This week, Bernie Sanders, who trails by 3 million votes, complained the nomination was being stolen from him. He also pointed out other things that should be his.
I want that kitty cat. Give it to me.
No.
Give me that cat or I will punch its little face.
No.
It’s almost cat-punching time.
- Andrew McAfee sees technology arriving even more quickly than anticipated.
- Henry Blodget dissects the news biz in a Spiegel interview.
- Look inside Sheldon Adelson’s embattled Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- Donald Trump, Mao with a Big Mac, is still running a stumblefuck campaign.
- Robin Hanson speculates on AIs, Ems and more WTF stuff.
- Technology may be driving Trump’s rise and other mishegoss.
- Despiy the popular metaphor, brains really aren’t like computers.
- Zoltan Istvan considers the limits of Christian relativism in the Digital Age.
- America had secular roots, which were pulled from the ground.
- Perhaps our economic system won’t survive robots, automation, etc.
- A $5 billion software company is operating sans sales staff.
- More than livable, future cities will have to be survivable.
- Wuhu in China wants to be the first city to fully embrace driverless cars.
- Drivers cause most road deaths, so some want to junk the term “accident.”
- Apple invested $1 billion in a Chinese ride-hailing company for myriad reasons.
- MOOCs try to recover from their 1.0 stumbles.
- St. Louis has become chess capital due to polarizing Rex Sinquefield.
- Old Print Article: Leon Theremin, “Russian Edison,” wows NYC. (1928)
- Old Print Article: Willy Ley encourages the use mail rockets. (1935)
- A brief note from 1850 about an entrepreneur.
- A brief note from 1932 about cold prevention.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Mike Tyson, Joyce Carol Oates, etc.