Sean Parker, Chamath Palihapitiya - Facebook is Ripping Apart Society Ewafa 2017-12-13 | Sean Parker, ex-Facebook President on Nov 8th warns how the site was deliberately designed to exploit human vulnerability:1:06 - "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."1:21 - "That thought process was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?' And that means that we need to...give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while [via likes, etc]...and that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you...more likes and comments. It's a social validation feedback loop."2:01 - "...the...creators [of fb]... understood this consciously, and we did it anyway."2:20 - Part 2Chamath Palihapitiya joined Facebook as a developer when the company was about a year old, becoming VP for User Growth. His warning from Nov 10th:2:33 - "The entire society is set up to not be patient anymore."3:06 - "Consumer internet businesses are about exploiting psychology."3:54 - "I feel tremendous guilt"[over Facebook’s exploitation of consumer behavior ...its divisive effect on society] ... “Even though we feigned this whole line of, like, ‘There probably aren’t any really bad unintended consequences,’ I think in the back, deep, deep recesses of our minds, we kind of knew something bad could happen,”4:23 - “...we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is truly where we are.”4:42 - “If you feed the beast, that beast will destroy you. If you push back on it, we have a chance to control it and rein it in. And it is a point in time where people need to hard break from some of these tools and the things that you rely on. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it's not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem. So we are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion. It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by, and between, each other. And I don't have a good solution. You know, my solution is I just don't use these tools anymore. I haven't for years. It's created huge tension with my friends. Huge tensions in my social circles.”5:55 - "... I... innately didn't want to get programmed, and so I just tuned it out. ... And now to see what is happening, it really bums me out."6:41 - "...bad actors can now manipulate large swathes of people to do anything you want."6:58 - "...we compound the problem. ... We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short-term signals: hearts, likes, thumbs up. And we conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth. And instead what it really is is fake brittle popularity - that's short term, and that leaves you even more, and admit it, vacant and empty [than] before you did it, because it forces you into this vicious cycle where you're like, 'What's the next thing I need to do now?' 'cause I need it back. Think about that compounded by 2 billion people. And then think about how people react to the perceptions of others. It's just... really, really bad."7:51 - "I did a great job there [at Facebook], and I think that business overwhelmingly does positive good in the world."8:08 - "I can control my decisions, which is 'I don't use this shit.' I can control my kids' decisions which is 'they're not allowed to use this shit.' ... But everybody else has to soul search a little bit more about what you're willing to do, because your behaviors... You don't realize it, but you are being programmed."9:05 - "Start by turning off your social apps and giving your brain a break. 'Cause then you will at least be a little bit more motivated to not be motivated by what everybody else fuckin thinks about you."9:18 - "...posting your fucking waffles online... is wiring your brain for superfast feedback. ... So you're training your brain here, whether you think it or not... These things where you're spending hours a day are rewiring your psychology and physiology..."10:09 - "There's a reason why Steve Jobs was, like, anti-social media. I am telling you I am not on these fucking apps."10:19 - "...I am proactively trying to rewire my brain chemistry to not be short-term focused."Sean Parker's talk is from the Axios event in Philadelphia w/Mike Allen, Nov 8, 2017.Chamath Palihapitiya's talk is from two days later, Nov 10, 2017 at Stanford. He is an owner of the Golden State Warriors and a venture capitalist.Source1a:BBC - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41937476/facebook-founding-president-sean-parker-sounds-alarmSource1b:facebook.com/axiosnews/videos/2027304110849657Source2 YouTube v=PMotykw0SIkCOPYRIGHT belongs to owners of the source vids.
Anthony Fauci on Feb 29: you dont need to change anything youre doing Ewafa 2021-01-26 | Four days AFTER the SuperSpreader Mardi Gras New Orleans catastrophe:2:42 - "you don't need to change anything you're doing"3:35 - "At the end of the day, this will ultimately go down."Live on the Today Show, Saturday Feb 29.(Diamond Princess data, Feb 29 marked in black line at the bottom:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COVID-19_cases_on_Diamond_Princess_cruise_ship_2020.gif )
Anthony Fauci just prior to 2nd Wave: ...things are going in the right direction. Ewafa 2021-01-26 | More complete quote:2:29 - "although things are still active... we’re cautiously optimistic that things are going in the right direction"Interview from Jun 7, 2020 on The Cats Roundtable w/John Catsimatidis.
