Jill Golden
@jillkgolden.bsky.social
@_goldengrams on Twitter - Content marketing strategist. Former magazine/newspaper editor and copy editor. I mostly tweet about content marketing, journalism and everything in between.
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The ‘deck’ in “Deck the Halls” means “to decorate.”
But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’
It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.”
You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”
But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’
It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.”
You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The ‘deck’ in “Deck the Halls” means “to decorate.”
But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’
It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.”
You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”
But, it is not related or a shortening of ‘decorate.’
It comes from the Dutch word meaning “to cover.”
You also use it when you’re all “decked out.”
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December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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McLuhan once said that every augmentation is also an amputation. What do we lose when we outsource thinking to AI? My latest for @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
McLuhan once said that every augmentation is also an amputation. What do we lose when we outsource thinking to AI? My latest for @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The more you scroll around and look at it, the more ridiculous it gets.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The more you scroll around and look at it, the more ridiculous it gets.
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enterprise storage solutions
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
enterprise storage solutions
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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What many people don't understand is that they should be using AI to reduce the length of their documents not increase it.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What many people don't understand is that they should be using AI to reduce the length of their documents not increase it.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-profite... is a great read.
AI profiteering is now indistinguishable from trolling
And what that says about the state of the AI bubble
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-profite... is a great read.
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Elias Wachtel knows that Gen Zers like him have an attention span that is shot and screen time that is “out of control.” So he switched to a dumbphone and embarked on the road to digital minimalism:
Can Gen Z Get Rid of Their iPhones?
My dumbphone does what an app could never do.
bit.ly
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Elias Wachtel knows that Gen Zers like him have an attention span that is shot and screen time that is “out of control.” So he switched to a dumbphone and embarked on the road to digital minimalism:
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lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
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Be on the lookout for the supermoon 🌝 rising in the east!
It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.
Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.
It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.
Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.
October 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Be on the lookout for the supermoon 🌝 rising in the east!
It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.
Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.
It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.
Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.
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“No one would ever ask a cardiac surgeon to stop an operation midstream because something supposedly more important popped up... yet we ask knowledge workers to do something similar multiple times a day because the immediate impact doesn’t seem onerous.” | via @behscientist.bsky.social
How to Rescue an Overloaded Organization - by Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer - Behavioral Scientist
Many leaders mistakenly believe that their organizations thrive under constant pressure. But overloaded systems are broken systems—to fix them, we must learn our way to the right amount of work.
behavioralscientist.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“No one would ever ask a cardiac surgeon to stop an operation midstream because something supposedly more important popped up... yet we ask knowledge workers to do something similar multiple times a day because the immediate impact doesn’t seem onerous.” | via @behscientist.bsky.social
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A lawyer has been fined $10,000 for submitting an AI generated brief with hallucinated citations.
I think this is great. If you’re going to ask AI to do your work, at least proofread it before subjecting other people to the slop.
I think this is great. If you’re going to ask AI to do your work, at least proofread it before subjecting other people to the slop.
California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications
The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.
calmatters.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A lawyer has been fined $10,000 for submitting an AI generated brief with hallucinated citations.
I think this is great. If you’re going to ask AI to do your work, at least proofread it before subjecting other people to the slop.
I think this is great. If you’re going to ask AI to do your work, at least proofread it before subjecting other people to the slop.
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discrete = separate
discreet = unobtrusive
The 'e's' are SEPARATED by the 't' in "discrete."
discreet = unobtrusive
The 'e's' are SEPARATED by the 't' in "discrete."
August 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
discrete = separate
discreet = unobtrusive
The 'e's' are SEPARATED by the 't' in "discrete."
discreet = unobtrusive
The 'e's' are SEPARATED by the 't' in "discrete."
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August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to maintain programs to know their customers and detect suspicious activity. But it is up to banks to design those programs.
The regulations don’t even require that the programs be effective.
The regulations don’t even require that the programs be effective.
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.
www.propublica.org
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to maintain programs to know their customers and detect suspicious activity. But it is up to banks to design those programs.
The regulations don’t even require that the programs be effective.
The regulations don’t even require that the programs be effective.
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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I was quoted in @washingtonpost.com about scams in AI Overviews today… check it out:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
August 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I was quoted in @washingtonpost.com about scams in AI Overviews today… check it out:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...