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 October 23rd from 12:00 to 13:31:

• Dr. Neven & Mr. Gan on Twitter: “Currently proofreading some text… for a… thing… It’s going to be hard to tweet my workday, it turns out! https://t.co/Xy08AwKO6w” – Currently proofreading some text… for a… thing… It's going to be hard to tweet my workday, it turns out!
• Why Angry Old Men Calling a Meeting to Yell at a Woman Is Always a Spectacular Failure – Why Angry Men Calling a Meeting to Yell at a Woman Is Always a Spectacular Failure
• Keith Stuart on Twitter: “Today the Guardian has a humorous article about how crap British biscuits are – there are comments that had to be removed by the moderators.” – To be fair it was an A+ clickbait troll of a piece.
• Data & Society – what danah (and co) did next
• Why is the US military funding robots that play jazz? –
• Amazon reports price of Elemental acquisition: $296 million –
• Head of Egg Industry Group Steps Down After Vegan Mayo Issue –