Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026These people are so fucking weird and cultish. I know it's all kayfabe and grandiose storytelling, but everyone taking nutrition and health advice from a raspy stick of jerky is a certifiable gullible fool. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Québec has had 0 recorded covid deaths since July 19th. There were only 2 other weeks at 0 covid deaths prior, both this year. We're entering an election campaign in which many will vote based on their covid trauma, utterly oblivious to what the data suggests. 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I mean... this isn't exactly unprecedented? This is the USA saying "hold my beer" just after the UK did Brexit - but there are lots of other examples throughout history of empires dying through a combination of heavy metal poisoning, elite decadence and military idiocy. 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Some of these speaker descriptions use a lot of flowery language to disguise their intellectual and moral indigence. Besides Ben Shapiro, I'd be ashamed to share a stage with Gad Saad or James Lindsay. 021
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Here's the latest example in La Presse, which reiterates the idea that the plaintiff couldn't get a non-gendered haircut. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Really baffled by some journal articles again. Why use multivariate modelling when all the variables are pointing in the same direction!? As always, the "quality" definition is also dictated by old industrial rules... www.researchgate.net/publication/... 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I once wrote to the CBC to complain that "accident" was used in a hit and run, without knowing if that was indeed unexpected or unintentional. The editor was unmoved by the argument that words have meanings. Hey, what's a bystander, again? Someone who watches? Cool, cool. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025ChatGPT gets chocolate wrong again- a beginner on a FB forum asked the bot for help, and, well, there are obvious issues. My recipe for 1kg of 80% chocolate is 800g nibs, 200g sugar. Legally speaking, however... in Canada you can have 5% dairy! 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025No wonder Conservatives hate universities: only people with no understanding of history, feminist theories or critical analysis can take these shallow, reactionnary rationalisations seriously. Like anti-vaxxers, utterly oblivious to how bad things used to be. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025AI will be worth 100 trillion by 2030, all that's needed is a few more data centres to hammer out these few remaining bugs. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025En rappel, nos élus au pouvoir parlaient de la dangerosité de l'avenue Parc depuis bien longtemps, et étaient aux cérémonies de pose de vélos fantômes. En plus de l'urgence de sécuriser l'avenue, il serait pertinent de se demander pourquoi le problème perdure. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"97% of wildfires in Nova Scotia are started by humans" That data is from 1990-2009, and was originally published in this report, which includes some important context: www.novascotia.ca/natr/forestp... 012
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025"We'll have to agree to disagree", yeah, buddy, motivated cognition is a hell of a drug. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I unfriended the family MAGAts, so would be relieved if they stopped adding me to their silly group chats. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Another interesting tweet.... this may be the dumbest thing you read today. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Interesting that @mark-carney.bsky.social does not publish everything on Bluesky, and in particular did not push this message about Iran, which was on X. 131
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The most infuriating is the adherence to a "gold standard" set out in 1959: surpassing a physician's diagnostic accuracy. While that IS important, the paper mentions accuracy at ordering the most appropriate diagnostic test. That seems... useful and important? 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It appears US weather forecast accuracy is also degrading very fast, a predictable result of missing data and forecasters. 172
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The very Catholics who platformed Trump at the Al Smith dinner are hurt by this unforeseeable betrayal. Fucking rubes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... 073
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Measles cases in Texas now appear to be going up exponentially. New cases per day were ranging between 4.5 to 12, and suddenly jumped to 24. This page recently added a time series, but not one of the values as they were reported, which is what I'm using: www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/... 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025In the last year, 1175 people have died of Covid in Québec. People I know have told me I was psychologically ill for still worrying so much I wear a mask, and yesterday a stranger berated me in the metro. Masks work. I have not had a cold or flu in years. 020
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"a campaign aimed at Canada would likely rely less on cloak-and-dagger tactics and more on social media — such as the Elon Musk-owned X platform." Ah, the CBC. So neutral they report on this news, and have a big bold X icon at the top of the article. Spineless. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The self-declared king has now made the hockey game political. Broadcasters are cowards if they try to mute the booing. Only those who confuse anti-Trump with anti-American will have a problem with the booing. 131
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025As a chocolate maker of French origin, I would be remiss not to share that this contraption, used to cut and inspect cacao beans, is best known as a guillotine. A high-trust supply chain means I never have to use one. Sometimes their existence alone can keep people honest. 021
