io @ CCC Camp @io@rva.party

time to move the terminal :D

WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

accessibility is our priority

Summary of tonight's playtesting of an interactive-fiction based mission script in Space Nerds in Space: https://www.patreon.com/posts/first-playtest-29228258

Space Nerds in Space at HackRVA tomorrow, August 16th at 8pm. https://www.meetup.com/HackRVA-Meetup/events/263672804/

a bunch of my friends were at a rally last night at the ice detention facility in rhode island and an ICE agent rammed into the crowd with his car and then the agents tear gassed the crowd after they had already been attacked. people could have died. and its no where. Not on CNN or nytimes or anything. What the fuck. bitches are like 'its unfortunate the protest proceeded like this" as if its my friends fault for being in the way of the car that was trying to kill them
https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190815/protest-group-warren-man-64-suffered-broken-leg-internal-bleeding-after-being-hit-by-pickup-truck-at-wyatt-detention-facility?fbclid=IwAR0c0QBX-ynOnBrgnWeUI0VahHL9PvD2vyd_O3T6PDUKr5A14PJJcgGm5LM

Transgender Teen Student Who Sued School Board Gets Major Federal Court Win – Years After He Graduated
https://rvamag.com/gay-rva/transgender-teen-student-who-sued-school-board-gets-major-federal-court-win-years-after-he-graduated.html

White dudes stop yelling at retail workers challenge

the ui is a power BI

Been thinking about adding some interactive-fiction stuff into Space Nerds In Space in a mission script. For example, maybe you direct a robot around on a derelict ship via Comms to solve a mystery.

To that end, I've been experimenting with some I F basics in Lua: https://github.com/smcameron/smcamerons-lua-adventure -- so far, you can move around and take, drop and examine objects. Based on a previous python experiment: https://github.com/smcameron/smcamerons-python-adventure

Pretty straightforward port, really.

Capital One data breach: Arrest after details of 106m people stolen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49159859
#newsbot

Visual Cryptography entry on wikipedia has this gif: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Visual_crypto_animation_demo.gif

im:
-cute
-in need of cuddles

#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....

People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...

And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.

Read more: https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-developing-nuclear-weapons-e7e1fe62cb74

Response to the 2nd Shockoe Alliance Community Meeting
https://defendersfje.blogspot.com/2019/07/response-to-2nd-shockoe-alliance.html

First news story on Richmond's 2nd African Burial Ground
http://www.sacredgroundproject.net/2019/07/first-news-story-on-richmonds-2nd.html

The fact that the domain maker.space is already claimed, but isn't being used for anything; hack.space is parked; and hacker.space is a blank page are all small tragedies.

On a side note, does anyone know of a Mastodon instance that focuses on maker- and hack- spaces?

Holy what!

"Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

#infosec