This week, President Trump, who suggested Megyn Kelly was menstruating during the GOP debate, tried to win back women voters with a new campaign poster featuring female supporters.
- Old Print Articles: Ernest Hemingway, clearly compensating, discusses big-game hunting. (1934)
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Free housing and free Tupperware? I bet there’s a catch. + Are you a well-groomed young professional who resembles a scrotum?
- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thinks he understands politics.
- It might not end for Nikki Finke the way it did for Gaddafi. Time will tell.
- Barbara Ehrenreich points out that many poverty reporters are impoverished.
- Radical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey believes we’re close to a-mortality.
- Dwight Garner reviews a new bio of poet-pimp Iceberg Slim.
- Before Digital Revolution abundance, there will probably be turbulence.
- David Amsden explores the privatization of French Quarter policing.
- Christopher Mims says the transformative experience of VR is near.
- Rachel Nuwer of the BBC wonders how many jobs machines will take.
- Anna Nicolaou and Paul Solman investigate Labor’s new reality.
- Louis Hyman says we shouldn’t fight tech progress, but prepare for it.
- Jerry Kaplan believes women will fare better in an automated world. Perhaps.
- Dave Berreby opines on those strange moments when AI seems like ET.
- Data almost certainly contains biases, knowingly or not.
- Mikhail Gorbachev holds America responsible for the continuing nuclear reality.
- NFL running back Arian Foster discusses being an atheist in the Bible Belt.
- Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle examines the movement’s history.
- In 2001, Clive Thompson wrote about Cyc, an attempt at true AI.
- NYC is increasingly hostile to working-class and poor people.
- Top-down urban developments are usually disappointingly non-Utopian.
- In a posthumous piece, James Salter writes of the Wright brothers.
- The future of rail travel might not look much different than the present.
- Stephen Petranek thinks some of us will live on Mars in 20 years.
- Smithsonian spacesuit curator Cathleen Lewis did an AMA.
- It is rumored the New Yorker is profiling TMZ. Sounds fun.
- A brief note from 1910 about a talking dog.
- A brief note from 1859 about an innocent plea.
- A brief note from 1886 about Jules Verne.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.