This week, after much consideration, Joe Biden finally made a decision.
I’m fairly certain I’d like a vanilla waffle cone.
- Old Print Articles: Charles Curtis, Native American, becomes Vice President (1929) + Circus legend George Conklin recalls his brilliant career (1921).
- President Obama interviews novelist Marilynne Robinson about politics, etc.
- David Brooks expertly sums up the GOP descent into madness.
- Donald Trump should have just put his dad’s money in a mutual fund.
- Bill Gates says gov’t R&D and carbon taxes are needed to fight climate change.
- Venkatesh Rao thinks climate-change austerities are unlikely to occur.
- Malcolm Gladwell did an AMA related to his article about school shootings.
- A refugee bears witness to North Korea’s murderous Orwellian circus.
- Liz Parrish said she’s using BioViva’s genetic therapy. That’s complicated.
- Mathematician Ben Goertzel talks intelligent machines, life extension, etc.
- Corporations want to use technology to collect data from consumers’ brains.
- Mysterious megastructures move rapidly around a distant star.
- Ray Kurzweil thinks in 20 years we’ll plug our brains into the Internet.
- Moore’s Law has encouraged lots of irrational technological overpromising.
- A new Robohow project demonstrates how customizable AI may become.
- Intelligence Augmentation aids existed long before HoloLens and such.
- On driverless: GM embraces the technology, robotrucks working in Australia.
- Overcrowded American prisons may not be the result of drug laws.
- Even Steve Jobs’ story is fodder for Aaron Sorkin’s internal struggles.
- Karl Lagerfeld seems a nightmarish character from a German horror film.
- A brief note from 1901 about a friendly wager.
- A brief note from 1901 about a handsome girl.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.