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by Praveen Sinha

For anyone out there that is into programming but feels not confident to find good work in it, read this essay it's actually really on the dot: http://okepi.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/how-to-become-a-programmer-or-the-art…

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(No Subject)

by refugia

I apologize for feeding the troll, twas bad nettiquite in lak'ech

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URGENT: help finish state taxes

by april glaser

Hi all, We started working on the state tax exemption form, because the federal 501c3 is way less urgent. We need to send in our state info by Nov 6. Wrote it all out for clarity. There are two roles that need to be filled, one organizing our fundraising data and one bottom lining the copyedit and final review. *PLEASE STEP UP & HELP OUT :)* I'd also love some help researching amendments and updating them. The state taxes form attached is for reference. Feel free to also reference our … [View More]

10 years, 10 months

Sunday Yoga at the Omni future schedules

by Noemie Serfaty

Hello all! Just a heads up that the yoga class will have slight schedule variations: Tomorrow, it will be at 7pm because i'll be at the Occupy Oakland Meeting for the pre Mayoral Election gathering. In the rest of November: Yoga will be from 4:30 pm to 6 pm In December, It will be from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. Thanks for your understanding! <3 Noémie -- Noémie Serfaty 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris Tel: 06 27 76 88 84 Tel: 01 71 50 51 82 noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com

10 years, 10 months

Stuff from China?

by Mitch Altman

Greetings from Beijing! I'm buying a bunch of stuff from China for Noisebridge to bring home (since lots of stuff is way cheaper here). I'm happy to buy stuff for Sudo Room, too, if you add it to the list on the wiki page I set up : https://noisebridge.net/wiki/ChinaShoppingList Best, Mitch.

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History is past. Let's celebrate the future.

by Lesley Bell

Hey all, As I said before, due to the violent, dreadful, oppressive history of our primate species, all mention of DDM has been dropped from the event description <https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2014/11/01_Transhuman_Masquerade_Ball> and flyer out of respect for those who object. Death sucks, losing people sucks, and it's awesome that it's 2014 and we're the closest we've ever been to figuring out the solution to humanity's biggest problem. That's the point of the event, and my … [View More]

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: Subject: Re: Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

by yar

From: refugia <refugia(a)zoho.com> > The time you put into these emails are your own choice. The sudolist is much > larger than sudo's membership. I'm not sure who either of you are. I don't > see you at sudo. I don't sympathize with your or Sonya's perspectives but > you are probably both well interventioned. Sniping on burner's cultural > appropriate of indigenous culture is bit too easy and those types of > discussions are best had in person if your intent is not … [View More]malicious. People > get defensive and close off if they think they are being called out as > racist. I disagree with a couple of your premises. I think naming cultural appropriation is an important job to be done, even more important than cleaning the toilets or emptying the trash bins. It's not easy, it's hard. It's socially risky. And speaking our truths is so important, it doesn't often feel like a simple choice. > If your intent is to be politically correct in your speech don't use the > terms hispanic or latino, especially when talking to strangers. In the > liberal lexicon they are vague racial-cultural. Just say spanish speaking, > if that's what you mean and won't confuse people further. People are > confused on their own. You know what else you probably shouldn't do when talking to strangers you don't know? Lecturing them about THEIR identity politics. Especially when they've made it pretty clear how they feel on the subject, and asked not to be contacted off-list. > The terms latino and hispanic are used to erase peoples indigenous identity. > I think that sort language and the obfuscating conception of race are much > more damaging than white people painting skeletons on their face or making > altars. Call first nation peoples by their actual names. Don't lump them all > together. It's a habit that americans should stop, especially if they regard > themselves as some sort of radical. > > The holiday is a derivative of the Nahua holiday. Speaking spanish doesn't > give one special dibs on venerating their dead. In Mexico it's been > appropriated by mexicans broadly, by non-Nahuatl speaking indigenous > peoples, mesitizos and white mexicans. In mexico it's a constructed national > holiday (like american halloween) with a multitude of local variations. You > don't get this sort of exclusionary discourse about who can participate in > the holiday in Mexico but you do see criticism of Halloween elements being > included in dia de los muertos. In the post-revolution era there was a > campaign to invent a national identity in a huge and extremely diverse > territory. The sugar skulls used in dias in other part of Abya Yala are > post-colonial. Sugar aint from here:) Patrick, I think of all the things in your email, this bothers me the most. It seems like you're responding to an argument about power and turning it into an argument about authenticity. Claiming a cultural marker has very little to do with what is or isn't "pre-colonial" - it has everything to do with the power relationships involved. The part about sugar not being native to the Americas is especially problematic, given the role sugar played in colonization, slavery, genocide, and construction of the racial categories that still give white people disproportionate wealth and power today. > There are other related versions of the holiday not related to the Nahuah, > Guede, Finados. All souls day is a european christian holiday which is part > of many the of the modern syncretic versions of the holiday. Most > traditional cultures on all continents have a similar holiday around this > time year. Misses the point. It's about power, not authenticity. > What does it mean to establish consent with another culture, consent to > participate in ceremony? There real tensions in between the ideas of the > free culture movement and left wing attempts at non-colonial intercultural > relations y understanding. On that, we agree. There certainly are. Personally, I think it illustrates the limits of "freedom" as a concept, which is one of the many reasons I am not a liberal, a neoliberal or a libertarian. > Anywhoo the only event happening at the omni is a Haitian dance performance. > There was no proposal for the event at a sudo or omni meeting. It's not > worth spending that much time writing emails. *says it's not worth time writing emails* *writes a long email* [View Less]

