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Re: [sudo-announce] forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings

by aestetix

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been lurking for a while, but this caught my attention. Especially given that I recently watched the musical 1776. IMHO, we're at a turning point in history. I spent part of this morning watching the testimony on healthcare.gov, and seeing the interplay of lawyers and technologists. We seem to be sandwiched between two paradigms: the NSA/Omnicorp merger from Prism and other Snowden leaks, and totally unrealistic valuations of companies like Snapchat, which apparently just turned down a $3 billion cash acquisition offer from Facebook. That spells out a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. The one common theme we've seen through the history of the US is the battle for power between State and Federal governments. This is what the Civil War was *really* about, why laws like the Civil Rights Act of 1965 are so important, and why the most recent government shut-down happened. And inherent to this power battle, for which there is no "better" side, is the will of the people. How do we overcome the tragedy of the commons enough to build a system that generally, kind of sort of works? It's hard to practice what one preaches if there's no cost. For example, it's easy to use Google/etc, until the government subpoenas your email and search history and uses that as evidence (hidden via State Secrets) to throw you in jail. I speak on this with several friends who are either in jail or dead because of bad laws, and many more who have been harassed, detained, in most cases for doing nothing more than dissenting. This is why I agree strongly with Eddan about the notion of neutrality. I haven't kept up with sudo room as much lately, partly because I don't have the time/energy to engage in some of the transitions that were going on. I'm beginning to get to a point where I can re-engage with people working on projects tackling these kinds of issues. I suppose we shall see what happens. Back into the woodwork, aestetix - --- I've often thought of Sudo Room a little bit like the District of Columbia. and Rachel's subject for her email reminded me of that. It is often forgotten that there was a first constitution of the United States after Independence before the one that people call the Constitution. It was called the Confederacy of States. The nation's capital was in Philadelphia and through a series of events ended up moving to a newly formed neutral district - that we all know now as DC. It wasn't just a series of events, but a structural flaw in the Confederacy that doomed itself. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 43, "We have seen the inconvenience of this omission, and the assumption of power into which Congress have been led by it. With great propriety, therefore, has the new system supplied the defect. The general precaution, that no new States shall be formed, without the concurrence of the federal authority, and that of the States concerned, is consonant to the principles which ought to govern such transactions." As population grew and the country was further colonized by the European settlers, the creation of new states turned into a disuniting disaster. Different coalitions of states banded together to promote their collective interest at the expense of others. Those states excluded formed their own alliances and there were many cries of treason thrown around back and forth. Each cluster thought of themselves as the "us" and the others as the "them" until the "them" became the "us" and the "us" was "them". And so on. So while New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland - all wanted the new federal seat of power in their states, a deal was struck to create a district that didn't belong to any particular state. They all wanted to have the center of the nation's power in their territories. And this is how we got in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution, the provision saying: "To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislatures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings." I'm not sure we need forts and magazines and arsenals and such, but I still think we need a neutral center so that no particular cluster confuses themselves as being what constitutes Sudo Room. Only when the country adopted a political structure that transformed the "us" and "them" into we - did the agreement amongst them create stability and mutual respect that made them united states. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSg9gZAAoJEOrRfDwkjbpTzNYIALdkLYpUOINBMdaoTgyfv5+d 4mL38CWysMiceiA8AqMXUStiZOsp4aEiOgsYnSOrookSdnQbVbxPD10keH+0P4Jm 7es9ibfvk5PT/Bj5IThB9pSsUpS3coeVVmOHScYnPVQzPGihIMpcMGcLaNpviZBE BE9IOpK5EcBpgBh25mVqIFp6nJisuOq1mTgwAjHoZUOb+VxKbSLoCPaEVcHkpgVL cvdMJSCSrk1rZVkTA0oWfMW57NRQY47z7e+tXm5xvkJXvJA2mYbcOgaQssnRqp0/ wspCWOdP4ior8xvaQE7KrUQvj3JxbLOY8I92UhXC3Sj29BXw7xy3i08hoLUg6kY= =42g2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

11 years, 1 month

Party This Fri (7pm - ?) Sudo Room's Birthday, Halloween Monster /bin/bash!

by Matthew Senate

It'll be a /dev/null smash! Please join sudo room to celebrate our first birthday: 2141 Broadway, Oakland (entrance on 22nd st) This *Friday Nov 1st* at *7pm* - ? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/537941246287968/?ref_dashboard_filter=calen… Flyer is attached.

