shares. The move reportedly has already received approval from Chinese regulators. You might recall that Ants 2020 IPO was scuttled by the government at the last minute and any future IPO for the company would probably have to wait at least a year since Chinese security rules require a timeout on public listings for companies that go through a recent change in control, which this certainly would qualify us. All right. Well, we've talked also this week about social networks. How do they work? How do they work? Well, seems like a lot of social networks don't totally know what they're doing. So let's talk about some of the latest developments. Seems like there is an identity crisis as of late earlier this week. We covered changes to Instagram recommendations. Noting that Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, who have a lot of followers, were part of a movement to make Instagram Instagram again, whether or not that was seen by the company, you know, two days ago, nobody knew. Well, IG head Adam Maseri now says, this is just a couple of hours before we went live, the platform will reduce the number of recommended posts and phase out a TikTok like test version of the app that opened full screen media. Now you might say, okay, so I guess just popular people have to announce that they're upset with a company and then the company will roll back changes. Well, it depends on the company. Of course, Twitter is also trying to figure out itself these days. You might be a Twitter user. You might be frustrated with the changes on Twitter, but Twitter is launching a bevy of new test features. So if Instagram is trying to figure out how to be more like TikTok and not upset the people who have made Instagram what it is, is Twitter trying to be a little more like my space? You might say my space. Oh my gosh. It hasn't been around for a while. Don't worry. Twitter is not going to make you autofollow. Tom Anderson, that's the MySpace dude, but the company did tell TechCrunch they're testing a status to tweets. This is a test with select users in the US and Australia for a limited time. So Lamar, tell us more about what that means. Yeah, they're literally going to keep this. Users in the test will be able to add a status topic from a predetermined list supplied by Twitter, not yourself. So the idea is to provide more context to followers based on what you're tweeting about. So example, statuses include the ever popular sport alert. I like that one, but also shower thoughts, picture of the day and current status. These statuses will appear under the account name and only apply to the one tweet. So your status isn't reflected on everything in your account. They're very interesting, Sarah. Like, what do you think about these going forward? Well, OK, so clicking on a status badge won't will show other public posts with that status. So if I were to say shower thoughts, which is not something I've ever used on social media, but apparently it's it's very popular, unpopular opinion, another one of those stuff that you see over and over. I see what Twitter is doing here and TechCrunch notes that at least in early testing, the link topics don't appear to be moderated. So it's a little bit of Twitter saying, you know, let's see what catches on here. It kind of reminds me of when Gmail started to say, Oh, somebody just emailed you and your response might be like, thanks or we'll do or no problem or no thanks. I use those. OK. So do I. So do I quite often. And I figure like, if you know Gmail well enough, you know what I'm doing. And I'm busy. But same idea. But when it applies to tweets, it starts to, I don't know, kind of make tweets be like, what are we only like tweeting in five different categories here? Rich, what do you think? But it seems a lot to me like they want to get all of the benefit of how people already use hashtags, which you can click through. And then you can see what people are tweeting with that hashtag. But in a much more organized way, that is, I guess, less user generated. You know, they can they can a little bit control what's going to appear in those lists. And I don't know if this is a response to hashtag usage being down or them wanting to reengage with that sort of thing. But the other thing that I see with this is seems like this would be super easy to monetize with advertisers, right? So it's the Super Bowl. You have your status watching, you know, watching the Super Bowl football emoji or something like that, or any number of other, you know, the things you want to tune to Twitter for and have that. I don't think it's subsequently changes the experience of hashtag Super Bowl, whatever the number is this year. But to me, it seems like something very easy to to monetize. And that is that would feel familiar to longtime Twitter users. Admittedly, I think there might be some cynicism that why can't I just use hashtag spoiler alert? Well, you can, right? I mean, this is not something that is mandatory in any sense. I feel like Twitter is kind of like, eh, hashtags are a little all over the place. Yeah. And they are hashtags are used ironically or actually for search or both. You know, I don't really search hashtags on Twitter all that often anymore for that very reason. If something was a spoiler alert, here are my thoughts on the new Thor movie, you know, like I know exactly what that person is doing. I can either click and read more or I cannot. So I can see where it can be helpful. But at the same time, I feel like, you know, Twitter going from, you know, what are you doing to what's what's happening, right? Wasn't that, you know, the big thing that, you know, they changed at a certain point, so people stopped talking about what they were eating for lunch. This is kind of going back to, like, well, we know, like, probably the top five things that you're going to say already. So let's just give you a title. Well, and the other thing is, I mean, do you remember everyone's first, like Facebook posts, because they had that prompting question.  