Hella black episode 74.   I'm sorry.  I never seen it.  It took us 74 episodes to well not they didn't take us 74 episodes This is episode 74, but the elevation has been exponential like you said Yeah, if you listen to the first episode second episode I'm gonna get sound like we was recording. I don't know Somebody say oh, so we got a podcast some of the podcast be sounding like you'd be recording on the moon Yeah, we gotta do sir in the corner over there the director's chair You know, it's get your merch.   We ain't talking about no cream nigga because cream make that coffee Not as strong Great great similar or a metaphor for integration When you integrate Nice welcome quote Hella black episode 74 you feel me shout out to all the niggas watching on YouTube main you feel me rocking Great video content coming.     Patreon don't cancel black art and black content and black labor for free. Nah, pay up You know, you know what bro?  Whether it's our one-year hiatus from actually recording the podcast whether it's getting back on the patreon tip and going hard with that or Now it being the video It's over this video shit is about to I can't wait to y'all see you know By the time this is out y'all have already seen the first episode 73 which has video it's about telling y'all is he this is the This is the moment of change for us. This is where we make the shift my nigga.  So I'm proud of the work. We put in you feel me not to say that productivity is With folks should be striving shit, you know, if we folks should be striving for right now, not to say that that's the mark of Whatever success or the cold success, especially during the pandemic is but I think you and I have taken advantage of our schedules and we've taken advantage of our schedules And the little bit of free time that we do have as a result of the shelter in place and you know, this is a result of it quality content Via hella black pot. Yes, Lord So as always without further ado drum roll, please Black joy breast sometimes, you know, we was talking about just a second ago. I'm like Yeah, I had joy, but was it hella joyous bread because I'd be depressed sometimes and sometimes it's like, yeah It was for show like centered in rooted in an experience of joy and like trying to create that intentional space to You know chill and not have just have a good time type shit, you know, I was watching a Old episode. I think was like episode 37. It was it was the episode that we did on video and I ended up watching far enough to to to see or to listen to the black joy moment on it and and for me on that episode I was talking about when I when I had flew to New York and Got a chance to link with my sister and with my uncle or some of my cousins and I think while black joy on hella black has become somewhat just like Yeah, and I think Something that we just kind of do and don't really think about and I think what I'm gonna try to do now With what black joy is I'm gonna try to like immerse myself in the moment that I'm talking about so I can actually feel the joy again That's something I've been trying to practice in therapy right because when I was able to talk when I heard myself talking about You know seeing my sister going to breakfast with my sister and see my nephew for the first time and going out to dinner Well, my aunt uncle and my cousins that shit filled me up I'm like wait So this was I like this wasn't just something I was just talking about in Pat And I don't think that's and I think that's the norm for the black joy segment Niggas really talking about something that brought them some joy But even my body like I was talking like my voice sounded really like I was happy But my body language wasn't really there so I'm like all right like I was talking about it But I wasn't immersed in myself until it really trying to like bring yourself back to that experience You know back into the moments because niggas do that with anxiety niggas are able to if you if you So I think yeah, what you were saying it's important I'm actually take that in my own life We should do that those moments of joy like alright, how did you feel type shit? Not even like I know therapy should be like, you know when I'm trying to like Understand my own anxiety and where it's coming from I try to map it map it to a situation that happened map it to What happened earlier? Maybe it was to you know, some childhood trauma type of situation you feel me So you can definitely do the same thing with your joy. Yeah, all right.  Yeah, so To throw that out there and I hope what our listeners, you know when we say You know share your black joy moments niggas really mean that share with us You can share with if whatever community you got, you know, and I think when you do that Really take the time to practice feeling how you felt in that joyous moment like in the present when you're sharing it with Somebody or if you just thinking about it with to yourself That's some game right there.   Why people just what they dogs run wherever but Sorry besides the fact Joy was hiking Getting out in the sun you feel me good company and in a while how I Don't know what it is cuz like niggas have you know you talk about going to the spot for at least a decade now but I Get the same feeling every time I go up there. Yeah Maybe that's why I keep going back But also it was like I used to associate that trail with stress too because we have used to have to run it for When I was playing rugby, yeah, so I'm like, all right, you know, it's like that stress mode of thinking about our yeah I'm back in this season, you know niggas is competing for a time and shit, you know So I had to remove that certain aspect from the trail and like almost refined it again You feel me like yeah develop a different sense of meaning because I'm not running up it in 12 minutes. Like I used to It's just not gonna happen, you know, so really having to read We figure out like how it works best for me, bro, and it's for those in the Bay Area who are from excuse me familiar with the trail he's talking about Strawberry cane, which is right behind Memorial Stadium. Is it still called Memorial Stadium? Yeah, they call it could ban for a second they can ban I think well, yeah behind the football stadium at UC Berkeley. It's a trail that a lot of folks like to hike it's I've been going probably like once a week now since the shelter in place and every time I go up there.   It's like wait, this is you know, birds are still chirping bugs It's still flying slugs are still slugging just existing. There is no goal, but to walk Yeah Like that's and just to see beauty to walk in it and and indulge in the beauty like that's the only goal bro, it's just wild you feel me it's like, you know, we in west Oakland right now and then You can literally see west Oakland from up there and it's just like two different realities, bro It's like you go up there and the the air is clean It just smells so much more pure and then you go down back here, you know concrete jungle whatever you want to call it, you know what I'm saying and it's different The air isn't good. You know, so it's good to I think that's one of the lucky reasons you feel me We have being able to live out here too.  Yeah Yeah, what about your back joy? Um I met with a mentor of mine earlier today In his name is Miko and it's wild because he's a mentor of mine probably my I don't know what For the least probably my mentor for the least amount of time as in comparison to all my other mentors, right? Like when I think about my older cousins my uncles or like folks that I've known since I was a child that have like, you know Help mown me and whatnot coaches. Um, I met Miko in 2016 and I'm we linked up today It's like I could count on both hands how many times I've probably seen him in real life I'm saying but when I think about how many times I've seen him, you know face-to-face in person Yeah, um When I think about the impact that he's had on me It's like I've known him my whole life and it's probably because we just met at a pivotal time in my life. You know what I'm saying? Um, I feel like yeah, I was turning Yeah, like four years ago when I met him, um and We met today and we just we when we get together. We just be talking and He really likes to listen.  But like he literally just likes to listen. Um And it's something that I highly appreciate about him and he listens with intention and Uh, we were talking today And he just asked me how I was doing this shit and like throughout the conversation he just like I can't remember what exactly he said Or what the context of the conversation was to lead to him saying this but I can remember how it made me feel And he just told me like no matter what he always gonna be proud of me And I don't know why today that resonated with me where I got people telling me they're proud of me all the time But it's like when I'm accomplishing something, you know, I'm saying or like just be like the general like Like I ain't this shit feel me like That he know of in the last you know, I'm saying since the last time we talked was just like Two or three weeks ago when I seen him in passing, right? But for him to just ask me how I'm doing and rush to talk and he's just like I want to let you know I'm always be proud of you no matter what um and I think On the podcast a lot we talk about You know being valued for what we do and You know people loving you for what you can contribute to their lives or You know how how successful you have been and that's just that's been a lot of that's caused a lot of stress for me it's like always have to Do something Whether I'm producing something or whether I'm providing Providing for people like that just puts a lot of pressure on me. You know what I'm saying?  Like For sure. Like I'm feeling it right now.  That's what I said So yeah, shout out Miko That was my black joy brought to me by a non-black person Wow Would you look at that?  I would love to share some black joy like Yeah, drop it on the patreon. You feel me drop those comments.  You feel me will Retweet it.  Share your moments.  You feel me? I think that's just important as always, but especially You know times like this but Yes, sir We got a good episode store today per usual Oh, yeah, that's what they say this So might be better than others. Yeah, it was funny though I was thinking about that one episode that just never made it out. It came up in my We was in new york too on and then you know I kind of remember what you talked about, but I also don't yeah, we'll talk about that off All right, remember my was there Actually, we should probably not That was the one episode. I don't know why But when I was trying to find a file it came up. I was I should still the files are still What this means, but we still have good episodes, but we try to be intentional That's I think niggas have grown as podcasters, too Like we don't be drinking no more on the pod because niggas have grown comfortable like, you know, just Getting together. Yeah And just speaking because I was watching the episode like I said I was watching other episode I'm like why like I was talking and you would just take a sip of patron like every two minutes. I'm like, wait, wait, wait This is what we was doing.  Yeah, we still drink, you know, I still might have a call I mean, we still drink on the pot, but we were a bit like by 45 minutes in we would definitely be drunk Yeah, but I also think that was a product of nigga. Like we was also super. I mean, we still is super busy but That was at a time when niggas will get off work And like catch Bart nigga, we would be so anxious and stressed out from trying to make this happen We will actually have to drink or we would the power wasn't what happened because we'd have to dammit Like reset from what we was just doing like niggas will come from a five o'clock meeting hop on Bart and have to make it to You know, you'd ready or some should have 530 To record and then you only have an hour recording song type situation So you got to get out everything you do and you have to be like literally like you walk in the door Sit in the chair hit record.  