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Ezra S F @[email protected] · 2024-07-24 · 11:03 UTC

This risk of a reality TV star being President is you get what they know: drama every day about obviously bad decisions that could have been avoided with a modicum of thought before executing them.

Personally, I feel like the government works well when it is doing what it needs to do without causing drama. The news media lives in the new. They love drama, so I can see why they favor such a president.

“Remote Control, Television – TV-controller” by espensorvik is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

But, I am a technocrat. When I see stories about governmental accomplishments, I notice the amount of effort that went into it and appreciate when it was quiet, efficient, and effective. Of course, I prefer it when my boss and peers are the only ones who know what I did because… it was done well. It’s not a story. Making local headlines and God forbid national ones is a failure on my part. Being on a first-name basis with our spokesperson feels like failure.

I want a quiet president who gets things done because they are necessary not because they make headlines.

https://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/2024/07/24/reality-tv-presidency/

#newsPolitics #newsMedia #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #technocrat

#newspolitics #newsmedia #presidentoftheunitedstates #technocrat

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2025-05-01 · 13:19 UTC

What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech

#blacktech #techjobs #techmastodon #itjobs #tech

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2025-05-01 · 13:19 UTC

What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech

#blacktech #techjobs #techmastodon #itjobs #tech

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2025-05-01 · 13:19 UTC

What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech

#blacktech #techjobs #techmastodon #itjobs #tech

Ezra Freelove @ezrasf · 2025-05-01 · 13:19 UTC

What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech

#blacktech #techjobs #techmastodon #itjobs #tech

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2025-04-30 · 12:42 UTC

I had found it weird the wireless headphones were not recharging while I was away from the desk. All month. This morning I saw the dock for them light up when I plugged in the laptop to it's dock. I realized the headphone dock needed to get plugged into the power strip. #n00b

#n00b

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2025-01-15 · 13:28 UTC

Last night I mentioned COBOL in casual conversation with my wife and brother-in-law. BIL looked confused. My wife said, "You say that like we should know what it is."

So, I got to do an #infodump on #COBOL.

#cobol #infodump

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-11-23 · 17:10 UTC

Reading Jonathan Haidt's _ #AnxiousGeneration _ and wondering how being of the D&D Generation (88-99) affected me? #dnd #rpgs #roleplayinggame

#rpgs #dnd #roleplayinggame #anxiousgeneration

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-08-23 · 18:03 UTC

It took an hour, but I finally got the healthy part of my lunch ( #edamame ) out of the microwave an hour after I cooked it.

#edamame

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-07-08 · 11:31 UTC

This expert gets at the things bothering me about the stumbles. https://www.sciencealert.com/biden-and-trump-may-be-forgetful-but-here-are-the-real-cognitive-skills-leaders-need #causalreasoning #intuition #openmindedness #confidence #teamwork

#teamwork #confidence #openmindedness #intuition #causalreasoning

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-07-08 · 11:31 UTC

This expert gets at the things bothering me about the stumbles. https://www.sciencealert.com/biden-and-trump-may-be-forgetful-but-here-are-the-real-cognitive-skills-leaders-need #causalreasoning #intuition #openmindedness #confidence #teamwork

#teamwork #confidence #openmindedness #intuition #causalreasoning

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-07-08 · 11:31 UTC

This expert gets at the things bothering me about the stumbles. https://www.sciencealert.com/biden-and-trump-may-be-forgetful-but-here-are-the-real-cognitive-skills-leaders-need #causalreasoning #intuition #openmindedness #confidence #teamwork

#teamwork #confidence #openmindedness #intuition #causalreasoning

Ezra Freelove @ezrasf · 2024-07-08 · 11:31 UTC

This expert gets at the things bothering me about the stumbles. https://www.sciencealert.com/biden-and-trump-may-be-forgetful-but-here-are-the-real-cognitive-skills-leaders-need #causalreasoning #intuition #openmindedness #confidence #teamwork

#teamwork #confidence #openmindedness #intuition #causalreasoning

Ezra Freelove @[email protected] · 2024-07-01 · 11:09 UTC

A conversation about continued activities of the Klan here brought up this event. I'd lived here a decade and had no idea. That was after the 50th anniversary. #lemuelpenn
https://flagpole.com/news/street-scribe/2024/06/26/sixty-years-ago-athens-klansmen-murdered-lemuel-penn/

#lemuelpenn

Ezra S F @[email protected] · 2026-05-01 · 21:57 UTC

Higher order thinking and AI

On “Make Me Smart” episode “It’s tough our there for new college grads“, Kimberly Adams interviewed NYT writer Noam Scheiber. He mentioned in the world with so much AI, there’s still going to be a need for people who can synthesize and make a decision and make an argument. That stopped me cold because it’s a similar argument that I recall from reading A Whole New Mind back… 20 years ago.

Back then, it was saving my job from going to overseas outsourcing. Working in IT, I saw plenty of cases where the vendors I worked with (BEA, Oracle, HP) open overseas support desks. Over the ensuing two decades I’ve probably worked with a few dozen support people who seemed to work in distant time zones. Now, it’s artificial intelligence. I guess we will see. In both cases, it’s how to be valuable enough to still have a job.

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels.com

I feel like back then, the argument was shipping overseas the easy jobs so that onshore employees could focus on higher order thinking jobs. Similar to using AI to do that work. So, I guess the question is why so many more IT jobs 20 years didn’t go overseas? The worry was IT in the 2000s would go the way of manufacturing. Did H1-B VISAs help? That doesn’t seem a relevant mitigation to AI. We didn’t create that many college graduates. I wonder how much of it was Enshittification? It felt like in that era, people really complained about all this overseas support in terms of resolution, feeling supported, and making a favorable impression of the company. It cut costs that cut brand image.

#ArtificialIntelligence #collegeGraduate #Enshittification #higherOrderThinking #KimberlyAdams #makeMeSmart #thinking

#artificialintelligence #collegegraduate #enshittification #higherorderthinking #kimberlyadams #makemesmart

Ezra S F @[email protected] · 2026-01-21 · 17:02 UTC

WP Advanced Custom Fields Extended plugin bug gives admin

Your friendly reminder to minimize the WordPress plugins you deploy to what you actually need. BleepingComputer has an article:

A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions.
ACF Extended, currently active on 100,000 websites, is a specialized plugin that extends the capabilities of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin with features for developers and advanced site builders.

Unauthenticated privilege escalation to get admin is about as bad as it gets. Though, it does appear the WordPress blog has to have mapped “role” as a custom field. It’s impossible for anyone other than the blog owner to know if that’s the case. Well, probably spammers and scammers seeking sites to compromise and turn into platforms to exploit might given which ones they successfully turn.

It’s tracked as CVE-2025-14533:

#tenable #vulnerability #Wordpress #wordpressPlugins

#wordpressplugins #wordpress #vulnerability #tenable

Ezra S F @[email protected] · 2026-01-03 · 03:49 UTC

“Don’t take if allergic…”

Just curious how one knows that one is allergic to a new drug in a commercial. You have to take it to find out you are allergic, right? The subsequent list of symptoms as reasons not to take it. Do those mean one is allergic? Not to my understanding.

It’s reasonable if one knows one is allergic to related drugs, one is to the new one. Like, say you are allergic to penicillin. You reasonably could be to related drugs.

I feel like most people who are allergic have no idea if they are. Or what symptoms indicate they are.

For instance, I had a chronic cough. A new specialist doctor expressed concern about having this cough for five years. He switched me to a different medication, and the cough improved. I was allergic and had no idea.

#allergens #allergies #drugs #medication

#medication #drugs #allergies #allergens