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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Feel like we’re almost at the part of the movie with the big reveal- the name of the “human” warning about civilization-ending AI is actually “Dario, a model.”

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My kid’s sleepaway camp has a service where they’ll print emails and deliver them like regular mail so they get messages sooner. But it’s text only and kid wanted pictures of the dog. Solution? ASCII art! (Yes I just posted a picture of text art of a picture) @darthbluesky.bsky.social

A black labradoodle with a white chin, head slightly tilted and looking slightly to the side

ASCII art rendering of the same dog picture.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

They excluded Arizona and other places that don’t currently change their clocks, but I like how the “No data” label instead implies that we just can’t predict when the sun will rise in these places.

NYT headline and summary
Should We Make Daylight Saving
Time Permanent? More light at the day's end comes at a price: much
later winter sunrises across much of the U.S. Scientists have documented consequences for health and the economy.

The map shows the US in various shades of blue indicating how many months each year will have sunrise after 7am under the proposed policy. Arizona and a smattering of counties around the country are in light grey which the map key indicates is “no data”.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New bike lanes painted on Broadway in Cambridge overnight last night, part of section B plan. Maybe those cars were already there and painted around, but the signage already said no stopping- hopefully some physical barriers coming.

Broadway westbound with separated bike lane

Broadway eastbound with cars parked blocking the new bike lane

Cars parked in the bike lanes instead of the obvious delineated parking spot right next to them

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Curious what’s going in the super reinforced steel core of the new building in Kendall Sq

Steel frame of the first few floors of a building under construction in Kendall Sq. The external girders are a typical density but there is a core of very tightly packed steel beams and large steel plates on either end.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Actual protected bike lane in front of city hall plaza! Now just extend it down Cambridge St to Charles.

Concrete jersey barriers separating the bike lane from the road on Cambridge St in front of Boston city hall plaza

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Gotta agree with people who say shows are just getting too long these days

A menu option on a smart TV to resume playing the Apple TV series For All Mankind, with the caption indicating that there are 1193046 minutes left in the episode.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In Prague they have an appreciation for the flavors of central Mass.

A bottle I assume is Worcestershire sauce but the label just says Worcester.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The fight we’ve been waiting for, the Battle of Brattle: Waymo vs. Cambridge turkey. @universalhub.com

A Waymo self driving car is parked next to the protected bike lane on Brattle St in Cambridge MA. A male turkey is standing in the street next to it, aggressively displaying its tail feathers.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

@universalhub.com There appears to be only one Red Line train in service on the whole system. Train died at Kendall, no southbound trains in service north of Kendall: next northbound train estimated in 23 minutes.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Westley won their encounter because Vizzini was good at everything except stats. He couldn’t determine the poison distribution.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

When they saw him coming, why didn’t they run (so far away)?

Boston.com headline
“Tewksbury police search for driver who allegedly mowed down flock of seagulls on purpose”

Subhed
“Tewksbury police said they found six dead seagulls in the strip mall parking lot.”

Picture of cars in a parking lot, captioned
“Tewksbury police are looking to identify a driver accused of intentionally running over and killing several seagulls Thursday. Tewksbury Police Department”

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This version of The Doctor sucks.

NYT headline, “Doctor Who Gave Matthew Perry Ketamine Is Sentenced to 30 Months”

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My pet peeve- regulators making a big deal about 1 vs 2. Throttle-only is not fast! My 750W bike using just throttle does 0 to 19 in 13 seconds. The real benefit is startup boost at traffic lights and low speed maneuvering. Most people writing anti-ebike articles have never ridden in city traffic.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I tried to make some baguettes but messed up the timing so they were too dense, but they magically ended up the same texture and flavor as Bertucci’s rolls.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Health Care Provider email: You have new secure message! Click here to read it on our secure portal. Me: I don’t have a login for that portal. HCP: Ok, we’ll send you an email with login credentials. Me: So couldn’t you have just emailed the message? HCP: No, that would be insecure.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Jays had many opportunities to win it, but IKF so ineffective you’d think there was an IMiD in the game.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I give it 5 minutes until @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social has a portrait of the left fielder flying in the air while the center fielder makes the catch above his head.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

OMG the WS is going to end with a Homer Simpson walkoff

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Food inflation definitely happening, Costco has pirate corn for the first time I’ve ever seen. Pirate corn- It’s a buck an ear.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Got a decent peloton on Mass Ave this evening.

Group of about 12 bikes riding in the right lane in front of 2067 Mass Ave

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My kid thought I should use Elon’s dumpster site to complain to a company that’s not on here to get a response, so I said fine, and within 10 minutes a scam account was created and trying to steal my info. Completely useless trash fire.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Looking for problem solving: Air France abandoned our bag in CDG airport, never loaded it. It has an AirTag and looks like it’s been sitting at the baggage counters for two days. We filed a claim and sent them the AirTag link but they won’t take the five minutes to track it down and ship it. 1/2

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I don’t need this any more, I’ve memorized the commands

Keyboard overlay for PC WordPerfect circa 1993

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My kid taught me about what you can do now that iPhones are waterproof

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Learned this week that it’s not very hard to bike to the airport. Ferry from downtown, east Boston greenway to airport station, service road to terminal E. Last half mile isn’t very bike friendly but there were almost no cars.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hey I’m a big Costco fan but come the f—- on.

A mini split unit sold by Costco claiming it’s DIY installation

The wiring diagram from the installation manual with a whole lot of connections and a bunch of warnings that you’re going to die if you mess it up.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Lately gotten several variations of a phishing scam getting through spam filters at least daily, and l don’t know, I thought coding and text classification were like the two strong use cases for machine learning models, but Google/Gmail seems pretty bad at it!

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Rube from Boston gaping at a system with parallel express and local tracks with two minute midday headways.

NYC Subway board at Rockefeller center showing three trains arriving in the next two minutes.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

While biking past Bowdoin saw a dollar bill lying in road at a red light and looked all around as I picked it up because I figured it must be an economics experiment or some transportation study about bikers stopping at red lights. Driver in the car next to me gave a thumbs up.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Love to model the stock market as a harmonic oscillator

Intraday graph of S&P500 index, oscillating with a period of about an hour

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Don’t forget that Republican governments have previously argued that using “view source” on a public website is a crime. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

This time, it did not include those details. A White House official said that was done for security purposes.
The result was that the group's new claims appeared impossible to check.
The New York Times, at first, found a way around the group's obfuscation. That is because Mr. Musk's group had briefly embedded the federal identification numbers of these grants in the publicly available source code. The Times used those numbers to match DOGE's claims with reality, and to discover that they contained the same kind of errors that it had made in the past.
Mr. Musk's group later removed those identifiers from the code, and posted more batches of claims that could not be verified at all.
That shift was a major step back from one of Mr. Musk's core promises about his group: that it would be "maximally transparent."

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For when you like your coffee highly enriched

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A brand new type of travel hell at Logan: airline gives you meal vouchers for a canceled flight, but when you try to redeem it restaurants tell you they only take card and don’t have a cashier to redeem. So kids bought $60 of candy and soda at the only place that would accept it, a snack kiosk.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just had some Turkish delight and I’m once again cursing CS Lewis for my reaction always being, “ooh Turkish delight, I bet that tastes really good!” followed by deep disappointment.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Anyone sell a PCR block with egg-sized wells?

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Other bike lanes generally cleared, but is there a reason the bike lanes on Moakley bridge are often horrible? Is it a jurisdictional thing because it’s between downtown and Seaport and over a channel, so it’s no one’s job?

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Tom Brady is only a 3 volt system?

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Don’t panic, everyone, I’m sure once we resolve this whole problem of Elon stealing everyone’s personal information we’ll be offered 24 months of free credit monitoring.

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Well sure am glad I prevented that Comcast email account from being closed, really valuable stuff in there.

Comcast email inbox that is purely spam including top message from “el0nnnnMuuuusk”

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Trump signing executive orders like

Wall of Umbridge educational decrees from Harry Potter 5 movie

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Josh Bittker @jbittker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Zeno’s paradox with the tush push encroachments and half the distance to the goal penalties.

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