This week, Donald Trump published a book without giving credit to his ghostwriter.
I’m too busy working these rubes in Iowa to pen a book. You’re my agent. Get me a ghostwriter.
I know the perfect one, dickhead.
Can he write words good, like Hemingway?
He’s the classiest, assbreath.
Tell him to get to work. I need 169 pages of poorly sourced bullshit right away.
Will do, fuckface.
- Old Print Article: RCA Chairman predicts the technological future (1931).
- Trump refused to accept money from billionaire donors, after they refused to give him any.
- Edward Luce analyzes two vastly different books about Trump.
- Ben Carson seems less concerned with whistle-stop tours than the gravy train.
- Avuncular cryptkeeper Stephen King thinks the GOP is a horror show.
- Middle-age white Americans are dying at an alarming rate.
- Every 26 million years, there’ve been dramatic extinction events.
- Steve Wozniak likes driverless, hates surveillance. We’re getting both.
- The “economic singularity” is probably not upon us.
- Tesla’s vision transmitting power wirelessly may soon be realized.
- Some in Silicon Valley think social isolation is a growth industry.
- Virtual Reality will improve education and help people masturbate with ghosts.
- Intelligent machines will sell Panera’s godawful coffee, eliminate jobs.
- Nick Bostrom believes a key to human survival is cognitive enhancement.
- Theologians and technologists sometimes see humanness as a sad state.
- A posthumous Robert Hughes essay recalls the grandeur of the Magazine Age.
- NASA’s Charles Bolden believes the first “Space Generation” has been born.
- Buzz Aldrin thinks we should send people to Mars on one-way trips.
- Spacesuits for Mars missions will be markedly different.
- The Economist republishes its 1957 Sputnik 2 coverage.
- Japan wants to have driverless taxis by the 2020 Games.
- Some think China has created a promising democracy alternative.
- USA Today immigration reporter Alan Gomez did an AMA about Cuba.
- Education will need to change radically over the next 20 years.
- A brief note from 1901 about a serial groom.
- A brief note from 1901 about a gift of monkeys.
- A brief note from 1901 about a bad bet.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.