Anecdotes By Adam

What is actually so bad about Big Tech (e.g. Google, Apple), and/or your cellular company tracking your whereabouts 24/7? This is an often overlooked question regarding digital privacy and the mechanics of surveillance capitalism. The reality is that tech giants, individual app developers, and cellular carriers collect location data continuously through a convergence of methods. They tap directly into the GPS signals emitted by your device and supplement this with cell tower triangulation to lo...

When I call my cat Luna, a siamese that will 50-50 bite you or let you pet her, I sing her name and reach a tone on the "oooh" part of her name. It is a specific tone, and when she hears it she comes running because it means either a piece of cheese or some other treat. It dawned upon me use current technology to learn the hertz of this tone. I downloaded an app and it said anywhere from 258 Hz to 260 Hz, with the most common being 260. The app said this is middle C. Here is the tone "Looooooo...