Hey everyone,
I'm Lily at Brainbot! We're making a wearable mindfulness device that
vibrates when you are stressed or distracted, using awareness of your
real-time HRV signals to help guide you back to a place of calm and focus.
We're based in San Francisco and working on our fourth prototype design.
We've raised some angel funding and in July we'll join HAX - a hardware
accelerator based in Shenzhen, China - for a three-month program to rapidly
prototype and go to production on our device. After the program we'll be
back in San Francisco to launch!
We're looking for a great hardware engineer to come along on the ride - we
offer a lower salary than Apple but substantially more equity for the right
person - and the chance to create something from scratch at the earliest
stage.
Send us an email at team(a)brainbot.me if this sounds like something you
might love to do.
We're particularly looking for some combination of the following
interests/skills/experience:
Arduino prototyping
Biosensors
Embedded systems
Digital signal processing
Rapid prototyping
Manufacturing
Soft goods and industrial design
PCB layout and design
Mindfulness or meditation practice
Thanks for reading. Let us know if you have any questions!
--Lily
Hi friends,
I'm writing to let you all know about an un/conference at Noisebridge on
June 29-30, Digital Rights in Libraries. You're all super invited, and
we also have a call for volunteers (keep reading)!
We've got some killer speakers lined up:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
For more info, please check our our press release and poster that I've
pasted below! Also, the Library Freedom Project has had some fun media
lately (here
<http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/?utm_source=local…>
and here <http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa>
and here
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/03/usa_freedom_act_before_s…>),
if you're curious.
Additionally and importantly, we could use a few technology trainers to
help with some of our open sandbox privacy tools sessions. We know a lot
of librarians want to build some skills, and so in these sessions we
were hoping to have ample technology trainers available to help
participants learn as much as possible.
The times we're looking for people to come by and help are:
Monday, June 29 @ 2-3
Monday, June 29 @ 4-5
Tuesday, June 30 @ 2:30-3:30
Tuesday, June 30 @ 5:30-6:30
Let me know if you might be available or have any questions. Also let me
know if you know someone else who might be interested. Or anything at all.
Peace. And thanks a million. <3 Oakland.
April
---
DRiL
*Librarians Convene With Leading Anti-Surveillance Advocates and
Technologists In San Francisco to Defend Digital Rights â June 29-30,
2015*
Librarians, technologists, and privacy activists and are gathering in
San Francisco on June 29-30 to strategize about initiatives to protect
reader privacy, reform digital lending, combat censorship, and champion
access to information technology in light of emerging concerns over
government surveillance, censorship, and other forms of electronic
exploitation of personal data.
The two-day event
<https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…>,
which will take place at San Francisco's iconic Noisebridge hackerspace,
falls directly after the American Library Association's Annual
Conference; it's also being held in San Francisco this year.
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, who are leading lawsuits challenging the legality
of the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, will
present, along with experts on copyright and the future of digital
lending from Creative Commons and the Internet Archive. Technologists
from the Freedom of the Press Foundation (where Edward Snowden is a
board member) and Mozilla will be onsite providing in-depth technology
training at the hackerspace. The event also features librarians from a
number of libraries, including the San Francisco and Oakland Public
Library systems, as well as Oakland-based Hack the Hood, speaking on the
challenges of providing access to technology and training for Bay Area
youth.
Librarians have long been working on the front lines of information
activism and their communities' right to research. Whether by providing
access to technology and the Internet, as well as free education, or by
standing firm for over a decade as staunch opponents of the USA PATRIOT
Act, librarians are at the grassroots of the Internet freedom debate and
are uniquely plugged into serving the information needs of local
communities, especially those that lack technological or financial
resources.
The conference is being organized by the Library Freedom Project, a
recent grantee from the Knight Foundation that is a partnership among
librarians, technologists, attorneys, and advocates to teach librarians
about surveillance threats, digital rights, and privacy-protecting
technology. The Nation Magazine recently featured
<http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa> the work
of the Library Freedom Project as a cover story.
Â
What: "Digital Rights in Libraries"
Date: June 29-30, 2015
Where: Noisebridge hackerspace, 2269 Mission Street; San Francisco
Website:
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/digital-rights-in-libraries/digital-right…
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__libraryfreedomproject.…>
Â
*Contact:*
Alison Macrina
alison(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:alison@libraryfreedomproject.org>
April Glaser
april(a)libraryfreedomproject.org <mailto:april@libraryfreedomproject.org>
--
0x54FC570B
Hi all,
My car was recently towed in Oakland. I've come to terms with letting it go if I must, hence I do not have the funds nor desire to pay their exhorbitant fees for extrortion.
