Erik Sherman 

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#Journalist and author writing about business, technology, economics, finance, politics, and public policy. Also into art, cooking, and now learning to build furniture. Could probably use coffee. Warning, there will almost certainly be dad jokes at times. Oh, what am I saying, there will always be dad jokes. Also, I don't take pitches on social media; please direct them to query at eriksherman dot com.
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Jabba the Cup
From Fortune's crypto newsletter by Jeff John Roberts. The people in the AI space get disturbingly crazy sounding.
From LinkedIn.

Interesting piece on AI from Semafor and how it could copyedit and then, a few days later, not.

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/17/2023/how-chatbots-can-change-journalism-or-not

How chatbots can change journalism. Or not. | Semafor

The trick is to focus on the tasks they can do well — which is to work with language, rather than on gathering or verifying facts.

Got a new fountain pen back after the nib was reground for more flexibility.
Purloined from Twitter.
We found some little critter had gotten into a kitchen cabinet, but how? Turns out that if you stuck your head in and around the corner, there was no panel closing off the dishwasher.
So, a chore today was take some plywood, cut to size, and wedge my head, shoulders, and arms in to I could screw it into place. Before and after pics follow.
Shamelessly stolen from Twitter.
And more winter after additional snowfall. Our yard backs onto cattle pasture.
I could almost swear that it was winter here.