http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/03/this-is-the-worlds-fir…
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
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Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group Defense Distributed, plans to release the 3D-printable CAD files for a gun he calls “the Liberator,” pictured in its initial form above. He’s agreed to let me document the process of the gun’s creation, so long as I don’t publish details of its mechanics or its testing until it’s been proven to work reliably and the file has been uploaded to Defense Distributed’s online collection of printable gun blueprints at Defcad.org.
All sixteen pieces of the Liberator prototype were printed in ABS plastic with a Dimension SST printer from 3D printing company Stratasys, with the exception of a single nail that’s used as a firing pin. The gun is designed to fire standard handgun rounds, using interchangeable barrels for different calibers of ammunition.
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WHEN AN UNREGISTERED # calls
"Henderson Morgue. You stab em. we slab em. Eight ball speaking"
Nashville sperm bank. you squeeze it we freeze it.How may I help you?
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"You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"
But not to be lost in the discussion, and, in fact, most critical, is the value in multitudes, in variance, and in solidarity, based upon empathy and mutual understanding. This in resistance to dominant patterns of division and subsequent conquest. Therefore I claim scrutiny over cultural and linguistic appropriation remains relevant and crucial to recognize in context of mutual respect rather than a laissez-faire attitude.
What I mean is, let's try not to muddle it, but certainly cuddle it.
// Matt
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From: "Anthony Di Franco" <di.franco(a)gmail.com>
To: "GtwoG PublicOhOne" <g2g-public01(a)att.net>
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Subject: [sudo-discuss] cuddling it
Date: Fri, May 3, 2013 5:19 PM
That is all quite interesting and adds a lot of texture to the discussion.
And so is the question of the phrase "killer app" interesting. Consonant with an existential struggle among companies to achieve a position of oligarch in a crony capitalist market by killing off the competition once and for all and salting the earth they ate from with regulations and collusions so nothing will ever grow there again.
Though, I don't know how to limit things to a subculture supposed to be our own since we are all part of and relate to many different cultures, without necessarily any universal common thread, and the idea of creating fiefdoms of discourse based on arbitrary dualistic in-group-out-group distinctions is unappealing anyway.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:53 PM, GtwoG PublicOhOne <g2g-public01(a)att.net> wrote:
Yo's-
None the less, useful to explore.
As I understand the history of this:
The word "savage" is the English adaptation of the French word
"sauvage" that originally meant "forest-dweller." At the time of
early European settlement in North America, the practice in Europe
was that only members of the nobility had the privilege of hunting
in the forests: "commoners" (that would be us) were forbidden from
doing so, often under penalty of death.
The Europeans who settled in North America were highly surprised to
see that no such restriction existed among the Native peoples: any
and all tribe members hunted freely in the woods.
The phrase "noble savage" originally referred to this: the idea that
ordinary tribe members had what in Europe was a special privilege of
the nobility, the freedom to hunt in the woods. The European
settlers envied the First Nations peoples for having a privilege
that they themselves did not have.
The dynamic is quite real to this day, of city-dwellers' envy of
rural peoples, and industrial-culture peoples' envy of
hunter-gatherer peoples. It's a generalization of "the grass is
always greener in the other person's yard." It works both ways:
every axis of contrast between someone's own circumstances and
someone else's circumstances can become grounds for comparisons that
may risk turning invidious in some way. And once that process gets
started, it opens the door to all manner of psychodynamic smog.
So about "killing it":
Seems to me that if we're concerned about (whatever issue), and we
run across examples that may be entangled with
racial/ethnic/religious/gender/etc. issues, the best thing to do is
to stick to examples that come squarely from within our own
subculture.
And what's the most frequent example of embedded violent language in
geek/nerd/maker/hacker culture?
How'bout "killer app"? Let's start with that one.
-G.
(Back under the correct address now; thanks to all who helped fix
that.)