We got this ice setup nigga.  I'm happy. It's a blessing, bro. And I just You know, I think I'm just a blessed, bro Like we're blessed, bro.  Yeah, I was deaf So We got a good episode More of the story nigga. We got a good episode coming Yeah, this The conversation we're gonna have today stems from Some thinking that I've been doing over the last like month or so as a result of Me trying to check myself on my politics And then more recently a conversation that I had yesterday. So we're gonna be diving into political education outside of The academy and outside of organizing spaces I don't know if twitter is like separate. I think twitter is like maybe a combination of both of those things But also something separate at the same time. Yeah, I mean it's for show like there's a certain subset to twitter. That's like You know, twitter is organizing space and it's an academy. It's a digital type of organizing space It's a place where niggas is using these words that are you know, usually being learned from the academy you know what I'm saying, it's like Intellectual space in some ways I would say right.  You feel me niggas ain't really going in to teach Some people aren't even going in to learn type of situation. Yeah, what I'm hoping comes from this conversation is that you know, both you and I Can call one another in and like raise the bar on what our standard is For political education. Yeah, and also that yeah folks can do like our listeners can do the same and realize like I think It's so easy to get caught up. I've fallen victim to this too. It's so easy to get caught up in You know, what you are doing that you don't think about what you're not doing You know, I'm saying I think so some of us get so caught up when we are doing that we start to Think that we're closer to the politics that we preach that we really are Just because we do memorize the theory like the back of our hands or we doing like, you know some really good work not to decal not to you know downplay the work that we do but You know, I just think there's Opportunities for moral growth and I have a recent example which lets me know that there is opportunity for growth, right?  I realized that I was like failing this nigga as someone that's supposed to be politically educating him you feel me like we have he's in very close proximity to me and he's still Like he didn't really understand what misogyny man.  Like it's so easy for us to like oh We radical we radicalizing the minds of people that already have access to some of the information that we talk about right? It's like what pbo we could be like I think it's a usually joining pbo with some type of some type of baseline understanding You know I'm saying and not just a baseline understanding with also Another community outside of what we have that outside of pbo That's kind of already touching on some of the things that we talk about whether that's the families that they come from Whether that's a lot of a lot of our volunteers are in college I'm saying so it's like whether that's the family they coming from the communities at the end via the academy You know I'm saying so like it's easy for us to be like Are we doing hella good work with hella black which again? I'm not about to downplay that should we do I think hella black is dope. I think pbo is dope, but like as Like nigga, we're not touching the hood as as as effectively and that's known by Niggas that we know my cousin your friend not having a clear understanding of what misogyny is Feel me. I know we and I think I know we do the podcast and that's the form political education. We send it to niggas. We post it, but If And I just trying to figure out like so what does that look like for us now?   And I remember, you know having that conversation starting to have it in He's like, bro. I don't Everyone is calling me a misogynist. I don't even know what the word is meant and no one has even explained it to me So and there I'm like damn bro Like I failed too because like we haven't even had that conversation on even with the word misogyny means Our misogynists like niggas don't even know what the word is So it's like and then if you just which I understand if you're just coming at a nigga, right?  So it's like you have to break down that what it actually means to him and right and put that labor in You know what I mean? So it's like it's this weird Situation where it's like this behavior or like what happened isn't good, right? But how do we have those conversations? You know what I'm saying because it's like if we are trying to Address the harm that was caused we have to look at it from all angles You know what I mean? Like all right. Why does this person understand it? Now? How do we? You know simplify it and make it understandable Yeah, because I mean I'm thinking about the situation you talking about and it's a very nuanced situation because Like a what like, you know you talking about women come into you, right? Like it's not her It's not her it's honestly not her job to be like I'm about to explain misogyny to this nigga Like she's the victim in the situation. You know I'm saying and But as a result of that like you see some of the discourse on twitter niggas, but I ain't teaching you go go google like That you feel me and that's why I like but I think that's where niggas like that's supposed to come in, right?  You know i'm saying because definitely I mean there's And that's the conversation folks don't want to have You know, I got and I I get it, but I do think we live in a time where people just be so quick to Just write people to write people off and I a lot actually was starting to wear off on me like even the way that I engaged That I that I engage with Folks and I'm like calling them out or calling them in it's like It's we can't use the same exact language that What you're using, you know what I mean? Like we're hip to social justice language nigga like we're hip to the academy And I think yeah, but we shouldn't be using that type of language You feel me to like look down on niggas in a sense not even looking down on them, but it's like Brett a lot of that shit isn't that isn't that accessible.  Oh, yeah, I agree and it's not even just the language, right I think it's also like you know how You know, like I'll be a sounding board and I'm gonna sound the word right like I think by The work that we do and how we try to align and support I don't I'm I had a conversation with that nigga yesterday and we were talking about um You know, maybe possibly removing like ally and solidarity from You know our vocabulary and that's a whole another situation, right?  I had a point. This is why I was gonna write it down But then you stop talking and I was like, oh, okay.  So It's not even about the length. Oh, here we go. It's not even just about the language It's about also how you come with it because I think sometimes I'll talk to you know Like black black woman.   It's kind of productive.  You feel me and was indoctrinated into these colonial belief systems, bro so we're talking about years of indoctrination into patriarchy years of Uh, indoctrination into internalized anti-blackness colorism, right? Classism, right? We're talking about years of that. So it's like it's gonna take some time for us to re-educate our own people and We have to do that period.   Because I guarantee you if you're trying to get your point across like that is going to be a problem bro, I'm like And that's that's what it is, bro. Like you can't just go like I can't you know I might peep something about hey, you feel me like bro. You ain't got to say it like that, bro You got to think about this, bro. You know what I'm saying, but if you go like Fighter fight That situation, bro either the niggas gonna turn their mind completely off And it's something I had to learn as a you know as an educator too like in the classroom, bro It's like I can't I'm having students coming at age 18 age 17 You feel me just getting like a lot of them is just getting politicized to blackness You feel me?  Where was I when I was 18, bro? You know what I mean?  You think it's about you. You know, it's like, bro It's a process a little colonized minds my nigga.  Like all those things is a product of this colonial violence, right? So we have to have those conversations and Realistically all the niggas who is like Critiquing other niggas all the time, bro. So you got some work to do too.    It's like no, it's like, bro. We just have to have a accessible conversation You know what I mean?  You know gonna phd from Santa Cruz. You see Santa Cruz like Niggas can grow. It's just like are you giving people the space to grow? Are you actually creating A space where you can talk about those things, bro And you have to approach it from different angles, bro. It has to be different angles You can't just by I just read this book like yeah Read the book and then let's talk about this book Which will came up for you. You know what I mean? And by no by no Admission are we saying like like I just want folks to understand I'm not saying that like victims need to be patient Not saying like the folks that are trying to align themselves again We're like solidarity and allyship of the victims, right? So like for men It's important that men check other men. I don't think I I I just need to change my patience Yeah, definitely. I need to change my patience and I think when it comes to Radicalizing the minds of niggas in the ghetto. We fell in like yeah That's what like niggas don't want to have that conversation about how we literally fell in the minds of the ghetto Our niggas have created these situations where again, they about Creating echo chambers and being around like-minded people will have you thinking you your impact is greater than it actually is like period start start changing niggas who you feel me like If we talk like niggas if we say all of us or none of us niggas we was talking about Talking about the niggas in the trenches.  It's like, oh, we're gonna forget about the hood niggas.  They're gonna be the niggas need to bust them straps I didn't see like I've been organizing spaces niggas.  This is the bar But allowing folks to not live up to that bar 24 7 bruh fix like how like you realize like this is the bar Right niggas, but oh y'all niggas ain't never outside y'all don't be in the trenches y'all do it, but Like that's clearly the bar and we still allow niggas to function into into and to be thought leaders That don't do no work in it I just It don't make no sense to me like that's contradictory as fuck. Yeah I mean I think and We live in a time where all this shit is contradictions to be honest bruh in terms of organizing breasts like you don't really have no Very few organizations that is actually in the trenches quote-unquote Or actually talking with people like that, bro.  You're doing something wrong niggas Because the hood is still the epicenter of all the of all the movement all this violence Is where the violence is happening and it's where niggas is it's where niggas is getting shot Mike brown shot in the hood You feel me Oscar grand shot in the hood.   