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"When I gave a talk in 2016, I asked my audience how many years they thought it would be before half of US households had adopted some of the year’s most hyped gadgets. A smart watch? A drone? A 3D printer? Virtual reality goggles? A self-driving car? Would these gadgets ever see 50% adoption? Turns out 'nope.' Or at least, one decade later, none of these – not even the smart watch – has reached that level." -Audrey Watters https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/not-so-fast/
Seeing People As Resources - https://kinlane.com/2025/02/24/seeing-people-as-resources/
A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 24th, 2024
- https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-24th-2024/
After experiencing the line of questioning about drug use in the clearance screening for working at the White House personally and the historical zero tolerance policy towards even minimal drug usage, I am guessing there were some pretty messed up situations in the 1950s and 1960s that resulted in that screening process. I don’t think what we are seeing right now is new, it is just really out in the open, where earlier ones were probably covered up like what the CIA was doing.
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.
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/
Kin Lane
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Ah, I did notice that Black History Month somehow disappeared from my calendar.
Now I know why. Incredible.
https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays
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/
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