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It’s not that there were no interesting things to read on the internet this past week, its that I was lazy and have not posted them.

Here’s another catchup post.

• It’s All Benghazi
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election
  Nicholas Confessore, Sarah Cohen and Karen Yourish - NYT
  
• The Apple Bias
  Vlad Savov - The Verge
  
• The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy
  Sarah Boxer - The Atlantic
  
• Basecamp: The origin story
  Jason Fried
  
• When Amazon Dies
  Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic
  
• Library of Words
  Giulio Pepe
  
• Exploring Apple’s 3D Touch
  R. Kevin Nelson
  
• Twitter's Moment
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• Twitter's Moment
  Fred Wilson
  
• Human Spectacle
  This American Life (Podcast)
  
• Bubblelicious
  Planet Money (Podcast)
  
• The Signature
  Plnaet Money (Podcast)
  

Today, out of curiosity I went back to the first post in the archive of Fred Wilson’s AVC. I was surprised by the terseness, and the simplicity. Continue reading...

• There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room
  Emily Badger - Washington Post
  
• The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret
  Nicholas Kristof - NYT
  
• The Economics of Software Correctness
  David R. McIver
  
• Tim Cook’s Apple Has Forced the Whole Tech World to Realign
  Marcus Wohlsen - Wired
  
• Twitter's Moment
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  

• Life Is a Braid in Spacetime
  Max Tegmark - Nautilus
  
• Carriers are Making More From Mobile Ads than Publishers Are
  Rob Leathern
  
• The Reign of Recycling
  John Tierney - NYT
  
• How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
  Steven Levy - Backchannel
  
• I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972
  Craigslist Missed Connections
  
• I Do Not Want Your Stupid App
  Jon Evans - TechCrunch
  
• Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
  Leon Neyfakh - Slate
  
• The Age of the Cockroach
  Caternia Fake
  

• The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
  Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews And Josh Keller - NYT
  
• Jeb Goes Galt
  Mark Thoma
  
• When the Boats Arrive
  Planet Money (Podcast)