It's wild house. So how you not gonna engage with that, bruh If you and it's I think and then niggas think the hood don't know what the hood needs to bruh That's what it is bruh and some ways bruh. It's like niggas back. Oh, we know these theories, bro You need to use these theories. I'm like, bro. A lot of these niggas is using these theories, bro You just don't know what they saying, bruh because you don't speak the language of the people, bruh You speak a whole different type of language Niggas is talking about intersectionality, bruh. They just might not have said matrix of domination That's that's period, bruh niggas is talking about you feel me self-defense niggas might not say the word self-defense So I think these buzzwords that have become you know, so popular on twitter Then you know, so popular in the academy. It's like bruh You feel me it's like that the way that is explained isn't the same the way niggas is going to explain it, bruh You know what I mean? Like I think that's that's the problem in itself what I was just thinking is it's wild how like You know like because we talk about this is where the violence has happened, right? In in who lives across america, right? And when the violence initially happens like the folks that are That are mostly impacted right that community They tend to be the faces and the voices of Of of the movement that's that's taking place until the movement becomes profitable Like you see it there You see the pictures of the of the the hundreds of names that of faces that you can't put names to because they're not the ones That's on the podium. You hear the voices at the at the rows. You hear the chance You hear the cries But those aren't the voices that are propelled like they were able to put their bodies and lives on the line But they don't get to And if we look at what happened in fergusson It was hood niggas niggas it was street niggas who was fighting for my brown niggas But who was the voice who became the voices from fergusson duray niggas not even from fergusson shan king Black lives matter. We don't even shan king's birth certificate niggas. His both his parents are white.  But niggas when the bag is associated with it, bruh that co-opted You feel me and then that's what we see is like all these talking heads of this movement, bruh look at that resume, bruh These niggas is a resume activist. Look at that motherfucking resume They heads of nonprofits The heads of these quote-unquote movement that nonprofits, right? They're doing these speaking deals. They're doing these book deals But what community are they from? What community claims them?    It's important to check ourselves. Yeah, but also like these This is what we're also like I guess up against in some ways because if we're talking about activism and organizing we know that it's looking a certain type of way In some ways in the movement or in organizing You know what i'm saying like But those spaces usually are spaces of privilege You know, even though you have marginalized identities in those spaces, right?  You feel me? It's like So it's it's it can be hard not to fall victim, but that's literally the you know Space we're in where niggas is judging every single word you put out Yeah, and putting their own understanding of what you think not even asking the question You feel me and trying to gain more understanding, but oh this nigga said this one thing Like we in that type of Whether we like it or not nigga, that's just that's what's going on on the internet in some ways or black twitter, but You know black twitter ain't real life, bruh You know what I mean? It really is not It's and that's bro more time we spend out and nigga we outside with it So it's like that's where we're able to be checked But imagine if niggas ain't outside like we we can go tweet whatever we want And then go walk to where we're doing our program and it's a different reality You know what i'm saying like you have to Move different and you know what i mean? Yeah And I'm telling you I was I was falling victim to that shit as I was like I have to developing a file I have to the quote on quote developing a following you know starting to engage on twitter where I'm just like Yeah, you start to just assume because everybody preaching the same politics that the practices are looking the same and not just that you also start to like Uphold whatever standard is the norm In the organizing sector of twitter as you know Whatever that standard is you start to think that that's the norm that that's what's right And I realized like man a lot of these niggas ain't like I'm telling you I don't even you feel me wouldn't even be knowing what a lot of niggas is doing You know I'm saying because again twitter is a place where we can craft our You know bits and pieces of our lives, which is why It's able for us to for me to think that like for me to fall victim to my own thinking of I'm out here being super effective as a political educator not again I think we're doing great work. It's just what I do think niggas are failing niggas can grow You feel me we could do a better job of radicalizing The hood and the niggas that we around them that That are from these places. You feel me like you just do a better job period it's a common so I think I think the other part of that is because I don't know something that I was thinking was all right I want to be patient But what does it mean to be like I think there's a difference between being patient and complicit with stuff, right? And then I was talking to Ian. I think it was like bro. You always going to be complicit. You got to just understand that um But I think I don't know if you have any thoughts to provide on Like when do you go from being patient with someone to like I don't know if I guess complicit is the word but also just Like because in terms like when you talk you talk about who you but that nigga wanted to learn wanted to be better Now you can try to educate up somebody as much as you want and they just it take two There's some people who don't want it Who are you know just so Egotistical and caught up in their ways that niggas don't want to change some of them niggas There ain't no changing them. You're just going to have to deal with them Like an op would like you would an op you feel me, but so like it's in some ways But I think people yeah, and like I think that's that's something that you Like the umars nigga. There ain't no changing that nigga.  It's like, okay So what does that look like when I show brother?  That's like Again, I've I've just been realizing like people like to talk a lot about things But it's like what is that going to look like in practice? So I think you're like that that theory is easy to push that. All right, everybody can't come But it's like what is that going to look like? And it's something that's just been lost in the conversations facts I mean, I think it looks like constantly trying to educate niggas, you know what I mean? And then like you have to approach it like as an educator nigga like You can't treat every student the same because not every student is the same, bro You know, you have to approach it in different ways. You might have to my heart. What's one thing you got in common with somebody? You know what I mean? Like outside of politics and what's one thing you income? All right, you build off of that. All right. So have you thought about this or you find out what a nigga like Like all right, yeah, you like this. Okay. Well, you hear about that. What happened, you know You can use this different situations to start Having those conversations.  Okay, yeah, but what are these other things that is showing up?     Like I think it's Especially when I started getting into this work is like some of my siblings didn't really approve of it But like didn't really understand it You know, but it's like five years later.    Oh, yeah, this is like The way that you the way that political education as a theory is talked about online In an organized space well, well, you could just tell you just tell that niggas aren't actually doing political education Because if you actually are educating niggas, you know, it don't work that way, bro I remember one time I had a student. He came in his first year.  Like I get it. I understand it He ain't gonna be a cop no more. You know what I mean?  Yeah a disclaimer that I want to put out is I'm again I'm not acting. I'm not asking victims to be patient with motherfuckers because there's a time like you know, if you got you know, a queer youth living in a home that is Completely not safe today.  You know, I'm saying like no, I'm not saying that So, yeah, I think it's just important to again, these are all like very complicated in nuance discussions, but In a I just think we live in a time where folks are if that's not your situation I think you see people being so quick to write off others for not having the same way of thinking When they don't even have access to the same information or haven't You know been or haven't been exposed to the same money information for the same amount of times Yeah Because I see niggas wanting to grow You know, like I see and you can see it in people sometimes. So I think it's just continuing that But like I definitely I feel like I've seen People want to grow people ask questions, you know, so it's like how do we build off of that shit? Yeah, you know like You know, I really I've seen it. I've seen we we are also examples of growth niggas like I saw my Last year People would you know, I'm also very grateful that nigga. I learned You know, I'm lucky that queer folks have also given me grace I'm privileged. So with that privilege, I got to use that to educate other folks You know, I'm saying I'm privileged that black women get gave me grace about me to learn, bro You know what I mean if I didn't have those type of relationships with folks like my politics would not be here You know, so at the same time, it's like I think ant was saying it on the episode that we had them on was like there has to be like Was either ant. Yeah, I think it was ant like Something is have to like tell us you feel me? Otherwise, we're not gonna learn either, you know what I mean Like we have to learn from somewhere too So I'm grateful for those folks, you know It's like but I get it.  Like so oppression is here. It's here. It's here.  You know and they're like you understand it like there was something like you understand it You just don't understand it from this type of concept and I was lucky. I'm like, okay I get it now.  They're completely the wrong way.  Go talk to the motherfuckers.   Yeah revolution coming from the hood, bro period Hella black episode 74 Is that gonna pick up on the speaker because that's gonna be a problem, okay, but Now I'm nervous because I don't want to make it into the bloopers, bro The bloopers are funny Get your merch merch merch merch merch merch merch


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Teenager fatally shot by police in US capital. International criminal court condemns US sanctions on officials. Health concerns rise around imprisoned women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia. And Tunisian parliament votes to approve third government in less than a year. Protests are taking place in Washington DC and other parts of the United States after another black youth was shot dead by the police on Wednesday. The victim, Dion K, had only turned 18 last month. Protesters are demanded the resignation of Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Neuscham. Many members of the community have questioned the police claim that the teen took out the gun while he was being chased. A local city council member said that the police needs to state exactly what happened on Wednesday. Protesters demanded that the body cam and footage of the police officers be released. The DC city council had only recently passed certain emergency police reforms which required police officers to wear body cams while on duty. The MPD is also required to share the body cam footage with the family members of the victims within a day and to the public within 5 days. In the meanwhile, there have been some disturbing developments in the Briona Taylor murder case. Taylor, a black emergency medical technician, was shot in her apartment in March this year by police officers who claimed they were on a drug raid. Her murder along with that of George Floyd was one of the major factors which led to mass protests in the US from May. Now information is emerged of a police bit to smear her by describing her as a drug dealer. Breakthrough News brings you the details. On Wednesday, the International Criminal Court issued a press release condemning the sanctions announced by the US against Fatah Ben-Soda, the chief prosecutor of the ICC and her aide, Fakisa Mochachoko. Both are investigating allegations of war crimes committed by US personnel in Afghanistan. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing the imposition of economic sanctions said that the United States would not tolerate ICC's reckless targeting of the personnel. The sanctions were first approved by President Donald Trump in June this year. Fakisa and her aide have been denied visas to visit the US since 2019. According to the official notification, the assets belonging to the persons will be seized and their entry into the country will be banned. Pompeo also threatened secondary sanctions against individuals or countries who are materially supporting the ICC officials. The sanctions have been criticized by several countries including Iran and Venezuela. Several imminent personalities including Bernie Sanders and media Benjamin condemned the move. The ICC was created by UN Treaty in 2002. Its primary duty is to investigate allegations of genocides, crimes against humanity and war crimes, particularly when national authorities failed to do so. The treaty has been ratified by 23 countries. However, the US is not a member of the ICC. Its opposition to the ICC has gone to the extent of passing a law which authorizes action against the court in case it holds any American personnel responsible for war crimes or other human rights violations. Well-known Saudi Arabian women's rights activist, Lajeral Hatlul, who started a 60-hunger strike to protest the Saudi authorities' ban on family contact for her, has had a concerning and significant decline in her physical health. Following the start of her hunger strike six days ago, Saudi prison officials allowed her parents to visit her in prison on Monday. Lajeral had reportedly launched a strike after learning that she was being prevented from meeting her family and weekly phone calls, even as other prisoners were being allowed so. Her family has also said that they were not allowed to meet Lajeral since June 9th this year. In June as well, the Saudi Human Rights Organization Prisoners of Conscience had urged the autocratic regime to publicly release information regarding her health. In prison since May 2018, Lajeral is one of the several women activists that are currently in Saudi jails. She was a prominent activist who spoke against the Saudi system of male guardianship of women, as well as demanding a lifting of the ban on Saudi women from driving. And finally, the Tunisian parliament on Wednesday, September 2nd, voted to approve the new government of the Prime Minister-designate HM Meshishi. The new government will be the third to take office since October 2019, when elections took place. The vote of confidence in the parliament ended with 134 votes in favor and 67 against. It was preceded by an intense debate with lawmakers expressing reservations with the government, but nonetheless voting for it to maintain political stability and avoid an early election. Tunisians facing an economic crisis which has majorly contributed to the political crisis, the people of Tunisia led by trade unions such as the Tunisian Trade Union Confederation UGTT have staged a number of protests in the past few months against the mishandling of the economy and rising unemployment. The protests were especially strong in the southern part of the country, specifically the Tatooine government. The protests were met with heavy repression by the police. The economic situation was also led to the deterioration of essential public services, as well as resulted in the country accumulating massive financial debt. The economy, which is heavily dependent on tourism, witnessed a 21.6% drop in the second quarter of 2020. The country is also witnessing a rise in the unemployment rate up from 15% to 18% in the first half of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the crisis. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with major news developments from across the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


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About activist investors, the storyline is often a Bill Ackman or a car icon or a Nelson Pelt throwing around millions if not billions of dollars to change a company from the inside. Well now, the Humane Society is getting into the activist game. Yes, that Humane Society. And they're doing so with just a $2,000 investment. So in this case, the Humane Society bought up $2,000 worth of shares in Coach in hopes of getting the company to stop selling real animal fur. If you're wondering, that's about a 0.0000002% stake in Coach. But according to a 1998 SEC rule, $2,000 is the minimum amount needed to file a proxy campaign in a publicly traded company. So using activist investment as a means of social change among corporations isn't a new concept. I spoke with Matthew Kprescott, who is the Senior Director of Corporate Policy for the Humane Society, and he told me about another one of their proxy campaigns. In 2013, they submitted a similar shareholder proposal to get Tyson foods to stop using gestation crates in pig farming. Now those are meadow enclosures for pregnant pigs to keep them immobile so they don't fight. But animal warfare activists say that the use of these crates constitutes animal abuse. The proposal went on to gain the backing of two major proxy advisory firms. Before it could go to a vote, Tyson agreed to urge its pig farmers to increase the size of the crates, a success for the Humane Society. And it isn't just the Humane Society in the game. When Canada Goose went public in March, PETA was one of their first investors with the sole purpose of challenging the retailer's use of animal fur. But it's not always as simple as relying on the democratic powers of shareholder when it comes down to the vote. Depending on the company's structure, a share isn't always guaranteed a vote in the annual meeting. For Canada Goose, for instance, 68% of its voting rights is controlled by Bain Capital.  And not the cute fluffy kind.


What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be showing you what to do if your PlayStation 4 controller is not connecting to your PlayStation 4 console Let's get right into this So this issue can be really easy to fix Anybody can do it and I do recommend trying one of these easy fixes first Before taking it to somebody to try to get it fixed because most of the time what I'm gonna be sharing in this video Some of the easy fixes most of the time do work for people Rather than you just first thing you're doing is going to take it to somebody to get it fixed Try one of these first now some of these might sound like complete common sense But a lot of these are overthought whenever people are having an issue They just think the worst thing and then think they have to go and get it fixed somewhere without trying any of the easy quick fixes so first thing I would recommend if your ps4 controller is not connecting to your ps4 and You do have a backup controller is to simply try to connect your backup Controller to your ps4 and see if it does work if it does You know there's an issue with your other ps4 controller if it doesn't you know There's an issue with a ps4 itself with connecting and sending that connection to your controller So if your other controller works, but this one here does not then I do recommend going on to the next step If you don't have a backup controller, just move on to the next step anyways The next step is to take your cable your official PlayStation cable Connect it to the ps4 and then go and connect it to your controller here Once it's connected press the PlayStation button on the center of the controller between analog sticks And it should turn on the ps4 and controller at the same time as well as charge your controller So if it does turn on great, then I would do once it is turned on I would fully turn off the ps4 Disconnect the controller and try to turn it on wirelessly again if that does not work But you were able to once it was connected Turn on the PlayStation 4 and use the controller then simply go over to your settings Disconnects the controller from its memory and then whenever you do have it's like this Disconnected and try to connect it once again. Hopefully that does work for you If it doesn't it could possibly be just a simple quick little resets So if the ps4 controller to reset it, it's hard to see because this is a dark color here But right behind almost the L2 button right behind the screw that is by the L2 button There is this little pinhole take something like a bobby pin or something. That's really small that can fit in there Press that button. Usually I recommend holding it for 10 seconds So you're gonna press and hold it for 10 seconds You'll then release it and then you'll take the cable that's connected to the ps4 And you're gonna connect it to the controller and then try to turn on the ps4 by pressing the ps button If you press the ps button, it turns on and it works And then whenever you disconnect the controller the controller no longer is connected to the ps4 Once again, like I just said last step Connect it go into your settings go under devices and disconnect the controller And then try to turn it on again and most of the time after the resets Most of the time it does work and your controller now works with your ps4 If that none of that works for you, there might be a bigger issue There might be an issue with either the charging port or the connecting port for the ps4 Or maybe one of the wires are loose inside for the Bluetooth. I do recommend checking that out It also could be something with the Bluetooth of the ps4 itself So if you are able to and you do have another controller that does work Or if connecting the cable to your controller and it does turn on you're able to use the controller Go in and make sure it is connected to the internet If not, maybe one of the cables inside is turned off one of the either the Wi-Fi cable or the Bluetooth cable I recommend opening it up But honestly if you don't know and you're not advanced and you don't know what to do to open up not only Your controller, but also your ps4 at that point I would take it to somebody to open it up and just check everything just explain that the controller is not working First of all share with them the controller and maybe they know an easy fix if not the worst-case scenario You will have to purchase a new controller which right now these are very very limited because of the ps5 Sony has went and discontinued most of the colored PlayStation 4 controllers and only are making the whites and the black Controllers and even some of those are really hard to come by because they're the only ones being made now So people are buying those and there's none of the other ones available So there is definitely a shortage of ps4 controllers But at the end of the day if you need a ps4 controller It is what $60 US $80 Canadian You can definitely get them when they're on sale around 45 to around 55 dollars, which is awesome But I know a lot of people don't want to always buy a controller So what I would recommend to do with the controller if you get it from EB games or GameStop Is to always get your one-year warranty for the controller and then before your year is up Take it in for warranty because they cannot test this there They just have to take your word that it's not working take it in for warranty You'll get a new controller and then just purchase the Extended one-year warranty for that new controller, which is only $8. So basically for a new controller You're only paying $8 a year for it and getting a new fresh one every year So then something like this doesn't happen if something legitimately within that year does happen with either the analog sticks drifting Which always does happen where it's not connecting to your ps4 Then take it in for that warranty and that's what the warranty is for so either way That is the way that I would do it if you're concerned about having to pay so much for controller Always get the one-year warranty and always get a new controller before that one year is run out Hope you guys enjoyed this video and hope this has made somewhat of sense either it has fixed your issue with your ps4 controller not connecting to ps4 or Now you know a quick little tip whenever you're buying a new controller to always take advantage of the warranty situation Definitely recommend doing one of the two. Hopefully it worked for you If not get a new controller and take advantage of that warranty. I'm gonna leave this video here Hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace


this is my usability goes to 11, a hacker's guide to user experience research.   Went to grad school and became a UX researcher, did a couple internships at Mozilla and Palo Alto Research Center and my master's thesis focused on how to redesign the tour browser bundle so it would be a little more usable for non-experts. Basically my focus was these things called privacy enhancing technologies and we'll get a little bit into the whole privacy versus security terminology later on. And currently I am a staff technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington D.C. That basically means that I do hill visits occasionally doing some lobbying but mostly I work on web standards and serving as an in-house expert for our advocacy. So to just give a high level outline we're going to talk about why usability is important, why is usability hard, why is usable security especially hard and how we can evaluate our tools to see whether or not they're usable. And these all sound like relatively simple things but they get hard very quickly. So to just sort of set us up terminology wise, when we talk about security we're usually basically talking about the CIA triad. We're talking about confidentiality, we're talking about integrity is this data modified in transit and we're talking about availability, non-repudiation, things like that. Privacy is just control over your personal information in general. If you don't have security you're never going to get to privacy because someone else already has that control for you. And so these privacy enhancing technologies are just any technology that lets you control your privacy. So something like Veracrypt that lets you encrypt your files that could be a privacy enhancing technology. Something like TOR is usually considered a privacy enhancing technology. So at the high level why even encourage pet adoption? Why shouldn't these people just RTFM? Why does making privacy usable matter? Well we've extensively documented the existence of mass surveillance. And studies have shown that mass surveillance chills free speech. It chills what we talk about. It chills what we look at. This chilling effect has an effect on our democracy. If we want to have a republic we have to have debate. Period. End of story. Why encourage adoption of these technologies? The math is good. If you look at the current surveillance practices the so-called 5Is are mostly focusing on bulk collection and injection. We have, great I don't have the notes, but these NSA systems like Tempura for example, well that was GCHQ. But when you're sucking up massive amounts of data, if that data is encrypted it's not as useful. If the transmission of that data is using HGPS or some sort of integrity check it's much harder to modify and transit, much harder to shoot malware in there. We don't have any evidence that the more common encryption standards like AES or PGP have been subverted. There was the NIST, interesting NIST. So basically we know that our underlying technologies are solid. We need to resist this urge to follow into what Mika Lee called security nihilism and focus on making sure that the tools that we have are used by as many people as possible. And thirdly we have the idea of network effects. Most of you may have heard of Metcalfe's law, the idea that the strength of a network is end to the power of two and being the number of users. This is especially true for anonymity systems. Again, in the community sometimes we'll use the phrase RTFM when we're talking about something like Linux but when we're talking about a privacy tool, a privacy tool is best when the most people can use it. So for example with Tor, the bigger that swarm is, the less chance I have of knowing who you in particular are. On the other hand as one of my friends from Pittsburgh said, nobody wants to download a special application to talk to Greg Norsey when I ask them to download a signal. Luckily with certain recent events in the news people have been more and more willing to use encryption. So why encourage adoption of these technologies? Because nothing to hide is a load. Everybody wants privacy. If you don't think that you want privacy in your life, see me after this talk so I can set up a nest cam in your bathroom. So we all want some privacy. We've set a floor. What we're talking about is the ceiling. So that brings us to our next point. If usability is so important why don't we just add usability to these products? And that when I was making these slides reminded me of this Neil deGrasse quote Obama authorized North Korean sanctions over cyber hacking. Solution there it seems to me is to create unhackable systems. Just like I think we in this community know by now that you can't simply bolt on security after you've designed a product. Similarly you can't just come in at the end, throw your tool at a designer and say hey can you make this usable? It's not going to work. And usability is hard. We can define when a system is secure. If you can if you can if I send out a packet we can we can do these entropy calculations we can see how long it would take to decrypt this given the key space yada yada. There's no real way to know is this piece of software usable. It's just a continual and iterative process. And even when we ask users for feedback it might not be helpful. I'm sure if you've ever developed an open source project you get tired of complaints like this. Your usability is bad. I can't tell you why it's bad but your product is hard to use and I don't like it. Now you can do two things in this scenario. You can just double down and say RTFM and not try and actually improve your product or you can use some sort of systematic way of improving the usability. And the other thing is that usable security is even harder than just trying to define something usable. Look how long we were listening to music with all sorts of weird technologies before we finally settled on the iphone or the ipod. That was a very usable easy way to have a ton of music at your disposal and it took many, many years. And there's was this very relatively old paper called why Johnny can't encrypt that was put out by Alma Winton and JD Tiger back in 1999. And basically it was the first time that one of the first times that we said hey we take this theory from HCI human computer interaction which is an academic stream of research and let's apply it to a security tool and see what pops out. And so Johnny can encrypt according to Winton and Tiger if he's made aware of the security tasks able to figure out how to perform these tasks doesn't make any dangerous errors and feels sufficiently comfortable to continue using and that last one is key. There's a phrase they use in the human computer interaction literature it's the gulf of execution and a great example might be when you're trying to set the timer on your VCR and you know what your end goal is. You want to record the latest episode of France and you know what your starting point is. You don't have a timer set but you have no idea how to go from that start goal to the end goal and if you can't logic your way towards it you may just throw up your hands and say you know what I guess I'm just not going to see friends this and Winton and Tiger operationalized some properties about usable security that make it especially hard to do and I'm going to give each of these its own little slide to really delve in. The first is the unmotivated user property and we had some projector issues I wish this was bigger but that is a tweet from Swift on security that says tell me more about the crypto you invented with Taylor Swift leaning into the children. The unmotivated user property talks about the fact that security isn't a primary task that users aren't lazy they're actually actually quite rationally. These are rational actors security is not something they want to do their time is of value and it is limited so they are going to expend the least energy possible on your security system.  Second is the abstraction property programmers deal with abstraction all day. These concepts like public keys and signing and things like that they're very intuitive to people like me but they're not for our users so for example when a user goes to a coffee shop they might feel secure because the coffee shop has a password on their Wi-Fi what they may not understand is that that is operating in pre-shared key mode so therefore anyone else who has that password can just snarf up the packets and decrypt them. Third is the lack of feedback property. When my security is breached I may not get any feedback that it's happened until my credentials are used or something bad happens. So for example most people don't know they were on the wall of sheep until somebody logs into their system and messes with it. And finally the barn door property. Just like after the horse runs out of the barn it's futile to lock the gate. Secrets once leaked remain so forever. Small errors irreversible consequences. So for example with Dread Pirate Roberts the guy who ran the Silk Road. He plugged the Silk Road at one point using his real Gmail address which had his real name in there.  So they go and talk to him. He says some suspicious stuff like well how do you know I ordered those. There's this site called the Silk Road that somebody could have sent them to me from as like a prank or something which seems like a bit of an odd defense. So they put physical surveillance on him and eventually they followed him to the San Francisco Public Library where he when he logged into the administration interface for the Silk Road they just yanked the computer off of him and imaged it. Finally the weakest link property. The network is only as strong as the weakest link that's the user and the attacker only needs to find one unpatched system and that unpatched system may be the person who clicks on a phishing link. So how can you make your privacy software more usable? The first is the idea of what I heard about when I was interviewing at IBM Design called the T-shaped Designer and the idea is to have a depth in one area and breadth in two. And the three areas they're talking about are user research, design in the more artistic sense, and software engineering. And usually what you'll see happen is when we're hiring engineers we hire purely on software engineering. We don't really care about these other two qualities. And especially on open source projects you know you may be the solitary developer or only one or two developers on a project so you may have somebody who's a crypto expert who's doing the crypto, you have a networking guy who's doing some networking modules and everything's just sort of going to fit together at the end. And that's just, you know, usability is not just a module that you can have somebody off coding in a corner and bring to the table at the end.  But you're experiencing this gulf of execution. You have the will to make your project usable, but you don't necessarily understand how you can do that. That's what the majority of this talk is going to be about. And there's two different techniques you can really use that we're going to talk about. The first is no. Oh, wonderful. Clicker decided not to work. There's two techniques you can use. The first is called a cognitive walk-through. Really? Okay. The first is called a cognitive walk-through and you can do that just as a solitary researcher or you can do a full-blown lab study. And I'm actually going to talk about both. I actually have a case study that we're going to share from some of my own research. So cognitive walk-through is pretty simple.  