@jpaulreed
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Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
America: 250 years later and gay as hell.
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 AM
America: 250 years later and gay as hell.
Rib roast for Christmas= beef roast loco moco for breakfast the next the day! 🤤
December 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Rib roast for Christmas= beef roast loco moco for breakfast the next the day! 🤤
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godspeed to the all the good folks keeping half an eye on metrics dashboards tonight and hope that tomorrow brings a successful but uneventful day 🫡
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
godspeed to the all the good folks keeping half an eye on metrics dashboards tonight and hope that tomorrow brings a successful but uneventful day 🫡
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
It rained in SF last night (not even that hard!) and half the city was left without power. Parts of the city are still without power.
Either PG&E doesn't understand its mandate... or is optimizing against its mandate for shareholder value.
Either PG&E doesn't understand its mandate... or is optimizing against its mandate for shareholder value.
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It rained in SF last night (not even that hard!) and half the city was left without power. Parts of the city are still without power.
Either PG&E doesn't understand its mandate... or is optimizing against its mandate for shareholder value.
Either PG&E doesn't understand its mandate... or is optimizing against its mandate for shareholder value.
Wait, when did SNL's time slot move to Wednesdays at 9 pm Eastern?
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Wait, when did SNL's time slot move to Wednesdays at 9 pm Eastern?
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The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
December 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
How's everyone enjoying that Mariah Carey holiday classic "All I Want for You is Christmas?"
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
How's everyone enjoying that Mariah Carey holiday classic "All I Want for You is Christmas?"
It's almost like folks designing "AI integrated features" have never talked to a single human about what they think would be helpful from an "AI integrated feature."
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's almost like folks designing "AI integrated features" have never talked to a single human about what they think would be helpful from an "AI integrated feature."
"Waymos Were Passing Stopped School Buses. Let’s Rethink School Buses."
Oh look... another garbage take—in a long list of garbage takes—from @bradtem.bsky.social.
Oh look... another garbage take—in a long list of garbage takes—from @bradtem.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"Waymos Were Passing Stopped School Buses. Let’s Rethink School Buses."
Oh look... another garbage take—in a long list of garbage takes—from @bradtem.bsky.social.
Oh look... another garbage take—in a long list of garbage takes—from @bradtem.bsky.social.
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The same people who tell me AI adoption is inevitable told me metaverse adoption was inevitable and NFT adoption was inevitable and VR adoption was inevitable and web 3 crypto integration was inevitable and every fucking new technology is instantly labelled “inevitable” by the losers hocking it…
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The same people who tell me AI adoption is inevitable told me metaverse adoption was inevitable and NFT adoption was inevitable and VR adoption was inevitable and web 3 crypto integration was inevitable and every fucking new technology is instantly labelled “inevitable” by the losers hocking it…
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well this does not seem good. but just as long as everyone is well-dressed, we should be ok
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
well this does not seem good. but just as long as everyone is well-dressed, we should be ok
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
Huge, HUGE #slowclap to Snowflake for dashboards that you actively have to click a "run" button to get it to display the current data.
(Because when I load the web-based dashboard, I am ABSOLUTELY EXPECTING IT TO SHOW ME STALE DATA.)
(Because when I load the web-based dashboard, I am ABSOLUTELY EXPECTING IT TO SHOW ME STALE DATA.)
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Huge, HUGE #slowclap to Snowflake for dashboards that you actively have to click a "run" button to get it to display the current data.
(Because when I load the web-based dashboard, I am ABSOLUTELY EXPECTING IT TO SHOW ME STALE DATA.)
(Because when I load the web-based dashboard, I am ABSOLUTELY EXPECTING IT TO SHOW ME STALE DATA.)
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Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
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Whether it's Donald Trump murdering the survivors aboard a sinking boat or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents engaged in some truly norm-busting behavior.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Whether it's Donald Trump murdering the survivors aboard a sinking boat or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents engaged in some truly norm-busting behavior.
The most interesting thing about Trump's [most recent] racist tirade is how much he's slurring his speech... it's so bad, he sounds drunk.
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The most interesting thing about Trump's [most recent] racist tirade is how much he's slurring his speech... it's so bad, he sounds drunk.
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I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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sometimes you eat the build and sometimes the build... well it eats you
a man with a cowboy hat and a mustache is sitting in a bowling alley .
ALT: a man with a cowboy hat and a mustache is sitting in a bowling alley .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
sometimes you eat the build and sometimes the build... well it eats you
I know the whole Mamdani Thing™️ is a big deal and all, but do we have to celebrate by putting Christmas music on the radio already?!?!
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I know the whole Mamdani Thing™️ is a big deal and all, but do we have to celebrate by putting Christmas music on the radio already?!?!
New Yorkers sure do know how to take care of grampa!
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New Yorkers sure do know how to take care of grampa!