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This week, Ivanka Trump told Barbara Walters that she wished her fascist father wouldn’t eat so much McDonalds.

If I keep eating McDonalds, I’ll have a heart attack. I’ll just order one cheeseburger.

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• Nick Bostrom feels courage and spiritual nobility are no match for machines.

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• Faraday Future wants to sell cars similar to smartphones.

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• Edward Luce looks at the 2016 U.S. election after the Paris attacks.

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• By 1952, Evelyn Nesbit, post-scandal, had become a sculptor.

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This week, after promising to murder baby Hitler, Jeb Bush also pledged to kill Hitler’s cat.

I will drown you in the river, Adolf Kitler!

Nein!

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• Looking at the Trump and Carson success, it’s time I apologize to Sarah Palin.

• Michael Lind traces the decline and fall of the modern American conservatism.

• White, middle-aged Americans seemed to be dying younger. Why?

• The two fastest growing occupations: Zumba instructor & personal trainer.

• Polls at this point in the Presidential race are pretty useless.

• Tom Stevenson looks at the state of illegal immigration in America.

• Garry Kasparov thinks Putin’s Russia is a mafia state.

• Calum Chace suggests titles on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.

• David Eagleman is asked if machines can become conscious.

• Cities will soon change markedly, but they won’t be utopias.

• Oliver Morton suggests combating climate change with geoengineering.

• Advances in science are forcing a reappraisal of eugenics.

• Vizio Smart TV’s are watching their watchers.

• Changes in technology and legislation is set to remake lending and borrowing.

• Solar power has become the fastest growing energy source in America.

• Tally robots are much better at inventory than human workers.

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• Silicon Valley and D.C. view Guaranteed Basic Income differently.

• Finland may try Guaranteed Basic Income on a national scale.

• Writer Richard Grant discovered a rich home in the rural South.

• James Michener, not a graceful writer, was a dogged researcher.

• The U.S. is unilaterally making rules for space mining.

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This week, Donald Trump published a book without giving credit to his ghostwriter.

I’m too busy working these rubes in Iowa to pen a book. You’re my agent. Get me a ghostwriter.

I know the perfect one, dickhead.

Can he write words good, like Hemingway?

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Tell him to get to work. I need 169 pages of poorly sourced bullshit right away.

Will do, fuckface.

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• Trump refused to accept money from billionaire donors, after they refused to give him any.

• Edward Luce analyzes two vastly different books about Trump.

• Ben Carson seems less concerned with whistle-stop tours than the gravy train.

• Avuncular cryptkeeper Stephen King thinks the GOP is a horror show.

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• Steve Wozniak likes driverless, hates surveillance. We’re getting both.

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• Some in Silicon Valley think social isolation is a growth industry.

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• Nick Bostrom believes a key to human survival is cognitive enhancement.

• Theologians and technologists sometimes see humanness as a sad state.

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• NASA’s Charles Bolden believes the first “Space Generation” has been born.

• Buzz Aldrin thinks we should send people to Mars on one-way trips.

• Spacesuits for Mars missions will be markedly different.

• The Economist republishes its 1957 Sputnik 2 coverage.

• Japan wants to have driverless taxis by the 2020 Games.

• Some think China has created a promising democracy alternative.

• USA Today immigration reporter Alan Gomez did an AMA about Cuba.

• Education will need to change radically over the next 20 years.

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This week, after another dismal debate performance, Jeb Bush saw his campaign buttons become the all-time least popular, surpassing the previous record holder.

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• President Obama and Marilynne Robinson discuss the state of the novel.

• Tom Carson reviews the first volume of Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger bio.

• Sir Martin Rees thinks if there are ETs, they are intelligent machines.

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• Luc Sante considers city life in the Digital Age.

• James Gleick takes a hopeful view of public libraries in the time of Google.

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• Uber’s business model almost demands it shift to driverless.

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• Steven Levy quizzes Aaron Sorkin about the fabrications in Steve Jobs.

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• Much of Europe is purposely slowing GMO research. Bad move.

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This week, Ben Carson made a direct appeal to the American women most likely to vote for him.

