Uhhh you're an adult human, so

The viral web's purest emotion is undoubtedly schadenfreude: There are few things on earth so *imminently shareable* as a collectively hated person's well-deserved downfall. That said, even I'm getting a little grossed out by the unabashed glee over Martin Shkreli's arrest. Why can't we talk about something a little more pleasant? Liiiiike ... the super-suave, well-chiseled agents who arrested him?

(NOTE: I know this is maybe cheating -- or let's go with self-plagiarizing, that sounds better -- but I also guest-edited the This. newsletter today and as much as I love newslettering I cannot bring myself to write another. SO, for the featured links today, I'm re-upping three stories I shared in This. They're outside our usual Internet wheelhouse, but it's good to be well-rounded!!)
1. This razor-sharp, witty and painfully on-point essay is presumably about a 60-year-old novel -- but it's actually about being a woman in the contemporary world/the Internet. I dare not paraphrase Rebecca Solnit, so just read how she put it. 2. Like most of you, I imagine, I spend a lot of my time/life consuming books and other media. And my relationship with this information is, I think, a pretty intimate one. But I doubt I could've turned my bookshelf into half so striking a personal narrative as Alexandra Molotkow does: It's part coming-of-age story, part book recommendation. 3. Year-end reviews are a dime a dozen at this time of year, and they only get cheaper as December wears on. But if you can squeeze in ONE more reflection on 2015, make it this one: The Morning News snagged an impressive clique of cool-kid writers to recount the year that "was and wasn't."

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Pocketable: Come for the bizarre Justin Bieber conversion story; stay for the probing questions about the role and function of modern religion.

Postscripts: #Sleepingsquad. Sexting. Christmas n chill. Uhhh you're an adult human, so just text back at will. The best Vines I found while high and alone and the best Internet comedy that came out this year. Is it just me, or is it getting kiiiinda dystopian in here? Pop culture is now so predictable, even programs can do it. (See: selfies, #curation, dance music.) Don't be self-conscious about it, though, that only makes things worse! Here, check out some animals looking like jerks.

Until tomorrow!
@caitlindewey

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