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Looks like apologies are already up. Hey, at least it doesn't take months now? /s 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Any people here in Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce? I was there last, and got no answer from the councillor there on their intentions. Their website lists Facebook, X and YouTube. 000
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Looking at city hall next. My old borough of Plateau Mont-Royal still has X in their website footer. I wonder if I'll have to go ask questions about it at council meetings, or if this gets handled fast. (Also: who even wants to follow their city on LinkedIn?!?) 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The recent cuts make a lot more sense when we take their agenda seriously. Trump's declarations that he'd be dictator for a day make a lot more sense in this context. He's got enough rhetorical cover to do all the authoritarian garbage he's doing now. 111
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I took photos, just so people can see for themselves- I'm assuming that even amateurs will notice the Hershey production line has massive and obvious issues. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025No wonder people tell me Cherry Blossoms aren't what they used to be: those ingredients are what happens when corporate raiders cut costs with the shittiest options allowed by law. It's no longer legally chocolate: it's a "coating" that is easier to manufacture, and better resists heat in storage. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Québec Covid data is late again, on top of their scheduled delay. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Québec Covid data just dropped. The XEC variant looks poised to start a holiday wave. www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/don... 221
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024J'avais compris que ce n'était pas la seule publication sur le thème, mais j'ai explicitement nommé la publication ci-dessous qui n'avait aucun besoin de mentionner Poly. Cette mention instrumentalise un féminicide pour centrer un homme. C'est très ordinaire, non? 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Roasting cacao from Chanthaburi, Thailand, today. Its profile is unique, and a light roast lets sour green apple and starfruit shine over the dried fruit and spice. Monday I should receive beans from Reserva Zorzal in the Dominican Republic- a more classic chocolate with some red berries. 030
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This does NOT show partisanship making everyone irrational. This graph measures a combination of current reality and expectation. That's the index! The economy got much better under Biden, and is about to be tanked by tariffs. So the blue line is more realistic, and the reds are brainwashed. 100
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024When is a landlord no longer a landlord and now a sales rep for a credit check service? Asking for $25 to *view* a property with a service you get kickbacks from should be illegal. YIMBY is one way to cut the grass from under all these crass opportunists - and the next Trump. 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 01/11/2024Friends who bet on Harris winning on the Polymarkets platform are calling the bluff by billionaires- exactly what a prediction market is supposed to do, in theory. Unfortunately such markets are slow to adapt and can be manipulated for a long time. Meanwhile: free money! 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 24/10/2024Québec's variant summary is finally out. By looking at the summary, you wouldn't guess the new XEC variant accounts for 10.5% of all cases. Yet they still show KP.2 standing at 0.7%. www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/don... 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 04/10/2024In particular, I'm wondering if the 0-49 age group is still the only remaining one with consistent excess mortality. It appears acute Covid isn't killing people of prime working age, but the sequelae are the only obvious culprit for this excess mortality. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 03/10/2024I reached out to a Zionist friend who shared this image, which implies all of Israel and even Gaza were attacked. It's a visual metaphor of Iranian missile strikes that wipe Israel off the map, while all mainstream reports I see discuss attacks concentrated on military bases and the Mossad HQ. WTF 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/10/2024I am now on page 35 and reading stats about cyclists... how can 565 collisions causing at least one injury result in 562 injuries? 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 02/10/2024Got my city's police report to see if they had stats about motor vehicle incidents. The numbers don't make sense. The 3.9% change comes out to 3.75 when I use their numbers. But there are much bigger red flags here. spvm.qc.ca/upload/02/SP... 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 27/09/2024In 1978, Natural Resources Canada prepared estimates for how often certain levels of rainfall are expected in every region of Canada. The data was released in 2016 and modified in 2022. Besides climate change, there's some statistical chicanery: open.canada.ca/data/en/data... 110
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 11/09/2024Québec Covid data is out... it looks from wastewater that a big wave is coming. Over 100 people are entering hospital with Covid every day, and about 1600 are currently in hospitals with a diagnostic. About 40 people a week are dying. www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/don... 133
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 11/09/2024The *world wide* web sounds like a fantastic idea, honestly. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 31/08/2024Québec's Covid variant landscape shows KP.3.1.1 quickly gaining ground, while XEC still isn't visible for CDC weeks 33 and 34. 010
Daniel Haran @danielharan.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Because this meme keeps showing up, I have to say that we do have a very convincing study. "The supply of new market rate units triggers moving chains that quickly reach middle- and low-income neighborhoods and individuals." www.doria.fi/bitstream/ha... 110