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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whomever wrote the entry for Halite tonight: Prose of the highest order. Will be quite salty if Halite loses.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Doing the "My Nine Games" thing

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big Ten might want to look at that Desman Stephens II hit on Dante Moore because that wasn't even close to a football play

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drinking all my beers I smuggled out of Bend this summer. One IPA was tasting a little off, checked it... ...brewed in Portland? Subpar.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When are people in the sports world going to stand up and say “we would prefer the openly evil 28% approval rating president not attend our game in-person because it is a massive inconvenience for our in-person fans, a strain on local law enforcement, and harms the television product”

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cal you can’t let Clemson hang around like that.

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Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doing a Shoey at the job interview to assert dominance

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very often I vote for a mineral's usefulness to humanity/modern society. In this lens, Halite is probably my horse for the rest of the cup.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you ever given people on the dance floor and unfair nickname? Anyway a girl with thick yet fairly short black hair and pearl necklaces got nicknamed “Betty Rubble” in my head.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The NY Post comes out unequivocally 'Pro Messy Bitches' in this piece IMHO.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Macklemore: Was I the only one who has heard "Same Love" to know he has good opinions and can express them coherently?

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So the plan for this season is to just not watch the first halves of any games.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oregon apparently needed 9 extra minutes to wake up.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ESPN putting an ad break in the middle of the Oregon/Okie Lite game was malpractice.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rutgers football has been a punchline for years so it’s kinda difficult to explain that they are significantly worse than usual this time around

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

She was rare, like a goth snorkeling.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone on #fruitsky know when one should harvest a White Sapote fruit?

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.

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The idea that Heinlein's Starship Troopers were fascists is a lazy Leftist smear
Just because you don't like an idea doesn't mean it's Nazi

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gypsum is essentially what you get in hyperarid regions when water containing calcium and sulfur dry out, or when the same sort of water moves through cracks in rock. In Mexico, this has resulted in the growth of immense gypsum crystals in Naica Cave: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of...

Photo from Naica Cave, taken from the linked Wikipedia page, showing spires of white gypsum jutting at different angles from the floor of the cave to the roof. Each crystal is 10 to 12 meters tall (note silhouette of a caver at the bottom left of the image).

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Eric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have a job lead at a milk company, I am hoping for an annual increase of 2%.

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Jack Edwards @jackedwards1975.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

George Soros seeking to divide Bible Belt through SEC football. #SEC #LSU #Kiffin 🤔 🏈 💵

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I will never forget the time my friends booked a hotel on the outskirts of Munich during Oktoberfest. I took the train as far as I could towards it and then just had to walk for over an hour back to the hotel. And that I took a shit in a dentist's shrubs on the way to the hotel.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 12/08/2025

Bluesky deserves to enjoy this amazing They Might Be Giants experiment, which I can't really summarize in a skeet tmbw.net/wiki/Last_Wave

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey VP Nohel, when you use AI to make your slides, maybe read through it once to check for repeated phrases

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mrsomerton 2.0 @heythereadamhere.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

fixed your graphic. you can thank me later.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My cross-country travels on car and bike have helped a lot (If I bicycled through your state that counts at least as a visited) whereidlive.com/s/kbj40cmf

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United States: where I've been

Fill in your own version and see where the two of you disagree.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Any tent that includes Horse Girls is too big of a tent for me.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Is is weird that I feel sorry for Oregon State that they are essentially the first casualties of P5->P4 realignment?

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Call in now if you’ve also had your ex-wife kill your horse due to a marital dispute.

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am 43 years old, owned 6 different cars, and only bought used. I thought my justification was price alone. Now I know it’s also vibes.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/08/2026

Neighbors Always Knew Teen Gunman Was Evil And Did Nothing Because They Are Evil Too

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

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Ryan Carroll @fizzicks4lyfe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I see the Ken Jennings discourse has reached "Dickwolves" levels of people being unable to shut up about a joke.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 03/08/2026

I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing

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Managers who once staffed projects with 10 junior coders now achieve the same productivity with a pair of senior developers and an Al assistant.
You don't necessarily have 10 junior coders on a project because they're super productive, but because otherwise in a few years you won't have any new senior developers, and there will be a massive bidding war for the ones that are left.
But because no one wants to train or take care of employees any more, piegress in tive years is sacriticed in favor of job cuts and "efficiency
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They're eating the seed corn, not because of famine but gluttony

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