Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today that's July 16th marks the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear detonation. So this took place as part of the Manhattan Project in July 16th 1945 and the explosion was a prelude of course to the dropping of the atomic bombs in August on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There's been a lot of commentary about this explosion itself. Oppenheimer described it of course as having equivalent of the brightness of a thousand suns. But this was also the beginning of a very sustained and powerful movement against nuclear weapons. And we have with us Praveer Prakash to talk about it. Praveer, thank you so much for joining us. So could you first talk a bit about the context in which this took place as well as how the origin of the protest and anti-nuclear movements almost began from that time itself. The history of the Manhattan Project is interesting because it starts with, officially, Zillard using Einstein who was his mentor and with whom he had worked earlier to draft, send a letter to Roosevelt, President Roosevelt. And Zillard was worried about the possibility of, after Otto Hahn and others had published a paper about chain reaction was worried that the Germans would get the nuclear bomb. And that would change completely the world that he knew was a Hungarian scientist was a emigre into the United States. So he was very keen that therefore they should be contributing at least activities bomb making by which it could be balanced and therefore his approaching Einstein. Einstein was also active in the peace movement in Germany in the first world war. So he had a history of the peace movement and Zillard later devoted all his life to the peace movement. So it's really a tragedy of the first order that these two people who were both constitutionally peaceniks, they were the ones who also become the originators of the idea of the bomb. Not that they were the only ones but that's the most publicized one because Einstein had that authority and his writing to Roosevelt meant that if it reached Roosevelt, Roosevelt would take it seriously. So that is the origin of the, some people would say the Manhattan Project itself, because Roosevelt then initiates it, then Einstein writes a second letter, and that accelerates the development. And then we have finally the formation of the Manhattan Project. And what you said, the July, today's anniversary of that event that darkness of a thousand suns is what we called it. When we did a issue, we actually brought out a booklet on the nuclear bomb and saying why it should not be there. The part of our science and peace movement. So this is the background of that. But you know, when Germany surrenders, then Zillard, and Zillard by the time had already fallen out with the general who was commanding the Manhattan Project, General Grobe, he had realized that the bomb was not something that was going to be used against Germany and Germany was not actually in a position to make the bomb. That had become clear that Germany was not really making the bomb. Later on, we learned that Otto Hahn and others hadn't cooperated with Nazi Germany, and therefore they didn't want to really build the bomb. So with that, Zillard was thinking that now the Manhattan Project should not really have the objective of the bomb when he discovered, and this is what he talked about, that General Grobe said that this is again the Soviet Union. This is not a good German. So then he was very worried, how do we prevent the bomb to be dropped then in Japan if it becomes a functional bomb? And on July 16th, we have the demonstration. On the 17th, Zillard then writes a letter to Roosevelt, and he's able to reach Eleanor Roosevelt, Roosevelt's wife, who says that she will meet him. But unfortunately, Roosevelt dies. And then Truman becomes the President of the United States. Einstein did write to him, Zillard did meet, not Truman, but he met people that Truman wanted him to meet on this issue. By the time it was clear that the mind had been made up in the United States highest levels, that they would drop the bomb as not as demonstration, as Zillard's letter and Seinwer 74 scientists had written, that do a demonstration, give Japan a chance to surrender. And then if it doesn't happen, then think about using it. Don't use it first. But by the time it was clear that it was going to be used before any demonstration, before declaring that they had such a bomb, because the objective was not the surrender of Japan. The objective was really the post war scenario that would emerge, and it was really directed at preeminence of the United States in global scenario, because they would have the bomb, and others would not. And they actually calculated this from the last 10 to 15 years, and this would then allow them to set up the whole post war scenario in a way that would be advantageous completely to the western past, led essentially by the United States. And it's also interesting what you said this is also the start of the peace movement, because once the scientific community who had actually been involved in the Manhattan Project, realize that this was not for deterring Germany. But this now was an instrument of coercion, which was going to be used by others with the sole atomic bomb being in the possession of the United States. They then turn against the bomb completely. And then, of course, Einstein, who was deeply remorseful, as well as Zillian, both of them were deeply remorseful that they had initiated in some sense the bomb project, then team up with others on how it has to be at least contained, how we can get a position where nuclear weapons would not be used. What could you do for an atomic piece, these then become their objective and Zillian spent the rest of his life as a basically working for the peace movement becomes one of the activists of the drug wash movement, which is as you know the scientific communities answer to the bomb and raises the for the first time all of them put together raise the question, what is the social responsibility of the scientists, what is called as the Einstein Russell manifesto, which was signed by a number of leading scientists from both sides at that point. And this is something that then occupies Einstein, it occupies a whole lot of galaxy of scientific thinkers, as well as a lot. The, in that sense, the originator if you will, the original mover of the proposal to build the atom bomb, and therefore the Manhattan Project. So like you pointed out, the US did try to, of course, plan a scenario where they would have a lead for the next 10 to 15 years. And that did not work out because the Soviet Union almost immediately developed the bomb as well. But for the next 20 to 30 years, there was actually a very vibrant or even 40 years, there was actually a very vibrant movement on these issues. Like you said, scientists were in the forefront of it, peace movement science movements were very much leading this issue. But we do see that, especially post the 90s. This has not been so much an issue on in the minds of people for younger people, for instance, the question of a nuclear holocaust has not really been very much on top of their minds. So it is also because that this issue over time has kind of moved from the center of people's imagination regarding the future of the world. This is even as the US has a huge number of weapons it has walked out of previously. Well, you know why the global community is not worried about nuclear weapons anymore is essentially question I have failed to answer. It is as if if you have the doomsday set hanging over your head after sometime you become immune to it.  So somehow you do not realize how close you have been in the last 70 years for a nuclear exchange. Now, we know that nuclear bombs could have been dropped by accident. A nuclear exchange could have taken place by accident. For instance, it is now known that the US detected a flock of bees as a nuclear strike. And it is only because the person concerned who was supposed to monitor this said this can't be true that the trigger wasn't pressed. Similarly, you had situations where flights are allowed to almost about to take off and somebody stood in front of the aircraft and said, No, this cannot be true. So you have had human interventions to really stop pulling the trigger or pushing the trigger, whatever it might be. And this has prevented really an exchange of nuclear weapons when either side were not actually attacking. So it's purely what would be considered as glitches, which led to a possible exchange. And of course, you have the real possibility that somebody may, may, and if you have a cramp or if you have somebody else mad enough, may think they can win the nuclear war. So what's a big deal?  