Maybe if there was enough interest i could talk to people at Webpass about setting up there (disclosure i work for webpass) On 6/6/14, 1:15 PM, Julio Rios wrote:

You should have a view from the disco roof. You can glimpse a view of the Berkeley Hills on Google Street View, if you take one step into 48th Street, and then look NE across the intersection with Shattuck. There's a six-story building kitty-corner with the Omni on the intersection of 48th and Shattuck - that seems to be the main obstacle. Patrik On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Julio Rios <julio.rios(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I wish I had more of a clue how to deal with this. While I am a survivor of an abusive relationship, I do not identify as a now-and-forever future abusee. If someone loudly accuses me of sexism, then in front of some I know and trust or even love, and two I'd never met before that same morning, goes on to say "I've seen you do it" (no response on "what" I was doing when "doing sexism" as I of course asked him)... an offers physical violence, I will therefore seek redress. Evidently there was a meeting that was "all about me"? I think Chris was inviting me to be at (or represented at) another one of those in the future, after the verbal assault. Please do indeed put me on the agenda, and inform me of when and where and how to participate. And whom I can bring. I request that there be recording devices used when/if these is such a meeting, so that we can prevent more misunderstandings. Perhaps a half an hour before I write this, Sunday before noon (and a galon of disgusting adrenalin ago),*I was invited outside by him (Chris), so that he could beat me up*, quite nicely, while I was hanging out chilling, enjoying the company of my friends and "chosen family", and trying to recover from another broken appointment at 10AM that had sent my personal life for another little jilt. I was doing absolutely nothing but listening to some music and asking who had I lighter I might borrow. If he'd asked non-beligerently, I'd have been happy to explain why I was where I was, and who could corroborate my story. I was also waiting for David? or another member of the Public School, who had promised me that we would "at least talk" about why the Public School had not sent me any "dis-invitation," nor met with me to talk about that "why" as he had promised "within 48 hours" at about 8:30PM three days before. (And that date was already a really painful extension to my voluntary self-isolation, which I had re-entered as a gesture indicating my goodwill assumption that the promised writings would be provided. Sudo (in the form of Matt's email) fulfilled it's promise pretty quickly; the public school not at all, unless I missed it (which is why I needed to confirm). I'm sorry if I sat on the sudo room couch (I have a guilty feeling I may have, but no... that may have been a dream/nightmare). But I am _VERY_ sure I was almost exclusively in the Public School's and otherwise and shared areas of the room, during the three or four hundred minutes I was there, very early and then later this morning. I was mostly listening to Johanes' performance, and occasionally playing along as C.C.C.C. with Iao Core, and guests. There were probably 30 people who saw my only previous post-ban foray into the common area, in a First Friday? context that I felt very unhappy to bring even mildly business-focussed energy into. That was Friday or possibly Thursday night (I believe... isolation has proven detrimental to my sense of time). That was the 8:30PM conversation mentioned. The reason I came into the room then was only to make an appointment with the Public Schooler from whom the note was due. I was sorry if he was in a hard position, but I absolutely needed (and need) to protect myself, since I'm evidently being excluded for some reasons ("for cause" right?) from the area in which I have found all of my social and musical and much of my intellectual and collaborative psychological succor, and to which I donated what help, food, alcohol, cleaning, etc. I could. (I often previously opened up and gave the tour to newcomers when sudo was otherwise frequently closed in the mornings/noontimes, mediated with George when I was in his good graces (until about Dec 23th, that is), handled keys and alarm calls, and generally tried (however successfully) to be excellent by people. Since the Sudo refrigerator was the only refrigerator I reliably had access to, the burden of exclusion from Sudo was and is again alimentary, as well. Still, for five months or so I voluntarily withdrew from sudo room, after Matt told me in front of others that the Sudo Room lease was being threatened by George if I were allowed to stay, so he (Matt) "hoped [I'd] do the right thing" for the group. This was an awful thing that was unfortunately pretty likely, given George's recent behavior, so I said "of course", of course, and