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• Sportscaster Al Michaels gets a failing grade at history and economics.

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• In 1994, New Age balderdash made its way to Wall Street.

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• 3D printing may make small automobile startups plausible.

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This week, after much consideration, Joe Biden finally made a decision.

I’m fairly certain I’d like a vanilla waffle cone.

• Old Print Articles: Charles Curtis, Native American, becomes Vice President (1929) + Circus legend George Conklin recalls his brilliant career (1921).

• President Obama interviews novelist Marilynne Robinson about politics, etc.

• David Brooks expertly sums up the GOP descent into madness.

• Donald Trump should have just put his dad’s money in a mutual fund.

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• Bill Gates says gov’t R&D and carbon taxes are needed to fight climate change.

• Venkatesh Rao thinks climate-change austerities are unlikely to occur.

• Malcolm Gladwell did an AMA related to his article about school shootings.

• A refugee bears witness to North Korea’s murderous Orwellian circus.

• Liz Parrish said she’s using BioViva’s genetic therapy. That’s complicated.

• Mathematician Ben Goertzel talks intelligent machines, life extension, etc.

• Corporations want to use technology to collect data from consumers’ brains.

• Mysterious megastructures move rapidly around a distant star.

• Ray Kurzweil thinks in 20 years we’ll plug our brains into the Internet.

• Moore’s Law has encouraged lots of irrational technological overpromising.

• A new Robohow project demonstrates how customizable AI may become.

• Intelligence Augmentation aids existed long before HoloLens and such.

• On driverless: GM embraces the technology, robotrucks working in Australia.

• Overcrowded American prisons may not be the result of drug laws.

• Even Steve Jobs’ story is fodder for Aaron Sorkin’s internal struggles.

• Karl Lagerfeld seems a nightmarish character from a German horror film.

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This week, after much chaos, the GOP finally found someone the extremist wing of the party would accept as Speaker.

• Old Print Articles: Futurists use machines to create dance music (1933) + A look at the Petrified Forest a decade before it became a National Park (1899).

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• In the season of the anti-politician, the U.S. may still revert to form.

• Donald Trump is the most insincere person Tom Junod has ever met.

• Adult baby Trump has no interest in actually being President.

• Vivek Wadhwa writes of technologies that will soon impact global politics.

• Our digitized culture may be at risk when Amazon eventually dies. 

• Superintelligence may be an existential risk, but so is the lack of it.

• Stephen Hawking answered questions from his much-anticipated AMA.

• Building droneports in fraught corners of the world wouldn’t cost much.

• High-wire artist Philippe Petit has conflicted feelings about technology.

• In China, gene-editing is being used to design pet-sized micropigs.

• Synthetic biology holds great benefits but also significant risks.

• IBM’s Watson, in a post-Trebek role, is training elite runners.

• A Japanese firm is building an automated, indoor “vegetable factory.”

• Nicholas Carr examines the history of automation.

• Once driverless cars are perfected, consumers won’t likely fear them.

• The Trolley Problem has has gained new currency in the driverless age.

• A ghost city is planned for the New Mexican desert to test technologies.

• Some studies suggest “digital amnesia” is a real problem.

• Cass R. Sunstein writes about free wills and free markets.

• Jane Goodall thinks only humans are truly capable of evil.

• Jonathan Franzen is a bothersome man, doesn’t seem to mind.

• If we make contact with alien life, what protocol will we follow?

• A look at some of the non-gun reasons for U.S. mass shootings.

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This week, Dr. Ben Carson raised $20 million after making bigoted, ignorant comments, encouraging the GOP to find other medical professionals willing to be even more offensive.

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• Mark Leibovich considers the new abnormal of Trump-ian politics.

• While HP CEO, Carly Fiorina was completely outmaneuvered by Steve Jobs.

• In 1974, young Joe Biden was profiled by future sensationalist Kitty Kelley.

• In the U.S. and Britain, the middle class has been in decline for decades.

• Strange bedfellows are expressing support for Universal Basic Income.

• Superintelligence has its dangers, but we should still pursue it.

• Humans probably can’t control Artificial Intelligence progress.

