Daniel Haran
danielharan.bsky.social
Daniel Haran
@danielharan.bsky.social
Chocolate maker. Past work included software, open data, AI, politics.
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I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍

The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R.

The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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WTAF. I knew people were ignorant, but I didn't imagine it was this bad
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The government of Canada needs to directly address why a 95 year old human rights expert and former UN Special Rapporteur was treated as a threat to national security for coming to speak about Israeli genocide.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Add human trafficking to the lengthy list of social ills that would be most meaningfully addressed by reducing poverty.
and now for your umpteenth reminder that the best way to fight human trafficking is to support measures that ease poverty and promote affordable housing, not to go hunting for hidden coded messages on the internet
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As with congestion pricing in NYC, the sky didn't fall, and results are very popular.

Also noteworthy: revenue estimates were WAY off. In NYC, planners expected more traffic outside the congestion pricing zone, but that didn't happen.

We underestimate benefits, and overestimate costs.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues.

They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Way to put out that fire, sir.
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Yesterday Ukraine blew up the Novorossiysk oil refinery, which is still burning furiously. Today Russia has been forced to suspend all exports - 2.2 million barrels a day.

That sound you now hear is the Russian economy burning.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Remarkable. Seems pretty clear that someone wanted to make an example of him.
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This is fucking batshit evil bananas
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
10,500 Powerwalls recalled over fire risks, 6000 cybertrucks (10% of all models sold) recalled because shit wasn't *glued on* correctly...

and yet TSLA is only down ~7.5% today, with a still stratospheric P/E ratio of 266.

It's a cult.
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.

10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C

20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C

So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
How does this play out in Türkiye?

Does the government find a pretext to get rid of the ambassador?

Do citizens ensure he can't ever step out of his embassy without being protested?

I wonder how many more such ambassadors there are...
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I shot a Bluesky post in Reno just to watch it die
a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo holding a microphone .
Alt: a black and white photo of johny cash man in a white shirt and black jacket in front of a microphone .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Chocolate folk: this Wikipedia article on Bean-to-bar needs work...

To claim it started in the 1970's and 1980's is not accurate. It's a recent marketing term, not a "business model."
Bean-to-bar - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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And Free Link.
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty.

https://xslt.rip/
XSLT 安息吧
XSLT RIP (xslt.rip) 15:39  ↑ 112 HN Points
xslt.rip
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Over on LinkedIn, some of Canada's best known tech bros are arguing about the merits of fascist-adjacent ideas.

Most centrists/"liberals" are oblivious and sometimes engaging in those coded conversations.

The framing is fascist. Who could be against builders, technology and optimism? Losers!
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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elon musk is just l.ron hubbard if hubbard had started out with an emerald mine fortune
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM