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Chad Orzel

@orzelc

I'm a physicist, professor, blogger, and author of popular science books. Also at http://mastodon.world/@orzelc and https://bsky.app/profile/orzelc.bsky.social

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What's my new book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIMEKEEPING about? I hope the title's self-explanatory, but I went into more detail for The Big Idea: whatever.scalzi.com/2022/01/27/the…


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short form video has essentially hacked our evolutionary adaptation to seek out trustworthiness in people we speak to face-to-face in order to sell us stuff and spread a wide variety of insane lies

man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”

cszabla's tweet image. man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”
cszabla's tweet image. man they don’t even trust the *student newspaper* because they think it exists to “protect people in power”


Keflavik does the thing I hated at Heathrow, where they don't reveal what gate a flight leaves from until just before boarding. Is this a European pathology, or just a small island nation thing?


Greetings from Keflavik Airport. Iceland is dark, and also expensive.


Made it onto my flight to Norway, despite the best efforts of the Mass Pike. Next stop... well, Reikjavic, but ultimately Oslo.

orzelc's tweet image. Made it onto my flight to Norway, despite the best efforts of the Mass Pike. Next stop... well, Reikjavic, but ultimately Oslo.

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How is this even possible..😳

SportsCenter님으로부터

I am about to walk out the door to drive to Boston then fly to Oslo, so of course somebody just hit my primary credit card with a fraudulent charge. #FML


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The world keeps getting better on most measurable metrics. The news, and your Twitter timeline, mostly maximize how bad things seem, because people engage more with misery - but that's not giving us an accurate picture of the world.

We noticed a worrisome quirk in Zipline’s data. We’ve been setting all-time highs week after week: delivering record amounts of animal health, blood, medicines, and vaccines....Except one critical use case that’s been shrinking. 1/n



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When baseball players go golfing 😂

Baseball Legend님으로부터

The Netflix app on my Chromebook let me download one episode of Stranger Things to watch offline, which is nice, but I'm going to be on airplanes for nine hours...


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People say immigrants don’t assimilate despite the fact that this guy has only been in the country a few years and has already adopted the American custom of posting our crimes online.

BREAKING: An Afghan national was arrested this week after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area, according to DHS. Mohammad Dawood Alokozay is charged at the state level with making a terroristic…



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Lane Kiffin is trying to win over the media by procrastinating on a deadline


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The most repulsive thing about the crimes taking place in the Caribbean is they’re doing it as a troll — this isn’t a desperate conflict with a mighty enemy or an emotional reaction like after 9/11, they’re doing it in order to be called out so they can call their enemies soft.


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My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks. Lots more here: theguardian.com/books/series/t…

tomgauld's tweet image. My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks.

Lots more here: theguardian.com/books/series/t…

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Kings and queens of the past would envy the lives of ordinary people today.

AlecStapp's tweet image. Kings and queens of the past would envy the lives of ordinary people today.

"According to the World Bank, the deadliest place in the world to be born is Niger. More than one child in 10 there dies before age 5. Those are better odds than the children of 17th-century English kings had." theargumentmag.com/p/medieval-kin…



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Feel bad for the guy that has to wear the -1

S/O to the shirtless 11-1 Purdue fans

cjzero's tweet image. S/O to the shirtless 11-1 Purdue fans


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Louis CK (and in particular his FX show, Louie) is like the human embodiment of Don Draper’s line: “It will shock you how much it never happened.” Just airbrushed out of the histories of the golden age of TV/best show lists. nytimes.com/2025/11/21/art…

SonnyBunch's tweet image. Louis CK (and in particular his FX show, Louie) is like the human embodiment of Don Draper’s line: “It will shock you how much it never happened.” Just airbrushed out of the histories of the golden age of TV/best show lists. nytimes.com/2025/11/21/art…

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Lot of people fairly questioning whether AI slop is actually worse than journo slop, but the bigger risk imo is that culture gets trapped in amber because it's trivially cheap to re-slop 2010s training data and nobody bothers writing for free because you're yelling into the void

Per Graphite, 52% of the articles written online are now written by AI. The Slopocalypse is here.

cremieuxrecueil's tweet image. Per Graphite, 52% of the articles written online are now written by AI.

The Slopocalypse is here.


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