Kin Lane @[email protected]

Having a Career - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/03/having-a-career/

Ummm....this book. WOW - https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

@carpetbomberz The veneer is gone.

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.

@cogdog oh man. the best. bagels and the story!

"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/

@cogdog We have a new place that is almost just as good -- different vibes though. ;-)

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

@macdonst No I haven't. Adding to the list. thank you.

@macdonst Excellent! Please share your thoughts when you do! I found it really providing what I need to face each day -- not just organizing.

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

@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