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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-dec-7/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221203T140000
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SUMMARY:📘 Reading & discussion with Mary F.E. Ebeling\, author of 'Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance'
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday\, December 3rd  at 2:00 p.m. for a reading & discussion with Mary F.E. Ebeling\, author of Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance (University of California Press\, 2022). \n➡️ Video Stream Link\nWhat our health data tell American capitalism about our value—and how that controls our lives.\nAfterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling’s ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers\, insurers\, commercial data brokers\, credit reporting companies\, and platforms. By delving into the oceans of data built from everyday medical and debt traumas\, Ebeling reveals how data about our lives come to affect our bodies and our life chances and to wholly define us. \nInvestigations into secretive data collection and breaches of privacy by the likes of Cambridge Analytica have piqued concerns among many Americans about exactly what is being done with their data. From credit bureaus and consumer data brokers like Equifax and Experian to the secretive military contractor Palantir\, this massive industry has little regulatory oversight for health data and works to actively obscure how it profits from our data. In this book\, Ebeling traces the health data—medical information extracted from patients’ bodies—that are digitized and repackaged into new data commodities that have afterlives in database lakes and oceans\, algorithms\, and statistical models used to score patients on their creditworthiness and riskiness. Critical and disturbing\, Afterlives of Data examines how Americans’ data about their health and their debt are used in the service of marketing and capitalist surveillance. \nRegistration (optional but helpful):\n\n  \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/afterlives-of-data/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T180000
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SUMMARY:💾 Philly 2600 Meetup
DESCRIPTION:The Philly 2600 meetup in December will be at Iffy Books on Friday\, 12/2\, starting around 6:00 p.m. See you then! \nThe January Philly 2600 meetup is at 30th Street Station. \nThe Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers\, phreaks\, nerds\, geeks\, activists\, tinkerers\, developers\, infosec professionals\, and other interesting people. \nPhilly 2600 has been meeting since the early ’90s\, and was one of the first 2600 meetings started by 2600 Magazine. 2600 meetings are open to all technology enthusiasts who want mingle\, teach a topic\, learn something new\, or hang out with like-minded people. We meet in a completely public and open area to keep things as safe and accessible as possible. \n➡️ Philly 2600 Code of Conduct
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/philly-2600-december/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading Group: 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia E. Butler
DESCRIPTION:For our November reading group we’ll discuss Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/parable-of-the-sower/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221128T183000
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SUMMARY:◼️ Philly ABC Monthly Letter Writing Event
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, November 28th the Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross is hosting their monthly letter writing event at Iffy Books. Come out and write letters to anarchist prisoners! \nWhat is Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)? \nABC chapters around the world autonomously support people who are imprisoned for their thoughts and actions for justice and freedom from oppression\, also known as political prisoners or prisoners of war. It is an extension of the work begun by the Political Red Cross in the late 19th century supporting political prisoners in Tsarist prisons or labor camps. PRC not only provided aid\, but many times assisted in the planned escapes from prisons or places of exile. In 1907\, the Anarchist Red Cross formed and branched out internationally to support both anarchist and socialist revolutionaries in prison and exile\, since revolutionaries with these movements had begun to be excluded from the PRC’s support. With the rise of a new dictatorship in Russia\, the ARC reorganized in 1919 as the Anarchist Black Cross. During the Spanish Civil War and WWII\, ABCs comprised mostly of Russian Jews aided anarchist comrades fleeing from fascist persecution as well as those arrested in the resistance movements throughout Europe.* \nIn 1979\, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin\, an anarchist political prisoner in the US at the time\, issued a “Draft Proposal for an ABC Network” in hopes that it would initiate a united mass movement rather than individual collectives. This proposal influenced the growth of ABC for over a decade\, and in 1995 several groups banded together to form the ABC Federation of which Philly ABC is still a member. In addition to roughly a dozen chapters across so-called North America\, there are chapters in South America\, Europe and Asia. As anarchists\, we support a diversity of tactics and aim to support current political prisoners as they see fit. Most chapters on Turtle Island prioritize support for Black and Indigenous liberation struggles in addition to people from anarchist and other anti-authoritarian movements.
