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3. the transition from horses to automobiles
4. the loss of biological diversity
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10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

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6. early attempt at talking pictures
7. timex data link watches
8. when did robert mcgee get scalped?
9. big labor delaying automation
10. cloning scandal of 1978

This week, John Boehner said unemployed Americans would rather “just sit around” and not work. He has a point. People who just sit around and do nothing shouldn’t be given free money.

Monday.

Tuesday.

Wednesday.

Thursday.

Payday.

Saturday.

Sunday.

Back to the grind.

• Old Print Articles: Leopold and Loeb confess to “thrill killing” (1924) + Swedish explorer Sven Hedin uncovers unusual Tibetan custom (1908).

• Featured Videos: The making of 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby + Argument over air bags in autos leads to computerized cars + A look inside the Byte Shop and the budding Computer Revolution (1978).

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• President Obama Announces His Resignation.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• As Gary Hart’s political career ended, politics by paparazzi began.

• E.O. Wilson wants half the Earth reserved for non-human species.

• Larry Page hopes Google 2.0 will solve the world’s problems.

• Because of technology, we can now choose to forget things.

• Because of technology, we may not be able to choose what’s forgotten.

• Stand-up comic Gilbert Gottfried is a punk artist.

• Julian Assange did an Ask Me Anything at Gawker.

• Chelsea Manning thinks we should try a containment policy with ISIS.

• In an automated age, mapping is going to have to be instantaneous.

• Weed dealers must adjust to post-underground economy. 

• Art forger Mark Landis did it for love, not money.

• John Kerry thinks the Internet has made it harder to govern.

• The Musk family is trying to bring about an alternative-energy revolution.

• Adding lithium to our drinking water might be a good idea.

• Lab-grown meat will become a necessity.

• A visit to Pyongyang reminds mostly of The Truman Show.

• Violent gangs pretty much run American prisons at this point.

• Old-school McDonald’s spoons are useful to coke dealers.

• Spread of infections can be stopped by mathematics.

• We might have to establish a Federal Robotics Commission.

• Celebrities with dumb causes (e.g., anti-vaccination) can do damage.

• Contact between Earthlings and ETs would be very strange.

• Some Argentine socialists believe UFOs will bring about Utopia.

• Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi discusses the ISIS crisis.

• An interview with a survivor of an ISIS mass killing.

• Nanotechnology will transform medicine, eventually.

• Philosopher Stephen Cave wonders if happiness should be our goal.

• Guardian editor Matt Wells discusses the Scottish Independence vote.

• When we measure progress, environmental damage should be a factor.

• The office desk ain’t what it used to be.

• A brief note from 1911 about groomed felines.

• A Brief note from 1942 about dinner.

• A brief note from 1886 about devotion.

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10 search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

1. cartrivison first vcr 1970
2. how do you sell your mustache?
3. jonathan franzen writing about smartphones
4. carl sagan smoking weed
5. the monkees 1968 movie head
6. steve mann world’s first cyborg
7. oilman h.l. hunt
8. jean harris trial
9. discussion between david graeber and thomas piketty
10. when was joe louis an adviser to muhammad ali?

This week, the Palin family tried Uber for the first time.

• Old Print Article: Norbert Wiener had a worried vision of an automated America (1950) + The Children of Light awaited a doomsday that never arrived (1951).

• Featured Videos: The Woodlands was on the bleeding edge of Smart Homes (1974) + Francesco Scavullo photographs Gia Carangi (1978) + Carangi discusses her ambition to become a cinematographer four years before her death (1982) + A demonstration of the Kurzweil Reading Machine (1977).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: People won’t give me free drugs even though I’ve mad it clear that what I want is free drugs + It can’t hurt to ask + It’s possible there’s no law against this yet.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief Tim Arango did an Ask Me Anything.

• Michael Ignatieff outlines his fears about ISIS.

• Peter Thiel thinks Uber is America’s most ethically challenged company.

• Thiel also believes that capitalism and competition are opposites.

• Perhaps the first permanent space colony should be on the Moon.

• Facebook seeks to automate the management of human relationships.

• We often act awfully when we’re anonymous online. 

• Fear of scarcity drives dystopias. Perhaps fear of no scarcity does as well.

• American culture has regressed to adolescence. Maybe that’s a good thing.

• Even the NFL knows brain damage is endemic to its game.

• Nick Bostrom points out that AI needn’t be human-like.

• Bostrom also believes it will be difficult to opt out of genetic engineering.

• Homo Sapiens were better than Neanderthals at narrative.

• California’s drought has turned L.A. swimming pools into threats.

• Mont Blanc, dangerous as it is, is overrun with climbers.

• Bill Gates wants to change history education in America.

• Smart, connected cars is something we could achieve right now.

• Tesla believes it can achieve fully autonomous cars in 5 or 6 years.

• G.M. is aiming for 2017 to offer semi-autonomous vehicles.

• You can’t be a slave owner and also be a good person. Obvious, right?

• The “Crying Indian” from the famous PSA was actually Italian-American.

• Air Conditioning was initially rejected in America on moral grounds.

• Micro-organisms probably won’t be cleaning our homes by 2029.

• RadioShack is still somehow clinging to life–for now.

• David Lynch is painterly though he never studied paintings.

• Some Google employees save money by living in their cars on campus.

• Tesla Motors already has amazing brand loyalty. Why?

• We should aim to make all municipal buses electric.

• Data Centers demand huge amounts of energy.

• Peter Diamandis thinks longevity may soon be radically extended.

• Werner Herzog discusses the “fever dream” of his youth.

• Predictive traffic lights are becoming a reality.

• In 1916, new women’s swimsuits led to arrest.

• The newest Margaret Atwood story won’t be read for 100 years.

• A brief note from 1911 about higher education.

