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.
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...
Uh, why are you offering this, UX?
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Uh, why are you offering this, UX?
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We have a book chapter on this in Symbolic #Interaction and #AI: Chapter 4: External #Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI - Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" - pre-order now for 12/1/2025 ship: tinyurl.com/tsmtasab
Also on Amazon.
Also on Amazon.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We have a book chapter on this in Symbolic #Interaction and #AI: Chapter 4: External #Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI - Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" - pre-order now for 12/1/2025 ship: tinyurl.com/tsmtasab
Also on Amazon.
Also on Amazon.
We have a book chapter on this in Symbolic #Interaction and #AI: Chapter 4: External #Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI - Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" - pre-order now for 12/1/2025 ship: tinyurl.com/tsmtasab
Also on Amazon.
Also on Amazon.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We have a book chapter on this in Symbolic #Interaction and #AI: Chapter 4: External #Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI - Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" - pre-order now for 12/1/2025 ship: tinyurl.com/tsmtasab
Also on Amazon.
Also on Amazon.
See my related article from 4/25 warning about this:
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
"AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear: Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions."
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
"AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear: Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions."
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
See my related article from 4/25 warning about this:
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
"AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear: Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions."
www.fastcompany.com/91308664/ai-...
"AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear: Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions."
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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.
Anyone w/ enough experience in AI to teach it, is going to be working in industry making a huge salary rather than earning the pay of an Ohio State tenure-track faculty. The people who usually fill this slot are often those not "allowed" to work in industry due to bias. And OS is biased, so... #fail
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Anyone w/ enough experience in AI to teach it, is going to be working in industry making a huge salary rather than earning the pay of an Ohio State tenure-track faculty. The people who usually fill this slot are often those not "allowed" to work in industry due to bias. And OS is biased, so... #fail
In September, I told folks this was coming:
www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In September, I told folks this was coming:
www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...
New Ad Campaign in NY Subways. Thousands of things wrong with this whole concept. (I don't have a photo credit. Someone else posted it without a credit on another site).
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
New Ad Campaign in NY Subways. Thousands of things wrong with this whole concept. (I don't have a photo credit. Someone else posted it without a credit on another site).
Suuuuurrrrrre you do, Bloomingdale's.
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Suuuuurrrrrre you do, Bloomingdale's.
We said this was going to happen 10 years ago in Applin and Fischer (2015) "New Technologies and Mixed-Use Convergence How Humans and Algorithms are Adapting to Each Other"
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October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We said this was going to happen 10 years ago in Applin and Fischer (2015) "New Technologies and Mixed-Use Convergence How Humans and Algorithms are Adapting to Each Other"
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"The Bold Look of Kohler (at your poop)"
October 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"The Bold Look of Kohler (at your poop)"
According to this research, People who use ChatGPT have less retention about their content, than those who write their pieces without it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
According to this research, People who use ChatGPT have less retention about their content, than those who write their pieces without it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Not AI. You can get one.
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not AI. You can get one.
Valley Fever is also in a lot of California and rising
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID....
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID....
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Valley Fever is also in a lot of California and rising
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID....
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID....
We foresaw this in 2021:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We foresaw this in 2021:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is a 2017 Alessi Christmas ornament. Google seems to think it is a butter dish.
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is a 2017 Alessi Christmas ornament. Google seems to think it is a butter dish.
If you see this repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you see this repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
Matic's #robot vacuum does double duty as an "unintended" butler. For more on this phenomena, see Applin and Fischer 2015 on what it means to have these in your home and your #privacy
draft: posr.org/w/images/b/b...
Final:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/...
draft: posr.org/w/images/b/b...
Final:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/...
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Matic's #robot vacuum does double duty as an "unintended" butler. For more on this phenomena, see Applin and Fischer 2015 on what it means to have these in your home and your #privacy
draft: posr.org/w/images/b/b...
Final:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/...
draft: posr.org/w/images/b/b...
Final:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/...
As I predicted would happen and told everyone in
April 2024 in my @fastcompany.com
article: www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how...
April 2024 in my @fastcompany.com
article: www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how...
September 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As I predicted would happen and told everyone in
April 2024 in my @fastcompany.com
article: www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how...
April 2024 in my @fastcompany.com
article: www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how...