Kin Lane @[email protected]

A Social (Media) Death - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/14/the-venture-backed-api-startup-playbook-copy/

Children in 1965: I want to train to become an astronaut.
Children in 2025: I just want to be shot into outer space.

The wife busting out the players handbook to write her next newsletter—ya’ll so screwed.

“Without obligations, social relations can become meaningless; and without social relations, individual lives can become unhinged.” — Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther

Conservatives: Forcing you to hang by your ankles over the edge of cliff then pulling you up and declaring that they saved you since Reagan and Thatcher.

@Philsturgeon Delicious!! #innovation

My wife went to speak to a class of students about artificial intelligence and will be gone for next four hours during dinner time. I am reminded how much wives are like AI in that -- HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO FEED MYSELF NOW??

The Venture-Backed API Startup Playbook - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/09/the-venture-backed-api-startup-playbook/

The Shift in Power Makes the Sentinel MCP Style Attacks Much More Damaging - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/04/07/the-shift-in-power-makes-the-sentinel-mcp-style-attacks-much-more-damaging/

My personal newsletter for last week - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-april-7th-2025/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P_vg1VKslM&ab_channel=KinLane%2CTheAPIEvangelist

@mlanger Agreed, it is perplexing. I think it is the ongoing corporate devil to trick us into giving up our rights. Double edge funhouse of mirrors after things like Napster, etc is positioning copyright as bad and something corporations only wield so it can be weakened overall.

I have been struggling to understand why so many people would gleefully and openly celebrate the theft of writing and art via AI. Then I realize they haven’t ever had something that they personally brought to life, nurtured, loved and was immensely proud of, let alone depended on for paying the bills and feeding their families—they’ve never had anything they needed to protect at all costs, and that leaves me even sadder than I was before.

Care is the opposite of algorithmic detachment and abstraction. - Dan McQuillan

White Men Will Need to Just Sit Things Out For 7 or 14 Years - https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/03/31/white-men-will-just-sit-things-out-for-7-or-14-years/ #fiction #patriarchy

@cogdog There is no turning back now. But then again I already knew you'd be at the front of the pack when they start rounding up the dog people!!

Tattoos as a Reference for Disappearing Human Beings - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/31/tattoos-as-a-reference-for-disappearing-human-beings/