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

Cold, but beautiful day.

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

Happy Thanksgiving from the ice cream aisle. Thankful for our city.

Dinner.

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Phew, looked at my mom's Facebook feed for two minutes. AI slop is really a DDoS against elders.

Poppy and I rode downtown today because the park is a shitshow due to parade, but we were able to come back up east side and do one loop of the park -- here are some of the shots.

Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”

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

This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)

I am really excited, I started watching the new Ken Burns Revolutionary War while Audrey was out of town, but she is back now and two nights in a row she said it is cool if I watch it--she said she is curious how it all turns out. ;-)

I think one of the more important, lasting lessons that I've learned from Audrey Watters is to know your (ed)tech history. In this recent talk, she asks, "[W]hat might it mean that our depictions of the future of education now are the same as depictions of the future from the 1950s?"

I used to dance a lot in my teens and 20s. I was always on a concert tour from 1989 through 1996. I was always dancing at shows and raves at warehouse parties. As I was dancing to the Black Keys during a meeting this morning I realize I need to dance more.

Anyone studying and working on AI context, make you also study Standpoint Theory - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standpo...

Encouraging bad behavior at the API layer — throttle the competition.

My oldest brother used to terrorize me and my other brother while growing up. He’d call my other brother piggy while punching him and he’d call me girl while trying to help defend. Both are Trump supporters today.

Responding to something I hear a lot about the state of the web & APIs. apievangelist.com/2025/11/17/t...

To the couple I mowed lawns for when I was 13, you DON’T have to rake the leaves before you mow!! I told you!

As a mostly deaf person, I absolutely love this - www.soundprint.co/locations/us...

My personal newsletter for last week. I've missed the last couple of weeks, but back on my usual B.S. now.

I love a city that has rail to and from airport. I enjoyed learning Atlanta’s subway. New systems are always fun for me!

Read Audrey Watters, always. "Technologies are often wielded in ways meant to imply that humans are weak, messy, slow, stupid, replaceable. We are strong, messy, awkward, flawed, irreplaceable. All of us. Our strength comes, in part, from this vulnerability, from our humanity."

"In many ways, the current era of Trump results from the fact that it’s easier to put your hand in the next guy’s pocket if he’s illiterate."

Priorities.

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

One major problem keeping LLMs from being a viable automation tool for protection rackets is their inability deliver physical threats. In this paper we lay out a simple tool use framework by which LLM agents can hire hitmen on the dark web, lending improved credibility to generative threats.

🪄 KubeCon is full of surprises! We're excited to share that we met @kinlane.bsky.social, the @apievangelist.com, today. He will be joining the Microcks maintainers tomorrow at our Project Kiosk 10A in the Project Pavilion zone at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA 🚀 We can't wait to see you there! 🙌

Poppy and I saw this lovely hawk dining on a squirrel in Central park today.

I rewatched The Blues Brothers last night. Really sat and watched without second screen. What a gem and joy that movie is. All that talent. The kids in there. <3 <3.

“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!

Audrey had a great idea for car horns. What if we just made them real loud in car for driver. The city would be a lot quieter and people would still feel good when honking.

Day two: Getting used to eating Halal now that Mamdani is Mayor.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Listen to Blaze Foley. It will do you good. Bob Dylan said Blaze was his favorite songwriter. Townes Van Zandt said Blaze was one of the most spiritual people he ever met. John Prine covered his work. Merle Haggard tracked down every recording he could get. The public has mostly forgotten.

Sound proud of this lady. What a day!! <3 <3

Our bike ride up the west side highway and down broadway through upper west side.

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.

You can see why people are so afraid of him. <3 <3