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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
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Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?
Well, sort of.
My daughter was an exploring toddler. And, perhaps running for Congress? She greeted everyone.
One outing to a restaurant with outdoor seating with friends, she was antsy. She wandered as I shadowed to keep her away from dangers. Pretty typical for us stuff.
At a table was a nice couple. They said hi when my daughter wandered by them. Just the normal good people vibe. (Occasionally, someone seemed offended by a child exploring.) I should have gotten clued in by him wearing sunglasses. When we got back to the table, our friends pointed out we’d said hi to Jeff Bridges.
Something I have heard about being famous is the lack of privacy. It can be hard to have normal experiences like a tasty meal at a good restaurant. I hope we didn’t interrupt their experience.
https://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/2023/11/18/jeff-bridges/
#celebrity #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2119 #famous #JeffBridges
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The cause of much of my headache over the past few weeks. https://cybersecuritynews.com/anthropics-claude-mythos-preview-0-days/amp/
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Kind of wild that exposure to arts can have the same effects on aging as exercise. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/artsy-types-may-age-better-music-and-museums-act-as-exercise-slowing-age-by-4-says-study/
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What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech
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What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech
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What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech
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What are the pros and cons of doing a self-evaluation for a performance review? #tech #itjobs #techmastodon #techjobs #blacktech
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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
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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."
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Reading Jonathan Haidt's _ #AnxiousGeneration _ and wondering how being of the D&D Generation (88-99) affected me? #dnd #rpgs #roleplayinggame
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/ -
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Everyone at work who gets double or triple booked in meetings needs this. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-duet-ai-attend-meetings-workplace-productivity-2023-8 #toomanymeetings
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Everyone at work who gets double or triple booked in meetings needs this. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-duet-ai-attend-meetings-workplace-productivity-2023-8 #toomanymeetings
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Everyone at work who gets double or triple booked in meetings needs this. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-duet-ai-attend-meetings-workplace-productivity-2023-8 #toomanymeetings
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Everyone at work who gets double or triple booked in meetings needs this. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-duet-ai-attend-meetings-workplace-productivity-2023-8 #toomanymeetings
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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.comI 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 -
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:
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Reputational capital
I tend to overcommunicate to my supervisors and teammates. I’d rather they get something they already knew from me, than they get blindsided. That’s played well with several of my bosses and shadow bosses. They often tell me, “thanks, I already know about it.” For my side, that brings relief instead of discouragement. When they didn’t know, they express gratitude, especially when it’s going to cost me or them reputational capital. This is our trust, credibility, or likable nature.
Bureaucracy relies on process and procedure. Follow the process. Stay within the procedures. Stressors remain low as what to do is known and repeatable. Work easily flows as we are doing what we should. It’s order. They also exist to protect the organization.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.comThe exceptions to the process and procedure create chaos. We have to make decisions as it’s often unknown. Though, all too often there’s known exceptions where we know what to do.
When we have to ask others to make an exception, we expend reputational capital. We are breaking the order. Others grant us a favor doing something outside the normal, which likely means more effort in tracking, understanding, and decision-making. In the short term it means a hit on credibility inside the bureaucracy as the procedures exist for a reason. Too many asks for exceptions can break trust as well.
Part of why I overcommunicate is to prepare for the possibility of engaging in reputational repair. Part of asking for the exception will involve explaining the context so the grantors are on my side, part of my team, and we are working together to solve the issue. Also, we may need to work on improving the procedures, which will require building consensus necessitating understanding. Exceptions create a potential of extra work beyond just the simple ask, so I need my boss to know.
Also, my role has become to handle exceptions so my boss doesn’t have to expend so much effort on them. There’s trust in me and maintaining that is giving a heads up with context.
#bureaucracy #businessProcess #communication #credibility #credit #procedures #reputation #reputationalCapital #trust -
“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