Okay, half of it will be destroyed. No big deal. So even those kind of manic figures might take over the presidency of the country. And with now roughly about 10 countries who are nuclear weapons, the number of people who have control over the trigger. And, you know, the exchange that is required to bring in what would be called a global nuclear winter is not that significant 25, 30 bombs, that would be enough to set up a cataclysmic event in the into for all countries. So the fact that this is not bothering people is also because the United States, and this is really the United States problem, they have said they would like to retain monopoly of nuclear weapons, they are not going to give it up. And if one country doesn't give it up, all the others then say, we also want to have it, we are not going to give it up. And if you look at what North Korea has faced, and what for instance Serbia or Iraq has faced, or what Libya has faced, the fact that they were not invaded. But Serbia was. The dafiz Libya was because they gave up the nuclear option, and so was Saddam. So the lesson that people seem to have taken is that if you want really to deter US, then to have the nuclear weapon is better. Otherwise, whatever negotiations you have, you still can attack. And therefore, all the promises made by the United States have no value. And therefore the final deterrent, the nuclear deterrent, this is the message that you give tend to give to the world. And that's the reason also you provoke then arms race, not only with Soviet Union, now Russia, or with China. But you also provoke it because a lot of countries then feel that well, that is the only deterrence US understands, there is no other deterrence, it will accept. And whatever treaties you might reach with the United States, the next president can tear it up. And that's it, you are back to square one. But you've already conceded a lot of things. For instance, Iran conceded a lot of things on the nuclear program. They probably were not never interested in making a bomb, but they did have a nuclear stockpile of material, which could be very quickly converted into fissile material. They had processed it about 20% purity, after which the step to the 85, 90% purity for weapons grade is not that significant. So giving all of that up, they believe that that would secure for them peace back to a certain kind of normalcy in the world. But they're, you know, in as big a sanction regime as the war before the signed all of this gave up a number of their centrifuges and also their stockpile they had of uranium fissile, not fissile uranium, but pure purified uranium up to about 20% and that was a significant stockpile they had. So the issue therefore is what is the protection that's there against the United States. And that, unfortunately, as long as the US believes that it can be the global hegemon, and it believes that therefore it needs nuclear weapons as a protection against quote unquote rogue states. So we don't think we are going to see a reversal. And because there doesn't seem to be any possibility at the moment for pressurizing the United States, no other country. We cannot be able to rule the world completely but no other complete country is in a strategic competition that the US, therefore the feeling that nuclear weapons perhaps are here to stay, unless we have a strategic parity of some kind. They do have in terms of destroying the world they do have strategy strategy parity, but they don't really have the strategic parity in terms of economics, politics, or all the other paraphernalia that goes in the strategic competition. So given that, unless there is a change in the United States itself against war, and US has I think had more than 80 invasions in the last 100 years. So unless that kind of policies change, it's going to be very difficult to build a peace movement. The world's peace movement at that time came because of the threat of mutual annihilation, and it was felt both sides could enter into war, both sides could reciprocate, and therefore the need to bring peace. And a large part of the European peace movement was, okay, you have if you want explode bombs against each other, but not in Europe. And that was one of the reasons that you had a strong peace movement in Europe, and now it's just not there. Thank you so much Praveer for talking to us. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching.


Alright, so we have a pretty big and small construction update. I guess a lot has happened over the week. We have teasers. We have maybe possible cranes arriving. We don't know. This looks like a boom lift, which they would use in assistance to helping install track in vertical construction. And we have an interesting development on the construction. So it looks like they're digging out a trench for they turn out of the station and then we're also removing in the process. All the electrical and water in that area. So we know that they did a lot of water and electrical work over like the spring and summer so far and it looks like they were probably just replacing what they need to tear out. So you'll see in a couple of these shots how much they've dug out this trench for the turn of the station. So now we know it's going to dip down pretty low because they dug out down so far about 15 feet. See right there. And we can finally see that footer that has been buried in like a ditch for the longest time now. I dug that deep that I can now see it and we have all the footers again done. Again all the footers in this area are now done and we now can only wait until the splash rips closes for them to do the other approximately like 40% of the footers, maybe even 30% of the footers remaining. So that's super exciting too. And we'll have to wait till, you know, September, October for them to start that when they close the path. But very exciting because what looks like is about to happen is vertical construction. They're cleaning up the construction site and by when I when I say that I mean they're removing objects on the right side of the construction site and moving it over to splash rips side. And why that's exciting is they cleared a pathway for the cranes and the booms and all that to move and assemble the coasters as you see here. They have stuff here and they're going to that's for the track. So they're going to store stuff on those wood beams or separate them so they don't scratch. And then you also have a lots of gravel that arrived today as well. And the gravel will be used to help prevent the cranes from sinking into the mud. So they'll lay that gravel down once they're done cleaning up so that the crane can start assembling the attraction. So as a lot of you know in my last video, you saw the gigateaser and we said take it with a grain of salt. Even though you heard it in my voice, I was bloody excited. And I'm sure you're excited too. But what's interesting is the teasing campaign as a whole. So as you see, they jumped right to these posters 8.15 and I don't have much to say about them. So the teaser posters, I feel like were a bit of a let down for me. As I was expecting a little more. What I do find really exciting is the teaser poster at Cedar Point. Unfortunately, I really wish that poster was perhaps placed at our park just because I feel like having 8.15 posted all around the construction site was a bit a bit less than what I was expecting. And I mean, they really missed the mark on not placing it on the tunnel. It made sense to have it along the construction site, but a lot of the guests are peeking into the tunnel. So for me, it didn't really make much sense as to why there wasn't any teasers on the tunnel. They definitely missed the mark on there. I know they're they're super busy right now. So I'm not insulting them at all. And I know if I was in the same boat, I'd probably be just the same. So no judgment there. I just wish my one comment would be that we see some posters at Canada's Wonderland like we see at Cedar Point for our coaster. That's all I really want to see. I mean, I was thrilled to see the giga on that poster. And something interesting about that is they did it in an ink that you can only see if you know what you're looking for. And if you notice in a lot of the pictures, you can't pick it up by the naked eye. It needs to be zoomed in and edited and enhanced like we did for our image for you to be able to get a good shot of it. So I thought that was interesting because they didn't technically want us to see it like, you know, in a lot of teasers where they throw in red herrings, you know, when a red herring is on a poster, it's out there for you to see. It's literally like so if you saw it on our poster, it'd be like the mining Co is getting ready for a gig adventure. That's how I would like expect to see it if it was a red herring. How it's placed now has me thinking. Is this possibly a giga coaster?  As you can see with these blueprints right here, again, I blanked out a lot because I don't want you seeing elements on the coaster. I just want it to use it as a reference that you can tell it's very unique in the aspect that if you look at it, it doesn't cross over and under itself like you see on a lot in all dive coasters, actually, this dive coaster is very similar to Valkyria in a sense, where it kind of goes out and back, except this out and back on this dive coaster is significantly large. So it works its way from all the way over at minebusters entrance all the way to Timberwolfe's entrance and then back. So again, this is a very unique dive coaster and one could only assume how would it make it all the way back to its break run if it was smaller than Vowraven, just some food for thought. I mean, this could end up being anything at this point with how much we know about this coaster, especially me. We don't know a lot about it. A lot of you have been messaging me over the last couple of days. I do actually know the height. Are you just withholding the information? I promise you, I do not know the height. Yes, we have some calculations. Yes, we know the lift hill is about 80 meters. It is not going to be less than 80 meters. So we do not agree with other sites that are suggesting it's going to be 175 feet tall. Again, I use the word, well, the number 175 feet tall because in order for it to be smaller than Vowraven with the tunnel depth and the valley, it would have to be about 175 feet and I can guarantee that's not the case. So don't panic. This coaster isn't going to be lame and it's great for the general public. So it's super exciting whenever Canada's Wonderland gets and we are only 22 days away from announcement. So just buckle up and get ready because over the next couple of weeks, you are going to start seeing probably again, we are just a rumors and speculation channel, vertical construction. Hopefully we see a little more teasing. I would love to see some of those posters work their way over to Canada's Wonderland. And then I mean, we're going to be at the announcement live streaming. We're going to have a couple of cameras live streaming. We're going to have one live streaming on YouTube, one live streaming on Instagram. And then we're going to have our DSLR camera capturing the moment for a documentary we are working on for the coaster. So again, lots of exciting things happening. So give the video a like, subscribe if you haven't and keep watching, guys. Have a good one. Bye.


