https://sudoroom.org/dom-and-svg-cyberwizard-institute/
=D video recordings and drawings for all
*HACK THE PLANET!*
It's some great vibes tonight. we learned SVG, DOM review... and substack
even showed us a game that he made!
afterwards people are hacking in a mellow atmosphere.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Sarah Jeong's new book, The Internet of Garbage, takes a look at the problems
of harassment through the lens of the online world's struggle to regulate its
own worst outputs. From spam-fighting to sprawling copyright law, Jeong's
thesis is that whatever fix we consider, it can't just be about hitting delete.
Free speech rights, intermediary liability, anonymity, and moderator working
conditions are just some of the other considerations we need to look at before
anyone takes the garbage out.
Jeong will talk about the book, her coverage of other Internet issues such as
Garcia v. Google and the Silk Road trial, and future issues for the modern
techno-activist.
Date: August 17
Time: 6:00pm
Location: EFF offices, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco
More info: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011JAV030/?tag=electronicfro-20
What is this again? Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal
meetup to connect activists and technologists who are interested in the
challenges of surveillance and censorship, and anyone interested in free
and open technology. TA3M happens all over the world, from Amsterdam to
Tokyo. You can find out your local meetup here: https://ta3m.net/
Want to receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing list
at: https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf
This bulk electronics stash
<http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/5159522715.html> looks like it might
have some good stuff, if we have room for any more.
Does anyone with a vehicle want to pick it up?
Included in bulk were:
Resisters
Potentiometers
Fuses / Holders
Misc. Low Volt Wire
Misc. Small Machine Screw Hardware
Small Switches
Oscillascopes
Misc. Older Security Components
Small Organizing Tubs
Vertices File Cab
Storage Carts
Metal Shelving
Metal Table Bases
Metal Carts
http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/07/eviction-of-rock-paper-scissors-end-of-…
Eviction of Rock Paper Scissors: End of an Era for Oakland’s Art Scene
Rock Paper Scissors' doors will close before the end of August (Andrew
Stelzer/KQED)
By Andrew Stelzer <http://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/andrewstelzer>AUGUST 7,
2015
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<http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/07/eviction-of-rock-paper-scissors-end-of-…>
This ragtag Oakland storefront at 23rd Street and Telegraph Avenue was at
the geographic center of the original Art Murmur
<http://oaklandartmurmur.org/> in 2006. It’s an all-in-one art gallery,
classroom, clothing shop and activist meeting space. The volunteer-run
collective operating Rock Paper Scissors <http://rpscollective.org/>exemplifies
the city’s social justice seeking, DIY art and activism scene.
But with Oakland rents soaring, they’ve been priced out of their space.
August’s will be the last First Friday
<http://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/> street
fair and Art Murmur gallery stroll for the collective — the last remaining
organization of those that helped start the monthly festival almost a
decade ago.
On a recent East Bay summer evening, volunteers gathered inside the
storefront to learn how to become pen pals with queer prisoners.
“It can get really complicated because if someone’s legal name is John but
they go by Jennifer for instance, You have to put J or John on the outside
of the envelope,” said Beja Alisheva, co-facilitator of Flying Over Walls
<https://flyingoverwalls.wordpress.com/>, queer/trans prisoner solidarity
organization.
[image: Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at the Rock Paper Scissors
Collective to write letters to LGBTQ prisoners.]
<http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16278_group-…>
Flying Over Walls volunteers gather at Rock Paper Scissors to write letters
to LGBTQ prisoners. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)
There are lots of rules about how the envelopes sent into prisons can be
decorated, so as to not be confiscated.
“No glitter?” Louis Smith asked incredulously.
The letter-writing get-together was just one of dozens of gatherings held
at Rock Paper Scissors every month, ranging from writing workshops to a
sewing lab and jewelry-making for teens.
“When we first came to Rock Paper Scissors looking for a space, they said
of course,” Alisheva said. “Obviously, we don’t have a lot of money. It’s
not something that brings in a lot of revenue, but that didn’t matter to
them.”
She added: “It was such a relief when we finally landed here, so now we’re
not sure where we’re going to end up.”
That’s a sentiment shared with the quirky creative space’s regulars.
“Gentrification is real,” said Alexandra Rigaud, an assistant with the
collective’s youth program. “We are getting pushed out, and we did start
First Friday … Now we are paying for it.”
It’s becoming a common story all over the Bay Area. The artists who in a
recent era made a neighborhood “hip” are being driven out, in part due to
their own success.
“The neighborhood has changed a lot,” said Kristy Holohan, the collective’s
youth, community and interim gallery director. “We are basically like
sandwiched in between two bars, there are some really high end galleries.”
[image: The Rock Paper Scissors storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph
Avenue.]
<http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16281_RPS-st…>
The Rock Paper Scissors Collective storefront on 23rd Street and Telegraph
Avenue. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the plight of Rock Paper Scissors raises a
much bigger question as the city continues to boom.
“It’s not just the housing affordability that is a potential crisis for
us,” she said. “The threat of displacement of our small businesses, of our
cultural institutions, of our non-profits — those are also community
stabilization issues that absolutely need to be solved.”
Schaaf said the city’s “solutions are more limited” because state law
prevents
<http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=civ&group=01001-02000…>
rent
stabilization for commercial space. The mayor said she’s creating a new
Artist Affordable Housing and Workspace Task Force, but that’s yet to be
staffed.
Anyka Barber, who founded Betti Ono <http://www.bettiono.com/> gallery in
downtown Oakland, said the city needs to do more.
“In order for it to continue to be a world-class city and build on the
strengths that it has, especially around culture and arts, we really have
to have the investment match the brand recognition,” she said.
Barber is a lead organizer of the Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition
<https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative> — a newly formed group that’s
calling for the re-establishment of Oakland’s Arts Commission, which had
its funding and staff eliminated more than five years ago.
“There’s a lot of talk about the economic development side of arts
experiences or cultural experiences, based on people visiting, what kinds
of funds or revenues that brings back to the city,” Barber said.
“Currently, it looks like maybe 1.3 percent of the total city budget is
funding or investing in community development or cultural programs. That
does not reflect equity.”
[image: The Rock Paper Scissors Collective's mission statement.]
<http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16279_RPS-mi…>
The Rock Paper Scissors Collective’s mission statement. (Andrew
Stelzer/KQED)
The coalition’s demands were left out of the recently adopted 2016-17 city
budget.
Rock Paper Scissors, meanwhile, has until the end of the month to find a
new space or close up shop and try to raise more money. The collective is
seeking volunteers to help pack up and move
<http://rpscollective.org/help-rock-paper-scissors-pack-and-move/> to a
yet-to-be-determined location.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I'm available but don't have any gas to get to Hayward.
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> as well, otherwise I'll probably wind up having to rent a UHaul.
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Dearest Sudoers,
I've been writing a piece called "The Universal Empathy Machine: Nonviolent
Communication Explained with Mathematics and Computer Science"
<http://notconfusing.com/universal-empathy-machine/> <
http://notconfusing.com/universal-empathy-machine/>, and I'd be curious to
get your feedback on it because if you're on this list you're an exemplary
of my target audience. It's intended for the intersection of people who
love machines and logic, and care about good communication. Here's an
excerpt:
> 0. The Universal Empathy Machine
>
> Empathy is not sympathy. What’s the difference? Think of the Universal
> Turing Machine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine>.
> It is a machine that accepts a program and data, and runs that program on
> that data. In this way it can simulate all programs on all data. Let us
> think of a human as a program and human experience as data. *Sympathy
> then, is running your program on someone else’s data. Empathy is running
> their program on their data.* As you can see the results of the sympathy
> and empathy computations are not guaranteed to be identical. In a nutshell
> Nonviolent Communication is about becoming the Universal Empathy Machine,
> to be able to emulate the architecture of an arbitrary person given an
> arbitrary experience.
>
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
Anyone available to help move some gear for CCL and Sudo Room this
afternoon? Do let me know as soon as possible if you have access to a truck
as well, otherwise I'll probably wind up having to rent a UHaul.
We'll be picking up a set of sturdy metal shelves, a spot welder, and
various boxes of electronic components in Hayward. We need to be *at* the
storage space in by 2pm, 77 Traynor Str. in Hayward.
Thanks!
Patrik
Howdy hackers,
My friend is looking for somebody to write a compiler in LLVM for his new
CPU architecture, which consists of a bunch of separate cored with their
own scratchpad memory and the ability to interact with each other. He
hasn't had luck poaching people from Google and such, but needs to get this
done by November for DARPA.
Are any of you interested in very funky computer architectures? If so I can
make the connection!
Cheers,
-Adam