Retired physician, music lover, curious guy. Learning to #code late in life. #Linux convert.
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Last Notes npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski > The men behind…#Biden’s genocidal “bear hug” policy of unconditional US support for the Israeli government are now popping up everywhere from Stephen Colbert to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to their own podcasts, presenting themselves as responsible experts critiquing Trump’s chaotic foreign policy. https://zeteo.com/p/biden-genocide-squad-blinken-sullivan-stopped If Blinken, Sullivan, McGurk had a shred of morality, they’d crawl under a rock until they die. Remember, #Democrats can be war criminals too. #GazaGenocide npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…ugpy Kind of reminds of when Apple Maps thought I was in France or England when I started searching for Grand Ave Saint Paul, MN https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/535/414/717/502/267/original/8bf0034831808684.jpeg npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski Sorry this is behind a paywall (I think) but I felt compelled to share it anyway. https://www.ft.com/content/c0e0bcd2-f8c9-4d45-ae2b-73a31195f74c?shareType=nongift > If the code contains hidden security vulnerabilities, the prose is packed with fabricated facts or plagiarised phrases, or the structural engineering calculations seem fine but the building will collapse in the first storm, that is a problem. It is still a problem even if the mistakes are rare and the average quality excellent. #ai #ArtificialIntelligence @nprofile…ugpy npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski > The #FBI formally notified #Minnesota officials on Friday that it would not grant them access to evidence from the investigation into the killing of #AlexPretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said on Monday. #ICE #ICEmurders #minneapolis #coverup https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/fbi-wont-provide-minnesota-investigators-with-evidence-in-alex-pretti-killing-state-says/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…g30f I've been running this in #Firefox for 3 years since I listened to a talk by its original developer, Serene, at the World Ethical Data Forum in 2022. It is completely unobtrusive. Here is a good explainer from @nprofile…eexk https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship Serene also has an interesting story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serene_(pianist) #music #software #privacy #activism npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…rxrw And don't miss part 2 of the interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WvoUY_jbk npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…az66 I’m blocked because they need to pester me to renew my subscription. I won’t. Given the photo of Gavin Newsom, I’ll go out on a limb and say I view him as an empty suit. When he’s not looking at himself in the mirror, he’s scheming his own political ascension and parsing his words. npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski How can a vehicle be threatening to run you (ICE agent) down yet you are firing kill shots into the driver side window? #minneapolis #ICE #ICEmurder #video > …Mayor Jacob Frey said that DHS was trying to “spin” the shooting. “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense,” he said. “Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit.” Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis https://theintercept.com/2026/01/07/video-ice-shooting-civilian-minneapolis/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski From 2 #Israeli #HumanRights lawyers, Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard > I find comfort only in the knowledge that the day will come when all of you, all who serve this machinery of evil — you will all have to explain to your children, to your grandchildren, and to yourselves how it was — that you failed to be human. ~ Sfard #gaza #israel #palestine #genocide #InternationalLaw https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/weimar-is-over-israel-is-one-solid-mass-of-distilled-evil/ @israel @palestine npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…qz4x Not sure this is related but since I started using CanvasBlocker addon, they make me use MFA every time with 8 digit pin and pw again. It’s as if part of their auth process is digital fingerprinting. Caveat: I’m not a hacker or expert (in case it wasn’t obvious). Why not just wait for page load? Shpilkes? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/shpilkes npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski > But today, as protests against Israel’s devastating war on Gaza mount, the word is being twisted. […] Media echoed the politicians’ misrepresentations of intifada […] The first Intifada embraced principles of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. My cousin, Mubarak Awad, who established the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, encouraged boycotts … #MediaBias #propaganda #israel #palestine #history https://fair.org/home/i-covered-the-intifada-its-wrong-to-say-it-means-violence-against-jews/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski #MahmoudKhalil #palestine #FreePalestine https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mahmoud-khalil-to-be-released npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski Disturbing but important commentary. This paragraph sent a chill down my spine: “Trump is using the protests in LA as his equivalent of the burning of the Reichstag—a ginned-up emergency used to deploy dictatorial powers, which once deployed won’t be voluntarily withdrawn.” Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/la-national-guard-ice-raids/ #USpol #LAprotests #NationalGuard #fascism npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski > ...this isn’t accidental but rather a form of profitable confusion built into the system to benefit insurers and intermediaries. > Patients – especially the uninsured and underinsured – are left to make impossible choices: delay treatment or take on debt, ration medication or skip checkups, trust the health care system or go without. Meanwhile, I believe the rhetoric of choice and freedom disguises how constrained most people’s options really are. https://theconversation.com/us-health-care-is-rife-with-high-costs-and-deep-inequities-and-thats-no-accident-a-public-health-historian-explains-how-the-system-was-shaped-to-serve-profit-and-politicians-256393 #USpol #healthcare npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski #university #education #college #USpol #congress #antisemitism #antiZionism #law #FreeSpeech #palestine #israel #activism #McCarthyism From a Georgetown law professor McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mccarthyism-house-antisemitism-hearings/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski My wife and I really enjoyed watching #Andor even though she’s not a big #StarWars fan. I guess recent events have put us in a revolutionary mood. The 2nd season in particular did a good job showing the sacrifice that armed rebellion takes — leaving one’s life behind including loved ones, being willing to die, and sometimes doing terrible things. But you’re given the sense that that was the only alternative to complete oppression. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/24/andor-has-a-message-for-the-left-act-now/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski https://zeteo.com/p/mehdi-challenges-derek-thompson-on from #Zeteo and #MehdiHasan today, this passage really struck me: > Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestselling new book ‘Abundance’ has garnered both buzz and controversy, as they argue that in order to create a future of abundance rather than scarcity, liberals need to build and invent more by **deregulating the government and developing a more pro- business mindset** WTF! Hasn’t that been the Dem playbook since Bill Clinton? And look where it’s gotten us npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…npxa PDT or EDT? npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…npxa Since we’re a legion, when do we get to storm the castle? npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @nprofile…npxa I’m far from expert but I think that rule decreases entropy, which is the opposite of best practices, right? npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski Short vignettes of federal workers recently fired from projects that were saving lives. #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #Project2025 #DOGE #USgov #FederalWorkers #firings They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-federal-workers-public-health-hhs npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski #ai #LLM #chatbots #healthcare AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline – Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/18/ai-chatbots-test-as-having-cognitive-decline/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski Not surprised but still enraged by the criminal cruelty of the #IDF. #gaza #israel #palestine #WarCrime Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Gazan as human shield, then killed him https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/ npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @npub1ksl…rezd Well said. I think it’s been obvious for a while that there’s a trade off between convenience and privacy/security. Most people, even very intelligent friends and family, choose the former. I think it’s reinforced by a herd mentality. Nearly everyone else is using chrome, gmail, macOS, windows, etc, they feel validated in their choice. npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski This great. It really is. Now for step 2 let’s have #MedicareForAll or some type of universal #SinglePayer FULL coverage so that #MedicalDebt no longer occurs. https://apnews.com/article/harris-medical-debt-credit-scores-cfpb-9c551d3cb6cf88ae872b7beb7b8b8bcd npub12lgst4twmlryvejwdvwwx5eqgqne7ksr0q3el5jr3nnpv4adp2xq3w48dv Steven Zekowski @npub1aka…zzz2 I think you know this guy. “One of them, Kirk Strauser, said he was glad that Rioux incorporated proven protocols for encryption rather than trying to invent everything from scratch.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/