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We're going to move to Dorothea now Dorothea Schmidt the floor is yours Thank You Terry So I think it's not an easy moment for us all because we lately we were mainly commenting on the Deconfliction in the region Speaking about the Saudi Iran normalization about the Abrahamic Accords of course Prospects of normalization with Syria that had been Hushed back into the Arab League and now we've just been Drawn back again backwards in history to this Israeli-Palestinian conflict that we all Wanted to forget or we it seems that we missed something something very big because now we see the consequences are sort of spreading within all of these conflicts That we were trying to solve just like Nabil Fahmi said I must have speaking as an as an EU citizen Who's been an observer? Rather fascinated observers of the efforts that he used on to establish and stabilize the Palestinian Authority All of these efforts that felt totally into the Hamas trap in 2006 after the elections when the EU decided to turn its back on on Raza and We are now Against as I said drawn forcibly into this trap So the three points I want to make is first that I think we we're going through a moment of flu that has been described more less by Nabil Fahmi in the beginning of his speech saying that Most regionals actors are still struggling with where they should stand and what how they're going to co elites or not to find a solution But my concern is that this moment of flu could freeze into a sort of again the West against the rest and Raza will be the sort of symbolic points that would catalyze this divide of the West Explicitly said the US the EU and Israel against a very Heterocrit sort of group of countries that have stood against What they feel as blatant injustice against the massacre in Raza that have been are being perpetrated by by Sahel currently as a sort of revenge operation for this horrendous attack that they've gone through in early October. So my problem is how do we avoid Falling into again this narrative that I see emerging Against this flu and the flu is because we work on the backdrop of the collapse of state structures most of the countries in the region we've seen that CIR arguably Lebanon has become a sort of face state as well war spreading none or unresolved conflicts and we have also this flu between what is a conflict? What's a war that was alluded to by a theory this morning and I see I heard Rasan Salami saying now you don't declare war these days. We slide into war So this is this is the concern we have is that we've been drawn into war everybody's wondering about Potential escalation with Lebanon the Hezbollah says they don't want to go to war the Lebanon is exhausted But they might be sort of sliding into war without even realizing it. So this this emerging Rational of the the West against the rest on Gaza specifically Goes with this idea that the the area of conflict is enlarging in the mines there has been a historical effort to sort of constrain the conflict to Palestine against Israel After the Arab-Israeli conflict, but I think this is totally failing now on the contrary lots of countries now feel Concerned for the situation there, but the other side which is also a lot worrying for our own societies Western societies is that through migrations and diasporas we see the divide operating in our own societies now and threatening Order peace in our own societies and in France. This is particularly a clear so Who is the rest if we have the West on one side the rest is you have two very big opportunistic actors Russia and China clearly Russia now turning its back on Israel, but also Israel turning its back on Russia So this is sort of mutual soft divorce currently China who is now expressing interest for the they have they have always said that they were in favor They were in favor of the to state solution I mean if you if you go to these sort of very Classical consolidated rhetoric of the Chinese they may have been the last defenders of the two-state solutions in the world maybe But I see Africa and Asia a lot as I said now standing against The humanitarian massacre, but also whether they feel as a political injustice in in Raza The second point is in that context I think I think three countries are especially interesting to look at The three countries to me. I know of course Israel Iran You know some protagonists that we will have to dwell on to speak about more later But for me what's more interesting nowadays Egypt? Why because it was the first Arab countries to make peace with Israel and now As Jordan actually there's a question mark about how to proceed To enlarge the zone of peace the second interesting actor protagonist is Saudi Arabia Because there is a lot of pressure on them to revive the peace plan and the idea is that maybe there could be a sort of coming-of-age Of the Saudi diplomacy now and as Nabil Fahmi said we need an Arab solution for this We need an Arab plan anyway, so they may have the Symbolic material resource, but do they have the political maturity to do it and the third country? Which I know and I'm following on a daily basis is Turkey Which actually moved from the status of? Outsider to a primary actor in this conflict also with Tayyip Erdogan having pursuing a very consistent pro-Palestinian, you know Stance and being extremely vocal against Israel for the last 15 years And proposing to mediate in the beginning and now again escalating rhetorically against Israel But my my concern is that if you think in terms of military escalation I mean and one has also said many times that he thought Sahal was Behaving in a very immoral way and that they should not go too far etc. And we know Turkey is the one Military power that is extremely active in the region currently and they already had an skirmish with Israeli forces in 2010 That led to the breakup of relations with Israel So to conclude how do we avoid this scenario and sorry? I'm insisting on these three countries also because they're on both sides I won't say that they're private countries, but they're friends of the west, but they talk to the rest They're part of the rest if you want So how do we avoid this scenario of an isolated west against an angry global south as the Americans would frame it I think it is very clear that we have to take political responsibility for the Palestinians and not economic responsibility The matter has become political again And there of course Americans are the ones who everybody will turn to to make peace And I think again they are the number one and and we see blinkin has a very hard time now traveling to the to the region And rebalancing from week to week how to operate with every protagonist of the crisis The EU that has been rather silent Has stood with Israel, but clearly there is this Deep historic regret of having failed on the Palestinian Solution But I think the the country that we have to speak about also is clearly there in terms of responsibility Israel Because first thing is that I think you have to make peace with the countries you are you are at war with I mean the Abraham make accord are a very interesting device diplomatic device But the countries that are involved are not the ones that have to make real peace with Israel. In fact, they're not Primarily concerned with the conflict And then I think of course we have to Find a way to make the israeli look at at the at the palestinias political partners again and not only as a Sort of a leftover of a of the the grand quest for the consolidation of the israeli nation state So is it wishful thinking of course we will be struggling we now we know Now it's time for war clearly But it's also time for the humanitarian operations as had been said all for these three days also but Working towards a sustainable solution and I totally agree with them If I mean that it now it's time to close this file. Otherwise it can escalate So we have to close it It means we also have a historical opportunity to take care of this This requires political patronage clearly from the u.s. According to me and this will not be easy With maybe the next administration. We don't know what the future brings It needs political will But it also needs economic resources, of course, and this is where the hebron accords rational has has its place clearly Thank you very much. Uh dilitate. Um, I You know you've covered again a lot of ground did all of the points that are being made here are hugely germane to our Our discussion. Uh, you mentioned turkey It's my understanding that president biden is planning to meet with uh, turkish president regip top at one tomorrow I believe he's traveling to the region that that should be an interesting meeting to keep our eyes on The points you were making about the potential the risks inherent in this conflict that it has the potential to Freeze over into a conflict between Again, this term that's been popping up here The west against the rest and you were you kindly helped to define what the rest might be and Where we had a bit of an issue on that yesterday But you also pointed out the risk of this of countries In the region sliding into war thinking particularly about About hasbola and in lebanon on this the risk of that But you then emphasize the the importance of of trying to expand the Zone of peace as you put it which I think is a nice phrase to describe the some of the surrounding arab countries That have made peace with israelan and potential for doing that forward So your question about how to get the israelis and the palestinians back working on a on a common political project for their own mutual benefit Would indeed be the the challenge. Thank you very much


