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MyNotes: Execution States This article just blew my mind (sigh, I need a new expression of astonishment): Minds are neither software nor hardware—they are execution states. In computing, an execution state is the complete configuration of a running process at a particular moment in time. It’s not…

Good morning bluesky It touched on freezing here this morning – not very auspicious for the start of summer ❄️ "Beltane Bonfire" #synthart #AIイラスト

`Clustered karst hilltops, verdant green landscape, gradient pastel skies` #synthart #AIイラスト

MX Linux Rocks My old laptop had stumbled on ZorinLinux when it came to NVIDIA support. The machine kept restarting. So, even though I hold ZorinLinux in high esteem and run it on a dual-boot desktop, I had to try something else. Update: Since I drafted this, I have installed MX Linux on a work…

When Is It Time I found myself reading and reflecting...do you ever ask yourself this question? "What did I do this month that I couldn't last month?" On the podcast, he said that he was mainly working on the same tasks, and he already knew how to do them. He said that while he could find ways to…

Results: Claude Code Wikifies Knowledge Stack (Part 2) Welcome to Part Two of this blog series. Read Part One. Did We Make Progress? Did this process REALLY wikify my knowledge stack? Probably not in the traditional sense of what people mean when they refer to a "wiki." However, it did ORGANIZE…

Claude Code Setup on MX Linux: Wikifying My Gen AI Knowledge Stack After setting up an old laptop (Dell Alienware M15) with MX Linux, I decided to investigate the idea of setting up a knowledge wiki for Claude to access. I have to admit that working on MX Linux (KDE Plasma X11) the last two weeks…

AI Adoption Stalls: Too Easy, Training Unnecessary Does this feel true to you? It does to me in nonprofit organizations I have listened to, a small handful. Here's an excerpt from Steve Yegge's comment that you will want to read in its entirety... @Steve_Yegge says: I was chatting with my buddy at…

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 2 Welcome to Part Two of this short exploration of Empedocles' philosophy as applied to navigating nonprofit organizational leadership transitions. I thought it was really cool stuff, so I am sharing it. You can read part…

Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 1 While cruising through my Flipboard readings, I stumbled across a fascinating article that connects a philosopher, Empedocles, to how to handle change. The article, Empedocles, philosopher: When everything falls apart,…

Roadmaps to AI Literacy Listening to the SmarterX podcast, I found myself reflecting on a meeting I attended last week on Gen AI. The meeting, not work related, was fascinating because it brought together a lot of different folks and perspectives. I relished the differences of opinion, the various…

Video, Image, and Text Conversions What if you could save $30 for video conversion or video to audio conversion? That's how much one tool, HowToConvert, is charging. I can't tell you how much I spent on video/audio/text conversion. Even when I knew the free open source tool existed, I found it…

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You can’t design learning. But, you can design conditions for learning. https://www.ajjuliani.com/blog/you-cant-design-learning-but-you-can-design-conditions-for-learning via @AJJuliani

Tools You Make with Vibe Coding and #AI Wish you had a KPI dashboard? You can vibe code one easily. I did for a blog entry I wrote for TCEA (which you will have to read over there when it comes out) where you upload a dashboard via changes to a markdown text file or Google Sheet. Someone asked me…

Thinking About AI: A Hallway Conversation Here's a little story via Claude about AI in education. How much of it rings true for educators in Texas? None of the characters are real. A Conversation in the Hallway Three educators talk after a long day at an educators' meeting about Gen AI.…

Exploring AI Powered Newsletters At the upcoming TCEA Lunch and Learn, I'll be walking through creation of AI-powered newsletters. This is really a 30-minute webinar on creating newsletters from links you provide. You can use an existing set of custom instructions, then fine-tune them for a Google…

BoodleBox Updates Models Want to use certain models safely? Look no further than BoodleBox, which as of today, now offers the following models. As you will see on review of the table, those "new models" include Claude 4.6 Sonnet and Claude 4.6 Opus, as well as Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4. By…

Knowledge Booster – Think with #Claude #AI Artificial intelligence is no longer on the horizon. It is in the classroom, the lesson plan, and the professional practice of educators everywhere. This three-part Knowledge Booster series ($29) equips K–12 educators with practical, immediately…

Paris, Sept. 2023. #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #Paris #EastCoastKin #Photography

New Hope, PA. August 2007. Blue antique auto for #BlueSkyMonday #ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #Photography #Car #Antique #CarShow

Sunflower for #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Photography #Macro Took pic in West Windsor NJ in August 2007.

