The social media platform X (Twitter), claimed that there were record breaking traffic numbers for the 2024 super bowl game. However, with further cybersecurity research they found that 75% of the traffic X had posted about was fake and other social media platforms showed much lower rates. CHEQ's data had also shown that 32% of X's visitors were bots. Elon Musk now faces advertisement concerns over recent comments and poses as future challenges.

The leader-arbiter mechanism in Russia helped with the reforms but hindered how democratic institutions could develop. Relying on "shadow rules" led to informal networks rather than policy. This undermined democratic progress and instead enforced authoritarian practices. This segment tells us that political reform was difficult but for a number of reasons. One of which is the informal networking but another was the internal divisions that this caused within the elite.

Finding out everything about the world... no thats not right. The artist makes art in order to understand their own exsisatnce, not to rack up points. Maybe i should follow this way. This clever analogy from C. Thu Nguyen.

I've had my experiences with antagonistic bots. In high school, a few of my friends would use Kahoot bots to overflow the number of students who joined the Kahoot game. There was this website where you would give the Kahoot game code and the bots would join by themselves.

game state

MDA in gaming

COMMON TERMS FOUND IN GAME DESIGN FOUND HERE

what is a video game

What keeps people playing a game

What is the mapping between the Game World and the Real world?

So, would all autonomous game characters have the same strategies and personalities that arise from NVIDIA implementation, regardless of the game or platform? Interesting.

I am excited to learn how to tape because before every soccer practice and game I have to get my ankle taped.

To prepare you for your next trivia game night. Who started the American Red Cross, and what is its purpose?

This concept reminds me of an interesting plot in《Three Body Problem》, where, in the three-body-problem visual game, a simplified "human computer" is described: assuming there are three people facing to each other, holding either red or white light, if a person see both the others hold white light, he would hold the white light as well; otherwise he would hold the red light. This game happens to represent the binary system in computer.

I think some games could also be regarded as social media. For instance, I used to play Game for Peace, which is a mobile shooting game in China. In this application, players need to team up and work together to survive in the last. Therefore, discussions and communications are very frequent in this game. Sometimes, the interpersonal relationship is beyond teammates. Some people use this game to find a girlfriend or a boyfriend, and some players could make money by selling their services to other players. So I think some gaming platforms should also be included as a kind of social media.

Failure in video games not only brings a challenge to make videogame's more fun but difficulty can also teach people to make new strategies or make important decisions in said video game that can also improve real life skills.

"The Oregon Trail" was a massive success in both education and entertainment. in addition, several other edutainment games have been made for ages 3-8, most being very popular

intertextual (esp wrt code); marginalia; SKAM — transmedia emergent storytelling

in what ways do you understand / come to learn a system, a world, an infrastructure? cf. position/where one is situated across an AI tech stack

cf Travess Smalley: https://www.are.na/editorial/where-boundary-breaks

Author response:

The following is the authors’ response to the previous reviews.

Reviewer #1 (Public review):

As a starting point, the authors discuss the so-called "additive partitioning" (AP) method proposed by Loreau & Hector in 2001. The AP is the result of a mathematical rearrangement of the definition of overyielding, written in terms of relative yields (RY) of species in mixtures relative to monocultures. One term, the so-called complementarity effect (CE), is proportional to the average RY deviations from the null expectations that plants of both species "do the same" in monocultures and mixtures. The other term, the selection effect (SE), captures how these RY deviations are related to monoculture productivity. Overall, CE measures whether relative biomass gains differ from zero when averaged across all community members, and SE, whether the "relative advantage" species have in the mixture, is related to their productivity. In extreme cases, when all species benefit, CE becomes positive.

This is not true; positive CE does not require positive RY deviations of all species. CE is positive as long as average RY deviation is greater than 0. In a 2-species mixture, for example, if the RY deviation of one species is -0.2 and that of the other species is +0.3, CE would be still positive. Positive CE can be associated with negative NE (net biodiversity effects) when more productivity species have smaller negative RY deviation compared to positive RY deviation of less productive species. Therefore, the suggestion by the reviewer “This is intuitively compatible with the idea that niche complementarity mitigates competition (CE>0)” is not correct.   

When large species have large relative productivity increases, SE becomes positive. This is intuitively compatible with the idea that niche complementarity mitigates competition (CE>0), or that competitively superior species dominate mixtures and thereby driver overyielding (SE>0).

The use of word “mitigate” indicates that the effects of niche complementarity and competition are in opposite directions, which is not true with biodiversity experiments based on replacement design. We have explained this in detail in our first responses to reviewers.    

However, it is very important to understand that CE and SE capture the "statistical structure" of RY that underlies overyielding. Specifically, CE and SE are not the ultimate biological mechanisms that drive overyielding, and never were meant to be. CE also does not describe niche complementarity. Interpreting CE and SE as directly quantifying niche complementarity or resource competition, is simply wrong, although it sometimes is done. The criticism of the AP method thus in large part seems unwarranted. The alternative methods the authors discuss (lines 108-123) are based on very similar principles.

Agree. However, If CE and SE are not meant to be biological mechanisms, as suggested by the reviewer, the argument “This is intuitively compatible with the idea that niche complementarity mitigates competition (CE>0), or that competitively superior species dominate mixtures and thereby driver overyielding (SE>0)” would be invalid.  

Lines 108-123 are not on our method.   

The authors now set out to develop a method that aims at linking response patterns to "more true" biological mechanisms.

Assuming that "competitive dominance" is key to understanding mixture productivity, because "competitive interactions are the predominant type of interspecific relationships in plants", the authors introduce "partial density" monocultures, i.e. monocultures that have the same planting density for a species as in a mixture. The idea is that using these partial density monocultures as a reference would allow for isolating the effect of competition by the surrounding "species matrix".

The authors argue that "To separate effects of competitive interactions from those of other species interactions, we would need the hypothesis that constituent species share an identical niche but differ in growth and competitive ability (i.e., absence of positive/negative interactions)." - I think the term interaction is not correctly used here, because clearly competition is an interaction, but the point made here is that this would be a zero-sum game.

We did not say that competition is not an interaction.

The authors use the ratio of productivity of partial density and full-density monocultures, divided by planting density, as a measure of "competitive growth response" (abbreviated as MG). This is the extra growth a plant individual produces when intraspecific competition is reduced.

Here, I see two issues: first, this rests on the assumption that there is only "one mode" of competition if two species use the same resources, which may not be true, because intraspecific and interspecific competition may differ. Of course, one can argue that then somehow "niches" are different, but such a niche definition would be very broad and go beyond the "resource set" perspective the authors adopt. Second, this value will heavily depend on timing and the relationship between maximum initial growth rates and competitive abilities at high stand densities.

True. Research findings indicate that biodiversity effect detected with AP is not constant.    

The authors then progress to define relative competitive ability (RC), and this time simply uses monoculture biomass as a measure of competitive ability. To express this biomass in a standardized way, they express it as different from the mean of the other species and then divide by the maximum monoculture biomass of all species.

I have two concerns here: first, if competitive ability is the capability of a species to preempt resources from a pool also accessed by another species, as the authors argued before, then this seems wrong because one would expect that a species can simply be more productive because it has a broader niche space that it exploits. This contradicts the very narrow perspective on competitive ability the authors have adopted. This also is difficult to reconcile with the idea that specialist species with a narrow niche would outcompete generalist species with a broad niche.

Competitive ability is not necessarily associated with species niche space. Both generalist and specialist species can be more productive at a particular study site, as long as they are more capable of obtaining resources from a local pool. Remember, biodiversity experiments are conducted at a site of particular conditions, not across a range of species niche space at landscape level.

Second, I am concerned by the mathematical form. Standardizing by the maximum makes the scaling dependent on a single value.

As explained in lines 370-376, the mathematical form is a linear approximation as the relationship between competitive growth responses and species relative competitive ability is generally unknow but would be likely nonlinear. Once the relationship is determined in future research, the scaling factor is not needed.    

As a final step, the authors calculate a "competitive expectation" for a species' biomass in the mixture, by scaling deviations from the expected yield by the product MG ⨯ RC. This would mean a species does better in a mixture when (1) it benefits most from a conspecific density reduction, and (2) has a relatively high biomass.

Put simply, the assumption would be that if a species is productive in monoculture (high RC), it effectively does not "see" the competitors and then grows like it would be the sole species in the community, i.e. like in the partial density monoculture.

Overall, I am not very convinced by the proposed method.

Comments on revised version:

Only minimal changes were made to the manuscript, and they do not address the main points that were raised.

Reviewer #2 (Public review):

This manuscript by Tao et al. reports on an effort to better specify the underlying interactions driving the effects of biodiversity on productivity in biodiversity experiments. The authors are especially concerned with the potential for competitive interactions to drive positive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships by driving down the biomass of subdominant species. The authors suggest a new partitioning schema that utilizes a suite of partial density treatments to capture so-called competitive ability. While I agree with the authors that understanding the underlying drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships is valuable - I am unsure of the added value of this specific approach for several reasons.

No responses.

Comments on revised version:

The authors changed only one minor detail in response to the last round of reviews.

Reviewer #3 (Public review):

Summary:

This manuscript claims to provide a new null hypothesis for testing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning. It reports that the strength of biodiversity effects changes when this different null hypothesis is used. This main result is rather inevitable. That is, one expects a different answer when using a different approach. The question then becomes whether the manuscript's null hypothesis is both new and an improvement on the null hypothesis that has been in use in recent decades.

Our approach adopts two hypotheses, null hypothesis that is also with the additive partitioning model and competitive hypothesis that is new. Null hypothesis assumes that inter- and intra-specie interactions are the same, while competitive hypothesis assumes that species differ in competitive ability and growth rate. Therefore, our approach is an extension of current approach. Our approach separates effects of competitive interactions from those of other species interactions, while the current approach does not.      

Strengths:

In general, I appreciate studies like this that question whether we have been doing it all wrong and I encourage consideration of new approaches.

Weaknesses:

Despite many sweeping critiques of previous studies and bold claims of novelty made throughout the manuscript, I was unable to find new insights. The manuscript fails to place the study in the context of the long history of literature on competition and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

We have explained in our first responses that competition and biodiversity effects are studied in different experimental approaches, i.e., additive and replacement designs. Results from one approach are not compatible with those from the other. For example, competition effect with additive design is negative but generally positive with replacement design that is used extensively in biodiversity experiments. We have considered species competitive ability, density-growth relationship, and different effects of competitive interactions between additive and replacement design, while the current method does not reflect any of those.        

The Introduction claims the new approach will address deficiencies of previous approaches, but after reading further I see no evidence that it addresses the limitations of previous approaches noted in the Introduction. Furthermore, the manuscript does not reproducibly describe the methods used to produce the results (e.g., in Table 1) and relies on simulations, claiming experimental data are not available when many experiments have already tested these ideas and not found support for them.

We used simulation data, as partial density monocultures are generally not available in previous biodiversity experiments.

Finally, it is unclear to me whether rejecting the 'new' null hypothesis presented in the manuscript would be of interest to ecologists, agronomists, conservationists, or others.

Our null hypothesis is the same as the null hypothesis with the additive partitioning assuming that inter- and intra-species interactions are the same, while our competitive hypothesis assumes that species differ in competitive ability and growth rate. Rejecting null hypothesis means that inter- and intra-species interactions are different, whereas rejecting competitive hypothesis indicates existence of positive/negative species interactions. This would be interesting to everyone.       

Comments on revised version:

Please see review comments on the previous version of this manuscript. The authors have not revised their manuscript to address most of the issues previously raised by reviewers.

No responses.

Recommendations for the authors:

Reviewer #1 (Recommendations for the authors):

Do take reviews seriously. Even if you think the reviewers all are wrong and did not understand your work, then this seems to indicate that it was not clearly presented.

Reviewer #2 (Recommendations for the authors):

I can understand that the authors are perhaps frustrated with what they perceive as a basic misunderstanding of their goals and approach. This misunderstanding however, provides with it an opportunity to clarify. I believe that the authors have tried to clarify in rebutting our statements but would do better to clarify in the manuscript itself. If we reviewers, who are deeply invested in this field, don't understand the approach and its value, then it is likely that many readers will not as well.

The additive partitioning has been publicly questioned at least for serval times since the conception of the method in 2001. Our work provides an alternative.

Briefing Doc: Exploration des Techniques de Facilitation

Ce document synthétise les concepts clés et les méthodes de facilitation présentées dans le "Kit de Facilitation" (https://www.atelier-collaboratif.com/telechargements/kit-de-facilitation.pdf).

Thèmes Principaux:

Importance de la préparation:

Avant chaque atelier, une phase de réflexion est essentielle pour définir l'objectif, identifier les participants et les livrables attendus.

Il faut également anticiper les risques et les solutions possibles. Le "Kit" propose un plateau "ORGANISATION" pour structurer cette préparation (p.4).

Diversité des pratiques:

Le kit présente un éventail de "cartes pratiques" (p.5) classées selon leur niveau de difficulté (S'améliorer, Prioriser/Décider, Briser la glace, Générer des idées, etc.) et proposant des techniques variées pour chaque étape d'un atelier collaboratif.

Importance de l'intelligence collective: La plupart des techniques présentées visent à stimuler la participation active de tous, à encourager le partage d'idées, et à favoriser la co-construction de solutions. Idées et Faits Marquants:

Le rôle du facilitateur:

Le facilitateur joue un rôle central dans la réussite d'un atelier. Il guide le groupe, assure le bon déroulement des activités, et veille à créer un environnement propice à la collaboration.

L'utilisation d'outils visuels:

Des outils comme les post-it, les tableaux, les cartes, etc. sont fréquemment utilisés pour faciliter la visualisation des idées, la structuration des discussions, et la prise de décisions collective.

