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Jan Murphy
@packrat74.bsky.social
Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; sometime moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of SFF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.
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JMpackrat74.bsky.social

My heart is breaking for the Oakland A's fans right now. #SellTheTeam

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#GenHour The TL;dr is that all these companies pushing AI at us are misrepresenting what the software actually does and doesn't do. They're trying to monetize enshittification instead of making useful products.

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#GenHour I will leave it to others who are more familiar with the enviromental costs to talk about how damaging it is to waste all these resources on software that essentially does nothing worthwhile for us.

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#GenHour#genealogy#FamilyHistory research? To cite their sources. Why use a plagiarism machine? It's just wrong.

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Starting on Friday is a wonderful unique 10-day event - All About That Place! If you didn’t attend last year’s, please do have a look at the itinerary for this year, there’s over 140 bite-size talks covering various topics. All talks will be recorded #GenHourwww.sog.org.uk/all-about-th...

Welcome to All About That Place
Welcome to All About That Place

All About That Place

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JMpackrat74.bsky.social

Hey #GenHour peeps. My alarm just went off for the evening timeslot, so I'm catching up on today's skeets now. Hope all of you are well and your research is going well. I'm currently watching the news about Hurricane Helene since I have friends and family in the storm area. Stay safe, everyone!

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Hurricane Helene continues to strengthen as it approaches the Florida coast. Member stations across the NPR network are covering the local impact as Helene barrels through the southeast U.S.

How to follow the latest local updates on Hurricane Helene
How to follow the latest local updates on Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene continues to strengthen as it approaches the Florida coast. Member stations across the NPR network are covering the local impact as Helene barrels through the southeast U.S.

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For those of you who may not know, the US (mainly southeast) restaurant chain Waffle House has such detailed contingency plans in case of disaster that our disaster management agency literally uses something called the "Waffle House Index" to know how aggressively to mobilize in an area.

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Jan Murphy
@packrat74.bsky.social
Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; sometime moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of SFF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.
281 followers632 following1.6k posts