Kin Lane

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

‘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

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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/...

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...

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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 ...

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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

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

Clauding...

Coldness…

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

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

Another worthy path!!

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...

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.

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...

Cartoon by @hucktooner.bsky.social.

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...

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

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

The ride in Central Park today.

Sure it will be fine.

I wish everyone could be this thoughtful.

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC Central Park Drive needs a better design to prevent the next tragedy #nyc #centralpark #bike #safety

After her husband, Irv, was fatally struck by a cyclist while on a run in Central Park, Hindy Schachter set out to prevent future tragedies.

Hindy doesn't see an e-bike ban or speed limit as the way to make the park safer — instead, she advocates for a better design that works for everyone.

Prediction-market traders made wagers tied to geopolitical tensions. As of Thursday afternoon, traders on Kalshi put a 38% probability that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz this year. On rival platform Polymarket, traders saw a 34% chance that Iran will close the strait by Dec. 31. (Polymarket has a data partnership with Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.)

In 2026, you can bet on whether we go to war. And read about it in a newspaper who has a partnership with the bookie.

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YouTube video by SafaJah Miles Davis according to Herbie Hancock

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Isaiah Zagar, legendary South Philly mosaicist, has died at 86 His glittering glass art on 50,000 square feet of walls and buildings across city has defined the spirit of Philadelphia.

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