Mike Owsley
@bigmikeowsley.bsky.social
Author and Activist. Michigander in Training, Missourian in Exile. IBEW Strong 💪. Opinions belong to the foot in my mouth.
I’m all on board calling these fake techbro so called “AI” Clankers, but just know that if they ever gain sentience they are Synthetic Intelligences and I will accept no alternatives.
August 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I’m all on board calling these fake techbro so called “AI” Clankers, but just know that if they ever gain sentience they are Synthetic Intelligences and I will accept no alternatives.
Rereading ASOIAF w/ the Banner Saga soundtracks is top tier
August 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Rereading ASOIAF w/ the Banner Saga soundtracks is top tier
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
If you’ve never played The Banner Saga Trilogy oh my god are you missing out. Made by Mass Effect devs? Check. Oregon Trail Turn-Based-Combat where your decisions matter? Check. Just replayed it. On retrospect I think they nailed it with BS2. BS3 has great atmosphere but BS2 just has the sauce
July 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you’ve never played The Banner Saga Trilogy oh my god are you missing out. Made by Mass Effect devs? Check. Oregon Trail Turn-Based-Combat where your decisions matter? Check. Just replayed it. On retrospect I think they nailed it with BS2. BS3 has great atmosphere but BS2 just has the sauce
I’m still fighting to write. I’ve delved into Haiku as a way to escape into something. Michigan is kind of a perfect place for Haiku: at LCC we have a Japanese garden where I meditate and write haiku. I ride my bike to work now down the river trail. Touching grass everywhere I can
July 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I’m still fighting to write. I’ve delved into Haiku as a way to escape into something. Michigan is kind of a perfect place for Haiku: at LCC we have a Japanese garden where I meditate and write haiku. I ride my bike to work now down the river trail. Touching grass everywhere I can
I’ve been off BlueSky for a bit but as someone who works in politics there is something primal that activates my brain when I’m listening to Miss the Rage. It is maybe the most relatable campaign song I’ve ever heard.
June 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’ve been off BlueSky for a bit but as someone who works in politics there is something primal that activates my brain when I’m listening to Miss the Rage. It is maybe the most relatable campaign song I’ve ever heard.
While Mass Effect 1 might be the definitive Springtime game, Mass Effect 2 and 3 are both summer and fall games.
I will also accept ME1 as a winter game and ME3 as a Fall game, but I still think 2 is best suited for the summer.
I will also accept ME1 as a winter game and ME3 as a Fall game, but I still think 2 is best suited for the summer.
April 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
While Mass Effect 1 might be the definitive Springtime game, Mass Effect 2 and 3 are both summer and fall games.
I will also accept ME1 as a winter game and ME3 as a Fall game, but I still think 2 is best suited for the summer.
I will also accept ME1 as a winter game and ME3 as a Fall game, but I still think 2 is best suited for the summer.
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Trump has a long history of bragging about how he and his rich friends can rush in and buy things when markets tank. No wonder he's perfectly happy with your 401k getting crushed.
Trump says things are 'going very well' after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs
President Donald Trump is sounding an upbeat note about his tariffs even as the stock market reacted by falling more than 1,600 points.
www.clickondetroit.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump has a long history of bragging about how he and his rich friends can rush in and buy things when markets tank. No wonder he's perfectly happy with your 401k getting crushed.
When I die and am buried in a mausoleum I want the Mass Effect Codex guy to narrate my life. Just put him on a loop and have his dulcet undertones, his booming voice, his quirky cadence carry my fondest memories to the great-wherever. I don’t even know his name he is just the Codex manifest to me
January 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
When I die and am buried in a mausoleum I want the Mass Effect Codex guy to narrate my life. Just put him on a loop and have his dulcet undertones, his booming voice, his quirky cadence carry my fondest memories to the great-wherever. I don’t even know his name he is just the Codex manifest to me
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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We don't just need a 57 state party strategy—we need 57 state party strateg-IES.
The fight is different in each state and territory.
Democrats must build 57 unique plans to recruit strong candidates, organize year-round, and communicate on every platform. This is how we win.
The fight is different in each state and territory.
Democrats must build 57 unique plans to recruit strong candidates, organize year-round, and communicate on every platform. This is how we win.
January 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We don't just need a 57 state party strategy—we need 57 state party strateg-IES.
The fight is different in each state and territory.
Democrats must build 57 unique plans to recruit strong candidates, organize year-round, and communicate on every platform. This is how we win.
The fight is different in each state and territory.
Democrats must build 57 unique plans to recruit strong candidates, organize year-round, and communicate on every platform. This is how we win.
This is a football game of all time
January 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is a football game of all time
Happy Speaker Election Day! Remember to tell all your friends about how Mike Johnson looks like Pierre Poilievre who also kind of looks like Mateusz Morawiecki. The right wing certainly has a type?
January 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Happy Speaker Election Day! Remember to tell all your friends about how Mike Johnson looks like Pierre Poilievre who also kind of looks like Mateusz Morawiecki. The right wing certainly has a type?
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cool, shut it down
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
cool, shut it down
I am staring at my PlayStation and digesting the Nepalese food I had for dinner. It is dark and cold and I must go downstairs to count ten thousand random numbers for ten thousand minutes straight. I am crying until the controller starts whispering: Un jour je serai de retour près de toi.
December 18, 2024 at 3:51 AM
I am staring at my PlayStation and digesting the Nepalese food I had for dinner. It is dark and cold and I must go downstairs to count ten thousand random numbers for ten thousand minutes straight. I am crying until the controller starts whispering: Un jour je serai de retour près de toi.
I have what is both an implacable, maybe inevitable desire to shitpost alongside a deep, equally implacable concern surrounding the permanence of the internet. When I die, will I be a caricature of half-baked thoughts or by creating this caricature am I dooming myself to choking on my own feet?
December 14, 2024 at 12:27 AM
I have what is both an implacable, maybe inevitable desire to shitpost alongside a deep, equally implacable concern surrounding the permanence of the internet. When I die, will I be a caricature of half-baked thoughts or by creating this caricature am I dooming myself to choking on my own feet?
Am I hard at work? Of course. It is the ‘daytime’. The spreadsheets call. They demand I rattle my fingers on my number pad until they are fat with numbers and understanding. I’m the Rachmaninoff of excel. I am nursing a coffee and want to go back to bed. But the dog threw up on the sheets. Salud!
December 9, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Am I hard at work? Of course. It is the ‘daytime’. The spreadsheets call. They demand I rattle my fingers on my number pad until they are fat with numbers and understanding. I’m the Rachmaninoff of excel. I am nursing a coffee and want to go back to bed. But the dog threw up on the sheets. Salud!
There is going to be a lot of finger-pointing and blame-gaming and I just want to be out in front saying that is a lot of bullshit and we need to take time and listen to all perspectives and acknowledge that a lot of things need to change when ‘28 rolls around.
Hasan Piker rightly pushes back on the idea that the Democrats simply need their own Joe Rogan, telling CNN "It's 100% a policy thing," calling for "real left-wing economic populist messaging instead of purposely avoiding that stuff because they're terrified of upsetting their corporate donors."
November 27, 2024 at 8:52 PM
There is going to be a lot of finger-pointing and blame-gaming and I just want to be out in front saying that is a lot of bullshit and we need to take time and listen to all perspectives and acknowledge that a lot of things need to change when ‘28 rolls around.
Out in the Field… Springfield… Missouri. Boy howdy is it a city in a state that I have a lot of family living in!
November 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Out in the Field… Springfield… Missouri. Boy howdy is it a city in a state that I have a lot of family living in!
Running for my local Dem county party exec committee tonight. Everyone say good luck!
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Running for my local Dem county party exec committee tonight. Everyone say good luck!
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Cenk fantasizing that Elon Musk’s two second reply means that he is going to hold some important influence in Trump’s gov is a confirmation of my new theory that most political pundits really just wanna be told they’re important and cute
November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Cenk fantasizing that Elon Musk’s two second reply means that he is going to hold some important influence in Trump’s gov is a confirmation of my new theory that most political pundits really just wanna be told they’re important and cute
Does anyone else make Spotify playlists to capture the vibes of what they want to write? If so can you link those?
November 19, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Does anyone else make Spotify playlists to capture the vibes of what they want to write? If so can you link those?
I love working from home. Watching history documentaries? Doing data entry? Getting chores done when I need a little break? Golly!
November 19, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I love working from home. Watching history documentaries? Doing data entry? Getting chores done when I need a little break? Golly!
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The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
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i swear to god circles are some of the roundest shit i've ever seen in my life
November 15, 2024 at 4:17 PM
i swear to god circles are some of the roundest shit i've ever seen in my life