Hey guys, I want to talk seriously for a minute. I'm gonna be taking a short break when I started making these silly videos I kind of wanted them to be a distraction from all the ways that COVID was disrupting our lives But after watching the murder of Ahmad Arbery and the murder of George Floyd and also watching The response to those murders in my community and all over the country as far as making videos I hope it goes without saying that my heart isn't really in it right now I'm also concerned that it's not the right time to continue all this is happening These videos take a lot of time to put together and I would like to spend some time engaging with my community We're at a really important time in our nation's history And I would like the freedom to be able to participate in a nonviolent way and I can't do both I do enjoy making the videos and I have a lot of ideas, but yeah short break. That's it. Stay safe, and I'll see you soon


Hello, hello, hello and welcome. I'm Meroen Kellele. We are DM25, a radical political movement for Europe. And this is another live debate with our coordinating team featuring subversive ideas you won't hear anywhere else. And today, we're talking Elon Musk and Twitter. Six weeks ago, the world's richest person took over the social media platform in a $44 billion deal. He promised to turn the digital town square into a haven for free speech and make its content moderation rules less arbitrary, more transparent. Since then, though, there's been chaos and confusion on both the business and the tech side of the platform. Half of the company's staff have been fired, prominent accounts banned and unbanned, internal documents from the previous Twitter team been published suggesting government actors urging the platform to censor their political opponents or legitimate news stories. And regulators and even other big tech companies like Apple have threatened to clamp down on Twitter due to concerns about hate speech. Now, some argue that these are just the platform's growing pains and that oligarchs who support open debate are preferable to those with opaque moderation or censorship policies.  Still others argue that this debate over what's happening on the platform is missing the point and that Musk is actually the latest member of a new ruling class, eager to turn us all into 21st century serfs using the power of crowd capital. So what's the truth? What shall we be thinking about this? Six weeks after Musk's takeover of Twitter, our panel investigates and debates including Janis Faroukakis, Aaron Janis Faroukakis and the rest of our team of activists and policy people and you. You out there, if you've got thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, rants, opinions on this topic, then please put them into the YouTube chat and we will put them to our panel. Janis, let's start with you, Flo is yours. Thanks, Meran. Okay. Two basic narratives have been competing, neither of which is the one that I adopted regarding Elon Musk and Twitter. The first narrative is that Meran already said it, but I will repeat it once again much more slowly than Meran did. A more leisurely re-take on what we've already heard. He's a spoiled brat. He's a tech billionaire, like all powerful toaster on full young men or youngish men who suddenly found themselves in the position of ultra power. He wants to control what we think in the same way that Rupert Murdoch when he inherited a few newspapers from his dad or Citizen Kane in the famous movie by Austin Wells, a fictional character based on a real character that, you know, power breeds a tendency, a propensity to dominate the debate, the conversation to force people to think what you're thinking, brainwashing. That's one narrative. The other narrative is that this is another business opportunity for him. He spent 44 billion purchasing it and he's yet another big tech operator trying to make a mint out of a very risky investment. So he walked into Twitter, he fired half of the personnel to reduce costs, which is what, you know, every takeover of the last 30 years has been based on the idea that you boost the share price and the capacity to financialize your investment by firing people and steamrolling over the personnel that you inherit after such a purchase. Then there is the inevitable debate about free speech. Now I get bored by all these contributions. I don't think any of them hit the nail on the head while each one of them has an element of truth. Yes, he's a brat. It's clear that Elon Musk is a brat. Well, at the same time, he's a lot more than that. He's somebody who created SpaceX from nothing. He's somebody who has been, according to people that I trust and know and who know this business, he's an engineering genius, whatever his detractors may say. There is an element of truth about his libertarian propensity and the fact that he wants to let people speak freely without thinking of what that means in terms of hate speech. All that is the small truths that are contributing to nothing much of a broad picture. I think what is far more interesting to discuss is the manner in which the purchase of Twitter was the last purchase, something like Elon Musk make. The last thing that was available at the marketplace for billionaires was that would allow him to enter a very special group, a tiny group of big tech owners of key owners of what Meron refers to, this is a term that coined outcapital. Allow me to say a few more things about this. But before I do, and let me continue with the preface. We know that Twitter and Facebook, in particular, have been highly, highly sensorials. Here, for instance, in Greece, I know the building in which the moderators of Facebook and of Twitter are deciding who in this country amongst activists, politicians, opinion makers, journalists in Greece get blocked and who don't get blocked. And they have nothing to do with people in Silicon Valley. This is an office comprising people who are very close to the Greek oligarchy, who run the Greek moderation of both Twitter and Facebook. And I have friends who have been blocked for years by Twitter, by Facebook for telling the truth, while the Nazis and the fascists are roaming freely. So I reject wholeheartedly the notion that Elon Musk took over Twitter and now suddenly we have a problem, we've always had a problem. Concentrated corporate power when it comes to opinion making and behavior modifying big tech algorithms that has always been a problem. And I don't believe that Elon Musk has made it worse personally. Okay, end of the preface going straight to my hypothesis. Jeff Bezos with Amazon, Bill Gates with Microsoft, the good people in Google with the various platforms that they have. Mark Zuckerberg with Meta and Facebook and WhatsApp and all that and Instagram. They have had something that Elon Musk lacked until he purchased Twitter. In other words, they had a form of capital in their ownership, which are called cloud capital, which unlike machines of yesteryear, diesel engines and the industrial robots, other kinds of capital in other words. The run of the mill capital, physical capital, which is nothing more than produced means of production. So an industrial robot means of production that has been produced. That's what the definition of capital is. But the platforms that I mentioned belong to Jeff Bezos and Google and so on. And the reason why I call it cloud capital is because it is not just a produced means of production, but it's also produced means of modifying behavior. There were always capitalists who invested in modifying behavior. So advertising, the advertising agencies and marketeers who were employed by Henry Ford and a General Electric and General Motors and Barclays Bank and Deutsche Bank and so on. For decades, they were employed in order to modify people's behavior and to modify it in a way which is creating more monopoly power or oligopoly power for the conglomerates that employ them. Anybody who has watched Madman, the magnificent American television series knows what I'm talking about. Don Draper is the epitome of that human capital, the purpose of which is to modify people's behavior to create higher price cost margins for the people who employ this human capital like Don Draper, the great advertisers and marketeers. But what is happening with the algorithms that I mentioned, the platforms, cloud capital, is that this is automated. Don Draper has become automated. Don Draper has become part of the cloud. So cloud capital is a produced means of behavior modification, not a human that is hired as a salaried worker to modify behavior. So you've got, suddenly you've got this machine version, machine learning and reinforcement learning, version of Don Draper, the advertiser who's incorporated in the same algorithm and the same infrastructure which takes the form of optic fiber of cell phone towers and so on, together with the algorithm, the purpose of which is to modify our behaviors so that we can buy what the owner of that cloud capital wants and also so that we actually do work unpaid unwage labor, writing reports and posting photographs and videos and so on that replenish cloud capital itself directly, not through the exploitation of wage labor. The only person who didn't have any of that was a richest man on earth in the mask. He had Tesla, Tesla, very, very successful company, very high tech, it uses the cloud itself. So every time, when Tesla cars move about, they upload automatically to the cloud location data, data about conversations that people have within the car. So this is very, it's part of cloud capital but it has no capacity to modify behavior because Tesla does not have the the the Alexas, the series, the various mechanisms that all the other big tech companies had. SpaceX, fantastically important, it litters space with thousands of satellites that are part of the cloud but again, SpaceX did not give Elon Musk an opportunity to use this cloud capital as a automated capitalized behavior modification instrument. The only platform which was up for sale and which Elon Musk could claim, could purchase that would give him that capacity was Twitter. And if you look at one of his own tweets before he purchased Twitter, he responded to a question as to what he is planning to do with Twitter when it was being discussed that he might be purchasing Twitter. He said, I wanted to turn it into an everything app. And that's in my estimation, what he meant. He meant that he wants to acquire the cloud capital facility, the capacity ownership of produce means of behavior modification that all the other big tech moguls had and which he didn't have. And I think it's important to look at it from that perspective. Free speech versus moderated speech, boring. There's never been free speech. There's never been properly moderated speech.   