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Spencer Bagley

@sbagley.bsky.social

Math professor, inveterate shitposter, pride is all year round β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ’œ

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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

05.12.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1305    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 28

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

04.12.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2701    πŸ” 848    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 17

#MathSky provably correct

05.12.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says β€œi’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.

04.12.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1572    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

Oh, I already just .gitignore the .synctex.gz files

04.12.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, does anybody know if there's a way to make VSCode automagically delete all the .synctex.gz files whenever I close the program?

04.12.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lookit her sweater

04.12.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes a flower blooms amidst the stony wasteland or whatever

04.12.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A student submitted a writeup of the McFrobenius problem (Chicken McNuggets are sold in such and such pack sizes; what numbers of nuggets are possible to buy?) in which he did
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where arch.png was a picture of The Golden Arches

04.12.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ almighty do I need to post a dog picture instead of griping about students today

04.12.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay Mr. Send In The Troops, thank u for ur well-considered and certainly unbiased opinion

04.12.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed

04.12.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

May both sides of her pillow be warm

04.12.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A *very* happy last day of new content to all who celebrate

04.12.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The album cover of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

The album cover of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

Do you know what, I think it's time

04.12.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FUNICULAR ALERT

03.12.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

(In what scientists are calling "a huge surprise πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„", the actual answer to reducing traffic congestion is imposing tolls and running more buses)

03.12.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it πŸ‘ is πŸ‘ not πŸ‘ a πŸ‘ gondola πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

03.12.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

if you "well actually" me on this istg I will throw you into the sun

03.12.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told β€œisn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

03.12.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 917    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

excellent use of ligature

03.12.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We sure love to create a torment nexus

03.12.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway, guess who gets to see Anze Kopitar play hockey on Monday πŸ¦£πŸ‘‘πŸ’πŸ§Šβ€ΌοΈ

03.12.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine believing that these are the only two options; it's enough to make me throw away the law of the excluded middle bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

03.12.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Balancing "no child should go hungry" with "it's important to discourage children from pretending to be hungry to take advantage of free food" is really difficult and I don't have a gr

03.12.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there one of those fancy Greek words for when someone sets up a dilemma but you think that one of the horns is patently wrong (and maybe even a little evil)

03.12.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is this essay / blog I remember reading, where it was like, these phenomenal players we are suddenly getting are downstream of junior league rule changes to eliminate head hits, bc that protected them as they learned the precise body control you need to pull off shit like this.

03.12.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
lentil tempeh koji starter

lentil tempeh koji starter

Sung to the tune of β€œTiny Dancer”

30.11.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

03.12.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1241    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 11

You should research Gabe Landeskog. When I was picking a sweater, did I pick a Landeskog sweater *just* because he's hot? I mean no but it was absolutely a part of the thought process

03.12.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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