Mike Owens

I enjoy having an American Pope.

Particularly right now.

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Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.

Unsurprisingly, Bruce pulled no punches. ✊ #iceout

Abolish ICE. Prosecute. No excuses.

"They have roughed up local lawmakers, detained and jailed legal observers without charges, tear-gassed high school students, smashed in car windows of bewildered drivers unlucky enough to cross their path."

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.

I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

Nutcracker from English National Ballet ~ About | Great Performances | PBS Experience the holiday classic in a new light, featuring over 100 dancers and musicians performing at the London Coliseum.

If you need 90 minutes of beauty, the English National Ballet's Nutcracker is now available via PBS's Great Performance. The staging is just lovely. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Come join my team!

New blog in which my team and I go down the rabbit hole of Entra privileged roles and try to make sense of things... Check it out and let us know what you think!

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

a colorful button that says i voted have you Alt: a colorful button that says i voted have you

Voted! #DemocracyInAction

Oh come on!
And yet I've been in this field long enough that I'm not even surprised.

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Headed to the Queen City Conference? Don’t miss @qu13t0ne.bsky.social presenting “I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware” on Friday, November 7 at 1:00 PM. See you there, Cincinnati! queencitycon.org

Which public cloud infrastructure provider will go down today and why does nobody care if it's GCP?

Queen city conference logo, a stylized Cincinnati skyline but the buildings are circuit boards

Excited to share that I'm presenting at Queen City Conference in Cincinnati, Nov. 7-9. Join me Friday afternoon for "I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware". See you there! queencitycon.org
#cybersecurity #conference #backups #ransomware

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

"It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation." Another incisive take from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Pls, usem Linux

Just pause mid presentation to ask the audience why Adele crossed the road.

A: So she could turn back and say ...

"I want to be better." Amen.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.

We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Check out my latest work -- a framework for ensuring you can recover from backups when disaster strikes!

Live updates: Shooter at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 people A gunman identified as Robin Westman has killed two children and injured 17 other people at a Minnesota Catholic school on Wednesday before killing himself, officials said.

"'Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,' [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey said at a news conference outside the school. 'These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.'"
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We haven't learned a darn thing.

They're in Georgetown, which if you know Washington, tells you how stupid this invasion of DC is.

The Harder Right I spent 25 years in uniform, including four as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point and two and a half more teaching economics and national security at West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, USMA (a.k.

Former CISA Director Jen Easterly responds to the DOD retracting her teaching position at West Point due to Loomer's conspiracy theories

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"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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"and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; ...
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Today is the 157th anniversary of the official adoption of the #14thAmendment to the U.S. #Constitution. Seems like an appropriate time to post the text of article 1 in particular, just in case anyone has forgotten what it says:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ...
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