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Art Bison Design Coop to co-occupy the front hall

by robb

The following proposal came up at the last delegates meeting, in short: ABDC - "would like to expand our operation to include both the ticket booth, and half of the front hall. We will continue to pay $400 for the ticket booth room and would like to pay another $400 for the front hall for a total of $800 a month. We would like to begin build-out of the space from May 1 through June 1 rent free so we can focus funds on the cost of execution." the whole proposal <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l9Em9NULIyGa7i7nTFaKmT3av38w68lRzcxXmYp…>

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cartoon interviews after 5 minutes of fame...

by Romy Ilano

Hey noffle, marc, saito group, counter culture labs folks... lots of y'alls. I had so much fun at the five minutes of fame! I was thinking of doing a 5 minutes interview comic and posting it on our blog. I would love to chat with someone you. Is anyone up for it? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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need another fire extinguisher

by robb

a fire extinguisher was discharged in the basement this evening around 6pm. the boys from down the street were in the ballroom with the women making banners & i told the boys to leave. the women making banners thought that i should have found a better solution that kicking them out. the front door was propped open & nobody was watching it.

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unop.press and unsup.press up for grabs

by Marc Juul

I have two domains that are expiring and watned to check in anyone wants them before I let them go. * unop.press * unsup.press You'd have to pay the .press domain renewal fee. -- marc/juul

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Sean/Shaun Fantahun banned

by Marc Juul

Sean/Shaun Fantahun (unsure of first name spelling) was banned yesterday from sudo room (and thus Omni) for attempting to hit a member who told him nicely that he has to come to a sudo room meeting to discuss his recent problematic behavior. He has not yet been consensus-banned but I'm sure that will happen at the next sudo room or Omni meeting. -- marc/juul

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sudo synthesizer

by Jake

i'm so glad you're into synthesizers! when i first started hosting Hardware Hacking Tuesdays I was trying to put together some kit designs for a sudosynth, using parts we had tons of just laying around. here's a video of a prototype that plays tunes with input from an old ROM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8FTkc_NgY this might be a version of it that hasn't been finished: https://github.com/sudoroom/oscillator-design i'll be out of town for a couple of weeks but you should come to HHT every week and maybe we can make a synth board that people can build. -jake On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Corey Johns wrote: > hi y'all, you may have seen me around the space this past week. > > It's a cool place! As there is a small snafu on the membership form, I'm declaring my intent to join here: > > I'm Corey (he/him) && > > I want to be a member because I value and want to support a space that is open, inclusive, and gives people the tools to make cool things! && > > I'm wanting to get into synthesizer design and other DIY electronics, I have a decent background in EE but just picked up my first synth at the awesome swap meet a few weeks back. Would also like to get involved with projects that deal with transparency, collaboration, or education && > > I earn my living writing javascripts and css, happy to pass on those skills to those willing to learn. Also hope to contribute to projects in need of front end development && > > I have not had troubles at other hackerspaces :-) > > ++ > > happy to answer questions in #sudoroom (nick: mu) or in person, thanks! > > — > > Corey | @stackptr

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Declaration of Intent to Join

by Corey Johns

hi y'all, you may have seen me around the space this past week. It's a cool place! As there is a small snafu on the membership form, I'm declaring my intent to join here: I'm Corey (he/him) && I want to be a member because I value and want to support a space that is open, inclusive, and gives people the tools to make cool things! && I'm wanting to get into synthesizer design and other DIY electronics, I have a decent background in EE but just picked up my first synth at the awesome swap meet a few weeks back. Would also like to get involved with projects that deal with transparency, collaboration, or education && I earn my living writing javascripts and css, happy to pass on those skills to those willing to learn. Also hope to contribute to projects in need of front end development && I have not had troubles at other hackerspaces :-) ++ happy to answer questions in #sudoroom (nick: mu) or in person, thanks! — Corey | @stackptr

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robot dead

by Jake

this afternoon apparently someone used the robot in sudoroom and while they were using it, one of the motor driver circuits burned out. tonight the other Jake and I worked on it to try to figure out where the smoke was coming out, and we couldn't figure it out but we are going to order a replacement part for another motor driver circuit that has a known bad part, and hopefully that will fix that one and we can swap it in. in the meantime the robot cannot be moved from its present position, sorry. if anyone knows what happened I would appreciate knowing more than just "someone broke the robot and didn't want to tell anyone" thank you -jake