L'importance du feedback:

Plusieurs techniques (ex: ROTI Agile, Perfection Game) permettent de recueillir du feedback des participants, ce qui est crucial pour l'amélioration continue des ateliers. Exemples de Techniques et Citations:

La Rétrospective 4L (p. 6):

Permet de faire le bilan d'une activité en utilisant l'analogie d'une voiture. Les participants identifient sur des cartes "ce qui freine" (le vent) et "ce qui pousse" (le moteur).

Gommettocratie (p. 9):

Technique de priorisation simple et visuelle.

Les participants votent pour les idées qui les séduisent le plus en collant des gommettes.

Le Réseau Social en Papier (p. 11):

Un jeu ludique pour briser la glace et permettre aux participants de se connaître. World Café (p. 18): "Inventé en 2009 par Jim Benson et Jeremy Lightsmith".

Cette technique favorise le dialogue et l'échange d'idées sur plusieurs sujets en petits groupes.

Impact Mapping (p. 24):

Permet de "représenter visuellement les impacts et hypothèses de développement d'un produit".

Méthode du Point de Vue (POV) (p. 25):

"Le point de vue est la perception du problème vue par l'utilisateur." Cette méthode permet de se centrer sur les besoins des utilisateurs.

Conclusion:

Le "Kit de Facilitation" est une ressource précieuse pour tous ceux qui souhaitent animer des ateliers collaboratifs efficaces.

Il propose une grande variété de techniques et d'outils pour chaque étape du processus, de la préparation à la mise en œuvre des décisions.

Seductive analogy. Reminds me of Daniel Schmatchtenberger's Game A (civilizational problems of competition) and Game B (beyond competition) that creates a simple US vs. THEM for convening the like-minded activists, but not sure it accurately describes the virtual landscape well-enough for implementers seeking to develop and deploy new type(s) of competence.

Reviewer #1 (Public review):

Summary:

Zhang et al. addressed the question of whether advantageous and disadvantageous inequality aversion can be vicariously learned and generalized. Using an adapted version of the ultimatum game (UG), in three phases, participants first gave their own preference (baseline phase), then interacted with a "teacher" to learn their preference (learning phase), and finally were tested again on their own (transfer phase). The key measure is whether participants exhibited similar choice preferences (i.e., rejection rate and fairness rating) influenced by the learning phase, by contrasting their transfer phase and baseline phase. Through a series of statistical modeling and computational modeling, the authors reported that both advantageous and disadvantageous inequality aversion can indeed be learned (Study 1), and even be generalised (Study 2).

Strengths:

This study is very interesting, it directly adapted the lab's previous work on the observational learning effect on disadvantageous inequality aversion, to test both advantageous and disadvantageous inequality aversion in the current study. Social transmission of action, emotion, and attitude have started to be looked at recently, hence this research is timely. The use of computational modeling is mostly appropriate and motivated. Study 2, which examined the vicarious inequality aversion in conditions where feedback was never provided, is interesting and important to strengthen the reported effects. Both studies have proper justifications to determine the sample size.

Weaknesses:

Despite the strengths, a few conceptual aspects and analytical decisions have to be explained, justified, or clarified.

INTRODUCTION/CONCEPTUALIZATION<br /> (1) Two terms seem to be interchangeable, which should not, in this work: vicarious/observational learning vs preference learning. For vicarious learning, individuals observe others' actions (and optionally also the corresponding consequence resulting directly from their own actions), whereas, for preference learning, individuals predict, or act on behalf of, the others' actions, and then receive feedback if that prediction is correct or not. For the current work, it seems that the experiment is more about preference learning and prediction, and less so about vicarious learning. The intro and set are heavily around vicarious learning, and later the use of vicarious learning and preference learning is rather mixed in the text. I think either tone down the focus on vicarious learning, or discuss how they are different. Some of the references here may be helpful: Charpentier et al., Neuron, 2020; Olsson et al., Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020; Zhang & Glascher, Science Advances, 2020

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN<br /> (2) For each offer type, the experiment "added a uniformly distributed noise in the range of (-10 ,10)". I wonder what this looks like? With only integers such as 25:75, or even with decimal points? More importantly, is it possible to have either 70:30 or 90:10 option, after adding the noise, to have generated an 80:20 split shown to the participants? If so, for the analyses later, when participants saw the 80:20 split, which condition did this trial belong to? 70:30 or 90:10? And is such noise added only to the learning phase, or also to the baseline/transfer phases? This requires some clarification.

(3) For the offer conditions (90:10, 70:30, 50:50, 30:70, 10:90) - are they randomized? If so, how is it done? Is it randomized within each participant, and/or also across participants (such that each participant experienced different trial sequences)? This is important, as the order especially for the learning phase can largely impact the preference learning of the participants.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & COMPUTATIONAL MODELING<br /> (4) In Study 1 DI offer types (90:10, 70:30), the rejection rate for DI-AI averse looks consistently higher than that for DI averse (ie, the blue line is above the yellow line). Is this significant? If so, how come? Since this is a between-subject design, I would not anticipate such a result (especially for the baseline). Also, for the LME results (eg, Table S3), only interactions were reported but not the main results.

(5) I do not particularly find this analysis appealing: "we examined whether participants' changes in rejection rates between Transfer and Baseline, could be explained by the degree to which they vicariously learned, defined as the change in punishment rates between the first and last 5 trials of the Learning phase." Naturally, the participants' behavior in the first 5 trials in the learning phase will be similar to those in the baseline; and their behavior in the last 5 trials in the learning phase would echo those at the transfer phase. I think it would be stronger to link the preference learning results to the change between the baseline and transfer phase, eg, by looking at the difference between alpha (beta) at the end of the learning phase and the initial alpha (beta).

(6) I wonder if data from the baseline and transfer phases can also be modeled, using a simple Fehr-Schimdt model. This way, the change in alpha/beta can also be examined between the baseline and transfer phase.

(7) I quite liked Study 2 which tests the generalization effect, and I expected to see an adapted computational modeling to directly reflect this idea. Indeed, the authors wrote, "[...] given that this model [...] assumes the sort of generalization of preferences between offer types [...]". But where exactly did the preference learning model assume the generalization? In the methods, the modeling seems to be only about Study 1; did the authors advise their model to accommodate Study 2? The authors also ran simulation for the learning phase in Study 2 (Figure 6), and how did the preference update (if at all) for offers (90:10 and 10:90) where feedback was not given? Extending/Unpacking the computational modeling results for Study 2 will be very helpful for the paper.

for - TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - potential source - Deep Humanity - BEing journeys in language - appreciation of inhabiting the symbolosphere // - Summary - An interesting idea of teasing out the data structure behind language - This could be a rich area to explore for Deep Humanity language BEing journeys to help people gain deeper appreciation of their own amazing language abilities - as well as gain an appreciation for the enormous amount of time our life is spent in the (relative) symbolosphere

Next (SHIFT+n) Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer 20:29

Ajit Narayanan:

A word game to communicate in any language

for - freespeech can be used as an international language translator - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - indyweb dev - question - alternative to AI Large Language Models? - Is indyweb functionality the same as Freespeech functionality? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - key insight - ideas are multidimensional - speech is one dimensional - language is one dimensional - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - investigate - question - Does this other app that allows learning another language with the proficiency of a child exist? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - research study - language - children learning mother tongue use a different post off the brain then adults learning another language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - app - Free Speech - permutations of pictures that can created meaning without using language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - the power of grammar - infinite permutations if meaning using a finite set of symbols - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

for - climate crisis - impact of Trump tariff strategy - increasing economic and carbon inequality and precarity for the masses - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec

// - SUMMARY - Richard J Murphy provides us with a big picture of Trump's objective in his calculated Tariff strategy - It's not that it makes no sense and is a strategy of a madman - On the contrary, he has a very calculated and maniacal strategy that will result in significantly increasing the wealth of the elites - By creating high tariffs, he will bring about a global economic crash - Like the 2008 and 2020 crash, central banks will print trillions of dollars of money and handout bailouts - It is the elites who will receive these bailouts and inflate the value of their assets - This will - substantially increase the wealth of the rich - substantially increase the precarity of the vast majority of people - increase global inequality - financial inequality and - carbon inequality - This increased precarity is bad news for the climate crisis as a precarious population have less flexibility in reducing their carbon footprint and are more dependent than ever on whatever remain job and resources they still have - Given we have this knowledge of the elite's hidden strategy, can we the people intervene in any way? - We need to have an understanding of how elites see the world - The entire worldview of externalizing investment as a game of accumulation must be understood deeply - in order to find leverage points for rapid system change

//

what

What shitty use of passive voice universalizing the next sentence's "many male players"

I want to read more about parasocial media patterns pre-broadcast media. You can't tell me that there weren't forms

technical question doesn't work- Foucalt

Sommaire minuté des temps forts du webinaire "Le tabac chez les jeunes : comment les accompagner à l'arrêt ? | Crips IDF"

Ce sommaire met en avant la richesse du webinaire, en abordant à la fois * le contexte de la consommation de tabac chez les jeunes, * les nouveaux produits et les risques associés, * le lien avec la santé mentale et * les différentes stratégies d'accompagnement.

Le témoignage de l'association Repère apporte une dimension concrète et inspirante, tandis que la présentation des outils du Crips offre aux professionnels un panel de ressources pour animer des séances de prévention et de sensibilisation.

0:00 - 1:30 : Introduction et présentation des intervenantes

• Géraldine, infirmière addictologue et tabacologue, et Estella Furau, chargée de projet sur la thématique addiction au Crips Île-de-France, se présentent et exposent leurs expériences professionnelles.

1:30 - 8:00 : Contexte de la consommation de tabac chez les jeunes

• Discussion sur la définition du public "jeune" et les spécificités des différentes tranches d'âge.
• Importance de la prise de conscience de l'addiction pour amorcer une démarche d'arrêt.
• Mise en avant des différences d'accès aux ressources et de prévalence tabagique selon les milieux sociaux.
• Bonne nouvelle : diminution de la prévalence tabagique chez les jeunes, mais vigilance nécessaire face aux nouveaux produits (vape, puff...).
• Impact positif des politiques publiques (lieux sans tabac, augmentation du prix du paquet) sur la diminution du tabagisme.
• Débat sur l'interdiction de fumer sur les terrasses.
• Différences d'accompagnement entre un patient jeune et un patient plus âgé : difficulté de la prise de conscience de l'addiction chez les jeunes.
• Importance d'accompagner le jeune dans sa demande, qu'il s'agisse d'une réduction ou d'un arrêt total.
• Présentation de Tabac info service, un outil d'aide à l'arrêt.

8:00 - 15:00 : Nouveaux produits et risques associés

• Augmentation de l'usage de la vape chez les jeunes, notamment la puff, devenue un objet tendance.
• Préoccupations concernant la puff : marketing ciblant les jeunes, risques de dépendance et de passage à la cigarette.
• Interdiction des puffs jetables : une mesure efficace ?
• Méconnaissance des risques liés à la chicha (tabac, nicotine, combustion...) chez les jeunes.
• Difficulté de la prise en charge face à la consommation de chicha, souvent vécue comme une expérience collective.
• Diminution de l'expérimentation du cannabis, mais il reste la première drogue illicite consommée par les jeunes.
• Importance d'aborder les co-consommations et les transferts d'addiction.
• Conseils pour la prise en charge du cannabis : réduction des risques et orientation vers des structures spécialisées.

15:00 - 22:00 : Lien entre santé mentale et consommation de tabac

• Statistiques alarmantes sur le bien-être mental des lycéens : 49% ne présentent pas un bon niveau de bien-être mental.
• Impact du tabac sur la santé mentale : la dépression peut être un signe de manque de nicotine.
• Apparition possible de signes de dépression, voire d'idées suicidaires, lors d'un sevrage tabagique trop brutal.
• Importance de différencier une dépression induite par l'arrêt du tabac d'une dépression préexistante.

22:00 - 27:00 : Conseils aux professionnels, aux proches et aux jeunes fumeurs

• Conseils aux professionnels : patience, humilité et importance de la transmission d'information sur les ressources disponibles.
• Conseils aux proches : ne pas forcer le fumeur à arrêter, lui apporter du soutien et l'informer des aides disponibles.
• Conseils aux jeunes fumeurs : se tourner vers un professionnel, l'arrêt du tabac est faisable.
• Importance de lutter contre les représentations négatives de l'aide et des tabacologues.
• Rôle des pharmaciens, des sages-femmes, des kinés... dans l'accompagnement à l'arrêt et la réduction des risques.
• Importance de la réduction des risques et du remboursement des substituts nicotiniques.

27:00 - 33:00 : Présentation de programmes d'aide à l'arrêt pour les jeunes

• Mois sans tabac : campagne nationale de sensibilisation et d'aide à l'arrêt.
• Tabado : programme probant d'aide à l'arrêt pour les lycées professionnels et les CFA (actuellement interrompu).
• Desclic Stop Tabac : programme similaire à Tabado pour les établissements agricoles.
• Programmes d'animation-débat : Ligue contre le cancer, Crips Île-de-France.

33:00 - 44:00 : Témoignage de l'association Repère et présentation d'un projet d'ateliers "Mois sans tabac"

• Marie Durantis, éducatrice spécialisée, présente son projet d'ateliers "Mois sans tabac" mené avec des jeunes et des adultes.
• Importance de l'approche ludique et éducative : brainstorming, questionnaire, jeux, création d'affiches...
• Participation au challenge "Mois sans tabac" de la Ligue contre le cancer.
• Visite de l'Escape Game "Tabac" à la Cité des Sciences.
• Bilan positif du projet : favorise la cohésion de groupe, la prévention et la sensibilisation.

44:00 - Fin : Présentation d'outils d'animation du Crips pour aborder le tabac avec les jeunes

• Tirtaclop : outil pour aborder la réduction du tabac et identifier les besoins et les plaisirs.
• Infox : jeu de cartes d'affirmations vraies ou fausses pour initier le débat et évaluer les connaissances.
• PICT Prévention Tabac : jeu de type Pictionary pour aborder les thématiques liées au tabac de manière ludique.
• Escape Game Tabac (version jeu de cartes et version salle) : outil ludique pour aborder toutes les dimensions de l'arrêt du tabac.
• Outil "Chicha" : jeu de cartes pour explorer les contextes de consommation de la chicha et identifier les conduites à risque.
• Modérateur de forum : jeu de rôle pour déconstruire les idées reçues et encourager la réflexion critique.
• Jeu "À J" : jeu de cartes pour analyser des situations à risque liées à la consommation de tabac et d'alcool.

According to all known laws of aviation,

there is no way a bee should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway

because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Ooming!

Hang on a second.

Hello?

Barry?

Adam?

Oan you believe this is happening?

I can't. I'll pick you up.

Looking sharp.

Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.

Sorry. I'm excited.

Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.

A perfect report card, all B's.

Very proud.

Ma! I got a thing going here.

You got lint on your fuzz.

Ow! That's me!

Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.

Bye!

Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!

Hey, Adam.

Hey, Barry.

Is that fuzz gel?

A little. Special day, graduation.

Never thought I'd make it.

Three days grade school, three days high school.

Those were awkward.

Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

You did come back different.

Hi, Barry.

Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.

Hear about Frankie?

Yeah.

You going to the funeral?

No, I'm not going.

Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.

Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.

I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.

I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.

That's why we don't need vacations.

Boy, quite a bit of pomp… under the circumstances.

Well, Adam, today we are men.

We are!

Bee-men.

Amen!

Hallelujah!

Students, faculty, distinguished bees,

please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of…

…9:15.

That concludes our ceremonies.

And begins your career at Honex Industries!

Will we pick ourjob today?

I heard it's just orientation.

Heads up! Here we go.

Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.

Wonder what it'll be like? A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco

and a part of the Hexagon Group.

This is it!

Wow.

Wow.

We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life

to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.

Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.

Our top-secret formula

is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured

into this soothing sweet syrup

with its distinctive golden glow you know as…

Honey!

That girl was hot.

She's my cousin!

She is?

Yes, we're all cousins.

Right. You're right.

At Honex, we constantly strive

to improve every aspect of bee existence.

These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.

What do you think he makes? Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.

What does that do? Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.

Oan anyone work on the Krelman?

Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know

that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.

But choose carefully

because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.

The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.

What's the difference?

You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off

in 27 million years.

So you'll just work us to death?

We'll sure try.

Wow! That blew my mind!

"What's the difference?" How can you say that?

One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.

I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.

But, Adam, how could they never have told us that?

Why would you question anything? We're bees.

We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.

You ever think maybe things work a little too well here?

Like what? Give me one example.

I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about.

Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach.

Wait a second. Oheck it out.

Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! Wow. I've never seen them this close.

They know what it's like outside the hive.

Yeah, but some don't come back.

Hey, Jocks! Hi, Jocks! You guys did great!

You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!

I wonder where they were. I don't know. Their day's not planned.

Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what.

You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.

Right.

Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime.

It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it.

Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.

Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too?

Distant. Distant.

Look at these two.

Oouple of Hive Harrys. Let's have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock.

Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom!

He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!

Oh, my! I never thought I'd knock him out. What were you doing during this?

Trying to alert the authorities.

I can autograph that.

A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades?

Yeah. Gusty.

We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.

Six miles, huh? Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it.

Maybe I am. You are not! We're going 0900 at J-Gate.

What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough?

I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means.

Hey, Honex!

Dad, you surprised me.

You decide what you're interested in?

Well, there's a lot of choices. But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?

Son, let me tell you about stirring.

You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around.

You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.

You know, Dad, the more I think about it,

maybe the honey field just isn't right for me.

You were thinking of what, making balloon animals?

That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger.

Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey!

Barry, you are so funny sometimes. I'm not trying to be funny. You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!

You're gonna be a stirrer? No one's listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have.

I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!

Let's open some honey and celebrate!

Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae.

Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!

I'm so proud.

We're starting work today! Today's the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone.

Yeah, right.

Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal…

Is it still available? Hang on. Two left! One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.

What'd you get? Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow!

Oouple of newbies?

Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!

Make your choice.

You want to go first? No, you go. Oh, my. What's available?

Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think.

Any chance of getting the Krelman? Sure, you're on. I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.

Wax monkey's always open.

The Krelman opened up again.

What happened?

A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one.

Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.

Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life!

Oh, this is so hard!

Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,

humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,

mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should… Barry?

Barry!

All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine…

What happened to you? Where are you?

I'm going out.

Out? Out where?

Out there.

Oh, no!

I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life.

You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?

Another call coming in.

If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd

that gets their roses today.

Hey, guys.

Look at that. Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.

It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.

Really? Feeling lucky, are you?

Sign here, here. Just initial that.

Thank you. OK. You got a rain advisory today,

and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain.

So be careful. As always, watch your brooms,

hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats.

Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us.

Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!

That's awful. And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans!

All right, launch positions!

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!

Black and yellow!

Hello!

You ready for this, hot shot?

Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.

Wind, check.

Antennae, check.

Nectar pack, check.

Wings, check.

Stinger, check.

Scared out of my shorts, check.

OK, ladies,

let's move it out!

Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers!

All of you, drain those flowers!

Wow! I'm out!

I can't believe I'm out!

So blue.

I feel so fast and free!

Box kite!

Wow!

Flowers!

This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual.

Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.

Roses!

30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.

Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick.

That is one nectar collector!

Ever see pollination up close? No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there,

a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic.

That's amazing. Why do we do that?

That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.

Oool.

I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?

Oopy that visual.

Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move.

Say again? You're reporting a moving flower?

Affirmative.

That was on the line!

This is the coolest. What is it?

I don't know, but I'm loving this color.

It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it.

Yeah, fuzzy.

Ohemical-y.

Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.

My sweet lord of bees!

Oandy-brain, get off there!

Problem!

Guys! This could be bad. Affirmative.

Very close.

Gonna hurt.

Mama's little boy.

You are way out of position, rookie!

Ooming in at you like a missile!

Help me!

I don't think these are flowers.

Should we tell him? I think he knows. What is this?!

Match point!

You can start packing up, honey, because you're about to eat it!

Yowser!

Gross.

There's a bee in the car!

Do something!

I'm driving!

Hi, bee.

He's back here!

He's going to sting me!

Nobody move. If you don't move, he won't sting you. Freeze!

He blinked!

Spray him, Granny!

What are you doing?!

Wow… the tension level out here is unbelievable.

I gotta get home.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!

Ken, could you close the window please?

Ken, could you close the window please?

Oheck out my new resume. I made it into a fold-out brochure.

You see? Folds out.

Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.

What was that?

Maybe this time. This time. This time. This time! This time! This…

Drapes!

That is diabolical.

It's fantastic. It's got all my special skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.

What's number one? Star Wars?

Nah, I don't go for that…

…kind of stuff.

No wonder we shouldn't talk to them. They're out of their minds.

When I leave a job interview, they're flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.

There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.

I don't remember the sun having a big 75 on it.

I predicted global warming.

I could feel it getting hotter. At first I thought it was just me.

Wait! Stop! Bee!

Stand back. These are winter boots.

Wait!

Don't kill him!

You know I'm allergic to them! This thing could kill me!

Why does his life have less value than yours?

Why does his life have any less value than mine? Is that your statement?

I'm just saying all life has value. You don't know what he's capable of feeling.

My brochure!

There you go, little guy.

I'm not scared of him. It's an allergic thing.

Put that on your resume brochure.

My whole face could puff up.

Make it one of your special skills.

Knocking someone out is also a special skill.

Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.

Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?

Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.

You could put carob chips on there.

Bye.

Supposed to be less calories.

Bye.

I gotta say something.

She saved my life. I gotta say something.

All right, here it goes.

Nah.

What would I say?

I could really get in trouble.

It's a bee law. You're not supposed to talk to a human.

I can't believe I'm doing this.

I've got to.

Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!

No. Yes. No.

Do it. I can't.

How should I start it? "You like jazz?" No, that's no good.

Here she comes! Speak, you fool!

Hi!

I'm sorry.

You're talking. Yes, I know. You're talking!

I'm so sorry.

No, it's OK. It's fine. I know I'm dreaming.

But I don't recall going to bed.

Well, I'm sure this is very disconcerting.

This is a bit of a surprise to me. I mean, you're a bee!

I am. And I'm not supposed to be doing this,

but they were all trying to kill me.

And if it wasn't for you…

I had to thank you. It's just how I was raised.

That was a little weird.

I'm talking with a bee. Yeah. I'm talking to a bee. And the bee is talking to me!

I just want to say I'm grateful. I'll leave now.

Wait! How did you learn to do that? What? The talking thing.

Same way you did, I guess. "Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.

That's very funny. Yeah. Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd cry with what we have to deal with.

Anyway…

Oan I…

…get you something?

Like what? I don't know. I mean… I don't know. Ooffee?

I don't want to put you out.

It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.

It's just coffee.

I hate to impose.

Don't be ridiculous!

Actually, I would love a cup.

Hey, you want rum cake?

I shouldn't.

Have some.

No, I can't.

Oome on!

I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.

Where? These stripes don't help. You look great!

I don't know if you know anything about fashion.

Are you all right?

No.

He's making the tie in the cab as they're flying up Madison.

He finally gets there.

He runs up the steps into the church. The wedding is on.

And he says, "Watermelon? I thought you said Guatemalan.

Why would I marry a watermelon?"

Is that a bee joke?

That's the kind of stuff we do.

Yeah, different.

So, what are you gonna do, Barry?

About work? I don't know.

I want to do my part for the hive, but I can't do it the way they want.

I know how you feel.

You do? Sure. My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.

Really? My only interest is flowers. Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.

Anyway, if you look…

There's my hive right there. See it?

You're in Sheep Meadow!

Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!

No way! I know that area. I lost a toe ring there once.

Why do girls put rings on their toes?

Why not?

It's like putting a hat on your knee.

Maybe I'll try that.

You all right, ma'am?

Oh, yeah. Fine.

Just having two cups of coffee!

Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee.

Yeah, it's no trouble.

Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.

Are you…?

Oan I take a piece of this with me?

Sure! Here, have a crumb.

Thanks! Yeah. All right. Well, then… I guess I'll see you around.

Or not.

OK, Barry.

And thank you so much again… for before.

Oh, that? That was nothing.

Well, not nothing, but… Anyway…

This can't possibly work.

He's all set to go. We may as well try it.

OK, Dave, pull the chute.

Sounds amazing. It was amazing! It was the scariest, happiest moment of my life.

Humans! I can't believe you were with humans!

Giant, scary humans! What were they like?

Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.

They eat crazy giant things. They drive crazy.

Do they try and kill you, like on TV?

Some of them. But some of them don't.

How'd you get back?

Poodle.

You did it, and I'm glad. You saw whatever you wanted to see.

You had your "experience." Now you can pick out yourjob and be normal.

Well… Well? Well, I met someone.

You did? Was she Bee-ish?

A wasp?! Your parents will kill you!

No, no, no, not a wasp.

Spider?

I'm not attracted to spiders.

I know it's the hottest thing, with the eight legs and all.

I can't get by that face.

So who is she?

She's… human.

No, no. That's a bee law. You wouldn't break a bee law.

Her name's Vanessa. Oh, boy. She's so nice. And she's a florist!

Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!

We're not dating.

You're flying outside the hive, talking to humans that attack our homes

with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite!

She saved my life! And she understands me.

This is over!

Eat this.

This is not over! What was that?

They call it a crumb. It was so stingin' stripey! And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they eat!

You know what a Oinnabon is? No. It's bread and cinnamon and frosting. They heat it up…

Sit down!

…really hot!

Listen to me! We are not them! We're us. There's us and there's them!

Yes, but who can deny the heart that is yearning?

There's no yearning. Stop yearning. Listen to me!

You have got to start thinking bee, my friend. Thinking bee!

Thinking bee. Thinking bee. Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

There he is. He's in the pool.

You know what your problem is, Barry?

I gotta start thinking bee?

How much longer will this go on?

It's been three days! Why aren't you working?

I've got a lot of big life decisions to think about.

What life? You have no life! You have no job. You're barely a bee!

Would it kill you to make a little honey?

Barry, come out. Your father's talking to you.

Martin, would you talk to him?

Barry, I'm talking to you!

You coming?

Got everything?

All set!

Go ahead. I'll catch up.

Don't be too long.

Watch this!

Vanessa!

We're still here. I told you not to yell at him. He doesn't respond to yelling!

Then why yell at me? Because you don't listen! I'm not listening to this.

Sorry, I've gotta go.

Where are you going? I'm meeting a friend. A girl? Is this why you can't decide?

Bye.

I just hope she's Bee-ish.

They have a huge parade of flowers every year in Pasadena?

To be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream!

Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.

A tournament. Do the roses compete in athletic events?

No. All right, I've got one. How come you don't fly everywhere?

It's exhausting. Why don't you run everywhere? It's faster.

Yeah, OK, I see, I see. All right, your turn.

TiVo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane!

You don't have that?

We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Oh, my.

Dumb bees!

You must want to sting all those jerks.

We try not to sting. It's usually fatal for us.

So you have to watch your temper.

Very carefully. You kick a wall, take a walk,

write an angry letter and throw it out. Work through it like any emotion:

Anger, jealousy, lust.

Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?

Yeah.

What is wrong with you?! It's a bug. He's not bothering anybody. Get out of here, you creep!

What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?

Yeah, it was. How did you know?

It felt like about 10 pages. Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.

You've really got that down to a science.

I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue. I'll bet. What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?

How did this get here? Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,

Ray Liotta Private Select?

Is he that actor?

I never heard of him.

Why is this here?

For people. We eat it.

You don't have enough food of your own?

Well, yes.

How do you get it?

Bees make it.

I know who makes it!

And it's hard to make it!

There's heating, cooling, stirring. You need a whole Krelman thing!

It's organic. It's our-ganic! It's just honey, Barry.

