This week, Donald Trump demanded he and Hillary Clinton take a drug test before the next debate, a suggestion which was readily adopted.
Drop trou and go to town, Butterbean.
I’m a classy man, and I’ll only take a leak in a champagne flute.
You done, Beefsteak Charlie? Now give me the sample.
Wait a minute. All that urinating made me thirsty. I need some ginger ale first.
You just drank you own whiz, Doctor IQ.
Refill, Donald?
Don’t mind if I do.
- Some GOP wonks have been belatedly awakened by Trump’s rise to the party’s racist identity politics.
- Wired talked AI and more with Barack Obama, future President of Mars.
- The U.S.C. Dornsife/LAT Daybreak poll is baffling for a couple of reasons.
- The CDAN blog who purports to know which of your favorite stars are felons.
- Charlie Rose, a handsome and agreeable robot, interviewed a fellow robot.
- Tad Friend penned a great profile of Sam Altman & Silicon Valley’s VC culture.
- Superintelligence is risky, but so is the absence of it.
- Silicon Valley’s life-as-a-computer-simulation groupthink is troubling.
- Tyler Cowen says driverless and drones may spark a suburban renaissance.
- China leads the world in early adoption of Virtual Reality. Why?
- Paul Mason encourages a re-embrace of the Geneva Conventions.
- Our next friends may seem human but not be human.
- Old Print Article: Prophecies of apocalypse provoke panic. (1925)
- Old Print Article: California “Pagan Love Cult” raided. (1927)
- A brief note from 1894 about a barbershop monkey.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrases: Peter Thiel and Gawker, etc.