Kin Lane

Kin Lane

@kinlane.bsky.social

I am a storyteller who likes playing with images (algorotoscope) & making technology more visible by performing as the @apievangelist.com, and building @naftiko.bsky.social. #apis #standards #cybernetics #history #images #art #rottweiler #bikes

1,185 Followers 3,407 Following 864 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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"So what are the lessons from the Parisian revolution?

First, pushing out cars improves life for most inhabitants. Paris has reduced traffic accidents, noise and air pollution. More than 300 'school streets' have been pedestrianised; kids play there after school."

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Hanging with my siblings and their families to celebrate my late mother's birthday in Bend, OR.

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Cognitive DDOS.

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Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

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Visiting kiddo in Seattle and getting to know her cats. He’s kind of asshole and pushy, she was real sweet but not the swiftest.

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Another interesting share from my kiddo as part of their work on their library sciences degree. The Brian Deer Classification System (BDC) is a library classification system used to organize materials in libraries with specialized Indigenous collections. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_D...

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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

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De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music
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‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

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The Generative AI Policy Landscape in Open Source After publishing AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers I wanted to move beyond anecdotes and get a clearer picture of how the open source community is actually responding to AI-generated contribution...

After publishing AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers I wanted to move beyond anecdotes and get a clearer picture of how the open source community is actually responding to AI-generated contributions. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

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A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 2nd, 2026 The week to week rhythm of my newsletters is giving me structure and purpose in this moment. It’s funny that when I tell people I produce four email...

My personal newsletter for last week - buttondown.com/kin-lane/arc...

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How We See the World is So Relative I was riding in the park with Poppy the recently and we had stopped to watch a couple of squirrels when a gentleman walked up to say hello and talk to us. He was a friendly fellow, and said he’d seen ...

kinlane.com/2026/03/01/h...

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Vladimir Putin described the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei as murder and said it violated all the norms of human morality and international law reut.rs/4cSIObM

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We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

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Tracking Tokyo Bay’s Port Activity Japan‑based tech company Grid Inc. has created a visual mapping vessel movements across Tokyo Bay using Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, a safety system ships use to broadcast their locatio...
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Clauding...

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Coldness…

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Am I gonna have to blow on it to get it to work? ;-)

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Enjoyed all the pics. Looked like you two had some fun.

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2 weeks ago

Another worthy path!!

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What is discard studies? Discard Studies understands waste not just as an ecological problem, but as a process, category, mentality, judgment, an infrastructural and economic challenge, and as a site for producing power as…

I love having a kid studying library sciences because they share the coolest concepts with me you just don't find easily. discardstudies.com/what-is-disc...

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I think the defining line for who we are in the future will be drawn between people who spend their lives online vs. those who spend there lives offline.

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W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois — sociologist, historian, activist, Pan-Africanist, and prolific author — had also, it turns out, a mighty fine eye for graphic design. publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

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Cartoon by @hucktooner.bsky.social.

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A Week of Being Kin Lane - February 23rd, 2026 Unexpected change always messes me up—that is, unless I am in a state of mind where I am expecting things to change. This is why I don’t deal well with...

My personal newsletter for last week - buttondown.com/kin-lane/arc...

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I hope they change the battery every couple of years so you have to buy entirely new excavators. ;-)

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I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

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The ride in Central Park today.

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Sure it will be fine.

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