The way we Internet these days

Today is Friday, my office is empty, and some hilarious, enterprising soul has made an ice bucket Halloween costume. In short, life is beautiful. Let's kill the remaining hours until 5 with some links, eh?

1. How do you solve a problem like Bustle? It's one of the web's fastest-growing viral news sites, but most of its posts make Buzzfeed look Pulitzer-worthy. It's supposed to be a voice for women, but it's run by a man. It's making money like crazy, but it pays its writers next to nothing. If this is the way we Internet these days, then Bustle is basically killing it.

2. Silicon Valley has a serious race problem. We already know that America's tech epicenter wants for diverse employees and entrepreneurs. But as power and wealth concentrate in the Valley, the political structures that favor elite white men are only getting more entrenched.

3. Coffee + butter + oil = "bulletproof coffee," the nasty drink du jour among the trendy tech set. Allegedly, this sludge makes you lose weight and improves cognitive function. But when a writer drank it for two weeks straight, he got little more than a stomach ache.

#FreeDory.

Pocketable: Bill Nye fights back. With very literal art, I might add. (4081 words/16 minutes)

Postscripts: #PayMyTuition. Toddlercore. You used to be cute. The statistics of psychics and dinner parties of Secret. These are America's most popular apps. These are the National Zoo's new bbs. Inside the world of white Ferguson Facebook and inside the dealings of Russia's web thugs. Is Taylor Swift racist? Are smartphones stupefying? Last but not least, today in felines: Snapcats, veteran cats, wedding cats. Meow.

Enjoy the weekend! Until Monday,
@caitlindewey

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