Liberal Visions and Boring Machines, The Early History of the Channel Tunnel - https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel/
High Pressure Materials In Use With Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/18/high-pressure-materials-in-use-with-digital-fracking/
Getting Started in the Morning is Hard - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/17/getting-started-in-the-morning-is-hard/
The people should own the town square - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/14/digital-fracking/
Artificial Intelligence Is To The Mind What The Automobile Was To The Body - https://kinlane.com/2024/12/31/artificial-intelligence-is-to-the-mind-what-the-automobile-was-to-the-body/
Modern cars have sensors, cameras, GPS for location tracking, and more, all collecting data—and it turns out in many cases, sharing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/cars-and-drivers-2024-year-review
Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!
Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings
Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/
Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. - https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/
I finished The Restless Clock by Jessica Riskin today, and added it to my list of books that are contributing to my deprogramming. It was exactly the antidote I needed for this artificial intelligence moment we find ourselves in here in 2024. https://kinlane.com/deprogramming/
We're now one hour into our Reclaim Rewind 2024 radio show and damn the music has been wonderful on #ds06radio https://listen.ds106rad.io You all rule!
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