Kin Lane @[email protected]

I absolutely love that the word meritocracy originated as a parody, but people use it straight faced without any awareness of it's origins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

My personal newsletter for this last week on Blind Justice and being AI-First! https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-17th-2024/

You only see what you understand.

Cybertruck Man - https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/cybertruck-man

My Rottweiler wears the skin of the stuffies that she guts on her face and snorts while wearing it -- should I be concerned?

@mlanger My wife says it is a beautiful world to get lost in.

Only fiction going into my brain for the next couple of weeks to balance out reality.

@ducksauz guessing it is a single questionable link -- it doesn't take much to trigger, but it more speaks of lack of care when preparing and sending.

Been reading the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) newsletter since I worked there a decade ago and this is the first time it got a danger warning in my email.

My random inventorying of federal government APIs over the years is feeling less crazy in this moment.
https://apievangelist.com/2022/10/29/taking-another-look-at-the-state-of-apis-and-data-across-us-federal-agencies/

More artwork done to remind everyone who's team API Evangelist is on as we all desperately work to be been seen, validated, and not consumed by this machine we have created. https://apievangelist.com/2025/02/10/api-scale-a-cautionary-tale/

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 10th, 2024 - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-10th-2024/

The dual operation abstraction and extraction in information capitalism: abstracting away the material conditions of production while extracting more information and resources. - Kate Crawford

According to my dog, life begins when I shut the lid on my laptop.

@earth2marsh too late

@earth2marsh 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

@earth2marsh No. Adding to the list. Thank you.