In response to last Wednesday's open-ended conversation about alcohol
consumption at Sudo Room, I've created a discussion hall-style page on our
wiki in which we can collectively explore legal, human and other
implications of alcohol consumption at SR. Take a look at what other people
are thinking, and contribute your own questions and ideas:
HERE<http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Alcohol>
!
VickykciV
Listservants,
During this week's general meeting I started a conversation on using hand
signals during meetings as a way to rank speaker order and mark shifts
between the topic at hand (*sad trombone*) and the conversation's
meta-process. A number of you spoke up with a lot of great perspectives and
ideas. This email is intended to net in the lot of you interested in this
topic so we can create a concrete proposal for an upcoming general meeting.
Check out our beautiful wiki page <http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Hand_signals>,
and help refine the proposal!
VickykciV
Does any one have welding gloves? Eric?
Bring them in please so I can protect my paws. :)
Raymond Lai
Ice Cream Man
Atomic Ice Cream
Facebook.com/MotoAtomico
Proposal for discussion on list and at an upcoming meeting:
That Sudoroom endorse the Open Wireless Movement and join the Open Wireless
Movement coalition.
Noisebridge has already joined; you can find a list of endorsers at
https://openwireless.org/
Open Wireless Movement is a coalition organized by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation to build technologies that let users open their wireless
networks and educate people and businesses about open wireless.
After allowing for dicussion on the list, we can bring up this proposal as
an agenda item at a future meeting.
If you have any questions you can ask me or contact openwireless(a)eff.org
Thanks!
--mark B.
The below person emailed the info at sudoroom address, didn't receive a
response, and so contacted me via my phony Sudo Room "business" phone
number. This means three things:
1. Someone hasn't checked the info at sudoroom inbox in a while.
2. We will be having a very special visitor to the Brain Wave meetup
tonight.
3. MY GOOGLE PLACES HACK WORKED! WE NOW HAVE A LISTING! (Do a Google search
for Sudo Room. You will see a lovely listing on the right.) :D
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rivkah Beth Medow <rivkahbeth(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/2/1
Subject: Fwd: Magnum photographer attending Brain Wave Meetup event Fri 2/1
To: vknoxsironi(a)gmail.com
Thanks!
Rivkah
Begin forwarded message:
*From: *Rivkah Beth Medow <rivkahbeth(a)gmail.com>
*Date: *January 31, 2013 9:43:07 AM PST
*To: *info(a)sudoroom.org
*Subject: **Magnum photographer attending Brain Wave Meetup event Fri 2/1*
Hi! What an amazing space it looks like you have!
I'm writing to let you know that Magnum
Photos<http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_2_VForm>
photographer Alessandra
Sanguinetti<http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53X…>
will attend the Brain Wave Meetup event this Friday, 2/1 (
http://www.braindjvj.net/) and make sure you are aware and comfortable with
her being there. She will work with her assistant, Sam Levine, and be
respectful to your other guests, shooting around anyone not wanting to be
photographed.
We are in direct contact with Masahiro Kahata, the event's organizer, and I
will cc you on my communications with him so we are all in open
communication.
Below I've also attached a brief description of the photo project. Please
don't hesitate to be in touch with any questions at all.
Many thanks!
Rivkah Beth Medow
++
Rivkah Beth Medow
rivkahbethmedow.com
> I'm wondering if any Sudoers have access to a dewar and/or liquid
nitrogen?
Probably can't make tonight happen, but let me know if you need it in the
future. I have access to a couple dewars and don't mind purchasing a bit of
ln2 from the gas supplier in Berkeley.
-rick
Dear Sudo folk.
At Friday Filosophy today at noon, we will have Borekas from Grand Bakery again - this time more potato ones for vegans and the vegan-curious.
All suggestions for topics will be considered. I propose we talk about the AutoAdmit online defamation case from several years back. See Citizen Media Law Project page for overview - http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/autoadmit; the Justia page with the full legal docket - http://dockets.justia.com/docket/connecticut/ctdce/3:2007cv00909/78132/; and the original complaint at http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/connecticut/ctdce/3:20….
In brief summary, an anonymous bulletin board with informal law school related chatter had some anonymously posted horrible threads about fellow female law students, even for those of us not easily shocked. Three first-year Yale law students were particularly targeted, one of whom allegedly lost her summer job because her employers came across the posts on searches (the defamers had intentionally Google bombed the search results.) Two of these students brought a lawsuit against the website and anonymous individuals who had posted the stuff. The case was eventually settled out of court.
The third woman - Caitlin Hall, who happened to be a student of mine at the time - was deeply affected by the whole thing but chose not to join her classmates in the lawsuit. She wrote this provocative Op-Ed in the Univ. of Arizona newspaper where she was a journalist while in college called "Sex, Lies, and Broadband" (http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2008/05/sex_lies_and_broadband - May 21, 2008). Below is an excerpt from it. I don't presume to know what I would have done in her situation, but I do know that when people search for Caitlin and AutoAdmit now, this is what usually comes up first.
We can't stop malice on the Internet. Malice finds a way. We can try to shore up the banks of the ""real world"" with legal and digital sandbags, but online hate speech has the slow inevitability of a tsunami. When the avenues of publication and distribution are limitless, it becomes exceedingly difficult to control people's behavior (a concept our Constitution's framers not only accepted, but banked on).
Nor can we stop college students on the Internet.
Advisers invariably warn that the only way to keep unsavory information from bleeding into the professional world is to decline to put it on the Internet in the first place. To a college student, that solution has all the persuasive power of telling a high schooler the only surefire way to avoid pregnancy is to forego sex.
But even if we can't stop the lambs and we can't stop the wolves, we can still stop the slaughter. The best way to do that, counterintuitively, is to overwhelm the market with bad information by allowing online verbal abuse to run unchecked, so that all such speech becomes valueless, unreliable and irrelevant. That's the best solution in that it's the most efficient, because it enlists the boundless energy of the depraved in their own undoing. Moreover, it's the only way to bypass the question of how to keep employers from using social software to inform hiring decisions (the answer, by the way, is that we can't).
To state the obvious, for the first generation to be libeled on the Internet, this solution sucks. It's no treat overhearing a stranger say he read you ""fucked your way into Yale."" It's infinitely more unpleasant knowing your friends, parents and boss have all read the same thing. But that's the way it has to be, in the fatalistic sense that that's the way it's going to be. All we can control is how quickly it's over. And that, despite what some will say, is a real choice.
I'm wondering if any Sudoers have access to a dewar and/or liquid nitrogen?
Project is liquid nitrogen ice cream for First Friday (eek, today!)
Cheers,
Ray
Hi folks,
I still have a few gallons of some hefeweizen I brewed - not my finest but it gets the job done - and my buddy is repoing his kegs from me sunday morning. If anyone has a CO2 tank and a faucet, I will contribute the fuller of the 2 5-gal kegs to the art murmur event and help get it set up, but unfortunately will not be able to stay very late to drink it. Anyone have the equipment to activate this free beer opportunity?
Cheers,
Hol
