{"id":629,"date":"2009-08-06T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=629"},"modified":"2009-08-06T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:42:24","slug":"how-to-break-out-of-the-ghetto-there-folks%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Way to break out of the ghetto there, folks\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong>People of Colour Meet &amp; Greet<\/strong>.\u00a0 Do you identify as a person of colour (racial minority, nonwhite, not of European ancestry, mixed race, etc.)? Come meet other fans of colour on Friday at 11:00 by the Programme area near Registration; we\u2019ll leave at 11:15 and go someplace to eat, talk, and just hang out. All people of color are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, just did my first Consciousness panel.\u00a0 On the minus side, I found out five minutes beforehand that I was suddenly the moderator.\u00a0 Back on the plus side, it was very well attended by the audience.\u00a0 Back on the minus side, it was not so well attended by the panelists, as Pat Cadigan didn&#8217;t show up at all.\u00a0 Which left just me and Kim Binsted and 90 minutes to kill. \u00a0On the upside, we did pretty damn good, and the audience was not only larger but also smart and enthusiastic.\u00a0 Together, we redefined the criterion for passing Turing Test:\u00a0 a program is intelligent if its chatroom conversation is sufficient to convince a horny male to relinquish his credit card info.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up, Paul Krugman in conversation with Charlie Stross.\u00a0 Now <em>that<\/em> should be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of Colour Meet &amp; Greet.\u00a0 Do you identify as a person of colour (racial minority, nonwhite, not of European ancestry, mixed race, etc.)? Come meet other fans of colour on Friday at 11:00 by the Programme area near Registration; we\u2019ll leave at 11:15 and go someplace to eat, talk, and just hang out. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}