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Fwd: [manylabs-workspace] Build a Biodigester Competition

by Cere Davis

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Daniel Enking" <daniel(a)everflux.tech> Date: Feb 28, 2017 11:24 PM Subject: [manylabs-workspace] Build a Biodigester Competition To: "manylabs-workspace" <manylabs-workspace(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: > Hey everyone, > > As you follow-on to the EBMUD anaerobic digester tour, I'm hosting a competition for teams to design and build mini-anaerobic digesters. The Kick-off event will be next Thursday at Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, and there will be a hackathon/ build weekend at Manylabs at the end of March. > > Please spread the word and join in if you're interested! More details below: > > > Build a Biodigester Competition > By Everflux Technologies (www.everflux.tech) > > Grand prize: $400 cash > > With common supplies and equipment that you can find at your local hardware store, anyone can build their own biodigester to produce biogas for cooking and heating from organic waste! > > But what is the most efficient and cost effective design that will maximize output, conserve space and save time? That's what we hope YOU will discover with the Build a Biodigester Competition. > > Teams of 2-4 people will have 3 weeks to design and gather supplies to build a small biodigester. Then everyone will come together for a hackathon-style weekend, March 31-April 2, to build their biodigesters. > > Register your team here: https://goo.gl/forms/RDIB3Pyy5UhHfKO22 > > Please RSVP for the Kick-off event here: https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237024807/ > > Note: you do not have to attend the Kick-off event to participate, however attendees will learn some key tips and tricks for building the best biodigester and meeting the competition guidelines. You will also have an opportunity to ask questions about the judging criteria, and get ideas for biodigester designs and materials considerations. You don't want to miss this! > > See you there, > > Daniel Enking, Founder & CEO > C: 510-969-9207 www.everflux.tech > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "manylabs-workspace" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to manylabs-workspace+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to manylabs-workspace(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/manylabs-workspace/CAA%3Df41f3stQ1G%2Bt7i… . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCLmembers] New Project Nano-materials

by Leticia Menchaca

Hi, I am requesting your input on this idea since I have no experience working in a collective way. I want to build a Magnetron Sputtering Vacuum Deposition System to produce thin films, ultra thin films, and nanoparticles. I am interested in working at the interface of materials science and bioengineering. My particular interest is exploring nano-materials for enhanced raman spectra signaling - including bio-engineering for enhanced fluorescence-emf detection. However, other subjects also interest me, such as the toxic effects of micro and nano-materials and how these materials interact with organisms, cells and biological processes in general. Building a thin film deposition system is a challenge but can be extremely interesting. This kind of equipment is very costly and only some very lucky people have access to learning how they are built and how they operate. This is because the magnetron sputtering chambers are used in the private industry only by trained and skilled personnel. In universities and technical colleges, only experts and selected talented students get access to these machines while working on their thesis projects. In YouTube I have watched people building their own vacuum chambers, rather crude, o.k. for hobby but not likely to work for producing nano-materials with real-life applications (sorry for being so critical). I am contemplating working on building a system using your Collective model. However, I have never worked in an open group setting and I wonder if this would be a realistic expectation and if there would be any interest at all! Although I am not alone. There are five of us in my group, we are people with similar interests living and working in Berkeley with limited free time to work on our own projects, since we have day jobs at UCB. Only one of us has actually built such equipment before. The rest in our group only have used the equipment and/or has worked on experiments using nano-materials, mainly plants. I look forward to your input. Thanks, Leticia Menchaca

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Come to 5 minutes of fame tomorrow at sudo room!

by Marc Juul

Tomorrow is the *first* in a series of monthly events at the sudo room hacker space in Oakland! *Ten* humans are given *five* minutes to present a project they're currently working on! No long boring lectures. Five minutes and the mic cuts out. Come be entertained and intrigued by a varied selection of hackery greatness from the bay and beyond! *When: Wednesday March 1st. 7 pm until 9:30 pm* followed by socializing until late. *Where:* *Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland.* In the ballroom. Bring snacks if you have them! *Tentative schedule of talks: *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-03-01 and yes we totally copied this format from noisebridge :) If you can help set up beforehand then please let me know at marc(a)juul.io -- marc/juul

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Tuesday Hardware night == planning for Wednesday's 5 minutes of fame?

by Romy Mimi Ilano

Hey I am thinking about dropping by SudoRoom for hardware hack night - but this is also a great time to do light planning for 5 minutes of fame as well, right? *Romy Mimi Ilano* *romy.ilano(a)gmail.com <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com>* *http://www.romyilano.com <http://www.romyilano.com>* +1 (415) 779-6237 skype: romy.ilano

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Blackboard on wheels

by Marc Juul

For sale for $100 at creative reuse. I'll plop down $25. Can i get three other sudoers who want us to have a blackboard?

