All right, big news out of Brazil. So over the weekend, large numbers of Brazilians basically rioted and then went into basically all three. As far as I can tell, again, hard to tell from all the news stories. But it went in and ransacked all three branches of government. They attacked the presidential palace. They attacked the parliament and the courts, and the Supreme Court, all in the city of Brasilia. In Brazil, Brasilia is the capital of Brazil. This was in response to claims by the right in Brazil, the pro Bolsonaro, the president, that the election was rigged, that the election was stolen, that Lula, the leftist president, is a corrupt gangster, which I actually agree he is, and the election was stolen. I'm skeptical about the case of stolen, but I'm no expert on Brazilian electoral politics. Anyway, there have been demonstrations ever since the election was held, large demonstrations in many of Brazil's cities. Over the last week or so, there has been a coordinated effort to rally people around and to get them to Brasilia. A part of the demonstrations, interestingly enough, and this is a big difference between Brazil and the United States, a big part of the demonstrations in Brazil have been centered around military bases, so military headquarters. So a lot of the demonstrations have been focused on trying to urge the Brazilian military to depose Lula and install Bolsonaro, or even a military regime, but anything, including a military coup, to get rid of Lula. Again, these are very large demonstrations. This is not a small portion of the Brazilian population. They are motivated and inspired, and it seems like well-funded. I find it interesting, and I don't think accidental, that all of this happened while Bolsonaro is out of the country. Bolsonaro himself is in Florida. He left on supposed vacation a few days before the inauguration of Lula, which happened I think on the 1st of January, and has been in Florida since, and as far as I can tell, staying in Florida. There are rumors, and again, I don't have any inside information, there are rumors that are indicating that he is afraid that if he returns to Brazil, he will be prosecuted and sent to jail, just like Lula was, we'll get to that in a minute, and that he might try to stay outside of Brazil while Lula is president. We'll see how successful he is. So the demonstrators are urging the military to get rid of Lula, and this is why they're demonstrating in front of military bases, in front of military headquarters. They were cleared out of all government offices yesterday, but they are still, I was just watching video, I assume it's real, it really is hard to tell about these things, but I assume it's real. They are still large demonstrations in Brasilia and potentially elsewhere in Brazil, all with the idea of, and I think this riot and breaking into government offices, all of this is intended, I think, this is my evaluation, all of this is intended to trigger the military to act, to trigger the military to actually engage and participate. Saio Amaral says on the chat, he says, we love America so much here in Brazil, we copy everything you do a few months, years later. I think there's some truth to that, but this is on a much larger scale than January 6th was, this is, I think, much better coordinated and but much better organized, and this is explicitly geared towards the military, explicitly geared towards getting the military involved and trying to induce the military to escalate this. Look, Lula himself, who is the president of Brazil right now, is a corrupt leftist, I don't think there's any question about this, he was a Marxist, he was president of Brazil before, he was ultimately prosecuted for fraud, I was in Brazil, I was in Brazil, and I can't remember the year, but I was in Brazil, and watched on Brazilian on a big screen at an event that I was at, I was speaking at a student event, and right after my speech finished, they put on a large screen, they projected the television onto a large screen just behind me, and on that screen, you could see Lula being arrested, literally being put in handcuffs and putting in the back of a police car. The audience and the thing erupted in tears, champagne was brought out, I mean, it was a massive celebration that Lula was going to jail. A few months later, Lula was released from jail by the Supreme Court. There's a lot of accusations about that this was corruption, this is an example of corruption, these are people who philosophically and politically aligned with Lula and released them from prison, and to everybody's, I guess nobody was really surprised, he ran again, and I think more than anything because of Bolsonaro's unpopularity, because Bolsonaro is so unpopular, I don't think the vote for Lula was primarily because people love Lula. I think what Bolsonaro lost was the middle class, the educated, but much of the middle class, I think was lost to Bolsonaro because Bolsonaro is such a, I mean, Bolsonaro is a mindless thug, you know, maybe on a lot of issues, he leaves people alone, at least he's not a leftist, and at least he's not, you know, he's a thug like I think Lula, but in the end, I think the middle class either didn't vote for Bolsonaro, they voted for Lula, and I think that's what really shifted, significantly shifted the tide towards Lula, not because people in Brazil love Lula, but people in Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. I think to a large extent, that power was the US, I don't think Biden won an election because anybody liked Biden, anybody respected Biden, anybody thought Biden's ideas were good ideas. I think people voted for Biden in a record turnout because they hated Trump and they despised Trump, and I think exactly, it's exactly the same in Brazil. I think people turned out to vote for Lula because they hated Bolsonaro. I think many other candidates could have beaten Lula. And indeed, what's interesting about Brazil, and what's interesting about Brazil, and this is different than what happened in the US, is that while Lula lost his political party, and many political parties who you would call classical liberal or conservative political parties that are on the right one parliament for the first time, when Bolsonaro initially got elected, he had a fight with parliament, he had a parliament that was opposed to much of what he represented, when Bolsonaro lost parliament, was swayed in his direction, and Lula is president now, and Lula is not gonna be able to get anything done because indeed the parliament, that Lula has working for him is dominated by people who oppose Lula. See, in Brazil, you've got divided government in both directions, when Bolsonaro won, it was against him, and now when Lula won, parliament is against him. So it's gonna be interesting what happens in Brazil. It's a little scary. I'm gonna be in Brazil soon, so hopefully all these demonstrations and everything are gone by then, and there's some resolution, some peaceful resolution. But there is a real possibility of a military coup, there is a real possibility of reprisals by the Lula regime against the Bolsonaro supporters, although I think that's relatively unlikely given the fact that Lula has to be very careful because the military doesn't like him, and his own parliament doesn't support him. So you've got a really, really sensitive and dangerous, I think, situation in Brazil right now. We'll keep watching it, I'll keep updating, and if I hear anything from my Brazilian friends, if I get any insight information that I think is worthwhile, I will pass it on to you. We have a lot of, it's interesting, that we have a lot of listeners to do on book show in Brazil, and I have, and as I said, I'm going to Brazil in March, at the end of March, so we might be able to get you some first-time information as well. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content, and of course, subscribe, press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. 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Today is day two of the summer scholars program and the kids are coming into our labs to actually work on projects with us and activities that we've prepared specifically for them. They're going into the operating room and observing surgery with some of our top surgeons. In parallel to that, the kids are learning how to program the robot, learning how to turn golf into science in our advanced golf simulator, and in the surgical skills lab, they're learning dissections and how the human anatomy works. They're being showed all of these skills by experts in their domain. They knocked it out of the park this morning on the robot. It's crazy how fast they're able to grasp moving the robot around. I don't know if it's just from playing video games a lot or what. They have a really intuitive understanding of how to move it through space and around the room and how to get the programming to work for it to perform the task that we have for them today. Nice, good job guys.


In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, Ukraine is facing a new reality. While the past decade has provided a supportive environment to sustain growth, transformations in the global economy make this environment increasingly uncertain and disruptive. To explore the way forward for the Ukrainian economy, the World Economic Forum engaged more than 300 experts and decision-makers in a strategic dialogue about future scenarios. Two factors loom large in this assessment. The quality of institutions within Ukraine and their capacity to support investments, innovation and the full potential of its educated workforce. Developments in the global economy and their effects on Ukraine's terms of trade and support for quick wins in the Ukrainian economy. Different developments of these factors formed the basis for three challenging scenarios. Unlocking the virtuous circle. A new social contract built on transparency, mutual trust and the emergence of a public service culture across Ukrainian institutions underpins transformational change in the economy. Widely supported reforms yield significant inflows of investments and deliver inclusive prosperity. Lost in stagnation. Stakeholders fail to find common ground on a strong forward-looking vision. The inability to implement deep reforms leaves the economy highly fragile. As the external environment continues to deteriorate, the country is stuck in a rapidly escalating downward spiral. Back to the future. Deteriorating global conditions demand decisive actions. This marks the return of big business working in hand with big government. Focus on new trade and investment opportunities initially reignites growth but societal tensions and lacking incentives for modernization constrain Ukraine's long-term development prospects. These scenarios describe possible characteristics of the way forward. They allow us to discuss strategic options and long-term plans for action. If we take this process forward, embrace change and collaborate effectively. Ukraine can transform itself into the economic success that it has always promised to become.


