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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

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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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Fwd: 5/2013 Statement, 2141 Broadway

by Matthew Senate

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop(a)comcast.net> Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 4:53 PM Subject: 5/2013 Statement, 2141 Broadway To: exchequer(a)sudoroom.org Cc: eddan(a)eddan.com, mattsenate(a)gmail.com Hi All~ Attached please find the 5/2013 Invoice. Thank you! Laurie

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Drone help needed this Sunday for TacoConf!

by Max Ogden

Hey all - This sunday is http://tacoconf.com which is a bike tour of tacos in Oakland. I'm organizing the event and was hoping we could get the TacoCopter to come do a demo but they are sadly unavailable. I have a couple of Parrot AR Drones (http://nodecopter.com/) and was wondering if anyone wants to put together a makeshift TacoCopter with me tonight or tomorrow at Sudoroom. Here's what I need help with: - from 11AM - 12PM people will be showing up for TacoConf at Snow Park in downtown Oakland, since I need to go onwards with the conf I am hoping someone can transport the drones to and from sudoroom at those times. They are pretty small, but I can't carry em on my bike. - I need someone to pilot the drone(s) and 'deliver' a taco at Snow Park! I can instruct on how to do this - Also I was planning to have a bicycle based taco vendor come by the park and serve tacos but they had to cancel last minute. I'm looking for backups but I can always just bring some tacos specifically for delivery to the park ahead of time

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Bike Smut details

by Vicky Knox

A more illustrious announcement will come as the time nears, but in the mean time I leave your roving eyes and feasting curiosity to this: Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx Friday, May 17 Doors open: 8:22pm Show starts: 9.07pm $5-10 suggested donation Help me work on the wiki page<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/2013_Bike_Smut_screening> ! Come to the SR general meeting if you are interested in having a discussion on topics such as safety, show logistics, money/\yenom, fooooooood, etc. etc.

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Bio + Big Data event at my office this coming Thursday Evening

by Anthony Di Franco

I spoke a little about DIY Bio with the person who is organizing a bio entrepreneurship presentation / pitching / networking event next Thursday evening and she said people could join in the pitch session if desired or simply come to network. It will be big-data and French/Bay-investment/incubation focused so I am intrigued by the potential of a group of hackers showing up adhering to an unconventional-to-audience route to impact (open, decentralized development) and considering unconventional project ideas. Not just the potential for lulz, since the relevant tech media will be there. Let me / us know if you'd like to get a DIY Bio / sudo room group together to do a semi-formal brief introduction of the groups and the projects being worked on. Event details are here: http://www.meetup.com/French-US-Innovators-Entrepreneurs-in-Silicon-Valley/…

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sudoroom.org is back up!

by Yardena Cohen

If you get this message, it means everything's working again. ;) If you get this message twice, that's ok too...

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sudoroom.org is back up!

by Yardena Cohen

If you get this message, it means everything's working again. ;)

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Sudo lists are migrating!

by Yardena Cohen

We're moving sudoroom.org to a new server. There may be a brief outage for all mailing lists and other services while DNS propagates and we get things set up right. We'll send another email when things are working again. Thanks for your patience!

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what is this hacker space thing?

by Marina Kukso

in the home and garden section? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/garden/the-rise-of-the-hacker-space.html also a mention of lolspace from praveen! - marina

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**Safety at Sudo Room events**

by Vicky Knox

Do you want Sudo Room events, big and small, to be healthy and safe for all involved? You're not alone--become a Glow Worm! Glow Worms are the guardians of safe space and ambassadors of harm reduction. As a Glow Worm, you will: - Be prepared and ok with taking a lead role in addressing emergency situations. - Keep a watchful eye over events and preventatively ensure the safety and happiness of everyone in attendance. - Learn how to care for people in need. - Wear fabulous glowsticks so people know they can go to you for help! An excellent way to learn is to do. Here are two upcoming events we can use for our training: ART MURMUR: Let's meet this Friday at 6:30p at Sudo Room for our first round of practice! BIKE SMUT: Let's meet Friday, May 17th at 7:30p and ensure the continued fabulousness and sex positivity of this event! If you are interested, please reply to the list or to the Vicky. :]

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Make Sudomate for Art Murmur This Friday

by Max Klein

Sudomate mk 5 proved its popularity this week at the meeting. This *Friday at noon* we're meeting to *make mate* to* sell* at *Art Murmur*. Drop in to help. With any luck, *we'll be bottling*. We'll have all necessary ingredients. Just bring yourself. Also we'll be documenting / filming so it won't be just us in the future. Not confusing.

