Thank you so much. Thank you so much Derek and Cynthia and Teddy Ali Libby Everyone on the lab team for making this all possible for all of us all the artists and Audiences who've been coming in filled us all so much over the past few days So I imagine you two are just three thing With the beautiful performance we saw so thank you so much Miranda and Robert who are here representing love And Shannon Yes, it was such a comprehensive Journey that we were taken on. Thank you I I took a lot. I've taken a lot from the last few days as I'm sure you have to and and So I'm just gonna slip back for two seconds to a couple minutes To honoring the past and shaping I attended and people were bringing people into the room so I have a couple people I would like to bring and The first person I'd like to bring is Gavin Schmidt Who is a NASA scientist who's been one of the scientists like Bill McKibben who's been Calling our attention to the climate story for many years and Theater without borders had a climate change theater action in 2015. These are if those of you don't know about them Every two years with the conversation of the partners Cop 21 took place in Paris. That was the Paris climate agreement We do an event with the Arctic cycle Chantal Bilodeau And it began with new no passport curry duds fish We do a kind of a simultaneous event where playwrights around the world are invited to write something about climate relates to climate short pieces their prompts One minute five minutes And they're performed simultaneously around the world in living rooms on glaciers at universities We do something at the same time this year is the third incarnation in 2019 and You're all welcome to participate. Ask afterwards if you want to know more So in 2015 we had an event at the New York and Poets Theatre in New York and Gavin Schmidt was our honored guest and he stood up in front of the group before the readings by the by the playwrights and He said well, I could talk to you for hours about the science But I really only want to take five minutes of your time You are the artists and we need you We need you to tell the story of what is happening for this generation and for all the generations to come and he sat down and Miranda Robert and Lobdab you have told a story for this generation and for all the generations to come and Thank you for doing that and I know that the other artists on this panel and many of you in the audience are doing the same The other person I wanted to bring Into the room Liz if I can find it on my little computer My teeny tiny invaluable computer I Saw a movie. I was talking to Alex Aaron. I saw the movie knock down the house with my husband Mitch and Someone said the fierce urgency of now A quote by Martin Luther King and I was like, what's that from? What's that from the first fierce urgency of now? That sounds like climate So I am I researched it and here's Martin Luther King In April 1967 a year before he was killed Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. preached on the fierce urgency of now in a sermon entitled Beyond Vietnam a time to break silence Of all his speeches it remains the least remembered because it summoned Christians to protest the war in Vietnam and I quote We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late Life often leaves us standing bare Naked and dejected with a lost opportunity The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at the flood it ebbs We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and pushes on Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words too late There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect The moving finger rights and having writ moves on We must move past in decision to action so I think all of us who Are grappling and that's all of us as your beautiful piece showed all of us who are grappling with us have an opportunity and that is to engage with our grief and with our hope and We have some incredible Leaders here in in guiding us in in how to move forward in that so I wanted to start with Miranda and and Robert you have one take two Mike's and we were just talking a little bit over lunch about the history of this project and the levels of grief that are mentioned in the piece and And and how grief and hope operate for operate for you in the piece so if you could just speak about that a little bit I Don't know quite what to say I think that a lot of times as an artist I try to scan my body for where I feel fear and sadness and try to start from some of those places and Some of the most intense dread and terror and sadness that I have been feeling Connect to a lot of the research that I've been doing into climate crisis and extinction and I felt in myself that my own Fear and sadness was limiting me and creating a profound barrier in my ability to engage with the material and I said a little prayer that may be through the process of Investigating this work through my theatrical and Literary imagination, I might have the ability to metabolize some of that fear and Sadness and loosen it up a little bit the kind of barriers to the emotional Potency of these issues so that I could so that they could become more malleable and That's what I've been trying to do And and this piece kind of started for context with love dub which comprises Miranda and myself and Katelyn and Jeff and another ensemble of folks and we had committed to starting a two-year cycle of work interested in the environment and At the time that we were committing to to that process I feel comfortable sharing that that my mother was starting hospice at the time and I Was like, you know many many things that Miranda has written in the play Express my practice of dramaturgy a lot better than I can in a post-show environment, which is a real gift but I was like voraciously reading about climate crisis and You know at one point at a trip to where my mom was living at the time, you know I was like I'm kind of using this research as some kind of shield from my personal experience of what's happening in my own life and so through many many conversations we became really interested in this idea of Holding up a particular story of individual level grief about one particular Homo sapiens next to this idea of species loss and Just asking a question of you know in what ways are the emotional responses to those Separate elements different in what ways are they similar and in what maze might that energy be productive? You know the love dub It defines itself on the on your website as a hybrid physical theater company animating stories of science magic and myth and when you look at the little video It's just these delightful young people and they're saying what is love dub? It's joyful exploration It's humor wonder jumping dancing something that tickles us something we love and I thought it's such a beautiful juxtaposition that you were able to find in the piece between the participatory nature the Humor and the joy so how does hope figure in? And you were talking a little bit about joy Moreno, I Think joy is a practice and It's something you have to set about intentionally I think happiness is conditional and joy is a practice, and I think that's something that we try to practice in our company and I think that I've done a lot of Trauma work and studying about trauma work, and there's this Great wisdom of gallows humor, and I think that if you don't have it you die and So I needed to find it and I think that that is I Think that the beauty of imagination is It's buoyancy, and I think that's what we can add to a paralyzing matter Maybe I'll just add that I think we spend a lot of time in conversations around this piece which are ongoing thinking about different types of care and We were thinking a lot about the idea of hospice as a type of care which kind of admits mortality and Often often the beginning of a hospice process as I'm sure so many people in this room No, it can actually be kind of relieving and kind of wonderful in this really intense and kind of strange way But but we were interested in types of hope that Integrated grief rather than types of hope that attempt to mask it or block it off or undermine it I mean Everybody but I people bring different amounts of information to to to the room here I'm sure and I'm a latecomer to the climate Science myself. I identified with the character In the play that my science knowledge is limited And many of you here have more science knowledge many of you in the audience do and many of the practitioners Who are working at this intersection do but there are of course many Others in the world who are working very very hard to ensure that we all will some things will go forward and so there's also on a practical level of hope and That makes me want to turn to you on the Lisa Because there's the individual experience and we we saw a play of a of an individual it Speaking of her encounter with this story and struggle to to in a sense reach out and connect with us the audience You are looking at that not only In The works that you're doing which I hope you'll speak about but also in a systemic way in terms of How we can actually all look at the world through a different lens that will help us advance Can you speak about that? I'm having so many feelings right now. Thanks a lot Miranda and loved up And actually I was sitting in this in the many feelings And I'm trying to think about how to both be articulate about what is happening for me because there's a sort of demand in This work to speak and like deal with what you're feeling with authenticity So I'm actually trying to process that and speak to what you're Asking so bear with me, please Thank you. I Think one of the things that I'm feeling really strongly right now is actually anger and rage Because we are not doomed to a dying world we're not And there are people who are like there are politicians and there are systems who are telling us that that is true And That we might as well give up and not do anything about it and that it's too late and it's not It's really not So I think the wisdom out there from some of the IPCC the intergovernmental panel on climate change And that's the largest body of scientists in the world The most recent wisdom from them is that we have 12 years But by the time which is the time by which the entire world systems must change It's it's not actually impossible. It sounds impossible, but it's not there are there are policy proposals that are On the table that would make the changes that are needed It's really a question of the political will to make those proposals go through So some of the work that I'm involved in specifically specifically within the theater and arts sector Right now there's a group of us that are working on What we're calling a green new theater? Which is which is actually recognizing The role that the arts this very specific role that the arts can play in shifting the narrative one of the great things that we are gifted with in this field is storytelling and emotional impact and Getting people to shift the way that they're telling the story of what is happening in the world and what actions need to be taken so some of the work around a green new theater will be working on at the TCG conference in Miami in June and then There'll be ways for more folks to get involved in that and implement that in your organizations and in your practice after We sort of like workshop it in June so I Yeah, I wonder if you could also talk a little bit about your work with just transition and unsettling America because As you say we need a we need we're transforming now you're you're encouraging us to transform our practice and systems through in In all aspects. It's a holistic Yeah, yeah, yeah, so if y'all haven't heard of this concept of a just transition Very much encourage you to just like Google it one of the best resources out there is movement generation They have a really nice graphic that explains Pretty holistically how to get from an extractive economy, which is what we're living in now to a regenerative economy and It's really visually well done like I they you they've done it you should really look at that It's movement generation the just transition graphic But like because I'm a theater artist why don't and we just are doing some participatory theater Why don't we do a little bit of this right now?  