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/philly-abc-letter-writing/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Closed Thursday\, 11/24
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be closed on Thursday\, November 24th. On Friday we’ll open at noon and close at 9 p.m. \nPhoto by CakeWalk
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/closed-thursday-11-24/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221123T170000
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-nov-23/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T150000
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SUMMARY:💾🌾 Permacomputing Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday\, November 20th at 1:00 PM EST. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E\, PHL) or via Jitsi audio stream. \n➡️ Jitsi Stream Link
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/permacomputing-november/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221123T155646Z
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SUMMARY:🐘 An introduction to Mastodon & the fediverse
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for an alternative to Twitter? Join us Saturday\, November 19th at 1:00 p.m. for a Mastodon/fediverse onboarding session with Nelson Chu Pavlosky (@skyfaller@jawns.club). Nelson is an admin and mod at jawns.club\, a Philly-centric Mastodon instance. \nYou’ll learn about Mastodon‘s history\, how it works\, and how it fits into the wider fediverse. We’ll help you get set up if you don’t have an account\, and we’ll recommend people you might want to follow. \n➡️ Video Link\nRegister (optional but helpful):
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/mastodon-onboarding/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T190000
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SUMMARY:Bleeding Control Basics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Philadelphia 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 many people as possible. \nThis workshop is free. \nRegister:
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/bleeding-control-nov-17/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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CREATED:20221106T183222Z
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-nov-16/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T150000
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SUMMARY:🪡 Hands-On Darning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, November 13th at 1:00 p.m. we’ll host a darning workshop and mending session. Total beginners welcome! \nRegister:
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/darning-workshop/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T120000
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SUMMARY:☀️ Solar Circuit Bending Workshop at The Chocolate Factory
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 12th from noon to 2 p.m. we’re running our Solar Circuit Bending Workshop at The Chocolate Factory (2201 Margaret St.\, PHL). It’s part of a music & electronics festival called Velocities\, which runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Hope to see you there! \nIn this workshop you’ll build a tiny solar-powered musical instrument. You’ll start by building a simple oscillator circuit using two NOT gates to generate a square wave. Then you’ll add a push switch and a potentiometer to adjust the pitch. Beginners are welcome! Each participant will get a free kit with a breadboard and all the components. \nThis workshop is full! \n  \n\n\nSaturday November 12th\, Meantime will host Velocities\, a one time special event in the Philadelphia Blumenthal Chocolate Factory. Highlighting analog culture\, the event features a vendor marketplace curated by Now+Then Marketplace\, modular synth sounds by Modular on the Spot Philly\, and a series of workshops and musical performances! \nThe event takes place on the first and second floors of the currently vacant\, concrete-frame factory whose historic structure was the birthplace of the iconic SnoCaps\, Goobers and Raisinets among other candies. The market section will host 40 local artists\, artisans\, and collectors with handmade and vintage products\, including vinyl\, books\, art\, and fashion\, as well as local food and non-alcoholic beverage vendors. Attendees will be invited to adventure through a modular synth garden with Philadelphia-based musicians creating unique sounds in the reverberant space. Musical equipment manufacturers and artists will be on hand to help guests see\, touch and test-drive new and vintage modular components at the synth swap meet. Workshops led by Iffy Books and Sound Museum Collective are open to the public throughout the day on site. Rounding out the evening \, attendees are welcomed to a quadraphonic performance by artists including draft/ patch/ weave\, Chris Powell\, Tina Kalakay\, and Phil Yeah. \n\n\nEvent info on Eventbrite \n \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-circuit-bending-nov-12/
LOCATION:The Chocolate Factory\, 2201 Margaret St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19137\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T210000
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SUMMARY:🎥 FFmpeg Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. we’ll host a free workshop on FFmpeg\, an essential command-line tool for transcoding audio and video files (i.e.\, converting them from one format to another). \nHere’s our zine on FFmpeg\, which covers Windows\, macOS\, and Linux:\n• Screen reading PDF\n• Print-imposed PDF \nRegistration (optional but helpful):\n\n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/ffmpeg-workshop/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20221106T182949Z
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-nov-9/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
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SUMMARY:📚 Tabling at Philly Zine Fest 2022
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be tabling at Philly Zine Fest! (And the shop will be open 12–8 p.m. as usual.) \nThe Philly Zine Fest returns live and in person! \nSaturday\, November 5\, 2022 from 12–5pm \nMitten Hall at Temple University (1913 N. Broad Street\, Philadelphia PA) \nHosted by the Center for Humanities at Temple\, with major support from Temple University Libraries \nThis event is organized by The Soapbox Community Print Shop & Zine Library.
