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This week’s episode of EconTalk opens with an amazing quote, which I felt was to good not to share: Continue reading...

• The future of news is not an article
  Alexis Lloyd - NYT Labs
  
• What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie
  Andrej Karpathy
  
• Universal Basic Income Will Likely Increase Social Cohesion
  Scott Santen - Huffington Post
  
• A debtors’ prison in Mississippi
  Radley Balko - Washington Post
  
• What the Google Books Victory Means for Readers
  Dan Cohen - The Atlantic
  

This week, I was surprised to see a piece by an Amazon SVP on my feed. What The New York Times Didn’t Tell You showed up months after Continue reading...

• Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile
  Charles Author
  
• Markets Need Marxism
  Chris Dillow - Stumbling and Mumbling
  
• Just Because a Market Lacks [X] Doesn’t Make it Fundamentally Broken
  Ezra Galston - Breaking VC
  
• Venmo Five Years Ago
  Matt Newberg
  
• How MindGeek transformed the economics of porn
  Felix Salmon - Fusion
  
• Married To Your Business
  StartUp (Podcast)
  

• Twitter Moments as a Platform
  Fred Wilson
  
• I’m a Phillips, and even I don’t trust the Phillips curve
  Matt Phillips - Quartz
  
• Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes To Developers, Says He Wants To “Reset” Relations
  Ingrid Lunden - TechCrunch
  
• Northwestern's law school gets $100 million Pritzker gift, new name
  Lolly Bowean - Chicago Tribune
  
• Hillary's Loops
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• When Salaries Aren't Secret
  Planet Money (Podcast)
  
• We Know What You Did
  Reply All (Podcast)