Hi All,
I thought I'd send over a little nerd love to all (in the quote below) and
wish you a Happy CInco de Mayo!
"Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and
wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special
delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. [...] If we
cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive
delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this
planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity
that is almost certainly out there."
-- Gene Roddenberry<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43942.Gene_Roddenberry>
Live long and Prosper!
Ryan
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Ryan Bethencourt
Tel: (415) 794 6463
ryan.bethencourt(a)gmail.com
www.bamh1.comwww.linkedin.com/in/bethencourtwww.logos-press.com/books/biotechnology_business_development.php
Hi is anyone in the front? I'm here for the kopimism service at 1! The elevator is off and the stairs are locked
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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy(a)snowyla.com
SudoRoom is a hackerspace. Our skillset is not cleaning, especially
cleaning the big main room.
*- Should we put aside $30-60 every time a group holds an event in our
space so that we can pay someone to clean up the common room?*
*- Should we pay someone $30-60 once month to clean the common room for us?
*
I brought this up because we are realistically not going to get a lot of
members to clean the space. we are hackers. it is not our skillset. There
is not going to be a magical day when a hackerspace finds that all of its
members find cleaning to be a pleasurable act.
We are good at starting projects, drinking beer, looking for new spaces,
but we are definitely not great at cleaning.
Our landlord G is also receptive to the idea of us hiring someone to clean
up the common room after big events.
I personally suck at cleaning, I'm into doing it, but I would rather spend
my time hacking and working on projects. I spent a bit of time cleaning up
the space Saturday morning, wiping down the tables int he main room and
vacuuming to prepare the space for the today I learned.
The Call of Our Times
Submitted by blietaer <http://www.lietaer.com/author/gael1088/> on
September 3, 2010 – 1:38 amNo
Comment<http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/callofourtimes/#respond>
<http://www.lietaer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/trees.jpg>Humanity is at
a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his *memorable
address<http://globalmindshift.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-unforgettable-commencem…>
* to Portland University’s graduate class in May of 2009, “civilization
needs a new operating system,” and fast. Why? Because many of the
socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview
that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system and that every
form of life has its unique and valuable place and purpose in sustaining
the larger web of life. By ignoring the conditions that support the health
of our ecosystems and communities, we have inadvertently fouled our nest,
and jeopardized the future of our children. We are now awakening to the
fact that the ways of thinking, strategies and systems that made the
industrial age possible, have also fueled the myriad crises that are now
upon us: great financial instability, the breakdown of community, growing
disparities of wealth, resource wars, alarming rates of species extinction
and ecosystem depletion, and accelerating symptoms of climate change. As
our food, energy, health, education, economic and financial systems show
increasing signs of failing us, we are being collectively called to harness
our creativity and resources to take a major evolutionary leap. *Transitioning
from our self-destructive ways to life-affirming understandings, lifestyles
and systems is indeed the great work of our times.** *
The Great Work
* <http://www.lietaer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/great-work.jpg>* How
do we turn things around? How can we reverse the downward spiral in which
much of our world has been caught? The good news is that a fast growing
movement of communities, businesses, not-for-profits, and governments
around the world is hard at work on this very question. Many experiments
are under way on all continents, and there are already many success stories
and inspiring new models to point to. Neither creativity nor good
intentions are lacking, so why is it that so many change makers around the
world often feel that they are swimming upstream? Is there a better and
more effective way to harness and direct all the creativity and energy
unleashed by our current predicament? My answer is ‘yes,’ but only if we
start paying attention to a piece of the puzzle that is currently not on
our radar: our monetary system.
Re-inventing our monetary system
For the growing movement of communities, organizations and governments
working to turn things around, the most daunting challenge often revolves
around money: How do we find the money needed to transform our energy, food
and health infrastructures, to eradicate unemployment and create green
jobs, clean up the environment, and ensure that people have proper access
to housing, education and meaningful work? Have you ever wondered why
cash shortage so bottlenecks our best efforts and initiatives when we
actually live in a world where there is neither a shortage of things
needing to get done, nor a shortage of people wanting to do them?
