Jan Poston Day

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Customer-obsessed community builder, Airedale owner, beekeeper, and DC Statehood NOW advocate

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@maustermuhle The graphic novels about history and historical figures (“hazardous tales” series by Nathan Hale are good.

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@gdc3 Ahoy! May your day be full of great grog and grub! Great memories of Pirate Days of yore. Hope you and your family are well!

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@sunnywash @Canvas_by_Inst @Blackboard That was a fun party. I enjoyed winning that nice lightsaber. Meeting Josh and the team!

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@Clint_Davey1 You’ve got to play with the Preludes expansion, otherwise it will take 2-3 generations to accumulate enough resources. This game got me through the Pandemic with my friend group playing over zoom each household with their own copy. I will always love this game.

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@EricWhi06179253 @AustinTunnell Where are these checkpoints? There are pedestrianized areas with access limited to emergency vehicles and with specific goods delivery hours, and roads limited to busses /taxis but I’m not aware of police checkpoints except for the usual secure facilities.

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@sppitt Congratulations to you Sharon and the Team at Virginia Tech! What a great opportunity for you and the Hokie family!

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

Women of Texas and the partners, parents and siblings who love them - I fear for you. Rise up, demand change, make good trouble. Vote at the ballot box, with your wallet, and if necessary, with your feet. Everyone else with a womb watch out - the GOP is coming for you next.

[Caitlin Cruz @caitlinrcruz]

UPDATE: BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, who asked for an abortion due to medical exceptions. “These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s opinion reads. https://t.co/k8UNwZJkFv

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

Supper: Coq au vin with potato croquettes and green salad. Accompanied by a Portuguese red wine.

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Earlier this year, some #AWS developers created an internal tool for Amazonians to experiment with Foundation Models from Amazon Bedrock, and it quickly became a word-of-mouth hit across AWS.

Because the interface only required a user to add in a description of the app they wanted to build in a prompt box, the tool could be used by teammates across a wide spectrum of roles and technical expertise.

Some built apps for productivity, while others made ones for amusement, or that tapped into personal passions. It was cool to see builders get inspired by using generative AI in a more hands on way, and by sharing their apps with each other, they were actually sharing key generative AI techniques in action.

Based on the popularity and feedback, we launched this simple to use but powerful app to the world for free, naming it PartyRock (in reference to it being a fun and collaborative way to experience Amazon Bedrock). It is built on the belief that everyone should have access to a fun and easy tool to help get started with generative AI.

Since launching it last week, tens of thousands of apps have been built and shared, and the creativity has been really cool to see (including apps to organize your re:Invent schedule, plan a Formula 1 trip, and find the best coffee in Vegas).

I encourage you to give it a try and see what you can build! PartyRock: https://t.co/WPxO1QfaR1

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@jtsveigdalen A friend got a lock-picking kit and I had a lot of fun playing with it. At some point those skills might come in handy

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@jtsveigdalen Parachutes! This was my fave rainy day gym activity. Apparently it was so popular that my mother, a gym teacher, told me years later that they had to save it for the worst weather days to keep all the kids in-line.

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

22 years ago today, the final meeting of the DC Financial Control Board was held

Fast forward to today: We have
- 28 straight balanced budgets
- Aaa credit rating
- Fully-funded pensions

And...some still think of us & treat us like it’s 2001. Time for #DCStatehood!

[AWS Education @AWS_Edu]

Another whitepaper to read?

But this one is good.

Download to learn how leaders in education are using data & analytics to improve decision-making in #highereducation.
🔗👉https://t.co/ZsxzPzuULw

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@georgemporter Consider Amazon Lightsail for Research. https://t.co/Rr4qi14HCb. It has the budget limits and other guardrails and pre-sets that make running research workloads in AWS easier. Happy to talk with you about this and coordinate with your AWS acct Mgr. I am an AWS employee.

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@jtsveigdalen Winning!!!

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

The scale and cost of the multi-nation rescue/recovery of a 5-person private submersible is likely unprecedented and certainly unjustified. I must assume all of these resources, people, & energy were deployed so navies could play Hero and justify their investment in all that kit

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@InspireExplore Hello Mrs Chippy!

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@jtsveigdalen I am so glad you shared this article. Words have history and power. I can’t unlearn the new-to-me meaning of cakewalk. That is a term I won’t be using in the future when there are other words and phrases that will suffice - easy, straightforward, no big deal.

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@PaulGuinnessy What problem is this product trying to solve? I can already see the details of my phone in my hand as I’m holding it, I don’t need a wearable to project call details anywhere.

[Jan Poston Day @jpostonday]

@torylynn For a moment I thought you were in the Map Room from Indiana Jones and you were going to deploy your Staff if Ra to point the way to the Ark of the Covenant.