For me, the major question is this. Do we understand that once we have cloud capital taking over as the major, the main form of capital from the rest of capital and the owners of cloud capital have exorbitant power even compared to capitalists? Do we understand that as we are shifting into a society ruled by cloud capital, that there's no government and no regulation, no intervention that politics can affect which is going to create a semblance of civilization and the semblance of democracy? Do we understand that? I think that most people don't understand it. People still think that it is possible to regulate cloud capital. I don't think it is possible to regulate cloud capital. Either we take it over as society and to socialize cloud capital or we end up in a situation where it's either Elon or somebody else who's going to be doing whatever it is that they're doing and the rest of us are going to be indulging and engaging and being consumed by pointless, boring conversations. Thanks, Marilyn. Thanks, Yanis. Judith, Maya. Thank you. Of course, I fully agree with Yanis. This is a really worrying, well, situation. It's not just a takeover, but especially after the takeover. Twitter is the number one place, in my opinion, is the number one place on the internet. If you want to politically influence people who are not yet your friends, on Facebook, you're basically just interacting with friends and broader friends and same on other platforms, which give you even less of an audience. Twitter is where you're going if you want to start a political movement or where a political movement might start by itself. If a father writes about the horrible conditions that his child just experienced in some hospital, this is where such voices get amplified and that is why we should care very much about who owns it. Now, in this case, it's not just Elon Musk buying Twitter. I mean, this is a general tendency. Whenever Elon Musk does something, it's always reported as Elon Musk does this, but in fact, there is an alliance of different investors who bought Twitter, which includes the Saudi government, the Qatari government, Larry Ellison also, some several banks and so on. Larry Ellison, you may know from the campaign to claim that the Biden election was not legitimate and to try to overthrow the results of that. So I'm really uncomfortable with him being involved in our online marketplace of ideas now, but in the end, whether Twitter is owned by people leaning Democratic Party or whether it's owned by people leaning Republican Party or Trump, neither side is going to be very friendly to radical leftists like us. We can argue which one is most more likely to censor us, but they are both worse. What I would like to draw your attention to is really what this, where this is placed in the context of the internet wars, this power struggle that is going on between these large companies, social media companies and national and European legislators, because that is something that has been underreported right now. They are trying to regulate these big companies and they are having some amount of success. And this is also a part of who is going to finally control what we can say on Twitter and how friendly it will be to independent voices finding traction, the regulation of algorithms and so on. So to allow me to quickly situate us. So let's say that, okay, let's take the least controversial case that is of clearly criminal material like child sexual abuse material. Let's say this kind of material is found on your computer or your magazine prints this before the internet. So independent of who placed this material in your home or who, which author contributed it to your magazine, you go to prison. Your liable, your magazine is liable and the same rule was initially applied to the early internet. Your liable, if child sexual abuse material is found on your blog or if it's found on your forum and this liability rule prevented the creation of giant social media because they just couldn't afford to have random strangers post whatever criminal stuff they wanted on a large platform and possibly get a lot of traction like on Twitter or on Facebook. But then in the 2000s, the legislators decided that there must be an exemption from this liability at least for say phone companies or web hosting companies which may have users downloading stuff that they don't actually know and they don't have the means to check to control. So there was this 2000 e-commerce directive which granted an exemption from this general liability at least for companies like phone companies and web hosting companies. And then with social media and so on, basically national, okay, this e-commerce directive was at the EU level. Now there came national laws like in Germany, the NetzDG and the French law avia which are trying to extend this directive and make it clear what happens in the case of social media or really, really large forums and chats if someone posts a criminal material there and this created like a real patchwork of different rules which makes it really difficult for any company to survive, especially the small companies that don't have dozens of lawyers in each country. That is why there is now this Digital Services Act, the EU's Digital Services Act, which just got passed. There was a big debate up until November and it will finally be applied next year, which is bound to make things clearer at least for providers of such huge forums. And the basic assumption is that there is a liability exemption for anyone who doesn't know that they are hosting others illegal content, assuming that only if they act immediately to remove it as soon as they are made aware of that. And I think that's quite a reasonable approach. I mean, if you're hosting, I don't know, a million different blog posts a day, you cannot just read it all. But if someone tells you that there is some child porn among it, then yes, of course you should remove it and if you don't remove it, then you're liable. It sounds pretty reasonable to me. In addition, the Digital Services Act also grants greater user rights. There are no more upload filters. There is a ban on general content monitoring. The platforms have to explain to users where they remove content. Also, there is a greater power for the national parliaments. For example, national parliaments and even independent researchers from academia, civil society are now allowed to check the algorithms to see how they work, to see the code, to see the data so that it is possible to possibly get some access and to see who is really running our digital spaces and how. Also transparency on advertising, limits on advertising and something that's also important. And most of the rules only apply to platforms with more than 45 million users in the EU. This protects mom and pop sites. Like if you're running a forum for your local golf club then you're not going to have all these reporting duties and disclosing whatever. So the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is the primary authority when it comes to new net legislation and online free speech, they're in favor of this. The Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are in favor of this. This could be a good law. I mean, even if it comes from the EU, sometimes we have to recognize that it's a good initiative. The bad thing is of course that the EU commission will have the direct supervision and enforcement powers over the largest platforms and search engines and not the national authorities. The national authorities can only impose much smaller fines and they're generally not responsible anymore for Facebook and Twitter and so on. And we at DM25 know that the EU commission is a terrible undemocratic institution. They should not be the ones to make the final calls. So we need to democratize the EU, but the good news is once we have democratized the EU, we will have the power over this marketplace of ideas. And in the meantime, we have empowered national authorities and empowered users. So I'm relatively optimistic. I mean, it's terribly difficult to run online services without having a global federation with global laws and global authorities. But it's a step in the right direction, I would say. And well, we'll see whether it succeeds in placing some regulation on this Wild West that currently exists. Thank you. You did a couple of questions and comments from the chat. Bayram says, I think Elon Musk will start the rise of Web 3.0. So Elon will integrate Twitter into blockchain. Epatios asks, what do we think about the Twitter poll that Musk conducted about pardoning Assange and Snowden, which resulted in 80% of 3.3 million votes in favor of pardoning them? And David Baum, a question more for Yanis, says, yes, behavior modification, but to what end? What does a cloud capital oligarch want, ultimately? Let's give the floor to Lukas Febrau-Roch, comms director, Lukas. Thanks, Madan. I'll sidestep a bit the question of free speech versus content moderation, because I think other people here have more interesting things to say on that in particular. And try to go back to the main question in the title of this video, which is what does Elon Musk want with Twitter to begin with, and whether he even has anything to do with any of that. I think Yanis' analysis is extremely pertinent and it's something that, for me personally, I've been concerned with it for a long time, which is the ownership of cloud capital and what does that mean for us, not just today, but in the future as it evolves, because obviously it's technology-based and it advances at sometimes a frightening pace, which is why, when we had the discussions in the past, I've always been for not ignoring, for example, the metaverse, even though the early days of the metaverse have been extremely rocky, not to disregard it and assume that it's going to fail, because if we do, the consequences could be terrible, essentially. So I think we need to assume that it is not going to fail and if it doesn't fail, what is it that we do? What are the paths that we have towards making it public, making it social, and making sure that Mark Zuckerbeck is not going to be the sole owner of this potentially very important space far into the future? To turn to Musk specifically, I find him a really fascinating character. If you look at his biography, of course, his story is not one of rags to riches. He comes from South Africa. His father is a successful South African businessman with ties with the apartheid regime. He owns a mine in the zombie, I believe, and Elon, when he emigrated, I believe to Canada first into the U.S. He will tell you that he founded Tesla, but he didn't. He purchased a stake in it and eventually pushed out the original founders with PayPal as well. He was involved with PayPal, but he was, my understanding is that the company what he brought into PayPal wasn't what became the essence of the business. Eventually, he was pushed out of it because he was found to be too difficult to work with. That's how he made his personal fortune initially anyway. From there, it has grown quite a bit, of course, now he's the richest man on earth.  But there's also this side of him that is really difficult to pin down in the sense of what is the rationale behind some of the things that he does if there is any. That has been in full display since he acquired Twitter, but even before that, I remember a few years ago, he smoked marijuana live on Joe Rogan's podcast and Tesla's stock crashed that day, I believe a senior executive also resigned. When he purchased Twitter, included in the share price, there's the marijuana joke in the number for 20, which he rounded up the number essentially and ended up costing himself more money in order to do that. Of course, as you mentioned in the intro, Madden and everybody really knows because it's been all over the headlines. Since he acquired Twitter, it's been really chaotic. He downsized the staff severely. This is the key of what I wanted to actually finish this with a question. The consequence of what the chaos that he created was that advertisers fled the platform. They might be slowly coming back, but there's been a huge flight of advertisers from Twitter. This is where I have this question that maybe Giannis could answer it not necessarily now, but further on into our discussion when he comes back in. How do we reconcile Musk, if we assume that his plan is to acquire the only source of cloud capital that was available to him, which I think makes a lot of sense rationally. How do we reconcile this with how the past few weeks have been since he acquired Twitter and the actions, the fact that the actions that he has taken have actually driven away some of the source of the profits of what makes it attractive to own this cloud capital, sorry, to begin with. This is sort of what I kind of have a difficulty in sort of joining the two dots in my mind. Thanks. Lukas, Giannis, can I bring you back in to respond to him? Yeah, sure. Lukas, he doesn't care about the advertising revenues of Twitter. They were not that great to begin with, and he bought Twitter because he rejects the model based on advertising. He doesn't mind advertising revenue, but that's not the point. The idea of cloud capital, I mean, if you think about it, and this is also an answer to the question that came from the chat. I mentioned, I refer to cloud capital as produced means of behavior modification and somebody said, okay, to what end? Why does the cloud capitalist or cloud the list want to modify behavior? Well, for two reasons. Firstly, because they want to make us buy stuff from them. Okay? That's obvious, isn't it? That's what Amazon does. This is what Facebook does. This is what Google does. Twitter has never been very successful in that. That's why advertising revenues have been so low. This is why Mask wants to turn Twitter into a subscription service by pushing for verified status and as a product where you pay eight euros for that. It's also much the money that he's going to get from the membership fees, from the subscription. It is the fact that you will be identified. He will kick out, he doesn't care about bots and anonymous ones.  Exactly who you are. You're completely anonymous. You're as anonymous as you would be in the Chinese Big Tech where the state insists that people register with their ID cards and passwords and so on. So this is what he wants. He wants Twitter to become the equivalent of Amazon somewhere where you express opinions and at the same time you use it in order to convey not just opinions and views but also products and also reports on products. He wants to integrate the square, as he called it, the village square or the town square with the market. And if he loses his advertisers today, he doesn't care. This is not his issue. But since I have the floor. Lucas and comrades, I think it's a huge mistake to question the engineering brilliance of Elon Musk. Yes, he had some money from his dad. He started three major companies with $150 million. I don't have $150 million. You don't have $150 million, but I can tell you, if I gave you $150 million or if I had $150 million, I would not be able to take Tesla from where it was when he started with it and SpaceX. And New Orleans and the boring company and all that and make them what they are. Because let's face it, he's managed to do something that NASA has never succeeded in doing. And this is his own engineering brilliance. Of course, he's got brilliant engineers with him. But I have done good authority that the engineering solutions that Elon Musk personally came up with at three o'clock in the morning, where there was that gave a magnificent value to those companies. Let's not underestimate him. Yes, he has been erratic. He made that statement back a few years ago that he was going to take Tesla public, sorry, private, remember that he was going to, he had the funding to buy all the Tesla shares to take it out of the stock exchange. In the end, he didn't manage to do it. And the Securities Exchange Commission in the United States slapped him with a huge fine and stopped him from being forced him not to be chairman of the board anymore. So he's done things like that. He's erratic and he's a problem child. But at the same time, he's absolutely brilliant. Tesla, hundreds of thousands of business people imagined or envisioned an electric car company. He actually made it work. And it was not the people that he inherited when he purchased Tesla. It was his own fantastic brilliant idea of incorporating the battery and the chassis. Nobody had thought of that before. It's like the Columbus egg. Once we know it, it's really very straightforward to imagine thinking of that innovative idea. But nobody had thought of it until he did. Remarkable innovations when it comes to brain-computer interfaces that he, as I said, I'll say this once more. I have inside information of how he came up with ideas that the best bio-computer engineers had not thought of on how to make a computer speak to a human mind. So the guy is brilliant. He doesn't deserve the billions that he's got. Nobody deserves those billions. In the same way that I keep saying that Jeff Bezos is a fantastic businessman and I am not. And he deserves to be much richer than I am. But he doesn't deserve 240 billion. That's another matter. This has to do with a way in which cloud capital begets cloud capital and how wealth begets wealth. And that's nothing to do with the brilliance of these people. It's got to do with the capacity of concentrated power to amass values that others people are creating. But let us not go from that critique of capitalism and of cloud capital of all sorts of capital to questioning the calibre of the thinking of what is a highly problematic person like Elon Musk. Thank you. Janis, Amir. Amir Kiay, a policy coordinator. Bonjour. Thank you. And good afternoon. Good evening to everybody on this live stream. Of a new ruling class eager to turn. So of course, something that's on this debate, we have to also remind ourselves that the issue goes beyond, you know, Elon Musk and Twitter for that matter, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook and so on. It's about, and as we discussed this in our technological sovereignty policy paper, it's about the ability for mass democracies to actually exist. Since the technological monopolies are affecting what we see, what we hear and author our opinions in that sense. So on this issue, it's about, it's important to reconsider democratic control over public policy and thus then democratic control over these platforms because regulation is not possible. And the only alternative would, as Janis also mentioned earlier, would be socializing these platforms. And the one model of course we've had and we've talked about is for workers to own the platform and the model of one worker, one share, at the very least. Then something else that you also touched upon earlier was the global laws and regulations. And this would essentially mean moving a significant chunk. And I mean, this is an illegal sense of these platforms away from Silicon Valley and away from US jurisdiction. So there's been some discussion globally on how best this can be done, of course, primarily at the Internet Governance Forum. The 17th edition of it actually just finished in Addis Ababa last week. However, this UN conference continues to be a talking shop and hasn't really been effective in pushing this idea of democratizing public policy and democratizing these platforms. There's also the potential for the international telecommunications union to take this role, but there's been lots of wrangling within that body and it's also hasn't been effective within the UN itself. Cyber space falls within the first committee of the UN. And that's the issue of disarmament and international security and not democracy. So there isn't really much space except the international mechanism of common heritage of humankind, which applies at the moment to international seafloors and elements of outer space and so on. So there's some potential areas where through concerted effort, it's possible to, from a regulatory point of view, take out these platforms out from US jurisdiction and into like a multilateral framework in trust for all of humanity. Thanks. Thank you, Amir. Johannes, Johannes Fair. Our volunteer director in Germany. Go. Thank you to all of you. Very insightful discussion so far. I want to share something that Elon Musk wrote on Twitter on July 24th in 2020. He wrote that the second US government stimulus package is not in the best interest of the people. Someone responded to Musk soon after, you know, what wasn't in the best interest of people. The US government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia. So you could obtain the lithium there. Musk wrote in answer to that, we will cook whoever we want, deal with it. That happened two years ago. That someone's account is still banned today. Musk later deleted his tweets and he answered below. Also, we get our lithium from Australia. This is of course just, you know, one tweet. It's fastly written. It can be, you know, mistaken, taken back. But with that, I'm a little bit skeptical of people, you know, put him like his political stances in terms of free speech. And yeah, the equality of everyone a little bit into question. Do I think that he is worse than the previous owner of Twitter's? I don't think so necessarily. I think also before it was owned by international capitalist. Yeah, different international capitalist fractions. And I think, you know, free speech was certainly not there. As it is not on other privately on come platforms like YouTube, the one we are speaking on today. And I think in the end, it is about ownership to the, to the means of communication. And others have mentioned it already. So I don't need to repeat much so that, you know, we have to work on actually taking over the platforms. And with the end goal of possibly them not being owned by anyone. So by all of us and therefore not by anyone. I think that should be the goal. It is also interesting to look into alternatives to experiment with decentralized platforms. Although, like mastodon is, is one, but I think we cannot shy away from also being on the big platforms fighting for our right to, to have, you know, communication here as we are doing today on YouTube. And yeah, speaking about Twitter. And then on the comments that was put about his, the Musk's poll about Julian Assange and Edward Snowden if they should be pardoned. I think if this Twitter takeover at least helps a little bit with Julian Assange and Edward Snowden to, yeah, to be pardoned and to get the freedom they deserve. Then at least it had something good coming out of it. So let's hope for that. Thank you. Thank you, Johannes. If I may, a couple of comments that I have on this. I think there's a fascinating debate because it shows the kind of multi, multi multiple layers of this, of this issue. You've got the business issue, you've got the censorship issue, you've got the hate speech issue, which we haven't really delved into. And I think it's totally fair that the, the idea of Musk being the first of a new generation of cloud capitalists is probably the most concerning. And we should definitely organize against that. But I'm interested in what we can do right now, what can be changed right now. And that's why the issue of speech on the platform and how it has been moderated to date is really something that jumps out at me. And I'll explain why. I mean, I'm interested in activism as a pursuit. I'm interested in how people can influence the world around them. And like it or not, Twitter is the prime domain in which elite opinion is influenced online. It's not the only domain, but it's a key part of that. So, I mean, let's rewind a couple of years ago to the COVID lockdown times. Now, I don't necessarily subscribe to any of the views I'm going to explain here that I'm going to air here. But when there were people that queried the efficacy of vaccines, they were downgraded. Their speech was shadow banned, sometimes banned entirely. When there were people who would question the origin of COVID, the idea that it leaked from a lab, this was that they were banned. There were messages that were appended to their tweets that said that this was disinformation. And now that's a theory which is widely accepted to be plausible. We still don't really have the origin story correct. But whether or not you accept these things, we should be able to debate them. And that's an urgent issue. And what's happened since Musk has taken over Twitter is quite fascinating because you see the establishment of the media, the legacy media clashing very brutally with Musk. You see that the stories about Musk are incredibly negative. And every time there is some kind of a leak or information that comes out about how the old Twitter regime was censoring posts colluding with the Democrat Party, with the FBI, with the CIA, maybe other governments in order to suppress the speech of their political opponents or sometimes legitimate news stories, it's poo pooed. It's like, oh, it's a nothing burger. And it's very telling. And I think that is something which we need to keep a very close eye on because if the landscape is not free, then we're in big trouble in terms of what we can influence and what we can't. So that's the part that really gets to me. That's all I'm going to say on that. Who else? Oh, yes, Eric. Eric Edmund next, you have the floor, political director, the M25 government. I hope you can hear me. I live with a strong Moroccan minority in my neighborhood and I hear they just beat Spain on penalties in the World Cup. So if there's a lot of background noises because of that. Congratulations to any Moroccan viewers who might have although I assume most of you are watching the World Cup instead of this. Although you shouldn't this year. So what I wanted to say ties in a little bit with what the Mechran and Yanis have been saying. First of all, there is, you know, the bias of false prior and agent detection and all of these things. And, you know, just because Musk is a brilliant engineer does in no way make him a brilliant manager of people or in any way a person who should have any kind of power in society. And even if he was, even if he was gifted with both of these gifts, brilliant engineer, brilliant mind, and also a fantastic leader of people.  So the story, one of the stories here and one of the issues that we have when we try and push back against this bias against Elon Musk, which I agree exists and is problematic and leads a lot of people to think that, you know, somehow Twitter before Musk was some kind of liberal utopia, which in no way was, it was in a way. At the same time, that does not mean that we should paint a high geography of Elon Musk, which is what a lot of people do. They go too far in the other direction. And I think that is also problematic because at the end of the day, what this all is, it's a capitalist story. It's a story of profit. And that means that the bi-over of Twitter is a story of profit. And we stand to benefit from it only if Elon Musk can make money off us or if somehow he is some kind of enlightened despot, which is exactly the same kind of foundation on which people hoped to benefit from their overlords back in the Middle Ages. You know, you either hope that they stood to profit from defending you and your life in your lands or that they had had, you know, Melachthon or Erasmus as their teacher growing up in some palace in Europe and therefore were some kind of humanist blimp to the overall authoritarian story of rulers. And we are going in a direction where we are basically becoming once again beggars to these kinds of power structures. And we need to push against that. That is the bigger story that it's not whether or not Elon Musk will make Twitter better. It is the fact that Twitter was terrible to begin with. Whether or not Elon Musk will make it better is neither here nor there because he shouldn't have the ability to influence public... Well, it's not even a public space, is it? I mean, it's a public space that we are allowed to use in order to make money for others. But we fall under the illusion that these spaces are public, indeed, because they should be. And they need to be spaces where we have the ability to speak freely and to compete with our ideas freely. But not because we are allowed to do so because it's making somebody money or because Elon Musk was good enough to let us. And this is the part of the story that we need to stick to and remember to underline. And I'm really sorry if I'm not being very coherent or eloquent right now. But I think that is the part of the debate that also needs to be highlighted that whether or not Elon Musk buying Twitter is good or not is neither here nor there. The biggest story is that none of this should be happening in the first place and these kind of pseudo-public spaces need to become truly public if we're going to have a freedom of speech in them. Thank you, Eric. You did. Can I bring you back in? Yeah, since we just mentioned the issue of freedom of speech, it's a very tricky topic when you start thinking about it given the difference between national hate speech legislation. I mean, obviously when it comes to really criminal acts like offering to assassinate people, I think basically every country in the world can agree to remove such content. But let's say inciting a riot against the government or using Nazi slogans. Using Nazi slogans is illegal in Germany but not in many other countries. Then there is insulting the profit in a lot of Muslim countries is illegal.  