This week, Donald Trump went to Mexico to appear Presidential, but it was all a ruse to deliver him to…
El Chapo!
I was tricked!
Finish him, Gigante Gordo!
Wow, so this is heaven. Hey, St. Peter, that’s some tan you’ve got!
St. Peter?!? I mean, duh, I’m wearing horns.
And I’m wearing the kind of underpants that mutes farts. Hey, this is a big piece of real estate. Have you ever thought of developing it?
How so?
We class it up, Pete. Casinos, golf courses, Eastern European models and my name in big gold letters everywhere.
That sounds hideous! It would actually make this place even worse. You’ve got a deal.
Great. But first we need to install some air conditioners. I’m sweating like Rubio in this dump.
Not happening, Hamburglar.
- Rudy Giuliani created a template for Donald Trump’s odious campaign.
- Trump, Father Coughlin reborn as Yucko the Clown, is at odds with the RNC.
- The GOP’s disdain for reality has become full-on delusion in the time of Trump.
- Nicholas Carr wrote a great essay about Silicon Valley’s assault on reality.
- After a year in Mars-like isolation, the HI-SEAS crew “returned to Earth.”
- Werner Herzog discusses AI, VR and traveling to Mars.
- A Stanford study provides a sober assessment of AI’s future.
- Technology may or may not be the main obstacle to driverless.
- Nick Bilton analyzes Uber’s existential threat: autonomous cars.
- Gawker’s Nick Denton talks about the insulated nature of institutions.
- Algorithms anticipating lawlessness is, of course, problematic.
- Living under Texas border country surveillance is disquieting.
- Old Print Article: Electronic brain translates language. (1954)
- Old Print Article: Georges Claude was the “French Edison.” (1931/44)
- A brief note from 1889 about a tiger with a glass eye.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Colleen McCullough, psychokinesis.