Ezra Freelove
@ezrasf.com
Girl dad, husband, 97th percentile nerd/geek. Solutions architect. SRE, integrations, automation. Geek. Learning from incidents. Amateur griot. Information omnivore. Social media addict. More comfortable online. Tinkerer. Athens, GA. Blogger since 2000
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We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're drowning in passwords & multi-factor authentication & chatbots & "unusually high call volume" & robots ignoring "representative!"
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
We should think more carefully about how Social Security uses these tools with our parents & grandparents.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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In a normal world this would be a scandal.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In a normal world this would be a scandal.
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None of us will ever be this comfy.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
None of us will ever be this comfy.
Question the process
I'm sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and…
I'm sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and…
Question the process
I'm sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and dysfunction is why I like my work. Why things work the way they do requires understanding how things work. There is in general, but there are also ways that things are not the perfect scenario because the data is dirty, there's an exception, or there's a difference.
www.ezrasf.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Question the process
I'm sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and…
I'm sure my coworkers get tired of me. For someone who works in a bureaucracy, I often question the process. I want to balance efficiency and consistency and accuracy. There are tradeoffs, and navigating them through hashing out (debate and data) the way they function and…
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A particularly timely piece from Nicole Ozer and Matt Cagle on California's surveillance systems and how they fall short on the promise of public safety:
buff.ly/amdNIr5
buff.ly/amdNIr5
California’s Surveillance Systems Have Once Again Become a Major Liability | TechPolicy.Press
Nicole A. Ozer and Matt Cagle write that the rights guaranteed by California law cannot just be words on paper; they must also be a lived reality.
www.techpolicy.press
June 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A particularly timely piece from Nicole Ozer and Matt Cagle on California's surveillance systems and how they fall short on the promise of public safety:
buff.ly/amdNIr5
buff.ly/amdNIr5
'BP is "collecting mass amounts of information about who people are, where they go, what they do, and who they know … engaging in dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities,” Nicole Ozer, the exec dir for CCD @ UC Law San Fran...'
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November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
'BP is "collecting mass amounts of information about who people are, where they go, what they do, and who they know … engaging in dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities,” Nicole Ozer, the exec dir for CCD @ UC Law San Fran...'
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
Just 6 of 47 Flock camera vulnerabilities in a white paper.
www.youtube.com/watc...
The best is press a (game controller cheat code style) button to expose the access point to connect and install malware.
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The best is press a (game controller cheat code style) button to expose the access point to connect and install malware.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Just 6 of 47 Flock camera vulnerabilities in a white paper.
www.youtube.com/watc...
The best is press a (game controller cheat code style) button to expose the access point to connect and install malware.
www.youtube.com/watc...
The best is press a (game controller cheat code style) button to expose the access point to connect and install malware.
Seeing social media about MS Teams location stuff over the weekend, I became concerned.
CISO: It's about E911.
Just now I found the location tracking doesn't work. Maybe the new stuff coming in Jan will get it to work? If someone called 911 from my MS Teams today, they'd go to the wrong building.
CISO: It's about E911.
Just now I found the location tracking doesn't work. Maybe the new stuff coming in Jan will get it to work? If someone called 911 from my MS Teams today, they'd go to the wrong building.
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Seeing social media about MS Teams location stuff over the weekend, I became concerned.
CISO: It's about E911.
Just now I found the location tracking doesn't work. Maybe the new stuff coming in Jan will get it to work? If someone called 911 from my MS Teams today, they'd go to the wrong building.
CISO: It's about E911.
Just now I found the location tracking doesn't work. Maybe the new stuff coming in Jan will get it to work? If someone called 911 from my MS Teams today, they'd go to the wrong building.
Feel like he's the kind of person who says innocent people let law enforcement search them because they have nothing to hide.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are trying to use the Epstein matter as a political weapon to distract from their own party's failures. In a desperate attempt, they're trying to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal. President Trump has nothing to do with it. He said himself he has nothing to hide."
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Feel like he's the kind of person who says innocent people let law enforcement search them because they have nothing to hide.
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What? These? No! I need these. They’re my emotional support unanswered emails.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
What? These? No! I need these. They’re my emotional support unanswered emails.
"The goal of this administration seems to be to show that government does not work. The appointment of utter incompetents to positions of high authority, the firings of qualified civil servants, and the elimination of crucial agencies -- all this will likely bring epidemics..."
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"The goal of this administration seems to be to show that government does not work. The appointment of utter incompetents to positions of high authority, the firings of qualified civil servants, and the elimination of crucial agencies -- all this will likely bring epidemics..."
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First day at Cloudflare, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off.
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
First day at Cloudflare, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off.
I work with GeorgiaBEST. There's a 12 year long running joke about imdabes on Youtube. I just changed the name of the chat with those who hail back to that era to: wedaBESTies.
