I've been having such an amazing time with Claude Code I wanted you to be able to have my *exact* skill setup:
Introducing gstack, which you can install just by pasting a short piece of text into your Claude code
I’ve been thinking about this whole idea of social platforms showing users’ locations, especially if it updates automatically when you travel and tbh something about it feels off.
Maybe it’s just me, but it comes across… Palantir-esque? In the sense that you’re basically giving the entire world (and any government agency that fancies a look) a free, real time feed of your movements.
And what concerns me most is everyone who can literally read that data.
Real time or dynamic location reveals so sooo so much more than people realise:
• where you are right now
• where you were yesterday
• how long you stayed somewhere
• your everyday patterns: home, work, routine
• when you leave the country
• when you return
• and even who you might be meeting if your locations overlap
Combine that with timestamps, interactions, replies and the general map of “who talks to whom,” and suddenly you’ve created a public, open source timeline of someone’s life. So that’s interesting.
And that’s a gift for all sorts of institutions:
• tax authorities checking residency days
• immigration systems looking at travel patterns
• law enforcement doing OSINT or whatever checks
• governments building data profiles
• private companies crunching it all for who knows what
• random hostile actors who love connecting dots
Companies already do a frightening amount with far less data. Now imagine giving them a live “location status” on top of everything else.
Then there’s the freedom of speech issue I’d like to mention.
People travel, right, sometimes to places with very different laws to their home country. If your profile suddenly says you’re in a country with restrictive speech laws, whilst you’ve got a public history of saying bold or controversial things, that’s uhh… not ideal.
To me, personal freedom is everything.
Your location is one of the most sensitive bits of information you can share. Once it’s public (esp on a platform used by politicians, journalists, scientists, idk investors and everyday people, by everyone) it’s out there for anyone: friends, strangers, governments, whoever wants to make use of it.
And that’s what feels risky. In a very “this is a lot of personal information to hand over for free” (Big Brother?) sort of way.
We should absolutely have the choice to share what we want, when we want. And real time location feels like something that should never be public by default imho