Hey everyone. Welcome to today's day trading recap. Today's Friday, October 9th. Hope everybody had a great week of trading. Plus $457.50 on the day. So a decent little green day. I actually gave a little bit back late in the morning. I was up closer to 1,000 at one point. But positive green day just as well. So let's talk about our mighty 91st book. $553 on our mighty 90 trades today.  So biggest winner today was Tesla.  But plus 553. And then for the week, plus 242 on our mighty 90 strategy. No pairs trades the last couple days. But for the week, booked $981.50 on our pairs trades.  Took a loss both on the mighty 90 and a runner. MU kind of had our number today. Nice winner in Shopify. Nice winner in Peloton. Winner in AMD. Small loser in Tesla.  So overall runners for the week plus 430. So for the day, like I said, plus force 5750 and for the week, plus $1,653.50. Let's take a look at the charts. I'll show you a little bit about what we did today. Let's start with MU, our loser. So when we had this MU started off strong and then had this big push lower coming into this pivot got a higher volume spike. And so we're looking for a bounce off this pivot and never got it just kind of kept going. So we just cut our losses pretty quick and took a little loss there. And then as the morning progressed, it just started really consolidating under this pivot. So I ended up taking a short looking for a continuation down and it just grinded higher ended up adding a little bit to it at this pivot started to roll over but then just grind continue to grind higher. And as you can see, it did the rest of the day. So ended up just getting out taking a loss on MU. Tesla my biggest winner. So really nice mighty 90 trade here had this big push higher as it was pulling back got a higher volume bar ended up getting in right here right around this area and then added to it right here as we got another push down and another higher volume and was able to ride that up for a nice winner actually just to about right there. So took a nice winner in Tesla. Let's see a couple others Shopify Shopify was a nice quick one Shopify is a pretty big stock right it's trading over $1000. And so ended up just getting in this with one contract to start I was going to add to it if I got the opportunity but as it pushed up started to consolidate if it came back down to the pivot I was going to add to it but just had one and so caught a nice little runner in Shopify for a few quick few handy Peloton another nice runner and actually this wasn't a run this was more of a walk but had this big push higher as it started to consolidate here got long for continuation and rode this thing basically all the way up to the pivot and and and took a nice profit at a Peloton AMD small profit on the short side it was weak all morning after I think got a downgrade so once it broke below this pivot as it bounced back up got short right here and just rode this thing down for a little nice little profit there Facebook it took a loss and then oil I took a loss let me look at oil for you oil was had an interesting move so this thing was kind of just consolidating all morning and then let me get this zoomed in for you consolidate and then it spiked up and and then it kind of pulled back and so I was just I just I picked a point right around here I was looking for a continuation higher after that after that spike but it ended up just flushing me out so just cut my losses pretty quick and took a little loser there but like I said for the day plus 457 50 for the week plus $1653.50 so green is good look forward to doing some more live trading with you all next week check out the live stream room I've got a calendar in there we are going to be doing something a little bit different going forward I'm going to I'm going to post some some different dates where we come on a little bit later in the morning so that we can stay a little bit later that way I can get in and get my my portfolio alerts done for our for our core income portfolio so keep your eyes on that calendar that's what we'll be where we will be posting the updated days and times and everybody have a great weekend look forward to some more trading next week cheers


This 2019 Ford Mustang GT Premium is stock number 11656Z-A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use sports car headquarters. This 2019 Ford Mustang has the 5-liter V8 engine, which pumps out 460 horsepower. This one has the 10-speed automatic transmission. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. Shadow black is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now, because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel, the lower right hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. 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Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am very pleased to be joined here in Geneva by Mr. Tarek Kamal, Senior Vice President and Advisor to the President at ICANN. Hello there. Hi. Thank you very much for joining us. So, what are ICANN's objectives in taking part in a WISIS Forum this year? I think we are very glad as ICANN really to be partnering with the ITU in this event. I have to congratulate the Secretary General, Mr. Holenzau and his team for the success of the WISIS Forum and the attendance that we have been witnessing here so far. Really multi-stakeholder international and global contribution from government civil society as well as business and academia. I think for ICANN very specifically it is an opportunity for engagement with different stakeholders as such on a global level. It's very useful for us to listen to those stakeholders and really to explain about the mission of ICANN and the technical role that ICANN really plays and have the right exchanges within our engagement opportunities. Very specifically this time we are coming with a message related to partnership in capacity building with a focus on developing countries and underserved regions. And we had a couple of panels that have been quite successful and vibrant via the participation of the stakeholders about this topic. So, what is the contribution that ICANN can make to the SDGs, the sustainable development goals? I think that the SDG became now really the global umbrella for development. They have been triggered by the UN and announced in late 2015, but meanwhile really they are overarching the activities of development in different sectors. For ICT very specifically and for ICANN's role I think within our limited technical mission that ICANN has we are contributing very actively with the promotion of the internationalized domain name or IDN. Domain names in Arabic, domain names in Cyrillic, domain names in Chinese and this is important to foster local content because as we know the internet is global but from a user's perspective as well it is very local because the user at the end wants to know about services, online services within his or her own languages that would benefit him. Municipality services or e-government services or education services or whatever. This can primarily happen in local content and if we look for the next billion users of the internet they are primarily coming from the developing countries as such. So this positions the local content on a higher priority and I think the internationalized domain name that ICANN really promotes can help and contribute in the development of that and ends in the success of the sustainable development goals. So what role can ICANN play in internet governance post the IANA transactions? I think this is a very interesting topic that you are addressing ICANN as a community has successfully completed the transition of the stewardship of the IANA services back in the first of October 2016. This process was unique by itself because it was a multi-stakeholder global process as such that has been running for around two years and where the oversight of the IANA transition went over from the stewardship of the US government to the stewardship of the global community. But with responsibilities there is also accountability and hence ICANN community is working now together with the board and ICANN organization on the development of the so-called empowerment, empowered community that would really keep ICANN more transparent, more accountable and our management and our CEO and the board are very keen to reach the maximum level of transparency and accountability specifically after the IANA transition and after we have a global stewardship from the community which is probably to a great extent a unique governance model. Mr. Tara Kamal, Senior Vice President and Advisor to the President at ICANN, thank you very much. Thank you for having me.


everybody so it's 11 o'clock 6 a.m. Sunday October 15th. Don't get excited I don't know why I know what day it is. We picked up a bag of yarn that was being given away on our local by nothing group it's in the back of the car. It's mostly odds and ends and acrylics and that's fine. I actually think I have and not in only enough yarn now with the giveaways and everything but enough variety of color to do some sort of scrap afghan so I think that's probably gonna be a thing. We dropped off at an Amazon return and now we're headed over to go for a drive and just get out of the house a little bit. We're gonna drive over to Milwaukee Oregon Pendleton Woollen Mills which is Oregon based has a outlet store in Milwaukee which I've never been to known about for a long time so we're gonna head over that way I don't know what else is over there but I guess we'll find out. We'll find out. So I'll be back. Coming out of the Portland Woollen Mill outlet store I like the store be careful what you buy there because it's part regular retail part outlet store that being said they did have Cascade yarns Cascade and they had some really great wool and they were buy three get one free and I have a project in mind that I needed some colors for anyway and so I was able to find them there so yeah they had some really great prices on offcuts of fabric I didn't buy any because I don't need it for anything they also had some of their clothing and bags and stuff which I mean I think the prices were the same as you find at the Pendleton store in the mall but they're beautiful don't get me wrong so anyway we're gonna go find some place to have lunch and I'll be back. Hey guys I would say good morning but it's already almost 1.30 Monday October 16th. I just got done editing the vlog and so as soon as that's done rendering we'll get it scheduled for Wednesday morning. I also am finally in months and months and months and months and months I'm not exactly sure how long I'm going to put some listings of merchandise in my Etsy store today so I'm gonna get that done there's a video coming out regarding said merchandise on Saturday so stay tuned don't forget to like share and subscribe turn on that notification bell so you don't miss it and because I think it's a really cool idea and I'm already using it for more than originally intended that's the only hint I'm gonna give you anyway while the computer is doing its thing I'm gonna do dishes one more time it's kind of the only thing I got done today besides video editing which I just did just a minute ago because it's just been Monday morning and yeah so yeah anyway I guess I better do the dishes and turn that on grabs more water a snack and get back upstairs I'll be back so we got most of the Halloween decorations up did we kind of just close our eyes and throw stuff in the yard maybe yes yeah kind of anyway I also got good progress on Mr. Sweater I think I have about two inches more to go before we can start sectioning off for the armholes and I got a pair of white linen blend pants I bought when we were in California that are I wear like a size 10 and they're like a size 24 so big they're gigantic anyway I sat and yeah together I took them apart today because I'm gonna remake them into some overalls and then I'm gonna dye the fabric gonna try to reuse the pockets that were already in the pants because I think that makes sense so I got that ripped apart sorted through the yarn I was gifted to via the buy nothing group and already have plans for a little bit of it so sorted it out into a project bag edited the vlog and I listed the project bags I just made in the Etsy shop the listing is live I only have six bags that's it and at the moment no plans of making more so there you have it yeah yeah all right we're gonna go get some steps in and then have lunch I mean dinner oh yeah yeah yeah and I'll be back morning everybody it's Wednesday October 18th I think 943 a.m. brakes are cold and squeaky anyway we are headed out to run errands normal Wednesday routine and I've got a few errands I need to run crafty errands regular errands stuff like that so anyway I have a project I'm planning in my head I'm waiting for parts to come in in the mail but there's a few things I need to go pick up at Joanne so I'm gonna go do that my hair is just doing it's in its own world this morning I don't know what to tell you but I have my one of my sweaters on I made I love this one and I love this pattern it was very easy to do and with the short sleeves it took less than a thousand yards of yarn it was like about eight or nine hundred yards for a medium and yeah love it I will link the pattern down below if I can find the link it's knit with no seams it's all I mean it crocheted with no seams all in the round anyway adopted son Brian's birthday is this weekend and so we are celebrating at our house we're having Korean barbecue dinner night and we are planning a thing Bob's ordered a couple gifts I need to go get a birthday card and a gift card so I think besides the crafty errands and checking the peel box I think I'm gonna go to Target I think should have everything else that I want watch now that I've said that they want we'll see alright let's go get it done and then when we get back we're gonna work on mr. sweater we're ready to start sectioning off for working on the decreases for the armhole and the neckline the front back and all that and I haven't done this pattern before so I need to focus and concentrate on what I'm doing make sure don't make any mistakes I don't think I filmed anything yesterday I was babysitting most of the day I did film a small clip which if you've watched this you already watched that of me doing some crocheting and here's a picture of what I made right right here so I was gifted via my local by nothing groups now by nothing is a fake our Facebook groups for your area they have different individual ones depending on where you live at least in the US I don't know if they're international anyway so my local groups I found some people giving away yarn which I was granted and there were was this ball of this golden yellow color and then this other ball of a slightly thicker weight yarn but both were bulky in a rainbow so I put the two of them together to make sort of a scrap beanie I did the top of it in cluster stitch and the bottom in half double crochet and it turned out really cute I just sort of winged it and yeah that was really fun not a huge hat wear which is funny because I keep making myself hats enough chatting let's go get it done I'll be back little chat while we're reading in a stoplight so I am gonna tell you guys actually before I even tell my husband so I was using a diaper bag for a knitting bag which actually worked out really well but I didn't care for the fabric it was like that slick plasticky water resisted fabric didn't like it so I ended up returning it to Amazon and the more I thought about it the more I thought I want a Mary Poppins style carpet bag and to get what I want I'm gonna have to make it and I don't know why I'm surprised I'm not surprised so I found a pattern online and then I went hunting for the metal frame that does the top of the bag and a tutorial for how to install set frame because I've never done that before and I ordered all the parts I needed I have some plain thick canvas duck cloth in my stash I have a piece of fabric that'll work great for the lining and I have some webbing for the handle that'll work great so I am going to need something for corner accents because I'm not actually doing it out of carpet and I actually need serger thread so we're going to pop in Joann's and see if they have something to work I could piece together some scraps for the corner accents I would really like to use like some wool or wool flannel we were at the Pendleton wool outlet store the other day and they had some wool I could have bought to use but it was really expensive and I can get it for it won't be Pendleton wool but it'll still be wool or a wool blend for like half the price here at Joann so without a coupon so I'm gonna do that instead and I'm gonna do a 16 inch bag and if that I'm gonna make that work but you could get the frame in a 20 inch frame and if I really like the bag will I make a bigger one maybe but that will be too heavy and I also have to start like not carrying every single pattern around with me because I don't really need to do that so yeah I'll bring you along in my crochet bag needlework bag journey but I think this is a good way to do a bag there's a million needlework bags out there but I really want something that is cute closes all the way I don't need it to have a million pockets for crochet hooks or knitting needles because I have a really cute case for those I just need a bag that I can dump stuff in and go and I think this is a good solution no big surprise yes he's gonna be one of those toddlers it can be newly falling over with their eyes have closed they're so tired and yet they're telling you no I'm not tired I don't want to go to sleep it's gonna be that one anyway yeah it's baby sitting day I'm gonna do some crocheting later as time will allow and I had a rough night last night I had a reaction to something I ate or drank yesterday so I'm taking it easy on myself today so yeah but I'm feeling better so anyway it's just life what can you say I'll be back I'll start a day like scrap granny square Afghan last night and I realize I want to do it in a less orderly way so I'm gonna be ripping the whole thing out and starting over again tonight so when I get to that point I'll share okay I don't think I vlog today but it is Friday October 20th I think and it is what time is it 401 p.m. kids are coming over for dinner in a bit we're celebrating adopted son Brian's birthday and we're gonna do Korean barbecue I've been crocheting all day working on my scrap yarn blanket but also mr. Bob's sweater I got everything done the collars on all the threads are hidden then only thing I have left to do is the sleeves so that'll be this weekend's project and I got the sewing pattern in for my dream crochet bag and I'm waiting for one other part to come in but I can start cutting and sewing that before the part comes in but the part I think it should be in tomorrow so since I have some free time a free day I'm gonna be making myself a crochet bag anyway I've got to set out the charcuterie we're ready with the birthday present we're gonna do Korean barbecue so it means we have to get the grill out clear off the table all the things for the things because of the things open the door probably and get some air in the house it is a little bit chilly outside but it's not too bad and it's gonna get colder starting tomorrow so I guess we should enjoy it while we can anyway it's been fun not having to go anywhere today and just being able to sit and sort of listen to mindless YouTube usually I listen to Reddit stories or I watch Mike Holmes if you don't know who he is he's a renovation guy or something like that while I'm crocheting or painting or something and yeah it was nice to be able to do that and I can't wait till my bag is done because I can get rid of the the pile the unsightly pile anyway alright I think that's it for the minute I'll