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.
You know what "Spatial Intelligence" is going to need? POWER. As in NUCLEAR POWER. I wrote all about this last Spring here in @fastcompany.com
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You know what "Spatial Intelligence" is going to need? POWER. As in NUCLEAR POWER. I wrote all about this last Spring here in @fastcompany.com
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
One thing that might help more than crowd optics, is returning planes to that "Golden Age," where there was legroom and enough flight attendants and service to make it a peaceful experience. If you want people to behave better, maybe don't cram them into tiny spaces with no way to leave....
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
One thing that might help more than crowd optics, is returning planes to that "Golden Age," where there was legroom and enough flight attendants and service to make it a peaceful experience. If you want people to behave better, maybe don't cram them into tiny spaces with no way to leave....
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
We said these were coming from other EssilorLuxottica brands and we were right. Is Oakley considering the implications of these? Because @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net sure did -- all 27 pages of free (Open Access) #ethics implications of #AR glasses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We said these were coming from other EssilorLuxottica brands and we were right. Is Oakley considering the implications of these? Because @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net sure did -- all 27 pages of free (Open Access) #ethics implications of #AR glasses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I've been looking at Polly Pocket™ too long cause this looks like that at a glance.
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
www.crowdsupply.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I've been looking at Polly Pocket™ too long cause this looks like that at a glance.
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This is just to say
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is just to say
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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With the CDC sharing vaccine misinformation on their website, it's important to follow credible health resources.
@who.int, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @aafp.org, & @acog.org all share trusted information backed by medical literature, esp re: vaccines.
Alt-CDC is NOT a resource.
@who.int, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @aafp.org, & @acog.org all share trusted information backed by medical literature, esp re: vaccines.
Alt-CDC is NOT a resource.
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
With the CDC sharing vaccine misinformation on their website, it's important to follow credible health resources.
@who.int, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @aafp.org, & @acog.org all share trusted information backed by medical literature, esp re: vaccines.
Alt-CDC is NOT a resource.
@who.int, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @aafp.org, & @acog.org all share trusted information backed by medical literature, esp re: vaccines.
Alt-CDC is NOT a resource.
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72 inches of computing POWER!!!
@jeriellsworth.bsky.social 's incredibly long computer. So lengthy I had to switch to wide angle mode.
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
72 inches of computing POWER!!!
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I see a leading voice in the climate tech world attacking teachers for not properly embracing AI in the classroom.
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I see a leading voice in the climate tech world attacking teachers for not properly embracing AI in the classroom.
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
You know who has been trying to tell teachers he knew how to do their jobs better than them? For years? Bill Gates.
You know who has no teaching experience? Bill Gates
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“This study is trying to understand how we can leverage AI and machine-learning principles to improve recognition for toddlers and preschoolers.”
Canadian researchers look into how AI can better understand toddler talk like 'doodidees' | CBC News
Two researchers at Western University in London, Ont., are studying how to improve the way artificial intelligence understands toddlers' speaking patterns. They're recruiting preschool-age children to...
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
Happening to my InBox as well..
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Happening to my InBox as well..
for you dark chocolate lovers, this is an awesome ad:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H...
Cadbury's Bournville advert | Talking Retail
YouTube video by Talking Retail
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
for you dark chocolate lovers, this is an awesome ad:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H...
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The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
"Don't be evil."
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Don't be evil."
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J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
Image via Wikimedia Commons
I’ve just started reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to my daughter.
www.openculture.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
It's like a lot of top'o'the-institution-tree older dudes are really vulnerable to con artists who try to fulfill their secret perversions in exchange for leveraging their top'o'the-treeness to lure in their sicko peers. Just like they similiarly used the youth/beauty of vulnerable girls to recruit.
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In t...
www.wbur.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's like a lot of top'o'the-institution-tree older dudes are really vulnerable to con artists who try to fulfill their secret perversions in exchange for leveraging their top'o'the-treeness to lure in their sicko peers. Just like they similiarly used the youth/beauty of vulnerable girls to recruit.
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Funny. when the Catholic church scandal broke they were saying little boys and altar boys not underage men. But now that it is politicians they are saying underage women, not little girls. Language matters.
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Funny. when the Catholic church scandal broke they were saying little boys and altar boys not underage men. But now that it is politicians they are saying underage women, not little girls. Language matters.
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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grrrrrrreat
As more rockets and satellites in low Earth orbit burn up in the atmosphere at the end of their lives, the amount of introduced vapors and particulate matter there is dramatically rising. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Space pollution levels in the atmosphere are rocketing
More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate
cen.acs.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
grrrrrrreat
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.