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

by Hep Svadja

Bringing this back to the list because, as per usual I do not enjoy being contacted offlist and berated about my culture, or berated about white people's entitlement to my culture. This is a problem. -hep On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm from the east coast, Philadelphia. Philadelphia is 45,45,10 black, > white, Hispanic (mostly Puerto Rican) + Asian (Cambodian, Vietnamese, > Filipino, Korean and Chinese). As you can maybe … [View More]imagine, day of the dead is > really not a thing in Philadlephia. When I lived there, I never went to a > DD party, or even really had heard of it. > > Here, in the bay, the racial/ethnic distribution is way different. I never > meet Puerto Ricans any more, and there are way fewer blacks. There are more > Asians and Hispanics. Not only is the current Hispanic population here > bigger, this area was settled by Spanish soldiers (unlike Philadelphia, > settled by Dutch and English mostly. Also some Germans). The Spanish > settler influence is all over - in names, in the types of old buildings. > The white people I meet here are Way more likely to speak Spanish than the > people I grew up with. the white people I meet here know more about Mexico > and Central America than the ppl back east. The point is, California is a > way more Hispanic part of the US overall than anywhere I lived before. > > Therefore, it is not surprising at all to see way more DD. Moreover, it > doesn't seem strange to me that people who live near each other > would celebrate the same holidays. The thing that makes many Hispanics > celebrate day of the dead (seeing Hispanics celebrate day of the dead) also > makes white people celebrate day of the dead. > Put another way, is it weird to you how many atheists and non-Christians > in America celebrate Christmas? Probably not - you can see that at on > December 25th, Christmas is just the thing to do. > When you see white people celebrating DD here, it's not because they want > to steal your holiday, it's because your culture is pervasive here. > Does that make sense? > > > > On Friday, October 24, 2014, Hep Svadja <hepkitten(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi guys: >> >> a little bothered by the cultural appropriation of this event. as a Bay >> Area Hispanic I find it quite strange when groups of mostly white people >> with no ties to the actual culture of ddlm host events not in the actual >> spirit of this extremely reverent Hispanic holiday. basically if you don't >> build an ofrenda on your ancestors' graves every year i find it really >> problematic to be jumping aboard this holiday as you are clearly not of >> this culture. using it as an excuse for a dance party is even more >> questionable as is encouraging people with no understanding of this >> cultural holiday to dress up, which i understand is for the best of reasons >> but also pretty exploitative of a culture you don't belong to. what is >> wrong with just making this a Halloween party and not contributing to the >> ongoing exploitation of local Hispanic communities of color? >> >> -hep >> >> * edited this to be less of a jerk. >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:54 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Lesley Bell <zvezdalune(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hello! >>> > >>> > The Omni needs funds. Dia de los Muertos is a thing. We would like to >>> > introduce new people to the space and expand our community. >>> > >>> > I have attached a flyer for a possible event, a funky >>> transhumanist/Dia de >>> > los Muertos themed costume ball. Should this happen? Is there a reason >>> > anyone would like to block? >>> > >>> > Also, steampunk zombies! Mechanical corpses! Post-singularity glittery >>> > things covered in LEDs! Ordinary awesome humans! >>> >>> Looks fun! Right now the way to book events is: >>> >>> 1) check the calendar for conflicts: >>> https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Calendar >>> >>> 2) submit this form: bit.ly/omniballroom >>> >>> Full explanation and future changes to the process will go here: >>> https://omnicommons.org/wiki/How_to_book_events >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> HEPIC PHOTOGRAPHY >> 415 867 9472 || http://hepic.net >> > -- HEPIC PHOTOGRAPHY 415 867 9472 || http://hepic.net [View Less]