be back okay you guys family dinner night is over everybody's just gone home it's 8 o'clock and that went really well happy birthday Brian adopted some Brian he has we had a great evening we're gonna be doing something again on Sunday with him but she doesn't know about and before they all got here my pattern for my dream crochet bag came in the mail and I can't wait I want to share it with you so I already cut it out even before they got here so I ordered the bohemian carpet bag pattern by so liberated there you go and already is cut out and I have some fabric that I bought I tried to buy in Virginia but I couldn't find when I was there and I found it when we got back and I don't think it's a pattern that's made anymore it's a Magnolia pattern by Michael Miller I think anyway I had just enough to do the lining of the bag and I was a little worried about that because the pattern says a yard and a third I only had a yard but I made it work so yay anyway we'll be putting that together as soon as I have some free time and I am waiting for the bag frame so I don't have that yet so anyway that's it for the minute I'll be back guys so Bob's out for a walk I am still having a few little digestive issues nothing serious but yeah anyway mostly I just wanted to stay here and work on my bag I didn't film anything I am hardly any of it because I just got in the zone and started making it I'm gonna clean up my mess and I'll share with you what I did and the pattern and it's good I didn't film it anyway the patterns not mine but I will show you and talk you through what I did if you're interested in making a custom bag like this I'm gonna share a video a couple video links but let me we'll go there but let me clean up my mess first cuz yeah things are a little messy I'll be back guys so my dream needlework bag crochet bag specifically needed to be cute and functional I don't need too many pockets I needed to be able to take it with me whether I'm flying or on a road trip or just driving two hours north to my dad's house and I needed it to close securely and hold everything I needed I had a diaper bag I was using and a diaper bag is a good option you probably can find one at the thrift but I know there's a million of them online and but I didn't like the fabric it was more like waterproof fabric now this one that I made I am going to probably scotch guarded I have some scotch guard downstairs but that shouldn't do anything to the feel of the fabric and sorry putting some something away and so that should work out just fine but I use the as I said before the so liberated bohemian bag pattern and it was fairly easy to use other than other than putting the metal tubular frame in which there is a video tutorial I saw that they're using a totally different pattern but she shows in detail how to put the tubular frame in and that without that video I would never have figured it out so I'll link that video down below go show her channel some love I decided to also add a zipper so before I before we get there so for the corners in the pattern it has like leather on the corners I decided to get this plaid and this is like a wool or a brushed cotton kind of feels like wool I told you my art room is a mess there's thread everywhere and I love this and I love the colors it coordinates with the natural canvas I already had I did put some stiffener in here in between the layers I already had that I already had the strapping so and it's the same color as a canvas so that worked and on the inside I have this cotton that was inspired I said already by our trip to Virginia and I love the colors in it and I wanted this plaid because it kind of coordinates with the colors of the Magnolia I know changes to the pattern I didn't put any feet on the bottom although it does have instructions for doing that wasn't too careful about lining up my seams you know it's not too bad I made my pocket here a little longer so it can fit my cell phone which we're filming on so I can't show you and my wallet and then it has a zipper so if I am taking this say on an airplane or I'm running over to a yarn shop I can just shove my wallet and my car keys and my phone in there and then zip it up and we're good to go I also added on the inside a pock some pockets on the inside to the inside lining and of course a label very proud of this project so I put a label before I sewed the to the casing for the tubular frame I put a zipper on here so that I can not only close it but I can ensure like if I'm on a plane and it's under the seat in front of me that that suckers close I could have made it stiffer so that it doesn't do that but I you know I don't care I left the ends of the zippers out and I just covered them with some of this same coordinating fabric and there are also instructions for creating a foam board for like the bottom of the bag now I had a scrap piece of MDF I just covered that in fabric that works fine I have to also stop carrying every single pattern I have with me because number one the bag gets heavy number two I don't need to do that so I am gonna need one extra binder for storing patterns but I took one of the binders it has the patterns I'm currently working on in it we will seal it shut with an elastic band now I do use my patterns I like printed patterns at some point I could see me maybe sitting and creating a digital file of patterns but that's a lot of work and remember I'm the lazy crafter so kind of doubt it anyway so we're gonna take this and put this in here there's so much room in here this is my tool bag so this has my crochet hook scissors all my little notions so that's gonna go in here so much room you guys amazing okay I have two projects I'm working on one is a sweater for Bob and the yarn for that project and miscellaneous notes are in here one is a granny square afghan yarn is in here here's the project you guys here's Bob sweater I always have a couple balls of sock yarn in my bag and I have a sweater I want to make for myself that's pretty full and I probably that's probably too much but you guys it holds it all and it's not too heavy holy cow Anna can zip it all the way shut guys how cute is that I mean just carry it upstairs I can care put it in the car I love it I absolutely love it so that is that it's my extra sock yarn I have an extra project bag I may actually put that in here and then if I finish something I can put it in here or if I acquire yarn or something wrong on the trip I don't know anyway again there's probably too much stuff in here but the moment that's as pared down as I can make it but I love this bag it's a great size it's big enough but it doesn't limit me and it's forgot some notes and notions hold on okay you guys I love it my custom-made knitting and crochet and or crochet bag now you can buy a carpet bag like this this size smaller bigger but they run about 300 bucks this cost me about $20 for the pattern was about $18 for the metal frame and this fabric was $14 what else did I have to buy anything else for it no I had everything else so even if you had to buy everything you could probably make it for about a hundred dollars or less that's a lot cheaper than $300 and you could thrift the materials you could if you haven't joined your local buy-nothing group if you're in the US I don't know if they're international or not but if you're in the US and you have a local buy-nothing group or a free cycle or kajiji or like whatever there's always people giving things away for free especially arts and crafts stuff and sewing and knitting stuff because somebody's mom's passed away and nobody in the family does that craft anymore so look around and see what you can use I am very very pleased my dream bag I should have done this to begin with anyway that's it for this minute I'm gonna go downstairs now and relax I have to do laundry that's not really relaxing but anyway my bag is done I might scotch guard it tomorrow we'll see and yeah that's it for now I'll be back Bob's paused the movie that he's watching so I'll close the vlog now I'm gonna take the opportunity for there to be no noise I am so happy with my bag I did decide to scotch guard it I've put two coats on it and it is drying right now in the laundry room and I will load reload it with all my stuff tomorrow I love the way it turned out kind of want to know if I should make another one I shouldn't but it was fun to make anyway it's been a good week and you know as usual I'm just following my creative instincts and wherever that journey wants to lead me and you know sometimes it leads me to places I expect and sometimes it doesn't you know it is what it is right tomorrow we're gonna drive to Wilsonville and do some stuff with the kids but that's for next week's vlog anyway I hope you guys have had a great week I hope that your creative music has given you some fun interesting inspiration or ways to go to experiment and try new things and if you have the instinct to do something but you're not sure just try it anyway what's the worst that could happen all right that's it for this week leave questions comments or concerns down below don't forget to like share and subscribe maybe turn on that bell notification the bell icon down there for notifications on new videos and all of the relevant links are going to be in the video description including my patreon and all that stuff if you want to support the free content and yeah go out have a great day have a great week do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'm gonna work on my scrap blanket see you next week bye guys


Well, it's everybody Jason here for jazby's case breaks calm. We just sold out 1920 panini eminence basketball Random hit number 14. This is a case break and again if we sold this out tonight and you bought a full spot straight up tonight We were gonna give away a thousand dollars in break credit and we sold it out and every single spot was bought straight up guys So everybody that bought into this is gonna have a chance to win back up to a thousand dollars in break credit So the way this works guys is of course, it's a random hip break For the break first, we will open up the case showcase the ten hits Then we'll come back over here roll the dice randomize the customer names and the ten list of hits here that we type in Then whatever you match up is what you get and then of course like I said the thousand dollar giveaway If you buy a full spot on this break you get entered to win a thousand dollars If this break sold out by the end of the stream tonight, which it did Everyone who bought a full spot will get randomized and then top two names win five hundred dollars each in break credit to our website So we'll have this list of customer names here. We'll copy and paste it So Ryan got the first four Sonny got three J got one Brian got one and then Sonny got the last one in last spot mojo So all of these spots will have a chance to win that break credit We'll do that little after the break is over And let's rip some eminence you love this Ryan would you trade Your case of 0506 for a case of this How much is 0506 case now Six box case that is and you can buy two cases you still wouldn't trade it get double the value For a case like this on ebay on fee bay. I don't think it's worth 45 But yeah, I also don't think it's worth 18 anymore either. It's probably doubled Probably like 25 30,000 now I had to take a guess Yeah Well, if you decide to break it open and nothing comes out then I still say that Dust here we break until I mean I'm on until at least 10 o'clock Pacific so 1 a.m. Easter But again, there's been plenty of times where we're so busy that I stay and break until we get done with breaks But if it dies down by 10 o'clock, which is a 1 a.m. Easter Then we call it a night And we come back and break tomorrow same time two to ten, but for the most part I Will stay as long as we're breaking stuff All right, you guys the showcase of hits good luck first one Larry bird optimum Autographs diamond nine out of ten. I think it will Bradley because it hasn't hasn't been out for a couple years and with a rookie class As a Ryan's mentioning it's pretty strong We got a Bill Russell Nine out of ten one Troy ounce of fine fine silver About a little Allen Iverson eight out of ten try on to fine fine silver and the auto The answer his stuff has been shooting up lately And people are realizing how great he was when he played back in the day very strong very nice on the back over here Anthony Davis one out of five gold Autograph there you go Bradley. Good luck, man. Congrats Remember that was a good week last one here at the top is a Zion Williamson, what a beautiful patch one two three four color patch and the autograph Seven out of ten That is one of the better patches you're gonna see Got there right there through the numbering Four color patch guys. That is beautiful color match the jersey photo, too Very nice. This is just letting you know that the diamond guarantees are very generic Put them in all the products they give you diamonds in Five more down here All right, let's continue on we got a duck Dirk Novitzky six out of ten nice three color patch and the autograph Looks like he like probably wrote a different number and he's like no, I'm 41 There you go six out of ten We got a Dennis Rodman nine out of ten 1996 NBA champs fine silver and autograph the worm We got a Brandon Clark one out of five nice two color patch right there And autograph Brandon Clark and I would have been crazy. That was a genre, right? whoa How about a pat riley jerry west 1972 NBA champs and that is a three out of five that is nice That's beautiful. Good one for a leaker fan right there Yeah, pat riley. You could totally see his face right there Like obviously he's much older now, but that's sick right there Three out of five Last but not least Jersey number seven out of ten gilded graph autographs Kevin Durant Just pounded on the uh, the war is yesterday. I believe I think it was yesterday, right? Yeah, they played the war is yesterday Jersey number seven out of ten kevin Durant Do you guys also see his like agency? Signed that one card that kobi gifted him to make a one-on-one duel Of him and kobi that was pretty sweet And then he was finally signing a ton of cards that the upcoming products. I believe soon All right, you guys, let me quickly just move this case out of the way There you go. Those are the 10 hits Right there quick little recap So we got kevin Durant seven out of 10 jersey number one of one ebay 101. I should say NBA champs pat riley Five out of three with dual autograph of jerry, right jerry, not jerry, right jerry west brennan clark one out of five patch autograph I know timbaland was with like dishawn wants it wasn't he that's funny Uh, denis robbin. He should have bought them when they were like 10 grand last year or less than that But again, i'm sure he probably didn't even know of it back then so But what's 45 thousand to timbaland? Three color patch there of dirk six out of ten We got a zion four color patch and autograph seven out of ten anthony davis one out of five the answer ai Troy ounce autograph eight out of ten We got bill russell trojan's mvp nine out of ten And diamond autograph, uh, larry burr nine out of ten So i'm gonna quickly pause the video guys I'm gonna input these uh list of hits into the randomizer Then we'll come back randomize customer names and hits and see what everyone matches up with All right, you guys welcome back. So here we go. Here's the dice roller Here's the list of customer names and the hit so again the first hit that came out was larry burr diamond autograph nine out of ten bill russell mvp trojans nine out of ten alan iverson trojans autograph eight out of ten anthony davis gold autograph one out of five We have the zion williamson rookie patch autograph seven out of ten, which is a four color patch A dirk patch auto six out of ten denise rodman trojan's autograph nine out of ten Got a brandon clark rookie patch auto One out of five the jerry west pat rally dual autograph 1972 mba champs three out of uh Three out of five i should say sorry not three out of six Three out of five and then of course the kevin durant gilded graphs autograph seven out of ten, which is a jersey number So there you go guys. Good luck. Let's roll the dice. We're randomize both lists Uh five and a three eight times so again, whatever you match up with after eight times is what you get for the break five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight All right eight times five and a three eight times Ryan down to sunny. All right, let's go five and three eight times eight times All right. Good luck guys one two three four five six seven And eighth and final time after eight times Don't want to see it Eight times larry bird at the top down to kevin durant jersey number Eight eight. Oh Wow, some of these didn't really even change in this dice roller at the end of it, right? Eight. That was an eight. All right Alrighty, so ryan you have the larry bird diamond auto nine out of ten sunny with the bill russell mvp Trojan's nine out of ten ryan with the dirk patch auto six out of ten that one actually moved Um, alan iverson trojan's autograph eight out of ten for you ryan sunny with the denis robin trojan's autograph nine out of ten brian frank you have the anthony davis gold auto one out of five And ryan congratulations, man zion wilson rookie patch auto seven out of ten four color patch Nice man. I think I hit you that a five not too long ago. So there you go, man sunny with the jerry west pat riley dual autograph mba champs 1972 three out of five that was a beauty congrats jay with the brian and clark ricky patch autograph one out of five And sunny with the kevin diran gildagrass autograph seven out of ten jersey number So congratulations guys. So all the winners, of course, you guys are all guaranteed something very nice hits So now let's quickly step over here. Here's a dice. Remember if everybody that bought a spot straight up gets a chance at a thousand dollars two codes of 500 each Let's get a new dice roll here. Here's a list of the original customer names Let's roll and it is a four and a five for nine times. Good luck top two get 500 bucks back each one two three four five six seven eight nine and Splitting them up. I think ryan and sonny got four spots each.  So I'll send that out to you right now. Appreciate you guys jaspy's casebreaks.com


Alright everybody, here's Chris, Ali, Alien, about weaponizing cyber psychology. Alright, thanks for turning up. We're going to try a little something first, so if it fails, then it fails. We can just have some audio. I always wanted to do that, and public enemy couldn't make it. Well, I didn't actually ask them. We discussed this in the bar. Actually, the point of this, I'm digressing already, and I promise I wouldn't, is that if you like that kind of music, then that probably says you're sort of bold, energetic, very confident, maybe a bit brash, something like that. And if you fall into the category that doesn't like that, well, you know, it kind of depends whatever sorts of music you like. But that's kind of the point of our talk here today. It's around weaponizing cyber psychology, subverting cyber vetting, and really about a Facebook piece of research we did, looking at what your Facebook activity says about your personality traits. So there's three of us here talking today from a small fledgling volunteer organization called the Online Privacy Foundation. It's myself, Ali, an alien, who I'll introduce as we're going along. So some of you may have seen my talk here at DEF CON last year. My name's Chris Sumner, also known as Suggy, from when I was about eight years old, and on Twitter I've got the unfortunate handle that I wish I never had now of the Sugmeister. But I can't really change it. Although I've now got like almost a two-year-old boy, and when he gets a bit older, he's probably going to say, dad, you've got to change that.  So we're going to talk about, well I'm going to talk, start us off with a quick introduction to personality trait theory.  Then going to introduce us to our little Facebook experiment that we put together, our research project called the Big Five Experiment. Then going to bring Allie to the stage, who's going to talk about what she did with our statistics, all of the data from that experiment. And then we're going to get into what the title of the slide is really, you know, weaponizing cyber psychology. Work please. Okay, weaponizing cyber psychology. And that's sort of the uses and abuses that you can do if you're using this sort of information for decisions. And finally look at subverting or evading folks that might be trying to use personality derived through Facebook activity against you. So starting with personality 101, I'll give a quick intro as to how I got into psychology and personality in the first place. You see, like a lot of you guys, I was at university doing computer science. And if your university was similar to mine, there were a lot of people that looked a lot like this on your course. And I know before anyone says it, gee, Chris, where'd they get that nice photo of you? I actually probably didn't even look as good as that. So it occurred to me when I was at university, I learned one very important thing doing computer science is that if you want to meet chicks, then you need to be doing something like psychology or art or fashion or something like that. But actually there's something wrong with this picture. That's better. Hot chicks with hot pizza. Brilliant. But something curious happened doing psychology. I went on to do psychology at like adult education after I'd graduated from computer science. And it actually turned into a bunch of people that looked exactly like this except older, including me. And another curious thing happened is I didn't meet any girls, but I really enjoyed the subject. So I digress. As a starter for 10, if we look at psychology in terms of personality traits, it really started in Greece as just about everything seems to, with this dude called Theothraptus. And I dare anyone to try and say that at 11 o'clock in the morning, a long time ago, and what he was doing, he was going to parties that looked a lot like this in Greece. Because they also curiously invented the laser. So some awesome tunes banged there. And he was observing people and really looking at what drove some people to behave differently to others. So there's a whole train of personality