sudo-discuss June 2024

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by William Myers

Hi friends, I was thinking of calling a meeting to optimistically discuss the future of the Sudo Room. For a while I have been discussing with friends how I feel sudo should launch and support initiatives which directly improve the material conditions of the people in the Oakland Community. And I think it should be done with a focus on inclusivity of Black and Brown folks. *I would be excited if we had initiatives like:* - An initiative to provide Direct support for local families and individuals - An initiative to Support prison abolition efforts - An initiative to oppose to war crimes in Gaza or assistance for recent undocumented immigrants I have a lot of my own Ideas, but I am super interested in hearing everyone's Ideas about different services we can offer! Secondly I think it is important we have an actual *Mission Statement* for who we are and what we want to accomplish. This will be great to provide clarity for what are needs are assuming everything goes well with CAST. This will allow us to plan for the growth and success of our projects and services in the future. If we can have a meeting this Weds we could discuss these two Items, and maybe we could bring some food and make it a bit of a party. Please reply with ideas if you like. William

6 months, 1 week

New to Fix-It Night, want to say thanks and I'm not ghosting you!

by scottmosch＠gmail.com

Hi Sudoroom folks! I'm blown away by the kindness and generosity you all have shown me in my first couple of visits to the Sudoroom for fix it night. I haven't had as much fun (and haven't been nearly as productive) in quite a while. I'm the guy who showed up with all the Nintendo games. Anyway, all this is to say that I'm grateful for the access to the space and the great, interesting and knowledgeable people that inhabit it during the fix it hours. Unfortunately, I recently contracted the flu and it's really been bad - fatigue, headaches, the works. I'll need to take another week to recuperate, but I expect to be back next week with all the parts for my current project. xoxoxo Scott

6 months, 1 week

Lap Top Reformatting Project

by July Tenenbaum

Hi all, On Tuesday, myself and a couple other people are gonna be spending our Fix it Clinic time reformatting laptops to give to students (I am hoping to do the giving through The Unity Council and the Displacement Avoidance Project). This is, in part, to assist in opening up Sudo Room's resources to our Oakland community more, and in part to help us offload some of the laptops sitting around Sudo to make more room in the space/prevent them from sitting forever and becoming Ewaste. In order to ensure Sudo and Omni get acknowledged for doing this (which is important for grants) and also making sure the recipients know where to take the laptops for the purpose of getting repairs, are there any Sudo Room or Omni stickers with the address to the building on them? If you'd like to join us for this, I plan to be there by no later than 8:15, with cookies for anyone who would like to help. Hope to see you all there, -July

6 months, 2 weeks

OC WiFi Signal to Noise Ratio in 2015

by danarauz

Looking into a web server that most likely got hacked... (ahaha) I came across these images: https://danielarauz.com/sudoroom/mesh/omni-commons-basement-signal-to-noise… https://danielarauz.com/sudoroom/mesh/omni-commons-basement-signal-to-noise… For those interested.. :)

6 months, 2 weeks

room for thought on online learning, social media, and reworking how we learn

by Romy Ilano

Starting off a series on learning at SudoRoom and beyond! We had a nice time as I said Monday. I feel it worked best with no hybrid, remote participation, and getting away from our laptop screens was the best possible way of interacting and talking to each other. https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/online-time-can-hobble-br… While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories – or losing important information. Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication, says Erik Fransén, Professor in Computer Science at KTH. Contrary to common wisdom, an idle brain is in fact doing important work – and in the age of constant information overload, it’s a good idea to go offline on a regular basis, says one KTH researcher. Erik Fransén, whose research focuses on short-term memory and ways to treat diseased neurons, says that a brain exposed to a typical session of social media browsing can easily become hobbled by information overload. The result is that less information gets filed away in your memory. The problem begins in a system of the brain commonly known as the working memory, or what most people know as short-term memory. That’s the system of the brain that we need when we communicate, Fransén says. “Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication,” he says. “It enables us to work online and store what we find online, but it’s also a limited resource.” Models show why it has limits. At any given time, the working memory can carry up to three or four items, Fransén says. When we attempt to stuff more information in the working memory, our capacity for processing information begins to fail. “When you are on Facebook, you are making it harder to keep the things that are ‘online’ in your brain that you need,” he says. “In fact, when you try to process sensory information like speech or video, you are going to need partly the same system of working memory, so you are reducing your own working memory capacity. “And when you try to store many things in your working memory, you get less good at processing information.” Watch Crosstalks TV See Erik Fransén discuss information overload with other experts on Crosstalks TV. <http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/> You’re also robbing the brain of time it needs to do some necessary housekeeping. The brain is designed for both activity and relaxation, he says. “The brain is made to go into a less active state, which we might think is wasteful; but probably memory consolidation, and transferring information into memory takes place in this state. Theories of how memory works explain why these two different states are needed. “When we max out our active states with technology equipment, just because we can, we remove from the brain part of the processing, and it can’t work.” *David Callahan* *Want to know more about information overload and its implications on the human brain? **Check out Crosstalks TV <http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/>. * Erik Fransén’s ongoing work includes research on the link between disease and properties of nerve cells (ion channels). The project is a collaboration with Stockholm Brain Institute <http://stockholmbrain.se/> and a clinical consortium led by Martin Schmelz <http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/izn/researchgroups/schmelz/>, from the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg. Learn about the computational modelling <http://www.csc.kth.se/~erikf/Ion%20channels%20HighRes.pdf>Fransén is contributing to the study: ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

6 months, 2 weeks

last night we started our learning module ... initial wiki set up!

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/LearningToLearn hey mr. maroukis (sorry I'm bad with names) - I set up a wiki. I'm swamped right now but will find a way to do online as well in the coming months! I am not against software learning and edtech, but I find that overreliance on this stuff leads to people promoting a company or start-up, plus were trying to incorporate creative analog learning as well. But we can have segments that are just on laptop learning as well. https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1798058428344177059 ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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