You're going to think of some of the tasks that you would want to do when you're using this software and ask yourself, are the users going to be able to produce the effect this action has? Are users going to see the control that they need to click on? Once users find this control, are they going to realize that it produces the effect that they want? And after that action taken, will users understand the feedback they get? So basically you just come up with a set of tasks that you need to accomplish. You go through the interface, thinking critically about how you could go, what could go wrong or what would be confusing. And you just sort of document the process along the way. And you can usually find most of the high-level usability issues just by doing this. But it does have to do with, you're probably the person who designed the system and you're going to have some blind spots about what may be hard to use. So to give you an idea of when we say core tasks, there was a paper by Jeremy Clark and a few others called Usability of Anonymous Web Browsing, which was the first examination of Tor usability. And this was the study that led to the creation of the Tor Browser Bundle, that they looked at all these different ways you could set up Tor, Prevoxy, Command Line, et cetera, et cetera. And the conclusion that the most usable way of setting up Tor was to have some sort of integrated browser that you just started up and Tor is encapsulated within it. So their core tasks were just to install Tor, configure Tor, confirm that the traffic is being anonymized, which is always a good thing. And then successfully disable Tor and return to a direct connection. Because back then everybody was really big on the Tor button extension. The idea was that we're going to be browsing and turn it off. We now know that that's kind of dangerous. We now know that's not the best idea, and it's better to have a separate browser. But that was the state of the art at the time. And that was actually considered really usable that you could just click something in the UI and not just be messing around on the terminal. So then if we can get 80% of the way there without having to do a big user study, why do one? Because whenever you come into the rest of your developers and say, I came up with this, you're going to get like, well, yeah, it's just your opinion, man. You think we should make these changes? I think they should read the manual. We got two opinions. 50-50. Which way should we go? Here's a hint. They're probably going to want to go the way that doesn't require any more coding.  If you understand the system, you're going to see things differently. So for example, Charlie here has a box of hornets. And he's saying, you know what? I'm going to put a little H here on this box so everyone knows that it's full of hornets. And these are the kinds of errors that you can make if you as an expert try and design an interface because you have this intimate knowledge of the system. So we're going to talk about a case study. This was actually a master's thesis I did when I was in grad school. I know I'm not a big fan of school either but when it comes to doing usability, it's actually really useful to have some background in experimental psychology, anthropology, things like that. I'm not sure if doing a PhD was the best move. Getting a master's and dropping out probably was though. So just to give a really quick overview, just in case not everybody in the room is familiar with TOR. It's basically this anonymity service that uses onion routing technology. It was originally developed by the Navy. The Navy realized if you have an anonymity network that is only used by the Navy, maybe if I don't know which particular person the Navy is using TOR, we know someone in the Navy is visiting my website and that might be problematic. So they decided to expand the pool. It got taken over by the EFF for a while and funded that is. And is now its own 501C3 nonprofit. And the basic idea is that you're routing your traffic through three nodes, the entry node, middle node and exit node to mask your identity. And you should note when using TOR that your content is not connected when it's exiting the network unless you're using HTTPS or something. So, you know, you're just going to get a list of TOR nodes from a directory server. You're going to go through your path. And then every 10 minutes you're actually switching circuits and each website gets its own circuit. So if I'm using the Guardian in one tab and I'm looking at the Washington Posts and the other, you don't necessarily know that I'm looking at both those websites.  Typical of academic research. So the original TOR browser bundle at the time we were doing this was a custom Firefox build. They also included Vidalia that was doing the proxy management and then it had the TOR button extension built in which allows you to turn the TOR browser bundle on and off.  We ended up at this little conference in Spain which I did not know this until they showed up, but most of the TOR developers went there as well. So when I was giving this original research I had like Roger Dingledine sitting in the front row. So then we spoke with TOR, they actually ended up making some changes to the UI and then we developed a custom extension to do some of the changes that weren't being put in. And then we actually did a second usability study where we just verified because at the time I was in grad school it wasn't good enough to just improve an open source project, you had to make it like a full blown scientific experiment. So, you know, and we did find out that the, well I'll just get to that later. So yeah, two studies about the same number of students download and install the TOR browser bundle. At the time the second study, the TOR browser bundle had done several changes. Most importantly they had dropped Vidalia which as we'll see later, having Vidalia in the mix really just create a lot of weird issues and rolled that functionality into the TOR browser bundle so that there was only one window for TOR at any given time. And the way we went about this was actually pretty simple. We passed out consent forms and study sheets. This was an IRB approved study and I'm not going to get into that in detail, but basically you know, it's not considered ethical to just take somebody's lab section and say, congratulations I'm going to experiment on you. We get consent for the experimentation and if they had not wanted to participate in the experiment they had to be free to do something else instead so we let them write an essay on how TOR works or something like that if they didn't feel comfortable doing this. We briefed them that this wasn't a typical lab. So normally if we're doing a lab for this class they have some sort of task they have to work through on their own so we consider cheating to just ask the person sitting next to them for the answer, ask the TA for the answer so we tell them that each time you encounter an issue just raise your hand and I'm going to come over and tell you how to fix it and then when I did this I would say please just write down the issue you had because we want to catalog all the issues that the software is encountering and then this is the really interesting part because how do you move from a list of complaints to something that you can work with and you have this thing in psychology they refer to as coding responses but they're talking about coding them in the sense of coding them in the categories so what you do is you get two people to independently come up with a list of categories you agree on the intersection of those or the union of those becomes this final category list after you talk a bit and make sure you're not overlapping and then both coders independently read through each issue and decide to assign it to a category and then you can actually generate what's called Cohen's Kappa which is just basically a fancy way of making sure that the amount of agreement between the two coders was more than you would expect from random chains because you don't want a situation where we're both just completely going wild and so we came up with a bunch of issues but it's really hard to read that graph so I've also got a pie chart and the big huge takeaway was that about 57% of the issues boil down to three distinct usability issues you change these three things and hypothetically you can cut the usability issues in half and we're going to go in detail into each of these the first was the concept of long launch time where's that pointer else oh so you'll make a laser but you won't go forward interesting so on the old version of tour when you clicked to start tour you would be told you're now connected to the tour network and at this point users would go yay I'm on tour I can be anonymous the problem was that only the tour browser bundle window was anonymous nothing else was so let's say I had previously had Chrome open and I'm being told I'm connected to tour okay I'm going to hop into Chrome, log into Facebook and organize a protest and probably get shot because I was not anonymous when I did that the proposed solution was to we actually didn't think high enough we said you should just alter the lag so that you didn't have this situation where Vidalia was popping up and then there was a long delay until the window opened and the tour project actually just rolled all of this functionality into the tour button extension the second issue we encountered was browsing delay and then this becomes a little bit harder because people are basically complaining tour slow there have been entire DEF CON talks about the fact that tour is slow and sure as he's working on it and the thing about this is that you're just never going to be as fast routing your traffic through a series of nodes as you will if you were doing a straight shot so then it becomes more of a communication issue how can we make users aware of this trade off you know there's been some research that users are more willing to do some sacrifices if they're explicitly using privacy enhancing technologies and also it's just like in general like you know if you're in a coffee shop you might not be as angry you can't use Netflix then if you were at home it's about setting expectations so we came up with these warning dialogues that could pop up when tour was experiencing a large amount of latency and say due to security and there was research that basically shows if you tell somebody we're doing this for security they'll tolerate all sorts of stuff proof of that for example lies within the TSA so tour knows you're experiencing delay we apologize thank you for your patience hypothetically if they're being shown this they're not going to be as angry and then the third thing was when the users were window discriminability so these users aren't sure which window was the tour browser bundle well at the time it was a custom firefox build in that they even still had the firefox logo so if you've got firefox open you've got the tour browser bundle window open you're not really sure which is which if you go off and do another application so they end up developing this really nice logo really sleek I really like how it's not focused directly on the US directly on the trying to show the entire world a nice little artistic license there so what happened after we made these usability did this study and so between the two studies the number of people who just said no problems because I guess I should backtrack a little and say at that point one guy got to the end of the thing and he's like I didn't have any issues I'm like are you sure because if you didn't