When someone decided what the thousand dollar bill should look like, was that the grand design? Take a moment and look around you. No, seriously, look around. I'll tell you when you should come back. Every single man-made object that you can see, from the screen to the website you're using to the room you're sitting in, had some person or group of people deciding every single minute detail of how it should look, what shape it should be, what it should be made of, how you would use it, how much it should cost. I mean, you and I have always lived in a world of stuff made by people, so we take the thought intrinsic to the creation of that stuff for granted, but just take a moment and appreciate the fact that every aspect of everything you own is the way that it is because someone has decided it should be that way. Okay, come on back. So we tend to think of designers as people in Black Turtle necks and square frame glasses who draw iPad concept art all day, but design is really something that we all do whether we realize it or not. If you're figuring out how to arrange your furniture so that your tiny apartment looks less cramped, that's interior design. If you're figuring how to hook up the bundle of cables behind your TV so that you can switch between your DVD player and your cable box easily, that's circuit design. Even just getting up in the morning and deciding what you want to wear for the day is technically fashion design. You are a designer, and although design varies as much as the kinds of stuff that people make, there are certain things that the person who decided what color your shoes should be has in common with the person who programmed your computer's operating system. There are certain ideals of design that are universal, and no matter what you do for a living, knowing those principles can give you direction when you need to think about the best way to do something. For example, it's universal that a good design minimizes complexity. If you can achieve exactly the same result with one thing instead of two, you've just have the number of things that can go wrong. I mean, if you look at an engine, it looks really complicated, but there really is no part in this thing that doesn't absolutely need to be there. You might say that in aesthetic detail like the nameplate is superfluous, but those details are part of what make the experience of using or owning something, and I guarantee that there was a conversation at Ferrari about where to feature their logo under the hood. It's also possible to want something to look busy and crammed with stuff, but even then, there shouldn't be anything extra.  Second, a good design considers everybody who has to interact with it, and makes their lives easier whenever possible. YouTube has put a ton of effort into making its website easy for you to use, because if you had to fight through awkward menus or slow loading pages to watch cute pictures of puppies, you might decide to go do something else. However, although it's partially built for you, YouTube is also built to make it easy for advertisers to buy ads. It's also built to make it easy for YouTube's programmers to edit and update code. Every one of those interactions is engineered to be smooth, efficient, intuitive, and to leave everyone involved confident in what they've done with the site. Design is all about serving human interests. There's sometimes a balancing act between those interests, but a good designer will consider the full range of human interaction, from getting materials that are easy to build with to making sure that the final product is safe once it's in the landfill, and will make life easier for every human being in between. Third, a good design doesn't make any unnecessary compromises. There's no reason that a sculpture can't be easy to assemble, or that a bulldozer can't be pretty. The people who buy sculptures and the people who buy bulldozers generally care about very different things, but practicing good design means caring about every person who has to interact with what you make, whether they're a connoisseur of fine art, or a construction worker, or both. Of course, the people who make bulldozers aren't going to spend millions of dollars to make their stuff look pristine like Apple computers, because that would be wasteful. But so long as they're making stuff, it doesn't have to be ugly. You're probably already familiar with these concepts on some level, but professional designers focus on principles like these and work to incorporate them into every aspect of everything that they make, until they finally stick it in a box and ship it. What's really crazy is that the absolute best designs are so keyed in to human thought that they become essentially transparent. They become extensions of ourselves. Like you probably don't think much about the thousands upon thousands of man hours of work that has gone into designing Google, you just go to Google, type in what you want, and it's usually the first result. But taking a moment to step back and think about the decisions that go into the things that you interact with every day, from your mouse to your underwear, can help you to recognize those designs that are so good that you can't even see them anymore. And in so doing, maybe learn something. You are swimming in an ocean of human thought centered on you and making your life better. And taking some time to think about what works and what doesn't, can maybe help you figure out how to make it better yourself. If you have any design in your life that you really appreciate for some reason, whether it's how your phone fits perfectly in your hand or how your favorite pen writes, please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to blah blah subscribe, blah share, and I'll see you next week.


Yes, sir, Mr. President. How are you? Good to see you. It's been a pleasure. When they're all going to stay, they're all going to stay except camp. And I'm escaping. And he's going to jump ship. I don't show over here. You're transition too. That's right. You're the one that brought us in. That's right. We came over to the shirt sleeves on Friday afternoon. We didn't know anything about it, Tommy, and I until you announced it. Okay, everybody look at this. Like A.B. Cole has announced his White House council while he's at Mexico. Well, is it candy? Candy, sir. I've been doing this for you ever since. Did you get the picture of President Jim? Sure. Yes. Mr.  Thank you. Okay. Yes. I want to talk in a few days. I'm there myself. I'm going to tell you about this man. He was my Chief of Staff at the Senate. He really, really did a superb job. But the picture that you just had made with Jim Cannon, where I can no doubt will go up right beside the picture of Jim Cannon and Jerry Ford. And beside the picture of Jim Cannon and Nelson Rockefeller. And beside one of you and me. And you are a man of all seasons. Thank you. He served. He served three presidents now. That is correct. That is correct. Not the three hours? We can do that. There we are. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Jim, we're coming back down there. Yes. See you later, Mr. President. Okay. I just want to get out of my family. Good. Well, thank you. Have a good one. Thank you. Why don't we just go around and get a family? About kissing cousins? Yeah. I told Secretary Schultz that we should have said a better word. Now is the time for easy one.  Put in the war. Thank you very much. Well, I thank you for what you do. Wait one second, but... I think a few souvenirs here. Thank you. Thank you very much. I love you. I don't know how. I've never heard of it, but anyway, they're yo-yo's. Thank you. Thank you. All right, thank you. Thank you again. Keep up the good work. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye. Mr. President and Ambassador Bird. Mr. President, very nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you for the honor. This is my wife, Libby. Actually, we had the flight attendant show ten, fifteen years ago in Taiwan, and you were representing President Nixon. Yes, you were the governor of California. That's right, that's right. This is my daughter, Libby. Nice to see you. I think we ought to get a family picture here. All right? How do I do it? I don't think so.  Thank you. Listen, I know the change is going to be quite drastic between the two places. I'm grateful to you for doing it. Just a souvenir. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You were the governor left behind on that greatest gift I ever had in my life. The case of California won. The case of California won. And the Delilah collection of nuts. Delilah collection of nuts. I've been blood in their wine for years. I've been blood in their wine for years. So we come forward for a return visit with the United Nations. Quite a little country they've got there. They've built it up out of nothing. We'll try and do the same for Burma. All right. Thank you, sir. You're very kind. Nice to meet you. Nice to see you. Our best to miss is Reagan. I shall. Are you on? President, how are you, sir? Good. Good afternoon. Welcome back from Canada. I'm just trying to get a family picture. This way? You must have had lots of practice in Canada. You still can smile, sir, I think. I have to make a thank-you for the present to you. Years ago, when I was doing Indonesia Visit of President Suharto, our son was now a great murderer of yours. I had to dance everything. I asked you to sign. And you didn't just sign it. You wrote a note to him. And that has been taken to college. Everybody has become a Republican from there. He's still very much at this. And I remember that with great appreciation. How kind you were. And it's a good evening. Please do. I know that what you've done is, Gaston's the epitome. I know what you can do for us now in Malaysia. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. It's wonderful. We're glad you sent Gaston over to us. But I'm sure you must miss him over here. He's a wonderful man. Wait one second here. I just wanted you to forgive us. Thank you, sir. You too. It's very nice. We're going to present our credentials out there. Thank you for receiving us. And lots of luck for the rest of the time. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. That's Ambassador Lahn. We're pleased to meet you. This is my wife, Mary. Nice to see you. This is my father. I'm able to see you. I'm a mother-in-law. My father-in-law. I've got a family picture. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. I'm going to add some hazardous, hazardous duties for Thor. Kiss him. Back in 75, 76, we spoke at a farewell luncheon for H.I. Gross. I don't even remember it. I don't even know. He said it's not my good to do so. I'm going to throw in the newest commentator, but I'm going to do sports. It was a farewell luncheon over at the house. Well, listen. I'll give you a few mementos. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I should say. I've waited a long time for this. I'm the one who writes the letters to you. I'll give you the information. Yes. Why don't we move over here and have a family picture? Okay. We'll go over the front, won't you? I'll see. Okay. Remember white pigeon or not? Oh. That's all she talked about. I wanted to look up some pictures and take a long to show you, but I'm not sure whether we can... We can go by train and then in the sleigh. Yeah, that's right. I remember. That's right. Here's the old store. I'm still in the map. I'm still in the map. If you could use up the profit just by using the $1.3 to pay the crime for a whole case. And you can. Now it's different. Oh, I've got a note for you. A note for me? What are you doing? Oh, some doctor. I'm telling you. I can't use these things. I've got this. I've done surgery on my knee and jam or something. I told you to write it out. Because you can't read it out? I couldn't read it. I couldn't read it out. Yeah, it's a doctor's writing. My kid said that was my football coach in college. And yeah, he fell recently.  The coach of the wine receivers and the head tutor. And then he had an accident and he fell of that. He's a doctor. I'll be done. I've done surgery on my knee a couple of weeks ago. I told him that we were coming here and hoping to see you. I said we wasn't sure what we'd be able to do. We were giving him a message for me. So he started telling me, you'd better write that down. Because I knew I would remember it all. I didn't know all of it. I had to tell you how well for the rest of our kids I had this boy's they all used to send him a nice 8x10 picture all of that picture. He just loves that picture. And of course Jean talked to you once how many years ago for his folks it's 50th anniversary you called at our house and congratulated on the television. That was when you called and they didn't believe it was you. But she's been looking for you ever since. I guess you must have. But I kind of told her I said well I said hey mind your position she got more to do than that. You like all this to you? Well I have to tell you you have a feeling you're doing something useful. That's the only consolation you get out of that. I used to make speeches about things that were and I thought were wrong and all of that but now I at least have a chance to deal with it. Yeah right. It's a little different. And how's Nancy doing? Just fine. I'm guessing employee free. I'm on a salary but I look at the schedule every sometimes. All of a sudden she'll say tomorrow I'm going to New York what do you want? Well there's this or that. You've got a wife and you have a wife. Well listen I know I've got to move on. Yeah we realize that. I'm sure did appreciate seeing you. I remember you were back and you used to send me stuff about when you did the movies. You used to send me stuff when you did the movies pictures and belts and stuff but I didn't know that you were at all.  Yeah I took that. His mother's got drawers and boxes and books and things. You were telling me about not believing that it was me. The voices together and say hello and I'd say hello there's Ronald Reagan. Yeah and I'm Betty Davis. I only told you that when he called that time. Yeah so you know. Nobody really thinks I know people at work because they know. She done that without us knowing but we didn't know you at that time. And then she gave you her telephone number and so on and then you called and she said Mrs. Walters or they just give it to me you know. And I started talking to you and you said well this is Ronald Reagan. He's a busy man so we'll leave you out. Thank you for all we've got. Well listen good to see you. Nice to see you. Took a lot to get in here. See if we can get out now all the guys. Thank you again. Thank you.


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Because plugins don't control the look and feel of a WordPress site, if you need to make use of custom CSS or JavaScript, you need to follow a process called enqueuing. In order to add custom CSS or JavaScript, a WordPress plugin needs a way to add a script or style tag to the HTML being rendered at any time. Fortunately, WordPress allows plugin developers to enqueue their plugin CSS or JavaScript so that it is added at the right place in the HTML of any request. In this lesson, you'll learn how to enqueue custom CSS and JavaScript on either the front end or the admin dashboard. As with most WordPress functionality, to start, you need to register a callback function on a specific hook and use the callback to enqueue your scripts or styles. The correct hook to use is the WP enqueue scripts action hook. As you can see from the documentation, despite the hook's name, it is used for enqueuing both scripts and styles. To start by registering the callback to the hook and creating the callback function. So WP enqueue scripts, and let's call our function bookstore key scripts. You can use that function, ready for code to be added. You can now enqueue your custom CSS or JavaScript. Let's target the book title on any given book on the front end and make it read. Go ahead and create an empty bookstore.css file in your bookstore plugin directory to be enqueued by your plugin. Inside that file, add the following code. Single book class, and we'll target the h1 tags, and we'll make them read. Anytime a single book is rendered, it will add the single book class to the body element of the HTML page. And so this code will change the color of any h1 tag inside that body tag to read. Now that you've created the CSS file, you need to enqueue it inside the bookstore enqueue scripts function. You do this using the WP enqueue style function. At a minimum, you need to pass in at least the first two arguments for that function. The handle, which is a unique name for the style sheet that's used when the style sheet is added to the HTML. And the source, which is the full URL to the style sheet or a path of a style sheet relative to the WordPress root directory. In a plugin, you can use the plugins URL function to get the URL of the plugins directory and then concatenate that with the path to your CSS file.  During a WordPress request, this will add the style sheet handle and the URL to a WP styles object. When the HTML to be rendered is generated and WordPress is ready to output the head tag, it will loop through each styles sheet in this WP styles object and output an HTML style element. Using the handle is the elements ID attribute and the source is the elements href attribute. With the CSS file enqueued, go ahead and browse to the single book view of any book you've added and you should notice that the h1 element is red. You can also enqueue JavaScript files from your plugin using the same WP enqueue scripts action or callback. The only difference is that instead of using WP enqueue style, you use WP enqueue script. Similar to WP enqueue style, you pass a unique handle and source argument to WP enqueue script for it to enqueue your JavaScript file. First, create the bookstore.js file in the bookstore directory and then add a simple JavaScript alert to it. Now, update the bookstore enqueue scripts to enqueue the bookstore.js file using WP enqueue script. WP enqueue script with a unique handle and we can use the same URL, just this time targeting the JavaScript file. As with stylesheets, WP enqueue script will add the script handle and URL to a WP scripts object and outputs an HTML script element for each one. Using the handle in the ID attribute and the URL in the source attribute. With this script enqueued, browse to the single book view of any book you've added and you should see the alert pop up on the page. You can also enqueue styles and scripts to the admin dashboard using the admin enqueue scripts action instead of the WP enqueue scripts action. Once you've registered the callback function on the hook, the process of enqueuing scripts and styles is the same as for the front end using WP enqueue style and WP enqueue script. In the examples in this lesson, the bookstore, CSS and JavaScript is enqueued on every page requested the site. This is not ideal. In the case of the CSS, for example, it's specifically targeting H1 elements on the single book view. So you don't need to enqueue the CSS for anything other than books. It is possible to perform selective enqueuing where you determine the specific scenario when the file should be enqueued. For example, in the case of the bookstore CSS, you could use the getPost function to get the current post object and then use that to check if the post type is a book. If it isn't, then exit the function and don't enqueue the stylesheet or script file. There are a number of other ways to make sure that your plugin stylesheet or script files are only loaded when needed. Doing this means that your plugin won't add any unnecessary overhead or loading times to any WordPress site it's installed on.


Coming up on DTNS, the secret trend of digital gardens, Burger King Tech accelerates and does Facebook's election ad policy deserve the term policy? This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And lovely Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Richard Raffalino from Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert Young. I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. Sarah Lane has a well-deserved day off today and tomorrow, but we were just talking about the movie Mulan. We were talking about a New York Times article that we might get some antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. government against Google. If you want that wider conversation, go to patreon.com slash DTNS and sign up for Good Day Internet. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple told the information that it has pushed back its change in device ID collection to 2021 to give developers more time to adapt. If you recall, Apple announced at WWDC that in iOS 14, it would start requiring users to opt in rather than opt out of sharing their device ID, which is used for tracking purposes like advertising. Facebook recently told its ad customers it might have to stop operating its audience network on iOS as a result of the change. So Apple's given them more time to figure that out. Google has partnered with fellow Alphabet company DeepMind to improve arrival time estimates in Google Maps. Google says it has been 97% accurate using historical and current traffic conditions, but DeepMind helped improve accuracy by predicting future traffic conditions using a graphic neural network. Google says it has approved ETAs by up to 50%, even predicting traffic jams before they form. So just so you can keep track of that, they were 97% accurate and then they were 50% accurate. Tom, 60% of the time it works every time. Thank you. Apple will let developers offer codes for discounted or free subscriptions in iOS 14. The codes can be included in physical products or delivered online. Developers could previously set limited free or discounted pricing in the App Store, but Apple says the offer codes will offer more granular controls to acquire, retain, and win back subscribers. We shall win you back. China's Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gal Fong confirmed Thursday that companies quote should consult provincial level commerce administrations for any overseas transactions involving technologies listed under new export rules. That means tic-tac. Because China just added personal information, push services based on data analysis and artificial intelligence interactive interfaces to the list last Friday. Those are two things tic-tac uses to be successful. If you recall, Microsoft and Walmart are partnering on a bid for tic-tacs operations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. And we just learned today SoftBank is apparently interested in buying tic-tacs Indian operations. The service is currently blocked in India. China launched Alexa for residential that lets property managers set up and maintain smart home experiences in condos and apartments while letting residents control features like timers, alarms, and weather. Property managers can create custom skills for things like maintenance requests, amenity reservations, or even potentially paying rent. Renters can link their personal accounts to Alexa devices and property managers have no access to personal data with the ability to remotely reset devices when a resident leaves. TCL announced several products including a 10.36 inch widescreen tablet, the TCL 10Tab Max, with far-field microphones starting at 249 euros in Q4. There's also the 8 inch 10Tab Mid that's starting at 229 euros in Q4 as well. The Move Audio S200 earbuds come in at the end of September for 99 euros. And the MoveTime Family Watch, targeted at seniors and with health tracking and fall detection, is coming in the autumn and to move North America and Europe for 229 euros. TCL also showed off a prototype tablet called Next Paper that provides full color HD definition with no flicker or blue light to make for a paper-like experience. Display tech, I like it. And Facebook's FRL Research, which is now the name, so don't get me for like, but Facebook's already in the acronym. It's now just called FRL Research. It's like, and I don't know, like KFC. FRL Research showed some of its research for the use of sound in augmented reality. One example determines what you're paying attention to and then amplifies those sounds above others using noise canceling. Great for hearing a conversation in a crowded bar, for instance. Another example would be to project voices from remote participants in a video called a certain parts of the room so they feel present like they're there with you. It's similar to what hearing aids do, but using data from AR glasses to help refine it. Commercial applications are considered to be years away. This is just prototype research stuff. Oculus has temporarily paused sales in Germany, telling German news site Heisei online that it was a proactive measure as part of talks with German authorities. Facebook recently announced that it would begin requiring the use of Facebook account Facebook had to log into Oculus Services, which may be the subject of the talks. Sounds like a threat to me. All right, let's talk a little more about what's going on from Qualcomm. Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon HCX Gen 2 5G chipset. This is its flagship arm processor for use with Windows. The HCX Gen 2 doesn't change much from the Gen 1. It does add Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1. It can do 4K now at 60 frames per second. It could do 4K, but now I can do it at 60 frames per second. Microsoft is extending app assure to Snapdragon now as well. So developers can get Microsoft help making their apps compatible at no cost. That should help bring a few more apps over and not require emulation. The HCX Gen 2 will arrive later this year on Acer's first 5G laptop. The Acer Spin 7, as well as on some HP laptops. Qualcomm also announced adaptive active noise cancellation for wireless earbuds, which kind of like what happens in AirPods can adjust your sound performance in real time. In fact, Qualcomm claims that it can work with a wider variety of earbud styles and not require an ear tip fit test. It'll just work. Qualcomm finally also announced 5G support coming to its Snapdragon 4 series chips. That's the ones meant for phones generally sold for less than 200 bucks. Oppo, Xiaomi and Motorola all say they're going to put out cheap 5G phones using the tech starting as early as Q1 2021. So new hope for windows on arm, cheaper 5G phones. Everybody likes that. But what about this adaptive active noise cancellation? Yeah, I think it's it's interesting what market Qualcomm is trying to target here, because if you look at a recent breakdown of kind of the market when it comes to wireless earbuds, it's Apple has the biggest share kind of point research to this in Q2. Apple has the biggest share. That's like Xiaomi and Samsung have, you know, like a quarter or less than that. There's Jabra and JBL have a tiny slice. And then there's the vast majority, the bulk of these wireless earbuds come from, you know, Chinese OEMs.  And so it's interesting that Qualcomm clearly wants this is targeting this at people like Audio Technica at Sennheiser, stuff like that.  High end audio is always just such a weird market these days. Apple still struggles with it in some ways. They've managed to do it really well with AirPods. But when you look at something like the HomePod stuff like that, it's it's tough to market like really great audio in that way. And I just think there is a really there's a relatively small addressable market for that. I mean, if you look at it, JBL and Jabra are kind of the two other kind of high end makers. They own six percent in there, maybe two. But yeah, there's not a whole lot of them. Sony is not like they're not even a pie slice on the counterpoint thing, so it's less than three percent. They're not looking for market share. They are looking for a high price luxury item. And what I think that we are looking at here is the wireless earbud market has been dominated by connectivity. And I don't mean that in any other way than how fast these things can connect to your device. The longer you got to fiddle, the more you got to go into a menu, the less that they are exciting. And this is the reason why the AirPods and the AirPods Pro have been hits because Apple controls that entire relationship. They just go boom. And next thing you know, you are walking down the street listening to what you need to do. They can go in and out of your ears very, very quickly. It's a revolution. If these chipsets and the the the standard start to continue to settle down, then maybe we do see some differentiation between brands that have a reputation for great sound, Pang and Oliveson, JBL and Jabra are three of them that you could say, OK, well, maybe they do sound better. Maybe there is a measurable different experience that they can deliver that lets them get into that iPad or iPod or AirPods Pro price tab. Yeah. I mean, and that's usually the way a lot of these markets have gone is Apple controls the whole stack, right? So it leaps out in front with its thing.  