On 13-05-03-Fri 3:18 PM, Anthony Di
Franco wrote:
No worries. My response was a rhetorical
answer.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM, netdiva
<netdiva(a)sonic.net>
wrote:
Dont
worry, that was really just a rhetorical question.
On 5/3/2013 3:11 PM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
Of course.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:08 PM, netdiva <netdiva(a)sonic.net <mailto:netdiva@sonic.net>> wrote:
Did you actually just say this in public?
On 5/3/2013 3:04 PM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
Doesn't the civilized psyche secretly crave the
things it sets itself
apart from and gives up and projects on its
image of the noble savage
though?
Your description seems more like meditatively
flowing through it.
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM, netdiva <netdiva(a)sonic.net <mailto:netdiva@sonic.net>
<mailto:netdiva@sonic.net
<mailto:netdiva@sonic.net>>>
wrote:
Here I was thinking "killing it" was just
another example of
appropriation of african american vernacular by
the mainstream.
On 5/3/2013 2:46 PM, Leonid Kozhukh wrote:
"killing it" is a recently popular term to
denote excellence and
immense progress. it has a violent, forceful
connotation.
friends in the circus community - through
empirical evidence - have
established a belief that operating at the
highest levels of talent
requires mindfulness, awareness, and calm. thus,
a better term, which
they have started to playfully use, is "cuddling
it."
thought sudoers would appreciate this.
cuddling it,
-- len
founder, ligertail http://ligertail.com
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!sretirw yeH
Are we alone in the universe? This is a shout out from someone who lives in
your star sector requesting a star sector block party! In other words: If
you are a writer and would like to use your passion-skill for the purposes
of furthering the grasp of Sudo Room upon the innocent brains of
unsuspecting learners, please give me/the list a holler. I'd like to get a
sense of who's out there, and most importantly who's interested in banding
together to do some siiick writing.
We are not alone.
Hey all -
This sunday is http://tacoconf.com which is a bike tour of tacos in
Oakland. I'm organizing the event and was hoping we could get the
TacoCopter to come do a demo but they are sadly unavailable.
I have a couple of Parrot AR Drones (http://nodecopter.com/) and was
wondering if anyone wants to put together a makeshift TacoCopter with me
tonight or tomorrow at Sudoroom. Here's what I need help with:
- from 11AM - 12PM people will be showing up for TacoConf at Snow Park in
downtown Oakland, since I need to go onwards with the conf I am hoping
someone can transport the drones to and from sudoroom at those times. They
are pretty small, but I can't carry em on my bike.
- I need someone to pilot the drone(s) and 'deliver' a taco at Snow Park! I
can instruct on how to do this
- Also I was planning to have a bicycle based taco vendor come by the park
and serve tacos but they had to cancel last minute. I'm looking for backups
but I can always just bring some tacos specifically for delivery to the
park ahead of time
A more illustrious announcement will come as the time nears, but in the
mean time I leave your roving eyes and feasting curiosity to this:
Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx
Friday, May 17
Doors open: 8:22pm
Show starts: 9.07pm
$5-10 suggested donation
Help me work on the wiki
page<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/2013_Bike_Smut_screening>
!
Come to the SR general meeting if you are interested in having a discussion
on topics such as safety, show logistics, money/\yenom, fooooooood, etc.
etc.
I spoke a little about DIY Bio with the person who is organizing a bio
entrepreneurship presentation / pitching / networking event next Thursday
evening and she said people could join in the pitch session if desired or
simply come to network. It will be big-data and
French/Bay-investment/incubation focused so I am intrigued by the potential
of a group of hackers showing up adhering to an unconventional-to-audience
route to impact (open, decentralized development) and considering
unconventional project ideas. Not just the potential for lulz, since the
relevant tech media will be there.
Let me / us know if you'd like to get a DIY Bio / sudo room group together
to do a semi-formal brief introduction of the groups and the projects being
worked on.
Event details are here:
http://www.meetup.com/French-US-Innovators-Entrepreneurs-in-Silicon-Valley/…