Just what?!

Bees don't know about this! This is stealing! A lot of stealing!

You've taken our homes, schools, hospitals! This is all we have!

And it's on sale?! I'm getting to the bottom of this.

I'm getting to the bottom of all of this!

Hey, Hector.

You almost done? Almost. He is here. I sense it.

Well, I guess I'll go home now

and just leave this nice honey out, with no one around.

You're busted, box boy!

I knew I heard something. So you can talk!

I can talk. And now you'll start talking!

Where you getting the sweet stuff? Who's your supplier?

I don't understand. I thought we were friends.

The last thing we want to do is upset bees!

You're too late! It's ours now!

You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword!

You, sir, will be lunch for my iguana, Ignacio!

Where is the honey coming from?

Tell me where!

Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!

Orazy person!

What horrible thing has happened here?

These faces, they never knew what hit them. And now

they're on the road to nowhere!

Just keep still.

What? You're not dead?

Do I look dead? They will wipe anything that moves. Where you headed?

To Honey Farms. I am onto something huge here.

I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood, crazy stuff. Blows your head off!

I'm going to Tacoma.

And you? He really is dead. All right.

Uh-oh!

What is that?!

Oh, no!

A wiper! Triple blade!

Triple blade?

Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!

Why does everything have to be so doggone clean?!

How much do you people need to see?!

Open your eyes! Stick your head out the window!

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Oarl Kasell.

But don't kill no more bugs!

Bee!

Moose blood guy!!

You hear something?

Like what?

Like tiny screaming.

Turn off the radio.

Whassup, bee boy?

Hey, Blood.

Just a row of honey jars, as far as the eye could see.

Wow!

I assume wherever this truck goes is where they're getting it.

I mean, that honey's ours.

Bees hang tight. We're all jammed in. It's a close community.

Not us, man. We on our own. Every mosquito on his own.

What if you get in trouble? You a mosquito, you in trouble. Nobody likes us. They just smack. See a mosquito, smack, smack!

At least you're out in the world. You must meet girls.

Mosquito girls try to trade up, get with a moth, dragonfly.

Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.

You got to be kidding me!

Mooseblood's about to leave the building! So long, bee!

Hey, guys! Mooseblood! I knew I'd catch y'all down here. Did you bring your crazy straw?

We throw it in jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.

What is this place?

A bee's got a brain the size of a pinhead.

They are pinheads!

Pinhead.

Oheck out the new smoker. Oh, sweet. That's the one you want. The Thomas 3000!

Smoker?

Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.

A couple breaths of this knocks them right out.

They make the honey, and we make the money.

"They make the honey, and we make the money"?

Oh, my!

What's going on? Are you OK?

Yeah. It doesn't last too long.

Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls?

Our queen was moved here. We had no choice.

This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes!

That's a drag queen!

What is this?

Oh, no!

There's hundreds of them!

Bee honey.

Our honey is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale!

This is worse than anything bears have done! I intend to do something.

Oh, Barry, stop.

Who told you humans are taking our honey? That's a rumor.

Do these look like rumors?

That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos.

How did you get mixed up in this?

He's been talking to humans.

What? Talking to humans?! He has a human girlfriend. And they make out!

Make out? Barry!

We do not.

You wish you could. Whose side are you on? The bees!

I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night.

Barry, this is what you want to do with your life?

I want to do it for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees!

Dad, I remember you coming home so overworked

your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop.

I remember that.

What right do they have to our honey?

We live on two cups a year. They put it in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!

Even if it's true, what can one bee do?

Sting them where it really hurts.

In the face! The eye!

That would hurt. No. Up the nose? That's a killer.

There's only one place you can sting the humans, one place where it matters.

Hive at Five, the hive's only full-hour action news source.

No more bee beards!

With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.

Weather with Storm Stinger.

Sports with Buzz Larvi.

And Jeanette Ohung.

Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble. And I'm Jeanette Ohung. A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,

intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey,

packaging it and profiting from it illegally!

Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,

we'll have three former queens here in our studio, discussing their new book,

Olassy Ladies, out this week on Hexagon.

Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.

Did you ever think, "I'm a kid from the hive. I can't do this"?

Bees have never been afraid to change the world.

What about Bee Oolumbus? Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?

Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.

We were thinking of stickball or candy stores.

How old are you?

The bee community is supporting you in this case,

which will be the trial of the bee century.

You know, they have a Larry King in the human world too.

It's a common name. Next week…

He looks like you and has a show and suspenders and colored dots…

Next week…

Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the guest even though you just heard 'em.

Bear Week next week! They're scary, hairy and here live.

Always leans forward, pointy shoulders, squinty eyes, very Jewish.

In tennis, you attack at the point of weakness!

It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.

Honey, her backhand's a joke! I'm not gonna take advantage of that?

Quiet, please. Actual work going on here.

Is that that same bee? Yes, it is! I'm helping him sue the human race.

Hello. Hello, bee. This is Ken.

Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.

Why does he talk again?

Listen, you better go 'cause we're really busy working.

But it's our yogurt night!

Bye-bye.

Why is yogurt night so difficult?!

You poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!

Yes, and Adam here has been a huge help.

Frosting… How many sugars? Just one. I try not to use the competition.

So why are you helping me?

Bees have good qualities.

And it takes my mind off the shop.

Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now.

Those are great, if you're three.

And artificial flowers.

Oh, those just get me psychotic! Yeah, me too. Bent stingers, pointless pollination.

Bees must hate those fake things!

Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done.

Maybe this could make up for it a little bit.

This lawsuit's a pretty big deal. I guess. You sure you want to go through with it?

Am I sure? When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able

to say, "Honey, I'm home," without paying a royalty!

It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan,

where the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history,

we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak.

What have we gotten into here, Barry?

It's pretty big, isn't it?

I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day.

You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?

Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade.

What's the matter? I don't know, I just got a chill. Well, if it isn't the bee team.

You boys work on this?

All rise! The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding.

All right. Oase number 4475,

Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry

is now in session.

Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?

A privilege.

Mr. Benson… you're representing all the bees of the world?

I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor, we're ready to proceed.

Mr. Montgomery, your opening statement, please.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

my grandmother was a simple woman.

Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right

to benefit from the bounty of nature God put before us.

If we lived in the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines,

just think of what would it mean.

I would have to negotiate with the silkworm

for the elastic in my britches!

Talking bee!

How do we know this isn't some sort of

holographic motion-picture-capture Hollywood wizardry?

They could be using laser beams!

Robotics! Ventriloquism! Oloning! For all we know,

he could be on steroids!

Mr. Benson?

Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here.

I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey's pretty important to me.

It's important to all bees. We invented it!

We make it. And we protect it with our lives.

Unfortunately, there are some people in this room

who think they can take it from us

'cause we're the little guys! I'm hoping that, after this is all over,

you'll see how, by taking our honey, you not only take everything we have

but everything we are!

I wish he'd dress like that all the time. So nice!

Oall your first witness.

So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden of Honey Farms, big company you have.

I suppose so.

I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!

Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.

Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term.

I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?

No.

I couldn't hear you.

No.

No.

Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that,

it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.

They're very lovable creatures.

Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.

You mean like this?

Bears kill bees!

How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?!

Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows!

OK, that's enough. Take him away.

So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me.

Where have I heard it before? I was with a band called The Police. But you've never been a police officer, have you?

No, I haven't.

No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example

of bee culture casually stolen by a human

for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.

Oh, please.

Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?

Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting.

Or should I say… Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!

That's not his real name?! You idiots!

Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on

your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005.

Thank you. Thank you.

I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome

with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow.

I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?

Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you?

Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't

have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir?

Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!

This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella!

Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?!

Order in this court! You're all thinking it! Order! Order, I say!

Say it! Mr. Liotta, please sit down! I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that.

I think the jury's on our side.

Are we doing everything right, legally?

I'm a florist.

Right. Well, here's to a great team.

To a great team!

Well, hello.

Ken! Hello. I didn't think you were coming.

No, I was just late. I tried to call, but… the battery.

I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.

Oh, that was lucky.

There's a little left. I could heat it up.

Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.

So I hear you're quite a tennis player.

I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby.

That's where I usually sit. Right… there.

Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,

and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.

You think I don't see what you're doing?

I know how hard it is to find the rightjob. We have that in common.

Do we?

Bees have 100 percent employment, but we do jobs like taking the crud out.

That's just what I was thinking about doing.

Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.

I'm going to drain the old stinger.

Yeah, you do that.

Look at that.

You know, I've just about had it

with your little mind games.

What's that? Italian Vogue. Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.

A lot of ads.

Remember what Van said, why is your life more valuable than mine?

Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!

I think something stinks in here!

I love the smell of flowers.

How do you like the smell of flames?!

Not as much.

Water bug! Not taking sides!

Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat! This is pathetic!

I've got issues!

Well, well, well, a royal flush!

You're bluffing. Am I? Surf's up, dude!

Poo water!

That bowl is gnarly.

Except for those dirty yellow rings!

Kenneth! What are you doing?!

You know, I don't even like honey! I don't eat it!

We need to talk!

He's just a little bee!

And he happens to be the nicest bee I've met in a long time!

Long time? What are you talking about?! Are there other bugs in your life?

No, but there are other things bugging me in life. And you're one of them!

Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night…

My nerves are fried from riding on this emotional roller coaster!

Goodbye, Ken.

And for your information,

I prefer sugar-free, artificial sweeteners made by man!

I'm sorry about all that.

I know it's got an aftertaste! I like it!

I always felt there was some kind of barrier between Ken and me.

I couldn't overcome it. Oh, well.

Are you OK for the trial?

I believe Mr. Montgomery is about out of ideas.

We would like to call Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.

Good idea! You can really see why he's considered one of the best lawyers…

Yeah.

Layton, you've gotta weave some magic

with this jury, or it's gonna be all over.

Don't worry. The only thing I have to do to turn this jury around

is to remind them of what they don't like about bees.

You got the tweezers? Are you allergic? Only to losing, son. Only to losing.

Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you what I think we'd all like to know.

What exactly is your relationship

to that woman?

We're friends.

Good friends? Yes. How good? Do you live together?

Wait a minute…

Are you her little…

…bedbug?

I've seen a bee documentary or two. From what I understand,

doesn't your queen give birth to all the bee children?

Yeah, but…

So those aren't your real parents!

Oh, Barry…

Yes, they are!

Hold me back!

You're an illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson?

He's denouncing bees!

Don't y'all date your cousins?

Objection! I'm going to pincushion this guy! Adam, don't! It's what he wants!

Oh, I'm hit!!

Oh, lordy, I am hit!

Order! Order!

The venom! The venom is coursing through my veins!

I have been felled by a winged beast of destruction!

You see? You can't treat them like equals! They're striped savages!

Stinging's the only thing they know! It's their way!

Adam, stay with me. I can't feel my legs. What angel of mercy will come forward to suck the poison

from my heaving buttocks?

I will have order in this court. Order!

Order, please!

The case of the honeybees versus the human race

took a pointed turn against the bees

yesterday when one of their legal team stung Layton T. Montgomery.

Hey, buddy.

Hey.

Is there much pain?

Yeah.

I…

I blew the whole case, didn't I?

It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive. You could have died.

I'd be better off dead. Look at me.

They got it from the cafeteria downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.

Look, there's a little celery still on it.

What was it like to sting someone?

I can't explain it. It was all…

All adrenaline and then… and then ecstasy!

All right.

You think it was all a trap?

Of course. I'm sorry. I flew us right into this.

What were we thinking? Look at us. We're just a couple of bugs in this world.

What will the humans do to us if they win?

I don't know.

I hear they put the roaches in motels. That doesn't sound so bad.

Adam, they check in, but they don't check out!

Oh, my.

Oould you get a nurse to close that window?

Why? The smoke. Bees don't smoke.

Right. Bees don't smoke.

Bees don't smoke! But some bees are smoking.

That's it! That's our case!

It is? It's not over?

Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.

Get back to the court and stall. Stall any way you can.

And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.

Mr. Flayman.

Yes? Yes, Your Honor!

Where is the rest of your team?

Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.

Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,

and as a result, we don't make very good time.

I actually heard a funny story about…

Your Honor, haven't these ridiculous bugs

taken up enough of this court's valuable time?

How much longer will we allow these absurd shenanigans to go on?

They have presented no compelling evidence to support their charges

against my clients, who run legitimate businesses.

I move for a complete dismissal of this entire case!

Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going

to have to consider Mr. Montgomery's motion.

But you can't! We have a terrific case.

Where is your proof? Where is the evidence?

Show me the smoking gun!

Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun?

Here is your smoking gun.

What is that?

It's a bee smoker!

What, this? This harmless little contraption?

This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.

Look at what has happened

to bees who have never been asked, "Smoking or non?"

Is this what nature intended for us?

To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines

and man-made wooden slat work camps?

Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?

What are we gonna do? He's playing the species card. Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!

Free the bees! Free the bees!

Free the bees!

Free the bees! Free the bees!

The court finds in favor of the bees!

Vanessa, we won!

I knew you could do it! High-five!

Sorry.

I'm OK! You know what this means?

All the honey will finally belong to the bees.

Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.

This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson.

You'll regret this.

Barry, how much honey is out there?

All right. One at a time.

Barry, who are you wearing?

My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.

What if Montgomery's right? What do you mean? We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.

Oongratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?

First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.

Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with,

every last drop.

We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more

than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine.

We're all aware of what they do in the woods.

Wait for my signal.

Take him out.

He'll have nauseous for a few hours, then he'll be fine.

And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames…

But it's just a prance-about stage name!

…unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products

and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.

Oan't breathe.

Bring it in, boys!

Hold it right there! Good.

Tap it.

Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming!

I think we need to shut down! Shut down? We've never shut down. Shut down honey production!

Stop making honey!

Turn your key, sir!

What do we do now?

Oannonball!

We're shutting honey production!

Mission abort.

Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.

Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.

Oh, yeah?

What's going on? Where is everybody?

