✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

🔐 Philly 2600 Meetup + TOOOL Meetup

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Philly 2600 meetup will be at Iffy Books on Friday, June 2nd, starting at 6:00 p.m. > The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people. We’re also hosting a meetup for the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers: > Come join […]

🪄 Intro to ImageMagick

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

On Saturday, June 3rd at 3:30 p.m. we're running a workshop on ImageMagick, an essential command-line tool for converting between image formats and applying custom compression and filters. Register:  

✏️ The Writing Room

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

🚂 Model Internet Club

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Model Internet Club meets again on Friday, June 9th at 6 p.m. Our goal is to build an offline network for fun and learning. We’ll have routers, switches, servers, and plenty of Ethernet on hand.

🎉 Rail Park Block Party 2023

The Rail Park 1300 Noble Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Rail Park Block Party 2023 Sat, June 10th 12–5 p.m. at The Rail Park 1300 Noble Street, PHL Free What’s more Philly than a block party? Join us on June 10, 2023 for The Rail Park’s Annual Block Party for a day filled with live music, local vendors, food trucks serving up delicious treats and plenty of […]

🎤 Audio Recording Basics

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

On Sunday, June 11 at 1 p.m. we’re running a free workshop on the basics of recording audio. We’ll discuss mic technique, audio hardware, recording conditions, and software options. Everyone will get a chance to make a recording with Audacity and start editing with Reaper. We’ll have a computer available for everyone who signs up. Register: […]

✏️ The Writing Room

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

🐡 Hackers’ Assembly: Streamlined Fuzzy Logic Inference Development for Anti-Phishing

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

There are not many opportunities to learn the use of fuzzy logic without a detailed coding learning curve. This presentation makes an effort to provide the important and practical concepts of fuzzy logic while applying it to anti-phishing solutions. This discussion will take the form of both a presentation and a workshop. After some coverage […]

Bleeding Control Basics

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Presented by Untitled Medical Collective in association with Philly SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover scene safety, injury assessment, basic bleeding control, and tourniquet application. This class doesn’t provide any kind of certification, and is just meant to provide essential information to as […]

📍 Philadelphia Bookstore Map Release Party

The Skyline Room, Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us at the Philly Free Library on Wednesday, June 21 from 9 a.m. to noon for the Philadelphia Bookstore Map release party! A grassroots project to showcase our 50+ brick & mortar bookstores, a keepsake quality map to be distributed FREE around the city. The map will include all of the city’s brick-and-mortar bookstores, […]

✏️ The Writing Room

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

💻 Router Hack Day

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

On June 24th (1–6 p.m) we're meeting again to work toward installing open firmware such as OpenWrt or FreshTomato on an old FH1206 router. We have plenty of routers to go around, which we're selling for $8 each. Proceeds will be split evenly between Philly Community Wireless and Iffy Books. This will be an informal […]

📚 Ulises Big Summer Book Sale 2023

Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts 1400 N American St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

It’s almost time for this year’s BIG SUMMER BOOK SALE hosted by Ulises, Icebox Project Space, and FORTUNE with the support of Penn Treaty SSD! Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 25 from 11 AM–5 PM — there will be books, print and all things adjacent from: @allcapsstudio @theeroticprojectxo @firstlast.us @theheadandthehand @iceboxprojectspace @iffybooks @iota.editions @lotion_decarme […]

⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Resisting AI’ by Dan McQuillan

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Time and Place: 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month 6:30–8:30 p.m. @ Iffy Books Beginning Tuesday, June 27th Contact: neoluddite@victorgom.es @notnaughtknotDiscord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite!You may have played around with chatGPT, or perhaps even used DALL-e to generate images from text. Though Large Language Models have been around since 2018, they're currently dominanting the […]

✏️ The Writing Room

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Resisting AI’ by Dan McQuillan

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Neo-Luddite Reading Group meets every second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Our first book is Dan McQuillan's book Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (2022), which we'll read over the course of two or three months. Stay tuned for more details! Register (optional):  

⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Resisting AI’ by Dan McQuillan

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Neo-Luddite Reading Group meets every second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Our first book is Dan McQuillan's book Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (2022), which we'll read over the course of two or three months. Stay tuned for more details! Register (optional):  

⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Resisting AI’ by Dan McQuillan

Iffy Books 319 N. 11th St. #2I, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Neo-Luddite Reading Group meets every second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Our first book is Dan McQuillan's book Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (2022), which we'll read over the course of two or three months. Stay tuned for more details! Register (optional):