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 27th from 16:20 to 10:00:

• Star Trek Discovery Recap, Season 1, Episode 2 – Meanwhile, Burnham gets to have a charming little back-and-forth with the brig’s security computer after she fails to convince it that “hey, most of the spaceship around me is now missing” poses a serious enough threat to initiate ethical evacuation protocol. She finally debate-teams it into opening a small hole in the containment field and uses the resulting depressurization to “shoot her through to the blast door.”
• How Star Trek: Discovery and The Good Place find humanity in hell – Vox – seriously
• Evil doctor, ethical android: Star Trek’s instantiation of conscience in subroutines | Grech | MOSF Journal of Science Fiction –
• (1) dan hon(k) on Twitter: “Please see my RFC for HTTP error code 461: “Unavailable due to anthropogenic climate change” https://t.co/T8C9V2KmKI” / Twitter –
• Wayne E. Lee (2016): Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History – Wayne E. Lee (2016): Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
• g traditional thermal management technologies, OHPs enable low-cost manufacturing techniques due to the lack of an internal wick structure. OHPs provide a low cost method to alleviate electronics thermal constraints and allow for increased processing powe –