Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for September 24th from 21:42 to 17:30:

• Brooklyn mailman arrested for not delivering 40,000 pieces of mail – NY Daily News – Another mailman found with tons of undelivered mail. Systems should detect problem routes, mentally ill workers, etc.
• FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones – The Washington Post – hahahahahahaha every quote in here is amazing.
• Ben Welsh on Twitter: “WARNING TO WRITERS found on newspaper clippings packets in the old @latimes library http://t.co/un3gNL9ZSv” – WARNING TO WRITERS found on newspaper clippings packets in the old @latimes library
• A look inside the MIT Media Lab | BetaBoston – Tour the building “at the intersection of technology, human expression and learning” with @BetaBoston
• Reasonable People Disagree about the Post-Gen X, Pre-Millennial Generation – Between Generation X and the Millennials, there’s a group of people currently in their late 20s and early 30s who don’t identify with either label. We call them…
• The past year has been an eventful one for Ingress. Over seven million Agents… – IngressFollow2,379,702 followers|198,124,463 viewsIngressShared publicly – 8:04 AM #IngressMissions #IngressReport #Ingress The past year has been an eventful…
• Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves? – Airline pilots were once the heroes of the skies. Today, in the quest for safety, airplanes are meant to largely fly themselves. Which is why the 2009 crash of…
• Scorpion Brings the Stupidest, Most Batshit Insane Hacker Scene Ever – Stop everything and watch this. This is the stupidest computer hacking scene EVER FILMED.