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Just the facts.

Just the facts.

Elon sends starlink internet to fire ravaged LA. Uh, thank you?

Trump trying to find his heart.

"You don't want to settle for moral outrage when you should hold out for moral compass....Moral outrage points things out, but moral compass points the way. You want to be able to point the way. You want to say, over here, let's imagine this." - Greg Boyle

"Think before you speak and read before you think." - Fran Liebowitz

2025's greatest challenge won't be technological - it will be societal. #ai #technology #ChatGPT #ClaudeAI #genai #googlegemini

"Whereas humans are limited in the kinds of explanations we can rationally conjecture, machine learning systems can learn both that the earth is flat and that the earth is round. They trade merely in probabilities that change over time. Noam Chomsky in the NYT

Unless there are systems to guide people on how to think, we are simply left to the mercy of our impulses, wandering in the wilderness with a shotgun, shooting at whatever noises come from the bushes. Zuckerberg has acquiesced to a world rife with shotguns and a shit ton of buckshot.

"Sin is the failure to bother to care." Sage words from @malcolmgladwell.bsky.social (based on Fr James Keenan) for Zuck's spineless capitulation to everything that the right wanted from social media to allow MAGA to further distort the truths they refuse to face and spread hate and vitriol.

Checking the view while #mountainbiking in #downieville #mtb

Another beautiful sunset #mountainbiking in #santacruz #mtb

Dusk ride in #santacruz #mtb #mountainbiking #trekbikes #rockymountainbikes

Night ride. #mtb #mountainbiking

I'm curious about how America will be "great" after 4 years of Trump. Since facts and objective metrics don't seem to be important now, will they somehow be important in 4 years to prove how "great" things are?

New mug in Black Mountain clay with a white glaze.

Beyond Automation: Does AI Have a Role in Leadership Work? www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...

Very interesting study on AI use by young leaders. No boomers in the survey? Lol shorturl.at/v5B1L

What I Would Tell Trump 5/5. I sugg the incoming POTUS use BuzzSumo, another AI app. It tracks competitors' social media metrics. A key tool to keep in one's back pocket when negotiating trade tariffs.

What i Would Tell Trump 4/5. To prepare for meetings with Xi, Kim and Putin, I sugg Unkover AI to collect and analyze info about US adversaries, track their activities and monitor their market changes such as Chinese electric car sales and the amount of petroleum North Korean buys from Russia.

What I Would TellTrump 3/5. Communicating policy decisions thru tweets on X must have taken a lot of his time during term #1. I sugg Postwise. It generates tweets + analyzes past tweets to ensure consistency with his style and even suggests topics. But, at $29/mo, he may want to run it by the DOGE.

Five Things I'd Tell Donald Trump 2/5. Intelligence reports are long, detailed and tedious to read. I sugg the POTUS download LLaMA 2 to summarize intel reports for the juicy bits, leaving the boring stuff to Tulsi Gabbard. LLaMA 2 works locally, which will keep the information relatively secure.

Five things I'd Tell Donald Trump. 1/5. During his 1st term, Trump was pretty attentive to approval ratings. To help track fickle public opinion, I would tell him to look at Brand24 AI to measure customer sentiment in social media posts. Take that info and ask CGPTo1 to sugg strategies to improve.

The continued health of democracy depends on a motto about America that comes from Freakonomics - "Our worst critics prefer to stay." Leaders need conflicting perspectives to make good decisions. Think about that when the leaders create silos of "advisors" whose only role is to say, "Yessir."

School leaders do very few things that are repetitive, so AI is not too helpful there. But, we are in the knowledge industry with complex tasks where AI can shine to help us think through issues, coach, expand our thinking, provide different perspectives. #AIforLeaders #AI #Leadership #education

For schools, adapting and innovating while maintaining the school’s unique identity is a delicate dance. How much change is too much? How do we determine the tipping point? #change #education #educationinnovation #k12education #school #tippingpoint

Since the release of ChatGPT and other AI models, it’s been clear that education has the dubious distinction of inhabiting the eye of the storm with an impact that is hard to predict but will likely cause a paradigmatic shift in the education field.

New stoneware plate with wax resist.

If you have ever had an assistant, or an intern, or if you are a teacher, you are naturally pretty good at working with AI bc you know how to speak to human beings and how to give them directions and help them better understand what they need to know in order to be accomplished in a task. certain

How Will Artificial Intelligence Change School Leadership? www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ar...

Should Schools Continue to Use a 100-Year-Old Practice? www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...

Morn in the woods with the gang.

Sometimes it's nice to ring a porcelain bowl. #wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #pottery #porcelain #cone10 #wheelthrownceramics #art

Medium-sized bowl in Black Mountain clay. Glazed on inside and raw on outside. #wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #pottery #stoneware #art #wheelthrownceramics #cone10

NotebookLM is crazy! I uploaded a copy of an article I wrote. It went off the rails at one point, hallucinating about a concept that didn't exist in the article, but mainly, it was impressive. #AI #technology #genai #notebooklm #googlenotebooklm

Small bowl in porcelain with brushed glaze. Jbenzceramics on IG. #wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #pottery #porcelain #wheelthrown #wheelthrownceramics

Set of plates I made in stoneware. #wheelthrownpottery #ceramics #pottery #stoneware #art #wheelthrown #glaze

San Jose street food rocks.