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. 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!
While living in the World Wide Web of Apartness I find myself empathizing with people who don’t feel like they 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 before they disappear I am given hope reading the 18F post declaring they were quite done yet. This all just reminds me how business efficiency is also a vehicle for dangerous ideology, as the people in power continue to just see us humans 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. Am I the only who soothes themselves by studying complex systems?
As we continue to pick up the pace of living in the Matrix I urge people to invest in agent kits for their kids, but also Sentinels for your home, and be one of the first to buy the 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.
I am finding hope reading about when the machine stops and the ones who walk away from Omelas. 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, which afterwards I found myself digging through his website 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—which I find very, very soothing in this moment.
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