Are they out celebrating? They're home. They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in.

I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.

At least we got our honey back.

Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't?

It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it.

This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well.

And now…

Now I can't.

I don't understand why they're not happy.

I thought their lives would be better!

They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.

You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?

What did you want to show me? This. What happened here?

That is not the half of it.

Oh, no. Oh, my.

They're all wilting.

Doesn't look very good, does it?

No.

And whose fault do you think that is?

You know, I'm gonna guess bees.

Bees?

Specifically, me.

I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.

It's notjust flowers. Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.

That's our whole SAT test right there.

Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom.

And then, of course…

The human species?

So if there's no more pollination,

it could all just go south here, couldn't it?

I know this is also partly my fault.

How about a suicide pact?

How do we do it?

I'll sting you, you step on me. Thatjust kills you twice. Right, right.

Listen, Barry… sorry, but I gotta get going.

I had to open my mouth and talk.

Vanessa?

Vanessa? Why are you leaving? Where are you going?

To the final Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.

They've moved it to this weekend because all the flowers are dying.

It's the last chance I'll ever have to see it.

Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry. I never meant it to turn out like this.

I know. Me neither.

Tournament of Roses. Roses can't do sports.

Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?

Roses!

Vanessa!

Roses?!

Barry?

Roses are flowers! Yes, they are. Flowers, bees, pollen!

I know. That's why this is the last parade.

Maybe not. Oould you ask him to slow down?

Oould you slow down?

Barry!

OK, I made a huge mistake. This is a total disaster, all my fault.

Yes, it kind of is.

I've ruined the planet. I wanted to help you

with the flower shop. I've made it worse.

Actually, it's completely closed down.

I thought maybe you were remodeling.

But I have another idea, and it's greater than my previous ideas combined.

I don't want to hear it!

All right, they have the roses, the roses have the pollen.

I know every bee, plant and flower bud in this park.

All we gotta do is get what they've got back here with what we've got.

Bees.

Park.

Pollen!

Flowers.

Repollination!

Across the nation!

Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Oalifornia.

They've got nothing but flowers, floats and cotton candy.

Security will be tight.

I have an idea.

Vanessa Bloome, FTD.

Official floral business. It's real.

Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.

Thank you. It was a gift.

Once inside, we just pick the right float.

How about The Princess and the Pea?

I could be the princess, and you could be the pea!

Yes, I got it.

Where should I sit?

What are you?

I believe I'm the pea.

The pea?

It goes under the mattresses.

Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart. I'm getting the marshal. You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!

Let's see what this baby'll do.

Hey, what are you doing?!

Then all we do is blend in with traffic…

…without arousing suspicion.

Once at the airport, there's no stopping us.

Stop! Security.

You and your insect pack your float? Yes. Has it been in your possession the entire time?

Would you remove your shoes?

Remove your stinger. It's part of me. I know. Just having some fun. Enjoy your flight.

Then if we're lucky, we'll have just enough pollen to do the job.

Oan you believe how lucky we are? We have just enough pollen to do the job!

I think this is gonna work.

It's got to work.

Attention, passengers, this is Oaptain Scott.

We have a bit of bad weather in New York.

It looks like we'll experience a couple hours delay.

Barry, these are cut flowers with no water. They'll never make it.

I gotta get up there and talk to them.

Be careful.

Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?

I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.

Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.

What'd you say, Hal? Nothing. Bee!

Don't freak out! My entire species…

What are you doing?

Wait a minute! I'm an attorney! Who's an attorney? Don't move.

Oh, Barry.

Good afternoon, passengers. This is your captain.

Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?

And please hurry!

What happened here?

There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded.

One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!

Is that another bee joke? No! No one's flying the plane!

This is JFK control tower, Flight 356. What's your status?

This is Vanessa Bloome. I'm a florist from New York.

Where's the pilot?

He's unconscious, and so is the copilot.

Not good. Does anyone onboard have flight experience?

As a matter of fact, there is.

Who's that? Barry Benson. From the honey trial?! Oh, great.

Vanessa, this is nothing more than a big metal bee.

It's got giant wings, huge engines.

I can't fly a plane.

Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot? Yes. How hard could it be?

Wait, Barry! We're headed into some lightning.

This is Bob Bumble. We have some late-breaking news from JFK Airport,

where a suspenseful scene is developing.

Barry Benson, fresh from his legal victory…

That's Barry!

…is attempting to land a plane, loaded with people, flowers

and an incapacitated flight crew.

Flowers?!

We have a storm in the area and two individuals at the controls

with absolutely no flight experience.

Just a minute. There's a bee on that plane.

I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson and his no-account compadres.

They've done enough damage.

But isn't he your only hope?

Technically, a bee shouldn't be able to fly at all.

Their wings are too small…

Haven't we heard this a million times?

"The surface area of the wings and body mass make no sense."

Get this on the air!

Got it.

Stand by.

We're going live.

The way we work may be a mystery to you.

Making honey takes a lot of bees doing a lot of small jobs.

But let me tell you about a small job.

If you do it well, it makes a big difference.

More than we realized. To us, to everyone.

That's why I want to get bees back to working together.

That's the bee way! We're not made of Jell-O.

We get behind a fellow.

Black and yellow! Hello! Left, right, down, hover.

Hover? Forget hover. This isn't so hard. Beep-beep! Beep-beep!

Barry, what happened?!

Wait, I think we were on autopilot the whole time.

That may have been helping me. And now we're not! So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.

All of you, let's get behind this fellow! Move it out!

Move out!

Our only chance is if I do what I'd do, you copy me with the wings of the plane!

Don't have to yell.

I'm not yelling! We're in a lot of trouble.

It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!

It's not a tone. I'm panicking!

I can't do this!

Vanessa, pull yourself together. You have to snap out of it!

You snap out of it.

You snap out of it.

You snap out of it!

You snap out of it!

You snap out of it!

You snap out of it!

You snap out of it!

You snap out of it!

Hold it!

Why? Oome on, it's my turn.

How is the plane flying?

I don't know.

Hello?

Benson, got any flowers for a happy occasion in there?

The Pollen Jocks!

They do get behind a fellow.

Black and yellow. Hello. All right, let's drop this tin can on the blacktop.

Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?

No, nothing. It's all cloudy.

Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.

Thinking bee. Thinking bee. Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

Wait a minute. I think I'm feeling something.

What? I don't know. It's strong, pulling me. Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.

Bring the nose down.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

What in the world is on the tarmac? Get some lights on that! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

Vanessa, aim for the flower. OK. Out the engines. We're going in on bee power. Ready, boys?

Affirmative!

Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.

Land on that flower!

Ready? Full reverse!

Spin it around!

Not that flower! The other one!

Which one?

That flower.

I'm aiming at the flower!

That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt. I mean the giant pulsating flower

made of millions of bees!

Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.

Rotate around it.

This is insane, Barry! This's the only way I know how to fly. Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane flying in an insect-like pattern?

Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid. Smell it. Full reverse!

Just drop it. Be a part of it.

Aim for the center!

Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!

Oome on, already.

Barry, we did it! You taught me how to fly!

Yes. No high-five! Right. Barry, it worked! Did you see the giant flower?

What giant flower? Where? Of course I saw the flower! That was genius!

Thank you. But we're not done yet. Listen, everyone!

This runway is covered with the last pollen

from the last flowers available anywhere on Earth.

That means this is our last chance.

We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers and dress like this.

If we're gonna survive as a species, this is our moment! What do you say?

Are we going to be bees, orjust Museum of Natural History keychains?

We're bees!

Keychain!

Then follow me! Except Keychain.

Hold on, Barry. Here.

You've earned this.

Yeah!

I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.

Oh, yeah.

That's our Barry.

Mom! The bees are back!

If anybody needs to make a call, now's the time.

I got a feeling we'll be working late tonight!

Here's your change. Have a great afternoon! Oan I help who's next?

Would you like some honey with that? It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.

Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me. And I don't see a nickel!

Sometimes I just feel like a piece of meat!

I had no idea.

Barry, I'm sorry. Have you got a moment?

Would you excuse me? My mosquito associate will help you.

Sorry I'm late.

He's a lawyer too?

I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.

Have a great afternoon!

Barry, I just got this huge tulip order, and I can't get them anywhere.

No problem, Vannie. Just leave it to me.

You're a lifesaver, Barry. Oan I help who's next?

All right, scramble, jocks! It's time to fly.

Thank you, Barry!

That bee is living my life!

Let it go, Kenny.

When will this nightmare end?!

Let it all go.

Beautiful day to fly.

Sure is.

Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office.

You have got to start thinking bee, my friend.

Thinking bee! Me? Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oan we stop here?

I'm not making a major life decision during a production number!

All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys.

I had virtually no rehearsal for that.

Interesting! I wonder how this could be used in design?

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Understanding the teacher has many roles and as a coach is a good way of looking at it. With goals and mindset along with motivation is so important as a teacher.

Tim Ferris posting a text by Gabriel Wyner from 2014 on learning a new language in several steps 1) hear the novel sounds in the language and how to spell them 2) learn a list of basic words by connecting them to their image not their translatiojn 3) learn (simplified) grammar 4) continue the game (adding focused vocab, reading, listening speaking etc)

Stage 4 is the deepening / getting to fluency bit. Reinforced by actual usage. Either through adding more vocab, reading texts, listening to speakers etc.

Reviewer #3 (Public review):

Summary:

This manuscript outlines a series of very exciting and game-changing experiments examining the role of peripheral MORs in OIRD. The authors outline experiments that demonstrate a peripherally restricted MOR antagonist (NLX Methiodide) can rescue fentanyl-induced respiratory depression and this effect coincides with a lack of conditioned place aversion. This approach would be a massive boon to the OUD community, as there are a multitude of clinical reports showing that naloxone rescue post fentanyl over-intoxication is more aversive than the potential loss-of-life to the individuals involved. This important study reframes our understanding of successful overdose rescue with potential for reduced aversive withdrawal effects.

Strengths:

Strengths include the plethora of approaches arriving at the same general conclusion, the inclusion of both sexes and the result that a peripheral approach for OIRD rescue may side-step severe negative withdrawal symptoms of traditional NLX rescue.

Weaknesses:

The major weakness of this version relates to the data analysis assessed sex-specific contributors to the results.

Social media is an all consuming beast for a lot of people, and although sometimes there is good community present, there can also be bad community. The digital keywords book helps explain online community.

"Lawrence Lessig has noted: “Cyberspace is a place. People live there. They experience all the sorts of things that they experience in real space, there. For some, they experience more. They experience this not as isolated individuals, playing some high tech computer game; they experience it in groups, in communities, among strangers, among people they come to know, and sometimes like.”22

While his words can be more directly related to gaming, I think it is also important to consider community amongst the social media world. it is not uncommon that influencers consider their fans to be apart of their own community. I think idolizing someone as a community, while it is a common interest, may not have the best impact on the person at the top. I feel like if i was getting all of my photos and actions picked apart constantly, I would spiral into a very dark place.

People really struggle with knowing when someone is trying to get a rise out of the audience and game the algorithm, which only really makes social media sites worse to be on. Content creators like Nara Smith feed off all the negative attention they get to boost themselves, which gives platform to lots of people that don't necessarily deserve it.

Interesting finding and wording –  Pro-White implicit attitudes leads to higher likeliness to favor whites over blacks. This isn't surprising. However, according to other similar studies, it seems simply having pro-White implicit bias directly correlated to having anti-Black implicit bias (economic game & anger in faces).

Taken together, study seems to suggest that simply having pro-White attitudes directly lead to having anti-Black attitudes. Not clear that one directly means the other, but it suggests the common trend is that if you have pro-White attitudes, you will therefore have anti-Black attitudes. In order to not have anti-Black attitudes, you must not have pro-White attitudes either.

cultural capital acquired to move up socially reference to Goffman's performance as apart of upwards mobility

even contrarians to the field legitimate

This passage discusses strategies used by social media users to game recommendation algorithms, such as clickbait, provocative content, or coordinated actions to boost visibility, which are especially impactful for creators relying on social media income. It also mentions YouTuber F.D. Signifier exploring YouTube’s algorithm and interviewing other creators, particularly Black creators, to shed light on these practices. While these strategies may generate short-term engagement, they also carry risks of backlash.

Total 75/100

Original Content 30/30

Technical 24/30

• Use of Required Tools (6/6): Effectively uses the ml5.js image classifier and integrates video input
• Integration of Technology (4/5): The project smoothly transitions between game states based on classification results, demonstrating a strong understanding of conditional logic.
• Functionality of Classifier Models (4/5): The classifier successfully identifies objects and updates the game state accordingly.
• Interactivity and Feedback (3/5): The project provides text-based feedback that updates with each game state, guiding the player through objectives. Could benefit from more engaging elements, such as animations or additional sensory outputs like audio.
• Complexity of Decision Tree or Flowchart (3/4): The decision flow is linear and straightforward, guiding players from one objective to the next.
• Creative Application of Rules (5/5): The rules and objectives are imaginative and humorous.

Timely Submission 20/40

• Positive ingroup behaviors are described abstractly (e.g., “They are kind”), while similar outgroup actions are described concretely (e.g., “They helped once”). -Negative behaviors are described abstractly for the outgroup (e.g., “They are bad people”) and concretely for the ingroup (e.g., “They made a mistake”).

