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Victory Pints at Wild East Brewing

WEBSITE (http://www.victorypints.com/) TWITTER (https://twitter.com/victory_pints) FACEBOOK (https://www.facebook.com/victorypints) Every Monday we bring some serious board game madness to Wild East Brewing from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. They like board games; we like board games... it's a match made in heaven! WHAT TYPE OF GAMES ARE PLAYED? All types. Real short bluffing games decorated with skulls and flowers. Cooperative games fighting horrible diseases. Classic euro games where you haggle over sheep and wheat. Whether you want to fight unspeakable horrors in Arkham or build railroads across America or rebuild your farm after the black plague (more fun than it sounds) you can probably find a game you would like. Some games you might see are 7 Wonders, Settlers of Catan, Pandemic, Dominion, Dixit, Puerto Rico, Eldritch Horror, Ticket to Ride, Carcasonne among many others. You're also welcome to bring any game you want to play! I DON'T KNOW THESE GAMES? IS IT COOL IF I COME? We're very friendly and if you have no idea what the hell we're talking about just trust us when we say it's ton of fun. We'll have tons of games and we're very happy to show you the rules. Hang out, haves some drinks, and learn a new game. Questions? Comments? Contact us at info@victorypints.com

Free Charles Oakley

Ivy League Singles Mixer in NYC!

Step into an evening where elegance meets opportunity at Ocean Prime, one of NYC’s most sophisticated destinations for connection and conversation. This exclusive singles mixer invites you to unwind in a polished, vibrant setting where every detail is designed to spark something meaningful. Whether you're arriving with curiosity or intention, the night begins the moment you walk through the door. Picture yourself surrounded by an inviting crowd of like-minded singles, each one open to new connections, genuine conversations, and unforgettable moments. The ambiance is warm yet refined, creating the perfect backdrop to meet someone new—whether it’s a spark of romance, a new friendship, or simply a great story waiting to unfold. There’s no pressure—just an easy, natural flow that makes introductions feel effortless and exciting. Every interaction holds the potential for something more, and every moment is yours to explore. As the evening unfolds, you’ll find yourself drawn into conversations that feel easy, engaging, and refreshingly real. This is more than just a night out—it’s an experience designed to bring people together in a way that feels elevated yet completely approachable. The connections you make here could be the start of something truly special. Join us in the heart of NYC for a night where new friendships are formed, romantic possibilities come alive, and connections happen naturally. Your next great story could begin at Ocean Prime—secure your place and see where the night takes you. **Can't make this event? Sign up for FREE on our website to get updates on future events:** [www.Intelligent.Events](https://www.intelligent.events/ "https://www.Intelligent.Events")

OC Race - Intermediate/Advanced

ONLINE LIVE- 80s & 90s (Music, Movies, TV, Sports, Culture) Trivia

**Prepay required at :** [https://www.socialevents123.com/event-details.aspx?id=13387](https://www.socialevents123.com/event-details.aspx?id=13387) Joining the event is easy and convenient as you can participate from the comfort and safety of your own home using either a computer with a webcam or a smartphone, iPad, or tablet. ABOUT Our in-person Trivia events have always been a hit, attracting a large number of enthusiastic participants. Now, we have developed an innovative system that allows you to enjoy these events without leaving your home. HOW IT WORKS This event takes place entirely on zoom. You will be able to see and hear the other participants as you play along. Moreover, you'll have the opportunity to meet and interact with other trivia enthusiasts. When the game begins, the host will ask a series of trivia questions. Your objective is to come up with the correct answers and jot them down on your paper. Once a round is complete (typically consisting of around 6 questions), we will go through the answers and determine the participant with the highest score for that round. The winner will receive a raffle ticket, giving them a chance to win exciting prizes at the end of the event. Prizes may include Amazon Gift Cards, free entry to future events, and other exciting goodies. Throughout the event, we will have multiple rounds of play and a virtual system in place to introduce you to other participants. HOW TO ACCESS THE VIRTUAL ROOM After purchasing your ticket, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link. Simply click on the link to log in and join the virtual room for the event. RSVPS ON HERE ARE NOT REFLECTIVE OF ACTUAL ATTENDANCE as this is a multi group event. **Prepay required at :** [https://www.socialevents123.com/event-details.aspx?id=13387](https://www.socialevents123.com/event-details.aspx?id=13387) Cost: $11.99- $20 depending on how early you register.