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The police contingent of the march

by Marina Kukso

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May day protest now outside sudo

by Marina Kukso

Sweet marching band comes included!

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Mayday in streets

by revphil

marchin on bdway now

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Dinner for the Wednesday night meeting

by Raymond Lai

Hello Appreciators of fine food, It is that day again in which we come together as a community to eat, drink and be merry (we also get sh*t done!) Anyone got some pasta they're willing to donate to tonight's weekly dinner? We need apprx 5 bags. I'm bringing lots of homemade red sauce that we can throw on the pasta. Anyone want to bring bread or fixins for a salad? If there are any other ideas for dinner, I'm totally willing to help. Cheers, Ray

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Happy erste Mai

by Romy Snowyla

Berlin was always riotous this day! Sent from my iPad

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Re: [sudo-discuss] [dorkbotsf-blabber] Goldmine Electronics Summer Sale

by Patrik D'haeseleer

Some amazing deals, for those adventurous enough to figure out by themselves how some of these components work: $40 miniature Russian Geiger counter http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G19139 $1 strong electromagnetic coil (sounds great for experiments with ferrofluid!) http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G18180 $9 Electronic Drug Screening Module (likely a colorimeter - I ordered 2!) http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G19381 $5 Projection TV Optical Unit http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G19187 $20 Rear projection light engine http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G19210 $30 50mm Erbium laser rod from flashlamp pumped laser rangefinders http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G18403 $1 cell phone camera (no info - good luck!) http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G17609 Patrik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anders Nelson <anders.k.nelson(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM Subject: [dorkbotsf-blabber] Goldmine Electronics Summer Sale To: Dorkbot Dorkbot <dorkbotsf-blabber(a)dorkbot.org>, " noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net" < noisebridge-discuss(a)lists.noisebridge.net> I've ordered lots of things from Goldmine in the past and apparently they're doing some spring cleaning (i.e. cheaper stuff): http://www.goldmine-elec.com/mailchimp/20130501-SummerSale/index.htm I especially dig the candle-like flickering LEDs. =] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com ---------- dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/ SUBSCRIPTION AND UNSUBSCRIBE OPTIONS HERE: http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotsf-blabber ----------

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ChezHack's new home in OpenSim

by J.C.

Hey everyone, I've been experimenting in existential property acquisition and development. And would like to invite you all to check it out and put on a hard hat and build a shovel to continue iterating with me on it's development. If any of you are familiar with Second Life, this is basically an open source version of that running on an Simulator instance on my server actually at ChezHack. So for those of you that have been here, or wanted to be, you can "teleport" here thru the intertubes. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/HyperGrid If anyone is already well versed in SL and/or OpenSim please let yourself be known, as I could use some tips in getting things dialed in. Also if you're interested in building the ultimate hackerspace in cyberspace, this could be a good way to start. -- ThanX, ;+) https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/%C3%9F%C3%AA%C3%A3%C2%B5

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We have 13 nice ikea chairs reserved for pickup in downtown oakland tomorrow. Can you pick them up?

by Morten H. D. Fuglsang

Hi all, http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/3776196333.html 13x nice ikea chairs, for free! For sudoroom! Nice! I know that model and its pretty nice actually. rather good ergonomics. we are first in line for them. needs pickup tomorrow wednesday between 9:30am and 1pm. I cannot pick them up in that time. Please let me know if you can, so that I can give a yes/no. Its in downtown oakland, specific address no known yet. Morten