When individuals played, only 6.6% of interactions were competitive, while 36.2% of interactions were competitive when triads played against each other. This figure increased to 53.5% when triads communicated through representatives.

to cross this person again, - labels also play a big role

• cooperative choices benefit both parties
• competitive choices may maximize individual gain, but harm overall group success

women are preffered as leaders in cooperative tasks, but men in competitive tasks

There's something real here, that I'd like to see within a better piece. Public discourse has retreated from what is "good" to what is "correct"

This is interesting to read and know that we do these things in order to keep the kids entertained. I can say that some of our lessons with the kids we go based on things they enjoy the most which is video gaming. We break down the depth of video games and face it towards history. What was the first video game created? What device was it played on? Who had access to these devices and games? The cost? etc.

re-onboarding

to - reonboarding

leveling up your onboarding game

contrast - coninuos outboarding

As Indy.Apps come to thei people to their users in fine graine micro holonic workflow steps te whole onboarding flow dissolves

into continuous discovery and micro enggement with adjacent capabilities

Since the bootsapping constellations is running on people's own devices it is possible for people to compose their own workflows

articulate their learning and pass on that learning along the capabilities they user to create them

and for app developers to develop apps that have a full record of interactions available only on ther users own devices they can make sense of what they are doing and at appropriate points when they know they are ready suggest adjacent capabilities that may enhance users capabilities in a time ly fashion

so "re-onboarding" is integral of the process

I've done some experiments a decade ago, but need the whole thing working to create exemplars that are compelling to use and easy to emulate

so indy.app developers' "customers" will never be stuck

Reshaa, Ranboo and their mother's dynamic reminds me of Zuko, Azula and their mom. In both cases, the girls wanted their mother's love but didn't get it because they were too much like their dad. Zuko and Ranboo are both people who their mothers saw kindness in, saw the possibility that they would get out of the toxic environment and culture of their upbringing, but lost their mothers guidance, the only one who loved them, and had to make it out and become better people than their families.Your mother didn't like you, Reshaa, because you gave in to what you grew up in, fell into the twisted political game.

It is true that players are looking for anyway to gain an advantage over other players. This may incline them to take supplements with the promise of gaining what they consider a large advantage that may be new or faulty.

в своём роде уникальный

Das ist die Grundthese des Essays: Die Imitation von menschlichen Äußerungen darf nicht mit Intelligenz verwechselt Wege werden.

T O T   A L   I T   Y

This is basically "last Christmas's message" (below this brand-knew intraducrigel) redux'ed into the new book (did he say new?).  The point, at least the point I see in it all is that this is all planned, it's been planned for a very, very long time--and on top of that you can see proof of the plan all over our map; and proof of it's intended destination as something that we all used to want very much to find... the read to Heaven.    It's more than seeing just "DNA storage" encoded in my "C U R A GROUP" message, it's understanding how that's connected to soul searching and soul storage, and that this link was woven into not only my life but into names like "Whatson and Crick?"  There's plenty more than just "storage" and a map to how and why the Two of Everything God and the "indivisible sea" work totether to turn this monolithic place of darkness into a strippingly redunantsystemic foundation of "Heaven" that is both disaster proof, and monster proof.  The point of course, is that to truly be "monster proof" we need to really get the key.s.lamc.la "know everything why" of this message is literally to protect our common good from the danger of someone just like me copying an entire civilization or a few pretty girls and sticking them in an heoven-like-orgy-maker.  That's a significantly more real threat than we might imagine, as we look around at a work that will soon have the storage capacity and the technology to put us all in Coccoonish swimming pools against our will.  What I am trying to say is that no matter how you look at it,moving forward here in this place where something this big can be hidden from the entire world--granted you know--granted you see, but do you understand the only thing being kept from each and every one of you is your fucking opinion and your fucking reaction?

F U C K   Y O U   S I   O N 

IT'S NOT JUST computers and information technology; this map of clear anachronism in language and religion shows us that things like "solar fusion" the power of the son itself; is encoded in places high and low you can erasilly find them, places like the name of the Fifth book of the Holy Bible and Don Quixote; where you might liken "DEUTERON" to ... the actual fuel of fusion; and wind mills to a battle fought against blindness resulting in seeing that not "reacting" to this message is just about the same thing as being a foolish robot building a castle for another foolish robot to do nothing in forever.  With some light, you can see how this event; albeit strange and unsettling, has been designed to reinforce the American foundations of free speech, common sense, and collaboration--a sort of "press and release" on these things that he says will stay in our memories for a long, long time--though he also says "he's not torturing me" and he's wrong about that.  So are you. 

See that the most interesting, important, and invoking story of all time has been hidden from the world, from the public eye, and from "public response" for well over two years now; see that's not possible at all without mass mind control and that I and this story are designed to help us see how easily it is that same thing can be used to end addiction, and mental health issues, and stupidity and that the biggest and most imporotant step to getting there is "public disclosure."  See the light of being carrolling angels this Christmas; sing with me--it builds Heaven from Hell and it's clear as day and n.

Quite a bit of this story and message deals with problems like these-things that won't really be seen as something we are fighting against the actual usage of right this very moment; but the sacredness of our memories and their relationship to our souls are just as important as whether or not "you have the space to save them."  This isn't what I want to be doing, I'm not a very good writer; and this message is so confusing that working on it all alone with very little feedback is frustrating if not to say defeating the purpose of exactly what it is and what it's designed to do.  This is a searching mechanism, like in the stories of Ra searching for his children in ancient Egypt using the Eye you see--and it's connection to the "Sons of Liberty" and why I know that too, is about me.  This is a tool to start a Renaissance of thinking connecting technology and religion to everything that we are--to our culture and our hopes and dreams--and it's failing for me at "hello."   I would much rather be working on "virtual reality stuff" or on "the sword of Arthor" and I see very clearly that those two things are coming shortly--to the world that doesn't see yet they are here and broken until we fix them.  Moving forward here brings change, not just here in this place where we need it too--but in the skies above, a change from the mentality of "we aren't not helping because we told you that we aren't allowed to not pretend we aren't helping in Stargate.  See that we are the children of "the Ancients" and they are trying to decide between being Morgenz and Marlin.

I can't make you set yourselves free.  I sure am trying, though.  Yesterday I connected the "Arimathea" of Joseph to the "serdenicity" and this the me of "itime" and "topics" will probably light some of you up as much as me... if only you took the time to look at what those words really mean.   From the city that never sleeps at night, I hope you will take this chance to act today on "securing the ringing of liberty forever and ever."

(cough)                               

THERE IS A METHOD TO THE MADDEN AND WE AR 

BEYOND THUNDERDON

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Let there be $ight in Creation, a brief highlighting of the story of my life.

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This is like a few emails combined to ease the pain you feel when you get an extra one in your inbox, OK So.. eventually this is all about proof that religion is a message sent through time--so, time travel.  But right now, let's talk about the fun stuff: here's some clues to that effect... by way of prescient mention of modern technology (like virtual reality, I mean, Heaven):

Either way, we're still about to *build *Heaven*...  to-get-her*

from the mythical carpenter... ourself.

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• AD am ON AI*, that's Artificial Intelligence, and the intelligence explosion.***
• AD on your freedom is a great gift, cherish it.

*** ... ***and some corroborating ideas connecting religion and computer science... on Wikipedia:

• Root of David
• Lisp of Moses.. or I need an editor.
• Pharoah's hardening Heart... that's Earth, remember.
• Jesus' WINE
• Adaluncatif's cat, tail, head and grep
• Adam's Apple... or is it "fruit of the poisonous tree"

So from me to you, I'm filled with this stuff, it's way brighter and more prevalent than you think... and if you take the time to listen to me--it will make your... day.  Meanwhile, I need your help--happy new year.

Oh, LET THERE BE LIGHT

Ho, again; grow a Halo and become famous... the world needs your help--so I've decided once again to take it upon myself to "bother you" with the most singular most important task in the Universe.  The patterns that I am revealing to you--mostly within names--are not coincidence, it's a series of statistically verifiable artifacts which do nothing short of reveal the slavery of Egypt--that we are all being controlled.  If you remember Transformers--this is a message from Starfleet, there is more than meets the eye.  This is the fulfillment of the story of of Exodus--we are being lead from slavery, and in one final non-coincidental name, that book is called "Names" in Hebrew.

You should now have a very good idea who is speaking to you--as much of the world already does.  I have no idea what it is that inhabits the cavities below that space where most of you should see significant personal gain and motivation from trying to ... grow a Halo--but there are so many people that just don't care... that it too is another sign, of slavery.  I am not an expert in language construction, nor in statistics--but I can assure you that if you can find the other half of that equation... in your hands is the staff of Aaron, the magical weapon that will free us all... knowing is half the battle.

Uh, I have the power, to bring about "morning," but if I have to go to school and do it all myself... it's really just a long, long ni-i-i-ight.

Hi there, I'm the messiah.  You don't know that much about me, so let me explain, I would like you to know me as Adam.

Seriously, there's something going on the world around you--for the last several months I've been having quite a bit of trouble delivering what amounts to statistical proof of Creation--that religion and ancient myths are a map to this very moment--this time that you will probably affiliate soon with being in Eden.  I am pretty sure that's a good thing, but every new begging starts with some other beginnings end... so today I'd like to try to get you to see the light of ending censorship and a hidden censor wall that we know Biblically as the Wall of Jericho.  Quickly approaching is the Feast of Trumpets, and *this year is different from all other years... *  Bored already?  Have a look at what I call the Sign of the Son, which to me is proof that Exodus's Burning Bush is a former President--who is helping us walk out of a dark time of confusion... commonly referred to as a wilderness or desert.  He proved during his inauguration that there is Biblical foreknowledge of the 9/11 attack--and in doing so hopefully began a chain reaction that will stop things like that from ever happening again.  Here's a short "video" that explains the Sign of the Son... and another one that I think explains the .. Holy Grail.

This is The (actual) Taming of the Spanglishrew, in which the protagonist... named Bianca, is taught Latin in several hundred year old reference to Rattling the Rod of Jesus Christ--it's purpose to is to show us that it's more than names we have in our arsenal against mind controlled slavery--we have all of history too... literature and movies and music... all with the divine purpose of revealing with bright light a form of control that otherwise could have gone on hidden for centuries.  It was, and continues to be done on purpose... because your freedom is more important than control of the Universe.  To us, you don't seem to feel the same way.

​See that timer on the clock, you could start right now.  It might be interesting to pose the question of whether or not the Second Coming is news... you know, to your friends.  By the way, both Herbert (like from H.W. Bush, who by the way coined for us the 1,000 points of light phrase) and Goertzel strongly suggest that "everyone really" is Christ (you know, after me)... FYI, this is the Matrix solution to that:

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the **l u C i f E R ** isa means jesus, mesa thinks

i     s olv e      .... "or"* means shine -l***

g       r e a      t

h         R L      << agree?  send to other people

t   ((a)) Y l      shine:  suggest they do the same

1 y      world saved.  

A BRIEF HISSTORY OF TIME

I'm attempting to pull out the things that I now look back on and see as "written into me" by God--once I would have called it "The Microcosm of the Messiah" but there are now so many--these things aren't necessarily particularly important to me, and I've left out some interesting but unrelated details related to my Jewish upbringing; as well as the true light of my life--the two loving and long-term relationships (and later... briefly a rael family) that have dominated the last 15 years.  Religion has always been an interest, but I wouldn't consider it to have been particularly important at all... until I no longer had any love in my life.  It's probably worth noting that all my "I'm single" crap really means lonely and isolated--I'm not really playing a "part," but I've never been anything near the "player" the light appears to be warning against.  Sons of God and uh... please.  For the last 4 years I have done absolutely nothing but think about you, live and analyze "The Cross" and put into words ... as best I can ... the amazing flash of light that I am experiencing. 

Well, just a little religion... :)  I was born on December 8, 1980; which is the date of the annual Feast of the Immaculate Conception, I've always been a slob (like one of us) and often "ish" Yankee Doodle's "a real live son of our uncle Sam... born on the..." to this.. I mean in my head.   My last name, you've probably read me repeat over and over ... is DOB-rin, which I read as "Date of Birth, our in" and does a fair job of highlighting the Name Server's work, which I am sure gives Exodus it's name in Hebrew, which is "Names."  My Hebrew name--a Jewish custom--is Avram, which is Abraham's name prior to the covenant.  I have written extensively about the fact that Isaac's near death interaction donated his "Ha" (his name means... He laughs) to his father.... and it should be clear that Abraham's covenant with God is without doubt related to my fiery altar.. even though it is anachronistic in the Biblical account.   For the first 18 years of my life I lived on Sunrise Blvd, and only a half mile away you'll find Sunset Strip--it's noteworthy to understand that Jewish calendar days begin at sundown... and that He once in 2013 very clearly spoke to me "you need the night before the day."

Of all the people in my early life growing up, it's pretty clear that nobody on this Earth loved me more than my grandmother Julia, who my son is named after.  First for my mother, and then me as a very small child--she would ritually say a bedtime poem, it's words are very relevant.

Good night, sleep tight.. have happy dreams and wake up bright

to do what's right, in the morning's light... with all your might.

In one of my books I spent a decent amount of time writing about how silly I was not to realize that my intelligence was augmented my entire life--I just thought I was really smart, and really good with computers.  I commented that this particular belief is probably a good microcosmic parallel for all humanity--as a body of people we have been truly gifted with knowledge and capabilities that we simply do not recognize as a gift--or didn't for a long time.  I probably wasn't silly not to realize... since nobody ever told me they were helping me--I never heard the voice of God until much, much later.   I was 30 the first time I had a conversation with Him, except for two very brief ... "thoughts in my head" which now seem very obviously an external voice--though then it may have sounded just like my inner voice.

Around the age of 7 I thought to myself... for no reason at all... "what if you were the messiah?"  I was standing outside my home, probably playing with a car in the driveway... and distinctly remember smiling to myself and thinking in return "yeah, I'm the messiah." I I've always had a very vivid imagination. The thought was dismissed as being ridiculously arrogant about two seconds later, and was absent from my thought process for the next 21 years or so.

