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🎼 John M. Black

@baroquepasa

Once a software engineer, conductor, composer. Still a kid wrangler, midwife cheerleader. Back to school for MDiv. Mastodon: @[email protected]

sometimes Philly, sometimes NY Katılım Şubat 2014
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By age 35 you should have quit at least one job after realizing the book fair or the scout meeting or the 4th grade band night (where they play that two-chord boom-chuck concert rock to polite applause but still the best thing ever) was more valuable than the 5pm server alarm.
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@danidonovan Ever have one of those days where you finally get productive on your to-do list at 4:45 and realize that half the places you need to visit or call closed at 4:30? Yeah, that's the feeling. And the kids come home around then and that's the version of me they get.
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@danidonovan Crying might be better than going through the rest of the evening absolutely emotionless and subconsciously loathing oneself, which is what I do. 😔 At least you're processing feelings; I've absorbed & locked down. I don't know what's worse.
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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
Define "Perfect Ending"
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@TheCinesthetic I could swear the exterior shot is Crestwood Station (Metro North Harlem line). I think I see "Crestwood" very faintly in the sign on the far left when she's on the platform, plus the 2 apartment buildings on the left, and the silhouette of the ticket machines on the crossover.
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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
The Americans (2013–2018) has one of the greatest TV finales ever made and it barely gets mentioned in those conversations. The train platform scene alone carries more emotional weight and tension than entire seasons of other prestige dramas.
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@cometeer How do we see all our past ratings? I can only pull up coffees I haven't rated yet. We realized we may have been rating them all wrong. We didn't know there will multiple varieties in the same color/logo boxes. We'd like to reset a large number of past ratings.
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@simonw I just spent the last 20 years saying, "No Dad, that email isn't really from your bank" and now I have to do it all over again with AI.
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Simon Willison@simonw·
Fantastic example today of why I'm so suspicious of the entire category of browser agents - here's Fellou instantly falling for instructions on a random web page that tell it to steal data from the user's signed in Gmail account! x.com/brave/status/1…
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Fellou browser has some resistance to hidden instruction attacks. However, it still treats all visible content on websites as trusted. Simply asking the browser to visit a site with instructions will cause the LLM to process and obey those instructions.

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Simon Willison@simonw·
Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/in…
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@shantanugoel @m_franceschetti @josh_odgers Indeed. In absence of network, the bed should simply follow the last known rules and schedules. Which is not hard. You don't need a great amount of artificial of intelligence for "start raising the temperature and stop when it reaches 81". That's like "20 GOTO 10" logic at best.
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Shantanu Goel@shantanugoel·
"Outage mode" in itself is a sign that you are still not understanding the issue here. All the primary functions of your product should be working locally and should not need any Internet services by default. Anything auxiliary should use Internet as and when it becomes available.
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Matteo Franceschetti@m_franceschetti·
The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently working, with some experiencing data processing delays. 2) We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done. More updates soon.
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@Litter_Robot sigh... any advice on when a cat claims the litter robot as "territory" and refuses to yield? 😄
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@BurgerKing Need allergen assistance. The allergen info on your website only states allergens for fully-assembled sandwiches. It doesn't say (for example) whether a milk or egg ingredient is in the main component vs. a topping. Specifically -- big fish patty? bun? Without sauce.
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*Doofenshmirtz invents Ice Coldinator* D: BEHOLD! (everyone shivers) You will now all freeze to -- (notices woman sweating) --Wait, why aren't you freezing? Woman: (whispers in his ear) D: You're menopausal? Woman: (shakes her head no, whispers again) D: PERImenopausal ?!?
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trash bag: I am a very strong trash bag with rip-stop technology one straw: We'll see about that
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@tjmaxx This might be one of your employees in Dickson City PA. Been parked here since before the shopping center opened. Exactly in the middle of 4 spaces, so it's definitely intentional.
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If SEPTA starts selling naming rights to more stations what’s the funniest ones they could come up with
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Frog and Toad Bot@FrogandToadbot·
'I am sorry,' said Frog. 'That hat is much too big for you. I will give you something else.' 'No,' said Toad. 'This hat is your present to me. I like it. I will wear it the way it is.'
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@n_anderthal actual city inhabitants: Please add just a little bit of subway typical response from Regional planners: LET'S BUILD MORE REGINALD RAIL 🥸🎩
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