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[Prospect Park] "Love Rocks!" Rock Painting, Cacao + Spreading Kindness
Sun, Jul 26, 3:00 PMWe will gather in nature in Prospect Park to express our creativity, make friends and spread kindness through the joy of rock painting. No experience necessary - come as you are! ❤️ **What to expect:** * Outdoor fun in the sun **🌞** * Creativity + connection with like-minded souls **🎨👭** * Ceremonial-grade cacao **☕** * Vegan snacks **🥨🍎** We will paint our rocks + include positive messaging on the back. We will then leave them around the park with an uplifting note for people to find. The philosophy is that whoever truly needs it will find your rock. We will also each craft 1-2 rocks to bring home with us! No experience needed, no pressure - all are welcome, come as you are! Free to participate but will have donation QR set up at event if you’d like to donate! **Meeting Place:** We will meet at the Wellhouse in Prospect Park: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wellhouse/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xea721f8f25d45234?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111 where, depending on the amount of people and park conditions, we will either paint at the picnic table in the nearby green space, or I will lead us on a 5 minute walk to a shaded grassy area where we can paint on blankets on the ground. **What to bring:** Please bring your own water bottle and anything else you'd like (food, blanket, etc) to make yourself more comfortable! **I will be providing the following supplies:** \- 2\-3 lightweight picnic blankets \- Rocks for painting \- Acrylic paint pens for the group to share \- Cardboard squares to paint \+ dry our rocks \- Basic vegan snacks \- 1 large thermos of ceremonial cacao to share \- Eco\-friendly paper cups \- Baby wipes for our hands \- A gallon of water to refill our bottles \- Icebreaker questions for chit\-chat\! :\) **A rough schedule of events include:** \- 11am: Meeting in front of the [Wellhouse](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wellhouse/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xea721f8f25d45234?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111) (I will be there by 10:45am to meet anyone coming early!) \- 11:15: Walking and setting up our space \- 11:45: Introduction to creating kindness rocks \- 12pm: Paint rocks\, sip cacao\, have snacks and get to know each other\! \- 1:30: Attach our "kindness/love note\(s\)" to our dried rock\(s\) \- 1:45: Goodbyes and dispersing to place our kindness rocks around the park\. We may do this in pairs\, groups or solo\! **Notes:** This is an outdoor event and will be moved if it's expected to rain during the event. A $10 donation (or less - whatever you can afford!) via Venmo at the event is super appreciated to help cover the cost of hosting and supplies. ❤️ **About the rock painting:** Inspired by the [Abundant Love Project](https://www.instagram.com/abundantloveproject/) and [Kindness Rocks](https://www.thekindnessrocksproject.com/) projects, we will use paint pens to color and design our rocks and include positive messaging on the back such as "You are Loved" or "You Got This!" to leave around the park with a loving attached note for people to find. The philosophy is that whoever truly needs it will find your rock. We will also each craft 1-2 rocks to bring home with us! **About cacao:** In the ancient Mayan tradition, cacao (or chocolate in its purest form) is revered as a sacred plant medicine and ceremonial drink used to foster connection, gratitude, and communion with the heart. Many people describe ceremonial cacao as heart-opening as it promotes feelings of warmth, emotional presence, and connection. From a scientific perspective, cacao contains compounds such as theobromine, flavonoids, and phenylethylamine, which support the heart, circulation, mood, and a gentle sense of well-being.

An Intro to Soldering
Wed, Aug 5, 11:00 PMWelcome to our soldering basics class! This class is for beginners and designed to teach you a few important fundamentals on soldering, an essential skill for anyone interested in electronics or DIY projects. We’ll go over solder types, soldering temperatures, and basic through hole component soldering. You’ll learn techniques and tips on how to properly flow solder into a joint, and how to inspect it to ensure you have a good connection. All of this will be taught on a custom circuit board designed for practicing a variety of different circumstances and techniques, which is yours to take home after the class. No experience is necessary, and all equipment and tools will be provided for you to use during the class. The class will run around 1.5-2 hours.