Okay, great. Remember that image Let it go and now if you can think about the word regenerative and Put that word in your body Whatever it makes your body do don't think too hard Remember that image great now can you try to connect the two of them and go from extractive to regenerative with just one movement It doesn't need to be complicated. How would you do it and just shout out words? What does that movement feel like? opening releasing tension flow letting go encompassing healing Giving rising right on right on and these are all words that are that are like implementable strategies To move us from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. So if you go and look at that graphic It's a really great way to sort of like it shows it visualizes how For example, like the health sector has to change and how the education and like all of the different systems that are interlocking all contribute and all Can shift together Thank you, and you know keep keep your eye out for the bio engineers the guys who are and men and women who are taking Materials and finding ways to now cycle them through so that we're still using but we're reusing and reusing and that includes tires and And so there's there there's work on the practical level There's work on the mental level the emotional level lots lots of levels that we're working on Thank you. I'm one of the I want to press through because I really do want to get to questions I hope so I'm one of the things that I always think about in this situation and especially when I saw your Phantom limb video Jessica is how beauty makes the unbearable bearable and I wonder if you want to speak a little bit about how you incorporate Your your your images are indeed beautiful and I'm hoping we'll see that video But would you like to just take the mic and speak and show the video at your your choice? Maybe we could show the video let the images speak first and thanks Yeah, is that possible to to share the video that Jessica brought us? And there there's audio This land trilogy we've been talking about This subject of people's relationship to nature the environment for a decade the first piece was based in ice and then the second was the wood or the forest and You know as we're heightening our awareness about environmental issues water seems to be one of the paramount issues and There's a new radiation crisis in Japan in Fukushima So we thought what if we were to Try and create a new artistic response to that in collaboration because climate change is a global problem And that and that fallout is actually a global problem in the current to the ocean and so that what if we introduced Butto and puppetry what would happen? I went all over northern Japan really asking people about their experiences of Put the loss of home and loss of people It felt really important to speak to people who went through this and we're still going through it to this day Natural disasters are gonna happen more and more because of extreme weather and These people are showing us a picture of the future of our planet. I Set aside some time to work with butto master die Who is my collaborator in the piece in butto choreography and he's just did these incredible things where he was operating the public this feet and sort of passively happening and ideas that Never quite occurred to me butto Like they deal with a human body as material Also focuses on the theme of death I think butto and puppets have many similarities As you know as a puppet nerd I think the puppet as a as a as a blank canvas often we say or as an empty vessel that the viewer projects on to or into and In terms of butto they refer to the body physically as a vessel I realized I had been trying to create this new narrative or some really interesting drama I could never come close to Creating any kind of drama that is as powerful as what actually happened And so the story of the natural disaster itself is the fulcrum of the piece And we move fluidly through all these relationships and try not actually to identify One character as much more important than the other Because we wanted to communicate this sense that this loss is Not the loss of one This is all of ours. I think all of us because the problem is so big That there's nothing that a single person can do to really make an impact. And so we don't do anything And what I kind of heard and what I learned from these people is that the accumulation of many people doing small things is what heals the world and That we all need to keep doing that and in order to keep doing that you need to have a little bit of hope That that cat on the bicycle was in the exclusion zone and Fukushima. Yeah, thank you beautiful. Yeah I feel like that took up a lot of time and you and you understand a lot about what we're doing now from that but but to just speak to your question about beauty We've been we've been working on a trilogy about people's relationship to nature and climate change for over ten years and The when we made the first piece It's was like really not sexy to sell a show about climate change And it's still sort of isn't but people now know that they should be engaging with that topic But back then it was you know, I think just not not as happening. So if you can call climate change happening, but So we are my husband and I who have the company together visual artists first and foremost and we We always start with image with images and we work with kind of the theory of Imagesm as we create which comes from poetry, but when we create pieces of theater And and so we thought like let's lure people in with the beauty of what we do with this like, you know lavish Productions with projections and puppetry and you know architects working them set design and and then let's bring down the hammer and you know Like talk to them about something that's really important We felt like poetry and sort of images and was like a side door into something We needed to be talking about and I think now we've become more overt actually in the way that we speak about it But that's that's where we come from. Yeah, I mean it's interesting We've seen just we haven't seen your work in in example and Alisa But we've seen humor as an entry point to bring people in and beauty as an entry point And these are artistic strategies that have been used through time to bring audiences in to challenging situations and it's I just want to say that There's number of people in the house that came to see the show and the number of people here in the discussion Climate change is happening because it used to be like three people You know, it was really small crowd. So obviously it's getting bigger and now To my knowledge there are two Broadway shows about climate change SpongeBob the musical Yes, and Haiti Hades town. So we're we're uh, it's definitely It's definitely becoming It's a burgeoning Field of practice. So um, we have some time for questions from the house Panelists and performers for the next panels will have time for one question and then we can engage with the panelists outside So one question if anyone has one No pressure Yes too scared. Oh To be the one person Let's just go to end to what if we have a moment Let's just go to next steps because the I I know that a big part for all of us who are involved in this Intersection is we're not done. There's more to do urgency of now. What's next? So Anybody in the house have something that they're doing next on the climate change story Anybody want on from from from the group? So yes, I see you nodding Cassidy. Do you want to say something?  You're going to the hemispheric Institute, right? Yeah So one exciting development may be worth mentioning that is totally open to anybody in the room is coming out of a convening that Was created by Hal round last summer in Boston There's this kind of nascent group forming called the climate commons for theater and performance You can read more about it on Hal round But that group of people is investigating different ways of coming together different ways of researching and mobilizing Different aesthetic and organizational strategies for kind of figuring out ways of talking about this So one next step for that organization is a convening in Mexico City. That's going to be happening in June geared specifically towards like interrogating and hopefully Articulating in a published form like strategies Specifically for using humor in conversations around climate crisis So that's one next step that we're really excited about and Annalisa. You were just mentioning the TCG Conference, so there's a whole track and it's a climate justice track Yes, if you're coming to the TCG conference in Miami, and even if you're not there will be ways to participate digitally But there is now a conference committee on climate for the first time ever Which is great And there will be a whole series of events including a lab on Wednesday, June 5th from 9 a.m. To 12 p.m. And that is our Green New Theater lab, so we'll be really visioning what that looks like at that lab And then there's a sort of like nuts and bolts lunch session for basically like how do you make your actual production? process more sustainable like using better energy efficient technologies and Thinking about sustainable costume design. It's a really practical nuts and bolts and then there's going to be a panel Breakout. I think it's on Friday now That will be a whole slew of folks that are working at different Multiple different areas in the field. Some people will be for example Gulfshore Playhouse will be there talking about the flooding that they experienced and Planning for climate adaptation at their new building And I think some folks from OSF will be there to talk about the fires and how like, you know climate is actually affecting our Budgets right now And then I'm leading a session on Friday morning at the conference on contemplative movement and climate justice And that is more of the sort of embodied practice that I will share at the TCG conference That's great And just to restate a little bit the climate justice point, which is obvious to everyone I hope that those of us who are able to turn on the air conditioning when it gets a little hotter are in a very different situation than people around the world who Cannot and who are already on the move because they can no longer farm or or raise their cattle as they have before and so islands disappearing the the climate as they say as climate Impact is hitting harder on those who didn't create the problem in the first place So climate justice is a really important part of this conversation and we want to keep it forefront and centered Can I add one more thing about on that note? Something that I noticed in the piece too was the there's a moment of of sort of saying that like we did this and I think there was a sort of like we all did this And that's actually not true It's a very small percentage of the population that did this and they are not being held accountable and And where I look to for hope in my work is actually to indigenous communities who have been living in the apocalypse since 1492 and before that But like they have survival strategies and they've been surviving and they will lead us into a future where we need to survive Yes, thank you. Yeah Jessica, did you want to add something? Nothing is exciting. It's what you all are up to but I'm we're working on the the epilogue for the trilogy Because we can't stop and we won't And then we're just working on reach for our for a touring model. So to get outside of New York LA DC sorry, but places where people are I mean, I think it is important to all be talking with each other But but I'm even more committed to bringing work and conversations and community engagement In new and inventive ways to places where people aren't used to having these conversations They may not believe in these conversations and they definitely haven't seen Bouto and maybe puppetry and so we're like really working on opening up Hearts and and then broadening a conversation where it's not happening already. Yeah, and I Just say stop when we have to stop because otherwise I'll keep going but I just want to say that um those of us who have International networks, it's super important to keep those alive. Please those of you who live in other countries And who know people who do keep in touch. This is a global issue and the global networks that we have are Extremely valuable to us now so that we can keep that conversation global. Yes, Jessica I just want to say that in case you people don't come up to you and ask that the climate change theater action goes from September 21st No, sorry September 15th to December 21st this year and the more people that can do it the better and We're doing it all over the world and also Shantel is having a an incubator a climate change incubator Which is really fun. I've taught it a couple years and it's the Scientists and theater artists together at in New York. So just want to say that and for those here at Georgetown Maya Roth our incoming artistic director and the season has programmed a Number of climate performance projects including a love dub residency and more so there'll be a lot that will be participating in that Yes, so please join the join us if you wish and thank you so much and thanks to this wonderful


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On a weeknight after a busy day, it's really nice to have a quick meal that you can just throw together in no time. So I'm going to give you a suggestion for a meal that is quick and easy, it's budget friendly, and it's delicious. So there's a couple of things you need to do ahead of time and that is have some cooked brown rice in the refrigerator. I've got one cup of uncooked rice that I've cooked. So typically you get about three cups of rice. This is a brown basmati rice that I'm using today. And then I toasted some slivered almonds, a quarter cup of almonds for five or six minutes at 350 degrees in the oven, and they just get a nice light golden brown. Then I've already chopped an onion. Oh, and the other thing you need is a bag of frozen mixed vegetables in the freezer. We're going to use that in this curried fried rice. So easy, just a few ingredients. I've already chopped an onion and I've sauteed it until it's nice and tender and clear. I'm going to add two teaspoons of curry powder. Curry powder is like a power blend of spices. Always turmeric, some cumin, ginger, cinnamon, peppers, it's just a really wonderful, highly flavorful spice. And so I'm just going to stir that a little bit with the onions and that turmeric in the curry powder will turn the onions yellow. Then I'm going to add my frozen vegetables. I've got a one pound bag of vegetables. It's a mix of peas and carrots and corn.  It doesn't take very long. If you have any cooked vegetables or cooked leftover meat in the refrigerator, this is a good time to toss them in. And then the rice. I'm just going to put it in. And once again, I'll just stir this up until it's heated through. Now you can see that this is really going to make a nice large amount of curry fried rice. And it's wonderful the next day. You can pack it up and take it for lunch. It's easy to heat up and it only gets better with age. I'm going to sprinkle in just a little bit of salt. And then of course, the toasted slivered almonds. And there you have it. You've got a wonderful meal. I'm Sue Dodin sharing good food for Good Life 365.


