--- type: "article" title: "A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 3rd, 2024" newsletter: "Kin Lane" newsletter_handle: "kinlane" newsletter_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/kinlane" author: "Kin Lane (@kinlane)" published: "2025-03-03T12:31:28.187Z" canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/kinlane/a/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024" markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/kinlane/a/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024.md" chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/kinlane/a/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024/chat" source_url: "https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-march-3rd-2024/" body_source: "native" likes: 0 replies: 0 body_words: 499 --- # A Week of Being Kin Lane - March 3rd, 2024 To help me prepare for the next technological trend coming right after artificial intelligence [I spent time reverse engineering a player piano that was dropped off on the corner of 58th street this week](https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/programming-music-with-the-player-piano-on-corner-of-58th/). Someone commented and posted a picture in response to my story on social media that a player piano had been dropped off on the street in front of their house in San Francisco too, which clearly is a validation of the coming trend. Programmable pianos—you heard it here first! [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/7162de81-0b4b-4262-b4c8-739dd1aa0e5f.png?w=960&fit=max)](https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/programming-music-with-the-player-piano-on-corner-of-58th/) *Gears Grinding Forward (It’s Inevitable)* [While living in the World Wide Web of Apartness](https://kinlane.com/2025/03/02/the-world-wide-web-of-apartness/) I find myself empathizing with people who don’t feel like they [have enough ideas](https://kinlane.com/2025/02/28/i-do-not-have-enough-ideas/) in their day and feel compelled to saddle up to ChatGPT to get what they need. As I work to [fork projects I contributed in the 18F GitHub repository](https://github.com/18F) before they disappear I am given hope reading [the 18F post declaring they were quite done yet](https://github.com/18F). This all just reminds me how [business efficiency is also a vehicle for dangerous ideology](https://kinlane.com/2025/02/26/the-cover-of-business-efficiency-for-dangerous-ideology/), as the [people in power continue to just see us humans as resources](https://kinlane.com/2025/02/24/seeing-people-as-resources/). Once I had forked all the 18F repositories I dissociated from reality by looking through [rail transit and population density for 250 major cities](https://schoolofcities.github.io/rail-transit-and-population-density/). Am I the only who soothes themselves by studying complex systems? [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/2f2ea3ab-35cc-4cdb-b362-9ad0ef5d8901.png?w=960&fit=max)](https://schoolofcities.github.io/rail-transit-and-population-density/) *Very Suspicious That All The Rails Are Where the People Are* As we continue to pick up the pace of living in the Matrix I urge people to invest in [agent kits for their kids](https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/03/01/we-were-part-of-the-first-25-purchasers-of-the-agent-kit-for-our-son/), but also [Sentinels for your home](https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/03/01/i-could-not-keep-up-with-my-house-all-alone-without-my-sentinels/), and be [one of the first to buy the home pod](https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/03/01/i-feel-closer-to-you-now-that-you-have-a-home-pod/). Most of all though, I am just looking forward to being able to eventually [watch my favorites movies over and over and have it be a completely new experience every time](https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/02/26/spotless-mind-movie-rentals/). [![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/bb05d9ef-d2e7-4fc4-9183-834f5480bd33.png?w=960&fit=max)](https://alternate.kinlane.com/2025/02/26/spotless-mind-movie-rentals/) *Flutter Bye* I am finding hope reading about when [the machine stops](https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf) and [the ones who walk away from Omelas](https://bsky.app/profile/kinlane.bsky.social/post/3ljfwpf3wnk24). I am also finding ongoing nutrients in the hope in the writings and words of David Graeber through his [practical utopians guide to the coming collapse](https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-practical-utopians-guide-to-the-coming-collapse), which afterwards I found myself [digging through his website](https://davidgraeber.org/) looking for more hope. Ok, minimal viable Kin Lane newsletter drafted, and I am going back to finish [The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed)—which I find very, very soothing in this moment. [![The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels.](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/73d8862a-d38c-43df-8909-8aa0d8e0e538.png?w=960&fit=max)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed) *The Dispossessed* I find that Ursula’s vision of anarchism explains why I have had imposter syndrome my entire life living within capitalism, and I find that David Graeber’s vision of anarchism equips me with the hope I need to deal with the future. *Anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. -****David Graeber*** ![](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/78b4c992-79e2-4812-975f-70e5cfc661aa.png?w=960&fit=max) *Ukraine!!* *** ## Discussion No replies yet.