• Technology may be having surprising impacts on environment and economics.

• The new Space Race is rushing to Mars, a lonely and complicated mission.

• Stephen Hawking wants us to anticipate existential risks. Can we?

• The Kindle, perhaps lulled by its monopoly, hasn’t continued to evolve.

• Hitachi created a system that can predict future crimes. That’s good and bad.

• Virtual Reality may end up being a very effective therapy tool.

• Adam Gazzaley is working on the bleeding edge of video-game therapy.

• Cyborgism will present ethical challenges along with its medical miracles.

• The word “robot” may have outlived its usefulness.

• Driverless buses and taxis are being tested in Asia.

• Companies with fleets of drones they can operate for you will soon be a reality.

• American education, stuck in the past, needs a technological disruption.

• In 1976, film producer Dino De Laurentiis was at a career apex.

• Terrorists really don’t need a mass migration to enter Europe.

• Journalist Erik Sandberg-Diment amusingly chronicled the early PC era.

• A brief note from 1932 about monkey bankers.

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This week, Condoleezza Rice announced she was likely done with American politics, sending the nation into a collective depression.

• Old Print Articles: What life will be like in 1963, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 (1938).

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• Annie Jacobsen explores how DARPA aims to engineer humans for war.

• Despite what Ben Carson says, the U.S. gov’t is not based on Christianity.

• Philosopher Torbjörn Tännsjö argues that we should allow athletes to dope.

• E-books have, at least for now, experienced a small decline.

• Michael Wolff thinks traditional TV is doing just fine. Statistics don’t agree.

• Andrew McAfee thinks about Eatsa’s automated fast-casual model.

• Google is a great company, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good one.

• Truly flexible and multifaceted robot assistants still need a lot of work.

• Chinese factories, desperate for cheap workers, turn to robots.

• China’s turn toward environmentalism won’t likely progress smoothly.

• A 1976 study of psychological risks of life in space seems aimed at Earth today.

• Peter Diamandis predicts the future of transportation, agriculture & healthcare.

• As expected, the drone revolution is easily outpacing efforts to legislate it.

• In the NYRB, Amia Srinivasan thinks deeply about Effective Altruism.

• The study of long-lived creatures may lead to radical life extension in humans.

• John McAfee says 9/11 2.0 will be accomplished remotely by cyberterrorists.

• Recalling the think tank that helped Steven Spielberg create Minority Report.

• Moneyball legends Billy Beane and Bill James discuss next-level sabermetrics.

• America having a discrete military class has many consequences.

• Jackie Collins was both an insider and outsider in Hollywood.

• Photographer Edgar Martins profiled cutting-edge Munich BMW factories.

• In the U.S., Portland is (unsurprisingly) Ground Zero for “Passive Housing.”

• A brief note from 1928 about Bird Nest Soup.

• A brief note from 1898 about a hermit family.

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This week, with the Pope about to visit, Mayor de Blasio ordered a fresh coat of paint for New York City.

• Old Print Articles: The end of Sigmund Freud (1938/39) + The tyrant of Wrangel Island is sentenced to death (1936).

• 3 Classic Videos: Harold Robbins (1971), the Exorcist Cast (1984), David H. Shepard (1959).

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• In his own quiet way, Ben Carson is a scarier candidate than Donald Trump.

• Economist David Autor says we won’t see mass technological unemployment.

• Jacques Attali believes the record industry implosion is manufacturing’s future.

• James Surowiecki isn’t satisfied with Joseph Stiglitz’s inequality theories.

• Anders Sandberg did a great AMA about Transhumanism, space travel, etc.

• In an excellent AMA, Peter W. Singer discusses the future of warfare.

• Amazing digital assistants may soon serve us. That’s not all good.

• Hitachi has appointed the world’s first AI manager.

• Ai Weiwei discusses China’s modernization, social media, etc.

• Japan, a graying and homogenous culture, is betting big on robots.

• Jaron Lanier want’s information companies to pay us for our data.

• Mattel wants to use Barbie dolls to introduce AI to children.

• British paranormal investigator Jayne Harris specializes in haunted dolls.