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spot welder

by Cere Davis

Hey Sudoers, I’m lacking experience on spot welders and would like some feedback on how much power I would need to spot weld a steel clothes hanger (for example) to itself? Do you suppose this much power would work? http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-Pulse-Sparkle-Spot-Welder-Gold-Silver-Platinum… Looking for something that is set up to have a handpiece. Thanks, -Cere -- Cere Davis CereDavis.com @ceremona <http://Twitter.com/Ceremona> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6

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DLP Projector?

by Morgan Allen

I'm looking for a DLP projector to try improving on making circuit boards with photolithography. Anyone have one they'd donate/lend? -- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: OpenPGP.js v.1.20121007 Comment: http://openpgpjs.org xsBNBFG3btUBB/9+/WJNOSIuc/praKPaPOweqXV5s7PGRD+HAnNWF/19YAY3 AFtfeoelhhY4sMJoobTaJzcZojznZ1kl/7UuuYCnbJO3Z9kaSMVrVxEZMSLe YmW8Hc4ZsTnl9f05DQFy8ABpAvMLmXJQXh63BbfzjFqNbSWQfLhrubSM2Elq xmN6EsmRyAuEeYlSnal+Di2MlViohpCbbagE2D6AZTUECIamTib6+DuLG4XO b4GGKHR9TXu2qS1VH6hqcvdEz2MDE5OqZzAnBgcF2dvcOdTk9gAOoR1T+qKj IJtg2X0ETbxcPqEXQoXE8VrxN0MLT5JQKTg26+csU4P2w0rEWsUsJombABEB AAHNJU1vcmdhbiBBbGxlbiA8bW9yZ2FucmFsbGVuQGdtYWlsLmNvbT7CwFwE EAECABAFAlG3btwJEG9pFLKaVEfeAAD7hwf+K8LN/kfgi8GTRLiTcuM+hSbm uAeiBY+VaJIQFLzoFlt8A0hBlLNPFNNmUDxdPrMErdHgZ7HtJW/6RANuBTti 5hr3EBguH1GQyK7BbUqJGvaEX4UNRej3uyX3ufXDsIB/3NsKaTyyu+SO0+Hv Cn2DwmlfSXcPhoarx6Turizn/WwgtTN3tqrMWxxiCKWydLH5xYuz+23BLMdc oF/zkbF+7ddFhmyfiFh4Ej9//tsfwPj2cACU3uLTrcwCo7IxUtkrqMF/fhlm LEqjhzDDjq9v7GNWb/5xB2xgTaucJ7/ljuS8nPlZqwCI8NlTgSqC8nyVLyjS yVtOzkItcS0UqyW1Mg== =V/Ia -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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spot welders

by Cere Davis

Hey sudoers -- Cere Davis CereDavis.com @ceremona <http://Twitter.com/Ceremona> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GPG Key: http://taffy.findpage.com/~cere/pubkey.asc GPG fingerprint (ID# 73FCA9E6) : F5C7 627B ECBE C735 117B 2278 9A95 4C88 73FC A9E6

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Fwd: Milo and the Mainstream | Jacobin

