Black raspberries have a darker soul than regular raspberries.

Saul Steinberg - 1963

Thinking the past few days about the different senses of "hype," as in: hype (n) = a bubble, if not an outright hoax hype (v) = to encourage this bubble hype (n) = enthusiastic hype (n) = cool, dope hype (n) = hyperactive The common root seems to be "excitement," but still, quite a range

Wife is taking me to the transit museum in Brooklyn for my upcoming birthday present this afternoon. I am recovering from some food poisoning earlier this week and I am just going to sleep until we go to Brooklyn.

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

I've added Cyberlibertarianism, The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology by David Golumbia to my deprogramming book list - kinlane.com/deprogrammin...

I've added Empire of Normality, Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman to my deprogramming book list - kinlane.com/deprogrammin...

A lovely walk up to famers market on upper west side today.

One story I’ve told many times, but couldn’t find in my own historical archives of API Evangelist, is the origin story of API Evangelist itself. apievangelist.com/2026/06/12/h...

Keeping an eye on what is next after MCP - tangiblemediacollection.com/holes

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

I know y'all think it is super cool when one of those super heroes do one of their super hero landings off the building, but those of use who live in NYC have to deal with the aftermath.

Boris Artzybasheff, Cybernetics

The concept of “bullshit” (Frankfurt H (1986) On Bullshit. Raritan.) is a well-established philosophical tool for criticizing speech that lacks a serious relationship to truth conditions or evidence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The APIs.io network added a new layer this week — arazzo.apis.io. It joins the catalog as its own Workflows section in the More dropdown across every site in the network, sitting alongside the OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON-LD specification layers. apis.io/2026/06/04/a...

Death to billionaires

Wassily Kandinsky (1926)

I have ranted several times about how tightly LinkedIn controls our personal user data. They refuse to give you access to your personal profile data via the LinkedIn API. Here is my solution. apievangelist.com/blog/2026/06...

To all the spandex warriors and Citibike riders who won't stop at crosswalks for the elderly, moms with strollers, and chains of toddlers - I wish you much anxiety and suffering in the moments when you are down in your life.

People don't want AI forced on them. DuckDuckGo lets you choose. The result? Since Google's AI overhaul, our U.S. installs peaked yesterday at 76% above the pre-announcement average, and we broke our single-day search record. 🔥 It's not a blip, it's a movement. Fire Google.

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Example of the fun people you run into riding a bike around NYC -- I got within 12 inches of him and asked if he could get out of the street so we could get by (without putting my dog into traffic), and he yelled -- IT IS NOT A STREET, IT IS A BIKE LANE!!!

I have become a connoisseur of some of the delivery bikes.

how much time each day do you spend responding to emails?

To the people who are handling PR for Erin Brockovich data center push - do not use AI to generate the images.

Make sure to add your API to apis.io

My two newest side hustles. 🌲 centralpark.guide 🐕 poppyrlane.com

"Students boo because they know [AI] is bad. They boo because they know it's wrong – wrong ethically, wrong politically, wrong historically, wrong economically, wrong environmentally...And it's also untrue, all these pronouncements about technological inevitability," writes Audrey Watters.

Was the early Internet good because the Internet is good or was it cause all the assholes hadn’t discovered it?

I've got a song. I've got a song.

I sat down with violence interrupters and young men directly impacted by gun violence to talk about what this administration is doing to keep New Yorkers safe.

Learned about this today - sifa.id/p/kinlane.bs...

Never underestimate the power of publishing something that is "wrong", or at least incomplete to get someone's attention. People are way more inclined to tell you something is wrong than tell you something is right.

@hypervisible.blacksky.app we just being straight up about what we doing now - blog.workday.com/en-us/agenti...

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

Blogged about this and more in an attempt to get however many years of saas jobs out of my head www.sue.codes/blog/forward...

Me doing what I do.