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Content Strategy Seattle @contentstrategyseattle.org · 10h

Join a few of our friends from New Zealand as they explore practical methods for diagnosing how your #content performs in #AI tools as part of Content Strategy Seattle's next event: 📅 6 p.m. PDT/9 p.m. EDT October 14 🔗 RSVP for Zoom URL: www.meetup.com/content-stra...

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Symptoms First, Cures Later, Wed, Oct 14, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Your content is being consumed and your customers' queries answered on your behalf by AI tools you don't control. What can you do about it, and where should you start? In

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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 10h

Last month, Floodlight used a thermal drone to find DataOne's data center in Vineland, NJ, running at least 45 gas-powered generators without a state permit. Now, New Jersey regulators have issued their largest-ever fine against a data center.

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New Jersey says DataOne’s 62 generators are illegal. It’s letting them run for 45 more days.

The state's $1 million fine comes less than a month after Floodlight’s visual investigation publicly exposed the Vineland site’s generator fleet for the first time

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 9h

Microsoft’s New Jersey data center breaks laws and pollutes. Where’s the responsibility and focus on the environment of the past?

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 30/09/2026

For example, people at Open AI ran software that broke into the servers at Hugging Face. Instead of "The AI's went rogue."

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 30/09/2026

Avoid describing technology like people. "But when the intended referent is some specific technological system, it is always better to name that system itself. Maybe it's some specific product. Or maybe it's a system with a particular function like automatic transcription." Or maybe a person.

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I wanted to share a blackout poem I made at the last Possible Futures workshop bc it captures how I feel a lot of the time: "I'm often accused of being an optimist, and it's true As angry as I may be As disappointed as I may be My heart is a strategic opening" [excavated from a Reagan speech]

A blackout poem on a torn-out page of a book. The book title at the top of the page is "Speaking My Mind", and the page number is 337. The visible text reads:

I'm often accused of being an optimist, and it's true
As angry as I may be
As disappointed as I may be
My heart
is
a strategic opening

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Laura M Williams @williamslauram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. When “frontier” started getting deployed in context of AI, I thought “Were there no humanities majors in the room?” Maybe some marketing team thought it romantically evoked pushing boundaries/space exploration. But it also connotes lawlessness, exploitation of people and resources, even death.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 29/09/2026

that‘s not funny. I’m taking a probability class right now and that’s all I can think about! ;)

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 29/09/2026

But I can't read multiple values in a single cell

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 29/09/2026

I'll try not to read anything into Vassell's omission.

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Tom Orsborn @tomorsborn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spurs say the following players will be available in no particular order for media day Monday after Mitch’s opening presser: Castle, Fox, Harper, Wemby, Harris, Champagnie and Barnes.

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Tom Orsborn @tomorsborn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Newcomer Tobias Harris is one of seven players scheduled to meet with reporters Monday morning at the Spurs media day. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

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Spurs announce player list for media day

Seven players will take turns at the podium Monday morning after coach Mitch Johnson's opening presser.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 28/09/2026

Yeah "record-setting 29-point collapse" captures it well! :)

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 28/09/2026

"If you want to meaningfully oppose AI in a way that lasts, you should speak loudly with your dollars in the market and your attention on the internet, and you should speak loudly with your votes." - @reckless.bsky.social AI companies and investors must change when we opt-out.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 28/09/2026

Heard about some kind of rebirth for toys r us coming before Xmas this year. My favorites lately are local bookstores and thrift, vintage or import stores

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 28/09/2026

Nice to hear they’re motivated! I think you meant to write something about the historic comeback instead of “historic 29-point loss in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 25/09/2026

There's a bad cold going around. I was the last in my family to get it and spent two days partly in bed. Get well soon!

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 25/09/2026

Someone talked to ChatGPT on their phone during a meetup I was in yesterday and just that one instance seemed to be violating some social norms, if there are such things in a tech meetup. I can't imagine why we'd welcome more of this.