11 years, 1 month

[Important] Sudo Short on Rent this Month!

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, I made a deposit today from the donation bin with $260 dollars, bringing our bank account total to ~$1020. Our invoice from the landlords is $1,661.50 We need to raise ~$650 to pay rent PLUS another $500 to maintain our bank account minimum and not be charged for being below the minimum. *How can we raise up to $1,150 by say, Monday?* Some ideas I'm throwing out there and discussing with folks in the space at the moment: - Ask folks to pay their dues! Encourage your friends. - Throw a fund-raiser this Saturday (take donations, give beverages, performances) - Reach out to different groups that use the space. // Matt

11 years, 1 month

Cryptoparty this Sunday (10/20) from 2-5pm!

by Jenny Ryan

This Sunday (2-5pm) is Sudo Room's monthly Cryptoparty! Event listing here: https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/cryptoparty-a-digital-security-privacy-wor… PARTY LIKE IT’S 1984!! • Learn security techniques & software. • Understand why responsible security is important. • Meet with other proactive residents! Specific presentations on: GPG, SSL and Certificate Authorities, and a new encrypted email platform! Bring your laptop! Bring your phone! All skill levels welcome, from novice to expert! Sign up to the Cryptoparty mailing list to join in the planning and continue the conversation: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/cryptoparty Sudo Room is located at 2141 Broadway, two blocks from the 19th St Oakland BART (entrance on 22nd). Bring a dish, snacks or some beverages to share!

11 years, 2 months

Tomorrow Sat 10/12: TIL Levels up to Today We Learned experiments in colearning!

by Marina Kukso

"Today I Learned" has leveled up to "Today We Learned"! We've had a lot of fun at TILs and other events (open hack nights at LOL makerspace <http://pocmakerspace.org/>!) learning together informally, so we're trying out a new format for Saturday afternoons - open co-learning with time available for people to give workshops, present things they're working on, etc. >From the wiki <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_We_Learned>: Hi everyone! We're trying out a new experiment in co-learning. *two hours of time* Every Saturday from 2PM to 4PM (but really till whenever) in the common area of Sudo Room. *to learn together* We get to figure out what that means. What's most useful to us? What do we want to learn? What do we want to share? How do we want to do this? *with minimal, optional coordination beforehand* https://pad.riseup.net/p/twl This pad has the next TWL's date and a bunch of empty space. Share what you're planning on working on; what you'd like to learn; if you'd like to sign up to do a workshop, do it here; if you want to give a lightning talk about some new thing you're working on/learning, post it here (you can even post a time...like, "I'll be giving a short talk on some new things I've been working on at 3PM"). We'll fill up the pad throughout the week and we'll clear it out after that week's session so that we have a nice, fresh sheet for the following week. You can share the pad with others to invite them to your workshop or to work on a topic together (for example, you can post that you'll be learning python <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>and then send this to everyone you know to say "hey! i'll be learning python! if you want to work on python together, come join me!"). come tomorrow for the first one & add what you want to learn/plan to work on on the pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/twl! - Marina

11 years, 2 months

Sat. 10/5 at 2PM: Today I Learned: Follow the Money!

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Join us tomorrow (10/5) at 2PM at Sudo Room for *Today I Learned: Follow the Money*! We'll be covering economics and the growth and control of money in today's society. Topics covered will include the effect of taxation on economic growth, the flow of money control via commercial banks, insurance companies, and other financial intermediaries. Finally we will cover how the flow of global money affects our federal, state and local economies. More on the event. *This workshop is part of the series “Today I Learned,” a series of free workshops that take place every Saturday at 2PM at Sudo Room, a creative community and hackerspace in downtown Oakland. Check out the full schedule at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned and please forward widely.*

