Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 1st from 08:13 to 18:32:

• Intentionally Intensional Information Architecture — Dorian Taylor – "Until the computer came along, the only viable way to manage information was in document-sized chunks, arranged in hierarchical categories. Now that the computer is here—and has been for a while—we can afford much richer forms of organizing information, but don’t seem to be using them nearly as much as we could. This, I suspect, has is because we lack a simple concept, the thing that makes a category a category. That concept is intension."
• Intentionally Intensional Information Architecture — Dorian Taylor – YouTube – "Up until the computer came along, the only viable way to manage information was in document-sized chunks, arranged in hierarchical categories. Now that the computer is here—and has been for a while—we can afford much richer forms of organizing information, but don't seem to be using them nearly as much as we could. This, I suspect, is because we lack a simple concept, the thing that makes a category a category. That concept is intension."
• Opinion | James Comey: How Trump Co-opts Leaders Like Bill Barr – The New York Times – Party of moral strength and discipline purposefully elevates key individuals lacking in moral strength and discipline, film at eleven
• Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto | Project Hieroglyph –
• Strange Horizons – Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times By Jaymee Goh –
• You don’t really want it any more from me: deflatermouse –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 30th from 04:40 to 22:00:

• Here’s How Much People Make By Writing Paid Email Newsletters –
• Digital stop and search: how the UK police can secretly download everything from your mobile phone – “Highlighting the potential value of data from mobile apps, a recent murder investigation in Germany utilised metrics from the apps on individuals’ phone. In that case, Apple’s iPhone health app activity record stated that the suspect was “‘climbing stairs,’ which authorities were able to correlate with the time he would have dragged his victim down the river embankment, and then climbed back up.”
• Digital stop and search: how the UK police can secretly download everything from your mobile phone | Privacy International –
• An Attempt to Unpack Avengers: Endgame’s Insane End Credits –
• Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and science fiction. –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 29th from 10:46 to 16:00:

• Greenlight – The Debit Card for Kids – what
• History of the Capital AI & Market Failures in the Attention Economy — Kortina –
• An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands | Hacker News –
• California Man Says He Called FBI Called Right Before Poway Synagogue Shooting – If only there were funding for some sort of effort against white nationalist domestic terrorism / an earlier version of this snark was “Global Frequency aleph fusion center lacks funding, resources”
• Wall Street Dems Are Freaking Out About the 2020 Candidates – “Democrats”

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 April 26th from 19:01 to 15:02:

• I Work With Suicidal Farmers. It’s Becoming Too Much to Bear. | The New Republic –
• Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon STEVE –
• Nanoscale vacuum-channel transistor – Wikipedia –
• Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing – IEEE Spectrum – “At the NASA Ames Research Center, we’ve been working for the past few years to develop vacuum-channel transistors. Our research is still at an early stage, but the prototypes we’ve constructed show that this novel device holds extraordinary promise. Vacuum-channel transistors could work 10 times as fast as ordinary silicon transistors and may eventually be able to operate at terahertz frequencies, which have long been beyond the reach of any solid-state device. And they are considerably more tolerant of heat and radiation.”
• Why Everyone Is Watching TV with Closed Captioning On These Days –

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 April 25th from 19:01 to 15:33:

• Machine behaviour | Nature – "You are viewing a complimentary [author shared] article that [does not allow downloading]" more bullshit
• Understanding machine behaviour –
• It’s Time to Study AI on Its Own Terms – what if systems thinking, but for A.I., and acknowledging that the system of A.I. also includes humans?
• Machine behaviour — MIT Media Lab – I cannot find an open access version of this paper, and that is bullshit
• Machine behaviour | Nature – "Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits and minimize their harms. Here we argue that this necessitates a broad scientific research agenda to study machine behaviour that incorporates and expands upon the discipline of computer science and includes insights from across the sciences. We first outline a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging field and then explore the technical, legal and institutional constraints on the study of machine behaviour."
• Dmitry.GR – rePalm – Hardware emulation of PalmOS
• Word salad – Nicki Sprinz – Medium –
• How California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants – Los Angeles Times –
• DODGEBALL-“ESPN 8-THE OCHO” SEQUENCES on Vimeo – The opening sequences to the "ESPN 8-The Ocho" broadcasts of the Dodgeball Tournaments in "Dodgeball-A True Underdog Story". The film was directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and produced by Ben Stiller's company Red Hour. These graphic sequences were creative directed by Rick Austin and animated by Imperial Studio. www.rickaustin.tv

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 April 24th from 22:25 to 16:11:

• Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. – Motherboard – Careful, engineers are going to discover "politics" and "compromise" and "the art of the possible" next
• Ideasthesia – Wikipedia – "Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is defined as a phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Ancient Greek ?δ?α (idéa) and α?σθησις (aísth?sis), meaning "sensing concepts" or "sensing ideas".[1]"
• Bouba/kiki effect – Wikipedia –
• This City Builder Asks You to Rebuild the World After Climate Devastation – Waypoint – Sounds brilliant
• “…it’s about creating human habitats amidst climate chaos.” | MetaFilter –
• Here’s the most important MCU scene to rewatch ahead of Avengers: Endgame – The Verge –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 24th from 08:07 to 20:05:

• Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease | Harvard Magazine –
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “New Ground” | Tor.com –
• My Apple Watch (Phil Gyford’s website) –
• “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug – “Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.”
• Why do depressed people prefer sad music? – PsycNET –

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 April 23rd from 20:14 to 07:34:

• All About Pete | Current Affairs –
• BBC Radio 4 – New Ways of Seeing, Invisible Networks –
• FILTRATE on Vimeo – In a surreal future, humanity has been transformed beyond any and all recognition by the echo chambers of social media. Shot entirely on iPhone 7 in the Montréal underground, FILTRATE is an exploration of digital connectivity and physical isolation. BEHIND THE SCENES: http://bit.ly/2v0kT47 World Premiere // 2018 Fantasia Film Festival US Premiere // 2019 Slamdance Film Festival Gallery Exhibition // Centre Never Apart – Montreal, QC WWW.FILTRATE.FILM —- Dans un futur surréel, les chambres d’écho de nos réseaux sociaux actuels divisent l’humanité en espèces disparates. Enfouis sous terre parmi un univers vaste et déserté, cinq personnages tentent de se connecter. Tourné entièrement sur iPhone 7 dans le métro Montréalais, FILTRATE est une exploration de la connectivité numérique et de l’isolation physique.
• Apple Now Prioritizing MacBook Keyboard Repairs With Quoted Next-Day Turnaround Time – MacRumors – Can Apple fix the MacBook keyboard faster than it can add mouse support to the iPad Pro?
• State of Oregon: AQ Programs – Oregon Clean Vehicle Rebate Program – The State of Oregon's EV rebate program requires you to submit your rebate application by printing out a PDF and sending it in the mail. I HAVE NO FURTHER COMMENT, YOUR HONOUR.

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 23rd from 13:48 to 17:52:

• Tristan Harris: Tech Is ‘Downgrading Humans.’ It’s Time to Fight Back | WIRED –
• Center for Humane Technology: Realigning Technology with Humanity – I HAVE OPINIONS
• Nick Seaver on Twitter: “oh my god they redid their mission statement and, well, folks… “ –
• Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Attended Closed-Door Meeting With President Trump – Motherboard – Jack can see "both sides", I guess
• How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell | Fortune –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for April 23rd from 09:43 to 10:39:

• GBIC: About | Berkeley Social Welfare – GBIC has been established to undertake transformative, innovative research in the areas of health and social welfare, especially for vulnerable populations. The long-term vision for the center is to pursue a range of topics from basic to applied research and to translate research into policy and practice. The center is envisioned as a big data research hub for world-class University of California and Chinese researchers with the eventual engagement of academic researchers from around the globe.
• It’s not as simple as it sounds: Problems and solutions in accessing and using administrative child welfare data for evaluating the impact of early childhood interventions – "In recent years, there has been increasing interest in using administrative data collected by state child welfare agencies as a source of information for research and evaluation. The challenges of obtaining access to and using these data, however, have not been well documented. This study describes the processes used to access child welfare records in six different states and the approach to combining and using the information gathered to evaluate the impact of the Early Head Start program on children's involvement with the child welfare system from birth through age eleven. We provide “lessons learned” for researchers who are attempting to use this information, including being prepared for long delays in access to information, the need for deep understanding of how child welfare agencies record and code information, and for considerable data management work for translating agency records into analysis-ready datasets. While accessing and using this information is not easy, and the data have a number of limitations, we suggest that the benefits can outweigh the challenges and that these records can be a useful source of information for policy-relevant child welfare research."
• Multi-Sector Longitudinal Administrative Databases: An Indispensible Tool for Evidence Based Policy for Maltreated Children and Their Families – "This paper describes the need for, practicality and utility of longitudinal, multi-sector, and multi-level administrative data to address key issues in child maltreatment prevention and intervention. The goal is not to alert the reader to a new technology, but rather to clarify its potential and overview the process of creating such a database. Changes in technology, including data storage, computational speed, transfer systems and software advances have made the creation of truly advanced multisector databases vastly easier than was the case even ten years ago. We argue that this meshes well with the emerging recognition that practice and policy should be evidence based. We are entering a time when child welfare policy can now be informed by a much more complete understanding of who we serve, how they are served over time, what other social service systems they encounter, and what outcomes they commonly experience."
• A Longitudinal Medical Record Is Key to Clinical Decision Support –
• Cerner to debut ‘longitudinal patient records’ by next year –