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Orion's father. @BetaNYC's Executive Director. Eagle Scout.
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This Saturday, the BetaNYC team will host several pop-up classes at The Oculus. Come join us as we step into the future!
Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺
Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...
https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer
> one in three service users cannot access online support without help – a figure that rises to more than six in ten for some benefits.
not sure why they don't link to the survey itself:
Government’s welfare department has published the latest version of a major citizen study which finds that, for some benefit lines, more than three in five cannot use internet services unassisted A Department for Work and Pensions study of thousands of citizens has found that one in three ser
Counter point to blindly digitizing indigenous spaces...
From: @ehasbrouck
https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck/115282163021280172
https://www.elliottconfidential.com/p/why-the-brave-new-world-of-ai-travel "Why the brave new world of AI travel planning is already broken: Nearly 90 percent of AI-generated itineraries contain errors. Welcome to a future of confidently delivered misinformation."
Do you want to get a #DecidimAward? Then you can't miss tomorrow's Community Call!
🔹Agenda:
1️⃣ A sneak peek at #DecidimFest 2025 (Nov 4-6): discover the program, speakers, main topics and the Decidim Awards
2️⃣ Roadmap prioritization: explore the new Metadecidim space to vote and propose which improvements should shape our 2026 projects
This is your chance to get involved & maybe even win the Decidim Award in the category for the most active meeting-goer
See you there:
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-gov/f/90/meetings/2097
"Shanah Tovah" to my brothers and sisters from other mothers!
Peace be with you and may you all live long and prosper. 🖖🏽
Today, a bird pooped on me at the zoo.
What special thing should I do?
Natasha 
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