Then if America gets a radical Christian theocratic government, which is a possibility, they will suddenly have to remove all the Muslim content and add Christian ones, which may be banned in Egypt but not banned in America and suddenly you get these national versions of Twitter in the best case. I really don't think, and of course you may say, okay, Twitter is an American company, they don't have to do it, but that is what I tried to highlight with my rant earlier about liability. Liability laws means that if someone is publishing a newspaper in your country and they're breaking the law or one of their authors is breaking the law, then that newspaper can be held liable for that. And the same applies to social media companies and that is also how European countries have gotten a lot of money from Facebook, Twitter and so on and have forced them to comply with national laws including programming extra features just for Germany and so on and so on. So I'm really worried that we're going to have these national silos of Twitter would be completely different based on national laws but even that is still a better outcome in my opinion than having a Twitter that is only run according to the ideals of the Republican Party in America and that worldwide because it's not going to be a nice place. Ideally we would have a global consensus of what kind of content should be moderated and what shouldn't but that is a long way off and in the meantime we only have these imperfect solutions. Thank you. You did. Andreas, Andreas, we're a web editor for yours. Thanks man. I just wanted to make a brief point more about media freedom and freedom of speech and how it's altered so drastically particularly since the rise of Trump since he announced his candidacy back in 2015 I think it's almost become normalized to have a certain type of censorship as long as it fits in with certain goals. I'm under no illusion that Elon Musk is this saviour but I do believe he is a necessary antidote to the wide-tweeping ideological censorship that's taken place in the last seven years or so and normalized by social media platforms, mainstream media outlets and it's always got a pleasant sounding justification but it's made us kind of lose sight of very important principles such as free speech and yeah I find it quite ironic if not humorous that the sudden panic has been unleashed now particularly from the left about how misinformation has now flourished and hate speech has flourished now that Musk has taken over when very few were really talking about the core principle of freedom of speech because I think his purchase of Twitter arrives as sort of a wake-up call a day of reckoning at least for a large portion of the online population that kind of lost sight of this value in place of short-term gains and let's say those who are very against the likes of Trump or anyone who kind of has similar views I still think there should be the battle of information and humans should be at least classed at least mature enough to be able to solve those issues through discussion rather than someone who clearly like these platforms who are invested into the tune of millions if not billions by very powerful people to tell them what's right or wrong and the value of free speech was one typically associated with the traditional left but social media has tribalized almost fueled a lot of tribal behavior that's particularly amid this like post-Trump hysteria and it's created a very different left where principles are no longer fundamental and as long as our side is winning kind of it's justifiable but then there's very dangerous narratives that have taken place on social media that have been in favor of the establishment and therefore they've just brushed past like Russia gate the idea that Russia helped Trump get elected that was something that was allowed to be said for years algorithms of Google, Facebook and Twitter changed on the so-called fact that Russia had helped Trump win the election and even when that was disproven in the Supreme Court those algorithms stayed the same to benefit mainstream outlets so it's not about left versus right or Trump versus someone else it's about the value of free speech because these things can be corrupted in any way the establishment wants at any point in the future off some kind of scary sounding boogeyman so I think it's a good wake-up call for the left of kind of lost sight of principles because it could come back to haunt you Thank you, Andreas When just going past the top of the house and very quick comments from the chat Adam B says if Twitter is truly the public square it must be owned by the people in it Team Janssen says did he must not just buy Twitter to be able to influence the price of his shares without getting interrupted and Lynn Barnes adds that censorship is unnecessary because laws are in place to deal with illegal acts Yanis if I can bring you in to conclude floor is yours Well briefly if somebody were to ask me so what should be done already 50% of the answer has been offered has been tabled it's a view that many of us share that there should be no share markets and ownership should be on a cooperative basis so every company however big medium sized or large should be run on the basis of a one employee one share one vote if you have that then you wouldn't be possible for anyone to actually buy a company right there would be no share market you wouldn't be able to buy shares and you could and you can work for a company and then you would have one share in it and you would be one of N where N is the number of employees and if you and I didn't like that company we could start our own with N equals to you and me and then we could bring other people in so that's 50% of the answer but there isn't the other 50% to stop the silos that you did was talking about interoperability right so the reason why I will never leave Twitter however good master don or whatever it is is I've got a million vote followers and I'm not going to leave them behind and I cannot carry them with me even if I know who they are I cannot persuade them even if most of them wanted to follow me in some other platform they wouldn't have the time to do it they wouldn't be bothered so the reason why we stay in certain platforms is because there is no interoperability imagine if telephone companies mobile phone companies were like that and you could only speak to people you know if you were with Vodafone you could only speak to people people had Vodafone accounts okay yeah then again that would be great for Vodafone if it was the first mover the one with the first mover advantage because nobody would I mean even if another company offered us much better terms and better service and faster connections and so on we wouldn't go there because we wouldn't be able to talk to anyone of our friends who are with Vodafone right cell phone companies mobile phone companies would love to do that but they were not allowed to do it they were forced to operate on the base of interoperability similarly with the European Union one of the good things that the European Union has done is forced companies to offer free roaming across the European Union so there are no national silos anymore you know I can call Yudit in Berlin from my Greek operator and I'm not going to pay more than I would pay if I were to call than I hear in Athens so the combination of one share one vote and interoperability forced interoperability would deal with the problem but of course this would require a revolution and this is why we need a political movement one last thing this is my personal view I know it's not a view of the M25 nobody should take what I'm going to say now as a view of the M25 I warn you I'm hopelessly relaxed on hate speech I don't mind hate speech I'm all in favor of it I receive a lot of hate speech through Twitter every day there are millions of you know hundreds of thousands of bots here in Greece that are shitting on me 24 hours a day personally I believe in the right of Nazis to express Nazi views on Twitter in newspapers in there I think that it is a gross error of the Federal Republic of Germany to ban Nazi views I think that what we need to do is we need to to suck the oxygen around from around them the oxygen of people willing to listen to them not to ban them this gives them a certain degree of queues amongst the marginalized I don't even mind disinformation flat earthers coming up with huge three thesis on Facebook and you know against vaccines against the notion that the earth is not flat against Darwin but that's my view I understand there are legitimate arguments against this but for me I wouldn't waste one ounce of my energy trying to censor anyone thank you Yannis great well that concludes our chat tonight I really appreciate how we tackle this debate from many different angles and if you would like to be part of the M25 to get stuck in on campaigning on these issues there's one address it's dm25.org slash join and in a few seconds you can be a member so thank you again to my panel thank you to you guys out there for your comments and questions and the chat is still going strong right now as I was speaking and we will see you again at the same time