The answer to this question has to do with the monopoly of the kind of
money system we use, which is the *
<http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/2010/09/what-is-the-problem-with-our-current…>
*source of the scarcity which so many people experience, and the* ** root
cause of a great number of our
problems<http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/2010/09/what-is-the-problem-with-our-current…>
*. Our money system was designed a long time ago and is now out of date.
It is particularly ill equipped to help us solve the pervasive
socio-economic and ecological challenges facing us today. In a *bird’s
eye view <http://www.lietaer.com/birdseyeview/>* of both my work and this
website, I explain why the transformation of our money system is critical
to resolving the challenges of our times and many of the issues you care
about. I also explain that monetary diversity is just as important to
human survival as bio-diversity is to the fate of the earth.
A number of pioneering governments, businesses and communities around the
world have successfully experimented with new monetary systems for years,
and with great results. We have at our disposal all the monetary tools we
need to reduce poverty, clean up the environment, and provide access to
meaningful work, housing and health care. It is now time to use them on a
larger scale. A world of sustainable abundance is actually possible, but
only if we are willing to upgrade our monetary system so that we can begin
to leverage true human wealth, which is our energy and creativity. Will
you please join me in making sure that we do not miss this opportunity?
Your own future, the future of your children, and of this extraordinary
planet is at stake.
*Bernard Lietaer*
http://www.lietaer.com/2010/09/callofourtimes
**
**
do any of you know of any california-based companies that use open access
content? if you know of any that use open access content exclusively, that
would be even better. i imagine there are biotech startups that are in this
situation, but i don't know any specifics... any help or directions you
could point me in would be really appreciated.
thanks,
marina
Totally sent this from the wrong email. So bringing it back to the list.
I think it basically boils down to homophobia ie. "who will show up if they
might see a naked man"?.... Our answer: people who truely unstand sexuality
as more than just hetero men getting what they want.
On May 4, 2013 7:43 PM, "Romy Ilano" <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> i've nEVER met anyone holding an erotic event who made the male and
> stripper female ratio equal
>
> that is such a no-brainer to me. i don't understand why people don't do
> that
>
> if businessmen go to lunch around strippers, why can't it be 50% hot male
> strippers and 50%hot female strippers? that would make the world so much
> easier to deal with.
>
> you rule!
>
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>> andrew that last commentw as so rad! that's cool. =D
>>
>> that's the kind of erotic event i'd be into
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Erotica and women's bodies
>> To: Andrew <andrew(a)vagabondballroom.com>
>> Cc: Sudo Room discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
>>
>>
>> Or less representation of sex altogether. What does anyone need porn for?
>> On May 4, 2013 7:10 PM, "Andrew" <andrew(a)vagabondballroom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When i ran an erotic event in oakland our crew made it a point to
>>> balence genders as much as possible. We had male and female co-hosts and
>>> male and female strippers.
>>>
>>> Also. Somthing to keep in mind is that there are more than two genders.
>>> In my mind objectification is not the issue. Representation is. Porn is
>>> mostly filmed from a hetero-cis-male perspective and because of that, taken
>>> as a whole, is exploitive. There is porn that fights this perspective and
>>> representation of sex and there needs to be more.
>>> On May 4, 2013 6:55 PM, "Sonja Trauss" <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can I get a link for this gonorreah story?
>>>> On May 4, 2013 6:42 PM, "GtwoG PublicOhOne" <g2g-public01(a)att.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Romy & Yo's-
>>>>>
>>>>> Re. "womens' bodies with their faces cut off."
