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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.

• Donald Trump, John Gotti with a Southern strategy, may tell the Pope to scratch himself.

• 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.

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This week, Donald Trump said he hoped to get to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, which is troubling since he’s only familiar with one judge.

I presided over the case of the missing pancake.

• Donald Trump, Pinochet with a line of men’s fragrances, has a path forward in the GOP race.

• Trump is measuring the White House windows for curtains, when not busy measuring his penis. 

• Trump, Milosevic with a trophy wife, was enabled by the GOP mainstream.

• Brad Templeton explains why superintelligence is inevitable.

• 2016 may be an inflection point for settling driverless-car legal issues.

• Maybe driverless and drones will make food-delivery startups work?

• Jacob Weisberg says our new tools are making us more like machines.

• Weisberg did an AMA about his new Ronald Reagan bio.

• Geoff Dyer writes that the Pentagon aims to automate war.

• A Chinese experiment in “emotional computing” is a huge Turing test.

• Neuroengineer Ed Boyden discusses collecting data to decipher brain function.

• India just figured out that Marc Andreessen is an arrogant blowhole.

• So many influential geniuses were nurtured in ancient Athens. Why?

• Tomorrow’s hospitals may be “doctor-less.”

• Cory Doctorow asks if Wikipedia’s anti-hierarchy works in the non-virtual world.

• John Perry Barlow revisits his idealistic Davos edict 20 years later.

• An 1857 essay predicted a Global Village with Internet shopping.

• Roland Miller’s photo collection looks at yesterday’s NASA structures.

• Vice visits a competition among those driven to complete Musk’s Hyperloop.

• Old Print Article: Pneumatic railroads predicted. (1867)

• A brief note from 1919 about a butterfly-killing contest.

• A brief note from 1897 about a fat baby.

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This week, Barbara Bush told CNN that her son is not “as dumb as a rock.” Notice she didn’t use the plural.

• Donald Trump, who entered politics hoping to ejaculate in the Lincoln bedroom, is clueless.

• Prior to Iowa, Spiegel ID’d Trump as the “world’s most dangerous man.”

• Just before the caucus, Trip Gabriel of the NYT did an AMA about Iowa. 

• A WSJ essay about this mishegoss election season is shaky and partisan.

• The NFL, a corporatocracy with concussions, is measured by Mark Leibovich. 

• Michael Graziano thinks phantom limbs may help explain consciousness.

• A raft of AI experts predict when/if machines become conscious.

• Gary Marcus clarifies and contextualizes Google’s recent Go victory.

• Dag Kittlaus aims to invent a new form of voice-controlled virtual assistant.

• The Anthropocene is marked by a deep sense of foreboding.

• Emily Lakdawalla considers what we’ll accomplish in space by 2116.

• Elon Musk aims to send explorers to Mars by 2025.

• Google is ambitiously trying to reinvent itself on the fly (here and here). 

• Bruce Schneier analyzes the challenges of the Internet of Things.

• Oral Roberts is requiring incoming freshmen to wear Fitbit.

• Imagine if all of England suddenly stopped stopped eating meat.

• Dubai may build an underwater tennis stadium because it’s Dubai.

• King Abdullah Financial District, begun under one reality, faces a new one.

• Old Print Article: Edward Sheriff Curtis becomes a Pueblo priest. (1911)

• Old Print Article: Leonard Darwin promotes eugenics. (1912)

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• A brief note from 1955 about criminal baseball fans.

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This week, Republican Iowans must choose between two large, orange objects equally qualified to be President.

• Donald Trump, Pol Pot with hair plugs, is like all bullies, a coward.

• Vladimir Putin’s evil isn’t even surprising anymore.

• Donald Rumsfeld, not a gifted strategist, has created a video game.

• Tyler Cowen reviews Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth.

• American employment may be less prone to automation than other nations.

• Ed Miliband offers potential prescriptions for the world’s wealth-inequality woes.

• AI pioneer Marvin Minsky dies. See a trove of posts about him.

• Steven Levy recalls Minsky as an AI genius/Borscht Belt comedian.

• Steve Jobs was mourned in office parks and Zuccotti Park. Why.

• An Aeon essay analyzes the meaning of Silicon Valley’s sprawling campuses.

• Computer scientist Leslie Valiant believes all biology computational.

• Now that Google AI has mastered Go, where does such research head next?

• In 1988, the L.A. Times predicted smart homes and robot assistants by 2013.

• Rachel Nuwer wonders about the fate of paper books in the Digital Age.

• In a Five Books Q&A, Matthew Cobb discusses the Space Race, etc.

• Astronaut Scott Kelly did a Reddit AMA from aboard the ISS.

• French daredevil Tancrède Melet lived an audacious, but very short, life.

• China’s real-estate billionaire Zhang Xin discusses democracy and more.

• Some stolen cigars trigger a twisty tale about a songwriter’s heartbreak.

• Stack Fallacy may explain why elephantine businesses are slain by mice.

• Consumer choices are less about individual wants than we may think.

• New learning machines are said to utilize “social intelligence.”

• CTE screening for the living will make the NFL’s existential threat loom larger.

• Old Print Article: Football caused 26 deaths in America. (1909)

• Old Print Article: Auto polo thrills New York City. (1913)

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This week, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was further criticized after introducing his point man on fixing the Flint water crisis.

• Donald Trump, a mix of Mussolini and QVC host, is hated even by National Review shitbags.

• Sarah Palin has endorsed the only Presidential candidate to mock U.S. troops.

• Trump, the Kim Jong-un of casino bankruptcy, may be less hateful than Ted Cruz.

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• In 1993, Timothy Leary & Billy Idol talked cyberspace’s ramifications.

• Ricky Jay practices magic in the same sense that Benjamin Franklin flew kites.

• Alphabet’s sci-fi CEO Larry Page is unorthodox by any measure.

• Reed Hastings thinks engineered humans will compete with Intelligent AI.

• GM has seemingly outfoxed Tesla thus far in the affordable EV market.

• Kim Stanley Robinson details the difficulties of colonizing the Milky Way.

• In 1964, Ray Bradbury believed the Space Age greater than the Renaissance.

• Caleb Scharf explores the origins and future of Astrobiology.

• The 21st-century may be the last one ruled by Homo sapiens.

• Singularitarians hope for a “digital heaven” where our minds can be uploaded.

• To some Transhumanists, sleep is a “disease” that needs to be cured.

• Steven Levy has a look inside mission control of Google driverless.

• Wearables and the IoT will create an unsettling market for our health data.

• The boon and bane of future technologies are being discussed at Davos.

• The Automation Paradox may allow for more robot and human workers.

• With a gray, homogenous population, Japan needs a robot revolution.

• Fangraphs details how baseball is trying to create next-level data.

• Earthquake prediction can be serious science or outright quackery.

• Algorithms are being used to predict which kids will be criminals.

• Old Print Article: Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter. (1930)

• Old Print Article: Film star Mabel Normand dead at 37. (1930)

• A brief note from 1894 about a cult of naked Fruitarians.

• A brief note from 1909 about flying bicycles.

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This week, Iran released imprisoned Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian when America offered to send another journalist in his place.

• Rolling Stone decided to publish Sean Penn’s jungle flatulence about El Chapo.

• In 1973, Martin Amis somehow had a bad time at a Ziggy Stardust concert.

• In 1974, Bowie chatted about the Global Village with William S. Burroughs.

• In 1975, Bowie was living on red peepers, cocaine an milk in L.A.

• In 1997, novelist Jennifer Egan wrote about the self-harming habit of cutting.

• Wealth inequality in America is far worse than most realize.

• The Gig Economy isn’t profitable for most of its participants.

• Ford Motor Co. may be trying to radically reinvent itself in the Digital Age.

• Colonizing space will require mining for water and materials out there.

• Greed may actually be a good way to encourage space exploration.

• Just two humans might be able to repopulate Earth, but it’s not likely.

• Oregon was originally founded as a racist, whites-only state.

• Michael Idov didn’t intend to become a leading screenwriter in Russia.

• Old Print Articles: Warren Sturgis McCulloch warns of intelligent AI (1948) + Enigmarelle the “Automaton” plays vaudeville (1904).

• A brief note from 1929 about a champion bigamist.

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Before descending on Oregon, the Bundy militia defended our borders from a bearded foreign invader.

I brought toys for everyone.

I’ll get him!

• 50 great 2015 articles online for free.

• Technological unemployment has been paid scant attention by 2016 hopefuls.

• America’s vulgar tweetbag Donald Trump is what the GOP deserves.

• The populist energy of Occupy has been reawakened by Bernie Sanders.

• Like lots of Americans, Charles Koch feels he’s supported some dumb policies.

• Jon Krakauer believes the Oregon occupation is powered by spiritual madness.

• In postwar America, a cult leader rose to prominence in Los Angeles.

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• Yuval Harari thinks the future belongs to techno-religions.

• Stephen Cave thinks about that tricky thing, predicting the future.

• Alphabet’s secretive subdivision Calico wants to extend lifespans.

• Perhaps we’re on the brink of bioengineering breakthroughs.

• IBM’s Watson is either a great victor or a stunning disappointment.

• In the Digital Age, games are often more meaningful than work.

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• The emergence of ETs would complicate, but not doom, religion.