Right, to go ladies and gentlemen, okay, well ladies and gentlemen, Central and South-East Queensland is facing a very significant challenge of course from this weather system and the South-East is now bearing the brunt. The system has actually picked up speed, clearing Gladstone overnight, heading through Bundaberg and if you look at the weather radar you can actually see quite dramatically how that is moving very much at a much more rapid pace into northern New South Wales. Of course it has sadly left a trail of destruction behind it, very significant flooding. It's sad to say that the people of Bundaberg are now this afternoon preparing for worse flooding than in 2010, 2011. Right now we are seeing some evacuations in that city, I'll talk more about that in a moment. I have been up to Bundaberg and Bagara this morning with the local government minister David Christopher Lee and local member Jack Dempsey, the police emergency services minister of course, Stephen Bennett, the local state member Paul Neville, federal member for Hinkler and we have toured with Mayor Mal Forman, the waterfront area of Bagara and also looked at some of the low-lying areas in Bundaberg. I was saddened to meet a couple, Andrew and Michelle, and go into their home which had essentially been ripped apart to see their completely crushed caravan, their car that had been completely damaged, the significant damage to the house and their personal effects and my heart goes out to them and we were able to give them a bit of advice and support as to what they needed to do next and what help they could expect from both their local disaster management group and the state government. The system is now predicted to move into northern New South Wales. We will be seeing heavy rainfalls along the coast and wind speeds of up to 130 kilometres an hour. Another issue of significance I just quickly make the point on is that the Australian Defence Force are on standby, but breaking information is that two helicopters have been tasked to assist the effort up in Bundaberg this afternoon. So let's now go to Gladstone and then move in detail from Gladstone south to Coulomb Gata. Firstly, dealing with Gladstone, Mayor Gale Sellers and her team have had the brunt of this over the last 24 to 36 hours. We have seen 20 houses inundated at Tannum Sands in that vicinity and 20 houses at Benarevi. There have been a number of evacuation centres set up, including the local PCYC. Talking now to a longer dam, we are seeing very dramatic levels of water in that dam, 8.5 metres above the normal water level, discharge down that spillway, but also the saddle dam that we spoke about yesterday has been overtopped and it is eroding as it is meant to, with water now going down that flow path as well. The dam at this stage is all holding up well. I want to announce that the Acting Premier and Treasurer Tim Nichols and the local government minister David Christopherly will be heading to Gladstone shortly to see at first hand how the effort is going there and to provide any support that Mayor Gale Sellers needs. If I turn now in more detail to Bundaberg, as I said before, the flood levels are expected to easily exceed the 2010 levels. We are seeing evacuations in Bundaberg North and I believe Bundaberg East. Gingen and Childers are also isolated and we expect overall at least 300 homes and 100 businesses to be inundated in Bundaberg. The government is in regular contact with Male Form and the Mayor and his team and I dropped in at their local disaster management group meeting just to give them some ideas about the path ahead. Turning now to Gimpy and Mary Burrow. Mayor Ron Dine at Gimpy and his team are sadly well practised in dealing with floods and I know they will rally as they always have to deal with the impacts particularly in the downtown CBD area. There is a man missing near Gimpy after being swept away near Wedgie Creek and two others were rescued after being swept away at the same time and the Bruce Highways Cut at Traveston Crossing. Turning to Mary Burrow, I've on a couple of occasions spoken to Mayor Gerrit O'Connell, a new Mayor, who is about to be tested and his team about to be tested for the first time of this period since the last Council election. We do expect a flood in Mary Burrow. Emergency services are searching for a young woman who reportedly drove into waters near Pacific Haven this morning and we have grave is for her safety. Tornado is also reported having touched down at Burrum Heads up to the West North West of Harvey Bay around 4am this morning. No major injuries have been reported. A number of the surrounding towns near Burrow have been isolated. There have been houses in and out at all the shot Pacific Haven, Howard and Torvenley up the Bruce Highway. Moving now to the Sunshine Coast, I also spoke to Mayor Jameson around 24 hours ago and indicated that he had my full support, but that he and his team need to particularly be looking at what was going to be happening over the next few days. We have seen very strong winds at Maloula Bar. Kin Kin is isolated up north west of Nusa and the current report is there's 23,000 homes without power, although I expect that will rise. Turning now to Brisbane, I know Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has been active with community messages and he has geared up his local disaster management group. We expect in the Brisbane, Greater Brisbane area, very high rainfalls over the next 24 hours. We're seeing the system though then moving on by mid-Nonday. The coastal areas around Morton Bay and of course the impacts on the Brisbane River, we've talked about, we will see high tides there that will cause potentially backing up of creeks and also those low-lying areas down on the Bayside will see inundation. And again, I stress that there is a very great threat right across South East Queensland from these local creeks. There are around 11,500 homes without power in Brisbane. If I just then quickly give you the overall Energex figure across the region, it is about 58,000 homes without power, but that number is continuing to go up every half an hour or so when we get an update. Turning to Ipswich, we expect high rainfall over the next 24 hours and Kilcoy and Esk have been isolated. Finally, Gold Coast Lockyer Valley can expect heavier rainfall today and very strong winds 130 kilometres an hour. And again, Mayor Tom Tate and his team are gearing up to deal with potential flooding on the Naurang River and low-lying areas off the Gold Coast. Just to wrap this up, I have four parents with kids who will be going back to school. A call will be made tomorrow, an announcement made about the opening of school and I just ask our parents to keep their ears and eyes open for that announcement. Finally, ladies and gentlemen, again, please heed the warnings and I will go through them. Do not swim in flooded creeks or stormwater drains. Do not drive across flooded bridges or causeways. Stay away from fallen power lines. Please don't go down to the beach and enjoy the great surf conditions. It's not the time. The surf lifesaving association or Apsley Adamant, they don't want to risk their members' lives helping someone who's just on a bit of a lark. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm now happy to take questions but do the BOM just want to quickly add in before I do? Just to bring you up to date on the very latest information as far as the weather goes, the heaviest rain is currently falling just inland from the Sunshine Coast. Very heavy rainfalls have upwards of 200 millimetres since 9am this morning but the system, as the Premier said, the system is moving south. There are still warnings out, severe weather warnings out. There will be very damaging winds, destructive winds this afternoon across the South East. The Bureau is doing its final modelling for the Bremmer River and the Brisbane Rivers and we expect to be able to release some modelling figures later this afternoon to the local disaster management groups to work with about the potential for flooding across those rivers. We also are particularly concerned down in the South East around the Gold Coast about heavy rain continuing hundreds of millimetres down there over the next 24 hours. We do feel that the system is slipping south. There is every chance that it will move down into New South Wales by tomorrow and that we should be on an easing trend. The good news as well is that we don't see any follow-up systems in the next week or so. So after this rain clears we should be able to track these flood waters down. Thanks, Paul. Over to you, ladies and gentlemen. Premier, will there be any changes in the water releases from the dams? It's likely that Seq Water, as they see the inflows going into the dams from quite significant rain in the catchment, will in accordance with the flood or the dam manuals actually increase those outflows. That is quite likely. If you recall yesterday they were discharging less than 500 cubic metres a second. Overnight I think they went up to just under 1,000 cubic metres a second. Are you active at last? Well what's happened is that the government, as I said yesterday, has given them very clear advice about our position in relation to some of the parameters that they consider when making their decisions. Clearly we don't have water supply problems right now. So we have said, look, we're not concerned now about water supply considerations. The other thing we said to them is that we have no issue, no problem at all with downstream road crossings such as Colleges Crossing being blocked by flood waters. So we gave them that guidance. After that it's up to them. They have statutory responsibilities that they fulfil. The only direction that has been given to them in the formal sense has been the minister's designation gazetal of a lower full supply level at the 88% level. The speed of the system is moving. Is that a glimmer of hope in all of this? That's the way I'm seeing it because when I flew up this morning to Bunderburg it was completely socked in all the way up there. The whole way we were in cloud. There was lots of rain at Bagara when we were down at the waterfront there. But on the way home things were clearing up and that is good because it means we just hopefully see an end to the rain as soon as possible in the South East Queensland area and that would be great. I think we've had more than enough by now. Do you have any further details on the 27-year-old who's missing from Wichita? Was it a... they drove into the water? I'm not sure. The commissioner may have some information on that. Commissioner? No, thank you Premier. Thanks ladies and gentlemen. I understand that the vehicle with that person inside drove into the water. Two people were rescued okay but whereas the 27-year-old is still missing and we're looking for him. Unfortunately I don't know. I haven't had a chance to even brief the Premier on this. It appears that they are just recent use of a body of an elderly male being recovered from the water at Burnett Heads and that's as much information I have at this time. Commissioner, have the police made any arrests in relation to sort of all crime behaviour? Not that I'm aware of at this time. But do you think people have been behaving