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

Moving Projects On Threads, I chanced upon a conversation that reflects my own work these days. As I explore Claude AI more and more, I realize that I want to recreate my ChatGPT Projects on Claude. Projects, whether its ChatGPT or Claude, is where the magic happens. What I have noticed, though,…

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Exploring 2/2/2 Framework #Claude #SectionAI #AI #NSPA This morning, an email arrived in my inbox from Section AI, which is an amazing team of folks. I've had the opportunity to attend their free webinars and I have learned a lot. One of their emails this morning highlighted something they call…

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Claude 4.6 – Amazing! Sample slide from slide deck This morning, I decided to pay approximately $22 for Claude AI. What did I want to be able to do? Create a Claude Project with my past presentations, custom instructions (which I had ChatGPT generate from a Project over there) with this goal in…

Reflections on AI Prompting Process The work of creating a Gen AI tool that does what you ask it to reliably can be easy. It feels like making your way in a dark room, stubbing your toe, checking to see if what you've made really works. You do your best to remember the dozen variations of a path…

AI Maker Magic, Part 1: A Fun Personality Quiz GPT #EdTech #EduSky #Teachers #Educators https://blog.tcea.org/ai-maker-magic-part-1-a-fun-personality-quiz-gpt/

Eligible voters of the United States! The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections. You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

Well this ain’t good 🥴 but validates why I refuse to use canvas (I only put up my syllabus and contact info). Everything I do now is by pencil, paper and verbal responses. This is all so sad, and when these kids don’t learn anything the teachers will be blamed 😔🙃 #EduSky #BlackEduSky

Oblivious to #AI Work Tsunami David Truss' points here are sobering: ...the reality is that the vast majority of people in the world are oblivious to just how fast this disruption is coming, and unlike other disruptions in the past this one is going to happen everywhere and all at once... ...the…

Critical Thinking Made Simple Need a way to teach critical thinking and problem-solving? Learn to tackle problems and make decisions. This session offers strategies to assess ideas and arguments. Discover resources to teach middle schoolers about fact-checking and critical thinking. View session…

Meet Karet, Healthy Eating Bot Give Karet a spin Give Karet a spin Backstory Chatting with someone today, I realized they weren't familiar with using Gen AI for health purposes. I have enjoyed great success following the suggestions of Broccy, a health bot I created some time back to help me…

When you Google "schools":

Join me today at #OETC - www.controlaltachieve.com/2026/02/oetc... 📊 Google Sheets for Schools: From Data Noob to Nerd 👓 Hipster Google - Tools You Probably Never Heard Of 🕵️ Did a Robot Write this Report? Managing AI Cheating #EduSky #EdTech #EduSkyAI #GoogleEDU

If this is a “slap in the face to our country” look yourself in the mirror and know the real problem

Building AI Knowledge Bases Building knowledge bases that serve as the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Generative AI has been a fascinating journey. A lot of the Gen AI tools I've used, from Anthropic to OpenAI, BoodleBox, a myriad of web-based models to Google's Gemini and NotebookLM…

This is really sick. Trump is the President. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Donald Trump's crimes have never been hidden. The courts, the media, the legal system won't touch him. It falls to ordinary people to keep calling out the crimes and shining a light into the darkness that is the White House. charlieangus.substack.com/p/it-falls-t...

Friends! Tuesday, Feb. 10th, at 6:00 pm EST, @resistanceschool.bsky.social will host our very first virtual public salon! We will discuss the killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and why the system erases white martyrs in the fight for civil rights. Register here: buy.stripe.com/28EfZi7VN6RA...

No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images. world.hey.com/jordanacosta...

NotebookLM does all the things we normally associate with good education-focused AI use. It puts teachers in the driver seat, allowing them to decide which sources the tool draws upon for all the materials it creates. #edtech #AI #Edusky www.techlearning.com/technology/a...

The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But a funny thing has happened with Miller’s authoritarian fever dreams .... Even parts of Red America are saying no. trib.al/SO2ZFfU

People shouldn’t need to be martyred for documenting ICE activities and protecting their communities. Defund ICE until we can abolish ICE.

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

Love this! Check it out. "You’re not broken—your systems are. This idea hit home for me a few years ago when I read Atomic Habits. Dearest, reader. My name is Ashly, and I’m an instructional coach at the high school level." blog.tcea.org/why-goal-set... by @instructionalglow.bsky.social

Hi! I’m Ashly, a high school instructional coach who loves helping teachers create engaging, meaningful learning. I’m into creativity, good design, reflective growth, and finding ways to make work and life feel lighter. Here to connect, get inspired, and share ideas 🤍

TCEA26: AI Newsletter Architect Wow, it's the last day of TCEA 2026 Convention and Exposition. I thought I'd share some of the artifacts for my last session of the event. These items below were generated anew from my original session resources for the presentation. Enjoy! View the Slide deck as a…

TCEA26: Coaching the Heavy Hitters #instruction #tcea What fun it was to go over my presentation for Coaching the Heavy Hitters of Instructional Strategy. I managed to hit voice record on my phone to see how it would work. The outline is right on target. I had to laugh because the slide deck from…

Can you believe it? America is turning 250. Big milestones like this are a great chance to bring a little excitement into the classroom without adding more prep to your plate. blog.tcea.org/classroom-ac...

As you know, I’m facilitating a few sessions this coming week at the TCEA 2026 Convention and Exposition. A tool you can use is a Google Gemini Gem that is “fed” by NotebookLMs created for each of my sessions. One Gem, multiple NotebookLM notebooks. mguhlin.org/2026/01/27/t...

Welcome! Rather than write a unique blog entry every day for what happens at TCEA, I’m going to pack all that goodness into one blog entry and ask that you check back periodically. mguhlin.org/2026/01/30/t...

#ATProto FTW. techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...