AI vs AI: HR & Hiring
Fri, Aug 14, 4:00 PM**Summary:** What happens when job candidates use AI bots to find jobs, write resumes, prepare for interviews, and even submit applications automatically—while employers simultaneously deploy AI bots to screen candidates, conduct interviews, rank applicants, and make hiring recommendations? We are rapidly entering a world where the first interaction between employer and candidate may not involve a human being at all. This provocative presentation explores the emerging collision between artificial intelligence, employment practices, and the legal system itself. Drawing on a remarkable real-world experience report involving AI-driven interactions, we will examine how AI is reshaping every stage of the employment lifecycle—from job hunting and candidate screening to dispute resolution and litigation. Among the topics we will explore: • The rise of AI-powered job seekers and autonomous career agents • AI-driven candidate screening, interviewing, and hiring decisions • The growing "AI vs. AI" hiring ecosystem, where bots increasingly interact with other bots before humans become involved • Transparency, fairness, bias, explainability, and accountability challenges in AI-assisted employment decisions • The surprisingly low barriers to initiating lawsuits in the digital era and the growing phenomenon of nuisance and troll litigation • How generative AI is transforming legal research, case preparation, evidence analysis, and litigation strategy • The future of AI-generated claims, AI-generated defenses, and AI-assisted legal proceedings • The broader societal implications when algorithms participate in both hiring decisions and legal disputes arising from those decisions As AI adoption accelerates, organizations face a difficult balancing act: leveraging automation for efficiency while navigating unprecedented legal, ethical, and regulatory risks. At the same time, candidates must learn how to compete—and sometimes collaborate—with increasingly sophisticated AI systems that influence employment outcomes. Recent reporting shows that AI interviews, AI recruiters, and AI screening systems are rapidly moving from experimentation into mainstream hiring practice. This session will feature a distinguished panel of two highly experienced attorneys whose collective expertise spans artificial intelligence, intellectual property, employment law, HR technology, and the legal implications of AI-enabled workforce management. Together, they will provide practical insights into the opportunities, risks, and emerging legal precedents that organizations, HR leaders, technologists, attorneys, and job seekers need to understand. The future may not be human versus machine. It may be AI versus AI—with humans left to determine the rules. **Brad Frazer's Bio:** Brad Frazer is a partner with Hawley Troxell and is Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property & Internet practice group. In addition to emphasizing and focusing on all facets of Internet law, Intellectual Property law, and Information Technology law, he also helps clients with related transactional work and litigation. Brad is a published novelist, and he has also written extensively for national legal publications and law blogs. He is also a frequent speaker on internet, intellectual property, and computer law topics and is a regular guest lecturer at Boise State University on those subjects. A Boise native, Brad began his legal career in 1989 as an intellectual property attorney and commercial litigator at a Boise-based law firm. In 1997 he accepted an in-house position as Senior Intellectual Property Counsel with Fortune 1000 company, Micron Electronics, Inc., and remained there through the company’s merger with Interland, Inc. (now Web.com), then the nation’s largest Web hosting company. He eventually became Deputy General Counsel for Micron Electronics, Inc., and Interland, Inc. From June 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Frazer served as Deputy General Counsel to MPC Computers, LLC, in Nampa, Idaho. LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfrazer/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfrazer/) **Jacob Downes Bio:** Jacob Downes is an associate in Hawley Troxell’s Litigation, Insurance, and Employment practice groups in Boise. Jacob received his J.D. cum laude from Notre Dame Law School in 2024 and went on to serve as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice G. Richard Bevan of the Idaho Supreme Court. During law school, he completed the 2023 Hawley Troxell Summer Associate Program, where he drafted motions, pleadings, & responses to charges of discrimination before the Idaho Human Rights Commission and observed client proceedings and oral arguments before the Idaho Supreme Court. Jacob also spent a semester as a legal intern for Notre Dame Law School’s Community Development Clinic, where he helped clients structure an LLC, obtain 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, and apply for property tax exemptions. Prior to law school, Jacob attended Oklahoma State University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Science in 2020. LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-downes-ba9249204/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-downes-ba9249204/)

Open House at Fat Cat Fab Lab
Wed, Jul 29, 11:00 PMIn-Person Open House at Fat Cat Fab Lab! Open House and Project Night: * Open House is casual and unstructured, come hang! * Get a tour of the space: Laser room, woodshop, metal shop, sewing area, 3D printing area, electronics lab, and more! * If you're looking for help with a project, stop by and meet members who may be able to help you with that cool new project you're totally stuck on! * If you're a non-member, this day is for you. You're welcome to use our space and hand tools to work on your projects! (Note: 3D printers available if your print completes during the meetup. Sorry, laser and CNC router reserved for members or those who've taken a class.) * If you're interested in joining as a Fat Cat Fab Lab member, in person participation at one of our Open House events is the first step towards becoming a member! See you there!

The Language Collective, Tuesdays Evening Language Exchange NYC
Tue, Jul 28, 11:00 PM**We are back to Lulla NYC!** *** We are meeting on the 2nd floor of Lulla NYC. Please take the stairs up or the elevator. We will be in the lobby bar area*** The Language Collective organizes weekly meetups held every Tuesday where language enthusiasts gather to practice and share different languages. Participation is free and open to all levels. To support the venue hosting the event, attendees are requested to purchase at least one drink during the meetup. The focus of this group is language learning and language exchange. This is a harassment-free event so please look after one another

Open Source System Administration Study Group
Sun, Jul 26, 6:00 PMThis group will learn about system administration topics with hands-on collaborative learning on a homelab setup of four Dell servers. A description of this session's plan in down below. We’ll deploy components like LDAP(authentication), Ansible (Infrastructure as Code), NextCloud (file storage), OpenStack (Cloud computing), OpenTofu (IaC Terraform fork), containerization and other open source software. We also intend to explore clustering, certainly high-availability and possibly compute clustering. We've setup the hardware, installed the OS, and established procedures and documentation standards. Now we're starting to work in small groups or individually on projects. An under-construction list of project ideas is at https://wiki.hackmanhattan.com/Project_Ideas. We have room for a few new people. Sign up to this event, come and do the exercise, and you're in. Join the Hack Manhattan Discord and say hello. DM me there with your email address so I can sign you up for a wiki account. Please bring a laptop if you can. We'll have a limited number of machines available you can use.
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