I think what your point now, Rich, is we're still in that first stage, right? We haven't got that second stage. And maybe this this announcement from Qualcomm seems like it will potentially introduce that second stage. Well, speaking of next stages, perhaps Fujifilm announced the XF 50 millimeter F 1.0 RWR, a new auto focusing lens for its X series of mirrorless cameras. While camera lenses with apertures at or below F 1.0 are not unheard of, they're out there, this lens particularly will offer the fastest aperture in production with auto focus, kind of a big deal. If you're not a photographer, not into this, the kind of stuff. A lower F stop number means that the lens can gather more light and provides a shallower depth of field for a blurry background, kind of portrait effect like you would find on your phone, perhaps. It includes 12 lens elements in nine groups and weighs 1.86 pounds. Preorders are available now for $1,500 and the lens will ship this fall. So I definitely want to talk about this. I am, you know, I like the photography and stuff like that. And this is this is really a big deal. And it's it's kind of tied to the larger trend in mirrorless like the shift to mirrorless cameras is basically complete now. They said Nikon Canon, they also still tell a ton of DSLRs. But mirrorless is clearly the future that everyone is banking on. And Fuji is kind of the only holdout in a certain way in that regard in that everyone else seemingly other than Olympus, who maybe doesn't have camera operations anymore at this point, is going all full frame with their sensor sizes. They're the size of like a 35 millimeter negative. Fuji is the only one that's kind of still banging that APS-C sensor sized drum. And one of the knocks against that as a technology is that you can't get as shallow of depth of field with a given lens. So an F 1.0 lens is going to give you less shallow depth of field, which is a big deal when it comes to photography. This is a statement piece for Fujifilm that they can do this with autofocus. The only thing comparable really out there is like the Nikon Noct, which is a five pound lens that costs $8,000 and is an F.0, I'm sorry, 0.95 lens. And it's like impossibly huge and just completely bulky. This is something that a wedding photographer could buy and create really great images with. It's relatively compact for the size. It's a huge lens for Fujifilm, but compared to full frame offerings and stuff like that. This is relatively compact and it's a real statement piece that they're able to jam in that kind of stuff and prove that they can still kind of get the effects that photographers want with this, what seemingly is not seen as the future of photographic sensors. I mean, yeah, I self identify as photography ignorant, but all the people that I see who know this stuff are just jaw dropping at this combination, seems like. And Canon has put out an autofocusing F 1.0 lens in the past, but it was riddled with all sorts of weird quirks. And so by all accounts, this thing actually works and it can autofocus and it doesn't fall apart in like weird lighting. I mean, the big question though is like, who is this marketed at? Because at $1,500, it's not necessarily put into. $1,500 is nothing. No, I'm well aware of the price of what price of glass goes, but in APS-C, I mean, there's a reason why it's going out of favor. It's because as the digital camera market shrinks, a lot of the people that are buying are basically either professionals or content creators.  And it does go against the strength of an APS system where it is heavier, like the reason you would go with that is you want a lighter rig. This isn't necessarily light. But if you look at the price of other high-end Fuji glass, this is pretty much in, it's near the top of that range, but it's not even their most expensive lens at this point. Hey kids, do you remember the US National Security Agency program that collected metadata on US citizen phone calls in an effort to track foreign targets? I do. The one revealed by Edward Snowden, oh hey, the courts got around to ruling on an aspect of it. Oh, that was fast. Yeah, that's all right. Thursday, a three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the metadata program played such a small part of the conviction of terror fundraising of four people in the Basali-Mualin case that disregarding it would not undermine their conviction. However, in the court's opinion, Judge Marsha Bersen wrote that the bulk collection of such data violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA is what you might know it as if you listen to 24-hour cable news. The court rejected the argument that the collecting of metadata did not constitute a search because customers voluntarily shared the information with telephone providers. The court said that the defendants had a likely reasonable expectation of privacy. Former FBI official, Sean Joyce, had told Congress that metadata led to the convictions in the Mualin case, but Judge Bersen wrote, quote, that impression is inconsistent with the contents of the classified record, unquote, the decision is subject to a review, but the appeals court's full 11-member panel, as well as a petition, sorry, it would require the appeals court's full 11-member panel as well as a petition to the Supreme Court. Yes, is this all somewhat moot? Indeed, the metadata program was shut down in 2015 and replaced by a program which left the metadata with the phone companies and that new program appeals to have been abandoned. In fact, two of the co-defendants in the case have already completed their original sentence and have been released, just in time. But in a slightly related, but much faster decision, federal courts in Chicago have three times rejected government applications for warrants that would force Google to release what phones were on near two commercial locations during three 45-minute intervals. Google says the request for these geofet searches have risen 100-fold in the last two years. Yeah, so dealing with the Walling case first, the case was we think the collection was illegal and therefore because the collection was illegal, his case should be thrown out of court because they based it on illegally collected evidence, right? That is a very common thing that you can do in a criminal case is to say the way they collected the evidence violated my rights and therefore we have to have a retrial. What the judges said here was, yes, we agree it was illegal and that's precedent setting. It's a little late to the game, but it's precedent setting. But they didn't think that the metadata was essential to the conviction which goes against every justification for the metadata program ever, right? They're like, yeah, that metadata thing was illegal but from what we can tell reading all this classified stuff, you made your case just fine even if you didn't have it. So we're not gonna throw the conviction out of court. That, I'm glad you brought up the Chicago thing because the modern equivalent of the metadata collection is geofencing. It's a more modern way of just saying like, hey, tell us every phone that was on near this burglary or near this shooting and it's a phishing expedition, right? It's like we wanna see all the phones and see if any of them match up with something we might know and Google resists those collections and the court is now saying like, yeah, that's overbroad. If these court cases do move up through the chain, we might get a precedent setting ruling on that as well which would be more restrictive about these kinds of warrants because some courts do grant them across the United States. Technology reviews, Tanya Basu reports on a trend called digital gardens which to my 50 year old ears sounds like geosettings but listen up. The idea does in fact have its roots in what Mark Bernstein called a hypertext garden back in 1998. Digital gardens are personal websites that aren't blogs and aren't meant to be a definitive resource on something. It's just stuff I like, my art, my essays. A lot of times they have personal wikis in them, photo galleries, personal lists. People use anything from a Google doc to WordPress to some of these new services that are like just a page of links and then people connect their gardens through good old fashioned linking to each other. They don't say web ring, but kind of reminds me of that. They are edited at any time. So you don't have to keep them up like a blog. You can go in and change stuff as you change your opinions. They're very wiki-like. That's why you do see wikis in a lot of them. And while most digital gardens require the creator to figure out their own tech, there are now starting to be a few services like one called Toast from Chris Biscardi in development. Toast is still an alpha, but if you want to compare a subculture, if you're like, man, I missed those days when the internet had a bunch of subcultures. Now everything's just huge. Digital gardens, check it out. It's something that's got a following. You had a great tweet, Tom, about the realization that we all have to make, specifically those that came up when the internet was young. And we thought that every one of these little, you know, explosions of popularity, we're all, if not counterculture, certainly apart from the mainstream. And now we just have to reckon with the fact that this is mainstream. Twitter is mainstream. Facebook is mainstream. And so it is very almost refreshing to shine a light on something that is apart from that.  