Astoria Park: Cars & Chat

A meetup at Astoria Park to talk cars with other enthusiasts! Anything with 4 wheels and a VIN is welcome 😁

Rust NYC: Reversing the Great Firewall and Geospatial Rust

Join us on **Thursday, May 7th at Nominal** for a Rust NYC meetup featuring two talks about engineering at Internet scale. Doors open at **6:30 p.m.** so attendees have time to grab pizza and socialize, and talks begin at **7:15 p.m.** Our first talk, **“Reverse Engineering China’s Great Firewall,”** will be given by **Jackson Sippe**, a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research focuses on privacy, network security, and censorship circumvention. Jackson is best known for his work on China’s Great Firewall, including the discovery of a memory disclosure vulnerability dubbed **Wallbleed** and the reverse engineering of several censorship techniques used by the firewall. China’s Great Firewall is one of the largest and most sophisticated censorship systems ever deployed, but what does it actually do on the wire? Jackson will walk through several years of measurement and reverse engineering work on the GFW, including discoveries about how it blocks fully encrypted traffic, how it adapted to disrupt QUIC, and how vulnerabilities in its infrastructure exposed surprising weaknesses. More broadly, this is a talk about the engineering tradeoffs behind censorship at Internet scale: what it takes to inspect and interfere with live traffic, where those systems are effective, and where their complexity creates consequences for users far beyond China. Our second talk, **“Geospatial Rust: How to Go Places… and Get There Fast Without Crashing,”** will be given by **Yuri Astrakhan**, Principal Engineer at Rivian. Yuri will give a practical introduction to mapping and explain how Rust and related technologies are changing the geospatial ecosystem. The talk will cover open source tools and libraries related to mapping, where Rust is being adopted, how different projects compete and cooperate, and the story of **MapLibre**—including where Rust fits into its future. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of the modern geospatial stack, why performance and reliability matter so much in mapping, and where Rust is starting to make a real impact. Together, these talks explore two very different but deeply technical domains: censorship infrastructure and geospatial systems. Both involve complex networks, performance-sensitive software, open protocols, and hard reliability constraints. Whether you are interested in Rust, networking, security, mapping, reverse engineering, or large-scale systems design, this meetup should offer a rare and practical look at how real-world infrastructure behaves under pressure. **Speakers:** **Jackson Sippe** is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he conducts empirical research on privacy, network security, and censorship circumvention. He is best known for his work on China’s Great Firewall, including the discovery of the Wallbleed memory disclosure vulnerability and the reverse engineering of several censorship techniques used by the firewall. More at sipperior.com. **Yuri Astrakhan** is a Principal Engineer at Rivian and a long-time contributor to open source mapping technology. His work spans geospatial systems, open map infrastructure, and the evolution of MapLibre and related tools. **[Lawrence Harvey](https://www.lawrenceharvey.com/)** is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner, with Ross providing support as a co-organizer and financial support. The space is generously sponsored by **[Nominal](https://nominal.io/).**