by Romy Ilano

Hey 👋🏿 I don't usually forward stuff but this is a good read from Jacobin. Sometimes I feel like we get muzzled since we are accused of being politically correct. Interesting thoughts ! Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Romy Ilano <romy.ilano(a)gmail.com> > Date: February 24, 2017 at 12:47:56 PM PST > To: Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> > Subject: Milo and the Mainstream | Jacobin > > > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-conservatives-alt… > > Milo and the Mainstream > Milo Yiannopoulos was no “alt-right” deviation for CPAC — the conference has long been a cesspool of reaction. > > by Branko Marcetic > > Milo Yiannopoulos in 2013. LeWeb Photos / Flickr > > The next issue of Jacobin, “Journey to the Dark Side,” is out now. Subscribe for the first time at a discount. > > The Right is in a bit of a bind. After spending months attacking the “intolerant left” for purportedly abridging right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos’s right to free speech, the American Conservative Union has now disinvited him from its annual CPAC conference because of a video dredged up that appears to show him defending sex between grown men and thirteen-year-old boys. > > “We continue to believe that CPAC is a constructive forum for controversies and disagreements among conservatives,” ACU President Matt Schlapp said. “However there is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children.” > > A day later, asked about his position on the “alt-right” more broadly — the loose coalition of white supremacists, misogynists, and others that has gained prominence since Donald Trump’s ascent — Schlapp clarified that “racism has no voice within the conservative movement,” and that the alt-right doesn’t “have anything to do with the conservative movement.” “We won’t endorse it, and we won’t rationalize it,” he concluded. > > Just today, ACU executive director Dan Schneider told attendees the alt-right was “trying to worm its way into our ranks” and, jumping on a familiar right-wing talking point, warned that it was a “hateful left-wing fascist group.” > > But racism and the “alt-right,” of course, have a lot to do with the conservative movement, and they are far from left wing. Over the years, Schlapp’s own organization and CPAC have often played host to conservative figures who are either part of the “alt-right” or hold beliefs that overlap considerably with the racist movement. > > Looking at some of the worst offenders in recent years not only gives the lie to Schlapp’s defense, but lays bare a conservative movement where the odious and the mainstream are often indistinguishable. > > 1. Rush Limbaugh > > Rush Limbaugh’s well-honed shtick was the forerunner to Milo’s act. Limbaugh spent decades spewing obnoxious, deliberately offensive material over the airways to irk liberals and leftists and rile up an excited GOP base. > > But while much of Limbaugh’s material tends to the kind of provocative, anti-left shock-jockery meant to get conservatives nodding in agreement, he’s also trafficked into numerous ugly sentiments that in theory should be deplorable to “mainstream” conservatives like Schlapp and Schneider, who disavow racism. > > There was the time Limbaugh said the NFL “all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.” Or the time he charged that “all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson.” Or when he told a caller to “take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” Or when he said the NAACP “should have a riot rehearsal” and “practice robberies” on liquor stores, said women are worse at multiple choice tests because the Biblical Eve chose “multiple orgasms” instead, and professed that he didn’t “give a hoot that [Columbus] gave some Indians a disease that they didn’t have immunity against.” > > He suggested that white college students who “see a couple of black boys dressed in baggy clothes with their hats on backwards swaggering toward them” have a right to “fear that they’re going to be shot in the face for their ATM cards.” > > For some on the Right, Limbaugh took it a step too far when he played a “parody” song in 2007 titled “Barack the Magic Negro,” featuring an Al Sharpton impersonator singing “humorous” lyrics to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Various Republicans fell over themselves to condemn the song when an RNC chair candidate circulated it a year later, with Newt Gingrich — Newt Gingrich! — saying “it should disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would use it.” > > For the ACU, however, using it apparently qualified Limbaugh to give the keynote address at CPAC 2009, one met with a rapturous crowd reaction. > > 2. Tony Perkins > > What do you do about a man who once spoke to a racist group that opposed “all efforts to mix the races of mankind,” tried to use former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke’s phone bank for a Senate campaign, believes and peddles the idea that homosexuality and pedophilia are related, and heads what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an anti-LGBT hate group? Why, invite him to speak at your political conference multiple times over the years of course. > > Perkins is in many ways par for the course for the conservative movement: his organization, the Family Research Council, promotes gay conversion therapy, opposes allowing gays and lesbians in the military, and supports anti-LGBT discrimination. He’s lambasted an anti-bullying campaign as “disgusting” and supported legislation in Uganda that would imprison gay people for life or even execute them on the basis that it would “uphold moral conduct.” > > More recently, Perkins has somewhat broadened his horizons by dabbling in