Ai Transformation
The Dose
Your developer is deciding how much to tell you about AI risk. That's not dishonest. It's rational. But the questions you're not asking are the ones that matter most.
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Where AI meets
anthropology
Thoughts on AI automation, business culture, and the patterns most people miss. No hype, no fear. Just honest observations from someone building at the intersection.
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Ai Transformation
The Trojan Combine
The 2026 Farm Bill pays farmers 90 cents on the dollar to adopt AI they didn't ask for, to replace workers they didn't choose to lose. The conservation budget got cut to fund it.
Ai Transformation
No Brakes
Advertisers guessing at algorithms. Developers shipping code they can't read. AI researchers watching models they can't explain. The black box keeps getting bigger.
Groundwork
The Island
AI without the Internet doesn't get stale. It gets stranded. It learned everything from us, and we haven't stopped talking.
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Field Notes from the Human Side
Observations on culture, behavior, and the patterns that shape how we actually work.
Field Notes
The Necropolitics of Radiometric Dating
Radiometric dating keeps revising. The oral traditions it displaced never had to.
#anthropology#radiometric-dating#necropolitics#indigenous-knowledge
Field Notes
Finding Tamanawas
Step into a world where ancient wisdom meets modern life, as we unravel the mystery of tamanawas and its profound impact on a community.
#anthropology#oregon#grand-ronde#native-american
Why Anthropology?
The world is changing fast.
Culture is the steering wheel.
AI reshapes what we do. Anthropology reveals why we do it. Understanding the human patterns beneath the technology is how we build systems that actually serve people.
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