have any issues that's a valid data point we don't want to discourage you we just didn't want a situation where the entire class said oh yeah I didn't have any issues and then walked out after two minutes and we probably would have just discarded that result but there was double the amount of people after we made these changes who said oh I'm not actually experiencing any usability issues I've had an across the board reduction in these usability issues so long launch time when weight down but everything went down at least a little this went through a lot quicker than I thought so just to kind of summarize usability is this uniquely hard problem you should try and hire these T-shaped designers who also have experience with UX research and UX design and that doesn't mean that they have to be experts it just means that they have to have a passing familiarity cognitive walkthroughs can help sess out usability issues even if your project has minimal resources and you should talk to your users usability is not a one-time operation you need to revisit this periodically and finally you may be sitting here thinking about what you can do next and I would recommend that you read the paper why Johnny can't encrypt there's not the enemy by Angel which we were talking about earlier you read why Johnny can't blow the whistle which is the paper that I was just discussing there's an entire human-computer interaction bibliography that has a bunch of free papers and also just you know come up with a few things you want to read on your own the thing I really want to push in this talk usability is not a checklist I think any DEF CON attendee who I pulled out of the hallway would probably if I said we're sick of security being a checklist they would nod furiously we don't want this to have the equivalent of the PCI standards for usability where we're just checking boxes we've done this we've done that we did a cognitive walkthrough we actually want to have usability I'm just going to back up because I thought I accidentally skipped something but I guess I didn't so I just moved through these a lot faster than I intended but that does mean we have some extra time if anybody has any so go ahead so the question is if I've heard of anything that would make dot onion addresses a little easier to read a little less fishable because if I can know this is the site I'm going to I haven't seen anything specifically related to dot onion addresses I've seen some really interesting schemes for example Mozilla had a thing up a thing it was like about a month ago where they were talking about this idea of using emojis as ciphers that like you can use chunks of characters equals this emoji one chunk of characters equals that so that could be something that you could do you could try and translate this long string of characters into a series of pictures or you know it could be as simple as trying to display it in chunks like there's been some research that people usually can only remember five plus or minus two seven plus or minus two chunks of information so if you can split the onion up you know just adding dashes you know if you can just visually separate that out a little bit so that people can check for at a time that can be helpful I mean generally like if I had the perfect ideas like you have like a general idea of what your software product is going to be and you know you can write back end stuff before hand but if you would want to have like a general at least a general idea going in of what the flow is going to be and that doesn't necessarily mean the interface specifically like you know you can write back end stuff before hand and that doesn't necessarily mean the interface specifically like but if I was going to write like the next veracrypt I would at least know a basic flow of like somebody's going to you know create a container put things in the container open the container things like that that you would want to try and come up with these flows early on and then yes you could try and develop a little bit in parallel because I can think of another a number of scenarios where you're going to be working out the kinks in something on the low level and then be able to use a general UI but you can at least be planning it out Well, sort of, if you build a security system or protocol or whatever that's very secure but it's completely apparently unusable like you don't have a, well you don't have a research solution, the usability challenges it doesn't really help it so like that's sort of like any way I was coming at it is like should I constrain the way I'm developing other parts of the protocol by usability research what you can do is you can, it's always possible to offer like a simple UI and then have something that you can click on to go into these sort of advanced options for the user who wants to because the problem is like what you present to the user will be clicked on so if you bury some of the more complicated stuff in the UI the things that you know only the experts are going to need you know if somebody is truly an expert they might not even be doing these things in the UI to begin with they might be doing these things in the UI so these were two different semesters so this was like you know the fall of I forget when but it was like let's say fall of 2012 fall of 2013 it was two separate classes yeah so signal and tour are both good trying to think you know vericryps doing better you know not perfect but doing better than a true crypt used to do is that we didn't really go into in this talk because I thought it was going to be pressed for time was there was a lot of security warning confusion and you can do entire papers just on how to design one security dialogue but that can be confusing for people you don't see this error as much but when people would get mixed content errors so you would have it where parts of the page where HTTPS encrypted and parts weren't and you would often get those when HTTP and the rest of the page wasn't so there's a lot of times where you'll get these really advanced warnings that it's just I don't know what's going on I don't know what this warning means so there's a lot of room for improvement there but it's one of those things where you know they've gotten very very good UX and the remaining problems are really hard ones yet how do you deal with people that when they get you know release one and then release two and they're expecting to configure privacy settings and move around based on that user research how do you handle that when it's not really plausible to maintain both code paths? Sure so that's an interesting point because then basically you've got this you know the bacon I forget what the technical term would be like something like for example when Microsoft Office moved to the ribbon you can the ribbon is probably more intuitive for somebody who's never used Microsoft Office before but for somebody who was used to a very specific questions to get very specific responses having to relearn the UI I think that you know you basically have to decide that there is going to be this sort of switching cost for lack of a better term of you know switching to a more usable UI and you can make sure you have some documentation available so that if somebody is having trouble finding their tasks that they're not just left out in the cold maybe not just you know and really you know like I think before set out the browser mandolin when they drop the daily and things like that they do like a blog with every release the details what's been changed and if you're doing major changes you can try and have some help.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosler here. I want to make one more video here about YouTube analytics and I think some of the sort of really basic functionalities you're just looking to report on your channel growth and look at views by month and Look at subscriber count by month. I think sometimes you're not the most Intuitive to find so the first thing I'm going to do This is a personal preference is jump into the advanced mode So that I can get as much info as possible out of the dashboard And the first thing when I pop into this and it's only every few months, but I like to check subscriber count by Month, so I'm going to just show you guys how to do that. So firstly go across to the date tab here second thing I'm going to do is because Looking a monthly, let's say the last 365 days So we're going to be looking at we can either look trailing one year or we can just look at 20 Let's just look at 2022 given that we're now In the progress of the fifth month that I'm recording this video on the 4th of May of 2022 okay, so by default the The measurement interval is going to be daily. So I'm going to go ahead and change that over to monthly Now because we're in the fifth month So we only have one two three four data points that have been fixed and the fifth data point is in progress Because may we've just started May Obviously, I'm as I said, I'm recording this on the 4th. So This is basically it you can see and it's organized according to the month so you can see What how many views you got each month so I can see in May So far I've got one six five nine 80 hours 80 watch hours rounded out and last month for instance 15,000 so that's that's just a quick gives you kind of a quick You can see that my best month so far this year is being March and April are pretty much neck and neck There's only a difference of about 100 views in it and a watch time difference of Not so much So if you look at that data over a year, I'm going to stretch stretch it out back to last three six five days here I'm going to keep the reporting interval as monthly and now you can see May April March Feb Jan And now we're looking back. So this is last year May through December and If I look at January in the graph then so we can see that the overall trend My 20 22 so far versus 20 21 is a little bit better The last month March April. It's picked up which makes sense. I've been doing more uploading now The second thing I think would be more would be as useful is to see your subscriber count By date. So what I would do here is on the top left You've got views by date and you can go ahead and change that over to Subscribers and you're actually I'm not even using the second metric because it just makes it confusing but you can overlay For instant views and then you're going to get two lines plotted on the graph I'm going to go ahead and take that off and just keep it simple So what we're looking at now and I'm going to go back to 2022 firstly is the Delta or the change in the subscriber count by month Now there's something you may notice it's different here and that's that it's actually not going to order the table down here is not ordered Chronologically so you can see for instance it goes March April January February then May so it's actually ordered according to subscribers and The best of my knowledge is no way to sort the table on date Which is a little bit negative But one thing you can do if you don't like the way it's being presented as you can always Just extract the data here as a as a Google sheet So I can do that and sort it any way I like but I'm I'll just show you how that data will present itself So you can do your own charting and bring it into different programs and different things like that But I'm going to stick with what's on the dashboard for the moment So we can see that the doubt that the change in subscribers in January was 45 now as the little Box I'm hovering over says here the change in total subscribers is found by subtracting Subscribers lost from subscribe from subscribers gained For the selected date and a region and my region is worldwide So so basically it's possible to have both a negative. It's possible to have a negative value So if you lost gained 10 subscribers and lost 20 your value would be minus 10 My values are all positive as you can see they're pretty small in January. I picked up 45 subscribers or gained 45 in January gained 44 in March was my best month so far this year I picked up 53 new subscribers or the average or the gain I should say came out to 43 in April 48 and in May months to date. I'm at 5 So that is how you can do that and you can just again look at the chart It's probably easier than breaking down on the table and you can get a sense for in terms of the subscriber growth Watch your trend what your trend line is looking like and you can of course also as it says filter on Geography as well, but you can do that by doing the filter and then you can add a geography filter So I can look only for Data from let's say from let's say from Israel where I'm based Click Israel apply and now we're only looking at Israel. I actually haven't had any Subscribers so I guess I'm that's interesting anyway I'm not going to get into into filtering because that's adding another layer of Complication if you're just looking to see your view changes and your subscriber changes month to month This is a way to do it go into your Google analyze sorry YouTube analytics This is showing how to do it in the analytics tab jump over to date and then on date You can change between your subscribers views watch hours even average view duration. You can change the Reporting increment here in this between daily weekly monthly yearly and you can change the date range up here And that's pretty much all there is to it Thank you guys for watching if you want to get a new video new videos for me Please subscribe to the YouTube channel


