 I have some other word kind of anti-inflammatory if you want it. There's very few I can take. Okay. It'll be fun. I would like to take it. You want? But I really want to take it. I can't travel with you. Well, that's a nice piece of... Oh, it's totally legal in New Hampshire? Yeah. It's still not legal in Italy, but I'm finding a way. Especially, it's great as an immigrant. Questionable residency status. Who hasn't even passed a driver's test? Who cannot pass the driver's test? I have passed it in the States, but Italy, no. Big question. There's no digital version of this book, but you can run through Google Translate? After he said that with the chat GPT, I was like... Summarize this Italian in English. But then the test is in Italian, so I'm screwed. It doesn't matter. I'm screwed. You need like a little chat GPT earbud? Give it a year or two. It'll exist, yeah. Take a picture. So, I'm going to go take all of these, and then I'm going to let you respond. So, basically, yeah, read through the charges, and then ask them one at a time. Oh, ask them one at a time. So, I'd say like, here's the whole list of charges, and then ask one, and then I'll respond to that. Yeah. That'll kind of help me not forget what I'm doing. I think we'll call to order in another minute or so. See if anyone else can get it. Yeah? Good. And regarding it. Perfect. All rise and welcome the presiding. Judge the honorable Martha Burtis. I'm going to do my microphone. Sorry. All right. This court is going to hear the case of DS 106, represented by prosecutor and sometimes bailiff, Reverend Jim Groom versus the accused one Paul Bond, also known as PHB 256. Is that correct? PHB 256. And we're going to hear the responses of the accused members of the jury. You will then be instructed on how to proceed. I will provide those instructions based on the facts presented. The prosecutor will give the charges and the prisoner will give his statement. Thank you, Your Honor. I'm going to take the mic. Yes, you may. Well, today we are looking at this accused miscreant, one Paul Bond, also known as PHB 256, and whatever other names he may be known on with the following charges. One, the infiltration and usurpation of the dealing and usurpation of the DS 106 course. Two, what he did coast. That he did coast on the coattails of the founders. Three, failure to innovate and failure to keep up with the changes of the web. And finally, four and possibly most important, that he did leave the course in danger of being a relic of the web that was. So, Mr. Bond, how do you defend yourself to the charges I have read? For example, number one, the infiltration and usurpation of the DS 106 course. Speak for yourself. Yes, yes, it's all true. I heard the word of Dr. Oblivion back in the day of the MOOC. And, you know, I found DS 106, a community on the web, and it welcomed me with open arms like my home on the web. It let me experiment, try things out, even if it didn't make any sense or serve any purpose. But DS 106, it's more than a course. It's a community where intrepid learners, really, can freely play with digital media and investigate the possibilities on the open web. For members of the jury who may not be familiar with DS 106, this was an open online digital storytelling course. All the students get their own web space where they have their own blogs and they will experiment with different types of digital media, exploring ways to create art on the web and narrating their progress through the course as they do it. A course that's on the web and of the web. I was even invited to help lead the course. Even given a section on my own with the founders. We worked together to experiment around various themes, creating stories through and around genres like film noir, the western, the wire, Bob Ross, 80s pop culture. Did I take control of the course? You could say that. You could. You could say that I took care of the course and nurtured it while others sort of abandoned it to become thought leaders. Well, you take that into consideration, jury. Number two, accusation charge. That he did coast on these four mentioned founders of the DS 106 course. Speak for yourself. Yeah, I will also confess to being a coattail rider. When I came to DS 106, the infrastructure, the framework, they were all well established and very solid. The philosophy, make art damn it. That was very clear. It made it easy to manage the chaos that comes with given everyone freedom to do their own thing really. To express themselves and to make their course their own. I kept playing with semester long themes as some people had established. They changed from semester to semester, so it like isn't totally static, but the idea there was to like foster, use the theme to foster interaction and collaboration as we're all exploring our own different stories. We would play with new tools, platforms, you know, hypothesis or Instagram or discord, things like that, see how they might help us out. It wasn't entirely stagnant. But, you know, the core remains stable. So