Oko
@okospeaks.bsky.social
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@okospeaks.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Excerpts and additional thoughts from my book The Life of Oko. Subscribe to my feed to follow along.
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I work for a public library as the Resource Services Librarian, and we finally got @sgj.bsky.social book Killer on the Road. Cannot wait to get this out on the shelf for our patrons!
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I work for a public library as the Resource Services Librarian, and we finally got @sgj.bsky.social book Killer on the Road. Cannot wait to get this out on the shelf for our patrons!
Me too earth… me too
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Me too earth… me too
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Susan Harrison Tustain (New Zealand, born 1956)
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Susan Harrison Tustain (New Zealand, born 1956)
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Windfall" 2007.
Watercolor, l9.5 × 14 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
You could always just lie to her like you’re lying to yourself?
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You could always just lie to her like you’re lying to yourself?
When you delegate your thinking to a machine, it’s no wonder your own brain begins to atrophy. Funny to think, that this was the end… they didn’t even need bodies to destroy us.
MIT recently completed the first brain-scan study on #ChatGPT users—and the results are deeply revealing.
Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged #AI use may be dulling it. #science #MIT #brainscience #sciencesky
www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...
Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged #AI use may be dulling it. #science #MIT #brainscience #sciencesky
www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
When you delegate your thinking to a machine, it’s no wonder your own brain begins to atrophy. Funny to think, that this was the end… they didn’t even need bodies to destroy us.
Until you get the Old Testament God, and he tells you to sacrifice your son for a gaffe. I can’t imagine this going well at all
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Until you get the Old Testament God, and he tells you to sacrifice your son for a gaffe. I can’t imagine this going well at all
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston
They said you were fighting for freedom.
Where is it; for us, the Afghans, or Iraqis?
They said we fought for each other.
Those men are now dead.
They said we fought for our country.
That country is in ruins, a mere shadow of its former image.
So what, what was it for?
Where is it; for us, the Afghans, or Iraqis?
They said we fought for each other.
Those men are now dead.
They said we fought for our country.
That country is in ruins, a mere shadow of its former image.
So what, what was it for?
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
They said you were fighting for freedom.
Where is it; for us, the Afghans, or Iraqis?
They said we fought for each other.
Those men are now dead.
They said we fought for our country.
That country is in ruins, a mere shadow of its former image.
So what, what was it for?
Where is it; for us, the Afghans, or Iraqis?
They said we fought for each other.
Those men are now dead.
They said we fought for our country.
That country is in ruins, a mere shadow of its former image.
So what, what was it for?
Basic training is designed to cause PTSD. They want the “favorable traits” of hyper attention, paranoia, anger… however when the soldier eventually becomes unraveled, they’re happy to drop you, and will gaslight you into thinking you were always damaged, and it’s your fault not theirs
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Basic training is designed to cause PTSD. They want the “favorable traits” of hyper attention, paranoia, anger… however when the soldier eventually becomes unraveled, they’re happy to drop you, and will gaslight you into thinking you were always damaged, and it’s your fault not theirs
That’s some Road-Runner ACME shit right there.
The world's largest firework shell, Yonshakudama, weighs 420 kg (926 lbs) and creates an explosion over 730 meters (2,400 feet) in diameter.
📽: Only in Japan
📽: Only in Japan
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That’s some Road-Runner ACME shit right there.
Happy Veterans Day to all you crusty airbornes out there, Fury From the Sky
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Happy Veterans Day to all you crusty airbornes out there, Fury From the Sky
When Sasha Barron Cohen merkins
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
When Sasha Barron Cohen merkins
Nope. Nowweeweepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee no no no nnnnnnnooopppeeee
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Nope. Nowweeweepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee no no no nnnnnnnooopppeeee
Crazy
Camera Capabilities Unlocked from a Mouse
Camera Capabilities Unlocked from a Mouse
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Crazy
Seems brilliant, if you like warm beer
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Seems brilliant, if you like warm beer
Literally nothing, and I mean nothing, was as exciting as firing up a new console as a kid. And some of the games, my god. Golden Eye for N64: me and my buddy spent literally every moment of a weekend playing. Grand Theft Auto 3, holy shit, you can’t even imagine how exciting that was.
Wow, everyone seemed to like my last post with some of my console collection. Some more then, I got a lot of this from coworkers getting rid of their game stuff. Hence the dupes. The jaguar is a dev kit, though I never worked on a game for the system.
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Literally nothing, and I mean nothing, was as exciting as firing up a new console as a kid. And some of the games, my god. Golden Eye for N64: me and my buddy spent literally every moment of a weekend playing. Grand Theft Auto 3, holy shit, you can’t even imagine how exciting that was.
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
~ Søren Kierkegaard
November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
~ Søren Kierkegaard
November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
~ Søren Kierkegaard
November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
~ Søren Kierkegaard
November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
Some useful info on how Delta is approaching flight cancellations
Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Some useful info on how Delta is approaching flight cancellations
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They want to make money, but they also want to take money… it’s a conundrum of who to rip of first
Games industry forces RTOs (often involving moving cities for a job that may not exist in a few months) because being in office together on zoom is just ~*so heckin valuable*~
but then replaces as many people as they can get away with with chatbots because the human connection doesn’t matter
Hmm!
but then replaces as many people as they can get away with with chatbots because the human connection doesn’t matter
Hmm!
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
They want to make money, but they also want to take money… it’s a conundrum of who to rip of first
The DaaS (diabetes as a service) business model
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The DaaS (diabetes as a service) business model
Fun!
That time the US Postal Service trusted R2-D2 with all our mail. 💌 #StarWars
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Fun!
Despite us humans preferring to think of the world as binary, it just isn’t the case. Everything is moving all the time. A truth moments ago isn’t necessarily a truth now. It requires the context of time and location; and one certainly can’t discount the lens through which it’s being perceived
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Despite us humans preferring to think of the world as binary, it just isn’t the case. Everything is moving all the time. A truth moments ago isn’t necessarily a truth now. It requires the context of time and location; and one certainly can’t discount the lens through which it’s being perceived
We were really living in the future… in the past
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: The 1993 Canon NoteJet laptop with built-in inkjet printer
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We were really living in the future… in the past
The legendary Transporoboros
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The legendary Transporoboros