This week, President Trump said he’ll never stand idly by as Obama recently did while an act of domestic terrorism was being committed.
Why does this cruller taste like Minnie Mouse took a crap on it?
- Old Print Articles: British scientist W.D. Verschoyle wanted to shoot people through the sky in giant bullets (1928) + Friedrich Nietzsche dies, is mocked (1900).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Ultimately, Shasta and her husband couldn’t make it work.
- In the 1960s, Oriana Fallaci profiled Federico Fellini and Alfred Hitchcock.
- Ai Weiwei discusses his state of mind and the surveillance state.
- NASA is considering having robots terraform a piece of the moon.
- There may be a shadow biosphere, but we’re not really looking for it.
- Some aspects of the Sharing Economy are exciting, but there are issues.
- Five years on, Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants is a classic.
- Jobs behind the wheels of buses, taxis and trucks could disappear quickly.
- Autonomous vehicles might already be a cost-effective alternative to taxis.
- “Labor champion” and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wants driverless cars.
- Some Uber drivers wouldn’t be able to afford to work for the company FT.
- One Japanese airport is turning to robot laborers.
- Agricultural drones will make farming more efficient, replace human workers.
- The Chicago open-outcry trading pits are disrupted by technology.
- Some mega-rich people are concerned about wealth inequality.
- The economics of the minimum wage are puzzling and often partisan.
- The Economist looks at Elon Musk and the modern tech-hero culture.
- In the wake of the Hacking Team hack, John McAfee defends the Dark Net.
- The Rework America think-tank tries to make sense of the new economy.
- George Packer thinks we need better revolutionary “pamphleteers.”
- Algorithms, like people, can have intended and unintended biases.
- The desire to deny death can lead us down dangerous paths.
- ISIS brutality has more to do with being human than being Muslim.
- Shopping catalogs, like Taylor Swift, are selling fantasy lifestyles.
- “Short-sleepers” have more time for life than you and me.
- A brief note from 1927 about a stroller.
- A brief note from 1864 about the new hangman.
- A brief note from 1901 about chicken theft.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.