What do you waste the most money on?

This week was historic for Facebook, and not in a good way. For the first time in the company’s meteoric history there was a decline in North American Daily Active Users. DAU in the US and Canada dropped by 700,000 in the last quarter as Facebook retools its algorithm to make home feeds less…well…swampy.

The question is: is this an anomaly, or the first sign of a long term trend? Remember, the service has only been around for 13 years, and only been widely available for 10 of those.

If you’re anything like me, the first category isn’t going to surprise you (as I write this in a Starbucks sipping a $6 coffee).

Rolf Potts is the author of Vagabonding, which is perhaps the best book on long term travel ever written. He once traveled around the world with no luggage, he runs the most popular writer’s workshop in Paris, and is an unlikely expert on 1990’s gangsta rap. He’s also an occasional drinking buddy of mine when our crazy paths collide.

So you can imagine my excitement when he launched a podcast last November with none other than Tim Ferriss as his first guest. It’s only gotten better since then, and I’m linking to this episode because it was so much fun. If you’re a child of the 70’s or 80’s (or just someone with an affinity for that period), there’s no way you won’t enjoy this exploration of the bands that were signed to major labels but no one has ever heard of. 

We’ve seeing an alarming rise in teen suicide attempts over the last several years, and mental health professionals are scrambling for an explanation. It might be staring us right in the face.

There’s a new docuseries on Netflix called Dirty Money, and it’s excellent. It explores and exposes corporate skullduggery ranging from predatory lending to medical price gouging to banks laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Perhaps the most shocking episode, however, is the first one which exposes the fraud around “clean diesel” by Volkswagen. And just when you think it can’t get any worse, they bring out the monkeys.

As amazing as this is, I just can’t shake the feeling that a hundred years from now people are going to look back on our treatment of non-human sentient beings with the same revulsion we reserve for slavery or medieval torture. 

Of all the crises facing our planet, this one legit might be the worst. All you dirty hippies using agave nectar as a sweetener need to back off, because this is getting serious. 

I was honestly surprised by some of these results. I live in a pretty unhealthy state overall, but I was shocked at some of the states most people consider “healthy” who topped a few of these charts.

We’re all aware that we’re being tracked on the internet, but most of us don’t realize to what degree. 76% of websites you visit have hidden Google trackers embedded. Gabriel Weinberg (founder of DuckDuckGo) explains why that’s unacceptable, and outlines what we should do about it.