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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'> <title>Brian DeRocher</title> <link rel='self' href='http://derocher.org/~brian//atom.php' /> <updated>2024-04-26T12:25:32+05:00</updated> <author> <name>Brian DeRocher</name> </author> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts</id><entry> <title>Home | Free Inquiry</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105791' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105791</id> <updated>2020-07-08T09:05:20-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>The mission of the Council for Secular Humanism is to advocate and defend a nonreligious lifestance rooted in science, naturalistic philosophy, and humanist ethics and to serve and support adherents of that lifestance.</p><p>The Council is North America’s leading organization for non-religious people. It is a program of the Center for Inquiry, a not-for-profit educational corporation. The Council supports a wide range of activities...</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>How VA is disrupting tech delivery -- FCW</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105781' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105781</id> <updated>2019-12-29T22:07:35-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>I arrived at VA's Medical Center (VAMC) in Washington, D.C. at 8:30 a.m. on a sunny morning in June to pilot a new training program to 40 of my VA colleagues. Most of the staff in VA's Office of Information Technology (OIT) have been trained in traditional project management, which is plan-driven, including managing schedules, budgets, and scope. But, for the first time, VA leadership is now investing in re-training OIT in modern product management, ...</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>Will Google get away with grabbing 50m Americans' health records? | Technology | The Guardian</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105778' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105778</id> <updated>2019-12-29T15:46:47-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>So it was truly shocking to learn this week that a business partnership between Google and Ascension, a major hospital chain and health insurer, has resulted in the transfer of 50 million Americans’ most intimate medical records to the Silicon Valley company, without the knowledge or consent of those 50 million patients. Even more alarming, the records are not de-identified, and a whistleblower disclosed to the Guardian serious concerns about...</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>The Triumph of Injustice | W. W. Norton & Company</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105773' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105773</id> <updated>2019-12-29T13:05:25-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system... </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>The Redistrict Network</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105766' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105766</id> <updated>2019-10-03T19:41:50-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>We are a non-partisan group of PhD candidates, mathematicians, political operatives, experts, and concerned citizens that work together to make district lines fair and representative.</p><p>We inform and educate so that you can make the most fact-based decisions when it comes to drawing lines in your district.</p><p>We associate to discuss the most up to date strategies and technology in the field of Redistricting.</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>Chicago Open Rideshare Dataset - Getting Started · Sam Blogs</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105763' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105763</id> <updated>2019-04-30T21:13:56-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>I was recently reading Steve Vance and John Greenfield’s article summarizing data from the City of Chicago’s publishing of anonymized ride hailing data, and decided to look into the dataset on my own. The data shows all trips on Uber, Lyft, and Via from 11/1/2018 through 12/31/2018, starting and/or ending in the City of Chicago. The data includes the below for each rideshare trip:</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>Guardian Project – People, Apps and Code You Can Trust</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105760' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105760</id> <updated>2019-04-11T01:30:10-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>While smartphones have been heralded as the coming of the next generation of communication and collaboration, they are a step backwards when it comes to personal security, anonymity and privacy.</p><p>Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>Printable Congressional District Maps: Behind The Scenes – Joshua Tauberer's Archived Blog</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105756' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105756</id> <updated>2019-04-02T21:47:21-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Today I’m releasing print-quality maps of congressional districts, with street-level detail and county border lines. This has been one of the most sought-after resources based on emails I’ve received over the last some four years and I don’t think you can find this anywhere else. (At least not comprehensively for the whole nation. Local state clerk’s offices may have them. NationalAtlas.gov has maps but not with very much detail.)</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>One Way To Spot A Partisan Gerrymander | FiveThirtyEight</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105753' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105753</id> <updated>2019-03-26T20:26:31-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>On March 26, challengers to North Carolina’s congressional map will argue before the Supreme Court that it is a partisan gerrymander — that is, the district boundaries were drawn to benefit one political party, the GOP, in a way that violates the Constitution. The challengers are using a variety of quantitative tools to make their argument, including a metric called “partisan bias” that tries to evaluate how skewed a map is by looking at the...</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>World Wide Web Foundation – Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation empowers people to bring about positive change.</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105751' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105751</id> <updated>2019-03-15T19:59:43-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>The World Wide Web Foundation was established in 2009 by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right. We are an independent, international organisation fighting for digital equality — a world where everyone can access the web and use it to improve their lives.</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request | Ars Technica</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105749' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105749</id> <updated>2018-12-01T09:03:07-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Recently, I found a typo in the District of Columbia’s legal code and corrected it using GitHub. My feat highlights the groundbreaking way the District manages its legal code.</p> </div> </summary></entry> <entry> <title>America’s Empty-Church Problem - The Atlantic</title> <link href='http://derocher.org/~brian//?Page=bookmark&Id=105746' /> <id>http://derocher.org/~brian//posts/105746</id> <updated>2018-11-27T01:07:40-05:00</updated> <summary type='xhtml'> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse.</p><p>Over the past decade, pollsters charted something remarkable: Americans—long known for their piety—were fleeing organized religion in increasing numbers. The vast majority still believed in God. But the share that rejected any religious affiliation was growing fast, rising from 6 percent in 1992 to 22 percent in 2014. Among Millennials, the figure was 35 percent.</p> </div> </summary></entry></feed>
