EH: S2 E24 special IF YOU'RE NOT OUTRAGED, THEN YOU ARE either unconscious or A BRAIN DEAD ORGANISM and also Happy St Patricks Day edition

 

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How Canadians Are Fighting Back Against U.S. Tariffs

The Onion:

As the trade war heats up, Canada has imposed 25% retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. goods. Here are all the other ways Canada is fighting back:

Dramatically paring back supply of fictional girlfriends

Going shelf to shelf to boo imported American groceries

Selling us syrup from their worst-tasting maple trees

Aiming all snowblowers in direction of U.S. border

Raising legal drinking age to 37 for American tourists

Whittling their own Big Macs

Boycotting Canadian vacation hubs like Oshkosh and Duluth

Activating Dan Aykroyd

Not letting in any draft dodgers next year

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OPINION PAGE: we've never been a fan of or follower of college basketball playoffs here at EH; however, this year we FINALLY, and for the first time, understand the true meaning of MARCH MADNESS.  our parents, teachers, psychiatrists, psychologists, drug dealers, (even some of the clergy), always told us that we & the world are imperfect.  for crap's sense, let's not get carried away? Oy, enough! --your faithful EH ed, mm 

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Axios Boston
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By Alex Fitzpatrick and April Rubin · Mar 09, 2025

Artificial intelligence is coming to your office — if it's not there already.

  • Here's what you need to know and how to start mastering these powerful new tools, from Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick and April Rubin.

Today's newsletter is 934 words — a 3.5-minute read.

 
 
1 big thing: CEOs "shoving" AI "into everything"
By 
 
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios

 

Companies across America are experimenting with generative AI to see if it can make them better, smarter and more productive — with mixed success.

Why it matters: C-suite AI proponents have been pushing a "use it or get left behind" mentality, but it's up to the rank and file to figure out how to actually implement AI in their day-to-day work.

What we're hearing: AI is helping workers offload time-consuming menial tasks, and it's handling some complex work better than humans.

  • Jason Rabinowitz, head of content creation at airline retailing firm ATPCO, told Axios that days of translating airline marketing content has been reduced to "about two hours" with AI's help in handling complex workflows and multiple spreadsheets.
  • Rabinowitz also described pitting AI-translated materials against human-translated versions in a blind trial — and finding that, so far, the AI-translated versions are "more readable and more accurate."

Reality check: Generative AI models suffer from "hallucinations" — techspeak for making stuff up.

  • AI's work needs to be checked, and that process is sometimes more time-consuming than not using AI at all.
  • And there remains the perennial concern among workers that generative AI will take people's jobs.

By the numbers: About 1 in 6 U.S. workers say they're using AI to do at least some of their work, per a recent Pew survey, while another 25% say AI could do at least part of their jobs.

  • 52% of workers are worried about AI's impact, while 32% say it'll reduce job opportunities.
  • Yet 36% say they're optimistic about AI's potential.

The big picture: AI's value comes down to how it's used, says Alexia Cambon, senior director of research at Microsoft.

  • There's a "command approach" and "conversation-based approach," which requires critical thinking and is the best way to use AI at work, Cambon says.

The other side: Ed Zitron, CEO of PR agency EZPR and prominent AI skeptic, argues that many corporate leaders are pushing AI despite being too disconnected from their companies' day-to-day work to understand its actual use.

  • "What I think we're seeing is the biggest mask-off in corporate history, of bosses that do not know what they're talking about, that do not touch their businesses, shoving ChatGPT and other generative AI into everything because they don't know how anything works," Zitron says.
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consumer senior column tip of the day:  

be on the lookout for misuse of the language 

expiration of benefits instead of explanation of benefits


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tim snyder (our fearless hero at ELDER HOSTILE) mentions three credible sources to tap for accurate news today :

the Philadelphia Inquirer

ProPublica

Wired (covers the tech & digital piece of the takeover)

besides ELDER HOSTILE, which is your #1 source, of course, the above could be helpful. 

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