This week, Mike Huckabee, personal friend of God, announced at a firing range that he might run for President, which is what Jesus would have wanted.
Let’s eff some shit up, Mikey.
- Old Print Articles: Giovanni Succi, professional hunger artist, ends his fast (1890) + William “Bill” Cates recalls riding as part of the Pony Express (1908) + James S. Jameson, whiskey heir, accused of inciting an act of cannibalism (1890).
- Featured Videos: Bill Gates thinks human brains make for substandard hardware + The futuristic kitchen of 1985, as envisioned in 1964.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Maybe bring an empty Sprite can or something.
- Robert Schuller was a pastorpreneur supreme.
- Alex Gibney argues against Scientology’s tax-exempt status.
- Some dealers make money by selling penny books on Amazon.
- Wikipedia is striving to remain relevant in a shifting landscape.
- Robots and human workers make a great team. For now.
- Facebook wants you to be able to experience anything. Is that good?
- Noam Chomsky doesn’t believe news has benefited by media’s decentralization.
- Silicon Valley technologists would like to literally be immortal.
- Neuroscouting helped deliver Mookie Betts to the Red Sox.
- No one truly knows when (or if) we’ll have sentient machines.
- The new machines have enabled corporations to have a volunteer workforce.
- We might be clinging to an economic model made ineffectual by technology.
- From law to sex to evolution, space colonization is complicated.
- Airbnb rapidly set up shop in computer-challenged Cuba. How?
- Mercenary forces aren’t going to disappear. How can they be regulated?
- Dr. Fredric Brandt, the “Baron of Botox, was likely not killed by comedy.
- Lou Reed’s sister corrects the popular legend of his electroshock therapy.
- Living in a modern-day NYC commune is a singular experience.
- Could we rebuild after an apocalypse sans fossil fuels? Perhaps.
- Geoengineering will, of course, have unintended consequences.
- Moley Robotics wants to market a chef that’s truly iron.
- Roomba is designing an automated lawn mower. Astronomers are angered.
- Reno is making an expensive bet on Elon Musk’s gigafactory.
- Musk wants Homo sapiens to be a multiplanet species.
- Stewart Brand offers a reading list of 76 books.
- Insanity may sometimes have its source in infections.
- A brief note from 1920 about hangmen’s wages.
- A brief note from 1902 about a whipped man.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.