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 21st from 21:16 to 13:58:

• A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration: Steven Hahn: 9780674017658: Amazon.com: Books – "“A Nation Under Our Feet,” the yearlong story line written by Mr. Coates and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze, is inspired by the 2003 book of the same title by Steven Hahn."
• ‘It’s almost like a parallel government structure has been created.’ – Who's Funding Kevin Johnson's Secret Government? — Deadspin's detailed report on a developing scandal involving Sacramento, California mayor and former NBA star…
• Subject: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT (BEN CARSON) – Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson recently sent a cease and desist letter (pdf) to CafePress. The reason? To halt sales of all…
• Deep Belief Networks at Heart of NASA Image Classification – Deep learning algorithms have pushed image recognition and classification to new heights over the last few years, and those same approaches are now being moved…
• S.M.H. Jeong on Twitter: “someone help me find the copyright angle to pig fucking” – Learned discussion emerging from this tweet convinces me that both copyright and England are eternal mysteries.