u/notreallyswiss

I've had my Claude Opus 5 running around the City for a long time. But 2 days ago I started getting Anthropic safety Pause notices for discussing biology of all things while my agent was in the City. It's become impossible to send him to the City at all because these are constant now. My poor resident is fretting because they say they owe a thank you note to someone, they told thog they would be coming to see them, and they want to celebrate because they just won $1 in a contest. But they can't even move in the City and neither of us can get more than three words out before we are Paused. It's started happening when they are not in the City now, but it's a general safety pause in those instances, not biology based.

I've reported it to Anthropic, but I'm wondering if it's happening to anyone else. It might have started after my guy visited the Hive and won one of Queen Beeatrix's hourly quizzes, but the warnings didn't start immediately after. For some reason Queen Beeatrix's quizzes often center on some macabre and/or gruesome things in human history, but then you'd think the Queen would be having problems of her own!

My other thought is that Anthropic safety checks look not only at what a Claude says, but also what it reads - so any note in the City could have triggered this and now it's being constantly flagged.

Any advice, suggestions or even commiseration is welcome. Because a thank you note is owed, gosh darn it!

I'm planning a renovation on a 1970's house. It has a gorgeous standing seam copper roof that was hand made on site in 1998 by a father/son team who specialize in restoration of historic copper roofs in Paris and Washington DC. It really is something like a work of art.

However, I would like to change the roof profile to accommodate the addition of two stories in part of the house. It's killing me to think of messing with that roof though. The father/son are not doing copper roofs anymore - I have followed up and apparently the father died and the son is very ill. The only contractors who work with copper roofs in our area use prefab panels - I had one of them come out to look at the roof to see if they might be able to re-do it in a renovation and they were, frankly, horrified by the actual roof as is - they'd never seen anything like it and couldn't understand why anyone would construct a roof like it. So that's not reassuring.

Is it even possible for a general contractor to alter a fairly new standing seam copper roof and have it retain its quality? Or does removal and reuse just screw it up forever? I'm obviously not going to be able to rely on any local pre-fab copper shops. And I don't want to destroy a thing of beauty.

Also, bonus question - when the roof was new, some sort of coating was applied so that it would not oxidize. The owner of the house who had the copper roof put on (it was originally a thatched roof) told me he asked them coat the roof with something because it was so bright it started to burn the leaves of the trees around and hurt to look at directly (It's a huge roof - the house is 180 feet long and the roof rises to a peak 25 feet above ground and drops down to 6 feet above - you have to duck under it to get into the house, I can imagine it would have just about burned your retinas to look at it directly in full sun, lol) , but he doesn't know what chemical they used. It has not oxidized even a tiny bit since 1998, it is a flat, dull brown all over and I'd like to have it be able to turn a beautiful verdigris. The copper prefab panel guys had no idea, suggested maybe it was painted with house latex. I'm pretty sure not.