My question is if anyone has gone through a similar situation in Oakland or California for that matter. Do you have any advice/best practices?
While I'm not necessarily concerned with my credit, I am concerned with my ability to eventually drive a car legally and staying out of jail.
Much love,
-Luis M.
"Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California omnicommons.org/donate?v=es"
I regularly see broken windshield glass on the sidewalks in Temescal.
Sounds like there are some thieves who systematically cruise the
neighborhood looking for anything they can grab out of parked cars - check
the eye witness report from one of our members below.
Temescal is a relatively up-and-coming neighborhood in Oakland, but you
really should not be leaving any valuables visible in your car *anywhere*
in the Bay Area...
I know the apartment building across the street had its security camera
trained on the Omni for a while. If you experience a car break-in, there's
a possibility the police may be able to use that tape to catch these
A-holes.
If you see anything suspicious (like in this case, a car driving up on the
wrong side of the road checking out parked cars), make sure to jot down a
license plate if you can...
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ken osborn <misterkenosborn(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Any new pics from fungal microscopy meetup?
To: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Hi Patrik - I went to the meetup and even brought a microscope, but as I
was unloading my car another drove up on the wrong side of the road and
opposite the car parked in front of me. Then what happened next was hard
to believe, but I then witnessed a smash-and-grab. It happened very fast
and was more than a bit confusion because at the same time that was
happening I was on the cell with my daughter and another call came in just
as the car drove up so I was paying attention completely until I heard the
sound of a window breaking, almost like a gun shot. I did not leave
immediately but went into the meetup interrupting Alan to let folks know
that they should make sure if they drove to the meetup and left anything
visible inside their car they should move it so it was not visible. What I
saw clearly demonstrated that these guys cruise looking for something they
can grab rapidly. They also are very brazen. This was in broad daylight
and I don't think they could have missed seeing me while I was on the
phone. While I was not about to put myself in harm's way to stop them I
did attempt to get the license number but by the time I got to the street
they were too far away for me to read the plate. I'm not sure if there is
a solution to this as a potential problem for attendance, but I may be
taking BART in the future. The problem with that is my wife freaked and
said it would be better to have the care damaged than her husband walking
alone at night in that part of town. Maybe. The other possibility is to
talk to the Oakland PD and see if they would have a patrol car in the area
on a regular basis. I have seen lots of broken glass in the street and now
recognize it as car break-ins that must be taking place more than
occasionally. - Ken
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How was the fungal microscopy meetup yesterday? Sorry I couldn't make it -
> woudl have loved to!
>
> We're putting together an article about CCL - possibly for TechCrunch or
> some guest blog post. - and I was wondering if there were any more cool
> pics that came out of the meetup yesterday, since it seemed like you had a
> good crowd signed up.
>
> If you have any on the "people having fun doing real work in the lab"
> category, and you wouldn't mind getting credited somewhere high-profile,
> let us know...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
--
Ken Osborn
Misterken Photography
Web: www.flickr.com/photos/misterken
Email: kozborn(a)sbcglobal.net
> Anyone got a spare 26-pin cable I could give you $ for? Need one for
> use with an extension board. Thanks.
you can use a ribbon cable for an IDE/PATA hard drive, or a floppy disk
drive, they have more than enough pins.
if there are too many pins you can just hacksaw off the extras. Just
don't cut too close to the last row you need - leave an extra full row
just to be safe. And then glue the cut end of the ribbon cable clip so it
doesn't pull off when you forget you cut it.
does anyone know how to edit the Support Us! thing on the left side of
http://sudoroom.org ?
i want to add support for a one-time donation through stripe. I am told
it is something like this:
https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-checkout
of course it would need to be a locked link, so nobody can change it and
redirect donations toward themselves.. and I don't know how access control
works.
I also don't know anything about how to actually install this function or
any function into a webpage. I have no idea what i'm doing.
does anyone reading this list know how to set up one-time donations on our
webpage? Can we do that now? Is there anything i can do to help?
thank you!
-jake
Tom: Sunday 1PM.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Mesh] Omni wifi installation party Sunday June 14th
To: Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk>
Sounds good! I'll see then! :)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:20 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like fun! -I could stop by for a few hours. When do we start? :)
>>
>
> How about 1 pm?
>
> --
> marc/juul
>
I updated the donate button on sudoroom.org so it now let's you do either a
one-time credit card donation + has a link to sudo-humans for recurring.
We should set up paypal as well if people want to give us that.
It would also be nice to have recurring payments without needing a
sudo-humans account. If anyone feels like adding that to the wordpress.
--
marc/juul
It's actually the base that used to hold our "huge" 36" CRT TV. That TV
weighed well over 200 pounds, and this handled it with ease.
