Ryan Fitzgerald

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.

I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.

I was not prepared for the gas station.

There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.

I counted them because I did not believe them.

A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.

He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.

Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.

A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.

A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.

And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.

The beaver is a saint.

The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.

And the bathrooms.

I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.

I was wrong to dismiss it.

The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.

I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.

A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.

I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.

I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.

I did not need any of it.

I needed all of it.

I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.

I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.

But I did fill the truck.

And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"And they will play a game, divided into two halves."

"And how much time is in each half?"

"Nobody knows."

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

FIFA RIGGED

USA gets a red card for this

[American Footballin' @AmFootballin]

Are you sure about that?

[Tim Brando @TimBrando]

“OMG SORSBY”🤦‍♂️ I’ve seen & heard enough. #OnBrando

[🦆 B1G Duck Energy 🦆 @B1GDuckEnergyy]

Scotland : Partying with Bostonians

South Korea: Getting drunk with Mexicans

Freddy: Red carpet tour through the South

England:

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Per reports, members of Congress working on college sports legislation are confused by the recent consternation around athletes gambling. Placing bets on outcomes they influence is a primary source of income for many of them.

[Herd w/Colin Cowherd @TheHerd]

"When Georgia goes high moral ground, watch out. That's a football program that should have its own Autobahn. Give me a break... This is a kid that did something idiotic, which is what kids do."

@colincowherd weighs in on Brendan Sorsby being ruled eligible in 2026

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

There really aren’t any rules. You just go to court. If it fails, go to court again until a judge says you’re all set.

Want a 7th year?

Sure

Broke rules?

Ahhhh, it’s fine.

There AREN’T any rules.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

There’s nothing in America like college sports.

[Ryan Fitzgerald @RealRyanFitz]

Unfamiliar with the OG… https://t.co/xFPEedk1Vz

[𝓓𝓻. 𝓡𝓸𝓬𝓴𝔂 𝓞𝓼𝓫𝓸𝓻𝓷 🤘🏽🏈🏉🧡🌴🌈 @rockyknowsbest]

What’s going to wear out the Tech pitchers faster: constantly switching them in and out or berating them when they need support?

[Nico @nicos_ai]

🚨La IA está costando MÁS que los empleados a los que reemplazó.

Y las grandes empresas ya lo admiten en público:

→ Uber desplegó IA entre sus 5.000 ingenieros. En 4 meses agotaron TODO el presupuesto anual. Su COO reconoce que no puede justificar el gasto.

→ Microsoft ha retirado licencias de IA a sus propios desarrolladores para frenar costes.

→ Starbucks eliminó su sistema de inventario con IA tras 9 meses. Funcionaba peor que un empleado.

→ El vicepresidente de NVIDIA dijo recientemente que “La IA está costando más que los trabajadores humanos”

Nos vendieron que la IA iba a ahorrar millones.

La realidad → los costes se disparan, los resultados no llegan y las empresas están dando marcha atrás.

Estamos ante el principio del fin de la burbuja de la IA?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

The AI crash is coming sooner than a lot of people think

[Ken from KY-04 @MassieNation19]

This should make you sick as an American .

[Ryan Broderick @broderick]

So I'm 36 years old and, you know, out of touch with what's going on at colleges, so maybe this is a dumb question, but did every school in the country lose their fucking minds lol. Why have all these universities baked AI into their graduation ceremonies? What fuck is going on?

[ESPN @espn]

A COMEBACK FOR THE AGES IN LUBBOCK!

After being down 8-0 and down to its final out, Texas Tech rallies to force extras and then rallies again to win it! 🔥

[Masters Burner @ANGC_burner]

this fucking wrecked me

[No Laying Up @NoLayingUp]

Back-to-back green jackets and LIV potentially ending

[trey wingo @wingoz]

I’m not saying LIV golf is having a bad Thursday at @TheMasters but 66 year old Fred Couples.. trying to make his 32nd cut at Augusta.. is beating every single player they have in the tournament

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Philip Seymour Hoffman giving one of the greatest acting masterclasses of all time