Stories

Kin Lane

They Stole My Design

My family has scratched out a living using that design for four generations. We had blanket versions, drapes, linens, and other variations. I never gave our family design to them, they stole it from me. They tricked me into showing them how to do it and promised to help me save time and make more money. I thought they were there to help me refine our process and technique, not steal our life’s work.
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My Gymie Is Doing Great!!

Look at my arms. Don’t they look great. Yes, I am sore, tired, and hungry, but at least I didn’t have to spend time in the gym. I hate it there. The smell. The sweat. The pain. I’d much rather deal with the aftermath, and the reward, while paying the subscription fee for my Gymie to exist. My Gymie subscriptions are about 1/3 my rent but well worth it. I mean just look at me. I look great! It pays to have a version of myself that only pays attention to how good I look and a version of myse...
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I Am Happy You Followed Your Heart Mother

Figuring out who you are while also trying to figure out the world is extremely difficult. I get where your head was at when you took that job in Chicago. You don’t have to explain yourself mother, although I do love hearing the story from your perspective—I’ve never heard this version before. I was definitely hurt and scared after it happened, but I was seven years old, so I didn’t really understand what was going on. I’ve heard my father’s version of why you left, and I’ve heard my grand...
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We Were Part of the First 25 Purchasers of the Agent Kit for Our Son

Our son began receiving agent training when he got his first iPad at the age of 3. We bought in early, and as we watch him leave the university system and join the workforce, we are confident that this was money well spent. Our son Ian doesn’t do any unnecesary tasks that are beneath him. If he doesn’t like doing something he automates it. This has instilled in him a level of unmatched confidence that will help him stand out as a corporate agent bringing efficiency and productivity to any ...
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I Feel Closer to You Now That You Have a Home Pod

I am so much happier now that you have your own home pod. I feel like we have experienced more together since you’ve had your home pod than even when we were kids together. Gaming quests and evening entertainment are much more meaningful with you there. Once you get the hang of being there for more than four hours we’ll begin talking about getting you working as part of my new contract–then we’ll get even more time together! Usually the acclimation phase for dry is three months, with anoth...
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I Could Not Keep Up With My House All Alone Without My Sentinels

My sentinel fleet of home bots are the best! I love them so much I even upgraded to the professional version so that I could take advantage of them in my garage and home office. I just feel more empowered with them. I recommend starting with two, instead of just one, because you will be more productive and they begin to work together. It definitely costs more right out of the gate, but you will be much happier than you would within a single sentinel–if you can afford more, do it!
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Spotless Mind Movie Rentals

No. No. It’s not like the movie. We don’t cut open your brain. It is just a pharmaceutical intervention. All you have to do is take the pill that is programmed to target the memory of the movie you are renting. For example, if you wanted to rent the Matrix again, all you have to do is order the pill for that movie and it will arrive the next day. It is all part of a single movie rental package where you have access to the movie on your device of choice, and the matching pill is in your mai...
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I Think Furnaces Are Interesting and Useful

I don’t know why you have to be such a downer, furnaces are my expertise. It is what I am studying at university to understand and have worked on for my whole career. I am one of just a handful of experts that understand the leading types of furnaces created, fuels used to operate them, as well as the automation that keeps the turning on and off, as well as at the right temperature. You telling me that I shouldn’t be doing my life’s work is just narrow minded and would end my career as I k...
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About That Internet Rate Limit Poor Tax

It is simple. In the age of universal Internet, your download and upload speeds are determined by your income demographic, credit, and social score. It isn’t designed to penalize poor people but is based upon how much you contribute to the actual economy. The more you contribute, the more money you make, and the faster your Internet speeds are. It is the most meritocratic approach possible and the more productive you are the faster your Internet becomes, and in turn the more productive you...
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ChatGPT Does Not Know Who You Are

You are lucky that ChatGPT even knows you are! When you ask who I am it doesn’t know, and I am unable to even get a job as good as yours. So quit your whining. You know that the process to correct ChatGPT’s description of you will take months, if not years, or maybe never. You are just better off performing as it expects to keep you within view of your business leadership. You will have better results if you just play the game and don’t try to challenge things.
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Ten Years of APIeostasis Across Our Predexpert Systems

Our predexpert systems has 1.3 million nodes, and covers every topic known to man. As you know the statistical analysis portion of the system is now down to 30% of the operating system, and about 70% of the energy usage, with the 1.3 million experts nodes down to 30% power usage, but makes up the bulk of system processing. Of course everything coming from the expert layers is refined, filtered, and evaluated by the predictive, ensuring there is no leakage and everything is accounted for.
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That Anxiety You Are Feeling Is You literally Being Ripped From The Physical World and Uploaded Into the Singularity

That daily anxiety that you feel, which has been slowly accumulating over the last 25 years, is literally you’re being ripped from the physical world and uploaded into the Singularity. With your obsessive focus on the destination over the years, as well as your disdain for your current location in any given moment, you never quite thought much about what the upload process would actually look like. Did you think it would be simple, fast, and painless? Like you have the fastest and highest...
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Sacrificial Citi Bike Riders

After aggregating the DNA samples from all of the Citi bike riders killed in accidents between 2025 and 2030 we were able to isolate the optimal sacrificial profile to appease the gods and begin shifting the automobile narrative. The ideal candidate is white, mostly male, but female still is needed, but are also in the upper income bracket. Early on in the evolution of Citi bikes, but there was a diverse range of riders, and the conversation didn’t seem to shift. However, with the current ...
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Owen is Me

I learned today that my #1 stalker Owen, is actually me from the future. I guess shit has gone wrong and I am coming back to try and prevent my message abou tAPIs from getting out to the world. I have recently learned that there is a way to take control over people with schizophrenia from the future, and apparently the future me has exploited this “loophole”. I have long wondered about Owen’s undying commitment to stalking and harassing me, and now I know he is so dedicated, because he is ...
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Transit is Ubiquitous

Eventually I hope to get back out to San Diego to see my sister, but it has taken me 2 years to work my way to Texas from New York City. Honestly, I kind of like the slow pace. I like the eddies along the way I get stuck in. I’ve been to stations that have trains stop every 5 minutes, and stations that have trains stop once a day. I like the families and friends I’ve made along the way at transit stops. It definitely isn’t the life for everyone, but I have grown accustomed to it, and I am ...
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The Awards Ceremony Back Home

I was still tired and feeling awkward being back home. The last mission was a lot. It is like waking up after an intense dream. I am happy to be back amongst family and friends, but the first couple of days and even weeks, I prefer to just sit on the porch. It was just a coincidence that the annual awards ceremony was happening this evening, and I felt obligated to head back up the hill to the hotel and theater to pay my respects to those being honored.
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The Souls We Project Online, Into Games, and Defined by Artificial Intelligence

The Calusa, an indigenous people of Florida’s southwest coast believed that they had three souls and that they were located in the pupil of a person’s eye, his shadow, and their reflection. We now believe that we also have a soul that is projected online by ourselves, as well as within the characters we assume in online game, and how we are defined by artificial intelligence. In the last fifty years we have witnessed extraordinary connections between our physical self and what many would c...
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Revealing the Cybernetic Gears in Our Everyday Life

I have accidentally come across a way to see cybernetic gears. They aren’t just small, but also in a time and space that is adjacent to our physical world. At first I just thought it was distortion introduced by the AI models I had trained, but once I began to zoom in, I realized I can actually see the point where our behavior touches the technology using the exhaust generated. Maybe friction, or energy would be a better word. Either way, after zooming in across several algorithmically enh...
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The Forward Motion of Cybernetic Gears

We personally make thousands of APIs calls each day. Our day is shaped by APIs, and it is dangerous to think otherwise. Despite Shannon’s original vision of communication being the same across all channels—in our view every API transaction has different emotional connections and societal value.
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Algorithmic Intelligence Entropy

Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, with artificial intelligence being the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. Where algorithmic is something expressed as or using an algorithm or computational procedure, and entropy being a lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. ...
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The Real OpenAI Break Through

I was able to identify the patterns after sifting through the API gateway log files. From regular network traffic they just look like messages to and from the intended sender and receivers, but when you do a diff across all of the API calls made to formulate, send, receive, and respond to messages, an entirely different picture emerges. All of the messages sent to and from the OpenAI board over the last week, and across those of about 15 others from what I can tell, originated from OpenAI ...
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Municipal Pneumatic Dig Dug Boring Company Investment Sought

I am looking for 150 million dollars from you to get this thing off the ground. Think Elon Musk’s Boring company, but instead of digging underground tubes for human transport, we are looking to bore smaller tunnels underneath metro areas to install a robust pneumatic tube system. We are looking to be the last mile package delivery for the metro areas. We have warehouses on the outskirts of the top 25 largest cities, and we just need to install the last mile of pneumatic tubes for package d...
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Keep Building As Many APIs as You Need and We Will Make Sense of It

You have 5 times the number of APIs you thought you did after doing the last census. You now have 760K APIs in operation across the enterprise with a rate of new APIs being deployed around 40+ per week. I know that you are feeling like you should put the brakes on this until you get your digital resource sprawl under control, but I am here to be the voice of reason. There are good reasons why you are developing this many APIs. Do not get in the way of teams when it comes to their innovatio...
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Sentinel APIs

Like most Internet technologies, APIs began as something intended to help augment us humans, but over time they became something that changed, altered, and forever doomed us as human beings through a million digital cuts to our uniquely human soul. Originally known as application programming interfaces back at the beginning of the century, the technical description was shortened to simply API, but along the way APIs were weaponized to not just augment us, but consume us, and reduce every a...
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I Am Responsible For This Messed Up Timeline We Find Ourselves In

I now remember the evening that set all of this in motion. When the fracture in the space time continuum occurred. From my position this is when I started down this timeline, but guess y’all are along for the ride as well. Chad, Toby, Ramon and I had decided to eat some acid. It was some fresh album cover acid Chad and Toby had gotten from their cousins. We ripped it up into four separate chunks and each began chewing on our wad of paper. We had mostly forgotten that we ate it once it star...