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/philly-zine-fest-2022/
LOCATION:Mitten Hall at Temple Univesity\, 1913 N Broad St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221107
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SUMMARY:Zine Camp 2022 in Rotterdam: Virtual Zine Swap
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Zine Swap & IFFY Books\nNovember 5–6\, 2022\n12:00–20:00 [Rotterdam time] \nAlso this year the Virtual Zine Swap is active again. This is a program which can accessed both at the physical location and online! \nThe idea is that you upload a PDF or HTML of your zines for others to download\, and also download zines yourself! We want to encourage the swap aspect of zine festivals but also in a safe and easy way for everyone\, including those who are unable to join IRL. \nThis year we added special zines from IFFY books. This philladelphia collective is focused on hacking\, free culture and permacomputing. \nIn order to take part in the physical location\, please bring a USB with your own contribution\, but also plenty of space to download other’s zines. The online version will be accessible via a username and password which will be released via our socials on the evening of Friday 4th. \nLet’s get swapping! \nhttps://zinecamp2022.hotglue.me/?misc
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/zine-camp-2022/
LOCATION:WORM (Rotterdam)\, Boomgaardsstraat 71\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T203000
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SUMMARY:🐌 The Degrowth of Social Media: a short film by KC Legacion
DESCRIPTION:THE DEGROWTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA\na short film by KC Legacion \nBased on their master’s research\, KC Legacion has produced a short film that reimagines social media in ways that support socioecological transformations. The film offers a conceptual model of social media informed by degrowth: a framework that (1) critiques societies driven by the need for infinite economic growth and (2) cultivates alternative ways of life centered around values like care\, autonomy\, and sufficiency. Motivated by the calls to make research more accessible through the synthesis of art and scholarship and drawing upon their years of experience as an actor and videographer\, KC’s project contains two storylines: one live action and one animated. In the first narrative\, KC introduces their model of a convivial social media ecosystem in a Twitch livestream during the present day; in the second\, a pensive narrator recounts a hypothetical story of rebuilding in the Greater Houston Area using convivial social media after several disasters unfold in the year 2027. KC worked with local artist Alex Sickel on the animation. \n30-minute screening followed by a Q&A. Masks are encouraged. \nKC Legacion is a contributor at Degrowth.info. \nSupport for “The Degrowth of Social Media” has been provided by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation\, the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography. \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/degrowth-film/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T200000
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-nov-2/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220914T173450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221030T151530Z
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SUMMARY:Fundraise Like Hell: A Benefit for Project SAFE with Kim Kelly
DESCRIPTION:➡️ Video Stream Link\n➡️ Donate to @PHLRUA on Venmo\nWhat can sex workers’ labor organizing teach the contemporary labor movement? Join Kim Kelly (author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor) for a reading and a panel of Project SAFE participants for a discussion about the intersections of sex workers’ labor struggles and the broader labor movement in the United States. Sex workers have organized for workplace protections in strip clubs\, against dangerous online regulations\, to share information about bad dates\, to help each other with rent and bills\, and more. \nProject SAFE is a grassroots\, direct-service\, and peer-based harm reduction organization. We organize with and provide women- and queer-centered services with a focus on community members living and working in the street economies in Kensington. \nWhen: Oct. 30\, 1:00–2:30pm\nWhere: Iffy Books / 319 N. 11th St. 3E\, PHL\nCost: $10–$30 sliding scale at the door; all proceeds benefit Project SAFE\nAccessibility: This event will be hybrid (email safephila@gmail.com for details). The space is accessible by public transit. There will be two bathrooms available\, one of which is wheelchair accessible. \nThe building has five steps leading from the street level to the first floor landing where the elevator is located. The elevator’s entryway is 29 inches wide. To arrange assistance or a ramp\, send an email to iffybooks@iffybooks.net
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/fundraise-like-hell/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221029T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220802T034033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T195839Z
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SUMMARY:🚉 How to Make Beautiful (and Helpful) Maps of Your Commute with Emily Boda
