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joshtur.bsky.social
Retired politician and current small business owner in Salem MA. Somewhat less filtered than average.
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We had a post from @gruber.foo today about the lawsuit over Apple Intelligence. I'm guessing the lawsuit is because of the Siri delay. Yes, Apple screwed up but they also very clearly said that AI was something in beta that would be rolling out over time. And it is, in fact, rolling out over time.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Well, enjoy the brief respite from COVID-driven supply chain disruption inflation and prepare for the tariff-driven economic crash that’ll cost a lot of people (especially the blue collar workers who thought Democrats didn’t care about them) their jobs.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Not surprised that Trump has no respect the territorial integrity of Denmark — he had no respect the territorial integrity of E. Jean Carroll either.

submitted 98 days ago • 11 comments

My kid, hearing me coughing when I got home from the gym: “Dad, are you sick?” Me: “No, I’m fine. This is just Fran cough. It happens.” He still doesn’t believe me, and thinks I have plague. Even though the cough is gone now.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

In other words, pronouns and identification are not that big a deal unless you want a culture war.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

The world may be falling apart, but at least I had Bonchon for lunch with my kid today.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

In most US states there is one total trans person playing one sport. This is not a realistic or workable solution. There are not enough trans athletes in most states to field a starting 11 on one soccer team.

submitted 148 days ago • 18 comments

*dipping a jumbo shrimp into cocktail sauce* i would never *stuffing a lobster roll in mouth* eat a *gorging on crawfish etouffee* bug

submitted 151 days ago • 12 comments

Who made this? Ahahaha

submitted 152 days ago • 1600 comments

I’m the only person in my household who consistently turns lights off when leaving a room. If I hadn’t been an LED early adopter my electric bill would be about $1k every month.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Descending ladder workout this morning: 1250m row, 50 sit-ups, 100 dubs, dropping each of 5 rounds to end with 250, 10, 20. Amazingly I finished in 29:00, under the 35:00 cap. I’ll pay for it the rest of the day.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect. I suspect this nomination is doomed.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, I’m pretty happy mostly lurking here. The algorithm shows me far less toxic content and it feels the most like Old Twitter.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t always agree with Krugman, but he’s forgotten more about economics than I’ll ever know, and he has a Nobel while I’m just a schlub with an IT job and a polymath of mediocrity. So I’m sharing his take because he’s way smarter than me.

submitted 453 days ago • 0 comments

Well, no going back to Twitter now, account’s deleted.

submitted 508 days ago • 0 comments

Deleted the app formerly known as Twitter from my iPhone today. I don’t miss it so far.

submitted 529 days ago • 0 comments

Still searching for that twitter-esque hit of fast microblogging, insightful reading, few trolls and fewer nazis. Threads is ok, hoping this is better. Reading here is pretty ok so far.

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