Kin Lane

@kinlane.bsky.social

I am a storyteller who likes playing with images (algorotoscope) & making technology more visible by performing as the @apievangelist.com, and APIs more discoverable with @apis.io. #apis #standards #cybernetics #history #images #art #rottweiler #bikes

“Novick, her partner Ken Burns and their team encountered roughly 16,000 such images in the process of producing a forthcoming documentary on the history of the American justice system, whittling it down to nearly 1,400 images that made it into the four-part series.”

Curating Crime and Punishment: What 10 Images Reveal About American Justice

Filmmaker Lynn Novick sifted through thousands of historical images to create her upcoming documentary series on the American justice system.

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I like how lettuce is to blame, and not corporate farms and lack of government oversight. It's like how students cheating with AI is the problem, and not companies building AI and lack of government oversight.

A system is what a system does. I am trying to understand what NYC does in this moment. After 15 years studying enterprise, institutional, and government systems from the inside-out and outside-in, I am learning that outside-in has its advantage in many circumstances.

NYC as a System

Rising above any single agency to see NYC as a system — where open data left a gap, and what a crosswalk of APIs, MCP, and Agent Skills adds to make the city programmable from the outside-in.

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