Dr. S.A. Applin

Please Harry--stay out of potentially exploding Teslas. You're too valuable!

YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux Dolly Mixture - He's So Frisky (Peel Session)

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Also, what is a "productivity boost" for some (owners who profit from automation), is not for others (creators who rely upon creating for income).

💡Up next in the fall SRI Seminar Series: @rcalo.bsky.social (@uwlaw.bsky.social) — “Law and technology: A methodical approach”

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Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

Amazon Ring devices will start including #FacialRecognition. Learn why this is such a dangerous move here, with commentary from STOP's @foxcahn.bsky.social. @shiraovide.bsky.social's www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I implied as much back in September: www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...

LLMs are the users now Tech companies have shifted focus from designing for people to prioritizing algorithms.

I implied as much back in September: www.fastcompany.com/91397818/lar...

The Future of Drone Use Given the popularity of drones and the fact that they are easy and cheap to buy, it is generally expected that the ubiquity of drones will significantly increase within the next few years. This raises questions as to what is technologically feasible (now and in the future), what is acceptable from an ethical point of view and what is allowed from a legal point of view. Drone technology is to some extent already available and to some extent still in development. The aim and scope of this book is to map the opportunities and threats associated with the use of drones and to discuss the ethical and legal issues of the use of drones. This book provides an overview of current drone technologies and applications and of what to expect in the next few years. The question of how to regulate the use of drones in the future is addressed, by considering conditions and contents of future drone legislation and by analyzing issues surrounding privacy and safeguards that can be taken. As such, this book is valuable to scholars in several disciplines, such as law, ethics, sociology, politics and public administration, as well as to practitioners and others who may be confronted with the use of drones in their work, such as professionals working in the military, law enforcement, disaster management and infrastructure management. Individuals and businesses with a specific interest in drone use may also find in the nineteen contributions contained in this volume unexpected perspectives on this new field of research and innovation. Bart Custers is Associate Professor and Head ofResearch at eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has presented his work at international conferences in the United States, China, Japan, the Middle East and throughout Europe and has published over 80 scientific, professional and popularizing publications, including three books.

See also Custers et al. 2016 - I have a chapter in there about drone sociability: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

A sitting fulmar turns its head to the side, making the unusual shape of its nostrils clear.

Did you know? Some bird noses leak salt

Seabirds like Fulmars and storm petrels, drink seawater and use glands at the top of their beak to excrete excess salt, their tube-shaped nostrils then help funnel it away from their eyes.

#ScienceFactFriday

Told you so (and why) in 2013 posr.org/wiki/Amazon_... and 2016 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #drones

Open Printer Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

Well this is very cool. I'd totally get an open source, wall mounted, raspberry pi powered inkjet. Especially as it can print by just cutting sheets off a roll of paper.

www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

RIP Jane Goodall, who performed an immeasurable service for humanity by helping us get to know and care for our closest relatives in the web of life.

Also screaming and yelling.

Drystone facade with large megalithic stones forming entrance to passage entering large cairn

Passage of cairn with large stone side slabs all covered incised decoration and with stone slab floor and capstones

Large standing forming side slab of passage. Covered in incised decoration comprising rainbow 🌈 shaped forms, large ones in middle and smaller to side.

View into large square chamber at end of passage. Two large decorated backslabs and massive single paving stone.

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place.

@megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

‘No driver, no hands, no clue’: Driverless car pulled over on Bay Area road Police say they warned the company about the "glitch."

My 2nd law of robotics: When robots and people coexist in the same spaces, the robots must not take away from people’s agency, particularly when the robots are failing, as inevitably they will at times. -- Here it is cops stymied by Waymos. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Daniel @ZONEofTECH Update: - I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌 - was sent to the hospital, as an emergency - ring got removed You can see the battery all swollen. Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again. @SamsungUK @SamsungMobile @SamsungMobileUS photo of the wring so you can see the swelling battery that says samsung, side view of the ring to show the swelling, another flat view of the ring - ring intact

denied boarding, thank god. and they removed the ring w/o cutting it

Daniel @ZONEofTECH Ahhh…this is…not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬 Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts. Any quick suggestions @SamsungUK @SamsungMobileUS ? photo of side of ring showing swollen battery and photo of swollen red finger with the ring on

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on.....

i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

Nope. Not a thing here. At least in the past few hundred years...

"Quince paste"? Are you using your Time Machine again?

In general, even here in Nor Cal, if I am going where there is a construction site nearby and it's windy, I'll mask up, depending on how windy, and or close it is, obviously, but it's kind of yet another scary thing to add to the Bingo card for 2025.

A year ago, he couldn't do it. Now he can.

Larry doesn't realize that Larry is one of the "citizens."

Police stumped when Waymo makes illegal U-turn in San Bruno Articles and videos about Police stumped when Waymo makes illegal U-turn in San Bruno on KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco.

San Bruno police said they were stumped when an autonomous Waymo car made an illegal U-turn during a DUI enforcement operation.”
www.ktvu.com/news/police-...