Streamlining My GitHub Workflow: Consolidating Repositories Without Breaking Links As I build out more digital resources, my GitHub has gotten cluttered with "single-purpose" repositories. This is due to ignorance and a desire to align how GitHub works to websites of yesteryear. As a result, I…

Five Donkey Coloring Book pages Someone on Mastodon asked for donkey coloring pages featuring the donkeys from the image below: Coloring Book Pages Here you go ...

BoodleBox Changes Brewing Big things are brewing! I can't wait to see what's coming. What do you think the changes are? New models Smartphone app with voice chat Project type organization to chats What do you think?

Ten Years at the Job Wow, it's hard to believe that today, March 21, I have been on the job at a nonprofit education association for ten years. By week's end, I will have worked in nonprofit education longer than any other single school district job. What's really amazing is how much I have…

Mapping Out Claude Courses Curious about Claude's offerings, I asked it to lay out the courses for me as an educator. Here's what it came up with. Wait, Before You Explore That Take a quick look at these curated lists of Gen AI learning opportunities, mostly free. Free Gen AI Training…

Creating Interactive Visuals I read an article about Claude's ability to create interactive visuals. The examples in the article didn't excite me so I thought I would ask Claude for some prompts. These prompts would result in interactive visuals. I decided to do this on my phone, not bothering to…

BoodleBox Maintenance: What You Need to Know Had AI rewrite this for fun...the original notice came via email. 😄 You've got lesson plans in BoodleBox, resources queued up, and maybe a class scheduled to access something this weekend. Then you see the maintenance notice. The timing never seems…

AI Adoption Readiness Checklist for Nonprofit Organizations Thought this might be fun to cook up given interest in Ai from nonprofit organizations. I love how it's not about the tech or the innovation, but the change management process. If you are an organization that hasn't managed change…

Migrating Claude Projects from One Account to Another Ugh, what a pain. Why doesn't Claude have an account migration tool? I ended up having to migrate projects, including custom instructions and support files, from one account (based on email login) to a new one (based on SSO with Google). The…

Profit Over People It is a recurring theme, isn't it? Many in business choose profit over people. I was once under the illusion that it was the other way around but time teaches a different lesson: Most commercial Organisations, when faced with the ability to strip out core cost – operating costs…

For the 128gb level, check out Strix Halo devices (AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395), although the prices just shot up ($2k-$2500) strixhalo.wiki Above that are Nvidia GB10 and Mac Studio M5 (>$4000)

Updated Hardware Recommendations for Running AI Locally (March 2026) Update to: DIY #AI: Running Powerful Models Locally to Save Money and Protect Privacy. This is an AI-powered update to my original post. Do you agree with the recommendations? A lot has changed since my July 2025 TCEA AI for…

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!! Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

The Window is Open. It Won’t Stay That Way. Note: I set up a Claude Project that combines StoryMaker, SlideMaker, and BlogAssembler (sets of custom instructions) to help me decipher the Anthropic labor research report in terms of a story I am familiar with. This is what it came up with. My…

How to Expand Google Form Registrations Into Individual Enrollment Rows If your campus or district collects course registrations via Google Forms, you've probably run into this problem: one person selects multiple courses, and they all land in a single cell, comma-separated. That makes it nearly…

A Practical Plan for Managing Your Gen AI Platforms: Selecting #Claude, #Gemini, or #BoodleBox This image was generated in Nano Banana 2 via Gemini Pro account. I love how the memory feature dropped a plug for TCEA TechNotes blog, even though this is my personal Gemini account. Since I use these…

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Claude: Make a Skill – Infographics and Slide Decks Now that I've re-created some of my favorite Projects from ChatGPT and BoodleBox on Claude AI, I started poking around in the settings a bit more, stumbling on skills. I am only at the beginning of my understanding of what skills in Claude do,…

Trying Out Claude’s Import Tool If you're thinking about switching, you can use Claude's Import Tool (for lack of a better term to describe the process) to "Bring your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude. With one copy-paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where…

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

I assume this us how the decision to strike Iran went down overnight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEE1...

This is from Hegseth's post. I'm no expert in this authority but am I understanding correctly this would mean that any company which has ANY contract with the U.S. military (Google, Microsoft, etc...) is now required to immediately cancel their Claude subscriptions and must divest from Anthropic?

He didn't just order the cutting of ties between the Dept of Defense and Anthropic. He designated them a national security risk for refusing to submit to Hegseth's absolute authority and barred any other contracter from doing business with the company. This is fascism!

OpenAI's Sam Altman says he shares the "red lines" set by rival Anthropic restricting how the military uses AI models, amid Anthropic's escalating feud with the Pentagon. n.pr/4rO27YE