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Why Community Owned and Operated Infrastructure and Data are Essential to Our Lives

Artists Mentioned: Adam Harvey Trevor Paglen Also related: Rebel Geeks – Give Us Back Our Data #SurveillanceCapitalism #softAI #DataSovereignty #inequality #MachineLearning #NeuralNetwork #BigData #DataEthics #IBM #SocialJustice #SocialContext #PowerAsymmetry #Privilege Community Owned and Operated Infrastructure Information and Resources

Top Secret!

The theme for this month’s Assemble learning party was Top Secret! We wanted to create a few short activities to introduce kids to some concepts in security. *What it means to brute force a password. Try it out yourself here. Their algorithms for what character(s) to try improved dramatically once they realized typing in a…

Growpoodle

I found this code via Public Lab’s Thermal Photography project. Growpoodle is basically the free and open source equivalent of glowdoodle which allows you to ‘paint with light’. I wanted to run the FOSS version but it was not working because it had not been updated in a while, so I fixed it and it…

Mapping Public Parks

Software: OSM tracker for Android, OpenStreetMap OSM tracker for Android is a great piece of software that allows me to record hikes and take notes in the process. For those without a computerized phone to do this, it can be done with pencil and paper, just go to Field Papers and create a printable map…

Global Game Jam Pittsburgh

Game Description: Thank you for buying this Machine! You’ll find your machine to be an amazing companion and tool throughout the years. However, be warned: machines are a commitment. Machines rely on their operators to keep them running smooth and efficiently for units of time to come, in the proud Button-Tec tradition of long-lasting, high-quality…

The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions…