Hey Sudoers,
Come check out my talk about online identity, privacy, and the future! It’s tomorrow, Tuesday the 20th, at 7:30 pm, at yours truly, Sudo Room.
https://sudoroom.org/events/you-online-identity-privacy-and-the-future/
From the description:
The current landscape of online services all seem to have similar forms and purposes. Technologies all seem to be ‘going social’ or collecting ‘big data’, and the companies running them are magically making billions of dollars. In addition, the NSA has been caught red handed stealing and reading all our personal data.
This talk intends to elucidate some of the economic and philosophical underpinnings of current internet technology and asks the question: what does online identity truly mean? What does it mean to myself, to tech companies, to the state, and to the future of our society?
Some of the topics discussed will be:
Online surveillance, or why deleting your Facebook isn’t enough
Big data analytics: what it is and why its worth so much money
Closing the loop: the tech industry’s attempt to track everything
Notions of a hyper-connected future: theories and paradoxes
Prominent alternatives to the internet, and how they work.
About me: I’m creating two tools: one for anonymous communities, and another for local exploration. Over the summer, i’ll be giving this talk to hackerspaces all around Europe. This talk at sudo room is in preparation for that trip, so any feedback or contacts would be appreciated.
You guys, if you haven't noticed by now, the Gittip is at $485.77
That means we are making more money than we spend, and we are very
close to covering the costs of our newer bigger future space as well.
This makes me so happy.
https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Gittip
anyone have any opinions or experience with this new end-to-end encryption
email system?
https://protonmail.ch/
it seems good based on the very little I know about the project.
It sounds good to me. Thank you for taking care of that //Matt.
Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I did get an update about our inquiry with Laurie about whether we can stay
> in June. She said yes, we can stay in June, under the terms of our current
> lease, by simply paying for this month.
>
> However, George requested we pay rent by Monday if that's the case. He said
> he'd pay us back if we ended up leaving for June 1 after all.
Thanks Matt! We should probably pay him today in that case. Are you
able to take care of that? Anything we can help with?
http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/03/14/taylorism-on-digital-steroids/
Taylorism on Digital Steroids
Here are reminders, if we needed them, that the role of technology in our world transcends artifacts, tools, and devices. It also entails, as Jacques Ellul well understood, a particular way of looking at the world and its problems (and, as Morozov has suggested, it constitutes certain conditions and phenomenon as problems).
From Salon:
“Amazon equals Walmart in the use of monitoring technologies to track the minute-by-minute movements and performance of employees and in settings that go beyond the assembly line to include their movement between loading and unloading docks, between packing and unpacking stations, and to and from the miles of shelving at what Amazon calls its “fulfillment centers”―gigantic warehouses where goods ordered by Amazon’s online customers are sent by manufacturers and wholesalers, there to be shelved, packaged, and sent out again to the Amazon customer.
Amazon’s shop-floor processes are an extreme variant of Taylorism that Frederick Winslow Taylor himself, a near century after his death, would have no trouble recognizing. With this twenty-first-century Taylorism, management experts, scientific managers, take the basic workplace tasks at Amazon, such as the movement, shelving, and packaging of goods, and break down these tasks into their subtasks, usually measured in seconds; then rely on time and motion studies to find the fastest way to perform each subtask; and then reassemble the subtasks and make this “one best way” the process that employees must follow.”
From Business Insider:
“There’s a fine line between micromanaging and house arrest, and British grocery store chain Tesco [...] seems determined to cross it. According to the Irish Independent, employees at the company’s Dublin distribution center are forced to wear armbands that measure their productivity so closely that the company even knows when they take a bathroom break.
The armbands, officially known as Motorola arm-mounted terminals, look like something between a Game Boy and Garmin GPS device. The terminals keep track of how quickly and competently employees unload and scan goods in the warehouse and gives them a grade. It also sets benchmarks for loading and unloading speed, which workers are expected to meet. The monitors can be turned off during workers’ lunch breaks, but anything else―bathroom trips, visits to a water fountain―reportedly lowers their productivity score.”
These folks would’ve been in trouble. They might also have had the good sense to revolt, being peasants and all.