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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 25/09/2026

Python devs! Come work on the National Data Library - £64k to £81k - Bristol, London or Manchester - let me know if you have any questions www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Flash modded my iPod mini and replaced the battery! Lots of fun and rewarding saving old tech from landfill, but even as an 'easier' mod, definitely only for people who like to tinker.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 25/09/2026

Amazing that Windows was the winner! It's too bad it takes so much effort to revive a perfectly good device. Planned obsolescence succeeds so often. Nice perseverance. I'm not sure I could pull up 2003 MCSE skills if I had them.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This guy!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 24/09/2026

In the 2021 paper, she and co-authors including @timnitgebru.blacksky.app recommended (back then) "weighing the environmental and financial costs" of LLMs because there are other alternatives with benefits "beyond ever larger language models".

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 24/09/2026

If you're like me and you've been following AI for a while, you might recognize Emily Bender's name from her 2021 paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 24/09/2026

Spoiler-alert, it's not magic, it's not sentient, and they warn against calling it "intelligent". The authors focus on the the harm "AI sytems" cause today and push back on imaginary future harms of super-intellence. Warning, you might think twice about using ChatGPT again.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

Are pelicans leaving Pillar Point Harbor?

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

Use a password manager. @eff.org give some tips when picking one.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

I used to be amazed. Then I became a little disgusted. Why do we let them take everything anyone ever created and sell it as something new.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

This one is really good

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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@georgeaye.bsky.social opening #sdingov is exactly what I needed this morning 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ "The cost of speaking up is high. The cost of not speaking up is higher."

George in front of a slide that says:

Four Social Contracts

Epstein Class
White Americans
People of Color
Black Americans

When you are in need, you are offered a conditional promise.
Perform the right values. Achieve the right credentials.
Don't make demands as a group.
Don't seek solidarity with other groups.
The contract may honor you, but the terms can be changed when you no longer prove useful.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Breakfast club. Photo from my collection, 1966.

Photo of a tanned blonde man in a white shortsleeved navy uniform, eating a bowl of cereal at a table. In his lap is a dilute ginger kitten who is watching the cereal bowl with interest.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

Sounds like internal blogging, Microsoft edition. probably more effective than when SharePoint had blogs or posting the same thing to Engage.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

If you’re genes tell you to dig for trash

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threddy 🦖 @threddyrex.org · 23/09/2026

apropos of nothing in particular

[PANEL 1 - Sam and Freddy chatting]

Sam: I'm meeting with the writers about the new documentation project.

Freddy: Why do we need writers? Can't AI do that?

[PANEL 2 - Closeup on Sam, and they are scowling]

Sam: Where do you think AI gets its writing from?

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 23/09/2026

The prices really came down

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People think vibe-coding is new. It's not. For decades, when some developers were asked to build something, they ran off to immediately start coding before gathering requirements, planning, or designing the software.

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Jim Carrey Furiously Typing

Alt: Jim Carrey Furiously Typing

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Folks, if you need a PM, here's your gal... 👇

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Jeff Shuey @jshuey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

True. The Monty Python crew were ahead of their time and had a way with words.

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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 18/09/2026

Trump bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House. Says more could follow. The First Amendment doesn’t have an “unless the president gets pissed off” exception. This is America. Not Putin’s Russia.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 17/09/2026

Oh, no! Poor dog. The KitKat stories were very sad.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 17/09/2026

AI safety means different things to different people. I want safety through transparency and decency. Safe AI builders ask permission instead of stealing books and art. They share the information they build from, so we know how their AI systems are biased.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 17/09/2026

This is gross. And also, I learned that a Waymo killed a cat in San Francisco. Yuk.

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Tom Resing @tomresing.com · 17/09/2026

The wild places they live are disappearing and there might not be many of these cats left in the world. The world is big. There's much to learn. And we need to take care of our planet and everything that lives here, especially these cute tilcayo, tigers smaller than a housecat.

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