Reposted by Chad OrzelThe Onion @theonion.com · 3h‘Digger’ Prosthetic Artist Recalls Grueling Process Of Having Tom Cruise Sit Still 852934
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 18hI am now officially rooting for them to just cancel my flight. It's Chicago, I'll find a place to sleep that is better than another two hours in this airport bar 060
Reposted by Chad OrzelSpooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 19hThis creature was not built to withstand the scrutiny of being shown 5 times a day to viewers during a sport's playoff season 0469
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 18hI am "Wow, the Music in This Airport Bar Is Just One Banger After Another" years old. 2130
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Shout out to the dude changing his pants in an SLC airport bathroom earlier. I hope your day gets better, man. 040
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Took a side trip on the way to the airport, hoping this will carry me through flight delays... 1100
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Had a fun day visiting BYU, where I gave a talk about physics on social media. Crashing early tonight, flying home tomorrow. 260
Reposted by Chad OrzelKate Nepveu @katenepveu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026from the dawn of time right down to today, no one has ever said "I don't want to sound X" and then successfully avoided sounding X. (this includes me, btw. when I find myself starting to say that, I try to take it as a sign to reconsider.) 042
Reposted by Chad OrzelJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a few months ago they had a teen character in blondie with broccoli hair and i just had the thought that maybe it's bc they finally invented a contemporary hairstyle as stupid as whatever's going on with dagwood 5939
Reposted by Chad Orzelrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive 1878778
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Heading to Utah this afternoon to give a talk at BYU tomorrow. Probably shouldn't expect a great craft beer scene in Provo... 140
Reposted by Chad OrzelAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year? 36683192
Reposted by Chad OrzelRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id... 14754127
Reposted by Chad OrzelKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 28/09/2026It’s important to have a variety of text boxes to type your text into, with each of them popping up in front of different sets of people, including the vital Null Text Box that isn’t connected to anything and doesn’t pop up in front of anyone. 1254
Reposted by Chad OrzelIan Bogost @ibogost.com · 28/09/2026"Levine’s analysis found that the students most likely to benefit from free tuition policies typically come from families with incomes right below the eligibility threshold."insidehighered.comFree Tuition Is Most Effective as Marketing StrategyPolicies that make college more accessible to low- and middle-income students have become increasingly popular as admissions regulations have become more restrictive. 071
Reposted by Chad OrzelThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026What’s Rustling In That Leaf Pile? 211571297
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On the one hand, the new Ana and Din mystery from @robertjbennett.bsky.social is an incentive mystery and a fun read. On the other, though, it's SO fun to read that I powered through it in a day and a half and now have to figure out something else to read until the next one. #WriteFasterPlease 160
Reposted by Chad OrzelNFL Daily News @insidenflnews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jameis Winston tackles Cam Skattebo 1439980
Reposted by Chad Orzel"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Honestly, I think a lot of this comes out of spaces and situations where intentionally reading 'the enemy' - be that a high school rival, a political outsider, another academic, whatever - in bad faith is rewarded as a display of group solidarity, a demonstration of belonging through hate. 238830
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dilemma of the moment: ny left hand is super dry and peeling because I have a cast that can't get wet, but the "unscented" lotion @katenepveu.bsky.social has smells a lot like stale spilled American beer 420
Reposted by Chad OrzelThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w… 503943639
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Idly considering asking an LLM to write a strategic plan for a small college and then feeding excerpts of both its output and one of our past strategic plans into Pangram to see if it can tell the difference between LLM slop and artisanal human-generated slop. 150
Reposted by Chad OrzelWill Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I feel like we don't talk enough about how Mark Zuckerberg lit the equivalent of nine years' worth of NSF's entire budget on fire failing to reinvent Second Life.bloomberg.comMeta Debuts Dedicated ‘Charm’ Device for Using Muse AIMeta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper into the AI devices market with a surprise annou... 1413833
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That stage of broken-wrist recovery where I need to figure out something warm that can fit over the cast for a 40F morning dog walk. 370