But when you took out that prompt, it made no sense. And all of your like first couple of Facebook posts make absolutely no sense. If this, like, if they decided to discontinue this, I imagine like it might cause some confusion because you were expecting that context there. So that to me seems a little odd. The other thing with the spoiler alert thing, I know they've been experimenting with, like, click through to view tweets. Like I feel like with the spoiler alert one, that only works if you put, like, man, the Thor movie was super cool. I love this cameo by this actor. Like I want that hidden if you're going to tag it spoiler alert, right? Yeah, totally. Yeah. The problem with spoiler alerts is that people spoil them all the time. All right, Rich, let's talk a little bit more about AI and art. Truly nothing would give me more pleasure right now, Sarah. So Dolly to open AI's system for creating realistic images and art from a description in natural language is all the rage. And gadget notes that as a user, you can enter the phrase teddy bear shopping for groceries in the style of Yuki and Dolly will spit out images in that style. As we will be discussed, open eye has recently announced that Dolly 2 would be made available with up to one million users as part of a large scale beta test. Each user gets to make 50 generations for free during their first month, 15 for every subsequent month. And then there's a credit based packages you can get for $15 each. You get a package of credits to use there. Open eye says it more detailed prices will come as the product evolves. But one of the more significant things what they said was that users could commercialize the images they produced with Dolly to including printing, selling, licensing the pictures they create. And I think, you know, we're starting to see some interesting questions being asked when it comes to that kind of monetization, right, Sarah? Yeah, the model is sophisticated. In fact, I've seen Instagram accounts pop up that are completely Dolly to generated art, beautiful stuff at the same time. It's kind of like, OK, what are we doing with this commercialization? We make and merge here. So sophisticated model, but also might remind you of AI that does work. For example, back in 2018, Google's Agit Varma told the Wall Street Journal that its smart reply feature had been trained on billions of Gmail messages adding that initial test saw options like I love you and sent from my iPhone offered up since they were used so often already in human communication replies. So just goes to show you how, you know, human behavior tends to drive the stuff forward for better and worse. Yeah, when you bring in these large data sets, it's interesting what these initial outputs and what you kind of have to train these algorithms and these engines to kind of work around what might otherwise seem very common behaviors to them in terms of pet recognition. So OpenAI will let you commercialize Dolly to generated images. The question is, though, does OpenAI have the right to monetize Dolly because Engage's Daniel Cooper looked into the legal precedence around content generated from AI systems. You know, these systems require massive data sets to train models to recognize patterns so well when you're Gmail training it, you have access to presumably you have some sort of right to scan all of these Gmail messages to train your thing, which is why you get things like sent from my phone, like we were talking about with even more simpler imaging systems like Boris Damia's internet famous Dolly mini engine. Everybody's seen all of those popping up around Twitter and stuff found initially that landscapes generated by the system would commonly include shutter stock and alamy watermarks, something expressly forbid by the terms of service in terms of scraping their stock images for use and training. Turns out those were able to be used and not just in Dolly mini, but in a lot of other image recognition and image generation systems as well. Yeah, we're in really early days of, you know, what is appropriate and allowed and what isn't in legal cases in the past, text and data mining for AI is broadly covered under the fair use doctrine. So the major case on this was back in 2015. It was the case of authors Guild versus Google, and that involved digitizing copyrighted books. The Second Circuit Court ruled in Google's favor at the time, saying the digitization didn't constitute copyright infringement. Experts say, though this isn't a solid precedent, especially around AI generated work that may or may not be transformative. Keyword transformative, as far as copyrights go, the US Copyright Office will register trademarks on an original work of authorship provided that the work was created by a human being, which brings us back to step one. Human being creates AI, AI creates art, who gets the credit and who is going to be sued later on. Yeah, it's interesting. I was thinking about this because there is this gap right between Dolly 2 imagery that you create that, you know, was based on your input. Open AI says, go ahead, slap that in a t-shirt.  