• NASA is conducting myriad tests to prep astronauts for a Mars mission.

• Tim Harford thinks Amazon’s bad reputation may be underserved. I don’t.

• Travis Kalanick likely won’t be Uber CEO by the time driverless is a reality.

• We should be able to charge for something we’re allowed to do for free, right? 

• It’d probably be good to experiment with Unconditional Guaranteed Income.

• Erstwhile Aeon editor Ross Anderson now lead The Atlantic science section.

• Chemist Hervé This has a unique plan for feeding the world.

• Pitcher Andrew Heaney is selling stock in his baseball future. Bad idea.

• Gary Indiana writes of terrorist motivations. I think he’s simplifying things.

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This week, the NYPD decided to dig up Arthur Ashe’s grave, saying he was acting “suspiciously.”

• Old Print Articles: Peeking inside Hitler’s 16,000-volume library (1942) + H.G. Wells opposes teaching history (1937).

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• Dawn Field thinks about a time of “perfect genetic knowledge.”

• Stephen Hsu foresees a coevolution of humans and machines.

• Kim Stanley Robinson thinks about humans surviving the Anthropocene.

• Lee Billings sees Stanislaw Lem as a Cassandra of our technological age.

• Tom Carson, a Joan Didion skeptic, considers the new bio about her.

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• Michael Moore believes American exceptionalism will be the end of us.

• A piecemeal economy, if pervasive, will need fresh answers.

• Education and basic income may mitigate technological unemployment.

• China’s automation revolution is probably necessary but will be painful.

• Automated writing has entered the newsroom and that’s complicated.

• Hitachi has developed software that acts as a “decision engine.”

• Most indicators tell us we truly are past peak-auto.

• Apple, hoping to define a future, is betting on transportation and AI.

• Alex Gibney discusses two storytellers: Steve Jobs and L. Ron Hubbard.

• Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle talks about Silicon Valley.

• Slavoj Žižek writes of the use of quasi-slavery in today’s capitalism.

• Nostalgia for NYC’s bad old days stems from its middle-class apocalypse.

• Elon Musk believes VR will make us more-sedentary beings.

• Agreeing on international drone regulations won’t be easy.

• The Four Seasons has fallen and so may proprietor Julian Niccolini.

• Chef Andrew Zimmern discusses the fuzzy future of food.

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This week, the new union between Presidents Obama and Rouhani, so close to fruition, was in danger of being denied at the last moment.

• Old Print Articles: A postcard from Palestine and the “laughable” settlement called Israel (1928) + Vladimir Bekhterev allegedly spoke ill of Stalin, lost his brain (1927).

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• Nicholas Carr brilliantly dissects politics in the smartphone age.

• The Trump campaign is fury directed as much at the GOP as Democrats.

• Steven Levy has a great discussion with Jerry Kaplan about next-level AI.

• Douglas Coupland writes about trivia in a time of ubiquitous information.

• Virtual Reality, a ’90s failure, has entered its 2.0 phase.

• Philip K. Dick Android promises to keep some of us in his “people zoo.”

• Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning meet in Berkeley’s Brett robot.

• Yale’s David Bromwich worries about MOOCs and virtual learning.

• Eatsa is a digital San Fran automat selling societal withdrawal.

• John Lanchester compares the Wright brothers and Elon Musk.

• Alex Gibney’s new doc explores why Steve Jobs was so deeply mourned.

• Mass extinction has a positive side–but not for humans.

• To anticipate Mars missions, NASA recruits are living in a dome for a year.

• German diplomat Michael Steiner says America considered nuking Afghanistan.

• We’re foolishly not rebuilding U.S. infrastructure at near-zero interest.

• Citi’s “Disruptive Innovations” report suggests basic income.

• Some think fears of near-term technological unemployment are overstated.

• People of awful taste can help companies avoid launching surefire duds.

• Italo Calvino wrote of his obsessive moviegoing habits.

• Even by Hollywood standards, producer Don Simpson was a disaster.

• Recalling the 1983 essay that helped launch Oliver Sacks’s writing career.

• A brief note from 1854 about an athlete’s death.

• A brief note from 1889 about a family business.

• This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.