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Matt Salomone

@matthematics.com

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Associate dean, Bartlett College of Science & Math, Bridgewater State University. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Plymouth, MA

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 33m

Maybe the real antifa was the witches we burned along the way

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 45m

“Just the TIP, promise” (the Tax Incentive Program)

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 48m

Me at the frogs futures market: BUY BUY BUY

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 51m

Inviting a mathematician to connect two entirely unrelated concepts is like inviting a small kitten to pspspspspspsps

a close up of a cat with green eyes looking at the camera .

Alt: a close up of a cat with wide green eyes looking at the camera .

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10h

Has anyone seen Babish and Jack Smith in the same room

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10h

The best moments in education arise from reversal of expectations

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“Error: Task failed successfully.”
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 11h

Posting “Ill believe it when I see it” then noticing it’s 9:30

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 13h

Wait, nine has a “thirty”???

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

Stochastic processes dance-off in Ohio called the Cleveland Brownian Motion

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 14h

Numerical Linear Algebra event in Florida called the Tampa Bay Rayleigh quotients

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 15h

Probability Theory event in Nevada called the Las Vegas Sample Spaces

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

🎶 There ain’t no island
To contain his misdeeds 🎶

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 16h

Johnny Cash has been getting recognized more and more, I notice

"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who has done an amazingjob and is being recognized more and more, I notice."

President Donald Trump during Black History Month "listening" session

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 21h

I mean, when you’ve lost Moldbug because you aren’t Duterting hard enough for him to “feel safe”…

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 21h

I think increasingly, even the Very Online right has been getting bored and frustrated with movement MAGA & what we’re seeing is MAGA’s desperate attempts to retain their once-unshakeable base

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 22h

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 23h

Tobias Funke’s “But it could work for us” screenshot

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 1d

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

They're gonna perp walk a 120-year-old Italian woman who had dinner with Antonio Gramsci

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

There’s structure, and then there’s function

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

I’d feel unsafe too if I believed what these people were saying about “””ANTIFAAAAA””””

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

The vice must flow

“Toy Story” kid throwing his Woody action figure (“Last week’s hate object”) aside saying “I don’t want to play with you anymore”

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

*waves hands generally at a rich professional network of scholars that I might not otherwise have met*

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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