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QueerCoded Workshop at Quatrefoil Library

<p>Quatrefoil Library, Saturday, May 17 at 03:00 PM CDT</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-workshop-at-quatrefoil-library

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

>Their C-Suites and marketing teams form the autocratic clergy, and developers are the literate but subordinate monks. Most computer users are almost completely illiterate serfs with regard to the devices on which they depend both for social interaction and their livelihoods.

https://davelane.nz/current-digital-dark-age

Cyberia at People's Pride

<p>Powderhorn Park, Saturday, June 28 at 12:00 PM CDT</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-at-peoples-pride

There are so many fake quotes by me each week that I don't what to do about them. Someone just posted a medium article with another fake quote from me saying "Generative AI is not just about creating something new, but about capturing what was once impossible to express."

If you know anything about my work you know that I would never say something like this.

As @emilymbender said what so called Generative AI has done is basically the equivalent of an oil spill in our information ecosystem.

QueerCoded Learn to Code Workshop

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, May 3 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software<br><br></p></li></ul>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/queercoded-learn-to-code-workshop-1

Cyberia Congress

<p>online, Sunday, April 27 at 12:00 PM CDT</p><p>Second Congress of Cyberia for 2025</p>

https://calendar.layerze.ro/event/cyberia-congress

omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign used a pirated commercial font.

source: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!