Sign in

Michael

@michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social
606 followers 451 following 973 posts

Teach Native American Lit./History by day and watch as much baseball as possible in the remaining hours of my life. Avid lap and open water swimmer. Dogs are better than us. #Brewers #Athletics (AL sidepiece) #Rangers (Hometown club)

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Michael
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
322930638
Reposted by Michael
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026
Fenton Johnson ‘Tired’, from “The Book of American Negro Poetry” ed. by James Weldon Johnson, 1922
TIRED

I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization. Let us take a rest, M'Lissy Jane. I will go down to the Last Chance Saloon, drink a gallon or two of gin, shoot a game or two of dice and sleep the rest of the night on one of Mike's barrels. You will let the old shanty go to rot, the white people's clothes turn to dust, and the Calvary Baptist Church sink to the bottomless pit. You will spend your days forgetting you married me and your nights hunting the warm gin Mike serves the ladies in the rear of the Last Chance Saloon. Throw the children into the river; civilization has given us too many. It is better to die than it is to grow up and find out that you are colored. Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The stars marked my destiny. I am tired of civilization.
0738
Reposted by Michael
» justmaʀʟa ✨ @marlaef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2161
Reposted by Michael
JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Allow me to be the first to say holy fucking shit.
723013
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
81113408
Reposted by Michael
Jaymes @jaymesl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
0263
Reposted by Michael
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 04/10/2026
that hit had a launch angle of 49 degrees and exit velocity of 105mph and in the statcast era that has never once resulted in a home run Exit Velocity: 105 MPH, Launch Angle: 49° BA: .037 1B%: 0.0 2B%: 3.7 3B%: 0.0 HR %: 0.0
34424107
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Final: Brewers 3, Padres 2 How did the Milwaukee Brewers win that baseball game? Your guess is as good as any. And it also doesn't matter. All that does is they did. Somehow, someway. They did. Series: 1-0, Brewers
2015113
Reposted by Michael
Math @bigmemath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
truss.
2122
Reposted by Michael
Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s been said before but it is incredible Racism Brain to still be doing the Tomahawk Chop in 2026
1438475
Reposted by Michael
Pat Kreitlow @patkreitlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Schadenfreude, O schadenfreude I’m as high as an asteroid Craigers hurts like a hemorroid Soon will be redeployed Paranoid and unemployed Color me overjoyed For this Cubs induced schadenfreude
0154
Reposted by Michael
Johnny @johnnymke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eliminated 4 minutes into October btw
0268
Reposted by Michael
Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Damn, that’s crazy! And then what happened?
2143
Reposted by Michael
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
5540144
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Random guy walked up to me at the grocery store, asked if I was a baseball fan and then handed me this. Pennant fever is at unheard of levels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
7876
Reposted by Michael
Math @bigmemath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Schaudenfreude Tim Curry
Alt: Schaudenfreude Tim Curry
1222
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
212328
Reposted by Michael
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.
1159783
Reposted by Michael
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drum beats on: NYT joins Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Ed, & Inside Higher Ed in following the terrific reporting of student journalists at @thedartmouth.bsky.social on extensive undisclosed AI use by our provost, a national champion of more AI on campuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use (Gift Article)
Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.
410726
Reposted by Michael
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
295041756
Reposted by Michael
Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why didn't the projection systems see this coming
3464
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jacob Misiorowski's final 2026 numbers: 174.2 IP, 1.80 ERA, 2.17 FIP, 252 K, 44 BB, 31.3 K-BB%, .802 WHIP. The third-lowest WHIP by any qualified starter (excl. 2020) in MLB history, trailing only 1913 Walter Johnson and 2000 Martínez. One of the best pitching seasons ever.
311834
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?
417454
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dustin May may may may may…maybe not.
000
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas
18812
Reposted by Michael
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
3236051052
Reposted by Michael
Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 24/09/2026
The irony being, of course, that they're the small market team (along with Arizona) that *does* go out and try to sign free agents and spend some money, but they keep inadvertently proving the point that you should never pay above the age curve.
052
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Logan Henderson has now tied Zac Gallen for the longest streak of starts allowing 3 or fewer runs to begin a career in Major League Baseball since 1893 (23). 13 of those starts have been 0 or 1 run.
0435
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Logan Henderson finishes his season with a 0.844 WHIP across 98.1 innings. That's the lowest WHIP by a rookie starting pitcher with at least 50 IP thrown in 118 years, since Elmer Steele in 1908.
57613
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the mate commanded him to get a broom and sweep down the planks, and also a shovel, and remove some offensive matters consequent upon allowing a pig to run at large
1607
Reposted by Michael
Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Elly De La Cruz has been so damn good this season. He's a homer and stolen base shy of his first career 30-30 season.
1213
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bohm looks guilty.
010
Reposted by Michael
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.
1618
Reposted by Michael
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
7931161841
Reposted by Michael
Milwaukee Brewers @brewersbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
HISTORY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
06412
Reposted by Michael
Adam McCalvy @adammccalvy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Win No. 98 for the Brewers. A new franchise record with six regular season games to go.
727921
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#98 100 would be fun.
000
Reposted by Michael
Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jackson Chourio is the first player in MLB history with three 20-HR/20-SB seasons before turning 23 years old
619328
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Have the Brewers figured out the ABS system?
001
Reposted by Michael
Brad Westness @brad.westness.cc · 19/09/2026
Third postseason game starter Robert Gasser
2152
Reposted by Michael
Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 Untitled, 1961 Pen and ink on paper. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rghts Society (ARS), New York 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
013818
Reposted by Michael
Milwaukee Record @milwaukeerecord.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Press release: "When word got around that Brice was talking about the rising cost of bowling, we knew Bob-E-Lanes Still had to step up."
milwaukeerecord.com
Bob-E-Lanes Still offers Brewers star Brice Turang free bowling for life (plus one guest, even if it’s a Chicago Cub)
“When word got around that Brice was talking about the rising cost of bowling, we knew Bob-E-Lanes Still had to step up.”
084
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Joey Ortiz is just shy of being a league average hitter with a 99 wRC+. He had a 54 wRC+ on July 4. Since then he is tied for 11th in MLB in fWAR among hitters despite being 184th in PA.
6725
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Brewers are NL Central champs for the fourth straight year. We're talking about it live over at Brewer Territory. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjR5...
youtube.com
Milwaukee Brewers are division champs AGAIN! | Brewer Territory
YouTube video by Brewer Territory: A Milwaukee Brewers Show
07610
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jacob Misiorowski officially surpassed the threshold to qualify for the ERA title tonight. He would have to allow more than three times more runs than innings the rest of the way in order to not finish with the best single-season ERA in Brewers franchise history.
19619
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Have the Brewers lost the ability to steal 2nd or is it just me?
000
Reposted by Michael
Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Israel's Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Gaza Doc Filmmakers - Israel Political News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Israel's culture minister threatens to revoke citizenship of Gaza doc filmmakers
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the e...
1187
Reposted by Michael
Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Final: Brewers 20, Reds 0 For the fourth year in a row and the eighth in the last nine, the Milwaukee Brewers are playoff bound. It appears the 2026 postseason slogan is “Win Our Way.” The record: 92-56
1723729
Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listening to this now. Pretty disgusting exploitation enabled by the current system, David Ortiz’s reported involvement here is extremely disappointing:
000
Reposted by Michael
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quick, someone ask Counsell how many parks that would have been out in.
1183