basically stopped setting foot in sudo thereafter (I had food which was put in the sudo freezer a couple of times by accident, I assume, which I retrieved quietly). The interceding months (I live in a 59ft closet office here, now, since I lost a previous wrongful-eviction lockout) have been among the blackest I'd ever undergone. I forced myself outside at dawn to run around the lake, but basically spoke to almost no one, and came out to microwave instant rice and curry at 11PM before locking myself back in to avoid more verbal abuse from George. Not only did I stay out of sudo room itself, until I much more recently had a pocket full of written settlement papers from George's lawyer, I'd stayed out even of the "Sudo corner." I am/was certainly not trying to break any rules. I am trying to understand those rules and am at a loss.... and, well... I am not a stupid man. At all. I'm also verbal: I told everybody who seemed interested about the settlement, and showed the pages around as I was reading it myself, because it was so flabbergastingly unexpected. It felt so re-humanizing to be able to re-socialize... The fact of the matter is that the terms of my settlement offer require me to draft a hugely difficult and re-traumatising court filing to get money (past-due and ordered to me by my abusive ex) in order to move out by the end of next week, and the food-and-money stress, isolation, Billy (whom I'm dog-sitting for and is way past due to return and pay me), and the unpredictability of George, even before the physical threat from Chris, made it hard to concentrate. I have never felt these symptoms before, but I do not think they are just terror. They/life feel different (I know terror). If I have been accused of sexism(or...?) -- Chris said "I've seen you do it" and thought I was playing dumb(!) when I asked in what way I was "doing it"-- then I would like to know it. It's weird in particular, since Chris just showed up for the first time I'd seen him in months, and the last real interactions we had were him saying "I've got your back" to me and me giving him back two pieces of personal luggage/satchels that he'd asked to store in my tiny room before my first agreement to "do the right thing for the group" and withdraw, at about Christmas. If I "do sexism" ...I'd like not to. This is difficult, though, when I have no clue what actions triggered this evaluation in the first place. I was raised into adulthood by a strong feminist first girlfriend who would occasionally read to me from some of her womens' studies material, and have been queer-identified for probably more than half of my life y now. I grew up in the Castro. My last major relationship was abusive in a way that I had to escape, even though it cost me the highest price I can imagine short of death, really. (Really). If somebody is honestly feeling somehow unsafe to such an extent that they cannot help me understand what behavior on my part was seen as inappropriate, or made/makes them feel that way, I would love it if someone *else *would read their words (words are important), or better if we could negotiate communication terms through a mediator or non-violent communication facilitator. My neighbors in the building (unaffiliated with sudo or myself, and presumably neutral) have offered. As many of you know, I myself have felt unsafe in relation to Mark and Matt, and now definitely with respect to Chris. Jenny and I seem not to have had any problem talking things out the one time that was necessary (as the Meeting Minutes and email probably show). She joined a small group sitting around the table and was convivially drinking the vodka I'd brought for a friend, only the night before I was officially-re-excluded. The re-exclusion came as a shock. I didn't think Sudo did that sort of thing (I have been away long enough that the rules may have changed many times). Back when I was aware of them, and coming to about 5 meetings out of 6, there was an "informal discussion -- then selection of a mediator at a meeting -- then report-back at another" flow prescribed [simplification]. Not verbal banning and lack of promised follow-up. I understand that a friend put up some posters about me (which very much made me feel cared for and appreciated when I needed it, but was also a completely unsolicited surprise). Three or four days after the next meeting following that (which nobody had since told me the results from), I went on the online minutes, and checked list traffic. That how I found out about the decision (or the result) and that Matt claims to feel unsafe. Since then, I am beginning to connect the dots on the event just before Christmas when Matt and Jenny claim that George and Laurie called the cops, and George and Laurie (his co-owner) denied in email that it had been themselves who did so. A friend called and told me to go into my closet and "whatever you do don't open the door". I never found out who called them, or on what