yes, I did ride those coattails. Stable. Well, that's good. And I'd like to hear you respond to the next charge, which I think is incontrovertible evidence of what has happened. The failure to innovate and the failure to keep up with the changes in the web. Speak for yourself. Yes. I admit to being slow to adapt. I'm not entirely sure all those changes are a good thing. But DS 106 is really kind of straddled the web that was, the web that is, the web that will be in a lot of different ways. It was born out of the blogosphere, wired through social media. Back in more hopeful days, perhaps. But still, it fostered connections online. Part of the web that was. We were also kind of, I think, looking back into the past. As part of remix culture, we would bring in like, 80s culture, film noir, stuff like that. Bases for stories into our modern day. And again, we were still also navigating issues of privacy and ownership. Part of the course took place in the cloud. So part of the web to be perhaps. And your innovation, sir. Innovation. But do we need to innovation? Does, is that what we want DS 106 to be? I don't know. That he did leave the course. And this is the final accusation. And I believe the most important. That he did leave the course in danger of being a relic of the web. That was speak. But is it really are the changes on the web for the better? Do we want to be always keeping up with the new thing? Or do we want to be, you know, a rebel alliance against the corporatization of the web? Do we want to be part of that crypto blockchain empire? My view, I think, my defense is that DS 106 represents the web as it ought to be. A web where we have our own domains, our own spaces. A web that serves as infrastructure to connect our domains, our people. A place that we can make art of on with the web. Yes, so many of these charges are true. But I have to appeal to the jury and the court for mercy. But honorable good people of the jury. I know you share the dream, the vision of a better web for all. And I beg of you to let your collective wisdom help light the way to a new, better DS 106. Will the good people of the jury offer up ideas? How can DS 106, a digital storytelling course, you'll be of the web and on the web without being tainted by a web that increasingly sucks? This is the strangest case I've ever heard. And none of this makes any sense. Apparently you are not rendering a verdict as to whether or not the accused is guilty. You are going to come up with ideas about how to fix an online course about digital storytelling. This court has heard the charges and the defendants desperate pleas. The jury has been asked to offer ideas to modernize the DS 106 course. Your deliberations will determine the fate of the accused. You may now discuss amongst yourselves until the prosecutor calls for your verdict. Did I need to choose a foreman? I believe there are 12 of you. Maybe there's a 13th alternate in the room in case somebody is called away for important personal reasons. You're going to have to elect a foreman. You may, I believe, consult with. As opposed to the judge and the prosecutor not recusing. Given their relationship. But again, a strange case. I will also say that the court is open for questions if you need clarification. Excuse me, excuse me. How do you get to say the court is open for questions? You may direct your questions to me. I will get you answers. Please, we need to have a little rule of law here. Here's a question about juries. Can AI Levine be on the jury? I believe AI Levine could consult with the jury. Yes, I believe that is okay. You may, in fact. AI Levine will be the foreman. As a foreman. You also could just use AI to do all of your work and you could go out and have a drink. I mean, because that's about how sensical any of this is. How long do they have to deliberate? I don't make the program for this bizarre conference. How long do they have? When is this, when is this trial over? I didn't realize this. There's an update that I learned when I asked Jim to talk about DS 106 and the history of, I didn't realize this should have been presented as part of the evidence. Jim Groom along with his colleague Alan Levine co-founded DS 106. Does this man even have status as a controller and founder of DS 106? Does this man even have status as a controller and founder of DS 106? AI Levine says Alan, who's Alan Levine? There's some questions that Applin's interpretation of his early years. No, no, this is AI Levine's perspective. That's some opinions. That's an AI statement. I don't know, I just asked the question and AI Levine answered. You know, AI only gives as good as you put in. If you feed it lies, that's when you get back AI Levine. Yes, that prosecutor did play a role in the founding of DS 106. Yes, he did. So we will have 10 minutes, does that make sense? We have a total of 13 minutes left. 13? Yeah, 11.35. So you have 6 minutes or 7 minutes to come up with a solution to save DS 106 for this RQs. And then we will hear whoever you decide whether it's AI Levine, your recommendation. Go for it. For those of you who don't know DS 106, there are people here who you can pair with, who can inform you like Brian, like Laura, like Joe, right? Am I correct? Cartman, I'm sure you do know some of it. Tim, obviously, very crucial to Ann Marie. So I know it's a little bit inside, but it is a fun course to take a look and talk about. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, exactly. Perfect. How are you? How are you? Kangaroo cart. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It didn't really help. It was a fun and amazing course. You were good at the jelly-shining class. I didn't think you were my first real coca-cola. I do think you were my first real coca-cola. To be really real man. Is that true? Yeah, I believe so. I believe so. He's interesting aspects of it in my perspective. It's funny because right from the way in which Val and Neil come, I should then match the history. Is that even him saying it now? Is that even right? No, I don't have this at all. I'm missing this one because I tried to put an end to DS 106. I tried to put this thing to sleep years ago. Now you can zombie DS 106. It ended. It brought it back to life. It was a thing that I've been thinking of. We have this thing. So I want to take DS 106. This is still live. And I want to move it to a kind of an open region setup. But I also want to pull in this peer-to-peak and live dream with the radio. Just play with it. If you want to think of it still in the sandbox. I'd like to play with some of the new media tools that are coming out. Like how that would work in like, you know, Mastodon. Like would it be cool to have it on the server so that people can do it there. The open source. I do think there are new tools. Should we get a source with the media tool again? Just to play with it. I am lucky I'm not nostalgic for DS 106 that way because I feel like in some ways it's like anything. The idea is feeding. But I think until you teach a course again, it's very hard, right, to feel that commitment. So when you're doing the syllabus for Mastodon, you start thinking of the implementation of the actions. I think that would be the key for me. So I think that's where he deserves the most. I'd like to say a few final lines that can still go on. I was talking to Ben Howard earlier. He was thinking about proposing a DS 106 type course at Skidmore. He was especially interested in AI assignments. I'm scared of it. But that would be a fun way to interrogate it. I've only played with it minimally. My son is like... I did it on the bus. He's like a blender. I don't want to correct him. He's the only one. I don't want to do... He learned to read and write. He's like 60s now. I don't know what to do with this. Both mice. Like I see it, I see your kids do. Grandma, he's the one who is pink brown. He's 12. I don't know if he's going to be a father. Time? I will call for a verdict. ideas, you know, what do you do like what their core courses are basically helping students create their own custom major and then how many classes do you teach, like they see this, I haven't taught since spring, but I'm teaching this all, I'm going to do a different course for me, and I might teach like a gen ed where she's from, and then next year, I'm going to be both Robin and Matt, and I'm going to ask about how I'm going to be, so I'm going to have to do some of that, just to help all of that spring. That go, like fall of twenty four, spring of twenty five, I'm going to call the public, I'm going to call the public, so I'm going to use full year for that, so this year I'm just doing a small, if we were to get funding and go down to spring, could you next spring or twenty four, so that's the thing, there's going to be a certain time for it, I don't know whether or not I could, even if you can't, like let's say we can get a digital story, it's more like it's a George Brown or whatever, we were interested, to say Alan's been adding lots of AI tool things to the assignment back. Alan or AI Levine? What's with Alan? Now I have great doubts about it. It's possible that just saw an AI. Wait, okay, so here is it. Member Dr. Oblivion, what if AI Levine teaches the course? The whole thing, and we just feed it. Anyway, so some of you have been roped into a terrible, but it, I mean, DS 106 should always be part art experiment, part course to help students think through this, and I think AI is something we all need help thinking through right now. So it's a good topic, it's timely. So is that the verdict? Would you all agree that Paul needs to dig deep? This is such class of groom BS here. He didn't need us at all. He's just here to rope us into one of his new schemes. That's what this is. He just suddenly just turned this into, hey, why don't you follow me again on another journey with this idea? But that's cool. I'll do it. Thank you all for coming. Thank you Paul for making this all out of the beautiful. Thank you for not executing me. I don't want to go to the contempt charges against groom.