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FROM THE WEBMASTER

Brothers:

1) The Rise of AI: If you are on the internet at all, you probably have noticed a
significant uptick in spam/malware emails into your inbox as well you’ve probably noticed
a serious uptick in applications touting their use of AI to “help” you. All I’ll say about AI
is “caveat emptor” – let the buyer beware. While AI has great potential to help, it also has
great potential to confound. I’ll just leave it at that.

2) Gentle Reminder: The main website for National Sojourners is at https://nationalsojourners.org. Now,
this is the publicly viewable part of our website and while you might THINK you’ve logged in, you
haven’t. Up at the top there is a black ribbon with various links on it … go all the way over to the right
and click on “Members Area” which will take you to a page asking you to login with a username and
password. Once you do that, it will take you to the main member landing page where you should see a
count-down-timer at the top showing you the number of days/hours/minutes to the next major event
(usually MWM or ANC). At that point, our members have access to just about everything on the site
with the exception of a very few areas that are set aside for committee members only. Remember to
notify webmaster@nationalsojourners.org if you find a missing page or something that is amiss. The
more eyes looking for problems, the easier it is to get things fixed in a reasonable time.

3) SPAM/MALWARE/JUNK: be VERY vigilant and watch out for anything that just doesn’t “feel” right
on your computer. Some of these malware actors are getting VERY good at their “craft” – and when it’s
obvious they are using AI in their phishing attempts, it’s REALLY hard to detect the difference between
a valid URL and a malware URL

Sincerely and Fraternally,

Bill Hickey
NSI Webmaster

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