We're happy for you. You paid or you've given us whatever data that we can use to improve our system. We're happy with the arrangement, at least for now. But the lack of copyright there, I almost do think there is like a weird opening there where something like an NFT like mechanism might fill in that gap, right, because an NFT does not grant copyright. There's a two totally different separate mechanisms. I actually do think like that is one of the more potentially interesting use cases for something like this outside of the, you know, hideous NFT hype cycle. I do think that is interesting, but yeah, we're so early days with this and it doesn't seem based on this, again, really excellent piece and end gadget. It doesn't seem like a lot of people on either side are super anxious to get like a big, you know, precedent setting case based on this. And it seems like right now everyone's kind of OK with the status quo, at least when it comes to the AI image generation aspect of it. I know, like with some of the the book stuff and some of the other stuff that can get a little dicey. Yeah, so this is yeah, I'd love to know your thoughts. I know you're you're you're seeing a lot of this online. Yeah. So yeah, this is very icky territory here. This is deciding on monetization and so it just kind of makes me think, can this can't be can people let this run without the temptation of, OK, they've been making too much money on this stuff. We need our cut. You know, we see YouTube do this Facebook, Instagram. They'll let you run it for a while.  We need to get on this. So it's just a matter. Can they literally allow this to just be a thing? And, you know, people want to make money that make money. And the thing they're pushing is, hey, this AI can make money in other applications or maybe when they can get some of their money back. It's just can we leave it alone enough before someone comes in and just has to money to water, so to speak. And I don't know the answer to that question. I don't really either from and I I don't have Dali access yet. I asked for it and I just keep waiting. But a couple of my friends have gotten it and they they echo the sentiment that everybody seems to have is, oh, yeah, you can make really cool stuff, but your input is really important. It's not just like Lamar Wilson on a unicorn.  And let me be clear, I will sue. OK, if I see that image. Yeah, no, that would be that well within your rights. But there there's enough human input that at least all of the humans I know that are having a lot of fun playing around with this. Say, yeah, you kind of have to know what you're doing. And so that takes it again away from that sort of well, it's just AI.  They really are still that's exactly what this is. And and a lot and for most of these instances, these are images that was trained off of images that are scraped off the public facing Internet that you could have access to anyway. And it does. We know we are seeing this also in other avenues of AI generation, right? I'm thinking specifically of GitHub's co-pilot feature, which is like a code autocomplete service that they have now and is, I think, believe generally available now. And there's been a lot of kerfuffle about that of this was trained on open source code and the whole idea of open source code is if you depending on the term of the license, obviously the different licenses are different. But most of the time it's if you use it, like the work that you do on that has to then be contributed back. But if the if an AI is suggesting that you might not know that this code suggestion actually is from an open source repository and it gets interesting with with how that gets handled as well. So it's not just imagery, although that's the most fun one to share online as fun as it is to share code snippets on Twitter as well. Well, you may have thoughts on this. And I bet you do. If you're proud of our audience, you can join the conversation in our discord, which you can join by linking to a Patreon account at Patreon.com slash DTNS. All right, we are in the middle of earning season right now. Lot of lackluster earnings we've reported on already seems like a lot of the big social media companies been taken on the chin this last quarter. So we talked about Metta Snap and Twitter also had underwhelming earnings for a number of reasons. We've already talked about how social media companies are thinking of how to refashion themselves, trying to stay relevant, trying to be the cool kids again. But for the most part, a lot of platforms kind of stay the same because they were built a certain way and finding ways to get you to spend time on them is monetizing with ads. Yeah, and protocol Sarah Roche recently profiled