Dan 🦃
@danorz.com
mediocre web dev; mediocre ultimate frisbee player; pretty dang good crossword-puzzle doer. Worcester MA USA. go Jackets. he/him
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Dan 🦃
@danorz.com
· Nov 9
hi. yet another twitter refugee here.
I like sour beers, ultimate frisbee, cats, and javascript. by day I help save the internet from disinformation and misinformation; by night I play a lot of puzzle-based video games and bang around on various tech-for-public-good type projects.
I like sour beers, ultimate frisbee, cats, and javascript. by day I help save the internet from disinformation and misinformation; by night I play a lot of puzzle-based video games and bang around on various tech-for-public-good type projects.
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management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you?
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you?
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back.
don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!
counterpoint: it's extremely funny that a conference as chaotic as the ACC gets a seat at the grownups' table, we should be celebrating and encouraging shit like this
The idea that the highest-ranked team in a Power 4 conference (Miami) can miss the ACC title game and the CFP is embarrassing for the sport.
Conference realignment messed up everything by making these leagues way too big.
Conference realignment messed up everything by making these leagues way too big.
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
counterpoint: it's extremely funny that a conference as chaotic as the ACC gets a seat at the grownups' table, we should be celebrating and encouraging shit like this
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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Once a year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a diminutive figure known only as Governor Mike travels from home to home in Massachusetts in an M1 Abrams tank collecting turkey carcasses that good Greek children leave under their pillows to use for his soup. He cannot be stopped.
November 28, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Once a year, on the day after Thanksgiving, a diminutive figure known only as Governor Mike travels from home to home in Massachusetts in an M1 Abrams tank collecting turkey carcasses that good Greek children leave under their pillows to use for his soup. He cannot be stopped.
oh, great idea. thanks this year to Paxton Animal Hospital, Sarkisian Builders, Oasis at Dodge Park, and Chandler Pediatrics.
Ok it has been a relatively stressful season. I don't think we shout out enough the people who help make very stressful things as easy as possible. So grateful for Young's Garage, UMass Pediatric Endocrinology, Readymed on Shrewsbury st and Tufts Animal Hospital. Worcester folks, fyi. Solid folks.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
oh, great idea. thanks this year to Paxton Animal Hospital, Sarkisian Builders, Oasis at Dodge Park, and Chandler Pediatrics.
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You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
why the actual poverty line is not ~$30K/yr but somewhere around $130K/yr: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
it's not 100% convincing, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.
it's not 100% convincing, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
why the actual poverty line is not ~$30K/yr but somewhere around $130K/yr: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
it's not 100% convincing, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.
it's not 100% convincing, but there's a lot of good stuff in here.
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
longshot ask: do I know anyone in (or who has contacts in) Sweden? there's a book I'd like to buy from a shop there but they seem to only ship domestically.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
longshot ask: do I know anyone in (or who has contacts in) Sweden? there's a book I'd like to buy from a shop there but they seem to only ship domestically.
I bought this course a couple of years ago and it's great. you should buy it too - you'll learn a lot!
PSA: Today's Day 4️⃣ of the Black Friday sale.
This is the lowest you can get the course for and it's for a limited time—next year's sales won't be the same.
Price goes back up on December 4th. ⏳
🔗 practical-accessibility.today
#a11y
This is the lowest you can get the course for and it's for a limited time—next year's sales won't be the same.
Price goes back up on December 4th. ⏳
🔗 practical-accessibility.today
#a11y
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I bought this course a couple of years ago and it's great. you should buy it too - you'll learn a lot!
good christ a lot of people on here confuse "emergent property" with "intentional foundational decision" when rageposting about complex systems.
not understanding a hard-to-understand thing does not mean you get to fill that thing with whatever strawmen you want.
not understanding a hard-to-understand thing does not mean you get to fill that thing with whatever strawmen you want.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
good christ a lot of people on here confuse "emergent property" with "intentional foundational decision" when rageposting about complex systems.
not understanding a hard-to-understand thing does not mean you get to fill that thing with whatever strawmen you want.
not understanding a hard-to-understand thing does not mean you get to fill that thing with whatever strawmen you want.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat [to a seemingly pregnant woman] when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001)."
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat [to a seemingly pregnant woman] when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001)."
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat [to a seemingly pregnant woman] when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001)."
"Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat [to a seemingly pregnant woman] when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001)."
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what was this guy’s fucking problem
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
what was this guy’s fucking problem
credit-default swaps are back babyyyy
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
credit-default swaps are back babyyyy
not in my neighborhood tyvm
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
not in my neighborhood tyvm
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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"Haha what if the Pop-Tarts do a frosted/unfrosted schism" is great bc the average schism is due to stuff even less consequential than that
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Haha what if the Pop-Tarts do a frosted/unfrosted schism" is great bc the average schism is due to stuff even less consequential than that
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GOLDENEYE Pause Music
#JamesBond #Videogames #MusicSky #90s #Nostalgia #Gaming #GoldenEye #Movies #OTD #FilmSky
#JamesBond #Videogames #MusicSky #90s #Nostalgia #Gaming #GoldenEye #Movies #OTD #FilmSky
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
GOLDENEYE Pause Music
#JamesBond #Videogames #MusicSky #90s #Nostalgia #Gaming #GoldenEye #Movies #OTD #FilmSky
#JamesBond #Videogames #MusicSky #90s #Nostalgia #Gaming #GoldenEye #Movies #OTD #FilmSky
"ended up"
How the New York Times described this takedown and arrest of a 16 year old, 100 pound teenager whose mother had just been dragged off by ICE:
“Police officers raced to stop her, and the teenager ended up on the ground.”
(Starts at 7:10 in the video)
youtu.be/iTHyBwxhiD4
“Police officers raced to stop her, and the teenager ended up on the ground.”
(Starts at 7:10 in the video)
youtu.be/iTHyBwxhiD4
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"ended up"
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Brent Key is mad they won
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Brent Key is mad they won
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.