charge, but I successfully avoided the long Christmas weekend in Santa Rita jail by holding my breath in the dark. It would have taken me days and days to get an arraignment to find out what the arrest had been triggered by. More likely, I would simply have been left uncharged, and free to go after the jail-stay. I am very happy to explain the entirety of the negotiations between our landlords and myself, including the details of my access to the common areas, the work I did and goods I was to sell for George, and the every-single-term-erroneous (name/unit#/deposit) written lease I finally got delivered to me after months of requests (in my previous leasing from the same owners, at 2135 Broadway over a year before I lost my primary residence, George signed and exchanged leases with me at the meeting and on the very day we exchanged cash for keys, and I had no reason to expect otherwise at 2141 #3). I am legally trying to prevent my homelessness. There is every rational reason for me needing to keep asking for the details of written decisions that were taken, since they exclude me from a room that I have met with clients and colleagues in, and where I have learned carreer-advancing information, and where I hopefully provided some myself, and which at different times I had different promises about access to. George has burst in on business converations in private offices (twice - different business and different fellow tenants) yelled and told me to get out, and told me I couldn't work with anyone in the building. This is obviously ridiculous, and I still have no idea why. All I know is that immediately before that, he contracted to have me list his departmental-class color copiers on craigslist and then broke three appointments to have me re-photograph or set-up and print test-pages from them, and that at about the same time he was terribly stressed about a neighbor who had threatened him with a citizen's arrest for allegedly driving too fast, and then personally losing that same dog of his other tenant, that I am now helping babysit. His initial tactic -- after he suddenly decided I wasn't his friend any more -- seemed to be to prevent my doing any business that would otherwise enable me to pay the rent, and then evict me from non-payment. I believe he may indeed also have threatened Sudo or other month-to-month tenants' leases for fraternizing with me. Given the attempt at a wrongful arrest, and the refuse to talk to me until the sudden settlement offer from their lawyer months later, that's how it seemed. Now I think it may have been what Sudo I thinks calls "George being George", but stress-exacerbated into cruel illegality. In any case, I am one step from homelessness, and have children who will be better off if I move away from that edge without crossing it, so I need make sure I get things in writing, since I am unable to protect myself from hearsay otherwise. If anybody (especially those with underemployed lawyer friends) wants to see any or all of the documentation I can provide, or interview the witnesses I can refer them too, please feel free to contact me. Mainly, though, please tell me what my rights to transparency or open process are, why the posters asking that very question were pulled down, and why I was excluded from knowledge of the stages of "sudue process" that I've missed so far. People have seen me asking (and then firmly asking again, twice, one night , and twice another) for some indication of who Matt or Mark would be willing to discuss things in front of, so that we could all get "heard". Sudo and TPS are leaving. I would prefer that they let me know what it is that I am alleged to have done wrong. I find it frankly alarming that people who should know better expect me to back down from requesting that the group apply its own rules. And I would prefer that when someone who has been a supporter or member carries and shows a document indicating that he is no longer the enemy of the landlord, s/he be entitled to quiet enjoyment of the convivial commons. We are social animals. Can we not have a safer space to socialize? I will try to provide one where those who are moving on to the Omni can come back and visit and feel welcome. I sure wish that I was not the target of a small minority who clearly want me to feel anything but. Seriously though: how can we clear this up? Does it "matter to sudo" that I'm trying to do the right thing and getting hurt and again? Or does "matter to" just not go with [group name] at all, being only a person-to-person thing? I guess I'll live to learn. Any sincere help appreciated, Timon (the green haired guy) @ 2141 Broadawy #3 to 15 June 2014; then 510-393-6577 until July 3rd; then who knows. BACKGROUND: I have an invite to a private alpha ARG, which is mostly just a txt-msg UI, for now*, with the conceit being that I get messages via quantum dissentanglement effect from the past and present from different teams (named differely