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Letters to the Editor - October 2, 2025

National issues are local ones, too

Years after Tip O’Neill coined that “all politics is local,” President Joe Biden wrote that “all politics is personal.” In a recent letter to the editor in The Lakeville Journal, Tom Morrison claimed that “The hot button issues that consume so much television, print and social media attention are not the least bit relevant to the upcoming local election.” However, regardless of the candidates or party – national issues are local.

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Turning Back the Pages - October 2, 2025

125 years ago — 1900

Over 50 tickets were sold at this station for Great Barrington fair on Thursday.

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Do-It-Yourself economic downturn

You may be wondering how AI can benefit your day-to-day business activity.AI for the home use (like Siri and Alexa) is pretty obvious. These AI driven applications learn from you, what you like, what you may be looking for, learning your intonation and voice patterns — all to better “serve” your desires. But when it come to actual business activity, how is AI driven programming helpful?

The truth is, Artificial Intelligence is nothing of the sort. There is no intelligence here, beyond the genius of the programmers who wrote the code. AI is, simply, a non-human giant listening-sorting-measuring tool. Yes, AI programs can access the vastness of the internet for more information, but that’s no more than Google does for you, only quicker. What is different is that when you — and you are the key here — decide to ask AI to act on your behalf and determine what it is you are looking for or want to do, that program uses the learning, input of data you have supplied or that the AI can access from your social media, your internet browsing, your work activity, and whatever it is that you have rejected (yes, what you do not want or canceled is part of that data base) — then AI can seemingly act as your butler, your assistant, your dog’s body.

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