Christopher Penn

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.

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

(after the 382762th email pitch for an exclusive invite to some rando event)

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

No code != no work

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

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 covers 21 use cases across 7 categories. You'll think of a whole whack more.

www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

And I say revise because the EU AI Act is now enforced law.

artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/

Some folks argue this only applies to the tool makers like ChatGPT. I cautiously read it that deployers might include me, since I'm the one using the system.

I need to revise it because of how Article 50 is written:

Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text which is published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest shall disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated.

Almost Timeless : 48 Foundation Principles of Generative AI Are you trying to drink from the AI firehose?You blink, and a new model is announced. You’re buried in "secret" hacks that are obsolete tomorrow. Chasing fleeting tactics in a field that moves this fa...

Learn the 48 foundation principles of generative AI in my new book, Almost Timeless: cspenn.gumroad.com/l/almosttime...

System wide Google outage as of 1433 EDT.

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.

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

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.

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

Definitely not free of mirages!

Pepperoni Hug Spot Mid 2025 w/Veo 2, Eleven Labs, Suno YouTube video by Christopher Penn

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.