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow. Thanks for pointing that out. I never noticed that before (OTOH
>>>>> attempts to do "sexy" in advertising generally don't get my attention),
>>>>> but I vaguely recall seeing ads like that somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree, a torso minus a face is depersonalizing and objectifying as
>>>>> hell, unless there's a very good reason for taking a photo that way
>>>>> (e.g. medical contexts). Being looked at "that way" produces the
>>>>> creepy
>>>>> feeling that the looker's intentions are non-consensual.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only borderline-legit reason I could see for doing it in clothing
>>>>> ads is, "we want you to imagine yourself wearing this, and we don't
>>>>> want
>>>>> to risk putting you off by showing a face that's substantially
>>>>> different
>>>>> to yours, so imagine your face on this person's body." But it would be
>>>>> foolish to think that's what's intended every time that photographic
>>>>> method is used.
>>>>>
>>>>> This brings up the question of what people find sexy in photography.
>>>>> For me (gay male), a photo minus a face is a non-starter: there's no
>>>>> cue
>>>>> for communication with the person. Nudes in general don't do it
>>>>> either:
>>>>> all the usual contextual cues as to someone's personality are missing,
>>>>> so why would I even begin to imagine being in an intimate context with
>>>>> someone I don't really know? I've always felt that way but now we have
>>>>> the HIV pandemic to reinforce it: in general it's not a good idea to
>>>>> get
>>>>> intimate with someone you don't know very well, because the outcome
>>>>> could be a life-threatening illness.
>>>>>
>>>>> For that matter, now that massively-drug-resistant gonorrhea is loose
>>>>> in
>>>>> the USA, which is hella' easier to catch than HIV and can kill you in a
>>>>> matter of days through a raging bacterial infection, it's probably a
>>>>> darn good idea for everyone to "get smart & play safe" ALL the time,
>>>>> zero exceptions, even more so than with HIV. In which case photography
>>>>> that portrays an objectified sexuality without communications isn't
>>>>> just
>>>>> gross and exploitative, it's a public health hazard that reinforces
>>>>> attitudes that put people at risk for their lives.
>>>>>
>>>>> -G.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> =====
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13-05-04-Sat 10:34 AM, Romy Snowyla wrote:
>>>>> > It's interesting to me how porn a
>>>>> > Nd erotica always advertise with women's bodies with their faces cut
>>>>> off
>>>>> > American apparel digs this etc
>>>>> > Lots of art theory discusses this
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I would love for any Sudo room event to break the mold and show
>>>>> men's bodies in any erotic theme as well ... Also would love to see the
>>>>> male body as the focus of any erotic film or dance to balance out the
>>>>> Imbalance and unnatural obsession with t and a we see on the porn industry
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Sent from my iPad
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>>>>> >
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>
Are there any objections to me hanging that giant whiteboard up on the
common wall to the left of sudoroom? It would go in the place of the
corkboard, which I would then mount vertically to the right of
sudoroom, behind that weird curvy art shelf thing.
I have heard the Community Democracy Project like to mount it on an
easel for their meetings. But I haven't actually gotten a clear answer
about whether the wall mounting would work for them.
Thanks!
http://www.raftstore.net/index.php?route=product/search&filter_tag=Grade%20…
my nerd friend kim is visiting... she used to volunteer at a non-profit
called RAFT. They take donations of office supplies, e-waste from tech
companies in the Bay Area and create low-cost kits sold to schools
(teachers).
these kits teach STEM skills (math, science, etc) in a fun and interesting
way. they also weave art as well.
--> this would be another potentially interesting, fun, honorable way for
SudoRoom to acquire funds.
similar to the electronics and biohacking DIY kits... many have children,
many are teachers...
we have patrick, who is into polymer clay teaching toys... we have hacking
sexual health...
throwing the idea out there.
Friends! Let's all thank Jake for doing an awesome job getting the
locking mechanism working again with our tamale raspi! Now we can get
into the space without having a physical key. Ease of access is the
first step in making sudoroom open to the hacker community at large.
Thanks Jake!!
Getting in:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Door_Access#Inside_Door
Bill
