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It's 8:30, and I've been up for an hour watching the wind sweep fog across the lake's surface. The sun is out, and patches of blue sky hang over the water on a crisp 59° morning. When I walked out onto the porch to take a photo, there was something pleasantly disorienting about feeling the sun's warmth. I could get used to it. So far, no fishing tents have appeared on the lake — though at 8:45, two men just walked out from Long Point to try their luck. Good luck to them.
Friday turned out to be a humbling day. It began as usual: up early, reading the papers, writing the blog, having breakfast. My friend Ron had been trying to get me to play pickleball, and while I had played a couple of times two years ago, I'd been resisting. Yesterday, I finally gave in to his entreaties. We played in the old Mayville High School gym, and it was a disaster. I played like someone who had never touched a racquet — which is hard to explain, given that I played quite a bit of tennis and racquetball during my teaching years. The other players were gracious and kind, generous enough to overlook my whiffs and doddering attempts at a dink shot near the net. It was a lesson in humility, one I apparently needed. I'll probably go back — a glutton for punishment.
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| Pickle Ball |
I was home by 11:30, and Evie got a good laugh out of my attempts to describe the debacle. She then left for a blood test in Westfield, leaving me alone for an hour to enjoy the last half of my Wegmans sub and watch a new series on TV — the name of which I've already forgotten. Evie was back by 1:30, having stopped at Tops to pick up a few things for dinner.
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| Cloudy at 1:45 |
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| Blue Skies At 4:30 |
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| A Fisherman And His Four Wheeler |
The rest of the afternoon passed quickly, as it usually does. We fell into our familiar rhythms — reading in the living room, watching TV, and a nap for me. Around 4:00, I went out for a twenty-minute walk through the neighborhood, savoring the rare pleasure of warm weather. We had our wine at 5:00 and caught the news. Around 6:15, Evie made a tasty stir-fry with cabbage and ground beef and a salad. We watched an episode of The Pitt, then Landman, before Evie headed up to bed. I stayed up for the first half of my alma mater, Ohio University, playing undefeated Miami University. This morning I learned that Miami won their 31st straight — in overtime, 110–108.
Here are the 40 jobs Microsoft found most likely to be diminished or heavily affected by AI:
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Interpreters and translators
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Historians
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Passenger attendants
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Sales representatives (services)
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Writers and authors
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Customer service representatives
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CNC tool programmers
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Telephone operators
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Ticket agents and travel clerks
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Broadcast announcers and radio DJs
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Brokerage clerks
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Farm and home management educators
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Telemarketers
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Concierges
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Political scientists
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News analysts, reporters, journalists
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Mathematicians
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Technical writers
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Proofreaders and copy markers
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Hosts and hostesses
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Editors
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Business teachers (postsecondary)
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Public relations specialists
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Demonstrators and product promoters
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Advertising sales agents
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New accounts clerks
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Statistical assistants
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Counter and rental clerks
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Data scientists
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Personal financial advisors
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Archivists
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Economics teachers (postsecondary)
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Web developers
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Management analysts
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Geographers
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Models
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Market research analysts
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Public safety telecommunicators
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Switchboard operators
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Library science teachers (postsecondary)
Important point
Microsoft emphasized that AI usually won’t eliminate entire jobs, but it can replace or automate many of the tasks within them—especially jobs involving:
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writing
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research
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summarizing information
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customer communication
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routine digital work.
By contrast, hands-on jobs requiring physical work or direct human care (like nursing aides, construction workers, and mechanics) were found to be much less vulnerable to AI right now.
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