rory strahan-mauk

look at it another way: a vote does not rank first, second, or third, but has an unordered "pick three" section, after which everyone else is ranked. this would have identical results to a top-three vote count, but potentially different results from single vote rcv.

i'm not sure what the full impact of this would be, just that my impulse is to avoid it

say in the above example, candidate D had 45 top-three votes, but only 10 were first choice. if three rcv processes are done, they are eliminated in the first round of the first and second processes, and those ten votes would be redistributed, creating a situation that wouldn't be possible otherwise

the people who ranked A would now have their first ranked votes be added to their 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩 ranked choice. this would continue until three candidates each had more than 50% of votes.

However, each of B, C, D, and E have more than 40 votes among them as either first, second, or third choice. In this situation, even though A has the most "first" rank votes, they do not have enough to go on to the second round.

in the current method, if candidate A has the most first-choice votes, they will "win" the first round.

in the more representational method, say out of 100 votes among five candidates, A has 40 votes as the first choice, but no votes for second or third.

for rcv to work with multiple winners 𝘹 the way it does with a single winner, it would need to attribute a vote to each top 𝘹 ranked candidates per ballot, rather than the top ranked only and choosing the winners from those tallies.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

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if there are circumstances under which you're willing to sacrifice one marginalized community there are circumstances under which you're willing to sacrifice every marginalized community

the nazis won't stop doing this until they're afraid to keep doing this

It is normal to feel insane when the entire political and journalist class across the Anglophone world is getting horned up over the idea of segregating, criminalizing, and exterminating you and all of your friends.

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

he’s still a nazi, just one of the good ones now

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

the extremely rough editing is because i didn't want to stare at these two freaks any longer than i had to

he's good

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People Are The Point I... uh... I think I wrote a manifesto.

My latest newsletter is about why being anti-genAI is to be pro-human.

It's about why it's time to fight. Why we need to fight. And it's about the cost of failure.

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Which is why I think it is important to state, early and often, that trans rights are a red line for me (and I hope for many of you). Push Democrats to nominate someone who doesn't sit around doing podcasts where he nods along with anti-trans ghouls.

there comes a point where failing to choose a side is indistinguishable from siding with the aggressor, and it was way back there

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We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

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jfc i thought i wouldn't post this until next year

I think it’s important to remember fascism does not only win because of how people vote in a single election. Or even two. That is not the first and only cause. And if your institutions were resistant to fascism it would not succeed in consolidating power within a few months.

one in the original post too

this is just laziness, the dems want to/feel entitled to votes but don't want to do any actual work of earning those votes.