a platform called Niche that's looking to change that focus. The niche was founded by Christopher Gulzinski and who is a Tinder co-founder, a formal bumble chief product officer, Facebook engineering manager and Zavin Nahan Pechen, another former engineering manager at Facebook. So, you know, these these two clearly know their way around managing and building social platforms, it would seem. But they position niche as a social content platform, focusing on creating communities around shared interests and identities with a very interesting spin on it. Yeah, so you might be saying, OK, how would this differentiate from something like a Discord server or a subreddit that are pretty focused, or at least they're supposed to be? Well, Niche wants members in these groups to have ownership over those networks. And if you think that a decentralized platform with stakes of ownerships sounds very web three, well, you're correct. The groups would be set up as decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs instead of monetizing with ads. Niche would charge transaction fees on any buying or selling of niche platforms on the platform. Yeah, so you can't check it out quite yet because I was I was interested to see how this would work in practice. It's currently in private beta and it's opening up applications for communities next week, starting August 1st. So, you know, right now it's it's mostly the the protocol piece that this was based on, you know, we we pulled for this was just talking with the creators about ideologically how they're going to separate themselves from that.  I do think that this the the idea of these DAOs and applying that to a focused social network, I don't know, in some ways, it almost it reminds me of like a Patreon that gives you a token and and and also a Discord server access. Right. I don't necessarily have a problem with that because I've a part of several Discord communities where I'm getting way better like utility out of an enjoyment from than any kind of engagement I'm getting on Instagram or Facebook or even Twitter to a large extent. So like I'm I'm interested to see how this will handle. I'm worried that this will turn into everyone's going to be trying to get on whatever the tokens are you have to buy into and trading them down the line. And then that becomes this. That's where the ickiness comes in right of the web three stuff. Right. I mean, I don't know if I think of it as icky. I think of it as something that I am struggling to understand. I know what it now is. We talk we talk about it fairly often on this here show. And at the same time, you know, when presented as sort of like, you know, NFTs that people buy and sell either want to participate or you don't. But there's there's a system set up. The idea that, OK, everyone understands the idea of a subreddit. In fact, we have a DTNS subreddit as well, where it's focused content that people submit and vote on based on the general understanding of what we all care about that appeals to me a lot as a social network, especially when you've got Facebook saying we're trying to compete with TikToks that we want you to just, you know, explore and, you know, find great, funny dog videos that you might not have found otherwise because you don't follow this person or this account. There is value to that. But that's that it seems like the antithesis of what Nisha is trying to do. Lamar, you know, I haven't been on the socials for some time. Does this strike you as a good idea? No. I am I am very I understand to a base degree, the Web three stuff, I'm less interested in that. I'm more interested in what the people think, like what's the social network fatigue of yet another place. And I know for myself, you know, I cross promote several different places and, you know, still trying to find out where is that where is that home that people really want to be and like I have a group of people who want me to create a Twitter community because I have access to that now where I can, you know, create a group kind of like a Facebook group, I guess, or think of the Google plus circles from back in the day where you just kind of have this group where we can all talk to each other and just feel part of something. And I think people I don't want to say people are going back to that. I think people are already doing this. Rich, you mentioned discord groups like Facebook groups. None of this has gone away, but I think the idea of do we need a yet another place to accomplish what we're already accomplishing? These things are right in front of us. But, you know, when we start talking about the Web three component and monetizing and find a way to make money, of course, people are going to want a different platform to accomplish it. I just think people themselves, regular, ordinary people are just socially social network fatigue. I mean, OK, so I was trying to think of what's the most obvious example of a niche topic that would work? I'm not a person who is interested in buying a Rolex watch because I don't have that kind of budget, but lots of people are. OK, so let's use that as like an obvious example. Maybe there's a niche community where you go, you know, I could kind of like fuss around on eBay or get it some other way. But this, you know, there's a little bit