Kin Lane @[email protected]

Sad and embarrassing to have good friends cancel plans to visit us in the United States. - https://blog.edtechie.net/asides/dont-go-west/ I had all my record shops line up for them, and Poppy is sad.

Information, Content, Intelligence, and Knowledge - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/21/information-content-intelligence-and-knowledge/

Can any of you boomers describe to me what it was like when the first Led Zeppelin album came out. Thinking about the massive weight it carried in my teen years and just curious of any stories about it's birth as I listen to this Saturday morning.

If you close your calendar application for the weekend it makes it last longer.

Our five year old Rottweiler Poppy has made friends with the five year old human girl at the end of our hall and now she comes over and knocks on the door and asks if Poppy can come and play. <3

Code and Commit - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/21/code-and-commit/

Having a Career - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/03/having-a-career/

Ummm....this book. WOW - https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

I trained an machine learning model on Birth of a Nation then applied it to photos I took of the freeway in Oakland which intentionally crushed a vibrant black community in an effort tell a story of what AI will do to our communities.

"A ‘trouble shooter’ was employed by the telegraph and rail road companies building rail lines in the western part of the United States. It was the job of the ‘trouble shooter’ to find those that were being ‘trouble’ during the construction and to shoot them." https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/race-against-the-machine/

My personal newsletter from last week - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-17th-2024/

Let This Radicalize You
Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care - by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba -
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you

The State of the Culture, 2024 - https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

The War on the Imagination - https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-the-imagination/?ref=second-breakfast-newsletter

Masculinity

My personal newsletter from last week trying to make sense of the things. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024/

Anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. - David Graeber

The World Wide Web of Apartness - https://kinlane.com/2025/03/02/the-world-wide-web-of-apartness/