April 6, 2017
In Ecuador election, right-wing loser rejects vote, complicating Socialist winner’s friendly campaign and platform. / The Independent
Kenny Rogers’ chicken restaurants may be an anachronism in America, but they’re thriving in Asia. / Tedium
Investors are slowly realizing airlines make more money off credit cards and loyalty programs than plane tickets. / Bloomberg
“It goes weirdly unmentioned in most things I’ve read about computer chess that humans using computers can still easily beat both computer-less humans and humanless computers.” Deep Blue’s victory didn’t kill chess, but it convinced people that random moves can be good. / Real Life
Children’s book publishers hire “sensitivity readers,” mostly to help authors be less stupid. / Quartz
“From the offshore Santa Monica freeway to a mini Las Vegas,” pictures of Los Angeles visions that were never built. / The Guardian
“Being the head sucker of the party of suckers is in some sense an appropriate fate for a veteran purveyor of substandard garbage.” Establishment Republicans have been baiting right-wing crazies for years. Now, it’s come back to bite them in the ass. See: Donald Trump. / Fusion
Basketball games should end in sudden death to seven: a radical idea for the sport’s fouls-and-free-throws problem. / ESPN
Former “technical” pro skateboarder Brian Lotti paints a gauzy version of California. / Brian Lotti
An excited report from 1957 on the rise of Indian restaurants in London. / The Guardian
Zaria Forman’s photorealistic paintings of polar ice “celebrate its beauty, eulogize its death.” / Adventure Journal
“I love the Minions. They are totally anar-schistic.” A post-retirement profile of world’s worst director, Uwe Boll. / Vanity Fair
Trump critic Romney shows interest in Orrin Hatch’s Utah Senate seat—but won’t pursue it without Hatch’s blessing. / The Atlantic
Eighteen globally-dispersed people located the countries furthest from them, and cooked meals from those cuisines. / The Morning News
Kuwaiti artist Ghadah Alkandari calls all her characters “Eve,” a slangy, catch-all term for women in Arabic media. / The Morning News