Islamophobia, claiming that “only 16 percent of Islam is a religion,” warning that Americans could “lose our identity in the shadow of multiculturalism,” and crying crocodile tears over last year’s awful murder of gay nightclub-goers in Orlando by a Muslim man. > > 3. Frank Gaffney > > Think of just about any kooky, racist, anti-Muslim conspiracy theory over the past few years and you can probably trace it back to Frank Gaffney and his think tank, the Center for Security Policy. > > Obama a secret Muslim? Check. Clinton aide Huma Abedin working for the Muslim Brotherhood? You betcha. American government and society being infiltrated by a fifth column of Muslims and slowly coming under the sway of Sharia Law? Do you even have to ask? Gaffney’s imaginary network of secret Muslim agents extends to encompass Keith Ellison, David Petraeus, Obama Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan, right-wing anti-tax campaigner Grover Norquist, and many others. > > Not surprisingly, Gaffney has links to the same “alt-right” that CPAC now purportedly opposes. He hosted white supremacist Jarod Taylor on his radio show in 2015, and attended two events organized by the Breitbart News focusing on the danger of radical Islam and government cronyism. (Conservative luminaries like Newt Gingrich and former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey were also attendees.) > > The ACU did stop inviting Gaffney to CPAC at the start of this decade — not because of his conspiracy mongering, but because of his increasing attacks on fellow conservatives — which culminated in his accusation that conservative movement was being infiltrated by, who else, the Muslim Brotherhood, a charge partly based on the fact that Norquist’s wife is Muslim. > > But time heals all wounds. Gaffney returned as a speaker in 2012, and he and the center were back in 2015 and had “an expanded presence in 2016.” “Although CPAC and the Center have had some differences in the past, this is no longer the case,” Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs Fred Fleitz wrote last year. Gaffney’s views are considered so pedestrian he was advising Ted Cruz during the Texas senator’s 2016 campaign. Gaffney’s back again this year, hosting a “CPAC Conversation” on “The Vulnerability of the Electric Grid.” > > 4. Phyllis Schlafly > > Schlafly was a regular speaker at CPAC, and there’s little doubt she would have been invited to speak at this year’s conference had she not died last year. > > Perhaps best known as the legendary conservative activist who led a successful effort to kill the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and 1980s, Schlafly was militantly antifeminist, preaching a vision of the world where men had careers and women stayed at home to enjoy a life of domestic bliss (a vision she herself never remotely ascribed to in practice). > > Conservatives outraged that Milo would seemingly offer a defense of pedophilia appeared to be less concerned when Schlafly white-washed marital rape in 2007, arguing that “by getting married, the woman has consented to sex.” A year later, she continued to defend the comments. She also accused the Violence Against Women Act of being a feminist scheme to win child custody more easily, mocked the idea that verbal abuse qualified as domestic violence, charged the “gay ideology” with being about an assault “on our fundamental right to free speech,” and asserted that sexual harassment wasn’t “a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.” > > None of this stopped CPAC from inviting Schlafly to speak year after year. > > 5. Pamela Geller > > Pamela Geller stands apart from most others on this list because she hasn’t been allowed to speak at CPAC for what she claims has been seven years. > > Geller exaggerates: she was part of a panel in 2012 titled “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department is Selling Us Out,” and in 2011, her film The Ground Zero Mosque: the Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks — which cast a proposed Islamic cultural center (with a public swimming pool and basketball court) two blocks away from the World Trade Center site as a “triumphal mosque” — was screened at CPAC. Before that, she was a regular at the conference. > > But Geller should have been persona non grata long before 2012. In various unhinged posts on her blog, she claimed the State Department was “being run by Islamic supremacists,” called Obama a “third worlder” who was “appeas[ing] his Islamic overlords,” and labeled him “President Jihad,” one who was “agitating Muslims against Jews.” > > According to her, Iranian-American author Reza Aslan is a “little wretched jihadist” and Grover Norquist a “stealth jihadist.” Besides vociferously opposing the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” she also attacked a Disneyland employee who sued the company because they wouldn’t let her wear a headscarf. > > Geller used her appearances at CPAC to spread the kind of hateful views that are the bread and butter of the “alt-right.” At CPAC 2009, she told the crowd that “Hitler was inspired by Muhammad” and brought along far-right Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders to speak to assembled conservatives. Wilders was greeted with a forty-second standing ovation, complete with chants of “We love Geert,” and received applause when he told the audience that “Islam is a threat to the West.” > > 6. Steve Bannon > > The most ludicrous aspect of Schlapp and Schneider’s supposed disavowal of the “alt-right” is that the ACU and CPAC have for years hosted some the most high-profile figures associated with the movement: namely, Steve Bannon and the team behind Breitbart. If Breitbart is the “platform for the alt-right,” as Bannon candidly admitted, then CPAC has served as the platform for that platform. > > Various editorial staff, including current editor-in-chief Alex Marlow and editor-at-large Joel Pollak, have spoken or taken part in panels at CPAC over the years. The website itself boasted in 2013 that it had a “tremendous presence” at that year’s conference, hosting a variety of panels, speeches, discussions, and even a movie screening. This year is no different, with Breitbart staff sprinkled throughout the schedule. > > Bannon, while less well known until a year or two ago, has been a fixture over the years, either in person, speaking, or through screenings of various films he’s directed. In 2015, he chaperoned Nigel Farage, the British right-wing populist, and former Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who was receiving a “First Amendment” award for homophobic comments he had made. Today, Schlapp is hosting a “conversation” with Bannon and Priebus, making his claim doubly ridiculous. > > Bannon’s toxic worldview involves an apocalyptic vision of a war between the “Judeo-Christian West” and the “Muslim world,” a vision often reflected in Breitbart headlines — and completely acceptable at CPAC. > > 7. Ann Coulter > > Where to start with Ann Coulter? In many ways, Coulter should be annoyed that Milo stole her gimmick. For the better part of two decades, Coulter has been the Right’s go-to provocateur, saying deliberately awful things to get a rise out of liberals and leftists, all barely masked in a semi-sarcastic, “just kidding” style that gives her the barest semblance of plausible deniability. > > The list of hateful, noxious remarks she’s uttered over the years could fill a book — in fact, they’ve filled several — but here is a brief greatest hits. She: > > Said “there ought to be a poll tax to take the literacy test before voting” because “way too many people vote.” > Stated that “few failures have been more spectacular” than court-ordered desegregation, with “illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell.” > Mocked the United States’s immigration policies, arguing America “welcomes” terrorists and lamenting that America is “so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory racial or ‘religious’ profiling.” > Urged the government to “invade [terrorists’] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” and implied that the United States should kill civilians as in the carpet-bombing of World War II. > Claimed that “all terrorists are Muslims.” > Said her “only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building,” later clarifying that she meant only when everyone but the reporters and editors had left the building. > Said “it would be a much better country if women did not vote.” > Complained that women shouldn’t be in the military because they’re not “able to carry even a medium-sized backpack.” > Complained that “the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.” > Said to applause, at CPAC 2006: “Our motto should be post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.’” > Accused 9/11 widows who called for an independent commission on the government’s failure to stop the attack of being “self-obsessed women” who were “enjoying their husbands’ deaths.” > Said that she and other Christians “just want Jews to be perfected” — in other words, converted. > Said Muslims should be banned from flying on airplanes and should take “flying carpets” or “a camel” instead. > It’s not as if Coulter has been some sort of fringe figure at CPAC. She’s been a major draw. The conference’s organizer told the Washington Examiner in 2015 that Coulter was consistently the most popular speaker among attendees, Coulter herself claimed she had been voted “best speaker” in previous years, and her books were bestsellers at the event. > > It wasn’t until 2015 that the ACU stopped sending Coulter invites to their yearly confab (not counting a brief hiatus after her “raghead” comments at CPAC 2006). > > CPAC’s Line > > So to recap, the things that will apparently get you disinvited from CPAC (after a number of years, anyway): > > Appearing to defend pedophilia > Attacking other conservatives > Promoting a particularly conspiratorial form of Islamophobia > Things that won’t get you disinvited from CPAC: > > Racism > Sexism > Islamophobia > Homophobia > Association with well-known racists and racist groups > Defending marital rape > Defending verbal abuse by a spouse > Advocating for war crimes > Calling for the murder of journalists > What’s more, while this list above may name some of the worst offenders, it doesn’t even begin to account for the likes of Islamophobic congressman Steve King, Black Lives Matter–hating sheriff David Clarke, anti-gay former senator Rick Santorum, disgraced former Reagan staffer Oliver North, and the many other reactionaries who are every year invited to speak to “mainstream” conservatives who applaud and cheer for them. > > Aside from Geller, none of the figures named here are considered particularly far outside of the mainstream in today’s conservative movement. And while the ACU has tried to clean house, the Milo disinvitation being the most recent and well-publicized instance, it’s clear CPAC has been and remains a platform for a variety of odious figures who are fortunate enough never to have been caught on tape appearing to defend pedophilia. > > The ACU presumably disinvited Milo because defending child molestation is considered so beyond the pale it would be obscene and/or damaging to give him a platform. What does it say that they don’t feel the same way about everything else on this list? > > Our next issue, “Journey to the Dark Side,” is out now. Subscribe today. > > If you like this article, please subscribe or donate. > > > > > > Google + > > > > Sent from my iPad

