"In the old days, you imagine Bonnie and Clyde getting excited when they made the papers. Now they're taking it into their own hands. They're putting out the stories themselves. It's depressing." WaPo's Joel Achenbach on the Virginia murders in the age of social media: A killer's ultimate selfie. While there's been a lot of focus on the social media element of this event, it's worth noting that what made the act especially notable and newsworthy is the fact that it happened on live television (a technology neither new nor particularly social).

+ The New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson: "You see the man aim -- gun in one hand, mobile phone in the other. Suddenly the calm banality of a morning newscast is transformed into a horror. It's hard to watch. But watch it is of course what many people did."

+ Jared Keller in Pacific Standard: Is it ethical to watch a murder caught on tape? A bigger question might be whether it's ethical for the vast majority of Americans to maintain a field of vision entirely scrubbed of any hint of what the issue of gun violence actually looks like.

"It's like a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots." Annalee Newitz took a close look at the Ashley Madison database and found something that might not seem all that surprising. There are almost no real women. So yes. Your wife just left you for cheating with an avatar.

+ WaPo: Hookup culture isn't the real problem facing singles today. It's math.

+ GQ's Taffy Brodesser-Akner on sugar daddies and the bold new love-transactional economy: "A thing you should know is that there are very few people to root for in this story." (I'm not quite sure how much of this story is real, but I'm trying to finally convince my dad to subscribe...)

"This day is a dark day for us. The tragedy affects us all. Traffickers are criminals." So said Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner as authorities found a truck holding as many as 50 dead migrants.

+ From the NYT: Traveling in Europe's River of Migrants.

+ "Not since the second world war has the continent faced refugee flows of such complexity and scale." The Economist with a look at the seemingly endless stream of asylum-seekers.

Someone is doing something right in Paraguay. They just topped every other country in the positive experience index. Gallup interviewed 150,000 adults in 148 countries, asking such questions as, "did you smile or laugh yesterday" and "did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?" Interestingly, even some war-torn countries have reasonably high scores on the happy meter.

"Because our culture is so visual, even if something is rare, the images are repeated so much, you start to think it's not rare." Is the media to blame for the amount of worry that parents seem to feel these days? If anything, the risks to most kids has diminished since today's parents were kids. So Boston Mag's Melissa Schorr wants to know: When (and why) did parents get so scared?

On the tenth anniversary of the deluge, Fusion takes a look back at the story of Katrina as it played out on local newspaper covers.

Usain Bolt continued his sprinting dominance by taking home his fourth consecutive world championship gold in the 200m. But this is the age of the Internet, so the much bigger news came when a cameraman on a Segway knocked Bolt to the ground. (Sadly, the Segway later tested postive for banned substances.)

+ Kenyan Julius Yego took home the gold medal in Javelin. Which is pretty impressive, especially considering that he learned how to throw one on YouTube.

WSJ: "In 2013, Auburn University's curriculum review committee took up the case of a small, unpopular undergraduate major called public administration. After concluding that the major added very little to the school's academic mission, the committee voted to eliminate it." But then the athletic department chimed in.

"Larry King died in 2010. Not for real, but when CNN pulled the plug on King's show after 25 years, it felt like a dress rehearsal for the real cancellation." In NYT Mag, Mark Leibovich pays a visit to Larry King who's preparing for his final cancellation. (CNN's decision to drop Larry looks worse and worse as the years pass.)

At long last, you can now upload landscape and portrait photos to Instagram. I have a feeling this could be the thing that enables photo sharing to finally take off.

+ FastCo on the rise of multiculturalism as it relates to hot sauce.

+ Tesla's latest car basically broke Consumer Reports ratings scale.