There is good news for net neutrality coming out of California today, where two State Senators have combined their bills, SB 822 and SB 460, ahead of a key hearing this Wednesday before the Communications and Conveyance Committee. AT&T and other ISPs have been pouring money into lobbying and spreading misinformation, and were attempting to kill both bills by playing them against each other.
The combined bills leave all critical net neutrality protections intact, and if passed would set a gold standard for state-level open Internet legislation across the country. But telecom monopolies are still pushing hard to kill or water down the bills at the hearing this Wednesday, and contacts on the ground in Sacramento indicate that the committee chairman Miguel Santiago is being heavily lobbied by ISPs to do just that.
“It’s unthinkable that California Democrats would even consider weakening an extremely popular net neutrality bill in the immediate wake of the FCC’s attack on our Internet freedom,” said Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights group with more than 350,000 members in California. “The free and open Internet is essential for every social movement combating corruption and authoritarianism. California Assembly members need to listen to their constituents, small business owners, and community groups – not AT&T’s lobbyists. The whole Internet is watching.”
Computational Fabrication research from the Interactive Geometry Lab can turn 3D model files into objects with textiles, connecting parts and forming shape using zip fasteners:
Fabrication from developable parts is the basis for arts such as
papercraft and needlework, as well as modern architecture and CAD in
general, and it has inspired much research. We observe that the assembly
of complex 3D shapes created by existing methods often requires first
fabricating many small parts and then carefully following instructions
to assemble them together. Despite its significance, this error prone
and tedious process is generally neglected in the discussion. We present
the concept of zippables – single, two dimensional,
branching, ribbon-like pieces of fabric that can be quickly zipped up
without any instructions to form 3D objects. Our inspiration comes from
the so-called zipit bags (just-zipit.com), which are made of a
single, long ribbon with a zipper around its boundary. In order to
assemble the bag, one simply needs to zip up the ribbon. Our method
operates in the same fashion, but it can be used to approximate a wide
variety of shapes. Given a 3D model, our algorithm produces plans for a
single 2D shape that can be laser cut in few parts from fabric or paper.
A zipper can then be attached along the boundary by sewing, or by
gluing using a custom-built fastening rig. We show physical and virtual
results that demonstrate the capabilities of our method and the ease
with which shapes can be assembled.
A scheme showing the topology of the dyadic (or indeed p-adic)
integers. Each clump is an open set made up of other clumps. The numbers
in the left-most quarter (containing 1) are all the odd numbers. The
next group to the right is the even numbers not divisible by 4.
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