There's a metal platform that the TV sat on. That platform can pivot 360
degrees around on a nice bearing. Then that entire platform is on heavy
duty drawer slides that let the whole thing slide back and forth about a
foot. That in turn is attached to a metal frame that was bolted to a shelf.
If anyone has a use for this thing, let me know and it is yours. Also if
you want more details or pictures, just email me and I will answer.
Have fun,
--
-steve
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Cere Misc <cere.misc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> But people do have possessions and would likely want to have storage space
>> for them...
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
> sudo room has lockers for rent!
I have a sudo locker and it's way more space than I need. I would love
to use a smaller locker for less money.
this is from 2013 but it's a cool piece my friend Adeola Enigbokan did on
gentrification and rising rents
do we have stuff like this at SudoRoom or the Omni?
http://archivingthecity.com/2013/09/15/the-renters-archive/
The Renters’ Archive Posted on September 15, 2013
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a new Archiving the
City intervention, called *“The Renters’ Archive”* based on my experiences
of renting apartments in Brooklyn over the past decade. This project was
commissioned by The Laundromat Project
<http://laundromatproject.snappages.com/field-day.htm>, and developed in
collaboration with The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Fellows
<http://laundromatproject.snappages.com/cc-pd-fellows>.
<http://archivingthecity.com/interventions/for_renters2/>
<http://archivingthecity.com/2013/09/15/the-renters-archive/rentersarchive_f…>
*THE RENTERS’ ARCHIVE: Bed Stuy edition*
*SATURDAY, SEPT 21*
*12:30 – 4:30 PM*
Venue: For My Sweet Gallery
<http://bed-stuy.patch.com/listings/for-my-sweet>
(1103 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238–between Franklin & Classon)
C train or Shuttle to Franklin
RSVP & Info: TheRentersArchive(a)gmail.com
In a nation of homeowners, where owning property is the still The Dream,
New York stands out as a city of life-long renters. The Renters’ Archive
project provides a way to explore the experience of being a renter, by
looking at the objects and habits and relationships and dreams that a
person collects over the course of a renting life. On September 21, 2013,
The Renters’ Archive will present the opportunity for residents of Bed-Stuy
and surrounding neighborhoods to reflect upon their own experiences of
being renters–a situation shared by approximately 80% of the neighborhood’s
residents.
Please stop by and share your own experiences of renting (or landlording)
by partaking in a series of artist-led workshops and performances.
What is the home of your dreams? Can you remember all the places you’ve
lived in, and all the neighbors you’ve had? If you could write your own
lease, what would it say? What are the objects that you take with you every
time you move? How do you archive your valuable documents and
artifacts? What do you do to make a new place feel like home?As part of
this event, I will be presenting a new participatory performance:*A NEW
LEASE FOR NEW YORK*Have you taken a good look at your lease lately? A lease
is a legal contract that defines the roles of “Tenant” and “Landlord,” and
anticipates, or limits, the relations between these two entities. As
renters, when we sign leases, we often do not have the time to reflect upon
the relationship we are entering into with our landlords. This workshop
provides a chance to do just that: reflect and transform relationships with
our spaces, our neighbors and our landlords. *An artist will act as
“notary,” and will be on hand to type out a new lease for you. *What is
your ideal relationship with the ideal landlord? What do you expect of
yourself as a tenant? Could a lease include a relationship with your
neighbors? Do you have the capacity to transform your current relationship
with your current landlord?
*THE RENTERS’ ARCHIVE: Bed Stuy edition*
*SATURDAY, SEPT 21*
*12:30 – 4:30 PM*
Venue: For My Sweet Gallery
<http://bed-stuy.patch.com/listings/for-my-sweet>
(1103 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238–between Franklin & Classon)
C train or Shuttle to Franklin
RSVP & Info: TheRentersArchive(a)gmail.com
In a nation of homeowners, where owning property is the still The Dream,
New York stands out as a city of life-long renters. The Renters’ Archive
project provides a way to explore the experience of being a renter, by
looking at the objects and habits and relationships and dreams that a
person collects over the course of a renting life. On September 21, 2013,
The Renters’ Archive will present the opportunity for residents of Bed-Stuy
and surrounding neighborhoods to reflect upon their own experiences of
being renters–a situation shared by approximately 80% of the neighborhood’s
residents.
Please stop by and share your own experiences of renting (or landlording)
by partaking in a series of artist-led workshops and performances.