Hello everyone, welcome to the session on interquery parallelism and intraquery parallelism. These are the parallelism to query parallelism techniques which are used in the parallel database. Let us talk about the learning outcomes of this session. At the end of this session, you will be able to illustrate some concepts of interquery and intraquery parallelism and you can differentiate between the various parallelism techniques. Now starting with the query parallelism, what exactly query parallelism means? You can see the scenario here that a single query is there and the processor is there and it is taking a time for 4 minutes for the complete execution. But if the same query we are giving for the parallel processors where 4 processors are dealing with the same query then if we are completing, completely we are saying that the query has executed parallely in all the processors then the 4 minutes are divided as completely in 1 minute that is divided by 4. So a same query can be executed in a single minute here that is what a query parallelism is. So in parallel database system, usually the query parallelism is used to improve the performance of the system and it is achieved through the query parallelism. The transaction throughput is increased by parallel execution for one queries or more than one queries here based on the query parallelism. Now what are the various forms of the query parallelism? You can see here that there are basically two types of queries parallelism that is interquery parallelism and interquery parallelism. Again the interquery parallelism is divided as interoperation and interoperation parallelism and in this one the interoperation parallelism is again divided as pipeline parallelism and independent parallelism. We are going to see all these one by one in detail now. Let us start with interquery parallelism. What is this interquery parallelism? The parallelism which is among the queries means whatever the number of queries are there in a particular transactions all those queries are parallelized. So every query is executing on a different processor. So we can see here that different queries or transactions are executed in parallel with one or more processors. So the main aim of this interquery parallelism is what? That is to scaling up the transaction processing system. So you can see here the scenario that is query one is executed on processor one and it is providing a result. Similarly query two is executed on processor two and it is providing a result and query n which is providing giving the processor n and that is providing the result in result n. So various queries are executed in parallel. So query one to n all these are executing in parallel by these processors. That is what an interquery parallelism is. Let us talk about interquery parallelism. Now in interquery parallelism parallelism is made in a single query. You can say that within a query say for example a query may be having n number of operations. So those based on that query the parallelism is implemented. So we can say here that execution of a single query is in parallel on a different multiple processors and what is the aim of this one speeding up the long running queries. So whatever a single query is if it is taking more time for the execution so it will improve by multiple processors. You can see the scenario here a single query is there which is now subdivided as subquery 1.1, 1.2, 1.n and every subquery is provided given to a particular processor. So processor one to n these are there. So a single query is divided as n subqueries and those are given to n processors. So all the subresults are collected and finally those are collected as result one. So that is what a interquery parallelism is. Now in interquery parallelism again there are two types. What are those one that is inter-operation parallelism and inter-operation parallelism. Interquery as earlier I told that a single query can be parallelized in various. So the two ways are inter-operation and inter-operation. In inter-operation every individual operation in a query is parallelized. Say for example a query is having a single operation to execute but that single operation is parallelized here. For example we can say that a parallel sort or parallel search means what is there a query is having only one operation that is sort operation. But that sort operation is now divided in various processors. So same operation are working on parallel here. So that we can say as inter-operation parallelism. So a single operation sorting is parallelized. Whereas in inter-operation various operations different operations in a query are executed in parallel. Say you can say that a single query if a single query is having sorting and searching both. So in that case what happens sorting will be taken out at one processor and searching will be taken out at another processor. So in this one what happens more than one operations in a single query are parallelized. Whereas in inter-operation only one operation that is parallelized. So simultaneous sorting and searching techniques both we can execute here parallely. So the operation sorting and searching I have given the example here as sorting and searching there may be n number of operations are there. So every operation is parallelized here on a different processor. Now pause the video and think of this database query execution and let us see that what parallel query execution type this is providing us. You have to guess it. You can pause the video and guess what is the type of the parallel query execution here. You can see here what is the query, how it is divided, what are the techniques and all. So the answer is it is inter-operation parallelism. In this the single operation sorting is parallelized. The same sorting technique is parallelized here. So the single query sort is divided as now the sorting a to g, h to m, n to s and t to z these are parallelized here. So here we can say that a single operation that is sort operation is parallelized on these processors. How many processors are there 1, 2, 3 and 4. So that is what we call it as an inter-operation parallelism. Now more deep upon again the types of inter-operation there are 2 types as earlier I told you. So the first type is what the type is partitioned parallelism. So parallelism due to the data being partitioned. So the degree of the parallelism is increased based on the large number of records. If a table is having more number of records in that one what will happen we will take more, it will take more time to search that table or to get the data from that table. So in that case what we can do is we can parallelize the technique there. So let us see this scenario very good example here I have given you based on the diagram. So single query is there that query is divided as sub-query 1, sub-query 2, sub-query 3 and again that single sub-query you can see here that the operation 1 in that till operation M those are given. And again in that a single operation is having processor 1, processor 2 till processor K. So you can see here that how the parallelism is there. So the first type of parallelism is here which is sub-query and again in sub-query various operations again in that operation a single operation is parallelized here. So that is what exactly inter-operation parallelism is called as. So this is what inter-operation parallelism is. A single operation is parallelized in a various ways. So here the operation we can take as sorting technique or a searching or any selection or any type of thing. So in inter-operation parallelism there are again two types that is pipeline parallelism and independent parallelism. Let us talk about pipeline parallelism. What is pipeline? You can see pipeline means what the data is flowing from one end to another one. So here also output record of one operation is consumed means what one query is executing and that query is still executing but there is intermediate results of those queries those are generated and those are consumed by another query or another operation you can see. So here what we can say for pipeline parallelism output record of one operation a are consumed by the second operation b without completing the first operation a. It means that the first operation is also executing and but it is the second operation whichever is dependent on the first one is not waiting for the completion of that. It is till the first operation is going on whatever the intermediate results it is generating those are used by consumed by another operation. So that is what a pipeline parallelism is. So we can see here that it is like an assembly line where multiple operations are executing in parallel. You can see in a mechanical ways multiple assembly lines are there. So at a time all the assembly lines are working. So one is working on that one it is moving to the next one again it is going to the next. So that is what a pipeline parallelism is doing whereas an independent parallelism it is totally independent where you can see here that multiple operations in a query that do not depend on another are executed in parallel means what those operations are not at all dependent on them. So those are totally worked on worked on the two different processes as those are not dependent on one another ok. So they are working in parallel so it is not providing high degree of the parallelism ok. Why because the we cannot say that those many parallelism or that much parallelism is there when multiple operations totally are independent ok. So for the pipeline parallelism we can see that only useful for small number of processors whereas for independent parallelism the it is not providing high degree of the parallelism. So pipeline parallelism you can see the scenario where as operation one with a different processor operation two with a different processor operation M with the different processor. But the output of operation one is provided to operation two in between ok. So that is what the pipeline parallelism is whereas in independent parallelism you can see that no output is provided. So totally different operation different processor different operation different processor those are not dependent on each other. So every operation is individually working that is what an independent parallelism is. So these are the various techniques of the parallelism query parallelism techniques intra query inter query and all. So these are my references. Thank you.