Dr. S.A. Applin

google search for Williams et al. paper google AI overview: "the 2020 study by Williams, Carter, and Treen "Maslow's hierarchy of AI:" ... explores...

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.

When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

Wooo, lookit at all that dogwhilstling...I'd say at this point, there is no way 'white" is a "calming influence" for very many people.

"The company described it as "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection..."

What? And lose all that free Nun labor??

You read that white: Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is 'Cloud Dancer' This is the first time Pantone has chosen a shade of white. The company says it's "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection."

Pantone unironically choosing a 'white' as its 2026 "Color of the Year" is just too....clueless.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

STORE: Please fill out this million question survey about how we processed your order!
STORE: Please fill out this million question survey about our million question survey about how we processed your order!

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

It took them until now to realize this???

hey @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Detroit's own crime-fighter RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City RoboCop has found a permanent home in Detroit — all 11 feet and 3,500 pounds of him. A statue of the crime-fighting movie character has been welcomed by fans since it began standing guard over Detroit Wednesday afternoon in the Motor City's Eastern Market area.

RoboCop has found a permanent home in Detroit — all 11 feet and 3,500 pounds of him. A statue of the crime-fighting movie character has been welcomed by fans since it began standing guard over Detroit Wednesday afternoon in the Motor City's Eastern Market area.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Hope it is nothing serious!

Might be on the lid, not the eyeball. Might be a clogged duct (warm compresses). Might be a stye (also warm compresses). Generally, odor means bacteria, so I'd go get seen by an MD.

Surveillance crapitalism.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

Can Influencers be automated with AI? With so many jobs being replaced with AI and automation technologies, will influencers be next?

I also have a new article out on if #AI could replace influencers:
www.fastcompany.com/91447428/inf...

How about a book chapter? "External Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of LLMs/Generative AI; Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" in bookstore.emerald.com/symbolic-int...

Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first — and only — time Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These palms were introduced by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in the 1960s.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives.

Gracefully carving through the solar corona, a mini eruption of filament plasma erupted from the Sun earlier today! Beautiful.

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Can Influencers be automated with AI? With so many jobs being replaced with AI and automation technologies, will influencers be next?

New article from me today in @fastcompany.com "Can #Influencers be #automated with #AI?" - it's not my usual scathing bite, but does ponder if these folks can just simulate themselves... to retain their livelihoods. #marketing #branding

www.fastcompany.com/91447428/inf...

Hoo boy that is some kind of denial he's stuck in...

Promoting AVs is about promoting loss of agency and promoting the restriction and controlling of movement of individuals, whilst charging those same people for their forfeiture of their freedom of movement.

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Oh, I just meant that she already has a lot of money and that tends to bring out certain things in people....

Money?

Over-automation is breaking the web Over-automation is breaking the web, and AI won’t fix it.

This holiday season, the AI/LLM sh*t has hit the proverbial fan. Processes are broken. Channels that used to be accessible if there were problems, have been truncated. The supply chain is one way. Salespeople are overwhelmed, too. I said this 2 years ago:
www.fastcompany.com/90976171/ove...

Thanks for both compliment and link!

"Basic tracking to understand how people use the product" is #surveillance. Hire Qualitative researchers to talk with people directly.