Yeah, I'm interested to see how, if there's other subcultures on the internet that are kind of doing this un-platforming, right? Where the point is not to go viral, the point is not to be connected to everyone at once, is to kind of own the thing that you're creating, that not just the content that's on there, but even the way it is presented, like the page itself kind of comes from either your ingenuity or your creativity or something like that, as opposed to fitting into the cookie cutter of another network or something like that, I think is maybe like a, this is part of that trend definitely as well. Yeah, well, it's sharing because you wanna share something, not because you want to monetize it. It's a hobby. One thing that's not a hobby is the Monarchal Fast Food Chain Burger King. And they unveiled two restaurants designed to offer a touchless experience for customers. These designed, one of them is called The Next Level and the other is Your Way. Use 60% less square footage than traditional layouts. The Your Way design features two drive-through lanes, a dedicated walk-up window for orders, a shaded outdoor dining patio, as well as a parking area with solar powered canopies where customers can scan a QR code and then place an order through the Burger King mobile app. The Next Level design, meanwhile, offers three drive-through lanes including a dedicated delivery lane and offers a two-floor design with the dining area that overhangs the drive-through to save, further save space with orders delivered from the kitchen by conveyor belt kind of vibe. I'm hope, I imagine it in an I Love Lucy kind of way because I'm a thousand years old. New Designers will open next year in Latin America, the Caribbean and Miami. So, I mean, Tom, I guess the question I have for both of you is which one I guess maybe sounds more appealing? Like Justin, like your thoughts? You know, I think that there is a lot of conversation that we've had on this show about how programs like Zoom and stuff have seen probably like four years adoption in about six to seven months. I wonder if this is part of it. These kinds of concepts would have been here but now we might see them a little bit faster because of COVID restrictions and the uncertain business market. Yeah, the Invadido saw me on me. That's all I have to say. Oh, and you didn't mention the lockers. They also have lockers. I'm curious if those keep your food warm. Because they could order ahead of time. Yeah, although Burger King based in Miami, so. Yeah, maybe there's a flame broiler in the locker. Yeah, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. Facebook will stop taking political advertising soon. Well, seven days before the US election on November 3rd. Well, kind of. Candidates and political action committees can continue to buy ads if they received at least one impression by October 27th and they can still target those ads and adjust spending on those campaigns. But here's where they're drawn the line. You can't put out new creative after October 27th. Your message on October 27th is your message for the rest of the election. There you go, Facebook's sticking it to them.  It's not obvious how to do it, but if you go search for turn off political ads on Facebook, there's plenty of good articles out there that walk you through it. Okay, so Justin, October 27th, no new messages on Facebook for political advertisements. Will this have an effect? In a word, no. Well, thanks everyone. That's our show. I guess if you were going to draw up a fan fiction scenario in which this was massively important, it would rely on a massive news story happening or not being able to burgeon or bubble up to the top of people's feeds and ads that would have supported it. Even then, I don't know anything that would be that newsworthy that wouldn't organically rip through Facebook, through whatever media would normally be there. The reality is that most political ads are there to fundraise. And if you are a week away from the election, you are not looking at the fundraising so much as you are looking at spending the money. Facebook is giving everybody a heads up to just make sure your final orders are in before. But that would probably be the case anyway. There's not going to be much of a material effect. If anything, it reminds me a little bit of the quote unquote advertising boycotts that some of the companies had when people were mad at Facebook a few weeks ago or months ago where it effectively was just advertising for them that they were not advertising on Facebook when not a single dime didn't go to Facebook. They literally just reallocated it to another moment in time. So ultimately no, this is a Facebook pounding their staff in the sand and nothing really coming on it. Yeah, there were some other things they announced to just for completeness on the story. The Voter Information Center is going up at the top of Facebook and Instagram feeds. This is just voter information. Where's your polling place? How do you vote? All that stuff will include messaging that vote counting might not lead to a winner being announced on election night, trying to get ahead of people's expectations on that because we might have some slower counting. There's a partnership with Reuters to display election results as they come in in the Voter Information Center. Facebook will remove posts containing clear misinformation and add links to accurate information to post that try to discourage people from voting. They're gonna label any attempts by a campaigner candidate to declare victory before the results are official. They won't take it down, they'll label it. They'll label posts that cast doubt on official outcomes. Again, won't take it down, they'll label it. They'll expand policies against voter suppression to include implicit misrepresentations. The example they used was, I hear anybody with a driver's license can get a ballot, which is not true. And so they're gonna expand that to include in their policy against voter suppression posts. And they're gonna restrict the number of people you can forward links to on Messenger. This is something they've done with good effect on WhatsApp to prevent the spread of misinformation starting in places like India, but they've expanded it worldwide. So they're gonna do that on Messenger as well. These feel like, with varying levels, more significant attempts to provide some good. The last one, the last one to me is the only thing that I can look at and say, all right, you wanna know what? If you're going to thousands of people, that's not what WhatsApp is necessarily for, that is well within there, right, to just say, you can only forward it to X amount of people. So whatever any information can only spread so fast on this platform, with the idea of being, let's avoid the worst case scenario. Everything else, the labels, you guys know my, say it with me, hashtag Hell Porter, hashtag Portal to Hell. Like, for a million different reasons that are more political than they are technical, if we have a situation where somebody is declaring victory on election night, that horse is gonna be out of the barn. Also, a lot that anybody, including Facebook and their labels are going to be able to do them. Every presidential candidate declares victory before the official results are talented by several measures. One is a lot of times it's just based on the overwhelming evidence of exit polls. You don't get official certifications of an election until later, and even then with the electoral college, you're not really elected to the electoral college vote. So I'm not sure what they mean by official certification. I think a lot of this is announcing a policy before somebody does something that they have to put a label on just to say, we're gonna label things. I, again, there's only so much that you can curtail misinformation when it comes to political speech because all political speech is inherently designed to be informative very narrowly to the benefit of the person talking. Yeah, and, you know, Justin, to your point about limiting the forwards on Messenger and that kind of stuff. I mean, one, that's the one thing I'm seeing on here that we've actually seen evidence of, you know, having an actual impact of affecting people's behavior and actually, you know, changing a platform or limiting a platform in some way. And it's also the other one that doesn't explicitly, you know, that's not in any way tied directly to political speech. Now, it may happen to be that somebody forwards but Facebook doesn't know what's in those messages.  So I think it's interesting that the one thing that isn't inherently related to politics is perhaps the one thing that might be the most effective. Real quickly, after public pressure, Facebook has suspended Indian politician, T. Rajas Singh. He's a member of the ruling BJP party for hateful posts. He will not be able to create profiles on any Facebook service and groups and accounts that are set up to represent him will be removed as well. Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Let's check out the mailbag, Rich. What's in there? All right, well, we got Daniel in Sin City writing in. He writes in, I lament Twitter adding context to trending topics because it marks the beginning of the end of my favorite segment, of my second favorite podcast, Reply All, called Yes, Yes, No. For the uninitiated, the whole premise of the segment is three guys of varying awareness of trends, memes, Reddit topics, and general internets trying to explain a cryptic trending tweet to each other and to the listener with hilarious in-depth explanations and banter. The goal is to get all three to answer the question, do you understand this tweet with a yes? If Twitter curated or contextual pinned tweets eventually expand beyond the very top trending topics, this may very well be dead. Who wants to hear a segment that starts with yes, yes, yes, because Twitter told me so. Besides, I'm definitely not one of those who scours Reddit every day or even uses Twitter very often. So when I listen to someone as bewildered as I am upon first reading a tweet about current internet happenings, which sounds like it was written in another language, I empathize immediately. Hoping Twitter doesn't take it too far simply from my own selfish entertainment. Thank you, Daniel. Yes, Daniel. I believe yes, yes, no, we'll still be safe. They'll just not be allowed. It's like, don't Google an answer during a quiz show. But yeah, it's a fair point. 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