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Automation. Robots. They won Trump the election. That is the conclusion of a new working paper from Oxford University. Co-authored by Carl Benedikt Frey, the research finds correlations between job losses due to automation and votes for Donald Trump in last year’s US presidential election. Frey is no stranger to … Read More
Remember when KTVU fell for an obvious joke and reported that those Asiana pilot’s names were Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow? Well, Korea hit back this week. A Southwest flight had some landing gear trouble at LGA, and a Korean news agency … Read More
What’s so odd about the world’s longest undefended (except for these guys) border? Well, it isn’t straight, not even the part that supposed to be, it’s deforested, there’s hundreds of stone markers identifying it, we’re still disputing parts of it, and pieces of our respective countries are sometimes oddly detached, … Read More
Dear Ma, War is hell. I knew we’d left the South once I started seeing Trader Joe’s instead of Piggly Wiggly’s. There’s nothing to eat but Organic Almond Crunch. I’ll be live-tweeting our invasion of DC and will try to loot Archie Bunker’s chair from the Smithsonian for you. The South … Read More
