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 May 13th from 07:03 to 10:51:

• Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry | WIRED – paul ford again
• The Training Commission – VICE –
• “Infinite Detail” Imagines an Apocalypse Many of Us Long For – Electric Literature –
• Why Jeff Bezos’s Space Habitats Already Feel Stale – CityLab –
• Accused of ‘Terrorism’ for Putting Legal Materials Online – The New York Times –

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 May 10th from 14:43 to 14:54:

• Jeff Bezos unveils his sweeping vision for humanity’s future in space | Ars Technica –
• A Manifesto: Using Empirical Research in Journalism and Scholarship to Understand Big Tech – Lawfare –
• Opinion | Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby. – The New York Times –
• We played Die, the Jumanji-like game fueling Kieron Gillen’s new comic – Polygon –
• Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I Don’t Think a Four-Year Degree is Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding’ – MacRumors –

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 May 8th from 09:12 to 13:47:

• How an Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare – VICE –
• Editor-in-Chief, UX – Jobs at Apple – Oooh, looks interesting.
• Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work – The Verge –
• “RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks | Ars Technica –
• Disability Insurance for the Self Employed –

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 May 7th from 14:08 to 08:47:

• Sex With Robots Was Never the Point – OneZero –
• Gamasutra – Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design –
• Be Good for Goodness’ Sake – VICE –
• How Not to Announce a Ship Deployment – Defense One – "It has been more than 330 days since a Pentagon spokesman was on camera in the Pentagon briefing room. It has been 252 days since a U.S. defense secretary held a press conference in the briefing room. President Trump has not nominated a replacement for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Shanahan has been serving as “acting” secretary for 126 days." everything is fine the world's largest military is totally fine and its commander in chief is not making stuff up and being enabled by a bunch of other people who are making it up
• Immersive Wolf of Wall Street to bring outrageous behaviour to secret location | Stage | The Guardian – KidZania but for grownups

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 7th from 10:29 to 13:12:

• It’s wrongheaded to protect nature with human-style rights | Aeon Ideas –
• Strategic design for public purpose – UCL IIPP Blog – Medium –
• Ethan Hein on Twitter: “The Music Teachers Facebook group is having an impassioned debate on what to do about the many American folk songs with racist origins and connotations. It’s unusually civil and constructive, aside from the occasional rant about PC –
• Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the anthropocene – Uncanny Magazine – "How to deal with the end of the world: first, recognize that everyone’s world is ending all the time."
• How to remove a coffee cup or other object from your video – The Verge – 2021: How to remove a {insert object} from your iSight
• Liquid Death, water in a tallboy can, gets $1.6 million in seed funding – Business Insider – "When we first started, we wondered why is it that products and [consumer packaged goods] products have to play by these 1950's bland and boring rules, while other entertainment things can play by much more fun rules," Cessario told Business Insider.

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 May 6th from 14:36 to 07:36:

• “They looked like objects in the world that were not in the world” | MetaFilter –
• ‘There are so many biases’: inside the American foster care system | Film | The Guardian –
• Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog –
• Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian | The New Yorker –
• How San Francisco’s Cloudflare helps serve up hate online – SFChronicle.com – “We need to make it clear to all of these people that there are consequences for messing with us,” Anglin wrote in one online post. “We are not a bunch of babies to be kicked around. We will take revenge. And we will do it now.” — owner of Daily Stormer on taking "revenge" for being criticized for content which, you know, is a bit how someone who is a baby — ie not able to have a mature conversation — reacts.

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 May 4th from 20:20 to 13:23:

• The Design Vanguard — PLEDGE – holding back my snark instinct to think about what I can constructively say
• The Design Vanguard – hmmmm
• AirPods Are a Tragedy – VICE – Ooooh
• Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard. It Wasn’t. – The New York Times – We design systems that are too complicated for us to easily understand, but think we’re smarter than we are
• Be Like Rey: What Star Wars Teaches Us About the Future of Junk | iFixit –
• Better Language Models and Their Implications –

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 May 3rd from 09:39 to 08:42:

• Recreating 1850s Vintage Photography (and IR!) @ Phil Warren Photography –
• Recreating the Look of 1850s Tintypes in Digital with Math and Science –
• Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas | Quanta Magazine –
• Toy Story 4 footage reveals the exact moment a toy gains consciousness – Polygon – "If you make a stack of Lego into a person-shape, name it Brick, and play around with it, do all the Lego become one sentient being? What happens when you destroy it?" – anthropomorphize all the things!
• The Emergence of a Fovea while Learning to Attend – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 2nd from 12:06 to 15:16:

• Mind the Gender Gap: The Hidden Data Gap in Transport – London Reconnections – "To meet the myriad of caring commitments and household responsibilities, women ‘trip-chain’. That is, tie together small trips into a larger journey plan. This is a typical travel pattern observed in women across the world." – Google Maps doesn't really do this
• Jargon Watch: Stochastic Terrorism Lets Bullies Operate in Plain Sight | WIRED –
• The Measure of Things –
• De-identification Consulting –
• The Best Reads For After Seeing ‘Avengers: Endgame’ – Digg –
• The Lancet Digital Health – Is health-care data the new blood? [ed: yes, it is] – "So, in health care, is data equivalent to oil or would it be more accurate to describe it as blood? We propose that health-care data records are digital specimens and should be treated with the same rigour, care, and caution afforded to physical medical specimens. We advocate that the use of these digital samples be limited to validated and beneficial uses for the donor and that patient privacy be fully protected." BRILLIANT analogy.

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 May 1st from 23:35 to 11:41:

• Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship Chicago –
• Superconductive Health – "We build critical-path data pipelines for healthcare, technology, and life sciences companies."
• The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup – Columbia Journalism Review – Jesus Christ
• (5) 5’7” Black Male on Twitter: “I spent a lot of time in the criminal justice system building bridges and relationships with cops, prosecutors, judges, court officers and defense attorneys. The purpose was to make it easier for me to navigate court invo –
• Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation: Causal Nets Cause Common Confounding – Gwern.net –
• Intel to Support Hardware Ray Tracing Acceleration on Data Center Xe GPUs –