This week, Ivanka Trump told Barbara Walters that she wished her fascist father wouldn’t eat so much McDonalds.
If I keep eating McDonalds, I’ll have a heart attack. I’ll just order one cheeseburger.
I will get you 23 Big Macs.
I’ll die if I eat that much!
And 47 large fries.
I’ll go into diabetic shock!
And 68 McFlurries.
Okay, put it all on one big tray.
I’m lovin’ it.
- Old Print Article: Military analysts dream of drones (1934).
- Some Americans think our postwar economy is returning. It’s not.
- Nick Bostrom feels courage and spiritual nobility are no match for machines.
- Rodney Brooks thinks intelligent machines may not end humans.
- The DARPA Robotics Challenge was prelude, but to what?
- Robots stealing jobs might be a good thing, in the aggregate.
- Jennifer Egan and George Saunders discuss writing about the future.
- Faraday Future wants to sell cars similar to smartphones.
- Immortality–or something–is for sale in London.
- For the taxi industry, ridesharing has arrived like an asteroid strike.
- Science writer Carl Zimmer did a Reddit AMA about ancient humans, etc.
- The Star Wars franchise will outlive us mere mortals.
- A NYC man who needed to believe was cleaned out by psychics.
- Some believe ISIS’s apocalyptic noise is hype, others believe it real.
- Edward Luce looks at the 2016 U.S. election after the Paris attacks.
- Despite Citizens United, billionaires have yet to elect a U.S. President.
- By 1952, Evelyn Nesbit, post-scandal, had become a sculptor.
- A brief note from 1901 about a picture telephone.
- A brief note from 1901 about a lethal umbrella thrust.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.