Kin Lane @[email protected]

Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire - https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/decoding-ancient-incas-writing-system-khipus/682814/

A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 26th, 2025 - https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-may-26th-2025/

They are banning books and mandating artificial intelligence -- that should tell you everything you need to know about AI.

While out on Staten Island a Fox News watching lady asked me about the "invasion" that was occurring on the streets of NYC--I tried to imagine what she sees using my algorotoscope.work.

Useful Patent.

A Good Business - https://kinlane.com/2025/05/07/a-good-business/

Nutrients for Writing - https://kinlane.com/2025/05/22/nutrients-for-writing/

Tripping on Utopia - https://kinlane.com/2025/05/22/tripping-on-utopia/

The definition of a “good business” has changed from one that makes good products at a fair price to a sustainable and loyal market, to one that can display the most stock price growth from quarter to quarter. - Ed Zitron

I watched Mr. Polaroid last night. Multiple interesting stories, but the one that really grabbed my heart was response by the queer community in the 1960s, because they could take pictures of their love without getting turned into the police and arrested.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/mr-polaroid/

I just expect conservatives to actually be doing anything they say they are worried about these days.

https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/05/radio-shack-a-short-history/

The Lost Podcast: Talking career (meaning) making with Kin Lane - https://marendeepwell.com/?p=5606

Why be a writer, when you can be a "synthetic text extruding machine" - Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna - You know the chicken nugget of authorship.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

Why Gen X is the real loser generation - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/05/08/why-gen-x-is-the-real-loser-generation

An unsympathetic relationship between the soul, flesh, and bones. - Ray Bradbury, The Skeleton

Swords into Plowshares - https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares/

Songs My Mother Taught Me - Fannie Lou Hamer - https://folkways.si.edu/fannie-lou-hamer/songs-my-mother-taught-me/african-american-gospel-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian