Andy Famiglietti

two trees by a pond

Baucis and Philemon #Photography #SuburbanLandscape #Pentax (Ilford SFX)

After a few months going to forgotten places looking for photos, I am struck by one thing. I am never the first person there. First was a homeless person looking for shelter, then a high school kid looking to get drunk. I come along with my nice boots and hand knit hat much later entirely uninvited.

Bluesky sports juice is weird yo. Like, some very niche sporty things have big time traction here

That's $40 million dollars down the drain. Almost half the cost of salaries and benefits for all faculty at my public university for a year. In this one little piece of the war.

One of the stupidest things he's posted *so far*

I take medicine to stop my irrational negative thoughts but I think some people in positions of power should be taking medicine to allow themselves to have rational negative thoughts

"Let me detail a few more ways we could hurt the people we were begging to rise up against their regime two weeks ago"

It's sort of amazing that
1) we aren't being sanctioned by other countries right now, given the mess we've made and
2) we have nonetheless decided to sanction ourselves

Whoa, whoa, whoa, are you suggesting The Ancients were not Virtuous Concentration Mogs?

I don't know of anyone else thinks that we're having a gas crisis, but I ate too many dried mango slices so I definitely am

I get the human race is not doing a bang up job in the whole "respect for the other" category, but I can't imagine existing in a social world with literal NPCs as participants is going to move us in a good direction there

Ok, but when will the Wait Wait Conclave meet to decide on the new scorekeeper? When will the white puff of smoke tell us who's voice we can now win on our answering machine?

We told you not to go to Target, Chewbacca

Episode 3: What is Contingent in This Class? AI and Higher Education (Part 2) OK THIS DID NOT GO UP AFTER A WEEK. I am still learning how to be a consistent podcaster, I beg forgiveness. This is the second part of our conversation about AI We talk about the following pieces in this episode: Marc Watkins, “Can We Justify College?” Carlo Rotella, “I’m a Professor. AI Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.” Patrick Lin, “Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits” We also mention one old blog post of mine: “Either the Precarity That Fuels the Banking Model of Education Goes, or We All Do”

Were you waiting anxiously for the second half of me and @thehangedman.com's conversation about higher education and AI?

WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN! IT'S GREAT!

And here it is (or search "Stuff is Contingent" on you favorite cast platform): stuffiscontingent.org/@afamigliett...

Chance continues to rise that within five years we all need some kind of biometric crypto certificate to prove we are human online... And that the cops get the right to spoof them with a court order

Here's your viral hit vibe coded app idea: Merlin but for Frogs

That's some relatable content right there

Terminate and Stay Resident Evil

Episode 3: What is Contingent in This Class? AI and Higher Education (Part 2) OK THIS DID NOT GO UP AFTER A WEEK. I am still learning how to be a consistent podcaster, I beg forgiveness. This is the second part of our conversation about AI We talk about the following pieces in this episode: Marc Watkins, “Can We Justify College?” Carlo Rotella, “I’m a Professor. AI Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.” Patrick Lin, “Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits” We also mention one old blog post of mine: “Either the Precarity That Fuels the Banking Model of Education Goes, or We All Do”

Were you waiting anxiously for the second half of me and @thehangedman.com's conversation about higher education and AI?

WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN! IT'S GREAT!

And here it is (or search "Stuff is Contingent" on you favorite cast platform): stuffiscontingent.org/@afamigliett...

Pokemon Go to the factories, hospitals, and schools which all look like prisons

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie . ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie .

It would be Re-curd-sive

One of our bees on a neighbor's crocus. Spring has sprung.

I dunno, I am starting to think we shouldn't have built a whole social network that people on the liberal-to-left spectrum can use to catastrophize (he said as someone on the liberal-to-left spectrum prone to catastrophizing)

Echinacea starburst #Photography #Nikon

Unfortunately, after the woman in the orange sweater cornered the market on selling artisanal socks to the remaining Billionaires for $6 million per pair, no human jobs remained

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/learn-2 #smbc

It's the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

"so we actually polled this and.."

"Oh no"

(Rubs temple) "Yeah crushing women into cubes polls at 41% approval"

"Jesus"

(Takes off glasses, shakes head) "19% approval with women"

Karl Marx on the American Civil War: