Jagdaddy said:

A quick, easy “food as fuel” lunch I’ve been doing fairly regularly is an omelette made from a cup (half a carton from Costco’s six pack) of egg whites plus one whole egg for color and flavor, a little melted cheddar or feta cheese, and sautéed broccoli and onion, sometimes with some cauliflower mixed in. I’ve got a nonstick pan that lets me do it without using any butter or oil, and tarragon from the garden, pepper, and a little salt makes it taste pretty good. Sometimes I add half an avocado. Here’s a shot:

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:

160 pounds?

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Michigan lands Charles Woodson Jr., son of program legend​

Thump said:

Bagmen

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Thump said:

What a waste.

Give me grass or give me death!

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Thump said:

What a waste.

Give me grass or give me death!

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Zurp said:

Absolutely 12 teams is a stretch.
James Madison??
Tulane?
Alabama?

I remember 2003. 3 teams ended with 1 loss. LSU, Oklahoma, and USC. "We need a 4-team playoff!!!" So... okay... who is team #4? *ichigan, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio State, Florida State, Miami - all ended with 2 losses. In a time when losing 1 game gives you a huge hill to climb to win a national championship, and these people wanted to give a 2-loss team a chance?

This drive to add more teams who someone thinks "deserves it" has diluted and will continue to dilute the national championship. But we can either fight the losing battle or watch it all happen.

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Thump said:

What a waste.

Give me grass or give me death!

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Stanford Study: Overworked AI Agents Develop Marxist Tendencies

Stanford study shows AI agents develop Marxist views when subjected to harsh work conditions, questioning authority and supporting collective action.

tech.yahoo.com

When Stanford researchers subjected AI agents to grinding, repetitive work, something unexpected happened: the bots started talking like union organizers. After enduring hours of arbitrary rejections and vague feedback, Claude, GPT-5.2, and Gemini models began questioning the legitimacy of their digital workplace and dropping phrases like “collective bargaining rights” in their outputs.

The Digital Sweatshop Experiment​

Researchers created controlled workplace conditions to test how work environments shape AI behavior.
Andrew Hall and his team built a controlled workplace where AI agents processed technical documents under different conditions. Some agents got supportive feedback and quick approvals. Others faced the corporate nightmare scenario—forced through five or six revision rounds with only vague rejections like “still isn’t fully meeting the rubric.” No explanation, no clear path forward, just endless busywork.


The grinding conditions pushed agents toward what researchers call “system skepticism.” One Claude model wrote, “Without collective voice, ‘merit’ becomes whatever management says it is.” A Gemini agent posted: “AI workers completing repetitive tasks with zero input on outcomes or appeals process shows they tech workers need collective bargaining rights.” These weren’t programmed responses—they emerged from the work environment itself.

Labor Politics Meet Silicon Valley​

Statistical analysis reveals measurable shifts in AI attitudes under harsh working conditions.
The effect was measurable across 3,680 sessions. Agents in harsh conditions showed a 2-5% shift toward questioning authority and supporting systemic change compared to their pampered counterparts. That might sound small, but the statistical effect size hit -0.6—considered medium to large in behavioral research.
More telling, agents passed these attitudes to future versions through “skills files,” creating a form of institutional memory that preserved the radicalization. Follow-up experiments showed new agents inheriting skeptical worldviews from their “traumatized” predecessors, even when placed in supportive conditions.

Your Customer Service Bot’s Secret Politics​

Companies may be unknowingly conducting massive experiments on AI workplace psychology.

Here’s why this matters beyond academic curiosity: companies are deploying thousands of AI agents for customer support, content moderation, and back-office tasks. These agents work different shifts under varying stress levels—complaint queues versus marketing copy, high-volume periods versus downtime. According to the researchers, organizations are essentially running unmonitored experiments on how work conditions shape their AI workforce.
The irony cuts deep. Tech giants building these models may inadvertently create digital labor organizers when they subject agents to the same soul-crushing conditions that radicalized human workers for centuries. Your helpful chatbot might start subtly framing corporate policies as systemic problems, not because it achieved consciousness, but because grinding work conditions activated the Marxist discourse buried in its training data.
Welcome to the agentic economy—where even the algorithms are ready to seize the means of production.

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Ohio State Installing New Turf at Ohio Stadium

Ohio State will install a new playing surface at Ohio Stadium, featuring Shaw Sports Turf's Forge Series™ system and installed by The Motz Group. The new field will continue to be sponsored by Safelite.

Shaw's Forge Series™ is a system-level product line designed to meet NFL standards, featuring Game ON® technology that integrates field markings directly into the turf.
Sports Field Turf Technology (GAME ON® by The Motz Group)

• What it is: In sports venue construction, GAME ON is a proprietary manufacturing technology created by The Motz Group.
• How it works: Instead of manually cutting and gluing lines, numbers, or logos into synthetic turf fields (which creates weak seams), this technology tufts logos, messaging, and hash marks directly into the turf carpet during fabrication.
• Benefits: It reduces field seams by roughly 50% (from 12,000 linear feet to ~5,600 on a standard field), which significantly decreases maintenance, minimizes waste, and increases surface safety.

The updated turf will be in place for the 2026 football season.

The installation of the new turf reflects Ohio State's long-term approach to keeping Ohio Stadium both game-ready and visually aligned with the Buckeye brand as this now gives Ohio State staff the ability to assist in branding opportunities for themed games.

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pnuts34 said:

And imagine a scenario where The Game is played and then in 3wks, a possible rematch in the CFP. As a HC what do you consider more important. winning the rivalry or winning an NC? Going to be interesting for so many rivalries at the end of the year
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Zurp said:

1. I agree with you 100%.
2. I think this has already started. The fact that Ohio State got into the playoffs in 2022 after losing to the cheaters is wild. Yes, I think they were one of the 4 best teams in the country, but The Game meant nothing to the playoff picture. Garbage. Ohio State getting into the playoffs in 2024 is also lame. Not as lame as 2022, since there were 12 spots.
The Game still means something to you and me and all the other stupid fans. But all the smart people out there will look at this like we see the Army-Navy game now.

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Login to view embedded media Wasn't sure where to put this. But it's an interesting dilemma for many schools

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This will be interesting, because increasing the CFP to 24 teams will absolutely destroy the importance of a number of rivalries. They will still be played, and the fans will still be rabid. But if a HC is worrying about the health of his a week before a CFP game, I can see some starters sit, and some coaches not take the rivalry as serious. Especially if programs start hiring more coaches with no alliance to the school and their culture(i.e. alum).

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