Pablo Escobar has capitalized on another American dependency syndrome. Everyones seems to be addicted to the new Escobar-themed Netflix show Narcos. Haven't had a chance to check it out? Don't feel bad. You may never have the chance. It turns out that the biggest challenge of the Internet age is keeping up with all the new TV shows. Quality television is today's drug of choice and your living room is the new Studio 54. The number of new shows this year could, for the first time, surpass the 400 mark. That's a lot of content to purge before you can even begin to binge. Picture Al Pacino in one of the final scenes of Scarface as he sits at his desk behind a mountain of cocaine. That's basically you on your couch with the remote control in your hand. Can you ever have too much of a good thing? TV execs and consumers are worried that the answer to that is a resounding yes. Here's the NYT's John Kolbin on the new challenges of TV's golden age.

+ The more pressing issue facing content creators is the increased use of ad-blocking software. And that issue is about to become a lot more immediate when Apple rolls out ad-blocking software to the masses.

President Obama is visiting Alaska where he will officially give the country's highest peak its original name. Mount McKinley will now be called Mount Denali.

+ The bigger purpose of the Alaska trip is to highlight climate change in a state where its most visible. From The Atlantic: The village that will be swept away. And from the LA Times, Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea.

Baltimore was all over the headlines in the weeks following the death of Freddie Gray. That story cooled, but the streets did not. And in July, there were 41 murders in Baltimore. That's the most bloodshed the city has encountered in more than four decades.

Oliver Sacks was a champion of one of humankind's most admirable qualities: Curiosity. The neurologist and writer died on Monday. He wrote beautifully about his impending death in a piece published a couple weeks ago: "And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life..."

+ Longform has a collection of links to some of Sacks' most popular essays.

Last night, it seemed to me that a lot of people were live-tweeting the fact that MTV still exists. But apparently the network still has a lot of cultural influence as the details of the 2015 VMAs are plastered across headlines and social media. Buzzfeed has narrowed things down to the 27 most important moments from the 2015 VMAs.

+ It definitely took a lot of courage to say whatever it was that Kanye West was trying to say. When he announced he was running for president and dropped the mic, everyone raced to report the news of his 2020 candidacy. Talk about burying the lede. The big news was that Kanye voluntarily relinquished a microphone.

+ THR: The night's best and worst moments. (The biggest thing I learned during last night's VMAs was that when Bieber cries, I cry.)

Yes, they lost the emails, the personal details, the likelihood of their IPO, and their CEO. But Ashley Madison execs are back in the headlines today with claims that the site actually picked up 100K new users last week. (Maybe its just wives signing up to see if their husbands are on the service.)

"I understand correlation isn't causation and I'm just removing myself from the risks. I know I could be wrong." As the NFL season gets underway, the 24 year-old linebacker Chris Borland will not be taking the field after deciding that the game is not worth the risks. Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada on the former player who is the most dangerous man in football.

+ The NFL's concussion story could get even more attention thanks to a new film starring Will Smith.

+ Some folks in Detroit may have found a safer form of football called Fowling. It's football meets bowling.

Wes Craven, who was a master of the horror film genre and a discoverer of some of Hollywood's most well-known talent, has died at the age of 76. He once lived near a cemetery on Elm Street in the suburbs of Cleveland. That location gave him an idea that launched a massive career.

Fortune's Anne VanderMey shares some of the numbers behind the amazing rise of grocery store sushi (and, apparently, gas station sushi...).

You may have noticed that some of your officemates have made their annual pilgrimmage to the desert for Burning Man. Is there a chance that the ever-growing festival could one day be a permanent utopian community? (I'm not sure that's necessary, but it's sure nice having them gone for the week.)

+ Megan Garber argues that the American lawn has outlived its purpose. (She must not be from California where most lawns didn't even manage to outlive the summer.)

+ It's really not much of a surprise that people now want their obituaries to go viral.