Dr. S.A. Applin
@anthropunk.bsky.social
Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company.
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Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
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Timeline, cleanse, whales, singing
Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Timeline, cleanse, whales, singing
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TOMORROW - Is Online Scraping Legal? – Tues, Nov 11, at 2 PM ET REGISTER (FREE) teachprivacy.com/video-is-onl... @hartzog.bsky.social and I discuss our recently-published article about scraping.
Video: Is Online Scraping Legal?
Is Online Scraping Legal? Tues, Nov 11, at 2 PM ET Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog will discuss their article, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between
teachprivacy.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
TOMORROW - Is Online Scraping Legal? – Tues, Nov 11, at 2 PM ET REGISTER (FREE) teachprivacy.com/video-is-onl... @hartzog.bsky.social and I discuss our recently-published article about scraping.
A few things: 1) wrote about this extension to carts some time ago for stores, but interesting that 3rd party Instacart is doing it: www.fastcompany.com/91184813/dig... and 2) It is a matter of time before these folks partner with health insurance companies...
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A few things: 1) wrote about this extension to carts some time ago for stores, but interesting that 3rd party Instacart is doing it: www.fastcompany.com/91184813/dig... and 2) It is a matter of time before these folks partner with health insurance companies...
This is about the 6th earthquake in San Ramon TODAY.
M 1.8 - 4 km ESE of San Ramon, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75261376
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75261376
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75261376
earthquake.usgs.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is about the 6th earthquake in San Ramon TODAY.
XL Stop sign is XL
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
XL Stop sign is XL
Trippy carwash is trippy.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Trippy carwash is trippy.
Can never get through. Mailbox always full
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Can never get through. Mailbox always full
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Unless you go out of your way to stop them, they know. The only question is whether they tell you.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Unless you go out of your way to stop them, they know. The only question is whether they tell you.
Learn it now before you need it...
How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials
How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials
More than a millennium and a half after its fall, we still look back with wonder on the accomplishments of the ancient Roman Empire. Few elements of its legacy impress us as much as its built environm...
www.openculture.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Learn it now before you need it...
Here's even more about it.. The cryptobro™ in COLORADO wants to build a statue ON ALCATRAZ of PROMETHEUS because he has TOO MUCH MONEY and has no tangible legacy. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/05/4...
Crypto entrepreneur proposes colossal, $450m statue of Prometheus for San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island
Ross Calvin envisions the logistically complex colossus, which would be around 50% taller than the State of Liberty, as a symbol of American ingenuity
www.theartnewspaper.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Here's even more about it.. The cryptobro™ in COLORADO wants to build a statue ON ALCATRAZ of PROMETHEUS because he has TOO MUCH MONEY and has no tangible legacy. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/05/4...
I don't want Apple maps to know where my home is.
You know, given that you know it's my home, I'd want Apple Maps to default to my Home when I type in "home" in search and not, say "Goodwill and Home Goods" or whatever, EVERY SINGLE TIME
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don't want Apple maps to know where my home is.
Oh FFS. Tech bros are suddenly aware of their mortality. More critically, they've finally realized that software is a highly temporal legacy. (Spolier alert: so are statues.)
A 450-foot Prometheus. A 500-foot George Washington. Tech investors are racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
bloom.bg
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Oh FFS. Tech bros are suddenly aware of their mortality. More critically, they've finally realized that software is a highly temporal legacy. (Spolier alert: so are statues.)
I wrote this almost 2 years ago:
www.fastcompany.com/91012525/how...
www.fastcompany.com/91012525/how...
How low-level automation can help air traffic controllers
The need for more effective air traffic is made all the more urgent given Silicon Valley’s push for a flying car-filled future.
www.fastcompany.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I wrote this almost 2 years ago:
www.fastcompany.com/91012525/how...
www.fastcompany.com/91012525/how...
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
go.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
Mamdani is going to implement Sultanta law. Everyone will have to eat Raisinettes.
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sultanta law. Everyone will have to eat Raisinettes.
Mamdani is going to implement Sinatra law. Everyone will have to Ring a Ding Ding in Vegas, baby.
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sinatra law. Everyone will have to Ring a Ding Ding in Vegas, baby.
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Also, if you want to read up on current problems and solutions in US election security, I strongly recommend the "Securing the Vote" National Academies report (note free download link). I use it as the main text in my tech and election integrity course.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2512...
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2512...
Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print or as an eBook.
nap.nationalacademies.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Also, if you want to read up on current problems and solutions in US election security, I strongly recommend the "Securing the Vote" National Academies report (note free download link). I use it as the main text in my tech and election integrity course.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2512...
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2512...
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The impacted sweet treats could cause serious or life-threatening reactions in consumers with wheat allergies. Here's what to know. f-st.co/o6q4qXU
Häagen-Dazs ice cream recalled nationwide: Be careful if you bought these chocolate mini bars from Kroger
The impacted sweet treats could cause serious or life-threatening reactions in consumers with wheat allergies. Here's what to know.
f-st.co
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The impacted sweet treats could cause serious or life-threatening reactions in consumers with wheat allergies. Here's what to know. f-st.co/o6q4qXU
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To be clear, when I suggest that people sign up to be election pollworkers, I'm not trying to be flippant. I'm dead serious. It's a vital civic service where you help your neighbors vote. And you learn an absolute *ton* about how elections actually work, as well as meet the officials who run them.
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
To be clear, when I suggest that people sign up to be election pollworkers, I'm not trying to be flippant. I'm dead serious. It's a vital civic service where you help your neighbors vote. And you learn an absolute *ton* about how elections actually work, as well as meet the officials who run them.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That's especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin mak...
www.openculture.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas