This week, those Americans who enabled Donald Trump descended upon Cleveland for the GOP Convention.
- Gen. Mike Flynn supports Trump, as do Chachi and the underwear model.
- It’s possible Peter Thiel is supporting Trump to troll democracy itself.
- Does it matter that we might be living in a simulation? Well, sure.
- Is there a difference between human and computer art?
- Immortalist Aubrey de Grey conducted a Reddit AMA.
- A disconnect exists between age-defying medicine and its distribution.
- Steven Wolfram argues for the lone genius over the collective mind.
- An ignored piece of Elon MUsk’s vision has world-changing implications.
- John Markoff says Silicon Valley is swarming around A.I. investment.
- A space economy might differ from Earth’s, or perhaps not.
- If you don’t count money, J. Paul Getty wasn’t a very rich man.
- Gay Talese’s dodgy new book about a Colorado voyeur has arrived.
- Old Print Article: Blindfolded autoist drives cross-country. (1928)
- A brief note from 1902 about a medicine man who was sacrificed.
- A brief note from 1925 about a plastic surgeon who “created” a spouse.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Al Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, etc.