This fly tying video is one of the most Canadian things I’ve ever seen. www.youtube.com/live/vBo4AHd...

An incredible career and unbelievable humility. Players like him and Chara don't have flashy stats, but their mark is indelible.

Creep tech: t.e2ma.net/message/rzbt...

The kids might be on to something with the 0.5 zoom thing. Really captures the immenseness of the sky and clouds above the Snake River and Grand Tetons.

During the week-long celebration of my parent's 50th anniversary, we did an overnight backpacking trip into Death Canyon in the Tetons. It was stunning, challenging, and my sister and dad made fun of my "heavy" gear, most of which I acquired while I was in high school.

The obviousness of rolling out the Nazi playbook is astonishing for the lack of recognition it is receiving.

Friends and family. What would your reaction be if someone sent an occupying force to your peaceful community? Because it’s coming for you next.

Not a great shot, but I was hoping to capture the intensity of the plateau, mountains, and sky.

Setting fire to the Reichstag.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

My first boss told me during my assessment that goals are not projects. I was confused, but came to understand goals should be the development I need to make the projects successful. He wasn't the best at bedside manner, but he lived what he spoke. It's something I've tried to model since.

Mergers in EdTech can do weird things. Sometimes to do a major effort to select something only to have another company buy the tool you pick (See Angel). And occasionally, you pick one vendor who merges with the other finalist and you end up with the best of both products. (See Ivy.ai and Ocelot)

So the DOJ won't defend the HSI program because a lawsuit that seems to conflate quotas with student census info. Sure, they're both numeric, but they're quite different. www.chronicle.com/article/hisp...

Did you notice the Diego Chara bobblehead has a yellow card in his back pocket? Details! #rctid

One thing I missed while camping off grid in July was Governor Kotek's executive order banning cell phones in k-12. As someone who works in educational technology, I support this. I can't imagine learning in the environment my kids have had to navigate. www.opb.org/article/2025...

I brought one of our new online learning polo shirts to a conference, but ended up not wearing it. Can you see the sleeve length difference in the navy blue shirt? Turns out it’s a women’s shirt.

Don’t travel with lagers without bagging them. They will explode and make all your conference clothes smell like beer.

Createspace is what I've been waiting for. Can't wait to try it out. #D2LFusion

If this smoke detector isn’t spying on me, I don’t know what else was in the designers’ minds.

I haven’t had as much time to prepare for #d2lfusion this year so I’m trying to figure out sessions for tomorrow and am overwhelmed by the amazing options.

I was lucky enough to see Slomosa in Seattle in March. The show was amazing. They just released a video of their performance in Bergen, Norway and it's also stellar.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Chonkers! #flyfishing

My kid is taking me to see Run the Jewels and Wu-Tang tonight. Rza and el-P’s sounds rewired my brain. I can’t wait.

Favorite protest sign.

I feel like an AI bot created a concert poster from my iTunes playlist. How much is a plane ticket to horse show in Sweden.....

Who drove over to the Deschutes only to realize they forgot their Stonefly box? The same guy who took their first water over wader dip. Luckily, the trout weren’t looking up.

Trying on the "it's like free condoms or a needle exchange" as a reason why we should enable Gemini in our EDU environment for students. "You know, so our students use a tool with better protection."

This is not capitalism, the supposed hallmark of these chuds.

While I love food carts, I never feel like I can truly relax with all those pagers are going off.

Mission accomplished! Grilled asparagus and didn’t lose a single one through the grate. Olive oil, sea salt, fresh pepper. Divine!

This is great visualization too. I have no idea why we keep building chip fabs, data centers, and golf courses for that matter in deserts.

OSL is a great public resource. Big Tech has benefitted tremendously from its work.

I must say, I look forward to some "settling" in the AI/education space. The inundation of tools and adverts feels like browsing the internet without a popup blocker in 2005. #edtech

@altassdeans.bsky.social did you provide the administration with college email addresses?

It was not a banner year for salmon or steelhead for this angler. I primarily fly fished (streamers), but I couldn't even land a chum on the OP last fall with a twitching jig. #sadtrombone #flyfishing

Once again we see that AI is not "revolutionary" - it's a technology to accelerate doing existing things, and almost exclusively the things it's accelerating are crimes, scams, and negligence. Defrauding the government out of public moneys isn't new but AI is making it easier than ever before.

This seems a fitting Zoom background. www.roomforzoom.com/backgrounds/...

I'm getting to live the "cost of materials" experience through the eyes of my kid. She hasn't eaten because she was stressed about the cost of her "grade your excel homework" costs. After a decade of working to support #oer and my family finally gets it.

K2-18b? More like K2-of America! Mineral amirights?

I've become a bit of an "Outcomes" detractor. It seems the sheer amount of oversight and noise could be much better used. It also relies on institutions teaching in a highly structured approach to learning that doesn't support flexibility in teaching.

On a day like today, I really miss Pause Kitchen & Bar. They made the best burgers and had a lovely patio. A decade later and there still isn't an option in NoPo that is as good.

3 facts that should drive the news: 1) DOGE has committed, rather than found, fraud. 2) A bunch of antisemites are using a claim to police antisemitism to take over universities. 3) In spite of claims they're cracking down on China, Trump's FP & financial policies have vastly helped China.

Hit the water with some friends and dogs today. Several rainbows and one beefy cutty. The weather wasn't kind, but the space, air, friends, and, if I'm honest, fish, were exactly what I desperately needed. #flyfishing

I deleted my Insta account a while back because it was the gotcha for everyone who had to listen to my years of Meta rants. I didn’t love the service, but it sure cuts in to my fly fishing world. Just like leaving Twitter hurt my professional world. #TFG

Of course he would want to forgive money launderers. That's how he's made his fortune. But talk about waving a "get out of jail free" card to other bad actors.

Today I'm releasing new findings in my ongoing investigation into big pharma's tax dodging schemes. Pfizer has been engaged in what I believe to be the largest tax dodging scheme in the history of big pharma, avoiding billions in taxes on US drug sales.

Me to my kid while we’re playing FortNite: “I guarantee they’re going to try and start a crypto for kids based on this pickle coin. Convert your V-bucks to FortCoin.” Kid: “since it’s a pickle, they should call it Dill Dough.”

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...