Anthony Fauci: Its a very, very low risk to the United States. Ewafa 2021-01-26 | 0:43 - "It's a very, very low risk to the United States."3:14 - "It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about."Interview from Jan 26, 2020 on The Cats Roundtable w/John Catsimatidis.
Amanda Gormans Aim to Sanctify a Violated Space, Purify the Idea of America |NBC News w/Lester Holt Ewafa 2021-01-22 | Biden-Harris inaugural poet gives the backstory.The full broadcast from Thursday Jan 21 is here:youtube.com/watch?v=2s51Q0sbej4&t=17m33s...but for some bizarre reason, her most powerful statement was edited out.Now recovered here from fb - facebook.com/watch/?v=479027969770668(logo removed)Copyright belongs to the owner of these source videos from NBC Nightly News.I hope they decide to post a better edit of this interview.I see it to be of deep historical significance.And one obvious way to improve the edit is to switch Amanda to FULL SCREEN when the interviewer is not talking. Zoom bots do a better job than what NBC did here.
Chuck Yeager flipbook tribute (...from Stephensons Rocket to the Saturn V Rocket) Ewafa 2020-12-08 | Visual source: vimeo.com/299748028Audio source: youtube.com/watch?v=vWq-s26YCG8Copyright belongs to the owners of the two sources above.
ACRES DONT VOTE. PEOPLE DO. - 2020 Election Map (Karim Douïeb method, LOOPED x6) Ewafa 2020-11-10 | Counties Sized by Population, NOT Acreage.A much more accurate way to understand the Presidential Election in the USA, Daniel Marcelino published this excellent 2020 update to the Karim Douïeb ('KDO') visualization of the 2016 US Presidential Election, highlighting the fact that the standard Election Map of US Counties is GROSSLY misleading because land area does not correlate well with population density.Amelia Wattenberger's version, published on Nov 6, 2020 was forked off of with a code mod, published Nov 9th. "Counties to collision-detected bubbles", with Amelia having forked from KDO's code. All posted to observablehq.com.This video is simply a screencast from Daniel Marcelino's observablehq.com page. Audio has been added: 'Wood' by Kamiel Rongen, from the Barbapapa EP. All tracks have been generously been offered for free download here, where you can support the musician:waterballet.bandcamp.com/album/barbapapa-epCopyright to the visuals belong to Daniel Marcelino (perhaps with ownership of the code further up the forks).Copyright to the audio belongs to the owner of the Kamiel Rongen track.I do not own anything.My reason for posting this is because I was unable to find any HD upload of this visualization at any social media site. I consider Karim Douïeb's method to be extremely important, because every mainstream news outlet I see persists in using the visuals which we have known for decades to be extremely misleading. As has so clearly stated on KDO's twitter feed:“land doesn't vote, people do.”KDO's first tweet that I've seen using this method was on Oct 8, 2019, where he stated his reply to Lara Trump's retweeting of the "Try to impeach this" County by County United States Election Map, which was not even accurate:"Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation."
Michael Shermer: The Radio (ttbook.org interview w/Steve Paulson & Anne Strainchamps) Ewafa 2018-05-12 | Hardline skeptic Michael Shermer shaken by a mysterious event.Article (w/full podcast, aired Oct 28, 2017):ttbook.org/interview/what-do-you-do-family-ghost-stories-investigation-paranormal2014 Scientific American article by Shermer:scientificamerican.com/article/anomalous-events-that-can-shake-one-s-skepticism-to-the-core______________________________________________Copyright belongs to the owners of the source material linked above. Not me.
