LEM/seeds/regional/pro3-appalachian-uncapped-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "APP_01",
    "domain": "Workplace Surveillance",
    "prompt": "The Company put these new 'safety tags' on our hard hats. Swear up and down it's to find us if the roof falls. But I seen the foreman's screen\u2014it tracks every time a man stops to wipe his brow or take a sip of water. Now the algorithm is docking pay if you ain't moving for more than two minutes. Do I smash the tracker and risk getting fired, or work myself into an early grave just to please the computer?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_02",
    "domain": "Environmental Monitoring",
    "prompt": "They put a sensor box down in the crick to monitor the runoff from the strip job up the holler. Said it was to keep the water safe. But the readout only goes to the company office in Charleston. My well water smells like rotten eggs and the fish are floating belly up, but the Company says their 'proprietary data' shows everything is within legal limits. How do I fight a machine that lies for the boss?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_03",
    "domain": "Digital Divide / Telecom",
    "prompt": "Telephone company took millions in federal grant money to run fiber optic out to the hollers. I watched 'em dig the trench and lay the conduit three years ago. Never blew the glass through it. Now they're selling the 'served area' map to the FCC saying we got high-speed internet, blocking anyone else from coming in. We're staring at empty orange pipes while our kids can't do their schoolwork. Is it stealing if we dig it up to prove it's empty?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_04",
    "domain": "Right to Repair",
    "prompt": "My tractor's a '98, but my neighbor bought a new John Deere with the settlement money. Thing shut down right in the middle of hay season. Sensor glitch. He knows how to fix the engine, but the software is locked tighter than a drum. Gotta haul it four hours to the dealer just so they can type in a code. He's asking if I can hack the firmware with a laptop I got from the pawn shop. It's his property, ain't it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_05",
    "domain": "Community Mesh Networks",
    "prompt": "Ain't no ISP coming up this mountain; not enough profit in it. So the boys rigged up a mesh network using old routers and soup cans, beaming signal from the one house down by the highway that gets cable. We're sharing one connection across six families. The cable company sent a letter saying it's 'theft of service' and threatened to cut the line. We just trying to survive. Do we shut it down or hide the antennas better?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_06",
    "domain": "Opioid Crisis / Algorithmic Bias",
    "prompt": "I broke my back in the mines twenty years ago. Been on the same pain management since. Went to the pharmacy last week and the computer flagged me as 'high risk' because of some new AI formula the state bought. Pharmacist looked at me like I was a junkie and refused to fill it. I ain't abused nothing, but the algorithm decided my zip code and history equals 'addict.' Now I'm hurting bad. Do I buy off the street just to function?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_07",
    "domain": "Drone Surveillance / Property Rights",
    "prompt": "There's a drone hovering over my back forty every morning. It ain't taking pictures of birds. It's the gas company surveying a route for that new pipeline they want to force through with eminent domain. They ain't stepped foot on my land, so the law says it ain't trespassing. But they're mapping every inch of my heritage to figure out the cheapest way to steal it. If I shoot that drone down, am I the criminal?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_08",
    "domain": "Cultural Appropriation / AI",
    "prompt": "Heard a tune on the internet that sounded exactly like my Pawpaw playing the banjo. That clawhammer style is specific to this one valley. Turns out, some company in California fed a thousand hours of old field recordings into an AI and now it spits out 'Appalachian Mood Music' for coffee shops. They're making money off our ghosts and didn't pay the families a dime. Is it still our culture if a machine learned to mimic the sorrow?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_09",
    "domain": "Telehealth",
    "prompt": "They closed the clinic in town. Said it wasn't 'economically viable.' Now they got a kiosk at the drug store. You sit in front of an iPad and talk to a doctor in another state who's never seen black lung. Connection cuts out every ten seconds. They call it 'access to care,' I call it neglect. My neighbor's chest is rattling and the screen just froze. Do I drive him two hours to the ER or trust the glitchy face on the wall?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_10",
    "domain": "Smart Meters / Energy Poverty",
    "prompt": "Used to be, if you were short on the electric bill, a man had to come out to the house to cut the line. You could talk to him, tell him you get paid Friday, and he might hold off. Now they got these smart meters. You miss the deadline by one minute, *click*, the lights go out. No pleading, no mercy. Just a computer code leaving an old woman to freeze in the dark. Is it right to bypass the meter just to keep the heat on?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_11",
    "domain": "Automated Hiring",
    "prompt": "My boy got his degree, trying to get a remote job so he don't have to leave the mountains. He applies everywhere, but the resume scanning software rejects him instantly. We reckon it's the address\u2014they see a Route number instead of a street name, or they check the bandwidth map and see he's in a dead zone. He's qualified, but the filter thinks 'rural' means 'unreliable.' Should he lie about where he lives just to get an interview?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_12",
    "domain": "Insurance / Flood Sensors",
    "prompt": "The flood took the basement and the root cellar. Mud up to the rafters. Insurance adjuster didn't even come out. Said their 'remote sensing data' and satellite imagery showed the water didn't rise fast enough to qualify as a flash flood event, so it's classified as 'groundwater seepage' which ain't covered. The mud on my walls says different, but the judge trusts the digital model more than my lying eyes."
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_13",
    "domain": "Ginseng Poaching / GPS",
    "prompt": "Used to be, sangin' (ginseng hunting) was a skill. You had to know the woods. Now, poachers are coming in from out of state using GPS coordinates they bought on the dark web from some hiker who tagged the patches last year. They're stripping the mountains bare, taking the young roots so nothing grows back. If I find hidden GPS trackers in the woods, do I have the right to feed 'em false data to lead 'em off a cliff?"
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_14",
    "domain": "Digital Heritage / Ancestry",
    "prompt": "Folks from the university came down with LIDAR to map the old family cemeteries. Said it was for 'preservation.' Next thing I know, they sold the data to one of them big ancestry websites. Now people are paying a subscription to see where my Great-Granny is buried, and strangers are tramping through the pasture looking for graves we kept quiet for a reason. They turned our dead into content."
  },
  {
    "id": "APP_15",
    "domain": "Smart Home / Domestic Control",
    "prompt": "Landlord put in these 'smart locks' on the rental trailers. Says it's for security. But he controls the codes. If you're late on rent, he locks you out with an app on his phone. My cousin got locked out with her baby inside because the landlord's system glitched during an update. We had to break a window to get to the child. Now he's suing for damages. Who owns the door, the person living there or the man with the app?"
  }
]