well in general? Unfortunately and I know the Premier stressed this yesterday and gave his support to the police that if anyone does anything that endangers the lives including of other members of the community or the emergency services that we will take full action as your police department against those people. Certainly there have been people, even young people doing silly things and that includes going into flooded waters to have a swim for instance. That's unacceptable to all of us. Premier, you said earlier you've been communicating with Prime Minister's office. Oh look, I guess the Prime Minister contacted me in the last 36 hours made contact and obviously offered her full support. The support of the federal government and I greatly appreciate that. I understand that the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer and local member, Wayne Swann will be coming to this emergency service complex shortly and I hope to have a quick chat with him then. I've also basically communicated directly with the Prime Minister by text message overnight letting her know how things were going. At this stage I have no issues or anything that I'm sure they can't fulfil. Yes I do but I don't intend to give out any further detail because I'm not aware of his next to kin being advised at this stage. Not to my knowledge and that's on going as well. Ladies and gentlemen, one thing I think I should just stress at this stage is that what's happening now in South East Queensland is a developing situation. I undertake to get any information that the BRM, South East Queensland and water the councils have to the community as soon as we have it. But I just stress that we are right in the middle of this now. It is still coming down. I can hear it bucking down on the roof as we speak as a matter of fact but we will get information to the community and so I just again urge them to listen into radios, watch TV etc. It's the afternoon though to be at home watching a DVD or reading a book. Not driving around on the roads. I meant to say that earlier on. Look, obviously this morning on the ground of the gar and burn at heads and the overall Bundaberg community is shocked and devastated to have the impact of many tornadoes coming and crossing the coast in their suburbs and ripping apart their homes and whilst they're getting over that shock we now have the double blast of extra flood waters that are coming into the Bundaberg suburbs which will affect many people. Now, Bundaberg community are strong and the local disaster management group are certainly working hard and the mayor and we've obviously sent, we know asked to Australian Defence Force helicopters to head in that direction to give assistance but what people can do themselves and we've seen at first hand only this morning is please if it's flooded, forget it. I have swift water rescue crews still going to unnecessary people who are playing in creeks and drains. We have police attending and being taken away from other emergency issues and people are simply going out sightseeing and looking at areas as the Premier just stated please stay at home read a book, have your plans in place. Remember if it's flooded forget it. If you need assistance from the SES 1-3-2-500 check on road conditions and make sure you can do as much as you can to look after your family and friends they've just come to an Australia day long weekend and it's typical to look after our mates and that's what we'll continue to do in the Bundaberg area and particularly in these small communities of Burnett Heads, Bagara Cooner and as well as we had obviously down to Harvey Bain. How many residents have been there? Sorry? Well there's been a situation where one of the crew had lost their gear or something. We had 21 swift water activations of the five people who had to have assistance getting out of drains and flood water and a lot of them are simply avoidable and we know we're coming to the end of school holidays and we just ask everyone to have a little bit of common sense look after each other and let police and other emergency services and our hard work and volunteers get on with the job of looking after their communities not being distracted away to unnecessary jobs. What are those area shoppers specifically and what will they do? They've been tasked to the Bundaberg area and that will be obviously to assist the local disaster management group particularly in obviously in the areas of logistics whether we need support in and out of that particular area but at the moment it's in its infancy and it's about getting those resources into the right time. No, it's a matter of having those resources in that particular position should we need them in the future. That's what's constantly assessed and that's why we have a state disaster management coordination centre and we've had terrific work from the local disaster management groups and the disaster management group so that is continue to be assessed on a 24 hour basis as we work through all the issues in the local areas obviously areas in relation to the Bruce Highway, in relation to communication the issues that we had we've talked to recently but we're working through those issues and making sure that as far as from emergency response we are ahead of the game and making sure that people can have a peace of mind and we also know that we have a fully resourced and adequate emergency services in place to assist the community. Look obviously it's a time when we all pull together and even in the centre here we have many volunteers coming in and helping out and that's the Queensland way and we'll make sure that that keeps being maintained. Rob this might be a question for you but what is the likelihood of the White Bay area? We think that the threat has moved south now the actual right conditions for tornado development have come down towards the Brisbane area now so it should be clearing away from that White Bay area. Is it quite unusual to see that sort of activity I guess? It is unusual to have so many people who aren't unheard of here in Queensland in these kind of situations we do often see them around these big strong lows but to have so many in one area was very unusual and the same conditions have moved south now so we're just urging people to keep an eye out on the weather and stay indoors if you can. I know you don't have the river modelling yet but those people in Rosalie and Nelson who were on the news yesterday thinking oh here we go again do you think they can be we're still doing the final modelling but there's nothing to suggest in our modelling at the moment there will be anything like as bad as 2011 we're still doing the final modelling and working with SEQ Water to look at the water flows. I just add that you can be assured and I've sort of alluded to this before that as soon as we have forecast and modelling completed on any scenario, on any part of the state, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast whatever we will release that information and go to great lengths to try and explain to people how they can use that to protect themselves and their families so as it's worked up we will provide it to the community New South Wales is under alert at the moment for damaging weather moving south towards Sydney even. This particular low pressure system had a birth in the Gulf it's done the remarkable trip from Cape York Peninsula devastating parts of Queensland and it also will pose a threat to the coast of New South Wales as well so while it's good news it's leaving the Queensland post codes people in New South Wales are on alert for potential flooding and damaging winds and dangerous waves It is transitioning into a different kind of system but in terms of the amounts of rainfall it would be very hard to be getting up to a metre of rain or one and a half metres of rain we've had here but the bottom line is for New South Wales they are under flood watch as well for many rivers along coastal parts of New South Wales and the potential of damaging winds and dangerous surf and damaging surf is there so I urge people to keep an eye on the Weather Bureau's website listen to advice from the Bureau of Meteorology in New South Wales and the New South Wales State Emergency Service Throughout the afternoon there certainly is and into the evening there is still the risk of these destructive winds to have small areas so there is that potential of tornado development Do you get any sort of warning then like can we see a tornado through developing on the radar? There are sometimes indications on the radar that are very subtle but these particular storms or showers yesterday coming through that carried these tornadoes were moving at nearly 100 kilometres now of themselves so by the time they are on the radar they are moving fast and coming through and beneath these showers we will get this rotation causing the area so we will be monitoring our radars throughout the afternoon and trying to keep people abreast of any developments when we see them I'm not sure 5 or 6 there was certainly one overnight and a potential one earlier over the Sunshine Coast as well these systems don't always cause tornadoes but with so much wind aloft 130 kilometres an hour winds just above the surface the potential is there and we've seen already even without the tornadoes the potential for damaging winds is there and heavy squally showers move across the south east this afternoon that's my understanding the task has been confirmed and they'll be doing that you might want to go directly to them to get what they expect in relation to the arrival time oh look no the Prime Minister has essentially said look you tell me what you need and I'll be there to support you that's great so it's up to us here in Queensland to work out the extent of any requirement for support and let them know so I stress that it's up to us to let them know and that is one of the big jobs of the state disaster management group and the cabinet disaster committee that just met to actually look at what's happening next what has to happen in terms of recovery that's exactly our role and I have stressed that too the state disaster management people and the cabinet this afternoon so people are planning for what they're going to need and we will be making those requests so you could expect us to make requests for support from people from the units at inaugural and we're working on that right now similarly you'd see us if we need them asking for support from say Victoria or New South Wales and SES units Premier, someone's tweeted a photo of that freaking water ranging in there any good on Swinburne and the Lockheed out here? Not other than what I've already said if you go to what the BOM has already said they have said that they've got alerts for Whirl Creek, the Lockheed the Bremmer River so that's all out there and there are heavy rainfalls occurring no I don't have anything like that we'll get the bean counters involved in that at the end of the day Are there any plans to watch the state government float here? Yes there is and I'll make an announcement about that short about how we're going to do that I think that's very important in these circumstances I'd like to just sort of make one other point as well ladies and gentlemen and that is the role of local government in the way the disaster management system has worked in this state and the mayor's have a very important role and they bear the initial brunt of any disaster in the area and they have been doing that and working effectively I have been encouraging mayor's and I do so again publicly this afternoon to now think about the cleanup they can rally their communities and I would ask them to think about messaging in their local media about how they can pull their community together give people some clear pointers on how they can help one another to mobilise people to go off and start to do the cleanup The mud army in 2011 did a fantastic job we can see mud armies in places like Rockhampton Gladstone, Bundaberg etc and into the south east but the mayors are the ones who particularly have the ability to mobilise local communities in that way and I'd ask them to consider that strongly in the next few days Anything else?


