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Currently negotiating with a high Rottweiler who is on pain meds regarding why we can’t take the usual morning walk to the park. She is pissed!

Using Francis William’s Story To Reveal Algorithmic Bias in Artificial Intelligence - https://algorithmic.rotoscope.work/2025/02/23/using-francis-williams-story-to-reveal-algorithmic-bias-in-artificial-intelligence/

Hardoneby - A perpetual state of existence that centers around being fucked over by the world, but with the majority of fucking over being inflicted by oneself.

Took me years to learn that just because I am smart in one area does not mean I am smart in all areas and that patriarchal white supremacy is a helluva a drug.

As things disappear from government servers we must also keep an eye on the new posts and discussions - There Must Be Some Way Out of Here by SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce - https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/peirce-statement-rfi-022125

How Our Hearts Got Tangled Up With This Rottweiler https://kinlane.com/2025/02/22/how-our-hearts-got-tangled-up-with-this-rottweiler/

I absolutely love that the word meritocracy originated as a parody, but people use it straight faced without any awareness of it's origins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

My personal newsletter for this last week on Blind Justice and being AI-First! https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-17th-2024/

You only see what you understand.

Cybertruck Man - https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/cybertruck-man

My Rottweiler wears the skin of the stuffies that she guts on her face and snorts while wearing it -- should I be concerned?

Only fiction going into my brain for the next couple of weeks to balance out reality.

Been reading the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) newsletter since I worked there a decade ago and this is the first time it got a danger warning in my email.

My random inventorying of federal government APIs over the years is feeling less crazy in this moment.
https://apievangelist.com/2022/10/29/taking-another-look-at-the-state-of-apis-and-data-across-us-federal-agencies/

More artwork done to remind everyone who's team API Evangelist is on as we all desperately work to be been seen, validated, and not consumed by this machine we have created. https://apievangelist.com/2025/02/10/api-scale-a-cautionary-tale/

A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 10th, 2024 - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-10th-2024/

The dual operation abstraction and extraction in information capitalism: abstracting away the material conditions of production while extracting more information and resources. - Kate Crawford

According to my dog, life begins when I shut the lid on my laptop.

A Fork in the Road - https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-the-road/