Liberal Visions and Boring Machines, The Early History of the Channel Tunnel - https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel/
High Pressure Materials In Use With Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/18/high-pressure-materials-in-use-with-digital-fracking/
@macdonst Let's keep struggling together!!
Getting Started in the Morning is Hard - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/17/getting-started-in-the-morning-is-hard/
@pvonhellermannn Thank you. I am so tired of my work being treated as content for mining. ;-(
The people should own the town square - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
@econproph @kate Thank you. ;-)
Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/14/digital-fracking/
@vincentbiret @misterjoshua Ha! I love it. For my ancestors it was all about money. ;-)
@misterjoshua Me too. Many voices in my head as I leave each room too! ;-)
Artificial Intelligence Is To The Mind What The Automobile Was To The Body - https://kinlane.com/2024/12/31/artificial-intelligence-is-to-the-mind-what-the-automobile-was-to-the-body/
@remoquete Do you have to wear retro clothes when operating?
Modern cars have sensors, cameras, GPS for location tracking, and more, all collecting data—and it turns out in many cases, sharing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/cars-and-drivers-2024-year-review
Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!
Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings
Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/
Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
I am a writer, storyteller, and cybernetics researcher.