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educational kits from ewaste / donations ... inspiration from raft

by Romy Ilano

http://www.raftstore.net/index.php?route=product/search&filter_tag=Grade%20… my nerd friend kim is visiting... she used to volunteer at a non-profit called RAFT. They take donations of office supplies, e-waste from tech companies in the Bay Area and create low-cost kits sold to schools (teachers). these kits teach STEM skills (math, science, etc) in a fun and interesting way. they also weave art as well. --> this would be another potentially interesting, fun, honorable way for SudoRoom to acquire funds. similar to the electronics and biohacking DIY kits... many have children, many are teachers... we have patrick, who is into polymer clay teaching toys... we have hacking sexual health... throwing the idea out there.

12 years, 4 months

tamale opens the door again!

by William Budington

Friends! Let's all thank Jake for doing an awesome job getting the locking mechanism working again with our tamale raspi! Now we can get into the space without having a physical key. Ease of access is the first step in making sudoroom open to the hacker community at large. Thanks Jake!! Getting in: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Door_Access#Inside_Door Bill

12 years, 4 months

"Money and Life" Screening @ sudo room for First Fridays tonight at 8pm

by Matthew Senate

Join us at 2141 Broadway, entrance on 22nd St in downtown Oakland. Please share with your friends to enjoy wonderful refreshments and an awesome documentary! // Matt

12 years, 4 months

Sudoroom open Saturday morning

by Romy Snowyla

I'm here right now with Patrick I am happy when people are here early I'm the morning Thinking of putting a green light on the homepage so that its obvious to visitors we are here and they can buzz in Also Saturday after art murmur is officially an art gallery day for people with morning hours and kids etc Sent from my iPad

12 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] cuddling it

by Yardena Cohen

> "killing it" I don't work the kind of industry jobs where I'd ever meet people who use phrases like this to mean the things you're talking about, and while sometimes I complain about not making industry money, it's nice to be reminded of the upside. > 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? I'm sorry, I respect you Anthony, but someone mentioning AAVE really isn't the time to start meditating on the ideas of civilization and savage. It really isn't. I am still perplexed in my attempt to interpret that as anything other than racist, and the replies about hip-hop and "gangsters" aren't really helping me. Is it really necessary to remind some of you that the words "African American" include people in your own hacker/maker communities, rather than this bizarre dreamscape of philosophical Others? Really? > a bunch of nerds (conventionally thought of as white) are engaging in some kind > of outsider-critique of someone else's community (black). I'm sorry George, I respect you but I can come up with nothing but profanity in response to this sentence. I will try again in 24 hours.

12 years, 4 months

the "Liberator": 3D-printable CAD gun files

by Eddan Katz

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) ... 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. ...

12 years, 4 months

WHEN AN UNREGISTERED # calls

by Troy

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? "You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"

12 years, 4 months

ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

by Troy

ACS Green Chemistry Institute® The Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry* Prevention It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created. Atom Economy Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product. Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses Wherever practicable, synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment. Designing Safer Chemicals Chemical products should be designed to effect their desired function while minimizing their toxicity. Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries The use of auxiliary substances (e.g., solvents, separation agents, etc.) should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used. Design for Energy Efficiency Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized. If possible, synthetic methods should be conducted at ambient temperature and pressure. Use of Renewable Feedstocks A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever technically and economically practicable. Reduce Derivatives Unnecessary derivatization (use of blocking groups, protection/ deprotection, temporary modification of physical/chemical processes) should be minimized or avoided if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste. Catalysis Catalytic reagents (as selective as possible) are superior to stoichiometric reagents. Design for Degradation Chemical products should be designed so that at the end of their function they break down into innocuous degradation products and do not persist in the environment. Real-time analysis for Pollution Prevention Analytical methodologies need to be further developed to allow for real-time, in-process monitoring and control prior to the formation of hazardous substances. Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention Substances and the form of a substance used in a chemical process should be chosen to minimize the potential for chemical accidents, including releases, explosions, and fires. *Anastas, P. T.; Warner, J. C. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press: New York, 1998, p.30. By permission of Oxford University Press. "You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"

12 years, 4 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] cuddling it

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

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 ----- Reply message ----- From: "Anthony Di Franco" <di.franco(a)gmail.com> To: "GtwoG PublicOhOne" <g2g-public01(a)att.net> Cc: ",sudo-discuss" <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> 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 ___________________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.____org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.__sudoroom.org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/____listinfo/sudo-discuss <http://lists.sudoroom.org/__listinfo/sudo-discuss> <http://lists.sudoroom.org/__listinfo/sudo-discuss <http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss>> ___________________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.____org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.__sudoroom.org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/____listinfo/sudo-discuss <http://lists.sudoroom.org/__listinfo/sudo-discuss> <http://lists.sudoroom.org/__listinfo/sudo-discuss <http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss>> _________________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.__org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> http://lists.sudoroom.org/__listinfo/sudo-discuss <http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss> _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

12 years, 4 months

Hey writers!

by Vicky Knox

!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.

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