This week the Obamas visited Kensington Palace, and the President, cocky as ever, couldn’t resist talking smack to his young rival Prince George.
You’re being groomed to be the figurehead of a former empire. I’m a real leader.
Many of your ancestors were Nazi sympathizers.
You know, that kid looks way more like your brother, Harry, than you.
It felt so good because it was so wrong.
- John Grisham discusses Donald Trump, Bull Connor as a condo salesman.
- Reptilian Roy Cohn had the *worst* friends. Trump was one of them.
- Monica Lewinsky came of age when people still had a sense of shame.
- Neal Gabler wrote a great essay on America’s “middle-class poor.”
- President Nixon attempted to institute Basic Income in America.
- The U.S. suicide rate has experienced a scary spike this century.
- Minimum-wage hikes are needed, yet could spur automation.
- Ray Kurzweil tells Playboy about the future of medicine, immortality, etc.
- Peter Singer urges us to ask if we can program a machine to be ethical.
- Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen has established his own lavish mini Davos.
- Moscow is out of step with Vladimir Putin’s retrograde vision.
- Ross Andersen interviews Yuri Milner, who aims to probe Alpha Centauri.
- Douglas Engelbart once sent his SRI lab staff through EST training.
- Richard Branson recalls Freddie Laker as one of his heroes.
- Tesla may have an edge in perfecting driverless cars.
- Beverly Hills wants to use augment public transportation with driverless.
- Love at first sight is different in an age of visual-recognition systems.
- 3D printing may make bespoke clothing fast and affordable.
- Old Print Article: Monkeys ride robot craft through A-bomb cloud. (1913)
- A brief note from 1913 about a Death Valley Argonaut reunion.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.