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Trump and the f-word

2020-08-282020-09-10 robla2 Comments

UPDATE: 2020-09-03 - I'm trying to force myself to use the visual editing tools for WordPress to edit this blog post. Please bear with me.

We’re getting down to the final stretch. There are only ~~eleven~~ TEN more weekends before the November 3rd election day. There are many elections that matter, but Biden vs Trump is the one that many of my Facebook friends are posting about. And the “f-word” keeps coming up. (EDIT: 2020-08-30 at 5:30pm – I’ve been cleaning this post up quite a bit based on the Facebook discussion)

To my friends and family who are registered members of the Democratic-party….

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Battle of the DMs

2020-07-292020-07-31 roblaLeave a comment

This is the "first IRC server", according to Wikipedia[1]. Back in my day, a "server" was a physical machine. The picture is from much later, but the machine is probably from 1987 or 1988. (robla updated this 2020-07-31 1:40am PDT... yes, robla really should go to bed) Who is going to win the battle of… Continue reading Battle of the DMs

Mastodon kinda kicks ass

2020-07-05 roblaLeave a comment

It really does. If you don't know what it is, see my RobLaWiki description (at <https://robla.miraheze.org/wiki/Mastodon> ), or see the Wikipedia article (at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)>), or just see my user profile: <https://mastodon.social/@robla>. This is the logo. I got it from here: File:Mastodon_Logotype_(Simple).svg

Blogging is dead; long live journaling!

2020-06-28 roblaLeave a comment

I have accounts on Quora, Twitter, Medium, reddit, Mastodon, myndmess, Electorama, Miraheze, GitHub, GitLab, and robla.net, among other. Blogging is so aughts. I'm going to cover just a few of the sites that I journal on here: Website(s): robla.net/RobLaWikiJournal: https://robla.mirahze.org/wiki/RobLa_journalMicroblog: https://mastodon.social/@robla (see also: https://twitter.com/robla)Website(s): Electorama/electowikiJournal: https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa/JournalMicroblog: https://twitter.com/electowikiWebsite(s): myndmess.orgJournal: https://myndmess.org/wiki/User:RobLa/JournalWebsite(s): Wikipedia (en)/Wikidata/WikimediaJournal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RobLa/JournalWebsite(s): MediaWikiJournal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa/Journal Those… Continue reading Blogging is dead; long live journaling!

Thinking about “flyover country”

2020-04-142020-08-30 roblaLeave a comment

Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA / File:Glacial_features_near_Beaver_Dam_Lake,_Wisconsin.jpg / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) UPDATE: 2020-04-24 - I posted most of what I was working on a few days ago over at Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-dont-most-liberals-realize/answer/Rob-Lanphier I still have some content for Daily Kos as well, but I'm still working out how to present it for the Daily Kos… Continue reading Thinking about “flyover country”

Why donate to a non-profit with a hard-to-pronounce name?

2019-12-232019-12-28 roblaLeave a comment

I'm joining the board of Miraheze! I explain why in my very long story about my relationship with electoral reform, MediaWiki, Wikipedia, Electorama and Electowiki. I also give you instructions for donating.

End of a chapter…

2019-11-052019-12-12 roblaLeave a comment

I didn't get a chance to publicly pontificate about Internet Archive while I was employed there. From March 2019 until very recently, I managed the Core Infrastructure team at Internet Archive. I suppose I did take one notable opportunity to blog about it. I wrote a blog post for blog.archive.org titled "Two Thin Strands of… Continue reading End of a chapter…

Replacing the jungle primary, December edition

2018-12-09 roblaLeave a comment

photo via Wikimedia Commons by Rich Niewiroski Jr. A few weeks ago, I posted "Replacing the jungle primary", where I outlined a couple of proposals that seemed like plausible replacements for California's current "top-two" primary system. I assigned both proposals jargon-y names, but I only want to highlight one of them: "Majority Approval Filter (MAF)". … Continue reading Replacing the jungle primary, December edition

Replacing the jungle primary

2018-11-202018-11-25 robla1 Comment

California's jungle primary can be replaced with an approval voting-based primary. This is a description of how it would work.

Voting Methods in The Perl Journal

2018-07-152018-07-16 roblaLeave a comment

Back in 1996, I wrote an article for The Perl Journal, which they published in the Volume 1, Issue 3 in Autumn 1996. There are several alternatives available for the article: A scan I made of my 1996 article "Perl, Politics, and Pairwise Voting: Perl as the Activist's Friend" - I used CamScanner to make a… Continue reading Voting Methods in The Perl Journal