{"id":19557,"date":"2024-11-29T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2024-11-29T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:20:17","slug":"december-2024-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/december-2024-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2024 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always sign up at <a href=\"https:\/\/lu.ma\/sudoroom\">https:\/\/lu.ma\/sudoroom<\/a> &#8211; the listing below is incomplete since we are struggling to &#8220;spice things up&#8221; as we go along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>12\/2 Monday 7-9pm &#8211; Women &amp; non-Binary hack night &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lu.ma\/n9p8de51\">https:\/\/lu.ma\/n9p8de51<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12\/3 Tuesday 7-8:30 pm &#8211; Papercrafts &amp; AI hack night &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lu.ma\/e35yg79w\">https:\/\/lu.ma\/e35yg79w<\/a>  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12\/3 Tuesday 8:00-???? &#8211; Hardware Hack Night <a href=\"https:\/\/lu.ma\/18mecsht\">https:\/\/lu.ma\/18mecsht<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Papercrafts and AI Hack Night later in December! (Postponed)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure how often we&#8217;re going to do this, but before the popular Tuesday hardware hack night we&#8217;re going to go over stuff like programming and artificial intelligence with&#8230; paper crafts! Why the heck not? If you&#8217;re like me all these new terminologies and rusty math and programming skills from that PyTorch meetup you had free pizza at 4 years ago is sooooo easy to forget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why not do some origami and whiteboarding screen-free with tablets and get caught up on all the new buzzwords? Bring your own chai \/ mate \/ non alcoholic or alcoholic beer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(postponed) &#8211; later in December!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-sudo-room wp-block-embed-sudo-room\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MQeYYI1j9z\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whatever\/\">New Meetup Series: Papercrafting + Programming + AI &amp; whatever<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;New Meetup Series: Papercrafting + Programming + AI &amp; whatever&#8221; &#8212; Sudo Room\" src=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whatever\/embed\/#?secret=pt6tHC6Zzx#?secret=MQeYYI1j9z\" data-secret=\"MQeYYI1j9z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inspiration: the Hidden Slave Inventors of the American Banjo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of inventors such as women and minorities simply went unrecognized, in some cases because they were slaves. Most people don&#8217;t know that country music and the banjo is an African-American slave invention, an improvised mix of West African gourd string lutes and European guitars. We&#8217;ll be exploring the history and revival of the banjo in several posts throughout December!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-sudo-room wp-block-embed-sudo-room\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"E4MwQCn76Z\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/the-slaves-who-invented-the-american-banjo\/\">Inspiration: The slaves who invented the American banjo<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Inspiration: The slaves who invented the American banjo&#8221; &#8212; Sudo Room\" src=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/the-slaves-who-invented-the-american-banjo\/embed\/#?secret=2kIrQU91ID#?secret=E4MwQCn76Z\" data-secret=\"E4MwQCn76Z\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SudoRoom is now on BlueSky and Mastadon!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SudoRoom is on bluesky &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sudoroom.bsky.social\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sudoroom.bsky.social<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SudoRoom is also now on Mastadon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sfba.social\/@sudoroom\">https:\/\/sfba.social\/@sudoroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/64.225.113.37\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/F0FB8260-95D1-4F8F-9620-4ECD842C75C7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1099\" height=\"444\" src=\"http:\/\/64.225.113.37\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/F0FB8260-95D1-4F8F-9620-4ECD842C75C7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19487\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3D Printing to create Textiles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-sudo-room wp-block-embed-sudo-room\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BZqSn0hsIg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/making-your-own-patterns-with-3d-printing\/\">Making your own Patterns with 3D printing and other fixit hijinx<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Making your own Patterns with 3D printing and other fixit hijinx&#8221; &#8212; Sudo Room\" src=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/making-your-own-patterns-with-3d-printing\/embed\/#?secret=4kzwsOfPqs#?secret=BZqSn0hsIg\" data-secret=\"BZqSn0hsIg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat&#8217;s shaking in the last month of 2024 at SudoRoom?\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/december-2024-newsletter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;December 2024 Newsletter&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}