Kin Lane @[email protected]

I trained an machine learning model on Birth of a Nation then applied it to photos I took of the freeway in Oakland which intentionally crushed a vibrant black community in an effort tell a story of what AI will do to our communities.

"A ‘trouble shooter’ was employed by the telegraph and rail road companies building rail lines in the western part of the United States. It was the job of the ‘trouble shooter’ to find those that were being ‘trouble’ during the construction and to shoot them." https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/race-against-the-machine/

My personal newsletter from last week - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-17th-2024/

Let This Radicalize You
Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care - by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba -
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you

The State of the Culture, 2024 - https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

The War on the Imagination - https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-the-imagination/?ref=second-breakfast-newsletter

Masculinity

My personal newsletter from last week trying to make sense of the things. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024/

The World Wide Web of Apartness - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/02/the-world-wide-web-of-apartness/

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K LeGuin - https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf

Behavior

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster - https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-practical-utopians-guide-to-the-coming-collapse

I Do Not Have Enough Ideas - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/28/i-do-not-have-enough-ideas/

“If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?” - The Unaccountability Machine, Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind by Dan Davies - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799883.html h/t @earth2marsh

Spotless Mind Movie Rentals - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/02/26/spotless-mind-movie-rentals/

The Cover of Business Efficiency for Dangerous Ideology - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/the-cover-of-business-efficiency-for-dangerous-ideology/

Programming Music With the Player Piano on Corner of 58th - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/programming-music-with-the-player-piano-on-corner-of-58th/

Seeing People As Resources - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/24/seeing-people-as-resources/