I'd go and see Gertrude have a cup of tea with her and she said to me listen to me I know these people are treating you terribly. I've heard things too, but I want to tell you Paul listen to me You must be yourself. I said but being myself is getting me so much trouble She said I don't care. You need to be yourself, but I'd listen to this 95 year old telling me Whatever you do be yourself Being myself has cost me hugely in life. I'm gonna say it to you quickly But don't think my moving over it as point three quickly means I don't know what a big ask this is for some of you to commit to being yourself


Item number SCP-556 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-556 is stored in a secure hangar at site. No materials containing any ink, dye, or paint may enter the red zone established in a 50-meter radius around SCP-556. In the case of a runoff incident from accidental introduction of raw material into SCP-556, the containment area must be locked down for a minimum of 48 hours pending reevaluation of SCP-556 via remote exploration. Personnel working within the red zone of SCP-556 must be paired at all times, and any missing personnel are to be reported immediately. Description SCP-556 is the recovered wreckage of Varig cargo flight PPVLU, a Boeing 707-32-3C that crashed approximately 320 km east northeast of Tokyo, Japan, on January 30th, 1979. At the time, the aircraft was carrying 153 paintings when a Foundation listening post picked up an anomalous Mayday signal from the flight. Officially, the aircraft disappeared without a trace, and no wreckage was ever discovered. Foundation assets were able to recover SCP-556 mostly intact, at a depth of 0.5 meters, on 0.979, and transported the wreckage to site where it remains today. The exterior of SCP-556 has sustained extensive damage, consistent with a high-speed impact into water, followed by exposure at crush depth. Despite this, the interior of SCP-556 is mostly intact, and was in fact discovered dry at time of recovery, and 86% covered by a layer of paint. Spectroscopic and chemical analysis has shown this layer to be a mixture of the paint on the paintings, carried by PPVLU on its last flight, with traces of human DNA. The paint forms a continuous, static scene, depicting a large industrial complex in which several human figures are being data-expunged. At time of discovery, no physical remains of the cargo or the six crew members could be found. An initial survey showed that the painted scene contained 68 uniquely identifiable individuals, of which several have shown incredible similarities to descriptions and photographs of the missing crew. Addendum 556-1, translated excerpt from the damaged cockpit voice recorder, CVR, recovered from SCP-556. R. Unintelligible, coming up from the cargo hold. Unintelligible. M. Unintelligible. Got. Unintelligible. Close the- Unintelligible. R. Unintelligible. Unintelligible. Unintelligible. Unintelligible. Screaming. R. Unintelligible. Mayday. This is- Unintelligible. Going down near- Unintelligible. Mayday. Mayday. Mayday. Unintelligible. Screaming.  End of transcript. Loss of onboard power. Addendum 556-2, on- Unintelligible. An attempt to transfer the paint from the interior of SCP-556 to another medium was made. SCP-556 subsequently data-expunged, within a 200-meter radius. Subsequent analysis now shows 217 unique individuals within the scene, and covers of the cabin walls has increased to 91%. Further attempts to remove the paint have been suspended, pending further investigation into the incident. Addendum 556-3, on- Unintelligible. A class D maintenance worker with extensive tattoos over 46% of his body accidentally walked within the red zone of SCP-556, and was immediately data-expunged. Current figure count within SCP-556 now stands at 218, with paint over 92% of the cabin walls. Class D personnel must now be screened for body tattoos before being allowed within SCP-556's containment area. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-555, Corpse Magnet. Right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Okay, we're just gonna get started and today the talk or the panel is gonna be about the technical obstacles to why there's no widespread adoption of crypto today. And it's pretty obvious that over the last year or year and a half we went from very few people knowing about what blockchain is or cryptocurrency or Bitcoin or Ethereum to basically the whole world figuring out what this thing is. So we've gotten to definitely widespread awareness but no one's actually using it day-to-day. And so we're gonna be talking about some of the things that are keeping us from using it day-to-day and it starts from like the technology layer that's actually preventing a lot of the adoption today. But before we go on to that I want to do a round of intros and I'll start with you Richard. Thank you. Hi everybody. So I am an engineer who was never good enough to be a developer trained in the UK and Cambridge and then I got into building software companies and did a couple of those quite on the kind of plumbing side of things. One IPO and then one trade sale and then 10 years ago crossed over to the other side of the table and for a couple years was really looking for something that really got me excited that there was something transformative happening to quote Peter Thiel to move beyond the 140 characters of Twitter and get to flying cars and I think that the combination of crypto and AI and Internet of Things is actually possibly getting us there and Fabric is investing in that new way of computing. Vinay? So I'm Vinay Gupta, CEO of Materium. Like Richard also a developer. I said in software then went into energy policy for a while, came back to software in 2014 when I joined the Ethereum team, led launch of Ethereum and now run a company which basically exists to handle the legal side of blockchain adoption. Awesome. Joe? I'm Joey Krug. I'm co-CIO at Pantera Capital. We're an investment firm that solely focuses on blockchain tech and then before that how I originally got involved in the space is I created a project called Augur which is a decentralized prediction market on top of Ethereum. Awesome. And I'm Preeti Kastreti. I'm the founder and CEO of a company called True Story. We're building a social network for experts to identify what's true and what's not, starting with information and crypto and before this I was an engineer at Coinbase and a partner at Andrews and Harvitz. So I'm just going to get started and like I said one of the biggest things that we're facing today is there's lack of adoption in crypto so we all know about it but no one's actually using it and we have these like big dreams for what this thing can do for us but the technology that we have to get us to this big dream basically is at an infancy state. It's like Elon Musk trying to go to space but all he has is a horse and buggy. That's kind of the state we are in crypto and we need to get this horse and buggy to a spaceship to really get to the space. So I want to kind of start off by asking you what do you think are the what do you feel are the biggest technical obstacles that are preventing widespread adoption from happening today? So in a sense I'd say I don't think there are any technical obstacles because I'd really like to kind of reframe the conversation a little bit. Partly because I think we can get dragged into quite a lot of detail about how to solve things like scaling or different consensus mechanisms and that's really work that is probably best discussed in another forum in some senses but in as much as user experience is actually you know technically very challenging to get right I think a lot of that the challenges exist in that space whether it be the fact that you don't want to be trying to remember your seed phrase or remember your private key or have to manually do a test transaction all of that should kind of really be handled by your wallet for example and there are companies like Ajahn and Casar and Keyless and so forth sort of trying to address that but I just one sort of additional point is that if we step back and I think about some of the experiences I've had in trying to build companies and failing for long periods of time to get them to take off the challenge of actually building a product that is you know delicious enough to be adopted by users and then cracking the code of how you take that to market is really tough you have to get consumers to get over some kind of discomfort and create a new habit and in the enterprise space you've got to get to the top of the list of priorities preferably of the CFO not of the head of some of the department so this takes real serious effort and concentration and it's many of the reasons that venture capital exists and that even when all of the tech is baked you still you know get a few victories out of several tens if you see what I mean so I think that's that's my feeling about it yeah no I totally agree like I think if you look at the experiences that Facebook or Instagram or Pinterest or all these consumer products have created for us they've done such a phenomenal job of creating really really good products that the crypto crypto products today are not competing with other crypto products they're competing with centralized counterparts which is a really really really high barrier to meet so yeah so I think that some of this is also a question of time I remember installing the first version of the software that runs the web CERN HGTV on university machines in 93 and I don't think the web became generally useful until about 2008 you know the point where it was just de facto it was a generational process yeah and I think crypto is a generational process and when the kids that are currently in high school trading Bitcoin are you know middle management in airlines that's when you'll begin to see talk of like well you know why aren't we selling tickets for Bitcoin you know why aren't we putting these tickets on a blockchain why is there a secondary market the modes of thinking take a long time to soak into the culture and but we've already seen mass adoption of crypto once which was e-commerce right you know the little green padlock is an indicator of a crypto legal underlying system and that's two and a half trillion dollars of transactions a year right