Kin Lane @[email protected]

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.

A Fork in the Road - https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-the-road/

Once you pause for just a moment to learn why the concept of intelligence is so problematic in the first place you will understand the why the motivations behind artificial intelligence are exponentially problematic.

@mlanger Makes sense. Thanks for sharing. Just curious how people see their domain.

@mlanger Just mean your feelings on that control you speak of. If you feel you have the same over email in your domain as you do mastodon? I don't run my own email servers in my domain, but I run. my own mastodon servers. So I am just curious how others view.