• A brief note from 1911 about a fashion critic.

• A brief note from 1910 about sweethearts.

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As sad as it is that Joan Rivers passed away this week, perhaps it’s best she didn’t revive. After not getting any oxygen to her brain for several minutes, she likely would have been little more than a…

…Kardashian.

• Old Print Articles: Baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander is a dime-museum attraction (1939) + Transylvania grave robbers allegedly rescue prematurely buried woman (1932).

• Featured Videos: Steve Wozniak in a Datsun 280-ZX commercial (1979) + Hippies turn into Jesus Freaks (1972) + Robert the Robot tidies up the house (1956) + Joan Rivers did a Q&A with UCLA students (1972).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m looking for the responsible coke dealer + I’m beginning to think I’m unpopular.

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• Geoff Dyer analyzes Norman Mailer’s A Fire on the Moon as its republished.

• Why have so many Russians died violently in recent years?

• Grover Norquist wants the whole world to be Burning Man, for fuck’s sake.

• The celebrity nudes craziness said so much about the Internet–and us.

• Marc Maron talks to Jay Bakker about being the son of Jim and Tammy Faye.

• ISIS is a group of fugazi fundamentalists.

• Driverless cars still have serious obstacles to navigate.

• Germany has been road-testing autonomous cars for two decades.

• Delivery drones couldn’t be cost-effective under current FAA rules.

• Automation might bring about the end of capitalism.

• The Rental Economy was sparked by the Great Recession.

• The Sharing Economy is great for consumers, bad for workers.

• Watson has moved from providing known answers to the unknown.

• We probably need to redefine the meaning of “job.”

• Globalization has caused income inequality to rise within nations.

• The U.S. may regulate Uber eventually, but not until it’s won.

• Germany has just banned Uber.

• New York City finally nabbed its biggest marijuana dealer.

• Pre-cognitive policing is a thorny subject for our future.

• China is degrading Hong Kong’s status as a world financial center.

• Social media is being used to track the Ebola virus.

• Chuck Todd isn’t sure that President Obama is emotionally disengaged.

• The last surviving Hindenburg crew member just passed away.

• Štefan Klein has designed an honest-to-goodness flying car.

• In 1962, Bill Veeck had poor suggestions for speeding up baseball.

• Peter Thiel thinks we’ve lost our edge technologically.

• Photographs are only crude representations.

• We might be on the verge of a third computing revolution.

• It’s tricky for social scientists to do research online.

• Miranda July’s new app is both personal and impersonal.

• Aubrey de Grey thinks we’re on the cusp of forever, implants will be huge.

• Google’s life-extension plans seem to have grown more realistic.

• A brief note from 1911 about a bad meal.

• A brief note from 1910 about an older sister.

• A brief note from 1910 about a rare condition.

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10 recent search-engine keyphrases bringing traffic to Afflictor this week:

1. where is the former mtv veejay kennedy now?
2. john c lilly talking to dolphins with apple computers
3. what did charles bukowski think about democracy?
4. rudolph valentino’s funeral service
5. douglas rushkoff on the nature of time in the digital age
6. famous mazie from the bowery nyc
7. kevin kelly comparing behavior in insects and humans
8. william shocley’s controversial theories on IQ
9. marvin minsky writing about telepresence
10. old newspaper stories about calamity jane

This week, Republicans became enraged when President Obama dared to wear tan skin to a press briefing. I mean, it couldn’t have been the suit, right?

• Old Print Articles: Midwest man missing ear tries to purchase a replacement (1924) + The Televox robot could automate your home (1927) + College football star joins religious cult (1938).

• Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for some new spark plugs + It’s completely “legal” + We will all get tased + You thought your kid was an asshole?

• 10 recent Huffington Post headlines.

• Glenn Beck accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge.

• Economic mobility in the U.S. was never a constant.

• The Guardian is expanding its American operations.

• Russia is at war with Crimea–and McDonald’s.

• Automation will destroy jobs and–perhaps–the middle class.

• Death is now just another part of the stream of information.

• Nick Bostrom thinks humans can survive anything apart from our creations.

• There are several scenarios in which superintelligence dooms us.

• Silicon Valley bio-hackers want to extend life indefinitely.

• The Islamic State is far more extreme than Al-Qaeda.

• Technologists are creating Frankenfoods, which is likely a good thing.

• The political dynamics in the Middle East are shifting in surprising ways.

• There are still obstacles in the way of truly autonomous vehicles.

• In 1981, futurist Olaf Helmer predicted the rise of terrorism.

• Writer/Director Tom Schiller recalls his history at Saturday Night Live.

• Disney wants to use drones to create aerial shows.

• Philip K. Dick admired the fakery of Disneyland.

• Mars One is a wacky way to colonize space.

• Craig Venter sees commercialization of science as a necessity.

• Google, like Amazon, is developing delivery drones.

• College football players are prone to degenerative brain conditions.

• Predictive diagnoses is gaining popularity in sports.

• In 1972, Muhammad Ali appeared on an Irish chat show.

• David Lynch knows mid-sized movies are not having a moment.

• Restaurant pricing makes little sense to economists.

• Like it or not, most of us will be quantified in the near future.

• Fitness monitors are still a tough sell.

• Tube Transportation Networks are still a dream of the future.

• Witnessing 278 executions exacted a toll on Michelle Lyons.

• Even great athletes smuggled out of Cuba are treated like hostages.

• Artificial Intelligence is gradually worming its way into our lives.

• Robot birds are programmed to frighten real birds.

• Freak shows were a part of American life long before Barnum.

• Tesla and GM are in a great race to create an affordable EV.

• A brief note from 1909 about two departures.

• A brief note from 1916 about frog removal.

• A brief note from 1910 about a hungry man.

• A brief note from 1909 about an imprisoned pig.

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