This week, the New York Times reported Donald Trump’s casinos were a “protracted failure.” Undeterred, he vowed to being some of his “best” Atlantic City managers to D.C., including Mr. Pickles.
Pickles be Secretary of State!
- James Baker isn’t concerned about Trump’s horrid, dangerous behavior.
- Spiegel asks Jake Tapper about this “nasty, ugly, horrible” election season.
- Charles Murray has a really bad Basic Income plan that would harm seniors.
- McDonald’s has become a community center for struggling Americans.
- Mental illness plus social media has led to the rise of “Targeted Individuals.”
- Elon Musk decided what type of government Mars will have. How nice for him.
- See a dozen of the Afflictor Muhammad Ali posts.
- Musk continues his Nick Bostrom bender, thinking we’re videogame characters.
- Michael Graziano examines the evolutionary development of consciousness.
- Motherboard explores why underground cities never took root in America.
- Annalee Newitz reports on an AI that wrote a sci-fi screenplay.
- Brian Fung tries to separate the real AI challenges from the hype.
- When it comes to robotics, China is developing a yawning credibility gap.
- Tom Carson penned a great piece on Hollywood’s “fake movie architecture.”
- It’s possible human workers could be replaced like horses were.
- The job losses in the newspaper biz over the last 25 years are beyond grim.
- Jason Gay ponders the future of sports in volatile cultural & TV landscapes.
- Surgery prior to the advent of general anesthesia was, of course, brutal.
- Old Print Article: The fall of May Otis Blackburn’s Los Angeles cult. (1929)
- A brief note from 1942 about an amateur dentist making a house call.