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Fwd: The new "Who Has Your Back?" report is out!

by Eddan Katz

We should invite Marcia and the EFF folks out to publicize this important corporate socially responsible technology report launch. Any interest? sent from eddan.com Begin forwarded message: > From: "Marcia Hoffman | EFF" <membership(a)eff.org> > Date: April 30, 2013, 12:16:09 PM PDT > To: Eddan Katz <eddank(a)aya.yale.edu> > Subject: The new "Who Has Your Back?" report is out! > Reply-To: "Marcia Hoffman | EFF" <membership(a)eff.org> > > > This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. View it in a web browser. > > > Dear Eddan, > I'm excited to announce the latest update to our annual Who Has Your Back? privacy report! > > When you use the Internet, companies ask you to trust them with your private data: from personal messages, to search terms, to photos, and much more. But government officials increasingly ask companies to hand that data over, a fact highlighted by the recent battle over CISPA. > > To make Who Has Your Back?, EFF lawyers and activists review company policies and interview legal departments to find out exactly how companies deal with government requests for your data. We review their answers and give stars to companies with industry-leading policies and practices, which helps privacy-conscious users make informed decisions and encourages the companies to step it up. > > But the real power behind Who Has Your Back? comes from you. EFF's strong and principled community pushes companies to take privacy seriously, and after three years, we're proud to report that even more companies have moved towards instituting best practices when it comes to standing up for users’ privacy from the government. > > We’re proud to be fighting for users’ rights, made possible by donations from individuals like you. Please consider supporting projects like Who Has Your Back? by joining EFF today! > > > > Thank you, > > Marcia Hoffman > EFF Senior Staff Attorney > > > Electronic Frontier Foundation, 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 USA > EFF appreciates your support and respects your privacy. > Unsubscribe or change your email preferences.

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LIBERTY AND FREE/REUSABLE MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS FOR ALL!

by Vicky Knox

On Sunday, April 21st, there took place the first of an infinite number of freepile parties you're all invited to. This was a secret ploy to get all of your old natural fiber clothing for the purposes of making cloth menstrual pads. <OMG>Now, on Saturday, May 4th at 2pm, we will be transforming your security sweatshirt into the most beautiful and practical object to hit 2141 yet!</OMG> Learn more (and sign up) at Today I Learned<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#May_4_Hacking_Sexual_Health:…>.

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Re: [sudo-discuss] Bike Smut update!

by Vicky Knox

Here's to understanding and working things through! Revphil and I also plan on being at the meeting tomorrow to talk further details, including off-list stuff, so please be there if you're very interested. We've worked out a time--doors open 8:22, show starts 9:07 sharp. I'll send out an announcement right now.

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sudo room withdrawal symptoms

by Romy Ilano

ok, i have been away from sudoroom for a full two nights now i miss sudoroom! we have org nerds that work really hard to keep the projects running. that stuff is hard. it is the only place i've hung out at where there are serious women hackers. that is so rad after all these years you bastards are finally making me consider installing linux on my laptop. not even my ex boyfriend could talk me into it! i like that there is pushback against too many overly commercial projects at sudoroom. it creates a safe space. i do not get this safe feeling at places that are too profit-oriented. it is like eliminating recess at school and leads to burnout people actually consider alternatives to current economics models in a serious way, which I really appreciate even though my views are often different it is a place where people forgive each other there is a hella ton of homemade vegan food at the meetings! that is so cool. we make it too. when i lived in the south bay i felt like my brain was dying. students there did not really go to demonstrations. they did not think that much about politics or economics. it was hard to get them to think much about anything. i'm not sure why this happened but i think it's a structural thing. i'm very lucky to talk to people at sudoroom who are structurally not mentally destroyed and who still think and feel passionate

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Sudo Room is now a "Google Place"!

by Vicky Knox

I fiiiiinnally got a confirmation phone call from a representative from Google, confirming our address and that we are indeed a hackerspace. Visibility yay! Google boo! https://www.google.com/search?q=sudo+room&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mo…

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