Benjamin (no middle name) Goldberg
The Democratic chairs in Virginia s 84th House of Delegates district were planning a forum with candidates Michele Joyce and Nadarius Clark, but Mr. Clark has backed out. I ve been thinking about why he might have made this decision. I believe that Michele Joyce and Nadarius Clark are both good Democrats and intelligent people. I don t believe that Mr. Clark was afraid of being exposed as an idiot…
Initial Notes I ll edit this post as I discover new things, and may not explicitly mark any changes I installed Mailman3 on a cheap VPS using the instructions at https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html . I m using Mailersend to send the emails, but receiving emails in the server using postfix. I ran into several difficulties It helps to have gnu-screen installed so you can…
I feel the need to check Facebook periodically because of some pages that I help maintain and some family and friends who I want to check up on. Because FB is addictive, I usually end up mindlessly scrolling for a minute or two. But that mindless scrolling usually stops after I see a couple of Continue reading Avoiding Facebook s Toxic Suggestions
Mastodon is a decentralized social networking system. Decentralized means it s not owned by one entity, and several instances are run by individual people who are not wealthy. With little bit of time, not too much money, and some technical skills, you can start your own if you wanted to. But most people find instances to Continue reading The hardest part about joining Mastodon is finding an…
My wife and I never go anywhere together for more than a few hours because of the farm and the pets. It’s not a real farm. It’s just a couple of hogs, goats, and chickens that we keep for our own use, but the animals are real, and they need food and water which means Continue reading My Thanksgiving, 2022
If Republicans win as a result of the 2022 elections, they will weaken our democracy by removing laws that make it easier to vote, and election officials in several local and state governments will overturn election results that they don t like. This may not be be the irreversible dystopian nightmare that some of us envision Continue reading Don t Kill Democracy Over Lies
From the What-A Day newsletter There’s an elephant in the room that none of the conservative Justices nor anyone railing against affirmative action seems to want to discuss: legacy students. A 2019 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research showed that 43 percent of White students admitted to Harvard from 2009-2014 were either recruited Continue reading A Point About Race-Conscious…
Below is the text of a tweet thread by @JoshuaPHilll. I put it here so you don t have to go to Twitter if you don t want to, but you do want to, you can use the link in the previous sentence. Elon Musk is again claiming that he’s all about free speech. So let’s look Continue reading A Tweet Thread about Musk s Free Speech Hypocrisy
Mastodon is not a church, but I m going to explain Mastodon and the Fediverse with a church analogy. I think this analogy should work, especially for my people in Suffolk, Virginia, a lot of whom are more familiar with their church than social media. So here goes. Imagine Facebook is a megachurch. Image the same Continue reading The Mastodonian Church
The three or four people who ever see this blog may have noticed something glitchy with the past couple of posts. The image for the Republican post didn t display so I deleted the image and re-uploaded it, but it still didn t work so I deleted the post and re-wrote it. But now there are two Continue reading Some kind of WordPress glitch