The Clarity of Social Accessibility

This event will be online on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/maZiJhGQPMk) and in-person (New York City). **The speaker and live stream starts at 7:30 pm ET**. In-person attendees may arrive as early as 7 pm ET. If arriving late, please leave a comment on this page and someone will come down ASAP. **Description** Without social accessibility, or the acceptance of disabled people as peers in life value, the struggle to infuse society with the physical, environmental and digital elements of accessibility that we all require will remain aspirational. The creation of access as a design driver, not only in physical or digital space but also throughout society is the prerequisite to making accessibility like breathing, because disability is living. Our challenge is for recognition, not inclusion. Inclusion is an expression of an empathetic offering to come inside a boundary set by another. Yet, we are already there, and it is up to us to draw – or erase – any boundary lines. Inclusion was begun as and remains a tool of privilege that highlights, inadvertently or not, the prime position of the extender or enabler of inclusivity. Our challenge now is to complete the reframing of disability and disabled living as a social continuum like any other. This presentation is a discussion of the ongoing resistance to the comprehensive adoption of accessibility in all forms, where it comes from and why it endures. It offers a framework for dismantling it called Social Accessibility. The presentation answers these questions: * Is Social Accessibility a third foundation of accessibility or something else? Where does it belong? * What’s the Contagion Response? * What’s wrong with inclusion? * What is the role of empathy in understanding disability and in recognizing disability equity? * Is there something we can learn from older people entering disability? * Where do I start? **Presenter bio** Peter Slatin is a writer, accessibility consultant, and disability advocate. Peter, who is blind, founded Slatin Group LLC, in 2012 to provide education and training on disability equity and social accessibility to clients across a range of business and civic enterprises. Peter is an adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology and an award-winning journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. He received the 2007 Oculus Award for Excellence in Architectural Journalism from AIA NYC. He was a 2020-21 Encore Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project, and was named a 2021 Accessibility Champion by Visions/Services for the Blind. Peter is Chair of the board of directors of Empire State Employment Resources for the Blind, a board director of the Colorado Center for the Blind, and a founding director of Camp Possibilities International, which supports blind children and youth in Kenya. Peter holds an M.F.A. from Hunter College CUNY and a B.F.A. from SUNY New Paltz. **Accessibility** The presentation will have human captions [CC], not automatic captions. For ASL preferred speakers, learn about the [Aira ASL App](https://aira.io/aira-asl-app/), and download it before the event. For the Blind and Low Vision community, learn about the [Aira Explorer App](https://aira.io/aira-explorer-app/) and download it before the event. To access the online webinar for audio description, use the A11yNYC Access Offer to call, or simply inform your Visual Interpreter that you'd like that offer applied when you connect. For additional accessibility requirements, please email meryl@equalentry.com **two weeks** **before** the event. **Livestream** [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/maZiJhGQPMk). Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG. **Location details** The event is on the 4th floor. Everyone must be accompanied to the event on the 4th floor. Because everyone needs to be escorted, please arrive early or on time. When you enter the ground floor, a representative from A11yNYC will be there to provide elevator access. The building is near several transit stops: 6 train * Spring Street (non-accessible stop): 100 feet * Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.4 miles B/D/F/M * Broadway-Lafayette St., 0.2 miles NQRW trains * Prince Street (non-accessible stop): 0.2 miles * Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.3 miles M1 / M55 Bus lines * Broadway/Spring Street stop: 500 feet Cabs and rideshares can let passengers out right near the building entrance **Important note** Google Maps currently incorrectly pins the location around the corner on Crosby Street. The entrance is not on Crosby. The entrance is on Spring Street, inside the Marc Jacobs International building. It is roughly halfway between Crosby and Lafayette, almost directly across Spring Street from the Chipotle restaurant. **Traveling to the event?** We recommend [Hotel on Rivington](https://www.hotelonrivington.com/) or [Crosby Street Hotel](https://www.firmdalehotels.com/hotels/crosby-street-hotel). **Accreditation** All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC). **Sponsors** Thanks to [Aira](https://aira.io/), [AKQA](https://www.akqa.com/), [Deque](https://www.deque.com/), [Evinced](https://www.evinced.com/), [Equal Entry](https://equalentry.com/), and [Fable](https://makeitfable.com/) for sponsoring. Want to be a sponsor? Contact meryl@equalentry.com

Weekly Prospect Park Wednesday Morning Ride

Every Wednesday! Anyone looking for inspiration and community for your morning ride? Let's ride the Prospect Park Loop with a pack of Bromptons. We'll ride two times around Prospect Park. Afterwards, we'll have lattes, croissants and conversation at a bakery cafe 4 blocks from the park (or zoom off to work if your time is limited). This is intended as a short and sweet ride before your morning commute and people typically depart the cafe around 9-9:30am. You can view the route on [Ride with GPS](https://ridewithgps.com/routes/46497135) *We stick to our departure time: 7:35am* *As a morning ride, we need to ensure a consistent start time so people can plan around it for their work day. Thus, we'll unfold and ride at 7:35am. If you are running late, please post in the comments and we'll meet you for the second loop.* Happy Riding! BY ATTENDING this event you ACKNOWLEDGE and ACCEPT the following: 1. I ACKNOWLEDGE, agree, and represent that I understand the nature of bicycling activities and that I am qualified, in good health, and in proper physical condition to participate in such activity. I further acknowledge that the ride-out will be conducted over public pavements and facilities open to the public, and upon which the hazards of traveling are to be expected. I further agree and warrant that if, at any time, I believe conditions to be unsafe, I will immediately discontinue further participation. 2. I FULLY UNDERSTAND that (a) BICYCLING ACTIVITIES INVOLVE RISKS AND DANGERS OF SERIOUS BODILY INJURY, INCLUDING PERMANENT DISABILITY, PARALYSIS AND DEATH ("Risks"); (b) these Risks and dangers may be caused by my own actions or inactions, the actions or inactions of others participating in the ride-out, the conditions in which the ride-out takes place, or the negligence of others; (c) there may be OTHER RISKS AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LOSSES either not known to me or not readily foreseeable at this time; and I FULLY ACCEPT AND ASSUME ALL SUCH RISKS AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSSES, COSTS, AND DAMAGES I may incur as a result of my participation; (d) I acknowledge that Brompton Bicycle, event organizers, ride leaders, and volunteers will not be liable for any accidents or damages through this ride-out. DO NOT REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING.

Lose in the final seconds

Open Paddle: Pre-Season Paddle