now so it's not that we're not using crypto we're all using it all the time it's just how long will it take people to get more crypto and I think the web browser is the critical battleground I think brave is super important but then who's using it yeah I would say one thing if you look at the user experience issues in this space about half of them I think are things that you can fix today like those wallet problems that you mentioned are solvable today I think the other half though do actually go back to the technical skill ability issues and the reason is if you think of a regular web startup you can kind of get some traction and then run into a skill ability wall wall or barrier so good example this is Twitter for the first like five years of Twitter the fail whale was up on the site all the time because the site kept crashing and they just kept spinning up more servers and eventually they improve their infrastructure and now it doesn't crash all the time but in crypto currency a lot of the interesting applications are actually marketplaces in particular their financial marketplaces and so for those it's really hard to even get to the point where you hit that first skill ability barrier because to market make in marketplaces requires massive amounts of scale so if you think of a trading firm on Wall Street and they're providing liquidity to some financial market they're placing and canceling hundreds of thousands of orders in that market on the scale of a few seconds and so if you don't have the ability to actually do things like market make it makes it hard for even the smallest amount of actual usage to start to take off and so I do think some of these these scalability problems on the tech side do need to be solved before we start to see you know even kind of small nascent amounts of adoption for some of these applications so I mean clearly I'm not just doing a respond throw it around a little bit if that's okay I mean clearly I'm not saying that we don't need to solve those problems but an interesting question would be I mean first of all how many people in the audience are developing what you might think of as a decentralized application I don't know if there's a show of hands have been anybody a few hands few hands yeah how many people are actually developing an application okay so we maybe had 50% of people developing application but I would wager that there aren't many of those people out there who are immediately running into the scalability problem so it needs to be solved but you know they're probably running into the problem of building indeed marketplaces which even even if it's just an information arbitrage business you're going into the marketplace it's tough to get the two sides you know going but the opportunity that exists with you know new ways of representing data that have been bought in somebody like you know blockchain and express through crypto the opportunities there are moved beyond information arbitrage it's like you know it's like entirely new information businesses around you know whether it be real estate or indeed around finance and so those are even harder to bootstrap into existence I think I'm sort of maybe complacent I but I think that the kind of the guys that whether be in theorem or other projects will continue to crack the scaling side of things we need to focus on you know what are the right problems to solve right now and and be really smart about that yeah I mean I don't think either of you are wrong I think both both are problems like you can't like I think if anything we've learned over the last couple years it's that the if like decentralized applications are not the only form of advocate applications right ICOs are an application and that the ICOs made us realize that actually we don't even have the tech to scale this thing that we dream of and so now we're back at the infrastructure phase and we're like okay let's fix infrastructure so we can do more apps I think it's just like this recurring cycle where we'll we'll try to build apps like ICOs or other things and then we'll realize the infrastructure is not there and then we'll fix that and we'll build applications so it's both they go hand in hand I had a very funny conversation with Michael James Young who was the scaling engineer for Farmville and he said in those days you know most of the social games had to provision their own servers but Farmville was an early adopter of Amazon web services so what would happen is the game would go viral then they'd hit a capacity stall then the virality would stop and then but for Farmville they just kept phoning Amazon and asking for more servers so I think part of the slowing of growth is that when you do get a viral spike Ethereum does tend to grind to a halt like crypto kitties right crypto kitties might have reached 10 times as many people 50 times as many people if it hadn't downed the network on the way up and it's not like you could just call Amazon to do some more provisioning so there is this possibility that we're going to be in a position where we get stop starts with virality you know up until we hit a critical mass of scaled solution and I you know I have reasonable hopes that the scaling will come to kind of like a thousand transactions a second yeah I think you could get there without having to do a scratch read right from what would he say today from like 15 at 15 a second now is that yeah 50 to give a context for people yeah yeah 50 second now so that I think that you could get linear approaches to getting to about a thousand but if you want to get kind of OLTP style visa throughput 130 thousand transactions a second I think for that it's not clear that anything in the blockchain space has a realistic shot at that while remaining decentralized right kind of moving on to that like what are the current solutions that you're seeing that people are trying to put in place to solve the scalability problems because there's so many different angles that people are taking at this right now whether that's scaling the chain base chain itself or building on layer two like various layer two scaling solutions are just building whole new consensus engines that are optimized for more scalability but like less security per se yeah yeah I would say you have basically kind of two wide ranges of approaches you have people trying to scale things linearly as the name mentioned and I think he's right we can get a hundred x increase in performance doing that in the other way is is kind of exponentially or quadratically and so the ideas there are if you look at blockchains today they're like a really dumb calculator where if you put in your calculator two plus two everyone else in the world's everyone's calculator all of a sudden does two plus two and shows four on the screen and that's kind of how it works today and so people are working on trying to create solutions where you don't need every calculator to process every calculation somebody inputs into it and those are the ones where you know you could theoretically see hundreds of thousands of transactions per second but they're also much more technically difficult those areas are really still an r&d today yeah and it's fair to say that you know with those approaches you make some compromise with kind of like you know speed to finality of a transaction or the level of security or privacy and there's a trade-off that goes goes on and so the answer in my sense to your question is you know yes all of those things different approaches are going to be play out and then depending on the use cases that hopefully people do focus on as well then you know you'll use the the appropriate backend infrastructure and indeed there'll be an interplay between these different blockchains or ledgers you know so they'll use each other as sidechains if you will yeah yeah I mean I think that with this a lot of this is about understanding what the technology is for like to me the current ethereum main chain looks more or less perfect for DNS type functions it's great for key management it's great for figuring out where an asset is to be found but if you're doing serious transaction throughput you kind of need to move to an l2 solution so because we got it into our head that the main chain is where you want all your transactions to happen we keep kind of banging our head against that rather than using the main chain for namespace management key management you're dereferencing to other solutions and then running the transactions on those systems so I think that this is in some ways a cultural shift where we have to accept that you know if you've got a sort of you know 50 signer subchain that has a whole bunch of proof of authority stuff on it and you've smoothed into our probability with main chain that may not be a temporary solution that may be the solution yeah because a full scale you know full blood heterogeneous parallel computing surface for the entire internet that's a big ass yeah right it's all clear that we can get there from here you might have to go back to the kind of 1980s style thinking about concurrent sequential processes and pod calculus and all that stuff and most of the people that really understand that stuff are 15 years older than me yeah you know it's we're waiting for another revolution but you know it may be a bunch of old guys yeah I think you make a really good point there and that like people culturally are still thinking of blockchain like the fact that people think that everything needs to live on the blockchain and it doesn't like not everything needs to live in this slow censorship resistant immutable blockchain the only things you probably want to keep in there are the ones that require the properties of censorship resistant privacy like those are the like those are the only things that need to live on the blockchain everything else can live off the blockchain and so I think my thesis is that layer two solutions or application specific blockchains make a lot more sense so long as you can always peg to the main blockchain and transact with the main blockchain yeah so personally for example on true story we're building on something called cosmos which allows us to do that it allows us to build an application specific blockchain where we we don't have to be boggled down by the throughput of ethereum because we have our own blockchain but then we can always peg to the ethereum blockchain when we need to go to the main chain and so these are the types of solutions that are being built and I think we're still in early days we're still figuring out what is the right way to do it and what is the wrong way to do it and the only way to figure that out is to keep trying things and testing it out so with that I kind of want to move on to asking you like we're seeing this whole battle happening between like ethereum blockchain and bitcoin blockchain and eos and tezos and so you're starting to see a multi blockchain world and a lot of competition among blockchains do you believe in a single blockchain future or do you think there'll be many many many blockchains so I mean as mentioned I kind of believed in the the blooming of a thousand blockchains or blockchain type you know technologies but that said you know it's clear that you know watching the activity