This week, draft-dodging Rudy Giuliani revealed that President Obama doesn’t love America and wasn’t raised in the patriotic way he was by Mama Giuliani.
Always love America and stop balling your cousins, you disphit.
- Old Print Article: “Sun scientists” will produce infinite amounts of food and fuel (1955).
- Featured Videos: Walter Cronkite and Bill Stout of CBS News interview authors Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke directly after the moon landing (1969) + Automation may lead to technological unemployment (1960s) + The most infamous moment in the history of Saturday Night Live (1981) + Iraq begins to modernize (1953) + Young Oliver Sacks conducting neurological experiments (1969) + Oriana Fallaci discusses war and her Vietnam book, Nothing, and So Be It (1972).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: There’ll be cleansing, but it will feel dirty + More coke than cake + There will be sex before we go to prison.
- A former Google engineer wants driverless cars to “own” themselves.
- DARPA is experimenting with “brain modems.”
- An excerpt from Yuval Noah Harari’s great book Sapiens.
- Isaac Herzog, candidate for Prime Minister, wants to move Israel left.
- Rudy Giuliani, a miserable man, decides who loves America.
- Like ISIS recruits today, Patty Hearst was, in 1972, enticed by terrorism.
- Complex Systems expert James Dyke considers Earth’s resources.
- The Palo Alto Longevity Prize wants to slow down the aging clock.
- Rodney Brooks predicts the future of robotics.
- AI is one of the emerging risks for human beings.
- The future of crime in a world of Weak AI and Strong AI.
- Farm drones will likely soon be a common sight.
- Automation is delivering to us single-pilot commercial aviation.
- Software coders may eventually be supplanted by automation.
- Hannah Earnshaw is one of the “lucky” Mars One astronaut finalists.
- Jeff Bezos has money, but not yet answers for the Washington Post.
- Brian Williams and the evening news are both pretty much done.
- Youtube, now 10 years old, has helped disrupt traditional journalism.
- Crows have very developed cognitive skills.
- Japan is grudgingly turning to immigration to fill job openings.
- Inequality may or may not be increasing, but it isn’t destiny.
- Artist/urban philosopher Liam Young imagines “Samsung City.”
- It makes economic sense for hotels to give away free Wi-Fi.
- A brief note from 1940 about a young widow.
- A brief note from 1895 about a scapegoat.
- A brief note from 1912 about anesthesia.
- A brief note from 1899 about a nosebleed.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.