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Fwd: Subject: Re: Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

by Hep Svadja

Yet another white person (assuming) steps forth to tell me how to display and refer to my own culture. Massively awkward when white people try and educate hispanic and/or latino people on how to self-identify. Ironically I use hispanic and latino because most white people don't understand what chicano means. Also as someone who is 1/4 Jicarilla Apache, I also do not need a lesson on First Nations identification either. -Hep ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: refugia <refugia(a)… [View More]zoho.com> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM Subject: Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening? To: hepkitten(a)gmail.com The time you put into these emails are your own choice. The sudolist is much larger than sudo's membership. I'm not sure who either of you are. I don't see you at sudo. I don't sympathize with your or Sonya's perspectives but you are probably both well interventioned. Sniping on burner's cultural appropriate of indigenous culture is bit too easy and those types of discussions are best had in person if your intent is not malicious. People get defensive and close off if they think they are being called out as racist. If your intent is to be politically correct in your speech don't use the terms hispanic or latino, especially when talking to strangers. In the liberal lexicon they are vague racial-cultural. Just say spanish speaking, if that's what you mean and won't confuse people further. People are confused on their own. The terms latino and hispanic are used to erase peoples indigenous identity. I think that sort language and the obfuscating conception of race are much more damaging than white people painting skeletons on their face or making altars. Call first nation peoples by their actual names. Don't lump them all together. It's a habit that americans should stop, especially if they regard themselves as some sort of radical. The holiday is a derivative of the Nahua holiday. Speaking spanish doesn't give one special dibs on venerating their dead. In Mexico it's been appropriated by mexicans broadly, by non-Nahuatl speaking indigenous peoples, mesitizos and white mexicans. In mexico it's a constructed national holiday (like american halloween) with a multitude of local variations. You don't get this sort of exclusionary discourse about who can participate in the holiday in Mexico but you do see criticism of Halloween elements being included in dia de los muertos. In the post-revolution era there was a campaign to invent a national identity in a huge and extremely diverse territory. The sugar skulls used in dias in other part of Abya Yala are post-colonial. Sugar aint from here:) There are other related versions of the holiday not related to the Nahuah, Guede, Finados. All souls day is a european christian holiday which is part of many the of the modern syncretic versions of the holiday. Most traditional cultures on all continents have a similar holiday around this time year. What does it mean to establish consent with another culture, consent to participate in ceremony? There real tensions in between the ideas of the free culture movement and left wing attempts at non-colonial intercultural relations y understanding. Anywhoo the only event happening at the omni is a Haitian dance performance. There was no proposal for the event at a sudo or omni meeting. It's not worth spending that much time writing emails. Saludos, Patrick -- HEPIC PHOTOGRAPHY 415 867 9472 || http://hepic.net [View Less]

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"Do you think Google will find a cure for cancer?"

by Vicky Knox

This is a poll question the KTLA website seems to find interesting and/or important. I've attached a screen grab, which includes their suggested timelines. Internet anthropology!

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