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Anatomy of a recent AI robocall and how I responded to it

On Friday, I received a call from 351-300-0683 which my phone identified as suspected spam. The caller ID showed up as “Ms. Leila’s NeighborSchool”, which I can find no evidence of on the internet so I suspect it no longer exists and the phone number was reassigned.

I declined the call, so it went to voicemail. The caller left this message:
#robocalls #spam #tcpa #CambridgeHonda #ClassAction #Cambridge #CambridgeMA #Boston #BostonMA
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Stumbled on this post in a vintage Boston group. I think folks here will enjoy this...

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Boston, July 18, 1972.

The Rolling Stones were supposed to play the Boston Garden that night. Fifteen thousand people were already inside, waiting for Mick, Keith and the boys to show up. Only problem was, the Stones weren't anywhere near Boston. Fog had forced their plane to land at T.F. Green in Rhode Island, and while they were waiting to get out of there, an altercation with police ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and three others getting hauled off to jail. Meanwhile, back at the Garden, 15,000 people were sitting around wondering what the hell was going on.

Stevie Wonder kept playing to buy some time, but everybody knew nobody had come to the Garden that night just to see Stevie. Boston was also dealing with trouble in the South End, so Mayor Kevin White had a decision to make. He needed his cops in the streets, but he also had a Garden full of angry Stones fans who had been waiting all night. So White went down there himself and started making calls. Somehow he got the Stones sprung from the Rhode Island lockup on $50 bail and into his personal custody.

Then the mayor walked onto the Garden stage, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, and told 15,000 people, “The Stones have been busted, but I have sprung them!” The place went nuts. White arranged for the MBTA to stay open late, kept the crowd occupied while the Stones headed north with a police escort, and at one point was even throwing a football into the stands. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The Stones finally hit the Garden stage around 12:45 in the morning and played until after 2. They were hours late, but the crowd was still there. Nobody went home empty-handed, and Boston avoided what could have been one hell of a mess.

That's the kind of Boston story I love. No fancy press conference. No committee meeting. Just Kevin White walking into a packed Garden full of pissed-off people and basically saying, “Relax. They're coming.”

And somehow, the mayor pulled it off.

The Stones played. The crowd went home happy and Boston got one hell of a story.

#Boston #BostonMA #BostonGarden #RollingStones #KevinWhite #KevinFromHeaven

Stumbled on this post in a vintage Boston group. I think folks here will enjoy this...

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Boston, July 18, 1972.

The Rolling Stones were supposed to play the Boston Garden that night. Fifteen thousand people were already inside, waiting for Mick, Keith and the boys to show up. Only problem was, the Stones weren't anywhere near Boston. Fog had forced their plane to land at T.F. Green in Rhode Island, and while they were waiting to get out of there, an altercation with police ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and three others getting hauled off to jail. Meanwhile, back at the Garden, 15,000 people were sitting around wondering what the hell was going on.

Stevie Wonder kept playing to buy some time, but everybody knew nobody had come to the Garden that night just to see Stevie. Boston was also dealing with trouble in the South End, so Mayor Kevin White had a decision to make. He needed his cops in the streets, but he also had a Garden full of angry Stones fans who had been waiting all night. So White went down there himself and started making calls. Somehow he got the Stones sprung from the Rhode Island lockup on $50 bail and into his personal custody.

Then the mayor walked onto the Garden stage, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, and told 15,000 people, “The Stones have been busted, but I have sprung them!” The place went nuts. White arranged for the MBTA to stay open late, kept the crowd occupied while the Stones headed north with a police escort, and at one point was even throwing a football into the stands. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The Stones finally hit the Garden stage around 12:45 in the morning and played until after 2. They were hours late, but the crowd was still there. Nobody went home empty-handed, and Boston avoided what could have been one hell of a mess.

That's the kind of Boston story I love. No fancy press conference. No committee meeting. Just Kevin White walking into a packed Garden full of pissed-off people and basically saying, “Relax. They're coming.”

And somehow, the mayor pulled it off.

The Stones played. The crowd went home happy and Boston got one hell of a story.

#Boston #BostonMA #BostonGarden #RollingStones #KevinWhite #KevinFromHeaven

Stumbled on this post in a vintage Boston group. I think folks here will enjoy this...

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Boston, July 18, 1972.

The Rolling Stones were supposed to play the Boston Garden that night. Fifteen thousand people were already inside, waiting for Mick, Keith and the boys to show up. Only problem was, the Stones weren't anywhere near Boston. Fog had forced their plane to land at T.F. Green in Rhode Island, and while they were waiting to get out of there, an altercation with police ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and three others getting hauled off to jail. Meanwhile, back at the Garden, 15,000 people were sitting around wondering what the hell was going on.

Stevie Wonder kept playing to buy some time, but everybody knew nobody had come to the Garden that night just to see Stevie. Boston was also dealing with trouble in the South End, so Mayor Kevin White had a decision to make. He needed his cops in the streets, but he also had a Garden full of angry Stones fans who had been waiting all night. So White went down there himself and started making calls. Somehow he got the Stones sprung from the Rhode Island lockup on $50 bail and into his personal custody.

Then the mayor walked onto the Garden stage, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, and told 15,000 people, “The Stones have been busted, but I have sprung them!” The place went nuts. White arranged for the MBTA to stay open late, kept the crowd occupied while the Stones headed north with a police escort, and at one point was even throwing a football into the stands. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The Stones finally hit the Garden stage around 12:45 in the morning and played until after 2. They were hours late, but the crowd was still there. Nobody went home empty-handed, and Boston avoided what could have been one hell of a mess.

That's the kind of Boston story I love. No fancy press conference. No committee meeting. Just Kevin White walking into a packed Garden full of pissed-off people and basically saying, “Relax. They're coming.”

And somehow, the mayor pulled it off.

The Stones played. The crowd went home happy and Boston got one hell of a story.

#Boston #BostonMA #BostonGarden #RollingStones #KevinWhite #KevinFromHeaven

Stumbled on this post in a vintage Boston group. I think folks here will enjoy this...

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Boston, July 18, 1972.

The Rolling Stones were supposed to play the Boston Garden that night. Fifteen thousand people were already inside, waiting for Mick, Keith and the boys to show up. Only problem was, the Stones weren't anywhere near Boston. Fog had forced their plane to land at T.F. Green in Rhode Island, and while they were waiting to get out of there, an altercation with police ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and three others getting hauled off to jail. Meanwhile, back at the Garden, 15,000 people were sitting around wondering what the hell was going on.

Stevie Wonder kept playing to buy some time, but everybody knew nobody had come to the Garden that night just to see Stevie. Boston was also dealing with trouble in the South End, so Mayor Kevin White had a decision to make. He needed his cops in the streets, but he also had a Garden full of angry Stones fans who had been waiting all night. So White went down there himself and started making calls. Somehow he got the Stones sprung from the Rhode Island lockup on $50 bail and into his personal custody.

Then the mayor walked onto the Garden stage, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, and told 15,000 people, “The Stones have been busted, but I have sprung them!” The place went nuts. White arranged for the MBTA to stay open late, kept the crowd occupied while the Stones headed north with a police escort, and at one point was even throwing a football into the stands. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The Stones finally hit the Garden stage around 12:45 in the morning and played until after 2. They were hours late, but the crowd was still there. Nobody went home empty-handed, and Boston avoided what could have been one hell of a mess.

That's the kind of Boston story I love. No fancy press conference. No committee meeting. Just Kevin White walking into a packed Garden full of pissed-off people and basically saying, “Relax. They're coming.”

And somehow, the mayor pulled it off.

The Stones played. The crowd went home happy and Boston got one hell of a story.

#Boston #BostonMA #BostonGarden #RollingStones #KevinWhite #KevinFromHeaven

Stumbled on this post in a vintage Boston group. I think folks here will enjoy this...

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Boston, July 18, 1972.

The Rolling Stones were supposed to play the Boston Garden that night. Fifteen thousand people were already inside, waiting for Mick, Keith and the boys to show up. Only problem was, the Stones weren't anywhere near Boston. Fog had forced their plane to land at T.F. Green in Rhode Island, and while they were waiting to get out of there, an altercation with police ended with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and three others getting hauled off to jail. Meanwhile, back at the Garden, 15,000 people were sitting around wondering what the hell was going on.

Stevie Wonder kept playing to buy some time, but everybody knew nobody had come to the Garden that night just to see Stevie. Boston was also dealing with trouble in the South End, so Mayor Kevin White had a decision to make. He needed his cops in the streets, but he also had a Garden full of angry Stones fans who had been waiting all night. So White went down there himself and started making calls. Somehow he got the Stones sprung from the Rhode Island lockup on $50 bail and into his personal custody.

Then the mayor walked onto the Garden stage, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, and told 15,000 people, “The Stones have been busted, but I have sprung them!” The place went nuts. White arranged for the MBTA to stay open late, kept the crowd occupied while the Stones headed north with a police escort, and at one point was even throwing a football into the stands. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The Stones finally hit the Garden stage around 12:45 in the morning and played until after 2. They were hours late, but the crowd was still there. Nobody went home empty-handed, and Boston avoided what could have been one hell of a mess.

That's the kind of Boston story I love. No fancy press conference. No committee meeting. Just Kevin White walking into a packed Garden full of pissed-off people and basically saying, “Relax. They're coming.”

And somehow, the mayor pulled it off.

The Stones played. The crowd went home happy and Boston got one hell of a story.

#Boston #BostonMA #BostonGarden #RollingStones #KevinWhite #KevinFromHeaven

#3GoodThings @3goodthings

1. It's a beautiful day today, sunny and 80°F.

2. Picnic lunch date on the #motorcycle with Spouse, eating lunch and then walking by the river, culminating in…

3. Discovered a new ice cream place, https://www.naturalfruttiberri.com, which has absolutely amazing Saffron & Rose soft serve.
#Boston #BostonMA #Watertown #WatertownMA #food

RE: https://mastodon.social/@starluna/117178735851915855

@starluna tagging me here gives me an opportunity to provide an update about what Boston poll-workers have been told regarding Feds showing up at the polls.

This is a long thread, so buckle up.
#Boston #BostonMA #politics #MAPoli #BosPoli #elections #voting #pollWorker

Bottom line up front: Feds at polls are considered observers, and if they don’t follow the rules observers are required to follow they can be removed or arrested if they refuse to leave.

Read on for more.
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#SupportOurVeterans 🇺🇸

Back at New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston today for the Sunday brunch ☕️ shift! Honored to serve alongside long-time volunteer and veteran Ted, as well as fellow volunteer Wallace.

⭐️ Showing up in person is just one way to back our veterans. If you can’t make it out to volunteer, you can still make a positive impact:

ℹ️ Learn more at https://nechv.org
💬 Like, comment, and share this post—every share helps spread NECHV’s mission and services to those who need them most.

Grateful to all who serve! 🇺🇸

#NECHV #Veterans #Volunteer #Recovery #GiveBack #BostonMA #Homelessness #Foodbank #Recovery

💟 One of my favorite quotes from Coretta Scott King at The Embrace. A reminder that love for humanity isn't passive—it’s the driving force for civic courage, community action, taking personal risks, and working to dismantle structural inequalities for people you might never even meet.

📍1965 Freedom Plaza, Boston, MA

#CorettaScottKing #TheEmbrace #BostonCommon #1965FreedomPlaza #CivilRights #Equality #Humanity #equity #CommunityAction #BostonMA #MLK #Love #dei #history #vote

I went straight from there to Morris Shoe Repair in #Allston. They said it would be only $100 to both recondition the jacket and re-dye the road salt stains.
Would The Designers have done a better job? Maybe, who knows. Would it have been a >3x better job than Morris? Probably not.
#Boston #BostonMA #AllstonMA

I called around today to find a place to recondition my leather jacket, which became all "lumpy" after getting soaked through in a storm.
I found https://www.designerleatherclothes.com. I called them and asked if they could do it. They said bring it in for them to look at. I brought it in. They said $350. I said that's more than I paid for it. They said, OK, how about $325. I said still more than I paid for it, no thanks.
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#Boston #BostonMA

Do you know what's awesome? [Narrator: it is not, in fact, awesome]
When the city of #BostonMA sends you a motor vehicle excise tax bill in April, and you send them back paperwork indicating that the car in question was donated to charity in March, and they ignore that and send you another bill in August. 😡
I have emailed my city councilor asking for help. Hopefully her office can get this fixed.
#Boston

The #CharlesRiver #CommunityGarden in #AllstonMA helped me to cope when I lived in the city. While I didn't have a plot, I still enjoyed the #GreenSpace and it helped ground and calm me. I hope it stays around for many, many more years!

History of our Garden

"The Charles River Community Garden, #CRCG, was established in 1979/80 by Julie Hensler, who could not find an available plot in the Herter Garden. She contacted the Dept of Food and Agriculture community gardening program and was told there was land further upstream. She rounded up 20 friends and they staked out a 60’ x 40’ garden and turned the soil. It was then divided into 10’ x 20’ plots. Adjacent to the CRCG was the #BostonFoodCoop Small #VictoryGarden. In 1985-86 Julie and her husband took a year off to travel around the world, giving the work of Garden Coordinator to two gardeners who failed to do the job. The garden appeared abandoned and the Dept of Agriculture threatened to terminate the lease. 'Julie called all of the garden members from 1984: many had moved, some had just given up. The list of active gardeners was only about half a dozen people. Everywhere Jule went she tried to convince people to join the garden. Those who joined took 2, 3 or even 4 plots to keep the garden running. The effort was successful, and the garden got approval from the Dept of Agriculture to continue.' In 1996 the two gardens merged under Sue Wymelenberg, who secured funds for the fence and formed the Garden Council. Sue was succeeded by Peter Burns."

https://charlesrivercg.com/

#SolarPunkSunday #CommunityGardens #BostonMA #SpendTimeOutdoors

List of #BostonMA #CommunityGardens

"Our 56 community gardens —totaling 15 acres across eight Boston neighborhoods—are tended and cared for by local residents. These oases of green are sources of neighborhood pride that connect people and place. They turn neighbors into friends, strengthen family bonds and traditions, and inspire joy in the shared work of growing fresh, healthy, and delicious food."

https://thetrustees.org/content/list-of-boston-community-gardens/

#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #GreenerCities #GrowYourOwn #TrusteesOfReservations

#BostonMA - Save the date - August 2nd!

#FixitClinic: Artisans Asylum

11:00am - 2:00pm

Artisans Asylum
96 Holton St
#AllstonMA 02135

"Explore #troubleshooting and repair with volunteer coaches.

"Fixit Clinics are free workshops where people bring broken stuff—from bikes to blenders to blazers—and volunteer coaches share their tools and know-how, working with you to disassemble, troubleshoot and (hopefully) repair items. These meet-ups build hands-on skills, confidence, community, and a culture of reuse and repair. They are family friendly and open to all.

The City of Boston Environment Department is partnering with the Artisan's Asylum to host one of these events.

Register to participate.

WHAT SHOULD I BRING?

- A broken gadget, small appliance, computer, toy, tool, textile good, or other item
- A description of what’s wrong and anything you’ve tried to fix it
- Useful tools and parts, if you have them
- A desire to explore and learn!"

FMI and to register:
https://www.boston.gov/calendar/fixit-clinic-artisans-asylum-0

cc: @knizer

#SolarPunkSunday #RepairClinics #Mending #RightToRepair #ReduceReuseRepair

I just joined the #AllstonBrighton food train. Maybe if you live in the neighborhood you'd like to join me as either a donor or a recipient? If so, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCLYkzBopKBBYi046uwtI9ediltBrdAdsu_WMLBSOZ7BTn2w/viewform?usp=header
If not, at least you should be cheered by knowing that such a thing exists!
#Boston #BostonMA #Brighton #BrightonMA #Allston #AllstonMA #MutualAid

April 2014

Harvard Bridge, between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts

#iphoneography #iphonephotography #streetphotography #harvardbridge #charlesriver #cambridgema #cambridgemass #cambridgemassachusetts #boston #bostonma #bostonmass #BostonMassachusetts #massachusetts #citgosign

Last year at this time. Curious to see if #MountWashingtonObservatory breaks more heat records next week...

From 2024: The First #SevereHeat of the Year Sweeps Across the #Midwest and #Northeast

By Alexis George
Updated June 22, 2024

"New Englanders dragged fans and air conditioners out of their closets earlier this week as the first heat wave of the year gripped the Northeast. The hot and humid weather that arrived on Tuesday, June 18th, prompted officials to declare heat alerts as temperatures skyrocketed into the 90s across many locations. And the humidity only made it feel hotter, which caused the heat index to soar over 100 degrees in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday afternoon.

"We saw little relief from the hot temperatures on Wednesday as the heat wave continued. Temperatures across New England soared into the mid and upper 90s, with parts of the region posting higher temperatures than South Florida on Wednesday. #BostonMA set a record-high temperature of 98 degrees on Wednesday, which broke the previous record of 96 degrees. A new daily record high of 70 degrees was recorded at #MountWashingtonObservatory on Wednesday, which broke the previous record of 67 degrees that was originally recorded in 1995. The new record high temperature recorded at #MountWashington on Wednesday also fell a few degrees short of the highest temperature ever recorded in June and the all-time station high of 72 degrees. Here are some other records that were set on Wednesday:

- Millinocket, Maine, hit 97 degrees, a calendar-day record.
- Caribou, Maine, hit 96 degrees, matching its all-time high temperature. It also posted a heat index of 103, the highest on record.
- Bangor and Houlton in Maine tied calendar-day records of 95 degrees.
- Reading, Pennsylvania, tied a calendar-day record of 95 degrees.
- Syracuse, New York, tied a calendar-day record of 95 degrees.
- Poughkeepsie, New York, hit 94 degrees, a calendar-day record.
- Cleveland tied a calendar-day record of 92 degrees.
- Buffalo tied a calendar-day record of 90 degrees.
- Elkins, West Virginia, hit 90 degrees, a calendar-day record.
- DuBois, Pennsylvania, hit 80 degrees, a calendar-day record.

"The heat would not relent on Thursday, June 20th, as heat advisories and excessive heat watches remained in effect for parts of the Northeast. Temperatures were forecast to reach a scorching 99 degrees in #ConcordNH, and 95 degrees in Boston on Thursday. The excessive heat also caused some trains in the Northeast to operate at lower speeds on Thursday, as rail temperatures exceeded 135 degrees!

"Another daily record high temperature was recorded atop Mount Washington on June 20th, with the new daily record of 65 degrees breaking the previous record of 64 degrees, which was set in 2016 and equaled in 2020."

[...]

"The stubborn heat wave finally died down some by Friday, June 21st, as cooler air arrived behind the passing cold front. While this historic heat wave definitely made headlines in the Midwest and Northeast, on the flip side, a colder weather pattern dumped up to a foot of snow at some higher elevations in Montana and Idaho earlier this week, just days away from the summer solstice!"

Source:
https://mountwashington.org/the-first-severe-heat-of-the-year-sweeps-across-the-midwest-and-northeast/

#ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat #Heatwaves #ClimateChange #Weather2024 #heatwave 🥵 #SummerSolstice ☀️ #Wetbulb🌡️ #SummerSolsticeHeatwaves

The Mass Pike should be narrowed! But MassDOT is insisting they need to design for 20% more cars than are there today, and that could cost the project hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/04/16/the-path-forward-for-allstons-highway-megaproject-is-getting-narrower

#Massachusetts #MassPike #MassDOT #AllstonMA #AllstonBrighton #RoadDiet #urbanism #BostonMA

We Make Noise Fest with a bunch of #BostonMusic performers, Saturday, noon+ free, #CakeSwagg #OOMPA #NaomiWestwater #DowntownCrossing #BostonMA

www.wmnboston.org/fest
#BostonMusic 🧵 (4/x)

pro tip: if you're taking commuter rail into and out of Boston on a day with a Red Sox game, you might not need to buy a ticket.

They didn't check either inbound or outbound.

(I bought and activated my tickets anyway, I think public transit is worth supporting.)

But now I'm realizing maybe I should have checked, and maybe this is an explicit policy on this line on game days?

#bostonMA #commuterRail #publicTransit #MBTA #boston #MA

Id0l Jam is happening in September in Somerville! :mexcitedmiku:

After there was some issue with the venue for the summer, Metam0re is now hosting Autumn Id0l Jam on September 29 at Arts at the Armory in Somerville. A day of Idol Showcases, singing, cosplay, and other idol and anime related stuff. (And now conveniently located in my city, no more needing to take the commuter rail :TamakoLaugh: .)

More info, and applications for performances and for vending space (I think they're especially looking for more artists to vend, anyone who's got some nerdy stuff to sell): https://autumnid0ljam.carrd.co/

#Id0lJam #AutumnId0lJam #SummerId0lJam #Id0lJam2024 #Convention #Conventions #AnimeConvention #AnimeConventions #AnimeCon #AnimeCons #Anime #Idol #IdolAnime #IdolCosplay #IdolCosplayer #Kaigai #KaigaiIdol #Cosplay #Cosplayer #Somerville #SomervilleMA #Boston #BostonMA #CambridgeMA #Artist #FanArtist #ArtistAlley

Top o' the mornin' to you all, on this gray and appropriately chilly #StPatricksDay in #BostonMA . My family fled famine and landed here. #ImmigrantsGetTheJobDone

Special thanks to @yarnplayer for my new clover necklace! It's perfect for today's history brunch.

The pattern is on her free patterns page, #CelticKnot #shamrock.

https://yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/p/my-free-patterns.html

#tatting #lace

Found this tile near South Station in #Boston purely by chance after our flight was cancelled and we had to run to catch a train instead (at least we were able to work something out to get home). Anyway…it’s the only tile I know of in Boston, but I’m not sure if that’s because I don’t have enough eyes in Boston or there just really aren’t any others up there.
#toynbeetiles #toynbee #houseofhades #houseofhadestile #boston #bostonma #bostonart #harvardartmuseums #cambridge #massachusetts

#sunset #boston #bostonMA #brookline #longwood #photography