Kin Lane @[email protected]

A Social (Media) Death - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/14/the-venture-backed-api-startup-playbook-copy/

Children in 1965: I want to train to become an astronaut.
Children in 2025: I just want to be shot into outer space.

The wife busting out the players handbook to write her next newsletter—ya’ll so screwed.

“Without obligations, social relations can become meaningless; and without social relations, individual lives can become unhinged.” — Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther

Conservatives: Forcing you to hang by your ankles over the edge of cliff then pulling you up and declaring that they saved you since Reagan and Thatcher.

My wife went to speak to a class of students about artificial intelligence and will be gone for next four hours during dinner time. I am reminded how much wives are like AI in that -- HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO FEED MYSELF NOW??

The Venture-Backed API Startup Playbook - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/09/the-venture-backed-api-startup-playbook/

The Shift in Power Makes the Sentinel MCP Style Attacks Much More Damaging - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/04/07/the-shift-in-power-makes-the-sentinel-mcp-style-attacks-much-more-damaging/

My personal newsletter for last week - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-april-7th-2025/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P_vg1VKslM&ab_channel=KinLane%2CTheAPIEvangelist

I have been struggling to understand why so many people would gleefully and openly celebrate the theft of writing and art via AI. Then I realize they haven’t ever had something that they personally brought to life, nurtured, loved and was immensely proud of, let alone depended on for paying the bills and feeding their families—they’ve never had anything they needed to protect at all costs, and that leaves me even sadder than I was before.

Care is the opposite of algorithmic detachment and abstraction. - Dan McQuillan

White Men Will Need to Just Sit Things Out For 7 or 14 Years - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/03/31/white-men-will-just-sit-things-out-for-7-or-14-years/ #fiction #patriarchy

Tattoos as a Reference for Disappearing Human Beings - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/31/tattoos-as-a-reference-for-disappearing-human-beings/

Went to see Sumo yesterday - yet another lovely assessment of masculinity.

Reading, relaxing, and Rockweiller.

I read one fiction and non-fiction in any given moment to keep things balanced — I just finish the Poppy War and Resisting AI.

When I read a book after the wife I get her commentary.