Don Barger ☕️

Husband, Dad, Granddad, UAB, Mac, Orality, AI, Innovation, and quite the Coffee Snob.

[UAB Men's Basketball @UAB_MBB]

Officially a 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒆𝒓 ✍️🐉

The No. 7 rated JUCO recruit per @JucoRecruiting is headed to Birmingham!

#WinAsOne | @Antallah1

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

My latest Substack article about innovation and organizational design. https://t.co/EoPMrCZHjr

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

I absoutely love self-service through AI. What I can't stand is when a company like @runwayml uses an AI to gate customers from ever having access to a human responder. It's not lousy customer service... it's no customer service.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Please give me this series!!!

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Claude to the rescue :)

[Ted Esler @tedstur]

@donbarger I am running a couple local llms but the issue isn't the speed or ability, but the technical knowledge needed to install and maintain them. I have some tech chops, but could never imagine my team being as patient as I have been getting the quirks out.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

You can get a non-profit license with Anthropic. None of the self hosted solutions will come close to approaching Claude code.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

I use a Mac Studio for text to speech that feeds into the video games like https://t.co/o877D0VFvp - this is very prototype right now. I also has some qwen and llama models on it, but it’s quite a machine with 128 ram - Mac mini will leave you disappointed. (Cont)

[Ted Esler @tedstur]

Are any small teams sharing a Mac Mini across the team for AI processing? I'm not talking about the solopreneur here. I'm thinking more about the small ministry team with four to ten staff distributed around the world. I'm looking at the various tools our team is using and we're getting death by a thousand cuts from all these small subscriptions. I'm wondering how realistic it would be for a person to have a Mac Mini running, servicing a small team. The need here isn't for huge data center-style computing but for the kind of stuff we do in Copilot or Gemini or other office tools along that line. I easily see how it works for me as I set up a local instance of a llama but I am thinking more about making something like that available for a small team.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Hahahaha

[silv.eth @mattsilv]

@CodeByNZ i knew it

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Great time today presenting a ln academic paper at EMS with @jd_payne and Chris Neal.

[J. D. Payne @jd_payne]

Presentation today at the SE EMS gathering. Co-presenting with @donbarger and Chris Neal. QR code for you, if you desire a copy of our paper on a Case Study of the @IMB_SBC and AI.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

AI language coaches won't replace human connection, but they will remove the "I don't speak the language" excuse for sharing your faith. The future isn't coming—it's here. [link] https://t.co/D8jmSSCm3O

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Gaming companies panicked when AI could generate 3D worlds. But the real threat isn't AI, it's pretending nothing's changing. Churches and faith-based orgs face the same choice: adapt or become irrelevant. https://t.co/4Nd0mHN03J

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

The church's greatest AI risk isn't missing out. It's thinking we can keep doing ministry exactly the same way and just "add AI" to fix it.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Congrats to @Yaxel_Lendeborg - This Blazer is so happy for you!

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

AI helped me write a eulogy for the penny—America's smallest currency is gone, and we barely noticed. Sometimes the things we mourn most are the ones we stopped valuing years ago. https://t.co/IEWDClYggM

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

@BonSecours I have reached out again. I have spent hours on the phone, mailed a demand letter, and sent emails through the patient portal.

Crickets.

So, I now have submitted through the link. Maybe someone will actually own the problem.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

@BonSecours continues to bill me for services I do not owe. I have spent dozens of hours on the phone with them. They say I don't owe anything, yet they continue to send me past due notices.

BonSecours is a mess... A big mess.

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

Stop using AI as a glorifed Google. Make it a thought parter and stress sest your ideas and strategy using AI https://t.co/5ceI4LXXCz

[Don Barger ☕️ @donbarger]

@NoLieWithBTC @united what say you?