Now I wait to see who notices my vandalism.
Now I wait to see who notices my vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I work with GeorgiaBEST. There's a 12 year long running joke about imdabes on Youtube. I just changed the name of the chat with those who hail back to that era to: wedaBESTies.
Now I wait to see who notices my vandalism.
Now I wait to see who notices my vandalism.
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Brazil didn’t stop at sentencing former president Bolsanaro to 27 years for an attempted coup; his entire inner circle—from the vice president and the military commander to the intelligence chief and even his son—are also facing decades in prison.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Brazil didn’t stop at sentencing former president Bolsanaro to 27 years for an attempted coup; his entire inner circle—from the vice president and the military commander to the intelligence chief and even his son—are also facing decades in prison.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
Why do I feel more sick in the morning with an infection than the afternoon? (And then sick again around 5-7pm.)
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Why do I feel more sick in the morning with an infection than the afternoon? (And then sick again around 5-7pm.)
My dementia has started. I forgot the name for inodes.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My dementia has started. I forgot the name for inodes.
Video shows someone in a truck firing pepper spray into an open window callously not caring about who is in the car. WTAF. This isn't enforcement. It's unprovoked, malicious, and dangerous
1-year-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restriction on use of force.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Video shows someone in a truck firing pepper spray into an open window callously not caring about who is in the car. WTAF. This isn't enforcement. It's unprovoked, malicious, and dangerous
Facebook phishing pages
Last spring, I resurrected my account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I'm not likely to track what's happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious…
Last spring, I resurrected my account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I'm not likely to track what's happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious…
Facebook phishing pages
Last spring, I resurrected my account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I'm not likely to track what's happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious death and police soliciting for more information. Knowing many of the local Facebook groups are super gossipy, I searched on the victim's name seeking for find more information. Instead, I got what looks like a bunch of phishing in the search results. They looks like news articles, but they are fake news organizations.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Facebook phishing pages
Last spring, I resurrected my account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I'm not likely to track what's happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious…
Last spring, I resurrected my account to get RSS feed subscriptions for news sources. My email accounts are so over run that I'm not likely to track what's happening local through them. So, I made a change. Today, looking through, I noticed an article about a suspicious…
A Finland daycare are finding that exposure to local nature helps prevent allergies. www.goodnewsnetwork....
It reminded me of this I posted in 2019: keeping livestock does the same. polymathparent.wordp...
It reminded me of this I posted in 2019: keeping livestock does the same. polymathparent.wordp...
A Daycare Rewilded its Yard and the Children Became Healthier: Now the Whole Nation Is Doing it
€1 million in grants was given out to the 43 daycare centers for the purpose of adding more garden space, planter boxes, compost heaps..
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A Finland daycare are finding that exposure to local nature helps prevent allergies. www.goodnewsnetwork....
It reminded me of this I posted in 2019: keeping livestock does the same. polymathparent.wordp...
It reminded me of this I posted in 2019: keeping livestock does the same. polymathparent.wordp...
Coworker: Need to leave early to go to the vet.
So difficult in resisting the reply: I get that's cheaper than seeing a human doctor.
So difficult in resisting the reply: I get that's cheaper than seeing a human doctor.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Coworker: Need to leave early to go to the vet.
So difficult in resisting the reply: I get that's cheaper than seeing a human doctor.
So difficult in resisting the reply: I get that's cheaper than seeing a human doctor.
"If you do use an AI-enabled browser, don’t grant it access to sensitive systems (e.g. your email account, password manager, or calendar), and use other browsers for accessing information that you’d like to keep private."
AI browsers: the security headache nobody asked for
Despite their growing presence, AI-powered browsers aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to security
freedom.press
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"If you do use an AI-enabled browser, don’t grant it access to sensitive systems (e.g. your email account, password manager, or calendar), and use other browsers for accessing information that you’d like to keep private."
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It's also why all of those smug european countries are pulling back on their welfare programs. They were happy to have them when they were relatively homogenous but now that they're afraid of immigrants having them - esp POC - they're scaling back
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.
White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It's also why all of those smug european countries are pulling back on their welfare programs. They were happy to have them when they were relatively homogenous but now that they're afraid of immigrants having them - esp POC - they're scaling back
Not only are premiums skyrocketing, but they are ensuring more people go bankrupt. What shows on the credit reports influences the interest rate on loans and other debt. Health insurance is such a hot mess, it can take a year just to get the correct amount set.
Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt.
apnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Not only are premiums skyrocketing, but they are ensuring more people go bankrupt. What shows on the credit reports influences the interest rate on loans and other debt. Health insurance is such a hot mess, it can take a year just to get the correct amount set.