The Ubuntourist @ubuntourist@mastodon.social

It is proven! I am ubuntourist on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ubuntourist/sigchain#0e22b03604873ac3fc149dd4cd61f73947953d2e1c354b28c74d50d3984ac85d0f

October 12-13, 2019: East Coast RepRap Festival, Bel Air, MD - http://eastcoastreprapfestival.com/ #RepRap #3Dprinting

@DARPA building $10M open source secure voting system - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw84q7/darpa-is-building-a-dollar10-million-open-source-secure-voting-system #opensource #voting @defcon

Political Hackery from modern day Merry Pranksters 🤣

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-speech-in-front-of-presidential-seal-with-russian-eagle-2019-7
The Washington Post also has a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kwjRLxwmj8

Alas: Maker Media Ceases Operations -
​https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operations/ #hackaday #hackers #makers

May 16th: Tech Circus

HacDC (http://hacdc.org) will be taking over the Dupont Underground (http://dupontunderground.org/)! Join us for demos of DIY tech including 3D printing and VR, & meet hackers and makers from around the DC area.

See announcement at
(https://www.facebook.com/events/283689832574569/) and PLEASE promote! Thanks!

May 16th: Tech Circus

HacDC (http://hacdc.org) will be taking over the Dupont Underground (http://dupontunderground.org/)! Join us for demos of DIY tech including 3D printing and VR, & meet hackers and makers from around the DC area.

See announcement at
(https://www.facebook.com/events/283689832574569/) and PLEASE promote! Thanks!

Hasbro is becoming Has not, bro - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/hasbro-reports-2018-q4-results.html

"... It took the combined forces of Professor X and the X-Men -- now you know what the X *really* stands for -- and the Rebel Alliance to defeat Vader and acquire the Magnet-o-Jet..." 😉 - https://www.3ders.org/articles/20190208-xerox-enters-metal-3d-printing-with-acquisition-of-vader-systems.html
#3Dprinting #metal #xerox

Movie Night III: "Hidden Figures" at @hacdc - https://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/events/258674517/ https://www.facebook.com/events/406548796584659/

​This just in. It seems PEPCO isn't keeping up with news very well...

From: AlertDC <noreply@everbridge.net>
Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:23 AM
Subject: Power Outage: Capitol Hill

PEPCO reports a service outage in the area of Capitol Hill ...
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"Well, Trump should be feelin' more alone,
Now that the Feds have gotten Stone"

#BobDylan #RogerStone #NotMyPresident #HisRoyalHairness #ExtortionistInChief

...Admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like R. Stone
For the times they are a-changin’

#NotMyPresident

Friday, January 18, 2019, 7:00 PM at HacDC: Movie Night II - "The Martian" (https://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/events/257689123/) #HacDC

Fun video interview with Chuck Hoberman re the Hoberman Sphere (7:10) - https://video.wired.com/watch/harvard-professor-uses-toys-and-origami-to-transform-design

#HobermanSphere

*The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands*

http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/an-atlas-of-literary-maps-created-by-great-authors.html

#OpenCulture

I bet these bionic mushrooms only grow during the "summers" in "Austin"... - https://phys.org/news/2018-11-bionic-mushrooms-fuse-nanotech-bacteria.html

The U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, has planned a “crowd control" (https://twitter.com/BobMooreNews/status/1059608580347826176) exercise in a Latino neighborhood at 10:00 a.m on Election Day. The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the timing and location as "suspicious". (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/border-patrol-to-conduct-a-crowd-control-exercise-in-el-paso-on-election-day/2018/11/06/147dd678-e18f-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html?utm_term=.0ca06dba3cf9)

#### The Atherton Elementary School, which is serving as a polling place in Michigan, is holding armed intruder training sessions on Election Day - https://www.wnem.com/news/atherton-school-district-to-hold-armed-intruder-training-on-election/article_b374dab6-debe-11e8-a91a-dfcfe9759724.html

#resist

Now shipping: Eventry v.0.0 😉 (https://gitlab.com/ubuntourist/eventry)

Eventry periodically retrieves a list of events from Meetup.com as a JSON file, augmenting with a wee bit of additional data, and provides a template suitable for displaying the data in a MediaWiki instance, using MediaWiki's External Data extension.