How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup poll

12% use AI daily at work, with roughly one-quarter using it at least frequently and nearly half a few times a year. How has it changed what you do on a daily basis? It’s definitely made busy work a lot easier for me

Travelers Are Fuming Over This Polarizing Airport Security Trend That Causes Delays

They are talking about people who leave their empty bins at the end of the TSA lines. Truly they are a menace to decent society, but they don’t create the level of annoyance of people who stand up in the aisle before the door is opening. How much time do they think they are saving? Launch them both into the Sun

I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 15: Seeking Answers on The Religious Implications of the Comet Impact

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

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Also Worth A Look…

• Kindness at work can mean giving honest feedback, limiting meetings and bending rules - You had me at “Limiting Meetings”

• Hotels Are Increasingly Ditching Solid Bathroom Doors - We need to talk about this “Trend.” There was a meeting where someone both suggested this idea, and someone else approved it. How did that happen? If I go to a hotel with a glass door (or walls, some have glass walls too), I’m immediately leaving

• Not All Sitting Is Equal. One Type Was Just Linked to Better Brain Health - It turns out if you’re actively doing something, it can be helpful. I didn’t see consuming you favorite daily newsletter/podcast on the list, but I’m sure that’s just as helpful

• $6,270 in lost cash returned to California man thanks to neighbor - OK, maybe it’s not a terrible idea to get to know your neighbors

• Officer busts driver caught with over 80 gallons of moonshine during traffic stop, authorities say - That a lot of moonshine. I like to think they were all in ceramic jugs with “XXX” on them

• Gen Z students are so unprepared for college that ‘coddling’ profs have started reading aloud to them - That seems less than ideal. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go listen to an audiobook

• ‘Jetsons’-style ‘air taxi’ could be flying NYers around in two years: firm - This is an absolutely terrible idea. People do bad enough with just an X and Y axis to focus on, let alone adding a Z axis to the mix

• Girl Jailed For Pork Chop Attack On Mother - That just seems like a waste of a perfectly good pork chop

• US climber scales Taiwan’s tallest building Taipei 101 without ropes - Listen, I’m not here to judge, but wouldn’t it be a lot easier to take the elevator?

• Mexico Announces the Discovery of a Millennia-Old Zapotec Tomb - Once again, can we please not disturb any ancient tombs for a while? We’ve got enough going on at the moment