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  • Think twice before coming to the Florida House with your cutting-edge late 90s tech.

    A list of recommended presentation technologies warning against DivX and Real Media content

  • I believe it was PJ Plauger who wrote “No program should leave its sanity at the mercy of its input”.

    In unrelated news, there appears to be something wrong with my Choice Hotels profile, such that attempting to view a room while logged in causes both the website and iOS app to crash.

    I would almost pay them to let me debug this.

  • Brevard Schools’ book review committee is starting back up. Not sure who will be involved now, but the board has tended towards Moms For Liberty personnel, and the new guy’s top priority is “let’s get sued over prayer at board meetings”, so color me pessimistic.

  • Posted a few days ago about the importance of a “home base” that’s your own. This note began its life at mine, and flowed from there; if the other sites go down, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Brevard County’s newest School Board member has been strategizing how to get around the 1st Amendment and bring invocations back to board meetings. Parents would rather he just did his job.

    Dear Brevard County School Board: “how can we skirt the 1st amendment?” is never the right question.

  • A Timely Reminder: Own Your Name and Content

    As TikTok bounces up and down, a reminder: your online existence doesn’t have to be out of your control. You just need to own it.

  • Looking for a far-less-fascist place to focus your attention on Jan. 20? Join the “Banned Together” watch party! (warning: contains trace amounts of me)

  • Almost forgot my annual-at-most reminder that I have a power pop Christmas song available, with all proceeds going to The Haven For Children. Available in all of the usual places, or just listen to it at xmas.paulroub.com.

    photo of bare, sparse tree branches with scattered christmas ornaments

  • Another Defense of Democracy Auction item, this one less-virtual: Brevard County folks, bid on a one hour in-home massage courtesy of Patrick McFadden, LMT. #FightCensorship

  • Another Defense of Democracy Auction item – how about a personalized video from insanely funny and genuinely excellent human Greg Proops (of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”)? #FightCensorship

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