Are you mature? For mature only. Meaning you can consume junk. In the Biblical definition of maturity, maturity is not your ability to consume alcohol, smoke, or watch porn. Biblical definition of maturity is something different than that because maturity is not age, maturity is not academics, maturity is not accomplishments, and maturity is not appearance.  Your maturity is always determined by your attitude. If you made a mistake, I wasn't sure whether to go or not. And we see that in Adam, God gives him a word, you have to do this. And Adam goes into boyhood instead of manhood. Instead of leading his wife away from sin, and instead of killing the snake, Adam sees his wife, who has a weak moment, gets deceived by the snake, and Adam stood there, and the Bible says, Adam stood beside her when the snake was doing the conversation, and Eve is giving him that fruit. Adam was not deceived like Eve was. So Adam had a choice to help his wife, says, hey honey, not a good time to talk to snakes, put that apple back, let's go back. Let me get you some mangoes and some other fruits, they're much better.  Instead of being aggressive against the enemy, he is passive. Instead of pursuing God, he just kind of stands there, you want me to eat the apple? Okay, I'll eat the apple.  He's not leading a woman to Christ. He's now blaming a woman, because when God comes and says, who did this, not me, her. Anytime a man doesn't follow Christ, is where boyhood begins. When you ignore your consciousness as a man, the consciousness screams and says, don't! And you begin to silence it. You silence the Holy Spirit. He can't produce a character if he's ignored. You slip into the flesh. When Adam slipped into the flesh, something happened, is the boyhood begins to be maximized that Adam now doesn't take responsibility for his junk. He blames it on somebody else. Blames it on Eve. And Eve, of course, she blames it on the snake, and tarara. And God begins to bring discipline on Adam. Why? Because Adam didn't mature. See, your sin is not the problem. It's the fact how you deal with your sin, that's the problem. Temptation is not the problem. Being attacked is not the problem. Being assaulted is not the problem. It's how you respond to it. When the Holy Spirit convicts you, do you silence that? Or do you say, yes, Holy Spirit? Because your character is developed by the voices you obey. Do you obey the Holy Spirit, or do you obey the voice of the flesh? Do you obey the Holy Spirit, or do you obey the voice of people? A real man knows, I respect you, thank you. But God says, no, I can't do that. If you want to do that, that's your choice. But I am not going to do that. Why? Because I obey God. I love you, honey.  So I live my life for the opinion of one. And your character is developed when you live like that. Number four, when we get married, we get married, become a husband. Marriage makes you a husband. Maturity makes you a great husband. When you get married, you become a husband.  A husband that a wife thanks God for. A husband that the girlfriends say, man, you got a great husband. And it's not because she posts pictures of roses that you give once in eight months. But it's actually, because it's evident that you make your wife happy. The problem that happens is when a boy skips the manhood stage and thinks that just because he got a thing between his legs, he's ready to be husband. You're still a boy that needs to grow to become a man.  Now you're ready for one more challenge because becoming a man was hard. Wait until you get a woman. It will take you to another level because see your standard is not your dad, your standard is Jesus Christ. And you look at Jesus and Jesus doesn't play by these rules. You don't like me? I don't like you too. You didn't satisfy me? You didn't please me? Well, watch me. That's not how Jesus left the example. He came to the church and the church was at its worst and Jesus was at his best and Jesus never dumped us, never left us, never said a bad word, never beat us, never accused us. Jesus was the great husband, continues to be. There's one thing about Jesus. He's consistent.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here? So we got some good news here today regarding screen 5 its release and We now know who is going to be distributing this next screen project so spyglass media and So spyglass media group has apparently teamed up with paramount pictures. They've joined forces and they're going to be co-producing This new screen we were going to be getting this comes to us from Variety Variety was the first person to report this So we know as of right now the only returning cast member is david archette And we know that the movie will be directed by the radio not filmmakers are matt bennelli open and tyler gillett And additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks according to the reports here And also what's going on is filming is set to start later this summer now previously Like in like a press statement last month sometime Uh, we were told that it will be starting Sometime in the fall. So I guess they're going to start trying to get it to shoot sooner but late So late summer to me sounds like I don't know. I want to say early august mid august um The the latest I could see this starting the film would be september sometime But with them saying we're going to get additional casting to follow. That's what I wanted to hone in on additional casting to follow I'm assuming they know I'm assuming with these reports. They're just going off of the assumption that we'll find out more of course as As that gets revealed in the coming weeks towards production as we all already expected but Me personally, I think they have their cast locked down I think the cast that they want to have involved with this project is locked in The only thing that's really left to announce would be of course nev camble returning to reprise her role as sydney prescott Courtney cox Everybody honestly, I feel is more eagerly waiting to hear if hayden pancier is going to be back as kirby reid When sydney gets announced fine when gale weathers gets announced fine People are still going to be waiting for that missing puzzle piece the missing piece here for a lot of people is not sydney and gale We feel like a lot of us Everyone from the most part is pretty much under the impression those two characters will be back We want to know a hundred percent certain if we are going to be getting hayden pancier back in this movie with her reprise and her role as kirby because That's something that a lot of fans and a lot of people are constantly focusing on theorizing and it would be really interesting and exciting and it would be like Just the biggest dream come true if we find out hayden pancier is coming back to reprise her role as kirby But also I wanted to talk about the release date that they're looking for so no specific date But I did make a video mentioning what would be the best option for them to do in terms of release When could we be expecting this film to come out and it looks like they are going to be looking to Release it sometime next year in 2021 Paramount pictures will be responsible for the marketing and they will distribute the film worldwide In all media with select international territories and domestic pay one television being handled by spyglass So what I take what I what I'm looking forward to is seeing what they do there Because again, I made a video talking about what I feel would be the most effective The most effective thing that I think you could do marketing wise would be to release this movie Around the time of the original screams 25th anniversary Don't release it in april of 2021 if it happens I will of course I'm still going to be more excited because we get to see the movie earlier But I'm thinking about long term if you're planning to Have a return of profit and you want to have The the biggest smartest marketing scheme that any screen movie has had since the third film I feel like going for the 25th anniversary of scream and honoring that would be the way to go and Let's say we're still hopefully we're not but if we're still in a pandemic and things are easing up where things have become more easier to maintain and Let's say cases are down We could have ghost face face mask marketing this film That could be something that could get looked at Maybe a lot of people would actually even show up to the premiere in face mask Which could start a trend of people wearing ghost face face mask But I think that would be a pretty neat thing to see Also, again, I've made mention of re-releasing the old films in a collector's edition box set or independently With another collector's edition series because I believe they did have like a collector's edition Or a collector series of dvds It'd be nice to see that kind of redone to promote and get people hyped for screen five by re-releasing all the other four movies maybe with some new commentary interviews or new interviews and commentary from the stars of these movies if If that can all be arranged Even if they're not returning in screen five, you know, like just the biggest Marketing schemes I'm trying to think of here re-releasing the original four movies in a box set collection would obviously be the biggest thing ghost face face mask That would be another one and then also Letting the cast members be present at uh Comic-con like events just Panels and where they get to answer questions Premiering the premiering the trailer at a big event Hyping up the trailer being very interactive with your fans on social media Social media is going to be a big advantage for screen five to do very well at the box office. Just like it is with any film social media does have an influence in terms of what people go out and see You can use social media to get your message across and with the trends that Recently happened over the past couple of months when screen five got announced I'd say using twitter Instagram facebook everything Social media wise would do nothing but help out the box office performance with screen five So I'd hope they released this movie around the time of christmas next year To line up with the 25th anniversary of the original movie make that a part of the marketing scheme Hope we get Hayden panty air back to play Kirby read and Going back to them talking about how we're going to be finding out more casting Updates as the weeks go on with them planning to start shooting later this summer I expect we'll start seeing things come in Maybe We don't we don't know we might get something tomorrow. We might get something next week telling us that Neff Campbell's back Hayden panty airs back Courtney Cox is back And then of course we'd be wanting to know who our new supporting cast members are We've already I've made videos talking about this A