Kin Lane @[email protected]

I watched Mr. Polaroid last night. Multiple interesting stories, but the one that really grabbed my heart was response by the queer community in the 1960s, because they could take pictures of their love without getting turned into the police and arrested.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/mr-polaroid/

I just expect conservatives to actually be doing anything they say they are worried about these days.

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/05/radio-shack-a-short-history/

The Lost Podcast: Talking career (meaning) making with Kin Lane - https://marendeepwell.com/?p=5606

Why be a writer, when you can be a "synthetic text extruding machine" - Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna - You know the chicken nugget of authorship.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

Why Gen X is the real loser generation - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/05/08/why-gen-x-is-the-real-loser-generation

An unsympathetic relationship between the soul, flesh, and bones. - Ray Bradbury, The Skeleton

Swords into Plowshares - https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares/

Songs My Mother Taught Me - Fannie Lou Hamer - https://folkways.si.edu/fannie-lou-hamer/songs-my-mother-taught-me/african-american-gospel-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian

I got an overdue notice for a book and it brought back all kind of feelz from being a kid -- been a while since I got one.

@carpetbomberz @cogdog Ha! Careful what you sniff. It's like the Internet -- you can unsee what you see. ;-)

@cogdog The sidecar base is full of traffic sniffers -- why we role so slowly through. ;-)

@cogdog We are working on getting her onto the billboard -- gotta work the crowd first. ;-) Scritch delivered.

Roll'n w/ my girl through Times Square - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPO9OGbIrvc&ab_channel=PoppyRLane

At some point in your life you’ll hit a point where you realize that technology and startup culture does not matter or nourish you — I will be sitting on the bench in the park ready to share stories with you.

The community powered email newsletter - https://buttondown.com/blog/newsletters-as-community

Growing Up Libertarian - https://kinlane.com/2025/05/07/growing-up-libertarian/

Reasons Nerds Are Good with Tech - https://kinlane.com/2025/05/07/reasons-nerds-are-good-with-tech/

@Natasha_Jay OMG LOVE! <3