of a trust thing going on here. And what we're doing within this community, niche definitely can take a cut of. But we also are not just served ads as a way for a niche to make money. I can see where, again, in certain niche categories, this would work nicely. Yeah, I am a part of a film photography discord group that's tied to like a Patreon and it's very small. There's I don't know, maybe like 40 people or something like that on there. But like the fact that I know most of those people I've gotten to know most of those people who are all kind of strangers when it started up, it's a place that like, you know, we're we're chatting. We're sharing interesting links. We're, you know, asking for advice. There was like a classified section on there. And I could I could totally see all like this same mechanism with the added benefit of, OK, this whatever the tokenization mechanism of the Dow ends up being, OK, so I have a stake in this. I have an interest in making this a lot better and and and, you know, maybe self moderating or moderating other people. Like to me, it almost feels like old school kind of forum etiquette, where a lot of times you were paying for some sort of subscription to either get like ad free access to a forum or something like that. And just, you know, we're throwing it. It's decentralized. You own the community as opposed to you're paying a subscription. But to me, it all feels the same of I want this really tight and and just dedicated kind of space for for actual interaction. All right, let's move on to arachnophobia, shall we? Apologizing in advance, if you have that engineers at Rice University successfully completed a research project by transforming dead spiders, deceased spiders into robotic gripping claws. Yep, you heard that right. The research of net robotics, as the scientists have dubbed it, can create cheap and effective and biodegradable alternatives to current robotic systems. Not everybody loves a spider, but spiders are very interesting. You might not know that their legs contain a single flexor muscle. Each leg, you got eight of them that draws the leg inward and opposed by a chamber in the center of the spider's body known as a prosoma pushing out fluid to open the leg and separate valves, allowing the critter to control each limb independently. I am sorry if you were you've got, I don't know, hair standing up on the back of your neck kind of is mine as well. But back to the researchers, they were able to artificially operate this hydraulic system by sticking a needle into a dead spider's prosoma that's in the middle, pushing air in and then out to open and close the spider's legs like an arcade claw machine. No, I know, Lamar, I'm with you. I'm not a spider fan myself, but I mean, I learned more about spiders than I have in quite some time. Did not realize that their legs were able to act independently in this way and that once dead, you could sort of bring them back to life as robots. I could have gone my whole life without learning this, but thank you for that, Sarah. I just appreciate that the researchers came up with the term necrobotics or decided to use that as opposed to we shoved air into a dead spider as like a way to talk about it to their friends and family. Exactly. It is necrobotic. It's very interesting. I think this is this is like fascinating, but it's also like when I think of necrobotics, I'm like, oh, man, there's nanites in there and they're doing all this stuff. And this is just to like activate that same mechanism to contract and move the legs. I love how basic this is, but exciting as a field. It is for these researchers. That's that's kind of the cool thing. Yeah, it's good stuff. Listen, dead spider. What else are you going to do with it? Might as well bring it back to life and have it independent independently. You know, use its legs. No, I don't know. Stop it. I'm trying here. Oh, boy. All right. Well, Lamar, I'm sorry about the spider story, but, you know, it's it's it's for the good. I'm itching now. I know me too. I don't like spiders at all. In fact, there's probably a spider above me somewhere in this garage. There always is. But Lamar, let folks know where they can keep up what you've been doing since we saw you last. Yeah, so you can go to Lamar.tv. I am an unboxing person now and be looking into boxes for spiders now as I open them. So so thank you, Sarah. And so whatever network you want to follow me on, what are the social network? I'll put the same content everywhere. And I do have fun on Boxing's fun story times in the gaming technology pop culture field. So check me out if you like. Thanks. Thank you, Lamar. And thanks to our brand new boss, Krister, who just started backing us on Patreon. Thanks, Krister. Yeah, Krister. And remember, there is a longer version of this show called Good Day Internet. It's going to be starting in just a few seconds available at patreon.com slash DTNS. Just a reminder, we are live. We do the show live Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. Eastern, 20 hundred UTC. And you can find out more at dailytechnoshow.com slash live. We're back doing it all again tomorrow. Discussing DRM with Corey Doctro. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. 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