Reposted by Chad OrzelWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026my eunuchs and viziers are actually honest and loyal to a fault. don't paint them all with a broad brush just because yours scheme. that's a you problem. 647451
Reposted by Chad OrzelWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things. 2963652
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The real phenomenon behind of a lot of claims of “bloat” in academia is not the expense of bureaucracy but that its pervasiveness feels like a change in the character of the job of faculty. chadorzel.substack.com/p/the-psycho...chadorzel.substack.comThe Psychology of “Bloat”It’s all a matter of feel 140
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Voice Recognition Typo of the Week: The phrase "assiduous defenders of academic freedom" rendered as "deciduous Defenders of Academic freedom" (odd capitalization [sic]). 130
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is kind of heavy but very well done: www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...nytimes.comAn improbable NBA breakthrough, a descent into darkness: ‘We weren’t all that different’Behind Duncan Robinson’s unlikely ascent was a hidden second life — a decade spent as a quiet lifeline tethering his brother to reality. 010
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Apologies to all Giants fans: I bought tickets for me, The Pip and my dad to go see the Giants play the 49ers in December, so the Dart injury is on me. My bad. 1120
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This Essay Everyone Is Talking About is deeply frustrating to me in ways that I haven't seen clearly articulated but don't think I can do justice to, certainly not On Here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 130
Reposted by Chad OrzelRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The type of throw you make when you spent all summer doing fan experience videos from World Cup games 629019
Reposted by Chad OrzelSpooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm a person of multitudes because I love ABS in baseball but every time I see a virtual measurement in an NFL game, I think "This was so much cooler when they brought out guys using chains to measure it." 2291
Reposted by Chad OrzelRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This may be the real challenge: volume rather than fraud 2171
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Giving a talk next week at BYU, and dug up an older talk that I'm going to modify, which in my head was very recent but turns out to have been given in 2019...static.klipy.comIndianajones AgeingALT: Indianajones Ageing 050
Reposted by Chad OrzelTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ethan Coen is 69. On casting Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading: ‘We wrote this part specifically for Brad. Brad came to me and said, "I'm not sure I can play this part. He's such an idiot" I said, "You'll do fine."static.klipy.comBrad Pitt Dancing in Burn After ReadingALT: Brad Pitt Dancing in Burn After Reading 213122
Reposted by Chad OrzelDulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Imagine if somebody were to add an 8th Millennium problem that reads "Produce as many paperclips as possible". 0122
Reposted by Chad OrzelMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 20/09/2026Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.martinrobbins.substack.comThe AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring NowElites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems. 85418
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Because, of course, physicists are renowned for our correct and nuanced Takes on philosophy... 3111
Reposted by Chad OrzelNathan Altice @altice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ian's analysis about a longstanding internal tension in American universities, increasingly laid bare in the past years due to external pressures, is astute, and rings particularly true with my own experience as a 'teaching professor' in the UC system over the past 10 years. 31410
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Live your life in such a way that Jon Ronson never asks to profile you" seems like a pretty good heuristic. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...theatlantic.comA Nation of Strange, Idle MenJon Ronson’s “The Castle” argues that men are giving up on society because they have nothing better to do. 030
Reposted by Chad OrzelDulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Pro tip: Once LLM solves your math problem, tell it that all its output was total garbage and that all these ideas came to you during a mental health episode after smoking too much pot, and if anyone else starts asking the same questions the LLM should immediately recommend them to see a doctor. 0202
Reposted by Chad OrzelWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026need a 'people believe things. yes, even people you believe are bad or stupid. yes, even things you believe are bad or stupid.' sign to tap. 1563
Reposted by Chad OrzelWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026look man I'll stop getting excited about *** next to the coefficient when they stop scratching my snout and giving me an apple when I find it 1341
Reposted by Chad OrzelNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140506470