Pieter Brueghel, The Harvesters (1565)
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Hey all,
Posted to the sudo-kids list, wanted to cross-post to make sure it's on
your radar!
// Matt
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From: Jeffrey Gordon <jgordon.oakland(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Subject: [Sudo-kids] sudo-kids "Code Docent" idea
To: sudo-kids(a)lists.sudoroom.org
Hi everyone. My name is Jeffrey Gordon. I'm a 4th grade teacher at Ruby
Bridges Elementary School in Alameda, where I've taught for seven years.
My school's population is 80% free/reduced lunch (high poverty) and 10% of
our students are homeless, as our population zone includes The Alameda
Point Collaborative.
I've been developing a curriculum in Scratch, that I use to reinforce my
math lessons. Each week, my students build a little modeler that
reinforces that week's work in math. My students use their free time
throughout the week to add to and change the projects. Here's a studio
that my students have organized of some of those projects. We also use it
to share resources for projects.:
http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/373147/projects/
My goal this year was to create a portable and modular curriculum to share
with other teachers to use in their own classrooms. What I've come to
understand, is that this is a basically unfeasible goal; while nearly every
educator I show them to sees the value of the modelers instantly, none of
them has felt comfortable leading their students to build them.
Here's a Google Doc of the curriculum in progress. I'm doing the page
layouts this summer, but most of the actual projects have been coded and
tested by kids at this point, and just need to be commented and laid out.
I'm hoping to get about 25 lessons done over the next month or so:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXwnMZTeIcZYLMyB_seGqaZ8R9JOhFQTh-wXP17…
I spoke to Matt about the issues you've had with liability and insurance
concerns. It sounds like a new space might solve some of those problems,
but I think I have an idea that may compliment the existing sudo-kids
project.
Many elementary schools have art docent programs, which bring in community
volunteers to lead students in art lessons while a teacher attends to the
business of running the classroom. The liability and legal concerns in
running one of these programs are relatively simple: volunteers will need
to undergo a federal background check and Livescan fingerprinting.
Districts have existing procedures in place for these sorts of things,
which means the principal of the school will make the choice, rather than a
committee of administrators (which is how most good things die in
education.)
I could arrange matchmaking for docents and teachers, facilitate background
checks, model the lessons for docents with actual students, and assist with
teachers with integrating the curriculum into their everyday math
instruction.
What I would need is one or two (to start) volunteers to work with a couple
of known excellent educators and their 4th-grade students next year on a
weekly basis. Those volunteers would need to be competent with Scratch and
able to read and understand the code linked to above. That would mean
about 60 kids would benefit.
If you have the time and inclination, please, look closely at the modelers
and the curriculum.
If anyone is interested in working with me, there are a couple of weeks
left in the school year, and I'd be happy to demo a lesson with my
students.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Gordon
4th Grade Teacher
Ruby Bridges Elementary School
Alameda, CA
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> what's the current timeline for the move?
It's one of many questions in the ongoing lease negotiation. We prefer
June 1, the owners prefer July 1. We are going to reach a compromise
that benefits as many people as possible. In the past week since I
wrote that "Omni update", my personal sense has now become that July 1
is more likely to happen.
George & Laurie have already been given notice, and they are ok with
the ambiguous timeline, i.e. they won't be an issue one way or the
other.
We're very sorry about the ambiguous, opaque and last-minute nature of
this process. We realize how this impacts our community's ability to
plan and hold events, and how it strains our trust and faith. We will
be able to talk in MUCH greater detail as soon as we have a lease. The
lease will almost definitely be signed in less than two weeks, most
likely sooner than that. We continue to encourage interested people to
come to meetings and join working groups to help with this process. A
few of us are getting burned out and would VERY MUCH welcome
additional hands, brains, hearts, perspectives!
Thanks everybody!
Hey Sudoers,
Anyone going to FEDCON... I mean Defcon, this year? Want to go in on a
hotel room? Anyone interested in driving/caravaning there? Anyone have any
interested in spending the entire time there with me solving the badge
crypto/puzzle challenge, like I did last year?
--Andrew
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Cell: 831-332-2507
http://roshambomedia.com
just thought i would call attention to it. its down there somewhere in
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