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- The Wall Street Journal [gift link] highlighted the designer deals you can find at Marshalls and T.J.Maxx.
- The Washington Post [gift link] profiled the late Anne Hollander, author of the “revolutionary” Sex and Suits (1994).
- WIRED reported that 75% of employees with desk jobs are using AI at work (including those who haven't been trained to do so), often because they feel overburdened.
- Meanwhile, Ars Technica shared that Slack analyzes users' messages, content, files, and more to “enhance [their] product mission,” i.e., train AI.
- Vox asked, “Why are whole-body deodorants suddenly everywhere?”
- The Cut looked at how some people are finding sperm donors through Facebook.
- Mother Jones reported that abortions in the U.S. have increased since last year's Dobbs decision; while there were 82,000 abortions per month on average in 2022, that increased to 86,000 in 2023.
- Bicycling noted that a large number of women have left cycling due to genital swelling, disfigurement, or numbness — and provided advice on alleviating the problem.
- Your Laugh of the Week is from The Belladonna, with “Fraudulinguistics: The Study of Words that Should Exist: Part 2.”
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Anon
The Wired link is behind a paywall. I am curious in hearing anecdotes, though. For anyone who does use AI at work, what do you use it for? My firm initially forbade its use by blocking the major access points on all company devices. Now they are rolling it out in a controlled manner to small groups at a time. I have coworkers who think it is going to save tons of time and effort and make their lives easier, but my own experience as one of the internal test users is that it is a glorified Ask Jeeves. Great for meal planning, but not for anything that other work apps don’t already handle.
Anonymous
As an introvert AIs ability to write emails with the appropriate amount of social fluff and draft responses to slack/teams/zoom messages is life changing. I probably wouldn’t feel the same way if I was extroverted.
Anecdata
For all your coworkers’ sake, please please please give your AI a strict word count limit for those messages. It can do “short and to the point” but it does. not. like to
becca
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