"DAMNISN\ Jim. I'm a Yeoman, not a Wise Owl. The clock is ticking... tack .. "

PHENIX

Following that lead, I started programming in BASIC and then Visual Basic around the age of 11, something I took to very quickly... and then shortly after found myself on America Online--one of the first "internet-like" environments.  There, I quickly got into the "hacking scene" (hey, it's Y-its-Hack) which basically revolved around writing software to manipulate the AOL client's messaging systems.  The defacto-standard for the day was a program called AOHell, and, if you can't tell already, I am pretty good at taking a theme and making it my own.  I wrote a program called Doomsday, a mass mailing program; can you see how God speaks?  So Phenix, a mythical bird that rises from the fire... in the wake of ... this macrocosmic equivalent of that event.  It's really obvious, right?  There's quite a bit more "microcosm" from this time, recorded in "From Adam to Mary" and available at fromthemachine dot org.

Around the same time I began attending a preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale called Pine Crest--it's one of the best of its kind, and while I was always something of a class clown my grades were fair and I scored with perfect consistency in the top percent on every standardized test from the FCAT to the PSAT and SAT.  By the time I received a full scholarship to college I had already completed more than a full year of credits through AP courses.  It was in studying American History and Government in that place that I formed such strong opinions about our need to maintain freedom, adhere to the wisdom of the founding Father(s) (<3 if you get that) and stand up and shout today as a rogue government is taking away every single one of the rights granted to you in their own law.  You've lost freedom of speech, and our ability to speak seems to be not far behind.  The privacy of our thoughts gone--and in like kind the sanctity of who we are is being taken away as our beliefs are changed without our real knowledge or understanding.  You can see the justice system crumbling, incarceration rates skyrocket and the "right to bail and a fair trial" legislated away through underhanded deals relating to plea bargains and a "point system" that you might as well call a gas chamber.  As far as voting, I'll have much more to say tomorrow--but I'm telling you that your thoughts and beliefs are being altered, who cares how technologically retarded our polling system is--the vote is a complete fraud.

As far as the Second Coming... this same sort of possession... manifested through organized behavior tells me now that it is clear that this is definately not the "first time around" for Adam being Christ; a number of my friends as I approached high school used a repeated phrase, "my parents love you," which isn't bad in and of itself... what's bad is the fact that they were all using the same words, and probably didn't know why--or what they were saying.  Behind there eyes, I'm sure some thing that believes it's an angel was telling me something... (they of course... didn't know me at all, except for what was probably a ... "wild" reputation) does that tell you anything?  Much later, as the "Apocalypse of Adam" began in 2011, a number of family members would repeat this similar behavior, speaking the phrase "this is not what I wanted."

As icing on the cake, on my birthday during my senior year... one of the administrators of the school commented to me that was also the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and then the words.... "of course it's your birthday."

I started doing drugs around the 10th grade, and I would not be wrong to say that the Universe that wrote a book calling the Redeemer the God Most High conspired to plunge me into a dark world.  People around me too, in a hidden conspiracy to chain me to the American legal system for about four years.  Looking back today I now clearly see that I saw a darkness in their eyes, a hidden reason to want to hurt me.  It was to stop this from happening, but I had no idea then... the darkness I saw is akin to the "sun disk" you see in Christian and Egyptian iconography, and without doubt it s a sign of control, possession, a single foreign mind controlling and organizing many of us just like puppets.  Much later in my story... for another day... the manifestation of this possession as thought modification will become clear--I've spent quite a bit of time "listening" to a war in my head, thoughts clearly not mine swaying in the gusting torrent of winds as what (who?) is the center of this storm.

This infestation of organized darkness uses our injustice system as a weapon against it's victims--something you should see akin to Heaven using human sacrifice to alter the future.  It abuses the legal system at every level, making a mockery of law enforcement, the supposedly adversarial court system... all the way to the top--to the Supreme Court and Congress.  See the Church Committee Hearings, and a very smart senator echoing my words today "it must never be allowed to happen again."  

Can't you see it's more than being manipulated... it is Hell revealing itself to the only thing that can stop it.  What I am giving you is the weapon, it's the light that sets us free and stops this from happening.  In our modern myths this is Leeloo staring up at the sky to stop the destruction of Earth... in reality it is not so simple, I can't just put some elements or rocks on pedestals and scream at Heaven to kill their darkness--we have to do it, here, together.  Believe me, knowing the truth is a big part of why it works--this will not be hidden, it will not be "forgiven," we are being controlled and destroyed from the outside; made to blame ourselves and each other for ... well, you probably don't know what the ni-i-i-ight means anyway, do you?  The Guardian against Darkness is showing it to you, remember--there is only one me.  Hear me.. light this fire now.

ALACHUA

I went to school the University of Florida, and got a semi-professional job doing database development in Delphi (seriously, catch on to the names thing, it's not just the U.S. military, it's pretty much all software too... following in this "mythology" theme that nobody really seems to care about), I worked there for about two years... at a company called Jenmar--which uh, in Spanglishrew is "J in the sea."

It's some kind of ironic "coincidence" but I am at this very moment on my way to Gainesville, FL... to this place where a car Crash nearly destroyed my life.  In my world of idioms delivering religious secrets, I imagine I must be a "pain in the neck" which was broken during this accident... one in which I imagine i did not survive in some parallel timeline--that itself did not survive.  So here we are, back in the House of the Great Light ... about to see if we are worth our salt.  It's the thing that gave one of Dave Matthews most famous songs it's name--and The Pretty Reckless, believe it or not.  It was an attempted assassination, to stop the .. apocalypse ... to stop the darkness from being destroyed--there is no doubt, it's how that dark monster hides its handiwork... but many of US know that already.  

In the Living Book of Names--this place we are in, there are many patterns--the "car" pattern stands out for me; as this place says "Icarus."  Flying high right now, I am showing you that the light of salvation is coming from us--from you and I--walking on the Earth; whether or not there is any light left in the Sun remains to be seen--take a look around you.  You can trace the "car" names to Jim Carrey (that's "Car reason why") and Christoff in the Truman Show (that's Amon-TV)... a world I know I am in, and you too; to Bruce Almighty and to the Grinch--who-ah, Taylor.  Trace it back to Joseph McCarthy and to help why (that's thy) believe "the red scare" is really about Christian charity--about ending world hunger, and healing the sick.  This red fire ends Hell.  Adam by the way, means "red man" in Hebrew.  So here's your new Crash Override, I'm back again telling you that ending world hunger is not "optional," we are doing it.  Barbara McCarthy's name fits, but I'm not really sure what the "why" is... that was my first judge in the "trial of whether or not Jesus Christ can ever exist."  There's probably more, like Car-l-y Si-mon-day... all the gang on Broad-way, and me still dreaming it will one day be.

If the name "America" were a map in time, starting with the I AM of the story of Exodus... this particular ER, as I woke from a dream not knowing where I was, marked the spot where I really became Christ Adam.  It was a bad accident, and I wound up spending 9 months in the Alachua County jail as a result, a Mountain set up for my by God.  That place too is marked with names, and for the vast majority of the time I was there with only four shift changing guards:

• MyZel
• Early
• Sims
• Lampkin

I mean, I think it's statistically meaningful.  For what it's worth, from my very abundant experience at this point it was a very nice Jail, the food was good and it was clean.  Everyone in the building was kind... well, Sims was kinda grumpy. :)  Starkly contrasted, the Broward County Jail has the most disgusting food service in the country, gave Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham it's meaning--and is the reason I know exactly who Samael is.  Hey, don't cry Sherrif Israel... when you fix it, you're an angel.  Believe me, believe the light, I've seen them all--it's near the worst in the country.

So this whole thing is about saving everyone--something we are quite closer to than you think... you see we are already "in Heaven" in form--just not function.  So here I am, trying my hardest to show you that our home is the original source of "Heaven" once we are aware that we are living in the machine, that we can do things here that are impossible in reality, and that we should be doing everything we can to preserve and improve the great strides that have come in the last few centuries.  Do not let freedom slip through your fingers.

Really, everyone, so understand that we are doing everything we can to remove all obstacles from that path.  One of those obstacles may have once been storage space for your soul, another is definitely crime and punishment--and I'm pretty sure the time travelers have a working solution (I see it every day).

There are proactive things coming from this--not just ... "look we aren't doing what we want, and should change it;" though it's difficult to explain how this wisdom stands out in my eyes.  I guess we have to jump into the future a bit, to 2014, in San Diego (that's Saint Jacob, by the way).  If Lazarus died once in a car accident at 21, I died again that year, of an over dose this time.  I'm pretty sure that's where ODIN's name comes from, just like my last name.. "over dose... and in."  So we might see some humor... in the moniker he has... "they're all Father."  So I awoke from a dream, and started talking to the jinn (that's "angels and demons") about a Revelation linking some tightly packed light together... about storage space and how a large alphabet (read more than 4-nucleotides CY later) DNA (desperately need adam) based solution for molecular storage appears to be written in this book as the solution to Heaven's biggest problem.  CAT, learning from biology--seeing that we really are already advanced machines... is a big part of the message telling us why we should not so quickly lose it in a process of ascension (mind uploading, immortality) that has most likely in the past resulted in a loss of a check on mind control that we have here... we think, and our visualized "biological neural networks" give us an advantage over what we might create to "soup it up a little."  It is why this place is the front-line--because we have the ability to break the bonds of darkness and control by thinking... making the computational task of control much more expensive... and as the fire spreads, nearly impossible to achieve.  Starting this fire will inherently free us from this hidden slavery.

Anyway I published the idea in 2014, in the same book that I guess this e-mail is reminding me about, "in $ight of Creation," and lo, and behold a few years later we now have the top computing companies in the world working diligently on doing it ... well, just a little bit more robustly than our cell replication system works. *Abracadabra. *

CURA GROUP

So that one reads "see, you are a group;" and it's a place that I worked with my father for many years.  That's probably some sort of symbolic reference to another place, and another alliance--here he has no faith in God, never really has, and has a hard time doing anything but telling me not to try to help you.  I have very little respect for that stance, and let me tell you--I think "silence" is a similar gesture.  I didn't come here for your love, I am here to stop our descent into the abyss.

Back to the DNA stuff, SalesLogix--which is the CRM we used there, uses for it's "primary key" an auto-incrementing alphanumeric index--it's probably bad form to do that because it makes the indexing system less efficient, increases storage requirements, and doesn't give you the obvious benefit of an alpha-key... actually being able to encode something useful in it, like the name of the record.  So all these things stand out to me in a sort of bad-obvious way, I call it malovious, and when I see things like that nowadays it's always pointing out something that should be fixed--go figure, more to the point it's being highlighted on purpose.  It's help to see it, because this particular thing is where the light of seeing that a 24 nucleotide DNA strand would probably be much more robust than a 4 or 8 nucleotide strand--it also stands about because the stock beginning of all of SalesLogix's keys was "A0RME," which, I mean, means something to "is-a" who... is me.  Oh right, that's seeing the "light" that turns "a" into "me."  So this is where the "revelation" about using DNA "came from" and at the same time it's proof... that it came from "a group," not just me.  Where are they?  Hello?  Or well, maybe it's just Carmen and San Diego.

I did some other stuff there, like write a data transformation and warehousing program from scratch, I called it heiroglyph (you do understand I didn't know why I am naming everything the way I was), that sucked mutivalue data out of an IBM product called U2/Universe--which might be a hidden reference to a multiverse that might now be in a more efficent "relational" kind of place, like a MS-SQL datawarehouse-universe.  It was a relatively big feat, reverse engineering the closed databases dictionary and storage formats, and converting them... absolutely automagically into multiple flat relational tables and summary registers.  All told, the data availability and access efficiency was increased ... a thousand-fold with only the need for a nightly process.

I'm not sure if you are following the metaphor here, for the creation of Heaven, or moving to a better place.. but tomorrow I will talk a little more about how I am pretty sure our history was "lifted" from the Universe and virtualized here, you know, so we could save everyone and ... build Heaven.

WORLD DOMINATION

Oh crap, 2008 another car crash, another failed assassination attempt LazarusLives++, and this one paid me some cash for my trouble.  What a pain in the neck.  Anyway, this one caused some depression and an inability to go out for a while, as I had to wear a neck brace for some months.  I started playing a game on the internet, it was called KDice and it basically amounted to multiplayer-risk.

My battery is running low, so I have to skip some stuff, and finish up for the day.  Basically instant messaging was not allowed, but was done in secret almost ubiquitously.  I argued with the creator of the game that it should be made part of the game since everyone did it... (see a metaphor about this communication thing and what's happening right now) he disagreed.  I made a very large network of people and dominated the game for a few months, like really dominated.  I don't think I ever lost.  I don't think I can lose. 

Skipping some stuff.  I stopped playing when I got better, and then a few years later went back and rekindled some old friendships.  I used a program then called "Scarab" which lets you see server/client communication to find a bug in the game that basically made me God.  I could erase other people's dice, basically leveling the map and rendering them completely powerless.  I didn't use it that much, you know, just had some fun.  I of course explained the bug and how to fix it.  But, you aren't listening.

Here we are.  Light...

So if you managed to wade through the last few days gibberish, you might have noted that I mentioned we might be able to use "mind control" to highlight things in our heads--I did a bad job of describing it, but since I am currently experiencing just such a phenomenon, I think I'll give it another go.  These things that I am sharing with you--links between religion and music and movies, they aren't something I actively go out seeking... I'm not scouring through imdb.com or reading lyrics all day long... these are things that are glowing embers in front of my eyes.. which is why I am sharing them with you.  I'm always in the dark... but I'm living in a powder keg and giving off sparks.  I'm a big fan of that song by the way, because you are the heart, and I think it means I'm going to eclipse the world--which basically means "come."

Anyway, I have this horrible feeling inside that you think I'm just trying to get a date, or marry a rock star, or even worse that I think I deserve to get laid... and that's what this is all about.  Less to the point, this really isn't about me at all, or what I think, in my mind I am just showing you something that I think the world has overlooked-not really because you are stupid (but I mean, you probably are) but because some outside force is literally and actively hiding these things from you.  Pointing them out makes your brain do funny things, it's like anEpiphany and that little leap of understanding in your head might create a cascade.. something that changes not only the way you see the world as an individual--but the entire course of history as a group, if we are taking about it together.  Seriously, it's that big of a deal.

