Kin Lane @[email protected]

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

@carpetbomberz I need to re-read that. it's been a couple of years (maybe decades). Gulp.

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/

@dnorman @cogdog Interesting linie of thinking -- don't have anything to share off top of my head, but will ponder more..

Anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. - David Graeber

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

@earth2marsh @api Our new repeat phrase from this book is "If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?” ;-) <3 ;-)

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/

I find the military origins of compute and AI are important, but overused, and I am compiling list of others:

- Babbage difference engine was managing slaves.
- Turing Test is entirely based upon lying.
- ML images was trained on criminal records.
- LLMs was trained on the toxicity of Reddit.