Campaigns, Traffic, Mob Mentality, Tyranny, AI Memes - Five Things - Issue #278

Welcome to the age of the political mass-text. Candidates in this year’s midterm elections are adding a new, hard-to-ignore tool to their arsenal.

Shared-ride options such as UberPool pull commuters from transit, biking and walking, the study says. The result: more driving.

Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

People should pay more attention to Madelaine Albright.

Lawrence Peirson, PhD student at Stanford, has created a deep learning network that creates captions for internet memes.

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