This week, President Obama told Donald Trump to stop whining about the election.
Such a nasty woman!
Who, me?
- Steve Schmidt talks the aftermath of Donald Trump, the Worst American.™
- Derek Mead writes of the hidden cost of Trump’s ugly campaign.
- Douglas Coupland wonders if the U.S. two-party system is near its end.
- Texas, as we’ve long known it, may not be America’s future or even its own.
- Billionaire Robert Mercer is drawn to crackpots, including Trump.
- Yuval Harari sees utter fecklessness to governments in a high-tech age.
- Stephen Hawking and Ted Kaczynski agree: Machine intelligence may kill us.
- Pedro Domingos discusses ultimate learning machines, robot babies, etc.
- Video may “help us digest more information,” but there are downsides.
- Marc Levinson argues that secular stagnation is actually business as usual.
- Kurt Vonnegut was wrong in his judgments of Bob Dylan and Larry Flynt.
- Elon Musk’s near-term Mars colony isn’t the sanest way to explore space.
- Wholly automated airplane flights are a distinct possibility.
- A brief note from 1934 about a daredevil promoter.
- A brief note from 1936 about the “Duckpin Killer.”
- Old Print Article: Carveth And Zetta Wells, Married Adventurers. (1929/1945)
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Bob Dylan, Gloria Steinem, etc.