{"id":3835,"date":"2024-07-25T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:50:29","slug":"gerrymandering-solved-just-like-mom-used-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/07\/gerrymandering-solved-just-like-mom-used-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering Solved Just Like Mom Used to Make!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember when you were a kid and would fight over who got the bigger slice of cake, and so your mom made one of you cut and the other choose, in order to ensure fairness and decrease the amount of <em>kvetching<\/em> and whining she&#8217;d have to deal with, so she could just get on with her life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, turns out you can fix gerrymandering exactly the same way (more or less): <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/02\/a-self-enforcing-protocol-to-solve-gerrymandering.html\">Schneier on Security: A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This protocol is <strong>self-enforcing <\/strong>(i.e., it requires no outside arbiter or commission or oversight board or judges), <strong>mathematically verified<\/strong>, and <strong>fair<\/strong>\u2014all of which taken together basically guarantees we&#8217;ll never ever ever use it, because (waves hands) <em>will-of-the-people-constitutionalism-orginalist-intent-textualist-consistent-with-traditions-blah-blah-bullshit.<\/em>&#x1f92c;&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;&#x1f525;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-american-flag-waving-animated-gif-26.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when you were a kid and would fight over who got the bigger slice of cake, and so your mom made one of you cut and the other choose, in order to ensure fairness and decrease the amount of kvetching and whining she&#8217;d have to deal with, so she could just get on with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/07\/gerrymandering-solved-just-like-mom-used-to-make\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gerrymandering Solved Just Like Mom Used to Make!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[385,904,572,53],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/112847558626356815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}