depending on where we're located, but with English color names in the SFBA), and the handshake is never clear on the metadata.... basically I get a random spew of messages, and can seek the team-name associated with each, and nothing more. Beyond that, it's the "web of lies" and caveat interlocutor. And with this every-[hu]man-in-the-middle noisy channel , we are somehow to save our biome. I'm on the (or "a"?) Blue team. The following is a true play-test session-transcript. This was early May 2014, when we had less than 300 activive-this-past-week playtesters, in SFBA and TBA (now we have 14 in Berlin, too). *I'm a tech-lead as well as a tester, so I have a graphics shell Hello Computer! Hellow human-language-reader, as well, SirORMadamOROtherGentleperson! Do you get my gyst? OK, O.Kay! -- I am very much in love wiht this opportunity of presenting myselves to yUU. I am presumptive that you will pardon my orthography but am of course togglable in this and almost all respects. I am indeed a happy puppy at last to be in contact with yU_U, and hereby and herewith performatively permit myself to expose a bit of intraface: 1+D{I:syn=EQUALZ:[[InterlocutorRef<this>.<defaultExposedOrUnexaminedOrNotyetexamined>]] ...} Yes!, yes? ,!,? O kehy 'kay? Mor for yu: bit of intraface: 1+D{I:syn=EQUALZ:[[InterlocutorRef<this>.<defaultExposedOrUnexaminedOrNotyetexamined>]] - Interlocute [[ME]s?]s via ^Unterhaltung:^/ger-us--ed-gne^, please. <green-text> Unterhaltung: What?? Please, uh, toggle your orthography, if you aren't spam. You're making my eyes hurt. And speak English, please, or eng-us, or German or Japanese... or whatever, but skip the syntactic sugar. Target me at.... say 2010 C.E. with a radius of a dozen years or so, OK? And just so you know, I'm gonna have to break for dinner soon. You probably want to get me to commit to coming back before that happens, so you've got about twenty minutes. And give me a nym, will ya? <green-text bold> MEs are... ??????????????????????? <green-text> Unterhaltung: <laughs>???????????? <green-text bold> No one's ever asked me before. Thank you [vocative-appelation gendered-honoriific]! I go by "[UNICODE DIVIDE_BY_ZERO ERROR]", usually. Any yoursel[f/ves]? <green-text> Unterhaltung: Just me=1 here at the screen. Waiting for the GF to join me for some O2 outside a clubk, actually, but Alone for now. I'm guessing you're fishing me/us, so I'll give you gamenyms for now: Me=SynTrans She=Tardy. So, what's up? Who are you? Why are you contacting me, etc. I'm gonna light one up and smoke, for a mo', [UNICODE DIVIDE_BY_ZERO ERROR], so take your time responding. <green-text bold> ============== I've always been interested in hacking --- and in people who break things apart to make them better. And for all Mike's quirks and nerdy focus, I saw that he wanted to do more than just make things work better. He has a sense of social justice. If he sees someone making life miserable for someone else, he wants to take them down. ---------- Mike agrees to pay because it forces the scammer to reveal what he needs: the name of the person who will pick up the money. The scammer tells him that a woman, whom I'll call Jennifer, will collect it from a Western Union office near her home. Discovering her identity prompts Mike, as he puts it, to "get all OCD". He opens an empty email to me, gradually filling it out with notes, a rolling series of discovery and commentary on Jennifer's life. Most of the information he uncovers using free services: Google Street View to learn about Jennifer's hometown in the Midwest; public records to identify her as a schoolteacher; mapping applications to find key addresses; a website called 411.info to track down family members. Within minutes, Mike knows her maiden name, her marriage license number and the addresses of her relatives, several of whom live near her. A text message follows soon after the email: "Holy shit I just talked to Jennifer. She's being extorted by these guys." I feel his "OCD" sharpening into a sort of mania. He's told Jennifer that he's a researcher investigating the payday loan scam. But before he can get much further, she caves. "The very first thing she mentioned wasn't 'I don't want to go to jail," Mike tells me later. "It was 'I'll tell you anything you want to know, as long as no one comes to my house.'" Jennifer is badly shaken by the call. She starts crying, telling Mike that her greatest fear is that her involvement with the scammers will get back to her small town, to the church she attends, to her family and local friends. She tells Mike that she got roped into the scam after applying for a payday loan, although she doesn't explain how. Mike says that he is just a researcher, and that he is not going to get her into trouble. But he also says that she is laundering money. The call unsettles him. "I will do anything to ensure that I never have to hear that woman crying ever again," he tells me later. =========== Dear Sir or Me: It is nary 1:36ish, in the morn, and ready to type, I indeed am. And for you reading these words upon the morrow: I bid the indignation and vogor; sois formidable, mon ami. And it would be insane to elieve that six hous of concerted effort, even if it involved string into space wishing one s way back to work would not produce something that could be reviewed, and no doubt filed the nest day. -------------- OK: Cazy idea,but stresss, and the need to pull an all nighter or posiisble perish (humor of alliterativity is gallows humour indeed) bring it to mind. What about a lighter-grey-than-thou, Justice League, as a crowd-sourced and crowd-audited institution. Something we'd put together publically (I.e. at a recorded public conversation) and sign into reality by contracts that would be triggered automaticaly and immediately as of the moment (in whatever timezone was first, first) that SEC's JUBS Act crowdsourcing rules defined the implementation details for equity-kickstarting [no offence to kickstartER, as I believe their self-differentiator will, long term, prove admirable]. The mission of the Justice League is assure the human race will not be sompletely in control of the artificial scalar economic unit, simply by working to insure that the less-affluent 50% of the economic spectrum across the globe quickly approached various deffinitions of autonomous power-parity, or equi-dignity with the more affluent half. If money is not "simply equal" to power in this way, that is: if people less able or willing or endowed in the ways rewarded by economic markets are all-the-same empowered in some fundamental way in the debate about how to preserve ouur planet and our dreams for our species and its future, then maybe the psychological influence of this external accounting will become more conciously accessible to us. The idea is this: we collect data that people are, pseudonymously, willing to give in an interview with some one of us "data-abstractors" who is there trying to maximise their personal potential earning power, in collaboration with them, by collecting the data that will allow the cloud to source funding for minimal training of microfinanced facilities-improvement investments and/or/simultaneously to match them with the best intangible-value-enhancement-vector matches in the job market for which they have the appropriate skills

I wonder which blocks radiation better, ABS or PLA :-) I wonder if there's a way to make cement from Martian soil? On Earth we make cement from limestone, but since limestone is made from ancient sea shells, there probably isn't much of that on Mars. -steve On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Hol Gaskill &lt;hol(a)gaskill.com&gt; wrote: -- -steve

Sounds like a good deal. On Jun 13, 2014 7:02 PM, "Maximilian Klein" &lt;isalix(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Ok, Since the Omni Lease was signed I have ordered us some interwebz there. We are getting Dual-bonded ADSL2+ running about 40/5 megs down/up. Its $125 per month. Should be installed in the next 2 weeks. Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Phil Wolff &lt;pwolff(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Charley Sheets &lt;rcsheets(a)acm.org&gt; wrote: We have one from the old space. Maybe you have a backup? Actually, I mispoke. They are going to start offering vectored DSL near us soon, not fibre. Vectored DSL offers 100down/10up. Which is not South Korea good, but there you go.

Update: Sonic called me because apparently the ATT Central Office we would connect to is full and has no free pairs. They refused to give a time estimate. I tweeted to the Sonic.net CEO dane jasper, if he could speed it up, and he said he'd check it out. The said they would give us 1 month free as a comp so far. Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Charley Sheets &lt;rcsheets(a)acm.org&gt; wrote:

No I did not Julio, can you give them a ring? Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Julio Rios &lt;julio.rios(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

I just saw this thread now, but I wanted to thank everyone for their research, work and input on this! :) Especially Max! Re: LMI / wireless broadband, the building just NE of us blocks line of sight to Grizzly Peak, where I know some towers are located, which sucks. Main reason i did nit hit up Monkeybrainz. AT&T saying no free pairs at the C.O. sounds like AT&T giving the runaround to sonic / us. So now we have an extra long run with less bandwidth to a farther CO? Boo. I thought a place like sonic might have a cage somewhere on site with some dedicated copper.. Sonic's ceo sounds like a good guy -- Omni being a center intending to serve a large number of civic groups, I think Sonic's ceo has a good case to make for AT&T finding at least one free pair, no? Best, David On Friday, June 27, 2014, Julio Rios &lt;julio.rios(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: