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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 17/09/2026

Honest is internal, factual is external, and truthful is both. You can be honest and wrong. You can be factual and misleading. You cannot be truthful without being both honest and factual.

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Farzana Baduel @farzanabaduel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I often get asked what young people need to know to succeed in PR today. @cspenn.com spotted the question when I put it to my LinkedIn network and has devoted his latest Almost Timely News to answering it. Read the full piece via the link in comments

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 22/07/2026

Western #AI companies: "Protect us from Chinese AI companies!" Also Western AI companies: "NO you can't use our models for cybersecurity" @huggingface ended up using @ZhipuAI GLM-5.2 to defend itself from @OpenAI's rogue models: huggingface.co/blog/securit...

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Security incident disclosure — July 2026

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 21/07/2026

I very clearly used no #AI to make this ad, and boy does it show. Visit trustinsights.ai/geo101 to enroll today.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 08/07/2026

For any folks who have original art or photos on Instagram disable Meta AI on your settings. Otherwise other users can use Meta AI to remix your stuff. In the app, settings, sharing and reuse, disable. It's about halfway down the page of settings. Be sure you're on the latest version of the app.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 07/07/2026

If you subscribe to my Sunday newsletters, please take a short survey to tell me how I'm doing: almosttimely.substack.com/p/almost-tim... Direct survey link: forms.gle/xSzZM3Rg1omB...

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Almost Timely Reader Survey Summer 2026

Take the survey!

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 30/05/2026

Sanity tip: if a social media app is in your main toolbar on your mobile device, replace it with a writing/journaling app.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all who fulfill that role in life.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 02/05/2026

How it started and how it's going. Image originally photographed by me at Logan Airport, modified with Google Gemini.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 21/11/2025

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 02/12/2025

PSA: NOW is the best time to go through your stuff and give away good condition items to thrift stores. This year, more folks than ever are shopping secondhand. Make someone's holiday with stuff that no longer serves you.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 24/11/2025

If everyone is invited, by definition it is not exclusive. (after the 382762th email pitch for an exclusive invite to some rando event)

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 21/11/2025

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it’s far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 23/09/2025

If everyone is invited, by definition it is not "exclusive".

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Richard @mcclurgmarketing.com · 12/09/2025

If you want to take your AI skills in marketing to the next level, consider the @trustinsights.bsky.social 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 course taught by @cspenn.com. Christopher covers 21 use cases across 7 categories. You'll think of a whole whack more. www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

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How to use AI for marketing: 7 categories, 21 examples | Richard McClurg posted on the topic | LinkedIn

That’s me and my dog on a rocky overhang. Many marketers are standing on a similar cliff with AI right now — staring at the view, reluctant to dive in deep. Why? Because they still think “generative...

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 04/09/2025

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 12/06/2025

System wide Google outage as of 1433 EDT.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 11/06/2025

Make a batch of your favorite coffee and freeze in ice cube trays. Then use that to make iced coffee. Doesn’t get watered down.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 05/06/2025

You appreciate the luxury of a simple bed once you’ve tried to sleep in an economy plane seat on a redeye.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 25/05/2025

PSA: Memorial Day honors those who have fallen in service of the nation. Veterans Day honors those who served the nation in the past. Armed Forces Day honors those who serve the nation now.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 21/05/2025

Gemini Flash 2.5 0520 is perhaps the greatest bargain in API-based generative AI ever.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 11/05/2025

I rebuilt Pepperoni Hug Spot using Veo 2, Eleven Labs, Suno, and Premiere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf7O... So much has changed in just 2 years.

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Pepperoni Hug Spot Mid 2025 w/Veo 2, Eleven Labs, Suno

YouTube video by Christopher Penn

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 08/05/2025

If AI development stopped today, Gemma 3 and Qwen 3 would suit 90% of your needs forever more.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 05/05/2025

PSA: Mexico's independence day is September 16, not May 5.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 04/05/2025

Was secretly replacing the fine dining coffee with Folger's crystals a testament to their quality or an indictment of people's complete lack of situational awareness?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 29/04/2025

Somehow Qwen3 30B is 30% faster than Gemma 3 27B. Both Bartowski GGUF static quants. Gemma 3 at q5_k_l, Qwen3 at Q6_k_l. What the heck? How did they pull that off? Its reasoning is really good too.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 18/04/2025

Sitting in the airport and literally half the people in the terminal are using their phones at full volume on speaker. Calls. Video games. Videos. Music. Is the economy so bad that no one owns earbuds or headphones any more?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 14/04/2025

The new benchmark for laptop battery tests should be running an LLM at full tilt. My fancy new Macbook lasts about 60 minutes on Gemma 3 27B IT served via koboldcpp.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 02/04/2025

PSA: It's April 2. Mark read and archive everything, else you'll be falling for April Fool's content for some time.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2025

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care. This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 02/04/2025

PSA: if you see a great software/SaaS April fools joke and you want it to be real, fire up some AI coding tools and make it so. Don’t let a good idea go to waste.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 01/04/2025

For April Fool’s Day this year, I resurrected an idea that the Opera browser company made over a decade ago, but has since vanished from the internet: a choose your own corporate 💩 press release. www.trustinsights.ai/interactive-... Have fun making it progressively more and more unhelpful!

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Choose Your Level of Corporate 💩 Press Release

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 01/04/2025

PSA: Believe even less you see on the Internet today than you already do... and most of it is already fairly unbelievable. #AprilFoolsDay

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 28/03/2025

Headed for #smmw25 first thing. I always take the first flight out - less turbulence (because cooler air has fewer turbulent currents) and fewer delays and cancellations since cascades of errors haven’t piled up yet. Does it mean getting up punishingly early? Yes. Is it worth it? Also yes.

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Share My Lesson @sharemylesson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What is AI literacy—and how can you ensure your students build this essential skill? Start here, then watch the full webinar on-demand: sharemylesson.com/webinars/par.... #AILiteracyDay #FutureReady #NationalAILiteracyDay @aftunion.bsky.social @sari.bsky.social @kellycbooz.bsky.social @cspenn.com

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 24/03/2025

Perhaps the day AI matches human intelligence approaches faster than ever not just because AI is getting smarter, but because we are also getting dumber.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 23/03/2025

The unstated goal of the broligarchy for AGI is to eliminate virtually all knowledge workers, dramatically increasing net profitability in the short term so they can cash out and run.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 19/03/2025

Whatever the hourly rate is, multiply by 2000 and that's more or less the annual salary. Useful mental shortcut when evaluating job ads.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 18/03/2025

Just because fruit is low hanging doesn't mean it's edible or safe to eat.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 16/03/2025

Does anyone else intentionally wait until the last 2 seconds of a 2FA app to type in the code, like a countdown from the movies to disarm a 💣? No? Just me?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 09/03/2025

My weekly groceries for a family of four. Normally between 160-180. This week, without much difference in what I buy week to week: 220. Tariffs in effect. Are we great again yet?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 27/02/2025

OpenAI likely to announce GPT-4.5 today. Expect everything to break! (they're notorious for completely underestimating demand, so ChatGPT is highly likely to be utterly useless for the next couple of days because OpenAI never learns its lesson.)

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 26/02/2025

The worst possible use case of #GenerativeAI. The audio is almost certainly Suno - it has Suno's distinct auto-tune-esque vocals. The video generation? I'm guessing Kling - it doesn't look like the movements you get out of Sora.

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 25/02/2025

Worth noting that cybertrucks are not bullet resistant to the most common firearm in America: the AR15. A YouTuber decided to test it out and the 5.56 round goes right through it easily. youtu.be/VLV-4HMrAz0

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Is the Cybertruck *ACTUALLY* bulletproof?! (vs .50 cal rifle)

YouTube video by JerryRigEverything

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