Hi Sudoers:
Riffing off last night’s Sudoroom visioning meeting: what if part of
Sudoroom’s mission was to expand the number of software developers in
the area using AI this enabling a vision for "local software"?
Train people who are technically savvy and interested in solving
problems for themselves and people around them, but don't want to become
fully-fledged programmers.
See this medium post for background:
https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
-Peter
Hi Sudo Room and SMAC,
CCL gave us some rat traps and I set them up in the locations pictured.
They are somewhat close together, because those were areas where theres poo
evidence, but may make sense to pick different spot. I havent set up traps
before so dont know.
I can volunteer checking the traps on Mondays and Saturdays. But we need to
be checking every other day so more people will need to volunteer too.
Please let others know if you move traps or if you notice one is set off.
SMAC has some cats they bring in time to time downstairs (who are also
helping us with this issue), so we should keep basement door closed/ be
ready to disarm the traps temporarily as needed.
Paige
We used to have a regular event every week - years ago - called JavaScript
Thursdays!
Wouldn't it be neat if we had another regular weekly event? It doesn't have
to be focused on a particular type of activity but having a regular event for
a while really makes things happen.
anyone interested?
-jake
Hi friends,
I was thinking of calling a meeting to optimistically discuss the future of
the Sudo Room.
For a while I have been discussing with friends how I feel sudo should
launch and support initiatives which directly improve the material
conditions of the people in the Oakland Community. And I think it should be
done with a focus on inclusivity of Black and Brown folks.
*I would be excited if we had initiatives like:*
- An initiative to provide Direct support for local families and
individuals
- An initiative to Support prison abolition efforts
- An initiative to oppose to war crimes in Gaza or assistance for recent
undocumented immigrants
I have a lot of my own Ideas, but I am super interested in hearing
everyone's Ideas about different services we can offer!
Secondly I think it is important we have an actual *Mission Statement* for
who we are and what we want to accomplish. This will be great to provide
clarity for what are needs are assuming everything goes well with CAST.
This will allow us to plan for the growth and success of our projects and
services in the future.
If we can have a meeting this Weds we could discuss these two Items, and
maybe we could bring some food and make it a bit of a party.
Please reply with ideas if you like.
William
Hi Sudoroom folks! I'm blown away by the kindness and generosity you all have shown me in my first couple of visits to the Sudoroom for fix it night. I haven't had as much fun (and haven't been nearly as productive) in quite a while. I'm the guy who showed up with all the Nintendo games. Anyway, all this is to say that I'm grateful for the access to the space and the great, interesting and knowledgeable people that inhabit it during the fix it hours.
Unfortunately, I recently contracted the flu and it's really been bad - fatigue, headaches, the works. I'll need to take another week to recuperate, but I expect to be back next week with all the parts for my current project.
xoxoxo
Scott
Hi all,
On Tuesday, myself and a couple other people are gonna be spending our Fix
it Clinic time reformatting laptops to give to students (I am hoping to do
the giving through The Unity Council and the Displacement Avoidance
Project). This is, in part, to assist in opening up Sudo Room's resources
to our Oakland community more, and in part to help us offload some of the
laptops sitting around Sudo to make more room in the space/prevent them
from sitting forever and becoming Ewaste. In order to ensure Sudo and Omni
get acknowledged for doing this (which is important for grants) and also
making sure the recipients know where to take the laptops for the purpose
of getting repairs, are there any Sudo Room or Omni stickers with the
address to the building on them?
If you'd like to join us for this, I plan to be there by no later than
8:15, with cookies for anyone who would like to help.
Hope to see you all there,
-July
Starting off a series on learning at SudoRoom and beyond!
We had a nice time as I said Monday. I feel it worked best with no hybrid,
remote participation, and getting away from our laptop screens was the best
possible way of interacting and talking to each other.
https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/online-time-can-hobble-br…
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories – or
losing important information.
Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need
in the communication, says Erik Fransén, Professor in Computer Science at
KTH.
Contrary to common wisdom, an idle brain is in fact doing important work –
and in the age of constant information overload, it’s a good idea to go
offline on a regular basis, says one KTH researcher.
Erik Fransén, whose research focuses on short-term memory and ways to treat
diseased neurons, says that a brain exposed to a typical session of social
media browsing can easily become hobbled by information overload. The
result is that less information gets filed away in your memory.
The problem begins in a system of the brain commonly known as the working
memory, or what most people know as short-term memory. That’s the system of
the brain that we need when we communicate, Fransén says.
“Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need
in the communication,” he says. “It enables us to work online and store
what we find online, but it’s also a limited resource.”
Models show why it has limits. At any given time, the working memory can
carry up to three or four items, Fransén says. When we attempt to stuff
more information in the working memory, our capacity for processing
information begins to fail.
“When you are on Facebook, you are making it harder to keep the things that
are ‘online’ in your brain that you need,” he says. “In fact, when you try
to process sensory information like speech or video, you are going to need
partly the same system of working memory, so you are reducing your own
working memory capacity.
“And when you try to store many things in your working memory, you get
less good at processing information.”
Watch Crosstalks TV
See Erik Fransén discuss information overload with other experts on Crosstalks
TV.
<http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/>
You’re also robbing the brain of time it needs to do some necessary
housekeeping. The brain is designed for both activity and relaxation, he
says. “The brain is made to go into a less active state, which we might
think is wasteful; but probably memory consolidation, and transferring
information into memory takes place in this state. Theories of how memory
works explain why these two different states are needed.
“When we max out our active states with technology equipment, just because
we can, we remove from the brain part of the processing, and it can’t work.”
*David Callahan*
*Want to know more about information overload and its implications on the
human brain? **Check out Crosstalks TV
<http://crosstalks.tv/talks/have-our-brains-reached-information-overload/>. *
Erik Fransén’s ongoing work includes research on the link between disease
and properties of nerve cells (ion channels). The project is a
collaboration with Stockholm Brain Institute <http://stockholmbrain.se/> and
a clinical consortium led by Martin Schmelz
<http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/izn/researchgroups/schmelz/>, from the
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg. Learn about
the computational
modelling <http://www.csc.kth.se/~erikf/Ion%20channels%20HighRes.pdf>Fransén
is contributing to the study:
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/LearningToLearn
hey mr. maroukis (sorry I'm bad with names) - I set up a wiki. I'm swamped
right now but will find a way to do online as well in the coming months!
I am not against software learning and edtech, but I find that overreliance
on this stuff leads to people promoting a company or start-up, plus were
trying to incorporate creative analog learning as well. But we can have
segments that are just on laptop learning as well.
https://x.com/sudoroom/status/1798058428344177059
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi All!
I'm writing to thank you all for your willingness to attend Wod Street's
resource fair and block party. We'd love it if people tabling can show up
by noon but we also totally understand time constraints- if you can only
join us for a few hours you are still hugely welcome and appreciated. If
you need a table or chairs, I think there is some limited tables available
but we're a little short on those so if you are bring your own, that's
amazing.
See you soon!
-July
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