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 August 20th from 22:00 to 06:11:

• Let 2018 be the year that the stars came closer for all of us. | MetaFilter –
• Read N.K. Jemisin’s Historic Hugo Speech – The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog –
• bellingcat – “A Naive Set of Assumptions” – An Expert’s View on Ted Postol Hexamine Theories – bellingcat –
• Hot Chips 2018: The Google Pixel Visual Core Live Blog (10am PT, 5pm UTC) –
• Children ‘at risk of robot influence’ – BBC News –