Earlier this week, I compared Presidential candidate Donald Trump the late Queens mob boss John Gotti, and I would like to apologize for my ill-considered remark.
I’m sorry, Gotti family, for comparing your departed loved one to such a lowlife.
When Mr. Gotti was alive, Ozone Park had fireworks every July 4th.
And the garbage trucks arrived with shocking alacrity.
Again: Please accept my apology.
- Young volunteer coders have made Bernie Sanders an app-friendly candidate.
- Charles Murray’s essay about U.S. identity is limited by the blinders he wears.
- Mark Cuban thinks the Presidential candidates are technological illiterates.
- Pres. candidate Zoltan Istvan discusses the bleeding edge of Transhumanism.
- Emily Bazelon questions the narrowness of the Supreme Court Justice pool.
- Law is likely an area of work particularly prone to technological unemployment.
- Lawrence Mishel believes the Gig Economy’s impact wildly overstated.
- Universal Basic Income is a hit with both Socialists and Singularitarians.
- Paul Mason considers technology enabling a post-work society.
- “Job polarization” might be the result of AI advancements.
- Income inequality is bad, though it’s not the root of all evil.
- 47 million Americans live without the Internet and its cat memes. Why?
- Keith J. Kelly says there will be a die-off of digital and traditional media.
- Sheyna Gifford is living for a year in Hawaii on a virtual Mars.
- Plans for the Masdar City technotopia have been repeatedly scaled back.
- Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister is queried about the raging region.
- China’s relocating citizens to make way for an alien-detecting telescope.
- In a 1966 space triumph, the Soviets soft-landed the Luna 9 craft on the moon.
- John Markoff reports on the obstacles of creating “conversational agents.”
- American infrastructure is in bad shape. NYC’s is particularly disappointing.
- Deadwood co-creator David Milch gambled away $100 million.
- American Pharoah, the 2015 Triple Crown winner, is now an expensive trick.
- Old Print Article: Horse-Meat Butcher Shop Opens In Manhattan. (1917)
- Old Print Article: Congressman aims to preserve Edison’s remains. (1931)
- A brief note from 1927 about convicts getting facelifts.
- A brief note from 1954 about an armless sideshow entertainer.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.