traits, stuff that goes from there through all sorts of philosophers. But if we fast forward a bit to kind of the grandfather, if you like, of personality traits, it's this dude called Carl Jung. And the book on the right hand side there is really sort of a seminal piece on psychological types. That was the title of the book actually. And what he did is he looked at grouping people into certain traits. Obviously the Greeks had done that and his was kind of an extension from what the Greeks have done. I'm not going to talk about his work too much other than that he strongly influenced these two who were called Myers Briggs. So actually it's a mother and daughter team, Catherine and Isabelle. And they were fascinated by Jung's work and looked at how they could apply that in a sort of a practical manner. So they developed really a kind of a questionnaire, if you like, of like putting people into certain characteristic slots. So you don't need to know too much about what I'm about to share. But if you just leave here thinking, okay, these are the traits, I can go and read up about them later and that's kind of fine. So they grouped people into introverts and extroverts. They also split those people into censors and intuitors and into folks who are judges, perceivers and thinkers and feelers. So they got this kind of matrix going on, which you could also look at like this. And this is one of the major criticisms of Myers Briggs, which some of you may have been exposed to in your organizations, corporations, is that it tends to pigeonhole people if it's used incorrectly. So it can be used not incorrectly, but a lot of corporate types especially tend to really misinterpret how to use Myers Briggs and end up categorizing people. So for an example, if we look at just introverts and extroverts, which most people are kind of aware about anyway, you've got this neat graph where you've got introverts and extroverts across a spectrum with people high in introversion to the left-hand side and people high in extroversion to the right-hand side. What Myers Briggs does if it's used incorrectly is it kind of splits those right down the middle. So either introvert or extrovert, it doesn't make any real account for those people who are kind of in the middle. Further, it can change over your lifetime. And I think there was a study that basically cited something like 24 to 40% of people change personality types in Myers Briggs. But it's not to be dismissive of Myers Briggs, it's just to say that it can and has been used wrongly quite a lot. So when we conducted this experiment, we looked at something called the Five Factor Model, also called Ocean. And it's called Ocean because it looks at personality traits like openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism. So let me just explain briefly what those things are so that you'll know what we're talking about when we look at the data. So this is the crazy scientist from Back to the Future.  If you don't know who this is, it's the Stepford Wives. They're unlikely to do anything wild and wacky and they're probably the sort of people that go into restaurants and order the same stuff every time they go rather than trying something new. The next trait is conscientiousness, these overachieving, timekeeping people that seem to plague my life. Or you could look at it as the Robocop dimension, part man, part machine or cop. Robocop is task focused. If you need anything doing, Robocop is probably your man in contrast to Uncle Buck. Uncle Buck is kind of a scatty sort of dude. Actually he kind of comes good in the movie so we could argue that it's not the greatest thing but I kind of like John Candy so I wanted to put that in.  And the same could be said about this dude as well as on my personal hero is Ferris Bueller who represents extroversion, he's incredibly energetic, social outgoing, really the life and soul of a party. And I think in contrast to Milton from the office, the office space, my apologies, who's probably more interested in staying in and shining his stapler, that's not a euphemism, then going to parties. I didn't do that in the dry run actually. Then we've got agreeableness and I chose Forrest Gump because Forrest Gump is kind and considerate, very trusting individual. I mean there's not many people that run back into the jungle to pick up Bubba but Forrest you could, he's kind of kind, sympathetic sort of dude that would do that and then go and see his folks in contrast to Gordon Gekko who is low in agreeableness, greed is good and that is something that also we see and we talk a little bit more about in relation to CEOs and what have you. Then the final dimension that we're looking at really is neuroticism, this is Woody Allen, he's sort of an anxious, fretting, worrying sort of dude in contrast to another personal hero. It's the dude from the Big Lebowski and I share something with him is my love of white Russians but he's not going to get easily ruffled, that's for sure. Where are we kind of going with this? Well the Myers-Briggs, these people here love Myers-Briggs and most of them or a lot of them, I don't have too much empirical evidence on how many of them actually know what they're talking about but a lot of them don't but they think that they do. Not only that, they use that for pre-employment screening. There's a lot of research out there about how many personality tests use in pre-employment screening and what have you. Now what we're beginning to see is the introduction of something called cyber vetting. Okay, so what we've seen are companies like this that are cropping up, social intelligence, HR, that will actually look at what's called your net rep or online reputation to see whether you're a suitable candidate for a role. Actually I started off being really skeptical about this organisation but the more I looked at it, I think the more they do a pretty decent job at what they're doing. I'd sooner have these guys looking at my online behaviour than having some untrained corporate person trying to do that for them because they seem to regulate themselves a lot better. Anyway, I digress further. I was flying to Austin in Texas last year and I found myself at the self-help section, the airport, the self-help in the bookshop at the airport. Is that just me or what? Anyway, how to improve your life and be on time for stuff. I picked up this book by a gentleman called Sam Gosling and he wrote a book called Snoop and it's about what your stuff says about you, how your rooms and your spaces, what that really says about you. For example, if you've got a messy bedroom, for example, you're probably low in conscientiousness but just because it's neat doesn't mean you're high in conscientiousness. What we'd really have to do is see that being repeated time and time again. You might tidy up your room in some mad spring clean but then it gets messy again after a few days. That doesn't mean you're high in conscientiousness but in his book he alluded to a growing of research around social media and personality traits and that's what kind of spied some inspiration and also got me kind of worried because you've got personality tests that are used in corporate vetting, pigeonhole people if you like. You've got corporate types that love to use it but really pretty clueless for a lot of them. You've got an explosion in social media and now you've got cyber vetting coming up.  Now people can tell who I am without actually meeting me which was a bit of a concern. A friend of mine who I saw co-founded the online privacy foundation with we're in the pub having a beer and discussing this actually we ended up having a few beers and we came up with let's do this Facebook. We can do this on Facebook. It would be a good opportunity to learn how to use Facebook and we came up with the Big Five experiment as a Facebook application that we used that took in as actually over 150 data points made up of 74 Facebook data points which was to our knowledge the largest study of its kind and we also used something called linguistic inquiry and word count which looks at not just the points but the type of language that you're using in your Facebook activity, your comments, your photo descriptions, your profile and what have you. If you're new to this, this is a UK election and they analysed linguistics from the speakers and you ended up here with this chap Nick Clegg who it says is the most vague so there you can see linguistics being used in I guess a practical context. Now we had a bit of a problem with our application because we wanted to grab quite a bit of data. Here is the application that you probably all love to hate. It's called Farmville if you can't see it at the back and this is what it asks for and that's what we asked for and we asked people to trust us to handle their information appropriately so we had a bit of an uphill battle but we were kind of able to work beyond that through successfully marketing and building trust and we ended up with a relatively good sample set. However, it turns out my drunken mate and myself, actually I shouldn't have said that, didn't have enough information to know what to do with statistics so we managed to recruit statistics ninja although she doesn't like that phrase so I'd like to welcome Ali B to the podium please. Big hand for Ali B. Hello everyone I am the resident stats expert with the team and what I'm going to do for the next 15 minutes or so is talk you through a little bit about what we did with the data that we had, some of the decisions we made about what to do with that data, talk you through the results that we found and also try and apply this to what it actually means in the real world. So the first thing we had to do we did this, we had all this data on your Facebook activity and your personality type and so we needed to come up with some hypotheses as to what we thought the data would show us so our null hypothesis was that there'd be absolutely no relationship between these two things and our alternative hypothesis was that there would be a correlation or relationship between your personality and your online activity and so the data really we had to get it to show one or the other so what I did next just to familiarize myself with the data I looked at some of the demographics so we've got the country of registration where people lived when they registered for Facebook so as you can see the vast majority of our participants were from Great Britain and now the United States which probably reflects our exposure in those countries where we flied, where we advertised and where we could get word of mouth going really. This doesn't actually reflect the Facebook split I believe the top four countries are the United States, Indonesia, India and Great Britain in that order so it's not exactly representative but this is what we got. In terms of age and sex just over two-thirds of our participants were female which again is not really reflective of the Facebook population because that's more 50-50 split albeit slightly in favor of the females but this two-to-one ratio has also been found in other studies to do with online personality testing so perhaps it represents a tendency in females to be more likely to respond to this kind of study. In terms of age groups that's pretty much representative of the online Facebook population so at least we know in terms of age groups a good break-up of the data.  