This is an article I came across lately. Check it out. Here is an excerpt:
"For me, then, the "fake geek girls" meme doesn't so much call into
question the bona fides of the women in question as it calls into question
"geek culture"—real or otherwise. Eddin praises geeks for being wiling to
"challenge cultural norms"—but are you really challenging the norms of a
capitalist society when you define yourself by your relationship to the
crap you buy?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't love the art they love. But I am
suggesting that the mean-spiritedness of geek culture—a mean-spiritedness
that is often, but by no means always, directed at women—is not an
accident. A culture that values knowledge and access above all things is
going to be a culture dedicated to hierarchy and to power—to defining who
is in and who is out. Such defining involves, and is meant to involve, a
good deal of antagonism, score-settling, back-biting, and cruelty. There's
not much point in defining yourself as the knower if you cannot define
others as those who do not know."
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/fake-geek-girls-paranoia-i…
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hi everyone,
trying out the proposed meeting format that we discussed during the
hackathon this weekend at https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroom
please add items to it!
- marina
Hey Everyone,
I am doing a hacker movie on Friday for 48hour film festival. The
sub-genre of hacker film has yet to be decided, per the contest rules, but
we will be doing a hacker film no matter what... like all our other films.
:D
We could end up doing something in one of these sub-genres:
• Buddy Film
• Comedy
• Crime/Gangster
• Dark Comedy
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Horror
• Mistaken Identity
• Musical or Western
• Romance
• Sci Fi
• Superhero
• Thriller/Suspense
• Vacation or Holiday Film
You can meet us @ the hive(2141 Broadway upstairs in the common space) on
Friday night at 7pm. The event will go until 11:59pm that night, and then
we will resume shooting the next day at 8am until 11:59pm that night.
This is a great opportunity to learn production, post-production, writing,
directing and acting.
FACEBOOK EVENT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/454116534679627/
The finished film will be shown at the Clay theater in the city next
Thursday, June 6th at 7:00pm. The Clay Theater is located at 2261
Fillmore, SF.
Let me know if you're interested in being part of our team.
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Cheers,
Rusty
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Who's willing to help me cook for the meeting? I'm here and so is the
crockpot. I'm not so good at making smart cooking decisions, but
happy to help shop and chop!
Hi folks.
I'm trying to revive an old macintosh se and i need a 50-pin scsi drive.
Size shouldn't matter too much. Anyone have one lying around?
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Marc
OMG OMG OMG. Now there's no excuse for the West Bayers to not come to sudo! ;)
- Marina
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From: David Wild
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:02 PM
To: USStaff
Subject: FUN: Bikes on Bart!
Hi Cyclists or soon-to-be-cyclists,
Last week the Bart board of directors voted to lift the ban of bikes on Bart! Starting July 1, dust off your pedal-pushers and grab your helmet!: https://www.ebbc.org/bart
If you already bike to work because you live in SF--now we East Bayers can find out first-hand, why you are so happy all of the time!
If you have any bike-related questions (commuting routes, safety, mechanical issues, bike-buying quandaries, ideas on aerodynamic strategies, etc) please come to me!
Best,
David
PS
There is a bicycle repair station (very similar to http://daviswiki.org/Bicycle_Repair_Stations) right next to the Exploratorium across the street. It's on the south side of the building near the sidewalk. They have a pump, a stand with which to hold your bike, and tools that you can use for free to tinker! I can tell you more info if you like. This is awesome!
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REMINDER: Next meeting this Sunday at 4p! Screenwriters' meetup at 5p!
Let's all decide upon a name for the new list!!
Major props to Eddan for taking notes!
Reviving hackerspace passports out of SR has been a dream of mine! @Eddie:
Would you be down to do a Today I Learned on book binding? Maybe we could
incorporate the passports into a workshop as one of the projects people
could chose to work on?
I think we don't have to stop at the figure of a bear, though it would
serve nostalgia well. Is this turning into a conversation on building Sudo
Room's own multi-functional robot akin to Noisebridge's MC Hawking? For
reference: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noise-Bot
Yay,
Vicky
> Bonded phone lines come out of the wall, into the Sonic.net router
> Sonic.net router is connected by ethernet to:
Ugh I called it a router, when I meant modem. MODEM!
MOOOODEEEEEM
Please check out this video. I don't know if SR has the facilities and
skills to make and sell these "drops," but as the video shows, they have
some compelling attributes: They're inexpensive, easy to make, and
consumable, which gives them a financial "evergreen" trait. Not only that,
but there's plenty of silicon dioxide on the planet.
http://io9.com/meet-prince-ruperts-drop-its-about-to-blow-your-mind-4586935…
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Tony Barreca
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Twitter: tbarreca
Mobile: (510) 710-5864