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [CCL] Re: phytoremediation talk Lara Reichmann update

by Cere Davis

Hi! I would also enjoy being interviewed about this subject. Also ccing sudoroom regarding this thread to see who would be interested. --- emailing from a cell @ceremona http://CereDavis.com On Feb 22, 2017 2:56 AM, "'Amber Olson' via Counter Culture Labs" < counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hey there! > Was wondering if any of you could help me out... I'm making a short > documentary for a class about what community means to people and I intend > to focus on the community that is at Omni Commons, its' collectives and the > goings on there. Since I'm still on the mailing list for Counter Culture > Labs, I figured this would be a good place to ask if you know any people > who might be interested in being interviewed. I came last Thursday hoping > to get subjects during a general assembly meeting, but I found no such > meeting taking place and very few people in the building. I did talk to > one person, but he wasn't a member of any of the collectives and it would > be nice to get some varied perspective. Thanks to all or any help in this > matter and please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions/concerns > regarding this. > With Appreciation, > Amber Olson > (831)566-8093 <(831)%20566-8093> > > > On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:56 PM, Leticia Menchaca < > lbmenchaca(a)berkeley.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi Patrik, > Lara has proposed > March 6th. > for her talk. > Can you check with everyone if this is o.k. and what time, room, etc.? > Thanks, > Leticia > > > > > > > > On 2/2/2017 6:15 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Leticia Menchaca <lbmenchaca(a)berkeley.edu> > wrote: > > > I finally heard back from the phytoremediation group and > Lara Reichman has accepted to give us a presentation > about phytoremediation. > It would have to be after February 20th > so maybe March. > > > Excellent! Could you ask her which days of the week would work best for > her? Weekday evenings starting at 7pm, or any time on the weekend. Her > schedule is likely more restrictive than hours, so let's try to get some > date penciled in as soon as possible. > > Thanks for organizing this! > > Patrik > > > > -- > Leticia B Menchaca Immigration Case Coordinator Tel: 510-643-8308 > <(510)%20643-8308> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Counter Culture Labs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to counterculturelabs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Counter Culture Labs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to counterculturelabs+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >

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Contribute to (social) science on diversity & meritocracy in tech

by J Graber

Spreading the word: My sociologist friend is looking for people in tech to interview for her dissertation (themes: diversity, meritocracy), her email is copied below if you're interested in contributing your story to this study, or know someone who might be. Cheers, Jay ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sigrid Luhr <sigridluhr(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:01 PM Subject: Dissertation Help To: Hello friends, As you probably know, I'm currently interviewing folks who work in the tech industry as part of my dissertation. After exhausting most of my own contacts, I'm reaching out to you. Do you know anyone who works in the industry in the Bay Area who might be willing to sit down for an interview with me? I'm casting a pretty wide net right now in terms of who I interview, so if you think someone might be a good fit for the study, they probably would be! Gere's a little blurb that I've been using to send out to potential respondents (feel free to copy and paste to send to friends you know): My name is Sigrid Luhr and I am a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. I am currently conducting interviews with tech workers living and working in the Bay Area as part of my dissertation research. Broadly, the project centers around diversity and narratives of meritocracy within the tech industry. If you are interested in taking part or have any questions about the study, please let me know. Interviews typically last an hour and mostly cover work experiences and perceptions of the tech industry. The interview itself can take place at a time and place most convenient to you (most take place in coffee shops). And, as is the case with most sociological research like this, I will never use your name or any identifying information in my dissertation or anywhere else. Please get in touch with me at sigridluhr(a)gmail.com or 301-655-8153 if you have any questions or are interested in participating. Thank you! -- Sigrid Luhr 301-655-8153 <%28301%29%20655-8153> sigridluhr(a)berkeley.edu

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front door brute forced open

by robb

the front door was open by operation of the smaller door being left ajar and the larger door being closed which caused the smaller door to stay open. upon inspection, i discovered that one of the bolts holding the vertical bar, that locks the smaller door closed, was missing & the vertical bar assembly was dangling loosly on it's other bolt. i rebolted the assembly back down but i think it may be time to install the lower bar on the smaller door, that goes into the floor to secure the door from the top & bottom. i've been told there's a place in emmeryville that sells commercial door parts. i'll try to find out where it is. ~r