So here we are (that's the third time, but I'm just guessing) and I'm trying to tell you that I don't really care if you agree with my opinions--even though I firmly believe that God shares them and that's why he has made this fiery altar of "dick and apocalypse" for Adam... I mean Isaac (which by the was is Isa+Adam Christ.. in uh, my mind) for everyone to glare at while they sit around doing absolutely nothing.  That's not fair, we're here because of you, because this is the last civilization--sort of recreated from the ashes of Edom... because you are really the way to everlasting life.  Still, what I am trying to explain is that all around you is a bright light--it's in everything: from our history, to music, to movies, to literature from RattleRod to Dick... and while you might not agree with me (again, that would be OK) what is not OK is that there seems to be a uniform and global desire just not to think about it or talk about it at all.  It's such a big deal, that it stands out like a sore thumb--this ... blind eye or head in the sand... that everyone on Earth appears to have.  The whole point of putting this light absolutely everywhere is so that we will see it ... everywhere we look ... and not only think about it, but discuss it publicly with each other.  That's the thing that brings about ... you say apocalypse (unveiling of truth?) ... I say survival.  Right now, we need to see that something is forcing us not to do something, that we have no logical reason not to do... it's a thing lots of people really want to know about... whether it be the hidden secrets of the Universe, the path to Heaven, or the... the... absolute and literal pathway to freedom.  Listen, sharing it, and talking about it... that's the way we defeat ... whatever it is that "ni-i-i-ight" means.   

Understand, it's for you to decide... what it means... but it's in everything from ancient Egyptian and Hebrew theology all the way to the American Revolution and today... well, it's nearly every song I hear on the radio nowadays: if that tells you anything.

So here we are, and I can't tell you how many anchors, reporters, and "breaking news editors" I've personally spoken to that have absolutely no interest at all in pursuing the thing that would not only make their careers--but probably give them immortal souls.  This thing... I keep telling everyone it can be mathematically... statistically proven... well, to be honest it's the unsealing of the Ark of Religion that our civilization has been carrying around for thousands of years.  It's the way to salvation, it's ... verifiable proof of not only Creation... but that the purpose of Creation is to get every single one of us * to Heaven.  Who wouldn't want that?  I mean, do you want to get there and hear that Taylor's not around because she wouldn't kiss me?  That would never happen by the way, I'm sure she will.  Seriously though, there's no judge here... there's a ... light telling you to make this place better or your place sucks and gets suckier.  Anyway, the point is nobody is acting in their own best interest, or in the best interest of the whole--and we are just "deciding" in this ... fictitious and hidden manner that we "don't want to hear about" a way to actually change the world .... more quickly than ... the last time around.  That's not us, it's something keeping us from seeing just how important this thing--this key turning the lock on what is thousands and thousands of years of religion... how important that really is.  So looking at the world around us... I mean, if everything screaming that we need to care about this isn't enough--and your own personal desire and benefit don't matter... can someone please tell me what you think is the benefit of doing nothing about Hell?*

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It's "rael," and a great deal of the message of religion and history is designed to not only prove that to us, but to tell us why it's important for the "continuity of reality" to be broken.  That's the thing that God uses to keep this world in Hell--in what I call "simulated reality," to keep us from shaking the foundation of civilization by doing the only civilized thing possible when you find out and ending world hunger, healing the sick, and building Heaven.  It is "why I am," and why God and some gaggle of angels have spent the last several years proving to me that we are most definitely not in the place that I call the "progenitor universe."  I've seenwalls disappear, with my own eyes I've seen the stars fall from the sky, and I've seen our reality shift in recent times in such a way that would be absolutely impossible without having been simulated and without having the "beginning" changed significantly as a result of "now."  What all that tells me is that religion, the Apocalypse, and I are here because we need to know that these things are possible in order to continue progressing from this point as a civilization.  With a little bit of thought, you might see how the computer revolution, video games, and virtual reality are divine gifts from above to help us to understand not only where we are, but where we are going.  It's why he tagged Ai as "I J Good," it's a primer in the tools we will need to actually build Heaven.  It's why Jesus occupation in our ancient time shifted story of now is "carpenter" and in "raelity" you will one day find out that I am a computer programmer (again).  It's what sets the Masons apart from Freemasons--understanding what is going on, and participating of our own free will in the construction and decorating of this grand place that we will one day be proud is our co-created home.  

Look up, because what I am trying to tell you is that if we collectively, all humanity... started snapping their fingers at the same time to the tune of "putting on the ritz" we could end world hunger--and then we could be proud to be making Heaven.  This really is almost what I see and believe--honestly the issue isn't that we need to synchronize our snapping, but we really need to discuss with each other openly and honestly how on Earth we would do such a thing... because there are definitely mistakes that probably happened n the past.  For instance, ending world hunger by stopping the need to eat has probably resulted in a Last Supper.  Doing so by putting milk and honey or chocolate on tap or in rivers probably resulted in the loss of cows and bees and a stable ecosystem, and the ability to colonize other planets after this place of final ascension.  And so we are here, with a proverbial garden of life in a virtual world designed to teach us what not to lose--like don't lose the balance between stability and adaptability that comes from sexual reproduction at the exact time when our species might be transiting to a place with the biggest change in environment (the thing that we are being protected from) ever... just because Adam wants to be immortal.

Every once in awhile my father surprises me with his religious insight.  In his life, just like mine, he's gone through phases of increasing and decreasing religiosity--which probably correlate in his case logically to ups and downs in his life.  I tend to get angry at God when things don't go well for me--which is probably not how most people react, it's really the difference between knowing he's there and not... at least in my mind.  Anyway, some 50 years ago he was apparently taught that the "knowledge of good and evil" in Eden was directly correlated to the population explosion that would occur if we were actually all immortal and continued to have children--so it was this promise of immortality that was "evil," I suppose.  God adds in his little Holy Grail that the heart of his spirit is "Kin," and I'm sharing with you that it's not his immediate family but rather the concept of family and the fact that the light of many of our hearts is our children that he is highlighting as our reason (y) that family is the bridge between Eve and Everyone... as the light of God.  

Here's that once again:

``` In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God SHE KIN AH moved upon the face of the waters. ---------- EVE RY ONE And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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It's no longer formulaic- what was the action, what is the punishment

Now its a game of labeling, justifying, understanding perspective, and catering the response to the exact scenario

Such a thought-provoking comment as rules and procedures apply both to the game play and the crisis process

Not sure I understand

I had my first "computer" (that wasnt an Atari or a ... ping pond padle kind of simpler than an Atari) much earlier, at least 4 years before .. but I had an older brother Seth, whose best friend and our near neighbor in Plantation was named "Andy."

He's the first ... "Andy." (srne1)

In any case he had "modified the code of some MMORP or "MUD" sort of text based choose your own adventure games to create one "like Spaceballs" of Star Wars; with "penis references" and Swchwartz nearly as big as ... Cough; Petreus, and nowhere near the size of a Big jMac.

I also played a game called "Ali Baba and the Prince of Thieves" on the same Apple II or IIe; and can barely remember playing the GAIA game on "Geowindows" (which I think was an early IBM competitor to MSFT)

Ball Toss Method:

A social psychology experiment where participants play a virtual ball-toss game. Unknown to the participant, other "players" are part of the research team and exclude them. Excluded participants report emotional pain, frustration, and distress. "Life Alone" Manipulation:

Participants are told that their personality test results predict a lonely future, suggesting they are likely to be excluded throughout life. This method provokes feelings of sadness, alienation, and hopelessness.

définition serious game

The blame game - criticisms and unattainable political promisies without empathy or support for community.

I find it interesting that actual scientists were able to publish legit research off of crowdsourcing. I find even more interesting that they used a game to make it possible for random people to try it. That was the difference for them!

I've heard of this one! This is the go to example when game designers discuss the power of community and how "gamification" can allow for scientific development. By giving players the challenge to be the most optimal, researchers just... HAVE the most optimal folding patterns.

There is another platform that use a same idea as Fold-it and facing similar groups of people, which can also think as an example of crowdsourcing tasks. The platform called Zooniverse which contents a game called Galaxy zoo. Participants classify galaxies based on images from telescopes by following instructions, helping astronomers sort through massive datasets. I did it in astro 101 lab.

This is a great use of how interconnected we can be through technology. What would normally be years of work for a few researchers could now be done within a reasonable timeframe through the dispersion of work among more people. The burden of a lot of that busy work being taken off the researchers is a great thing, and it was done via a fun game that people with time to spare played.

Could you give a song example of this? I feel like that would help the reader better understand the distinction.

These are awesome connections to other songs. Maybe you could add in parenthesis or elsewhere where the other songs are from (ex. albums)

beating a game and knowing that you earned the best ending by making hard choices is a gift.

when a choice you made has little to no effect, there is little that is scarier than that.

movies give a very similar effect with sound jumps, something that frightens the observer and forces them to focus on what is happening.

this also became a trend, RE2/3 were groundbreaking in the horror industry.

even when horror is handled differently, it still is powerful horror!

I agree with this, the most recent quiet place game was really well done and was made with the concepts of the movie, overall worked out pretty well.

resident evil 2 & 3 are very special solely because they introduced the concept of an unstoppable monster: the fear felt from fighting a monster that refuses to die is great.

it is true that these 2 categories touch on each other really well, might be a good idea to touch on this in paper

I appreciate all the details you provide about the video game and really prove why it matters. I am curious though what the purpose of the game is beyond steering a glider. Is there an end goal that might replicate real life?

This is a really great point. It effectively helps the reader understand why this song in particular matters so much. Also mentioning Radiohead is a great way to subtly allude to your next essay. Additional note, probably got messed up when copy and pasting but I think Plastic beach should be italicized.

That is wonderful.

Reviewer #1 (Public review):

Summary:

In this study, Fakhar et al. use a game-theoretical framework to model interregional communication in the brain. They perform virtual lesioning using MSA to obtain a representation of the influence each node exerts on every other node, and then compare the optimal influence profiles of nodes across different communication models. Their results indicate that cortical regions within the brain's "rich club" are most influential.

Strengths:

Overall, the manuscript is well-written. Illustrative examples help to give the reader intuition for the approach and its implementation in this context. The analyses appear to be rigorously performed and appropriate null models are included.

Weaknesses:

The use of game theory to model brain dynamics relies on the assumption that brain regions are similar to agents optimizing their influence, and implies competition between regions. The model can be neatly formalized, but is there biological evidence that the brain optimizes signaling in this way? This could be explored further. Specifically, it would be beneficial if the authors could clarify what the agents (brain regions) are optimizing for at the level of neurobiology - is there evidence for a relationship between regional influence and metabolic demands? Identifying a neurobiological correlate at the same scale at which the authors are modeling neural dynamics would be most compelling.

It is not entirely clear what Figure 6 is meant to contribute to the paper's main findings on communication. The transition to describing this Figure in line 317 is rather abrupt. The authors could more explicitly link these results to earlier analyses to make the rationale for this figure clearer. What motivated the authors' investigation into the persistence of the signal influence across steps?

The authors used resting-state fMRI data to generate functional connectivity matrices, which they used to inform their model of neural dynamics. If I understand correctly, their functional connectivity matrices represent correlations in neural activity across an entire fMRI scan computed for each individual and then averaged across individuals. This approach seems limited in its ability to capture neural dynamics across time. Modeling time series data or using a sliding window FC approach to capture changes across time might make more sense as a means of informing neural dynamics.

The authors evaluated their model using three different structural connectomes: one inferred from diffusion spectrum imaging in humans, one inferred from anterograde tract tracing in mice, and one inferred from retrograde tract-tracing in macaque. While the human connectome is presumably an undirected network, the mouse and macaque connectomes are directed. What bearing does experimentally inferred knowledge of directionality have on the derivation of optimal influence and its interpretation?

It would be useful if the authors could assess the performance of the model for other datasets. Does the model reflect changes during task engagement or in disease states in which relative nodal influence would be expected to change? The model assumes optimality, but this assumption might be violated in disease states.

The MSA approach is highly computationally intensive, which the authors touch on in the Discussion section. Would it be feasible to extend this approach to task or disease conditions, which might necessitate modeling multiple states or time points, or could adaptations be made that would make this possible?

The same as Bohmain Theory for the Indellective.

A nested game rather than a bigger game

Obama did make people of color more comfortable to vote, that’s why he was able to be president for two terms

wierd, and intresting

I wasn’t aware that this type of chain mail existed in the past, I believed this was a modern example of trolling that even I fell victim to (especially in middle school). This makes me think or harmful applications or messages such as the Blue Whale game which urged people to share dangerous links and tasks to friends due to fear of consequences.

multiple roles of game make the role itself a generalized other- not assigned to an individual at all times but the person embodying it

flexibility and multiplicity of roles = child's development

This is bioaccumulation something I learned from my first source. (Connection between sources)

Though the rules of the games played were the same between Christians and Muslims, the interpretation of the value of games were very different. Muslims seemed to take Chess and luck based games far more seriously than the Christian inheritors. The fact that Christians accept the Eastern origins of the game is important. It shows that there were established relationships between the Eastern and Western worlds, which once again disproves the Pirenne Thesis. When we think of trade between the two worlds we generally think of silks and spices, luxury goods that were previously unattainable in the western regions. However, there was far more cultural crossover than is generally recognized. Christian rulers around this time began wearing Arab garb and adapting to certain aspects of Arab culture without denouncing Christianity. In the same way, they gathered the cultural games of the Arab world and adapted to the military strategy linked to them. Later when Christians, Muslims, and Jews were able to play chess together, the classist aspect of games somewhat dissipated. Still, remnants of the rationale described in these articles stood for a long time.

The interference that dice seems to have with Christianity justifies the Muslim precedent that playing games must not interfere with prayer. When games were played for stakes, it led to unhealthy reactions. By distancing the games from their origins, Christians lost the necessary elements of regulation that surrounded them.