• Paul La Farge doesn’t believe e-book have endangered the art of reading.

• Françoise Mouly discusses literacy in the Digital Age.

• In 1987, Robert Heilbroner predicted we were headed for wealth inequality.

• A look at the AI threat and the professional worriers who analyze it.

• The world would be a “smart object” if we achieve “data singularity.”

• Technology alone is rarely the answer to societal problems.

• An architect offers an elegant solution for terraforming Mars.

• Tambora’s eruption can teach us about shocking weather extremes.

• VR will allow cagefighting with Genghis Khan and sex with promiscuous ghosts.

• Corporate and government intrusion into personal data is likely permanent.

• High-tech public bathrooms are being built in China, for some reason.

• For some reason, we don’t consider water to be scarce or valuable.

• American labs are trying to grow human organs in pigs and sheep.

• Evidence mounts that there’s a lot going on inside of non-human creatures.

• Old Print Article: A daredevil laps from the Statue of Liberty (1912).

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• A brief note From 1902 about webbed toes.

• A brief note from 1893 about heavyweights.

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This week, America’s War On Christmas™ reached the nuclear stage.

• A special family Christmas with President Trump.

• Shocker: Christmas is cancelled this year!

• Americans interpret Christmas and politics in disparate ways.

• 3 Videos: Glenn Gould (1966), Muhammad Ali (1976) and Sterling Hayden (1981).

• Perhaps the Gig Economy should be “Libertarianism with a safety net.”

• Elon Musk thinks Falcon 9’s success moves us closer to Mars.

• The U.S. Patent system needs reconfiguring in the Digital Age.

• China is making strides toward a knowledge-based economy.

• Jeff Bezos has certainly made an impact on the Washington Post.

• Eric Schmidt says humans will control AI. Not always, they won’t.

• The Pew Research Center looks at 2015 issues (e.g., immigration).

• John McAfee, a paranoid guy, thinks “World War III will be a cyberwar.” 

• Maria Alexandrova, the Bolshoi’s principal dancer, talks controversies.

• An opioid epidemic is helping to kill middle-aged Americans.

• Taffy Brodesser-Akner eulogizes the pro wrestler Roddy Piper.

• Risk management might be coming to professional sports.

• Old Print Article: How Benjamin Harrison recovered his father’s stolen corpse.

• A brief note from 1902 about sheepmen vs. cowboys.

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This week, Donald Trump acknowledged that in addition to Vladimir Putin, there’s another great leader he admires.

• Donald Trump, the pre-diabetic potentate of Apartheid America, loves Vladimir Putin.

• Donald Trump, who’s cheating on his third wife with a veal parm, has awakened hatred.

• Edward Luce asks if America is turning into a game-show democracy.

• Rand Paul didn’t find a Libertarian nirvana in Silicon Valley.

• Elon Musk, who fears AI. wants it to be widespread.

• In 1992, checkers champ Marion Tinsley played Chinook the computer.

• Foreign Affairs argues the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” may be fraught.

• In the early Digital Age, human middlemen might still be useful.

• 1 in 10 U.S. homes will own a robot by 2020. Everyone else: homeless.

• New technologies have made some professions more demanding.

• Info we share reveals more than we think once it’s crunched by algorithms.

• For now, the U.S. military wants humans and machines to work together.

• We can’t free ourselves of drudgery unless we rethink the work ethic.

• 3 Videos: Lucian Truscott IV (1974), Oriana Fallaci (2003), Fran Lebowitz (1977).

• In 1979, writer Lucian Truscott was an F. Scott Fitzgerald figure.

• In 1953, Arthur C. Clarke imagined life and tourism on Mars.

• In 1978, Freeman Dyson envisioned the future of space colonies.

• Marjorie Prime meditates on AI’s complicated impact on memory.

• Adrienne Lafrance examines the driverless-car competitors.

• A 1971 video recalls the Road Research Laboratory’s robocar.

• Positivists like Steven Pinker may be overlooking an explosive truth.

• Some employers are subsidizing genetic screening for workers.

• TV wants to collect your data to personalize ads.

• Tom Carson looks at the history of American TV families.

• Simon Winchester isn’t reading any stories about zombies.

• Dwight Garner is mostly sour on the Terry Southern letters collection.

• Old Print Articles: Jacques Inaudi was a lightning calculator (1901).

• A brief note from 1922 about insect head transplants.

• A brief note from 1899 about wedding crashers.

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This week, Justice Scalia, trying to recover from his antiquated racist statements, said he appreciates the contributions of all African-Americans, including that tall butler in the White House.

• Donald Trump is an airborne pathogen lodged in America’s small intestine.