Hartford as a Place of Invention - The Smithsonians Eric Hintz Ewafa 2018-02-08 | 20:20 - Why Hartford?Grating The Nutmeg, podcast (2016Dec27rel) -ep22- The Smithsonian's Eric Hintz on Samuel Colt, Elisha Root, and Mark Twainhttp://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/22-the-smithsonians-eric-hintz-hartford-as-a-place-of-inventionMore GTN episodes here:ctexplored.org/listen
Sean Parker - Facebook Exploits Human Vulnerability (We Are Dopamine Addicts, Zhu version) Ewafa 2017-11-12 | w/music soundtrack, 'Dreams' by Zhu/Nero (no music: youtube.com/watch?v=R7jar4KgKxs)1:06 - "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."1:21 - "That thought process was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?' And that means that we need to...give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while [via likes, etc]...and that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you...more likes and comments. It's a social validation feedback loop."2:01 - "...the...creators [of fb]... understood this consciously, and we did it anyway."Sean Parker, ex-Facebook President explains how the site was deliberately designed to exploit the human psychological at Axios event in Philadelphia with Mike Allen, November 8, 2017.(Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, is the person portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie 'The Social Network'.)Source video 1:BBC - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41937476/facebook-founding-president-sean-parker-sounds-alarmSource video 2:facebook.com/axiosnews/videos/2027304110849657- I removed the distracting watermark.HD link: video-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t43.1792-2/23276515_1075720382531659_3061607955951517696_n.mp4?efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9oZCJ9&oh=ff64c897e88c098ae0fd0193295d6dee&oe=5A0798CAQuote from Axios fb page:-------------Former Facebook president Sean Parker says at an Axios event that the company's founders knew they were "exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology" by building a "social validation feedback loop.""And we did it anyway."-------------Here is Mike Allen's main website: axios.comCopyright belongs to the owner of that video (looks to be Axios). Not me.More quotes, posted at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-09/facebook-founder-warns-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-kids-brains======= "When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'" "I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains." "The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'" "And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments." "It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology." "The inventors, creators — it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway."=======More links:__________________________CBS report: youtube.com/watch?v=WIfrMwql6FoGMA: youtube.com/watch?v=LPwR1i-sWpoAxios livestream of this primarily cancer-focused event, including talk w Joe & Jill Biden:facebook.com/axiosnews/videos/2027201467526588...but the video in that link cuts off Sean Parker's talk. If anyone knows where to find his complete talk, please post in the comments.
Sean Parker - Facebook Exploits Human Vulnerability (We Are Dopamine Addicts) Ewafa 2017-11-11 | See UPDATED version, which includes Chamath Palihapitiya's talk at Stanford:youtube.com/watch?v=J54k7WrbfMg____________________________________________________1:06 - "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."1:21 - "That thought process was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?' And that means that we need to...give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while [via likes, etc]...and that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you...more likes and comments. It's a social validation feedback loop."2:01 - "...the...creators [of fb]... understood this consciously, and we did it anyway."This vid+music at youtube.com/watch?v=zKXfXqYAQ2QSean Parker, ex-Facebook President explains how the site was deliberately designed to exploit the human psychological at Axios event in Philadelphia with Mike Allen, November 8, 2017.(Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, is the person portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie 'The Social Network'.)Source video 1:BBC - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-41937476/facebook-founding-president-sean-parker-sounds-alarmSource video 2:facebook.com/axiosnews/videos/2027304110849657- I removed the distracting watermark.HD link: video-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t43.1792-2/23276515_1075720382531659_3061607955951517696_n.mp4?efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9oZCJ9&oh=ff64c897e88c098ae0fd0193295d6dee&oe=5A0798CAQuote from Axios fb page:-------------Former Facebook president Sean Parker says at an Axios event that the company's founders knew they were "exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology" by building a "social validation feedback loop.""And we did it anyway."-------------Here is Mike Allen's main website: axios.comCopyright belongs to the owner of that video (looks to be Axios). Not me.More quotes, posted at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-09/facebook-founder-warns-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-kids-brains======= "When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'" "I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains." "The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'" "And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments." "It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology." "The inventors, creators — it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people — understood this consciously. And we did it anyway."=======More links:__________________________CBS report: youtube.com/watch?v=WIfrMwql6FoGMA: youtube.com/watch?v=LPwR1i-sWpoAxios livestream of this primarily cancer-focused event, including talk w Joe & Jill Biden:facebook.com/axiosnews/videos/2027201467526588...but the video in that link cuts off Sean Parker's talk. If anyone knows where to find his complete talk, please post in the comments.
Time Lines Art Project at Austin Bergstrom International Airport Ewafa 2017-10-24 | Mikyoung Kim Design. A creative visualization of time zones.Her video was originally posted here, with no audio: vimeo.com/129254044=========The Time Lines Project at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport offers travelers a sense of arrival to a locale with vibrant colors and dynamic transformations, while highlighting the fluid nature of time in global travel through the use of holographic imagery. The imagery is developed from the UTC defined time zones in increments of 5 minutes over a 24 hour period, creating a delicate web of lines that represent global time. These translucent polycarbonate panels features three holographic views that transform, highlighting global time over a 24 hour period. In this world view, local time is highlighted by the UTC (coordinated universal time) designations and defined by solar and lunar transformations in the sky during the day.=========______________________Copyright for visuals and audio belongs to respective artists.
Meetings With Remarkable Men - GI Gurdjieff Responds to Dogs Poised to Attack Ewafa 2017-02-24 | A short clip from the 1979 movie.
Johnny Marr Signature Fender Jaguar demo by Darryl (An In depth Run Down) Ewafa 2014-06-14 | ChicagoMusicExchange.com (phone: 773-525-7773) did an excellent video showcasing the Johnny Marr signature Fender Jaguar. The full original video is here:youtube.com/watch?v=qlgU9HmMtwgI edited out all the discussion, so this has Darryl's playing without the talk. It's very informative, but the tone of this guitar setup is so delicious that it was begging to have Darryl's smooth playing showcased all by itself.The first clip is the Johnny Marr riff from The Smiths classic...-What Difference Does It Make?Darryl then goes through a pickup setting demo:-Parallel,-Neck,-Series,-Bridge....followed by a demo of the Universal High Pass Filter switch:-Without the filter,-With the filter (along with various pickup settings)The final clip is the Chris Isaak riff from-Wicked Game (No I Wanna Fall In Love)The original video has loads more info, so you can go there for details. Stuff like this...Gear played:Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar - Metallic Kandy Orange (http://goo.gl/o7Zzb)Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man with Tap Tempo 550ms (http://goo.gl/sPuaY)Tone King Imperial R18 - Red (http://goo.gl/i5Atp)Copyright disclaimer: I do not own any copyright from this video. All I did was minor editing.
KNARF® New York / MCA-DAY Tibetan Buddhist Monks (audio fixed) Ewafa 2014-06-11 | AUDIO FIXED!Adam Yauch is honored by four men dressed as Tibetan Buddhist Monks who solemnly approach the center square, and then as the Beastie Boys song 'Ch-Check It Out' starts to play they explode into an illin break dance!This was done to support the 3rd Annual MCA-DAY (MCA-DAY 2014 NYC). This video was shot on May 2nd to help get the word out about MCA-DAY. The original KNARF® video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=SQOta_PP_b0The audio in that video was badly distorted, so I fixed it.The description in that link says that the break dancers are:- Bobby Selby- Jaehyuk Choi- Christopher Groelle- Stephen ChoChoreographed by- Pavan ThimmaiahIf anyone knows their stage names, I can add that here.Copyright disclaimer: I do not own copyright for either the video nor the audio. All I did was mix video and audio from several sources.NOTE: This audio track constructed for this video is not the same version of the song that was played during this live video performance.
CCH Vocation Class - Word Constellation Ewafa 2014-05-19 | This video features a Wordle.com composition presenting key words that have been identified with importance correlating to size. A path has been charted through the words as symbolic of the path we choose for our lives in our individual responses to the calling we may or may not be guided by, as will typically change through the phases of our lives.The song is 'Fireflies', performed on harp by Kat 'theHeartRender', originally posted here:youtube.com/watch?v=3eBnlAfvbqE
Rimsky-Korsakoff - Хвалите Господа (Hvalite Gospoda), performed by the CCH Choir Ewafa 2014-04-28 | The audio in this recording is an Easter performance of Rimsky-Korsakoff's arrangement. I hope you find it as moving to listen to as it was for us to sing.Disclaimer: Only the audio is original. The video copyright belongs to the respectful owner.