lot of people are under the impression that the people that the filmmakers are following on twitter Is a hint at who will be participating in the movie a lot of people think we'll have Selena Gomez a lot of people think will have uh Cole Sprouse and Lily Lily Reinhart If they if Lily Reinhart is in it, I'd be more out of all of them I'd like to see Lily Reinhart in it more Selena Gomez would Probably at best would be enough to kind of just get more outside attention. Hey, look Selena Gomez fans She's starting in this new screen movie and then of course Because you know, there stands for every artist out there So Selena Gomez being a screen five would of course be very beneficial in terms of the box office Uh performance in my honest opinion because Selena Gomez I I don't follow her that much I am a fan of her as a producer and what she's doing in the filmmaking industry And I like a couple of her songs and I'm well aware that she does have a following She does have a huge fan base So I'm pretty sure if you put well-known stars in this film that's not going to do anything But just help out with the box office. Well, you would believe that would help out with the box office and then also Want to just talk one final time about nev Campbell coming back Neve Campbell honestly She I feel like she's she's at this point just egging us on I feel like her role has already been cemented And maybe her and the filmmakers are in on this running gag because she keeps having interviews where she's just saying she's negotiating We know you're negotiating. We want to stop saying that just tell us if you're gonna be in it or not I feel like at this point she's gonna be in it and she's just running running with this Oh, we're in negotiations. I think the negotiations are done I could be mistaken But I think they're done and it's just a running gag until they make an official cast announcement with the official plot synopsis and they announced the fisher release date with uh filming schedules and everything coming later this year and Paramount pictures, I know they're mostly known for for distributing a lot of the Friday the 13th movies So they were the last people I would expect to see Involved with a screen film. This is very shocking to me, but I'm I'm all for it. I'm really excited I'm glad we're getting more things coming out about this project I can't wait to see what our new filmmakers bring to the table and how they honor the legacy of west craven And whether or not this movie will be One of the better sequels we've gotten since screen two screen three lackluster screen four was okay I'm hoping we get something that lives up to the hype of the first two movies But let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below if you haven't already make sure you subscribe It's in our post notifications there never miss a video in the description I'll have links on my social media accounts. I'm on facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there to let me know if there's any movies news or reviews You're letting me to cover in the future without it in mind guys I will see you in the next video


So do you really take your troubles with you wherever you go, right? I think if you go somewhere and your troubles don't go with you, then maybe it's not about you, right?  So sometimes troubles are situational. For example, living in Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City or Washington DC is going to be much higher stress than living in Sydney or Brisbane or Perth. So wherever you go, there you are. It's partly right and partly wrong, right? You're going to be a different person in different places. Now, if you're an alcoholic or a chronic debtor or spender, yeah, those problems are going to go with you. But you can move somewhere, it's not sleeping better. You might have more friends, you might make more money, you might thrive. And we're profoundly affected by the company we keep, situations we place ourselves in, the jobs we take, the education we get. It's not just all about us in our internal state. So I am in Sydney, Australia right now, heading towards Clevelle Beach. And all the problems that I had in Los Angeles I've left behind. We're almost all of them. I feel free of anything that was bothering me back in California. And it's nice, right? When I read the LA Times, this is how I'm reading about a foreign nation. So there's a different vibe there. So any tension about crime, any tension about not having health insurance, tension about dealing with the homeless, crazy drug addicts, you can have that in Australia. Now, I have certain predispositions towards lack of conscientiousness, certain amount of carelessness. And those predispositions are still with me. Sorry, I have certain lack of sensitivity. Yeah, that's still with me. Certain predispositions towards selfishness. That's still with me. But you'll only know if you move, right? You'll only know which problems are just eternally you. If you get up, get out, move. Just go on a lengthy vacation. So that's the great thing about going on a vacation. You get to reset yourself. Just like when your computer's not working too well, you restart it. So, too, you can restart yourself.  I think the same can go for us, Patty. You can just press reset on your system. It's every day is a good day in Australia.  You might think you're neurotic.  Pray to try new things. Once you get into safety, do not be as scared to try new things. It's often from lack of conscientiousness. Well, you might find if you improve your relations with other people, you'll feel more at ease in the world. You'll feel happier. You might enjoy substantial increase in conscientiousness. There's been many traits that we think, oh, that's just who I am. Not necessarily.


Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Geeks are sexy. I'm Jason Laduke from Evil Genius Leadership Consultants And I am your host on the fourth Friday of every month taken over from Michelle Davis for the Geeks are sexy show We're talking about business success and all the great things for entrepreneurial spirit and being successful here in Las Vegas We got a couple great guests for you today actually three great guests for you today We're gonna bring on Dwayne Davidson from entertainment capital group And then we've got Katie Watford who's a fashion stylist and that's a little bit of a new guest that we've never had before Remember all our guests back at the end of the show for our panel discussion But first we're gonna get right into it with Sean Phillips in from Morrison security Sean. Thanks for being here today on D So having a very happy to be here. It's great to have you Sean was born and raised here in Las Vegas He's seen firsthand all the exciting changes that have come in the last 20 to 30 years in town And after starting a career in sales He's actually found a passion a career and a passion in private security and Helping businesses identify their security needs those vulnerabilities and finding ways to help those businesses at a cost that fits their business as well Welcome to the show Sean. Thank you. Thank you very much So tell us about growing up in Las Vegas tell us what you've seen change and tell us why you see that there's a need For private security for businesses here in Las Vegas. Absolutely. So You know growing up in Las Vegas and never really knew how rare it was to be a native Las Vegas until I got the question You know what hotel did you grow up in so but after that, you know I started taking a look at my city as a whole and realizing how it's transformed It's still a great city. I love it But as unfortunate as it is with growth comes more crime as well so being able to be a more Morrison security and Reach out to the community. I feel like I'm making a greater impact in the city that I grew up in That's great. That's great. We all one of things I've learned I'm not a native's Las Vegas, but I've learned the first time I lived here and since especially I've been living here for the last Almost three years now that Las Vegas really want to make a positive impact on Las Vegas and grow Las Vegas in the community That we can be proud of here, and I think that's great. So tell us how you became involved with Morrison security How did he end up working there? Well, it's not it's not too crazy of a story there I I met the branch manager at the time. We were good friends He knew my background in sales and I've done security in the past as well as well as a military career And so he introduced me to the CEO. We sat down had an interview and the rest is history. Okay, cool So tell us a little about what Morrison does for their customers Well, first of all, we give our clients peace of mind knowing that they have an officer on site who can take the burden of Needing to constantly be aware of what's going on in your site. Take that away from the business owner Let that let us deal with the vagrants the police reports things like that let let us take take it off your plate so you can run your business keep your venue safe and Successful that's that's awesome because one of the things that I work with my clients on and we talk a lot about on this show Is if you're a business owner or your the GM of a location One of the things really important is that you're working on your business and you're working on the strategic level and thinking about all the Things you need to do is the business owner of the GM think about the relationships You need to build and not working in your business because that's what your your managers are for and your staff to handle those things Before you even know you have a problem and one of the things that really impresses me about Morrison is this is about Human security. It's about having officers on site who are handling those things for you Especially the the police reporting is something where to come up So what are some of the things if someone's a business owner and they don't have security currently as part of their business portfolio The things that they're relying on and we all have a banker and insurance agent a lawyer and that kind of thing But not all of us have security. They've got a brick and mortar business What are some of the indicators that a business owner should be looking for and what what are some of the things that if they see these Things these indicators that they should be calling Morrison Well, I mean, there's there's a lot of ways to determine whether or not you should bring on security First and foremost, it's kind of a general general rule there if you have about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars of assets or potential loss that you stand to lose during a hit or a Disaster things of that nature that could be prevented not even just a theft But let's say a fire and if you don't have anyone watching your your site at night and it catches on fire Who's there to call? You know, hopefully it's someone calls a woman on the street But you never know but when you have an officer on property when you're not there or when you can't put your eyes On the on the scene That's what security is there for so hundred fifty thousand dollars. That's just a general Ingestimation really but okay every business can assess and can they stand to lose a large portion of their business and still succeed? And then the other way they can kind of gauge is check out crime maps in your area So it's very easy. Just Google crime maps in Las Vegas. There's several websites for it. Type in your address and Go back as far as we want six months yesterday It'll give you a list of everything that's been reported in your area or on your site Even that you might not have known about and the last data range that you select Now we are living in a digital age and a lot of folks are gonna say they're gonna say to me They're gonna say to you you're gonna say listen, I can go get a bunch of internet security cameras and I can I can have Every square foot covered on of my my shop and look at it and watch it from my phone Why do I need a security officer? Well cameras are great We love working with businesses who already have established security surveillance programs But camera is great without someone behind it. It's great to watch the guy walk off with your stuff as he waves to you So having an officer on property we can still Coordinate with the surveillance system put a garden in a guard shack with monitors and everything or if you want to keep on Your phone and you get an alert on your phone Hey, something's going on you call the security company call our dispatch 24-7 anytime you need to get a hold of us you can get a hold of the officer on site We respond to it. We deal with it. We'll liaise on with the police for you Great one of the things that impressed me most when we sat down we had coffee earlier in the week And one of the things that impressed me most about you and Morrison security in general is you have a very strong sense of professionalism With your managers and your supervisors and your officers But you and a very strong sense of ethics tell us a little about how Morrison Applies that sense of professionalism and ethics with its officers and its customers and how they foster that in the company. Absolutely So I love our management staff. We have a great team over at Morrison It's taken a while to develop but we have an extremely solid team now The great thing about all of us in our management team is we all started wearing the uniform We were all security officers at one point so we learned to follow before we can lead That's a very strong. I know you're you have a military background as well So do I and several of our supervisors do as well So we take those those values those lessons we learned Growing up in the military expanding and gaining experience in the military and adding it to how we do business at Morrison Yeah, it's a it's very hard to find a place other than this outside of the military where ethics and professionalism are discussed So often and and I really respect what you guys are doing at Morrison So tell us a little bit. We've got a couple minutes left. Tell us about a specific instance where you've helped accustomed Sure, absolutely. I met I met one of our clients. We networked up and we started a contract came into a partnership She owns a local strip mall a little Plaza in the area there It had it already had security, but they wanted it. They weren't happy with their service. They pushed them out We came in we First of all when the very first night hit there was myself the branch manager All the supervisors and any officers that were going to be on that site We're all on that site in force to train to learn the site together So it's not like we just sent someone off and said good luck to you. Okay, but no, we were there We learned what the site was. How are we going to manage a site that we don't even know what it is? So we were all there. I went around we address the situation of vagrants dumpster divers Panhandlers things of that nature. We went in we cleared them out when we did we made sure to say hey There's a new security company here. Mm-hmm and thing is that people might not know but there's communities of vagrants homeless That they you know the living washes things like that as sad as it is but they do and they talk they talk to each other say Hey, I have been going here this place the people are very generous there I mean there might be an elderly community there that kind of has a hard string for us So they start hitting places. They're easy and when you let them know That they are not welcome on property They are if they want to do business by all means but if you're there to cause problems to vandalize to panhandle to cause a nuisance We're gonna we're gonna stop you. We're gonna get rid of you once they Get that picture things tend to subside It sounds like you really handle very tough problems very tough conversations With some of these communities with professionalism and respect and compassion for their situation And I I think that that speaks volumes to why you're so successful and people keep calling you to to come in and handle their Handle their security so overwhelming right now. So we just got a little bit of time left How can our viewers get in touch with you and how can they get in touch with morris? And if they see those indicators If you've got those things that shan talked about and that's going on in your business or you're thinking of it You're thinking that you might be right around that $150,000 threshold where you can't afford to lose it in one shot How can you how can they get a hold of you to to get you to come talk to them? Absolutely very simple. Go ahead and give our office a call. Remember<PHONE_NUMBER> Also, you can reach me by email and we can chat that way s philipsson at morrisson security dot com All right, john. Well, thanks for being here. It's great to have you Thank you very much sure. We'll be in touch in the future This is geeks are sexy and we will be right back with dwayne davison from entertainment capital group


Hello friends. Let's solve the following question. It says expand each of the expressions in exercises 1 to 5 and we are going to discuss the second part. To solve this we need to know the expansion of a minus b whole to the power n. It is equal to nc0 a to the power n minus nc1 a to the power n minus 1 b plus nc2 a to the power n minus 2 b square so on And the last term would be minus 1 to the power n ncn B to the power n. So this knowledge will work as key idea. Let us now move on to the solution the given expression is 2 upon x minus x upon 2 whole to the power 5 It is in the form a minus b whole to the power n and here n is 5 a is 2 upon x and B is x upon 2 now we expand this using the expansion of a minus b whole to the power n so 2 upon x minus x upon 2 whole to the power 5 becomes equal to 5c0 2 upon x to the power 5 minus 5c1 2 upon x to the power 4 Into B. Here B is x upon 2 plus 5c2 into a to the power n minus 2 that is 2 upon x to the power 5 minus 2 that is 3 into b square that means x upon 2 whole square minus 5c3 2 upon x to the power 2 into x upon 2 to the power 3 plus 5c4 2 upon x to the power 1 into x upon 2 to the power 4 plus minus 1 to the power 5 5c5 B to the power 5 that is x upon 2 to the power 5 Again, this is equal to 5c0 is 1. So it is 1 into 2 upon x to the power 5 Minus 5c1 is 5 Into 2 upon x to the power 4 2 to the power 4 is 16 upon x to the power 4 into x upon 2 Plus 5c2 into 2x to the power 3 into x by 2 to the power 2 5c2 is 10 2 to the power 3 is 8 upon x cube Into x square upon 4 Minus 5c3 is 10 into 4 upon x square into x cube upon 8 plus 5c4 is 5 into 2 upon x into x to the power 4 upon 16 Minus 1 to the power 5 is minus 1. So it is minus 5c5 is 1. So it is minus x upon 2 to the power 5 Now this is equal to 2 by x to the power 5 is 32 upon x to the power 5 minus 2 into 8 is 16 1x gets cancelled and it is equal to minus 40 upon x cube plus 4 into 2 is 8 x square gets cancelled and we have 20 upon x minus it is 5 plus 5 upon 8 x cube Minus x upon 2 to the power 5 is x to the power 5 upon 32 Hence the required expansion is 32 x to the power 5 minus 40 upon x cube plus 20 upon x minus 5x plus 5 upon 8 x cube minus x to the power 5 upon 32 So this completes the question. Hope you enjoyed the session. Goodbye and take care


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This is your Ronald Cooney jr. 95 rookie there It's a rookie Aaron judge little Vladdy printing plate little Derek Jeter Harper graded PSA 10 Peter Lonzo looks like atomic Pretty strong hit right there Jason Dominguez from Bowman transcended my trout So let's see if we can hit one of these nice ones here and again guys. Here's the dice roller Here's the customer names that got into the early bird to the top 18 So whoever wins a spot there will be pasted in here Here's the regular customers that all got in there and then here all the teams So let's roll the dice for everything and it is a five and a one six times. So good luck six times one two three four five and six and after six times I was top 18 six Dario congratulations, man. 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