This week, America sank into a collective depression as it became clear a Donald Trump Presidency was unlikely.
- The Esquire Q&A with Clint Eastwood is really bad journalism.
- Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian without the talent, is a dangerous distraction.
- David Frum finds an antecedent for Trump’s rise in William Jennings Bryan.
- Paul Mason wonders if the dark clouds of the 1930s are again forming.
- Studying Brazil’s .0001% makes clear the country’s wealth inequality.
- David Epstein explodes the myth of a “level playing field” in athletics.
- Thomas R. Wells argues that terrorism is impervious to surveillance.
- Farhad Manjoo sums up the main reason for the fall of Yahoo!
- Steven Levy analyzes the imperviousness of China’s tech economy.
- Elon Musk has a plan for an automated, people-less Tesla factory.
- Kimbal Musk considers the future of food on Earth and Mars.
- DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis holds forth on the AGI development.
- Intelligence augmentation + wealth inequality could create an IQ gap.
- Transhumanist pol Zoltan Istvan discusses cyborgism and more.
- Pew researchers conducted an AMA about their human-enhancement study.
- Steven Dubner says he isn’t sold on an eternal life, even one without aging.
- Humans making it to Mars with sanity intact is a challenge for space programs.
- Hunter S. Thompson was a great writer and a tiresome fuck with a gun.
- Adrienne LaFrance says driverless cars may make street signs unnecessary.
- George Schuster drove the Thomas Flyer to victory in the “Great Race” of 1908.
- Old Print Article: Italo Balbo introduced Fascism into the workplace. (1933)
- Old Print Article: Last Creek tribal executioner, Capt. Berryhill, dies. (1929)
- A brief note from 1939 about female executioners.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Max Factor Jr., Jackie Collins, etc.