• Trump, a gout-ish dummkopf who makes Juggalos wince, is a KKK wet dream.

• The media may not be responsible for Donald Trump, but it didn’t help.

• Fox News can trace its origins to a 1929 NYC movie theater.

• Otherwise intelligent people fall for cons and cults. Why?

• In 1979, dapper apocalypse salesman Hal Lindsey thought the world ending.

• Astronaut Edgar Mitchell embraced Me Decade pseudoscience.

• Ted Koppel thinks you should prep for a power-grid cyberattack.

• 3 Videos: John McAfee (2015), Jackie Stewart (1973), Yuval Harari (2015).

• In 1975, Tony Hiss visited Philip K. Dick in Los Angeles.

• In 1977, Hiss knew personal computers were a big deal.

• Steven Levy writes of a Googler awakened to the potential of neural networks.

• Tyson Fury made people care about boxing again, in the worst way possible.

• Architecture endlessly rebuilt by molecular engineering may be the future.

• The Forgacs family wants to create a “meat-free immortality.”

• Adidas is opening its first fully automated plant.

• MIT’s David Autor may be too hopeful about jobs in the Digital Age.

• The Bank of England Chief Economist talks about technological unemployment.

• Neurobiologist Ji Xiaohua believes technological unemployment won’t massive.

• Pacific-Standard wonders about employment in the year 2035.

• DARPA makes predictions about technological possibilities by 2045.

• Next-level mart-home tech wants to quantify your body.

• Autocrat Michael Bloomberg is again running his namesake company.

• In 1974, Ian McHarg sounded alarms about the environment.

• A brief note from 1951 about robot screenwriters.

• A brief note from 1901 about the Massachusetts Frog Company.

• A brief note from 1901 about a man who swallowed a bullfrog.

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This week, Ben Carson not only pronounced “Hamas” as “hummus” when speaking to Jewish Republicans but also vowed to bomb “Al Cater.”

• Est salesman Werner Erhard is making a comeback or something.

• Silicon Valley became something of an Immortality Industrial Complex.

• Transhumanist pol Zoltan Istvan yearns for techno-fascism.

• Boundaries of gene-editing tools will likely be pushed by Transhumanists.

• Companies want to stamp your skin with temporary biotech tattoos.

• To combat climate change, the fossil-fuel industry may be purposely imploded.

• Peter Thiel has the hots for nuclear energy.

• Carbon taxes won’t solve climate change but could spur innovation.

• It won’t matter if Uber fits classic disruption models or not.

• Big Auto may be left on the outside of transportation’s future.

• The ever-expanding “human cloud” may lay Labor low.

• Half of Japan’s jobs may be robotized in 20 years. Or not.

• Typewriter enthusiasts are dedicated to low-tech keyboarding.

• Barnes & Noble wants to reinvent itself as a “lifestyle brand.” Oy gevalt.

• Cambridge is investing in its study of future-tech ethics.

• Michael Forman was a Zelig-ish con man with a delirious life.

• Old Print Article: Jack Dempsey thinks the Machine Age ruined boxing. (1933)

• A brief note from 1902 about old bones.

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This week, Donald Trump, in addition to mocking a reporter with a musculoskeletal disorder, further showed how Presidential he is by stealing a blind senior citizen’s guide dog.

He’s mine now, loser.

• Pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys murdered gangland style.

• President Trump goes to “heaven.”

• Donald Trump possesses the realpolitik of Mayor McCheese and the big-picture vision of David Duke.

• Far from being chastened after 2012, the GOP is even more extreme.

• In 1957, Henry Miller wrote prophetically of America’s future.

• Military historian Gwynne Dyer thinks we should largely ignore terrorism.

• Syrian jihadists are reportedly dosing themselves with Captagon.

• Zoltan Istvan thinks prescription pills may replace brain chips.

• Creative people are apparently microdosing themselves with LSD.

• More research suggests genes don’t determine genius.

• Paul Mason thinks technology will be the death of capitalism.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson believes venture capital won’t get us to Mars.

• How plausible is human-like artificial intelligence?

• China is investing heavily on animal cloning (here and here).

• Oliver Stone is trying to prevent his Snowden film from being leaked.

• The late artist Paul Laffoley was like an occultist from outer space.

• Buzz Aldrin says that JFK wanted us to go to Mars, not the moon.

• Ron Popeil, inventor of the Pocket Fisherman, is always fishing.

• Street lamps + bleeding-edge technology could improve upon 911.

• Economics demand that stadium design be radically reimagined.

• The U.S. gov’t believes driverless may arrive sooner rather than later.

• The San Fran taxi industry is showing some resilience despite Uber.

• Old Print Article: The electric bicycle is the future of transportation.

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