Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 5th from 12:38 to 21:42:

• AI Dungeon –
• The Amazon Builders’ Library –
• AI Dungeon –
• dan hon on Twitter: “Just realized YA publishing has evolved the concept (and industry!) of sensitivity readers… … and there isn’t quite an equivalent concept in Silicon Valley style digital services and products, no? cc @mulegirl” / Twitter –
• mcmillen on Twitter: “”see below to learn how to rotate your head” https://t.co/FJtXkcItYv” / Twitter –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 5th from 08:27 to 10:02:

• Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor –
• The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail – CityLab – VERY MUCH LITERALLY HERE FOR THIS
• I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. – The New York Times –
• I Worked for Alex Jones. I Regret It. – The New York Times –
• Explore Magic Cap, a Smartphone OS from a Decade Before the iPhone | Hacker News –

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 December 4th from 07:21 to 07:59:

• Overview | Explore Magic Cap, a smartphone OS from a decade before the iPhone | Adafruit Learning System –
• Quick, to the rat cave! — Shall we play a game? A GPT-2 text adventure –
• Valve: Campo Santo’s In the Valley of Gods ‘on hold’ – Polygon –
• This is the phone NSA suggested Clinton use: A $4,750 Windows CE PDA | Ars Technica –
• How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company – VICE –
• If creativity is so freeing, why do I feel like I’m trapped? – Jessica Abel –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 3rd from 22:12 to 23:20:

• Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution? –
• AWS – Twitch –
• AWS Outposts Overview –
• Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (beta) –
• AMD and Samsung’s GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration? –
• Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war? –
• Title: Finis Author: Frank L. Pollack * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 3rd from 14:55 to 20:42:

• Solaris | SideFX –
• Re-imagining CA.gov: How Can California Government Better Serve its People? –
• Principles for the Application of Human Intelligence – Behavioral Scientist –
• main –
• The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers – The Verge –

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 December 2nd from 16:15 to 11:21:

• E-Scooter Counting on Sidewalks – DxHub –
• Apple celebrates the best apps and games of 2019 – Apple –
• The Universe of Discourse : Help me ask why you didn’t just… –
• Apple announces first ever Apple Music Awards – Apple – Marcom going into overdrive
• Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle – The New York Times –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 2nd from 10:14 to 15:38:

• Misconceptions about continuous takeoff – LessWrong 2.0 –
• Against Space | Sean Carroll –
• Opinion | A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us – The New York Times –
• PowerPoint Game Jam now open | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• Consult emergency services, 911 organizations tell Apple – 9to5Mac –
• Data Transfer Project – The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.

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 November 30th from 16:05 to 21:42:

• Cameron Esfahani on Twitter: “My first full time job at Apple was working on QuickDraw. The team was very small: the manager and one other engineer. Right before I started, Apple shipped the first PPC Macs. The QD team had done a lot of work for that so t –
• Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf] | Hacker News –
• Tyren on Twitter: “@Velux_ @Kurrikage It’s a modified, scaled up version of this model from thingiverse, plus a simple 3D printed star :D https://t.co/y9fQxuiUhQ” / Twitter –
• Waldo Jaquith on Twitter: “@JayVarnerWriter AAA lobbies in favor of ever-wider roads, and against anything to reduce auto emissions. They’re basically a lobbying shop for terribleness masquerading as a roadside assistance club.” / Twitter –
• The United States Of American Media, Inc. – Popbitch –

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 November 28th from 13:41 to 13:01:

• stacy-marie ishmael on Twitter: “@graubart * and have a way to flag the things that don’t work for them” / Twitter –
• Technology First, Needs Last –
• Information Is Physics | November 2019 | Communications of the ACM –
• Climate change: Heliogen has a clever solution to one of the trickiest heat problems – Vox –
• Dr Sarah Taber on Twitter: “it’s happening folks time to talk about agrarianism in the United Federation of Planets send tweet” / Twitter –

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 November 27th from 11:03 to 12:38:

• How to Develop a Word-Level Neural Language Model and Use it to Generate Text –
• What’s the backend engine on Mac? · Issue #126 · plaidml/plaidml · GitHub –
• Why I Voted to Sell .ORG –
• TensorFlow –
• Let me see if I have this right: robotic process automation means automating ord… | Hacker News –
• *privacy not included – Facebook Portal –