• At the Youngstown rally, Trump was oddly focused on “young, beautiful girls…16 or 15” being murdered with knives.
• Mike Bloomberg thinks Donald Trump has a good shot at 8 years in the WH. I’ll bet the under.
• Liz Smith was at the center of the culture, when the culture still had a center.
• Governments are utilizing new tech tools to coax and control citizens.
• John Thornhill writes of how the battlefield is redefined in the Digital Age.
• Tristan Harris says smartphones have “hijacked” minds. That’s a misreading.
• Roombas, TVs, etc., are already in our homes collecting information about us.
• Siddhartha Mukherjee says the thorny future of genetics is already upon us.
• Tim Parks and Riccardo Manzotti debate whether the mind is just the brain.
• Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman conducted an AMA on their Claude Shannon bio.
• An item to add to Noah Smith’s list of causes leading to Americans living in a “mental fog”: tackle football.
• A note from 1908 about experiments in “electric sleep.”
• This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Jeet Heer Abbie Hoffman, etc.