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 29th at 2 p.m. EDT\, Emily Boda will give a talk on how to make a heat map visualization that shows commute times to a specific location. Here’s a blog post about the project. \nThis will be a hands-on workshop\, so you may want to bring a laptop if you have one. \n➡️ Video Stream Link\nRegister (optional but helpful):
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/make-commute-maps/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220930T183802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T192611Z
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-oct-26/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220915T170422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T204535Z
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SUMMARY:☀️ Solar Circuit Bending Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, October 23rd at 2:00 p.m. we’ll meet outdoors at The Rail Park to build tiny solar-powered musical instruments. Each participant will receive a free kit with a breadboard\, solar panel\, and all the required components. \nYou can enter The Rail Park at N. 13th and Noble St. (wheelchair accessible) or enter at the staircase on Callowhill St. between 11th St. and 12th St. We’ll meet by the wooden deck area\, just east of 12th St. \n Supported by the Engaged Humanities Studio (EHS) program at Swarthmore College. \nRegistration is now closed! If you want\, you can enter your name to join the waiting list:\n \n\nHere’s the oscillator circuit we’ll build:
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-circuit-bending/
LOCATION:The Rail Park\, 1300 Noble Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20221021T025852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T033128Z
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SUMMARY:Tabling at WOPR Summit & Opening at 5 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Iffy Books will be tabling at WOPR Summit 0x01 on Friday\, October 21st. We’ll be there roughly 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. \nThat means our shop at 319 N. 11th St. will open at 5 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. Sorry for the inconvenience! We’ll be open until 9 p.m.\n \n> WOPR Summit is an immersive hacking conference focused on hardware\, software\, and wireless technologies.\nOur next event\, WOPR Summit 0x01\, will be held on Oct 20-21\, 2022 at Temple University in Mazur Hall.\nRead our announcement for more updates and details. \nOur 0x01 conference schedule is available here \nWhile not required\, we request that you register at our Eventbrite link so that we can track headcount; and by registering\, you’ve entered a raffle!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/wopr-summit-2022/
LOCATION:Mazur Hall at Temple University\, 1835 N 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220919T153646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T190921Z
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SUMMARY:🦜 Reading Group: Multispecies Cities
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 19th\, we’ll discuss our first collection of short stories\, Multispecies Cities\, which gathers work from writers across Asia and the Pacific to imagine futures that emphasize the importance of interspecies justice. \nRegister:
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/multispecies-cities/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20221017T163332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T182345Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for "Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze"
DESCRIPTION:“Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze”\nFeaturing the work of Kelsey Halliday Johnson\, Lisa Marie Patzer and Roopa Vasudevan \nOpening reception: October 18\, 2022\n5:15pm – 7:00pm\nAnnenberg School for Communication\, Room 500\n3620 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\n\nThe opening reception is open to the public. More event info here.\nAlgorithms and computation are driving more and more of our daily decision-making processes than ever before. The digital\, in many ways\, can almost be considered a filter: guiding the choices we make and the opportunities we are allowed to see\, rendering certain practices hypervisible and “natural” while obscuring others. \nThis exhibition features three artists with deep connections to Philadelphia\, who surface tensions between what is visible to the computer eye and what we are able to see and interpret as human beings. The work asks the viewer to consider how the intervention of the digital into practices that have traditionally centered human vision changes the way we see\, interpret and understand — and\, by the same token\, what could be possible if humans insisted on claiming their own gaze within processes that attempt to exclude them altogether. \nThis exhibition was organized by Roopa Vasudevan. \n \nHere’s a list of books we chose for the exhibit: \n• ‘Blockchain Chicken Farm’ by Xiaowei Wang (2020) \n• ‘A Hacker Manifesto’ by Mackenzie Wark (2004) \n• ‘The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty’ by Benjamin H. Bratton (2016) \n• ‘Atlas of AI: Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence’ by Kate Crawford (2021) \n• ‘How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism’ by Cory Doctorow (2021) \n• ‘Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence\, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism’ by Justin Joque (2022) \n• ‘Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job’ by Gavin Mueller (2021) \n• ‘Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data\, Controlling Our Lives\, and Taking Over the World’ by Jathan Sadowski (2020) \n• ‘What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley’\nby Adrian Daub (2020) \n• ‘Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest’ by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum (2016) \n• ‘Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands’ by Daniel J. Barrett (2016) \n• ‘Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet’ by Tim Hwang (2020) \n• ‘Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring\, the Surveillance State\, and the Future of Mass Incarceration’ by James Kilgore (2022) \n• ‘Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism’ by Jillian C. York (2022) \n• ‘Identified: Facial Recognition in Feature Films’ by Joyce S. Lee \n• ‘Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition’ by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun w/ Alex Barnett (2021) \n• ‘Your Linux Toolbox’ by Julia Evans (2019) \n• ‘Machine Learning Pocket Reference: Working with Structured Data in Python’ by Matt Harrison (2019) \n• ‘The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra’ by Shin Takahashi\, Iroha Inoue\, and Trend-Pro Co. (2012) \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/selective-attention-opening/
LOCATION:Annenberg School for Communication\, 3620 Walnut St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221016T150000
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SUMMARY:💾🌾 Permacomputing Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday\, October 16th at 1:00 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E\, PHL) or via Jitsi audio stream. \n➡️ Jitsi Stream Link
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/permacomputing-october/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220807T012635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T173048Z
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SUMMARY:'Choose Your Own Adventure: Inventing a Form to Fit Your Content' with Tenacity Plys
DESCRIPTION:Found-document fiction can be dismissed as a gimmick\, but Tenacity Plys’s new novella Family Curse – Field Notebooks (1880-2020) proves that when the form fits the content\, that’s when the magic happens. Ten will give a reading\, then discuss how xe crafted the form to fit the content while developing the story. Plus\, xe’ll give a writing prompt so you can try out the same principles yourself! \n➡️ Video Stream Link\n📔 They say in town that every generation\, fairies lure a member of Virgil’s family into the local woods\, never to be seen again. Virgil doesn’t really care about that; they’re just squatting at their aunt’s vacant house during quarantine. But one night\, they’re awoken by a knocking at the back door that leads them into a tangle of family secrets\, and a mystery that’s as heartbreaking as it is chilling. \n📔 To avoid disappearing themself\, Virgil has to piece together journal entries from three generations of their relatives\, who all spent their lives wondering why their siblings were taken. If Virgil can solve the puzzle\, they won’t just save themselves — they’ll put more than a hundred years’ worth of family history to rest. This story of a neurodivergent family’s struggle to understand themselves is by turns spooky\, funny\, sad\, and hopeful despite everything. \n👤 Tenacity Plys is a nonbinary autistic writer based in Brooklyn\, with publications in Hobart\, Ethel\, Bullshit Lit\, Alien Buddha\, Word Gathering\, and Pif Magazine. Xir Pushcart-nominated story “I Love My AI Son” will be featured in Alien Buddha’s Best of 2022 anthology at the end of this year. You can find more of xir work at tenacityplys.com! \nSaturday\, October 15th at 2:00 p.m. at Iffy Books \n \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/choose-your-own-adventure/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220902T214723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T144512Z
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SUMMARY:VisiData Workshop with Dave Slinger
DESCRIPTION:At this workshop you’ll learn about VisiData\, a lightweight command-line tool that can help you explore just about any kind of dataset\, from spreadsheets to databases. Led by Dave Slinger. \nVisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet\, the efficiency of the terminal\, and the power of Python\, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease. \n➡️ What is VisiData? \n➡️ Video Stream Link\nRegister:\n\n \n  \n 
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/visidata/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iffy Books":MAILTO:iffybooks@iffybooks.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190427
CREATED:20220930T183650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T183837Z
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SUMMARY:✏️ The Writing Room at Iffy Books
DESCRIPTION:Want to get some writing done? \nCome co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized into three 40-minute units of silent writing with 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins in-between. \nBYO coffee\, water\, computer chargers\, notepads\, etc. See you there!
URL:https://iffybooks.net/event/the-writing-room-oct-12/
LOCATION:Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St.)\, 319 N. 11th St. #2I\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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