@jpaulreed
@jpaulreed.com
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)
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!
Instead of tone policing people's attire, Mr. Secretary, why don't you... I dunno... unfuck the air traffic controller shortage Reagan needlessly created back when you were learning how—and this is true—how to be a professional lumberjack.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Instead of tone policing people's attire, Mr. Secretary, why don't you... I dunno... unfuck the air traffic controller shortage Reagan needlessly created back when you were learning how—and this is true—how to be a professional lumberjack.
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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.
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The real heroes:
Librarians: "Fuck you, come back with a warrant."
Librarians: "Fuck you, come back with a warrant."
One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The real heroes:
Librarians: "Fuck you, come back with a warrant."
Librarians: "Fuck you, come back with a warrant."
OH: “Schrödinger's rollback plan”
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
OH: “Schrödinger's rollback plan”
Just saw an SF tech ad with the phrase “AI spots risk” and I giggled.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just saw an SF tech ad with the phrase “AI spots risk” and I giggled.
Apple Watch’s “Loud Environment” notification needs to have a “Mute for as long as I’m at the Gay Bar’s Musical Mondays Event”-button.
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Apple Watch’s “Loud Environment” notification needs to have a “Mute for as long as I’m at the Gay Bar’s Musical Mondays Event”-button.
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If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you invented a robot that sometimes cleaned my house really well & quickly & saved me lots of work—but *often* just moved things around without really cleaning—& *sometimes* added germs *to* the surfaces—such that just to be safe, I always had to clean after it
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
I don’t think I’d buy that robot
Seen on An App™️ profile: “Sorry about the butthole pic.”
Perennial Gay Culture.
Perennial Gay Culture.
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Seen on An App™️ profile: “Sorry about the butthole pic.”
Perennial Gay Culture.
Perennial Gay Culture.
OH: "Cool, once we have that, then we can run around like heads with our chickens cut off"
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
OH: "Cool, once we have that, then we can run around like heads with our chickens cut off"
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Is this the aurora borealis everyone is talking about?
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Is this the aurora borealis everyone is talking about?
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
“Resilience” does NOT mean maintaining service levels in the face of upsets or changing operational dynamics (immaterial of why those dynamics may have changed).
It’s actually exactly the opposite.
It’s actually exactly the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“Resilience” does NOT mean maintaining service levels in the face of upsets or changing operational dynamics (immaterial of why those dynamics may have changed).
It’s actually exactly the opposite.
It’s actually exactly the opposite.