Kin Lane @[email protected]

If you close your calendar application for the weekend it makes it last longer.

Our five year old Rottweiler Poppy has made friends with the five year old human girl at the end of our hall and now she comes over and knocks on the door and asks if Poppy can come and play. <3

Code and Commit - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/21/code-and-commit/

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.