Kin Lane @[email protected]

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/

Once you pause for just a moment to learn why the concept of intelligence is so problematic in the first place you will understand the why the motivations behind artificial intelligence are exponentially problematic.

imperfect offerings with Audrey Watters https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-audrey-watters-episode

The second week of my personal email newsletter and shifting more of my social sharing to my domain. Hope you do the same for yours so I can subscribe to your email newsletter. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-3rd-2024/

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold," - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan — Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth - https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-prepping-and-the-abandonment-of-earth/