in the developer community and seeing the success of ethereum is is the right set of metrics to be looking at and I think at the moment it's still growing in terms of number of repos the it's the fifth fastest roughly growing on github working of asia would be you know on top in terms of type so I think I think that's you know relevant to look at that but nonetheless I think the whole community within ethereum and we can throw around kind of what size we think it is but it's it's less than a million developers clearly maybe less than half a million whereas you know I would I would say depending on how you define developer you've got to be punching towards a hundred million developers around the world and maybe that you know that's growing quite fast so it's still a small you know it's the foothills of its kind of potential growth so there's a lot of possibilities for that that that position of you know primacy to change over time so so I wouldn't for that reason be dismissing other approaches I think in some ways it's more important to think about the wallets and the underlying chains and you know you could easily see a situation in which you wind up with a near monopoly wallet where you just wind up with one front end and pretty much all of the crypto stuff is in that front end I don't think the users particularly care because you know if you ask them to differentiate between bitcoin ethereum and a bunch of other stuff you know for most users it's numbers that go up and numbers that go down and either your friend takes it or your friend doesn't so I'm I think I'm much more interested in the front ends and the wallets and the development of user interface concepts like I feel like we still haven't had the breakthrough on interface all the blockchain stuff still looks like kind of third-rate banking applications rather than like whoa look it's super computer and we don't even like the first-rate banking applications so I mean Monzo is not bad right but some of the new it's only not bad right yeah it's only not bad like why isn't finance fun yeah yeah and like I think when you think about a blockchain a blockchain is a distributed system in a distributed system you can't get all the properties you can never have a perfect distributed system so you're always making trade-offs whether you want more security less security more scalability less scalability and so I think every blockchain will probably optimize for a certain thing and build for that and so you can't ever have a blockchain that does everything this that's just my thesis and so even though people give for example projects like EOS a lot of shit for being centralized I think it does serve some use cases because maybe gaming doesn't actually require a sense doesn't need censorship resistance and that's enough for gaming right sure I mean I was gonna say that there's definitely of course and this happens if you you know see these generational shifts driven by new technologies you know you definitely get the some of the earlier protagonists and adopters being pretty religious about the use of those technologies in the approach and clearly people have religion about decentralization yeah and definitely what we've started to see and reflect in the way we're looking at opportunities is people who think about not just minimal viable product but when they're getting going but also minimal viable decentralization a minimal viable you know use of crypto you know and and be much more pragmatic about that even to the degree that people might think about from a fresh start I want to disrupt this marketplace I want it to be a very information data intensive marketplace that I'm gonna build but I'm not ready I don't need to use crypto and decentralization day one there's other problems for me to for me to tackle and so you might say for example in a health care use case you might say the most critical thing thing is just the privacy of the data and and I need to use you know some of these fresh technologies for example zero knowledge proofs to to address that particular problem but the level of decentralization that's something that can perhaps evolve over time yeah yeah I think that's a good point was your knowledge proofs like I sort of feel like we're about to enter this kind of Cambrian explosion of new algorithms yeah you know there are there are all kinds of new things kind of crawling out of the mathematical research with the ring signatures of various kinds of zero knowledge proofs and ZK Starks and Starks and all the rest of that so it may be that in two or three years blockchain is one of half a dozen crazy things that happen in cryptography that are now running around on the internet yeah I think that the stark thing is so shatteringly powerful yeah I mean it's a jaw-dropping set of mathematical innovations I think it's going to tear reality wide open um I mean on my front the the angle that we're working on is not so much the trade-offs in in the pure digital domain but how do we break out into the real world so that you could get hold of assets and it's kind of like namespace management right we've got all this work which is happening on digital identity for people a unified digital identity standard blockchain or not would be a game changer same thing for assets like houses and cars and all the rest of that stuff just being able to internet route your way to physical assets to move them around or internet route your way to somebody's legal identity to serve them with papers this kind of stuff that's also transformative for the blockchain space it's scaling but it's not scaling in the pure technical it's reaching out into different parts of people's lives into their identity into their billing into their banking you know into their health records so maybe that it's as much as scaling outwards as just roll more transactions just different areas of life that finally become kind of digital because we did shopping right we did shopping and we did hanging out with your friends but those are that was the last revolution right we haven't had the next jump but i mean on that point of what we've done done though i mean if you look at the the stats and actually try and work out where we are in the potential digitalization of the world and even if you take kind of e-commerce and retail consumer spending it's still it's some you know single digit percent tentage of the of the world's consumer spending two two and a half two and a half percent world trade digitized yeah and that that's because on a lot of those other categories you know a much more complex to digitize and and that's some of the opportunity but obviously you know also the challenge even advertising you know if you narrowly define advertising then maybe it's heading towards 50 percent of advertising spends on online something like that but if you include kind of like you know dropping mail into your into your door and so forth then it's actually again probably single digits so it's much less so there's still a long way to go it's early days i mean the b2b space has nothing at all like you know wearing my material you know we're just chiseling the way on what you need to get b2b to work for e-commerce because e-commerce is practically zero b2b there's almost nothing there you know exactly and we know that there's an explosion waiting to happen and the question is blockchain the necessary enabling technology for that explosion or not and then we think it is yeah and we see some people in that e-commerce space or kind of b2b e-commerce you know again starting very pragmatically so thinking like down to kind of the kind of fundamental building blocks of of e-commerce say like an invoice and saying for some set of invoices in some industry let me re-instantiate that as you know a smart contract and and then start from that fundamental building block and then and then work up and i think you could start in many different places rather than saying you know from from the get go we're gonna just take this entire industry and transform the entire supply chain which is just by definition uh tough yeah i want to say something about ico's actually if i is that okay is it okay so yeah indeed that was an application pretty popular so we talked about adoption it got pretty popular at least amongst a certain segment and indeed maybe presented some scaling problems from time to time but it also of course presented some regulatory problems uh it's i mean we i still think that you know alongside venture you know but also in different stages of investment it's not going away the ability to kind of crowdfund like that but obviously you know regulated but i also think that you know what we see is that there's still a huge potential for different types of financial application that you know what 30% of the world is unbanked entirely and probably 30% of of the US is essentially unbanked even or unfairly banked perhaps and and that we see both on the consumer side and then on the retail side a lot of innovation going on now driven by the crypto capital markets when people realize that they can do things differently i think we shouldn't just like you know forget that bit and then be hunting for supply chain or medical use cases we can do that as well but let's not forget sort of the capital markets yeah absolutely i want to jump into a couple questions from the audience and one of the ones is asking when do you think it's too late for mainstream adoption when yeah i mean like over a decade from now it's it's still so early i guess one one thing on the point about you know people are saying what you can make the trade-offs between you know scalability and security and all this stuff i think we're so early that it's almost slightly too early to even discuss those trade-offs it would be like talking about you know trade-offs on the speed side of the internet back before dial-up even existed back during that time you should have actually just focused on laying more wire and solving the the huge infrastructure problems as opposed to making trade-offs and so to route that back to you know when was it too late for mainstream stuff i mean this tech is still so early i i view bitcoin almost as like the arpanet equivalent in this analogy you know big ethereum is maybe the very early internet and ethereum has only been out a few years so it's it's it's still like day zero go for it to build on that i would say that it was about 85 that sysco systems was founded i think a couple of stanford folks and and they and they i think as i understand it if you want to boil it down you know the ultimately sysco sold most of the kit that went into building the internet that then enabled the web as an application running on top of that but at the time the thing that stood out was that they made these relatively cost-effective multi-protocol routers now who gave a damn about the fact that they were really good at building multi-protocol routers you know then let alone you know ten ten years later but we're still at that stage yeah that people are building those kind of those kind of products took ten years then to get to the net scape scape ipo i'm going to take a slightly contrarian view and i'm going to say i don't think it's ever too late because i see i see crypto playing out in two ways either it does get to mainstream adoption or it remains very very niche and i don't think it i just don't think it ever dies though if that's the beauty of this system it just never actually dies to to um badly misquote kind of Arthur C. Clarke or whatever it was maybe another way of thinking about it that all the kind of most powerful technologies are you know most useful once they become invisible and that you want to move into the kind of Carlotta Perez phase of deployment in these technology ways where it's it's just super widely spread so it doesn't die it just kind of just becomes ubiquitous yes kind of like ai yeah like ai has just like creeped us underneath us without even realizing it's not like you you go in and plug into an ai solution every day just it powers your life and maybe that's how crypto takes off too it just creeps into our lives slowly well it raises an interesting point because that that is the case about ai and there's a lot of debate about ethical ai and about whether or not you want to allow ai to pervert our emotions and therefore possibly political outcomes and i think part of this whole discussion is how the combination of these technologies can you know make sure that this new wave of services that we're going to indulge in and develop habits around actually are you know kind of good for us individually and families and countries and whatever awesome we're running out of time so we're going to end it there thank you so much for being on stage with me thank you


