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 July 19th from 15:33 to 13:31:

• Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’ | Technology | The Guardian – I thought: my God – this could inadvertently happen in a real mission. I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and Nasa said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake.
• Watch Simon Stålenhag’s art come to life in this fantastic fan-animated film – The Verge –
• Emotion-detection applications built on outdated science, report warns | EurekAlert! Science News –
• Eminent psychologists condemn “emotion detection” systems as being grounded in junk science / Boing Boing –
• Metropolitan Police on Twitter: “We are the police.. – Cal and dylan are gay btw https://t.co/gxHHsEoWiU” / Twitter –