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

Joined October 2008
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Don Barger ☕️ retweeted
TRAFFIC ALERT: I-35 is closed in both directions in Waco, Texas, as a result of devastating flooding. INFO: kwtx.com/2026/06/15/severe-r…
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Well that stinks.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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It makes me smile to see the player get a yellow card for taking a dive. That reversal was sweet!
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Don Barger ☕️ retweeted
Officially a 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒆𝒓 ✍️🐉 The No. 7 rated JUCO recruit per @JucoRecruiting is headed to Birmingham! #WinAsOne | @Antallah1
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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.
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Please give me this series!!!

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Claude to the rescue :)
Replying to @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.
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I use a Mac Studio for text to speech that feeds into the video games like wew.thegreatpursuit.faith - 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)

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.
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You can get a non-profit license with Anthropic. None of the self hosted solutions will come close to approaching Claude code.
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Hahahaha
Replying to @CodeByNZ
i knew it
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Great time today presenting a ln academic paper at EMS with @jd_payne and Chris Neal.
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Don Barger ☕️ retweeted
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.
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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] donbarger.substack.com/p/the…
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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. donbarger.substack.com/p/goo…
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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.
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Congrats to @Yaxel_Lendeborg - This Blazer is so happy for you!
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