Totally kick-ass dude. Next up we have Jason Savage, former 21 convention speaker from 2009 in Orlando. He's now a couple thousand miles away in Stockholm, Sweden. Jason Savage has been a romance artist and seduction specialist for over a decade. He's taught the process of seduction all across North America. For the past three years he was called Austin Texas home. Now he's given up all his material possessions to create the Association for Applied and Therapeutics seduction and his new travel series, Lovers Without Borders. Got it. It was like what? Long story short, this guy's a total badass. One of my favorite guys from last year. I really appreciate you coming, man. Thanks. Thank you. Kick some ass, man. Alright. Thank you guys. Thank you so much.  This is insane. To be in one of the most beautiful countries in the world surrounded by beautiful people and I can't even express the appreciation I have to be able to stand here and share with you my passion and appreciation and gratitude I have for Anthony putting this together and the respect and appreciation I have for you guys for attending for coming together. It's just an honor. It's a blessing. It's very flatter to be here. The title of this speech, it's gonna kind of seem like it's all over the place. The title of this speech is, seduction is a gift and I'm gonna talk a lot about seduction. I'm gonna talk a lot about escalation. I'm gonna talk a lot about how seduction differs from the process of pickup and I'm gonna talk about exactly how each of these things are gifts and how we share these gifts. But another word that resonates with me, another word that's come into my life recently that you never associate with the pick of community or the seduction community or any of the stuff that we do in the social realm, the sexual realm or the seductive realm, is a word ordination. Ordination, like to be ordained. It's a weird word because we associate this with like clergy, with like religion. If you look at like the classic symbolic historic root of this word it really means to be respected, to be appreciated, to be recognized for a gift. And each of us, we have these qualities, we have these characteristics, we have aspects of our personality that we should be recognized for, that we deserve attention for. You know, maybe you're known for being a hard worker or having a sense of humor, always making someone laugh, having wisdom, having insight, always being optimistic, always being loyal or someone you can count on. And for me, like this has been a deep kind of realization within just the past couple months that like this is my calling, this is like my path, my pursuit, my passion, my purpose. Is to teach seduction, to teach surrender, teach aspects of sexuality, to share that directly with women and to give men the skills and you know teach them these processes so that they can share this with women too, as a gift. So that's my whole thing with ordination is like, I feel this as a calling and I've always kept this underground, like I didn't really want to do an intro with like background and stuff, but you know there's like Neal's book, it's like the underground secret society, which was so mainstream, it's ridiculous, but there's like the true subterranean stuff, like for me, I've been doing this a decade, even the teaching aspect of it. It's always been word of mouth, you know. I don't have a product, I don't have a mailing list, I have a blog and it's gonesavage.com. Also while I'm in town I've got a European phone and I think I've been told that if you're dialing from Sweden, you don't put this, but you do have to put the zero by the seven, but if you're dialing internationally, you leave, you put this, but leave out that zero. I don't know, but yeah I'm going to be here at least a month maybe longer and then after that I'm traveling through other parts of the Europe and me and Jonathan were putting together this idea, seduction without borders, lovers without borders, and we're taking this idea of seduction being a gift. Kind of like the greatest gift in the world, right? We're taking this internationally. So yeah, I just want to talk for a minute about why seduction is a gift, how it's a gift, and then we're going to get into the process of, well I want to do, I want to do like a quick meditation, like an exercise with guys as well, and I got some slides for you and then these two concepts that are really unique to me and kind of like the core essence of what I present. They're two different speeches that I've put together like the first time. One is going to be the introduction of the Savage Triangle and the other is what I call the seduction trump cards. So it's going to go, it's going to take you through the theory more into practice and hopefully we're all going to arrive at the same conclusion. But man, I was just making a list of like my favorite concepts and the different ways seduction is a gift, the different way we share gifts with each other. And if you think about it, like a good working definition of seduction and a little bit later I'm really going to contrast this with pickup. But it's kind of like the process of making a moment more intense. It's kind of like enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. It's lowering defenses. It's awakening the senses. It's igniting her body. It's allowing her to surrender into herself, to surrender into her femininity, to surrender to masculinity. It's a process of awakening enlivening, enhancing and enriching a person's life. And it's a gift. I just kind of made this list. Like the gift I give, like my intention, my promise is to give adventure and excitement, passion, romance through intensity, intrigue, intimacy, humility, humor, my presence, my perspective. All these things are unique gifts. Authenticity, generosity, giving, sharing, being selfless, non-judgmental acceptance, appreciation, attention, affection, passion, lust, arousal, surprise, as well as anticipation, fascination, being bold, being direct, being thrilling.  At last, a brush with danger, passion and romance. But it goes further.  So I see myself, I'm kind of in the business of making fantasies come true and it's kind of a, it's an enlightened self-interest. It's kind of a refined selfishness but seduction is pure pleasure and it's the pleasure that you're giving as a gift and it's the pleasure you're receiving having given that gift and a quick distinction that I always make, when you give someone a gift it should never diminish the intention let me put it this way, when you give someone a gift and they refuse to accept it, you should not feel rejected, it should diminish your intention for having wanted to give that. So it's the idea of giving selflessly, giving with no expectation of return and if you have the expectation of return it's not really a gift, it's a bribe and well Zebra shared a story about, what's it called, spy bar. I was there last night and I had a story that completely relates to this. I'll tell it real quick. I met these two girls on the street and we're really vibing and connecting and they wanted to get me into spy bar and they had a connection there and they did and this is like the real trendy place around town and so you get in like you're selected to get in there's all this gatekeeping like okay you're in but then you still have to pay a cover and one of the two girls was like so I'm getting you she kind of said like a little bit smart ass and I'm like yeah sure I appreciate it thank you right so she paid for me to get in and then we we go upstairs and and they're like talking to some friends or something so I start talking to these other girls and uh like we're really getting along me and this this new girl and the original girl from one of the two that paid to get me in comes up and she's like she takes the other girl and starts speaking in Swedish and like the other girl exits because she said something about me that was really fierce or whatever but um then she's like looking at me and she's like you owe me a hundred crown right you owe me a hundred crown she's being forceful she like pushed me a little bit I'm trying to be all sweet and like no that's a gift that was awesome I truly appreciate it and she's like no you owe me a hundred look buy me two drinks buy me two drinks and I told her the same thing I'm like look there was no expectation in that moment I'm like if you're expecting something in return that wasn't a gift that was a bride and she kind of loosened up like fell more into her femininity but it's just kind of an example right so there's this this is another idea right um I want to do this meditation and it's just a quick exercise like if you guys would just follow along like make sure your feet are kind of planted on the ground you relax to your chair go and close your eyes and relax and imagine like what you perceive to be your biggest sticking point concerning game and meeting women and go even deeper allow yourself to remember a time where this sticking point or this limiting belief manifested in field in real life so just take a moment allow yourself to connect with that experience see if you can pull back some of the feeling some of the emotion perhaps there was a particularly intense sense of rejection or maybe it was just hesitation humiliation some kind of frustration anger worry doubt feel into that experience kind of remember what it was like how you felt what she said where you felt it in your body just get deeper and deeper into that memory and into those sensations allow them to build and increase and intensify and having retained and recaptured the memory of this experience what I want us to do I want us all to just laugh at it


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