Friday

Kwaaiday the 13th. If you're curious about personal AI (and you should be, especially of the open source kind), you might  like to sit in on a meeting of folks volunteering toward making it happen, Kwaai has its weekly meeting going on right now at the Zoom link atop its home page. See some of ya'll there. (I just noticed this didn't get posted. Still, check Kwaai out.)

Paper shavings. I just learned by Ed Cone that Greensboro, where I lived (and went to college) from '65 to '69, is maybe, sort of, turning into an aerospace place. (He points here.) More importantly, he offhandedly refers to the "rah rah local media," which presumably includes the News & Record, which was the News (morning) and Record (evening) when I was in town. That last link reveals that the remains of that once-great paper (and, before that, papers) is down to just five reporters. (The remains of our paper here in Bloomington, Indiana, a quarter the size of Greensboro, had seven, last I looked.) More about the change here.