It's not you, it's us

In this edition: Susan Orlean, Andy Ngo, virtual beings and death start-ups

During a week in which Facebook was rightly clobbered for all

sorts of malfeasance & neglect, a small anecdote from Casey Newton oddly stuck most in my head. As some of you might’ve seen, the New York Times’ Kevin Roose tracks the top news stories that trend each day on Facebook. And they are, inevitably, grade-A garbage: partisan blogs, bad memes, over…