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Fwd: [sudo-info] Know this about Python

by danarauz＠gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Nordeen <alex(a)guru99.co> Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [sudo-info] Know this about Python To: info(a)sudoroom.org Hi, Did you get my email below? Looking forward to your kind response. Regards Alex On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Alex Nordeen <alex(a)guru99.co> wrote: Good Morning, I am Alex Nordeen Editor at Guru99. Our Goal is to provide Fun and Free Education for ALL I was doing some research on Python and I came across your page *https://sudoroom.org/events/python-meetup/ <https://sudoroom.org/events/python-meetup/>* I want to highlight that we recently create tutorials on Python that took 160+ hours to create with beautifully annotated screenshot, and is very comprehensive. The tutorials are created by a Google veteran and I have personally edited them. The course covers - Python Basics like Introduction, Environment setup and Install Guide. - It also introduces Main Function, Variables, Strings, Tuple, Conditional Statements, OOP Concepts, and Loop. - We also touch on advanced topics like Regex Tutorial, OS Module, Shell Script Commands, and XML Parser. Do you feel it could be a good fit for your audience? Might be worth a mention :) *Here is the Link: **Python Tutorial <http://www.guru99.com/python-tutorials.html>* I'd love to know what you think! Sincerely, Alex Nordeen You may Unsubscribe <alex@guru99.co?subject=Unsubscribe%200000000081D7E45EB816FA41AD667ACE755FFD1124232200&body=Please%20don%27t%20change%20the%20subject%20of%20this%20message%20and%20make%20sure%20you%20send%20it%20from%20the%20address%20it%20was%20received%2E> to stop receiving our emails. _______________________________________________ Info mailing list Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info -- Daniel Signal: 415.336.9143 <https://whispersystems.org/> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Notes from last night's meeting... looking forward to 3/1! 5 minutes of fame

by Romy Ilano

https://sudoroom.org/wednesday-party-meeting-notes/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Radical Software - early experiments in television

by Romy Ilano

A nice video about Radical Software, a magazine and "tv hacker" movement from the 1970s. The print magazine, I learned about it reading an old copy at Sudoroom :) the first time I went here. Radical Software - early experiments in television https://youtu.be/hIXlB1CHmOQ - It's really cool how she talks about how they did their own version of show and tell, which is what we'd like our five minutes of fame to become. - The fresh way people viewed television is so refreshing, it's too bad what television later became. did television ever reach its potential? I read that when people made sesame street or educational tv they had this idealistic hope that tv could decentralized stuff and create this kind of futuristic utopia. Sort of like what happened to the internet. I'm going to dig further, it was also a video journal. Should we try to do a video journal? People were favoring podcasts at the meeting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Software "The video journal was begun with a questionnaire sent to a wide variety of interested people. The first issue was a creative editing of the answers to the questionnaire plus some additional special articles. The most outstanding element of *Radical Software* video journal was the style and emphasis used in editing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing>. The content itself was a call to pay attention to the way information itself is disseminated. And it was a call to encourage a grassroots <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots> involvement in creating an information environment exclusive of broadcast and corporate media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_media>. It became immediately important and popular as it grasped fully what a lot of people had been concerned with and thinking about; giving its introduction a synchronicity of the ideas of the day.[*citation needed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]" ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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5 minutes of fame sign-up

by Romy Ilano

Hey this is the sign-up sheet for the next 5 minutes of fame: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-02-22 So feel free to sign up! It would be good to promote each segment periodically the closer we get to the date. Did someone say that they were going to do a green screen? https://sudoroom.org/events/february-5-minutes-of-fame/ ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

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Fwd: Valentine's Workshop series tomorrow

by Patrik D'haeseleer

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:55 PM Subject: Valentine's Workshop series tomorrow To: "counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com" < counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com>, "cclmembers(a)googlegroups.com" < cclmembers(a)googlegroups.com>, CCL board <cultlabsboard(a)googlegroups.com> Come join us tomorrow 6-10pm for an evening full of Valentine's workshops with the mad scientists at Counter Culture Labs. And please help spread the word through your favorite social media platforms... Individual workshops are $10-15 each. Please sign up on Meetup through the links below: 6-7pm: Celebrate Spring with the Guerilla Grafters <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237467189/> 7-8pm: Build a Steampunk lamp <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237569620/> 7-8pm: Grow edible mushrooms <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237624863/> 8-9pm: DIY cosmetics <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237570032/> 9-10pm: Mad Science cocktails <https://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/237573051/> Patrik

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