What is the home of your dreams? Can you remember all the places you’ve
lived in, and all the neighbors you’ve had? If you could write your own
lease, what would it say? What are the objects that you take with you every
time you move? How do you archive your valuable documents and
artifacts? What do you do to make a new place feel like home?As part of
this event, I will be presenting a new participatory performance:*A NEW
LEASE FOR NEW YORK*Have you taken a good look at your lease lately? A lease
is a legal contract that defines the roles of “Tenant” and “Landlord,” and
anticipates, or limits, the relations between these two entities. As
renters, when we sign leases, we often do not have the time to reflect upon
the relationship we are entering into with our landlords. This workshop
provides a chance to do just that: reflect and transform relationships with
our spaces, our neighbors and our landlords. *An artist will act as
“notary,” and will be on hand to type out a new lease for you. *What is
your ideal relationship with the ideal landlord? What do you expect of
yourself as a tenant? Could a lease include a relationship with your
neighbors? Do you have the capacity to transform your current relationship
with your current landlord?
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/BACE
Check out our hot sexy animal graphics that will lure new volunteers and
participants through pure organic sex appeal.
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I saw some design fiction films at at the SF Critical Design and Imagined
Futures meetup.
I'm wondering, have any SudoRoom filmmakers or others at the Omni created
any design fiction films?
It would be cool to show films with:
- worker collectives
- a world where people barter/contribute through time banks instead of
heavily capitalist systems
- a kind of imaginary world where there is affordable housing provided
for all and people do not face eviction / housing shortages and live in
yurts
If we have a party maybe it would be cool to try to do a design fiction
film with one of these speculative idealized futures. =D
https://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/design-fiction
Sparking imagination and discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical
implications of new technologies through design and storytelling.
Sample Projects
-
- Im)possible Baby
Ai Hasegawa, Sputniko! and Asako Makimura
Delivering a baby from same-sex parents is not a sci-fi dream
anymore–recent developments in genetics and stem cell research have made
this dream much closer to reality. Is creating a baby from same-sex parents
the right thing to do? Who has the right to decide this, and how? This
project explores the bioethics of producing babies for same-sex couples. In
the first phase, DNA data will be simulated to visualize the "potential
baby." The project will then explore creating partial organs of the
"potential baby" over the next few years. You have the right to know,
think, and raise your voice about whether this dream becomes a reality–not
just the authorities and researchers.
view site <http://aihasegawa.info/?works=impossible-baby>
- CremateBot: Transform, Reborn, Free
Sputniko! and Dan Chen
CremateBot is an apparatus that takes in human-body samples—such as
fingernails, hair, or dead skin—and turns them into ashes through the
cremation process. The process of converting human remains to ashes becomes
a critical experience for observers, causing witnesses to question their
sense of existence and physical self through the conversion process.
CremateBot transforms our physical self and celebrates our rebirth through
self-regeneration. The transformation and rebirth open our imagination to
go beyond our physical self and cross the span of time. Similar to Theseus'
paradox, the dead human cells—which at one point were considered part of
our physical selves and helped to define our sense of existence—are
continually replaced with newly generated cells. With recent advancements
in implants, biomechatronics, and bioengineered organs, how we define
ourselves is increasingly blurred.
view site <http://www.pixedge.com/crematebot>
- Crowbot Jenny
Sputniko! (Hiromi Ozaki)
Crowbot Jenny, inspired by Donna Haraway’s philosophical memoir When
Species Meet (2007), is a solitary girl who, despite her generation’s
tendency toward communication overload, has trouble relating to her peers.
In fact, Crowbot Jenny prefers to talk with animals and develops the
Crowbot, an instrument that replicates a range of crow calls, to commune
with her army of birds. Sputniko! talked with various crow specialists from
University of Cambridge (UK), University of Utsunomiya (Japan), and
University of Tokyo (Japan) who also provided her with sample crow
calls—such as "Hello," "I'm in danger," "I love you!" or "Where is my
Child!?"—which she installed inside Crowbot.
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Yeah you heard that right. Everyone can write javascript now. You're not
special. Time to move on to something more esoteric before you realize that
every teenybopper out there is a better programmer than you (it happened to
gaming didn't it?!)
Time to join Counter Culture Labs and hack some DNA! Get a pre-paid
discounted memberships and claim the glorious title of Founding Member!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836537355/counter-culture-labs-your-b…
We're taking our lab up to biosafety level 2, which will make it viable to
do genetic engineering (and maybe even human disease work) in our space!
We're in the last _week_ of our kickstarter campaign but we're still a few
thousand away from our goal. Give us a buck or something why not? Here's
the link again if you missed it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836537355/counter-culture-labs-your-b…
and if you're drowning under that nightmarish bay area rent and can't
afford to give us even one measly dollar, then I request that you spam all
your richest facebook/twitter/imaginary friends continuously for the next
six days!
--
marc/juul