11 years, 2 months

Tomorrow (Saturday) 2 PM: An algorithmic tour of the brain

by Anthony Di Franco

Tomorrow if you join us you might be saying Today I Learned cool things about brain-inspired algorithms, and then had fun with PyBrain<http://pybrain.org/>afterwards. Jointly with Counter Culture labs, this: Study of the brain has inspired algorithms that seek to emulate how it functions for as long as practical computers have existed with which to try these algorithms out. We'll look at some of the most notable of these and find out how our understanding of the brain has given us powerful tools to solve difficult problems. Get a better handle on your noggin and how it might work with an algorithmic tour of the brain. · Cerebellum ― Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller · Cortex ― Perceptrons, Liquid State Networks, Long Short-Term Memory · Hippocampus ― Hopfield network · Thalamus ― Scale-free network Integrated systems ― Miikkulainen's DISCERN & artificial schizophrenia experiments · Tools & future directions Experience as a brain owner is all that is required! We'll start at a conceptual level suitable for the curious layperson and go deeper into the technical details according to your interests. http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/140945552/

11 years, 2 months

Fwd: [lol-hackers] foundational bio / hacking TIL this sat

by Marina Kukso

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Praveen Sinha" <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 13, 2013 11:49 AM Subject: [lol-hackers] foundational bio / hacking TIL this sat To: "sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "lol-hackers" < lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com>, "Juan Crispin Hernandez-Rosas" < one_e_toe(a)yahoo.com>, <xander(a)ligandal.com>, <dre(a)ligandal.com> Hihi, I'll be doing a foundational bio hacking TIL this sat at sudoroom! Alexander and Andre who are badass nano-biohackers will be backing me up. We'll be covering the basics of how DNA, RNA, proteins and gene splicing works. Hope to see you there! Love and Peace! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#September_14_:_Understanding_DNA_… -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lol-hackers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lol-hackers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lol-hackers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lol-hackers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

11 years, 3 months

This Sat 8/31: Oakland Wiki Day at Peralta Hacienda in Fruitvale!

by Marina Kukso

Hello! Please join Oakland Wiki <http://oaklandwiki.org>, the free website about Oakland that anyone can edit, on Saturday August 31st from 11AM-2PM at thePeralta Hacienda Historical Park<http://oaklandwiki.org/Peralta_Hacienda_Historical_Park> /Parque Histórico de la Hacienda Peralta<http://oaklandwiki.org/Parque_Hist%C3%B3rico_de_la_Hacienda_Peralta>in Fruitvale <http://oaklandwiki.org/Fruitvale> for *Oakland Wiki Day*! We will learn more about our Oakland history<http://oaklandwiki.org/tags/history>and share what we know with others. Oakland Wiki volunteers will be helping people learn how to use the wiki, add their knowledge, and create new entries. Bring your laptop if you have one, but don't worry if you don't as we will have a few on hand. This is a FREE event and open to participants of all ages! Peralta Hacienda is a wonderful community resource with a historical museum and lovely park, so there will be lots to do for people of all ages. For more info, check out http://oaklandwiki.org/Oakland_Wiki_Day_at_Peralta_Hacienda and please forward! Best, Oakland Wiki Volunteers!

11 years, 3 months

NymRights local meetup next Tuesday!

by aestetix

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh hai! We're going to host a small NymRights gathering next Tuesday (the 27th), probably around 7pm, at sudo room. For those new to it, we're about making sure the internet stays safe for anonymous and pseudonymous activity. We're open to the public, anyone can join, learn, and teach! See www.nymrights.org for more info! Cheers, aestetix -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSF92rAAoJEOrRfDwkjbpT0PoIAKEKpcZxCKGGxEfKSRhT1Tcr nHC2WhOfHnJ3xGFFs8/JQnB3JHkQpdzQxMlRzZdCjz1PznJTrU/uAx5D9SGfk6LZ O7Pa4KUxihZUo3RDQdJBUNsnD/3NgYifBl1vg4RVYMC9xkND/OEca4SLg6jFGYT7 Uk8jpeTS0l8PQV1+MsexgqDbhI7OgYoWGjh14doMAuo0kP9MkgKK2aFKBd4ORdY5 UJtAFjZRbcruK1oF+iJoxMAFlWLY8fw/OddbdB2kNdkCATZliTZyRo2ep4odMI1h W/xkNVGtW15azwhHxIg8czE4DVo8OU0fp6UrRlG0Tl9bpaO7m5jOgiS7gWI7/xE= =21wt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

11 years, 4 months

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