A lot of what I'm going to talk about in the next few minutes is to do with the normal distribution and standard deviations so apologies if you already know this but if you don't know it I'm not going to make sense to you in the next few minutes. So the normal distribution is a pattern of the distribution of data that follows this bell-shaped curve and one of the characteristics of a normal distribution is that the mean median and mode the three measures of an average are all the same value that's this central white line right in the middle so a normal distribution is actually perfectly symmetrical and a second point is we use a measure called the standard deviation to measure the spread of the information across that bell curve and a normal distribution has a property such that 68% of all the values in that distribution fall within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% will fall within two standard deviations and just over 99% will fall within three standard deviations and you can see that illustrated here with the different gradient shades of blue. So after figuring out who was in our sample I then had to take a look at the actual results the actual data that we got and figure out how to analyse that. If you're interested I used this statistical package SPSS to do all my analysis and firstly I used SPSS to create measures of the mean, median, standard deviation minimum maximum values and also two measures called skewness and kurtosis which are measures of the actual shape of the data and then I also created histograms of that data to make sure I could really fully visualise what the data looked like. So here's an example. This is the number of posts our sample made in February 2001 and as you can see here it's a highly skewed distribution it's absolutely no way this is normally distributed as opposed to this distribution which is the personal pronouns that people use in their Facebook posts and as you can see this kind of has the potential to satisfy a normal distribution but we're not quite sure so we need to do some further tests to find out whether it can be reasonably assumed that it satisfies a normal distribution. So I used SPSS again to calculate Komagrov Smirnov tests of normality which tests the data to see if it can be reasonably assumed that it fits a normal distribution. Unfortunately with the tests I performed it showed that none of our data points could be considered to be normally distributed so that was a bit of a bummer but why is this important? Why am I banging on about distributions and normally shaped distributions? Because when you're doing a correlation analysis there are two main different types of analysis that can use one of them is the Pearson's test and one of them is the Spearman's test now Pearson's is better we like Pearson's because it looks at the actual magnitude and or difference between two data points whereas Spearman just has a rank value so it's just first, second and third regardless of the difference between them so we really want to use Pearson's but the only problem with that is we can only use Pearson's test on data that is normally distributed and that has a linear relationship between two variables so it was a bit of a bummer that none of our variables were normally distributed but we do have an exception to the rule in the central limit theorem which states that with sufficiently large sample sizes all samples tend towards the normal distribution so if we wanted to we could use that as a get out of jail free card and go ahead and use the Pearson's test but I ended up not doing that and there are three main reasons for this firstly our Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of normality showed that none of our data was normally distributed so that kind of reinforced the non-normal nature of them secondly we don't know anything about the underlying population so for example I have no idea about the distribution of neuroticism amongst Facebook users and I'm pretty sure no one else really does either so if the underlying population isn't normally distributed I'm not really comfortable in saying that the sample we took was normally distributed and third and finally with sufficiently large sample sizes and we had a sample of 537 which in statistical terms is pretty good so with sufficiently large sample sizes the Spearman's test is only slightly less powerful than the Pearson's so in this case I would rather have aired on the side of caution and get results that we can actually count on rather than risk using an inappropriate statistical test so our study was a correlation analysis looking at big 5 personality traits and our Facebook activity now one thing it's really important to remember with correlational studies is that correlation does not necessarily mean causation for example there is a very high correlation between ice cream sales and shark attacks but it doesn't mean that eating ice cream is going to make you get eaten by a shark it means there's a third variable there the weather or the temperature that we haven't measured which affects both of those things and also there's not there could only be one extra variable or there could be two extra variables or three extra variables you can't measure everything so you can't assume that just because there's a correlation between two things so that's the reason for the increase so I'm going to talk you a little bit through our results now the statistically significant results of our study indicated that people with higher levels of openness tended to use words more to do with negative emotions and anger and they'd also be more open to talking about potentially taboo subjects like money, religion and death they'd also write more about themselves in their bios and they'd give a lot more information about their hobbies and their interests opposed to that people with lower levels of openness tend to use shorter sentences and talk a lot less about their family people with higher levels of conscientiousness tended to be older, they'd use proper words dictionary words and they'd talk a lot more about their family and use language about centered around positive emotion and inclusion conversely people with higher levels of conscientiousness tended to talk a lot more about death tended to swear a lot more and tended to use a lot of angry words and words to do with negative emotion people with high levels of extraversion tended to have a lot more friends on Facebook they tended to post a lot more photos and a lot more comments and they used words to do with friends and friendships and used a lot more words to do with positive emotion and ascent and conversely they had a lot less books listed on their Facebook page in terms of agreeableness our results showed that people with higher levels of agreeableness use a lot longer sentences but they also use non-fluencies like ear or arm so that could account for the longer sentences they also tend to be older, they'd have more friends on Facebook and again they'd post a lot more photos and comments and we actually found no negative correlations with agreeableness at all in terms of neuroticism people who scored highly in neuroticism tended to post a lot more photo albums they tended to have a lot longer posts and they'd swear more they'd use words to do with negative emotion including anxiety, anger and sadness and again we found no negative correlations with neuroticism so I've talked a lot about stats and statistical significance and what you probably really want to know is so what what does this actually mean in the real world but unfortunately to explain this I do have to go back to the stats so calculating a correlation analysis in SPSS looks like this so this is what I get and this is what's called the p-value and this refers to our hypothesis so to remind you our null hypothesis said that there was no relationship whatsoever between personality and your Facebook's activity and our alternative hypothesis stated that there is a relationship there whatever that relationship might be so the p-value states that if the null hypothesis is true if there is no relationship between these variables the p-value is the probability that we can obtain a result at least as extreme as the one we found in our study so basically it's the probability that the null hypothesis is correct so if it's how it if it's as small as it is here it's less than 0.001% so we can reasonably say that it's so unlikely that there's no relationship there we can just discount the null hypothesis and accept that there is a relationship there but all that tells us is the probability we've made the right decision but it doesn't tell us anything about what that relationship is or how strong that relationship is so to figure this out we need to look at this value which is the r-value or the correlation coefficient now in statistical analysis what you really want is the value as close to 1 or as close to minus 1 as you can possibly get because this indicates a really strong relationship so already intuitively you can see here although it's highly statistically significant the number itself is only 0.24 which you can already tell it's maybe not that strong so what we need to do with this value is square it and that'll give us our correlation, our coefficient of determination which is the percentage of variance or fluctuation in one variable that can be explained by the other variable so if we square this number you get approximately 0.05 and that translates to 5% so 5% of a person's extra version can be determined by how many friends they have on Facebook so in a nutshell statistical significance indicates that we're valid in stating there is a relationship there but it doesn't indicate the strength of that relationship and a result can be statistically significant but can only explain a very small amount of variance in the data and that's me done so with that I shall hand back to Chris so Ali explained this to me again in a bar and I was like well I can see your lips moving but I just can't understand the word you just said so we applied it to a Vega strategy and basically what we're saying is that the results will give you an edge not a massive edge or stated another way if you want to make an educated bet and a highlighted bet then you'd be crazy to bet against those odds so you know the point is that yeah it does show a relationship but of what practical significance is there and that was I guess one of the titles we looked at for the talk but since it was DEF CON it was like ah practical significance who's going to turn up let's call it weaponizing so one of the things we've looked at once you can determine or have an educated guess about people's personality traits so there are studies for example that show links or correlations between people with high openness and their susceptibility to online marketing in fact on the plane over here there was a guy I was chatting to who was talking about the use of color in images to get certain demographics clicking on particular links so that was pretty interesting but there are studies that show this so if you're an advertiser and the consequences aren't so bad then determining people who have got higher openness you may want to target your ads at them more than people who have got lower openness and if you want to see something pretty neat if you go to wefeelfine.org you can see this used in kind of a sentiment analysis of people's blogs and tweets and stuff like that and it's really pretty neat and it's worth going to have a look at it for but as we have discussions in pubs kind of turned to looking at well what could you do with online dating so for example if you are looking at a potential mate's Facebook page you may be able to determine whether there's a slight chance that they may be slightly more high maintenance for example or somewhat more promiscuous in fact there's a book that Sam Gosling references in his book Snoop called The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis where the central character of that kind of adapts his personality and what have you to get the girl so this could you know this could work well in theory until you actually try and apply it and actually meet the person in real life there's a kind of dating rule that's well known is that you can only really date between plus or minus two of your potential match unless you've got something to trade with like a large bank account status or something like that so unfortunately in this case you you're not going to get too far but if you don't intend to meet them and you're conducting say a romance scam for example then it could be quite useful to you because you're not using your own picture anyway so looking at this we're also okay well what other studies are there that are out there whatever information is out there and now agreeableness is associated with gullibility as well so let's say you're conducting some social engineering maybe you're using your favorite tool for trawling a wide range of social network profiles maybe Montego if anyone sort of taught last year it might be useful to know who the people who are more agreeable in a group are and target them first because they're likely to be somewhat more gullible than the others and I guess the key point is remember that this is a bet it doesn't mean they are going to be more agreeable it means that you've got a slight edge just selecting people at random so in terms of social engineering it's a useful tool for a social engineer's toolkit I guess unless you're Kevin Mitnick and you know it's kind of hard wired into you so I don't know if anyone saw I guess you all did the HB Gary stuff earlier this year well there was a lot of articles written about that and this term came up sock puppets I've never really heard of before but it's essentially the practice of having fake personas lots of fake personas on social network sites and having them do all sorts of you know fun things and to really explain what some of those fun things are here's something I really recommend going and checking out on Google is by a guy called Tim Huang who conducted a competition called social bots 2011 where they had teams kind of like capture the flag going basically controlling these sock puppets that they've created on Twitter and going after unsuspecting Twitter users trying to make them do things they wouldn't ordinarily do and they'd score points for that it's a five minute video and it's well worth checking out so I guess I'll be doing that that next year too so with that I'm going to introduce Alien out of the podium to talk about subverting and evading so hi there as you can see I'm Ergun I co-run Defcon London with Major Malfunction I also run 44con a thing that's happening in London later this year so why did I get involved well really subverting and evading you know as examples manipulation are really quite interesting I've done it using in social engineering on a couple of jobs and when I saw that the press were starting to get involved and they come up with crash statements like this that are just wrong I start to worry not just the Washington Post ABC were at it as well if they're coming to this conclusion that you can use Facebook as a personality test you've seen from Alice Data it gives you a slight edge but you really cannot rely on it so if they're looking at things like openness one thing that's linked to openness is drug use so you're going for an interview they think you're open they're going to put you in the pocket of the possible drug use as well that's just not right the other issue is that they go into a bit more detail it's not just openness you end up with narcissism psychopathy and macinavagery vanuatism which are known as the dark triad now if you've got the CEO of a company these are the traits of a CEO this is why you're not CEOs guys you're just too open you're just too open so you want to subvert this so the first thing is you've got to know your enemy you start trying to play with your personality types willy-nilly and it could get a bit messy so there's one really quite easy thing you could do just don't do social networking I mean it's not hard right now you think this would be a common thing but I actually only know a few people that aren't really involved with social networking and one of them is actually on Twitter which they don't class as social networking and the other one is on LinkedIn so you know the Facebook for businessman it also leads to trouble you generally link your online activity to your job real life activities if you play the job of say one email address for friends and one email address for family that's great until you marry someone that was a friend and they use the wrong email address when replying to your mother it's tricky to separate your life and I'm one example of this I've used the online Nick Alien since 1982 I'm running a conference in the press release we want businessman at the conference do you think alien? No so next year if you look on the Defcon helping thing I'm probably the only goon there using my Nick next year I'll be using my real name so you want a dick with this subverting this personality thing let's play with language so we were drinking some Guinness stuff and I said well we all know how good Google translators and Babel Fish let's translate our data that's going into the social networking side wrap it through a few languages and pop it out again because that leads to gobbledygook well it did work but a swear word in English actually when you translate it is still a swear word in French and part of the lexical analysis was looking at swear words in all languages so we're screwed but just don't bother so tweaking your personality you can link desirable personality traits to a particular type of job so you've got openness here that is quite a large range of acceptable values I think you've got extrovertism that's actually a much narrower range now this is great but how do you know what to say that would influence these values and with a bit more Guinness we actually came up with this how about if we wrote an app that you put your status message that you want to actually do you then tweak the sliders so I want this really open or really extrovertism and then we pop out the status message afterwards now that would be really cool so if you're going to go away and write this negative comments please there's the license and second we need a copy because we've got to give it to Ali because we've actually got to work out whether your correlation of this data is correct and as you've seen that's not necessarily trivial so the last possible thing that we could really think of is let's play with some pills psychotrophics great fun a lot of research has happened in Russia and not so much in the western world except for things like prozac the problem with something like prozac is your base level that you start at is very variable because prozac is thrown out like smart is it seems so you're not going to end up with a nice correlated set of results and Ali will chew your ass so yeah forget it and it's now back to Chris thank you so it gets wrapped up here that's the area there of looking at mental health in particular and the correlations to facebook activity is something that has not had as far as I can tell any research and I think would be a very interesting project to work through so where are we kind of going with this well here's the thing that really concerned me is that you're on social networks you know maybe you are in college your digital stuff lasts forever I know if I had my pictures and activity from facebook when I was 18 I probably wouldn't be in employment now and it doesn't get spent it's always there so if people are going to be trawling that then we've got a problem especially if they're going to be trawling that and jumping to incorrect conclusions so what we're not saying is that there is no link here between facebook and personality what we're hoping the message is is that yes there is a link but don't use it on its own for basing critical decisions so you know we thought about it very briefly what can you do here is okay cyber vetting you could probably apply some regulatory control and we all know how well PCI has worked so I'm not sure that that would work particularly well in cyber vetting plus if I'm told don't go and take a look at somebody's social media profile or online reputation as a manager I just say okay I won't and then I'll go and do it anyway I'm not a manager but the kind of thing it could have what would appeal for folks though is really to embrace people's differences you know the edges where the really cool stuff happens so you know kind of being a bit more open to people's differences and the final thing I guess for you guys really is that where you see these statistics in the newspapers saying that facebook can reveal your personality question and challenge what it says because those articles stem from a piece of research that did not say that this can be used in this context the newspapers grasped onto that so question and challenge everything where you see statistics so we've looked at an intro to personality hopefully very briefly we told you about our facebook app Ali told you about statistics and blew my mind we talked about briefly you know how you can use that information for good and for bad possibly we talked about how you might hide it you know hide from it and then we talked about kind of what you can do so this really kind of concludes our talk almost just want to bring alien to the podium for one final comment before we wrap up okay so this one's kind of personal you've probably heard about barcode he's got a pretty nasty disease his bone marrow is screwed it's killing his red blood cells he's having he's basically living on transfusions so if you're a US citizen your last chance to give blood is 1900 today please please do it the second thing is again if you're a US citizen please go to the contest area and get tested for your bone marrow because that's the only hope of really curing what he's got the reason we can't do it by the way is us Brits have all got mad cow disease so don't ping him with emails twitter etc look at barcodestatus.tumblr.com and if all this isn't a good enough reason to do it so damn well do it thank you thanks very much