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R: On Everything

R: On Everything

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 In an ever-changing world, staying human requires more than keeping up. It requires paying attention to what's changing us. In R: On Everything, author and technologist Ryan R. Campbell follows that inquiry wherever it leads—from artificial intelligence and the future of work to creativity, culture, consciousness, and the strange business of being human. Blending personal stories, research, and philosophical inquiry, each episode challenges easy answers, uncovers possibilities hiding between the extremes, and asks how we might live, work, and create with greater curiosity and agency. Keep curious.Ryan R. Campbell Economie Management Management et direction Philosophie Sciences sociales
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  • Flock Safety: The Surveillance State Has a Logo

    Flock Safety: The Surveillance State Has a Logo
    Oct 29 2026
    Read transcriptA camera that helps recover a stolen car can also help someone follow a person who hasn’t committed a crime. What happens when those cameras become a network—and the people searching its records are nowhere near your town? I found my way into that question through a job posting. The responsibilities lined up remarkably well with the work I wanted to do next. There was only one problem: the company was Flock Safety. In this episode of R: On Everything, I examine how automated license plate readers turn ordinary driving into searchable observations, why “I’m not doing anything wrong” offers so little reassurance, and what happens when information collected locally becomes accessible elsewhere. Drawing on Wisconsin reporting, a warrantless-search lawsuit, camera removals, and competing proposals in Congress, I consider the investigative benefits alongside the power these systems create. I also explore why replacing Flock with another vendor leaves some of the most important questions unanswered. Who can search the records? What authority do they need? And can a community meaningfully reject surveillance before it becomes something everyone is expected to live around? Read the companion essay: The Surveillance State Has a Logo Sources and further reading • Flock Safety — license plate reader capabilities: Product information. The company’s description of vehicle characteristics, Vehicle Signature searches, network connections, and its LPR product’s exclusion of facial recognition. • Flock Safety — announced safeguards: Privacy, accountability, security, and transparency updates, August 13, 2026. Includes the seven-day retention recommendation, conditions for existing customers, and planned auditing requirements. Announced changes do not establish that every customer has implemented them. • Wisconsin Public Radio — Beatrice Lawrence: Green Bay police audit Flock data, suspend sharing in response to privacy concern, August 20, 2026. Covers investigative benefits, Green Bay’s audit and sharing restrictions, and the Menasha officer sentenced for tracking his ex-girlfriend. • Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: NOCAMS MUSKEGO v. Waukesha County and the filed complaint. Sources for the warrantless-search challenge and alleged database-search totals. The complaint presents plaintiffs’ allegations, not court findings; search totals are not counts of targeted residents. • Wisconsin Examiner — Isiah Holmes: Milwaukee County votes to remove Flock cameras from parks, October 2, 2026. Also reports the sheriff’s attribution of a decline in certain park-area crimes to the cameras. That attribution does not establish how much of the decline the cameras caused. • WXPR / WAOW Television — Kaoyeng Lee: Oneida County ends use of Flock cameras, October 7, 2026. Source for the county’s departure, camera removals, and Captain Tyler Young’s comments about privacy and access. • Urban Milwaukee — Graham Kilmer: County Covers Flock Cameras, October 12, 2026. Covers the signing of Milwaukee County’s parks measure. Its scope is county parkland, and it leaves room for replacement surveillance equipment. • Institute for Justice: Database tracking cancellations of license plate reader contracts. The episode uses the October 16, 2026 update. Contract cancellations do not necessarily mean camera removals are complete; the database excludes jurisdictions that only paused operations or changed vendors. • Ban Flock Act: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Merkley’s announcement and introduced House text, H.R. 10691. Sources for the proposed restrictions, funding conditions, and exceptions. Discussed as proposed legislation. • Flock-Off Act: Massie and Burlison’s announcement of H.R. 10221, September 2, 2026. A separate proposal restricting federal funding for license plate readers and biometric surveillance cameras. • UW–Madison Police Department: Announcement that its Flock contract would not be renewed, July 3, 2026. The department also expressed continued support for license plate reader technology and interest in other vendors. • CT Insider — Eric Bedner: Fairfield replaces Flock with 54 Axon license plate readers, October 16, 2026. Covers the vendor replacement and the police chief’s description of additional controls. • DeFlock: Community-maintained camera map. A practical resource for locating mapped license plate readers from multiple vendors. A mapped location does not establish that a camera is currently operating. Research cutoff: October 19, 2026. More essays and episodes: R: On Everything Support R: On Everything by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/r-on-everything
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    21 min
  • Why Your Brain May Need More Chaos

    Why Your Brain May Need More Chaos
    Oct 15 2026

    Sometimes, the problem isn’t that everything is falling apart. It’s that everything is being held together too tightly.

    Entropy has a bad reputation, but systems can become so committed to maintaining their existing order that they lose the ability to imagine anything else. In this episode, Ryan R. Campbell explores how that rigidity appears in the depressed mind, the organizations that cannot change, and the lives we build around arrangements that may no longer serve us.

    Along the way, he considers emerging research into psilocybin-assisted therapy, Aldous Huxley’s “reducing valve,” workplace resistance, and why interruption alone does not produce transformation.

    What might become possible if we allowed our systems—and ourselves—enough room to loosen, learn, and build again?

    Keep curious and subscribe to essays like this through R: On Everything at r-on-everything.com.

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    15 min
  • A Centaur Makes This Podcast

    A Centaur Makes This Podcast
    Oct 1 2026

    Is it the definition of irony for a podcast episode about the dangers of letting artificial intelligence decide how we work to be made, in whole or in part, by artificial intelligence?

    Answering that question is part of what makes this episode an argument, a disclosure, and a live demonstration all at once.

    Using the distinction between a centaur and a reverse centaur, Ryan R. Campbell explores what separates meaningful human–AI collaboration from gradual surrender: Who chooses the destination? Who establishes the standard? Who can meaningfully say no? Who becomes more capable—and who answers for the result?

    Along the way, Ryan pulls back the curtain on how R: On Everything is made, from research and drafting to editorial judgment, music, and production. The question isn’t merely whether a human remains in the loop. It’s whether the human still chooses where the loop goes and what shape it takes.

    Explore essays like this and subscribe to R: On Everything at r-on-everything.com.

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    26 min
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