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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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
July 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
just got dissed by someone in the UK
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
just got dissed by someone in the UK
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They should do MyChart Wrapped
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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Thank you ACC for always being yourself
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thank you ACC for always being yourself
important point! AI is ML, but not all ML is AI.
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
important point! AI is ML, but not all ML is AI.
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top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
top notch mascottin'
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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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)."