In a moment that foreshadows the ultimate demise of the lead character in Scarface, Elvira warns Tony Montana to heed a key warning: "Don't get high on your own supply." It's advice that should have been taken by the employees of Hampton Creek when their superiors pushed absurd claims and advised them to start buying the company's fake mayonaise in bulk to boost sales. The goal? To raise more money from investors. Bloomberg's Olivia Zaleski, Peter Waldman and Ellen Huet on how Hampton creek sold Silicon Valley on a fake mayo miracle. Say hello to my little friend! (It's a jar of real mayo.)

Yahoo has confirmed that hackers gained access to data associated with as many as 500 million user accounts. It's news that could impact the sale of the company's web assets. It's also news that should lead a half-a-billion users to change their passwords at other sites they still actually use. And it's yet more news of just how vulnerable our personal information is as the years pass, and the number of sites with which we share that information continues to rise. And here's an explainer for Millennials: Yahoo has confirmed that a hacker has accessed your parents' personal data.

We're accustomed to protests over what we see in videos of police actions. In Charlotte, we're learning that not being allowed to see the content can lead to similar protests. As the National Guard moves in to try calm protests, "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said at a news conference Thursday that the family of Keith Lamont Scott has asked to view video of his deadly encounter with police, and authorities are trying to accommodate them. However, the chief suggested that his department has no imminent plans to release the footage to the public." Here are the latest updates from Buzzfeed.

+ 15 powerful photos from the protests.

+ Vox: The North Carolina law that could stop the public from seeing police shooting videos.

+ An entire WBNA team knelt during the national anthem.

"You're putting your least experienced officers in the situations that really call for the most experience and best judgement." The Marshall Project on how Chicago and other cities tend to assign the most inexperienced cops to the most dangerous neighborhoods.

"The medicine being pumped into these guys is just killing people." The NFL's drug rules are a microcosm of our national policies. Players are forbidden from using marijuana to cope with pain and other ailments caused by the game. But they are encouraged to use prescription meds that everyone knows are more addictive and dangerous. Rolling Stone: Inside the NFL's Backwards Marijuana Policy.

In 2000, Donald Trump predicted: "I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it." Well, he's certainly trying to make good on that promise. His campaign has paid his businesses $8.2 million for services and travel expenses.

+ How Clinton and Trump are preparing for the first presidential debate. (I've canceled all of my public experiences so I can prepare to live-tweet the event.)

+ Hillary joined Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns.

+ Pricenomics: Why do famous people get paid $250,000 to give a speech?

+ And today in crazy, we have the (now former) Trump Ohio campaign chair sharing some of her views on racism: "I don't think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this ... Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that's a big change, and I think that's the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America."

"Some 66 of its ships, loaded with $14.5 billion of goods, including quantities of electronics heading for America, were left stranded at sea." The Economist on why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea.

"A 2013 study in the International Journal of Trichology found 84 reports of 'unusually rapid' adult hair-blanching in medical literature between 1800 and the present day. Of these, 14 were witnessed by a physician, and were not explained by the rate of follicle growth or any known medical conditions. I am here to report an 85th case: my own." The Atlantic on the medical mystery of hair that whitens overnight. (For most of us, it just feels that way.)

"It makes you realize who your real friends are and how social media takes the joy out of sharing news with people. I also feel less anxious and less of a failure." The Guardian talks to young people about getting happier after quitting social media. I'm definitely going to quit. Just as soon as I go viral. One. More. Time.

+ The Verge: Facebook Messenger is using machine learning to prompt you to pay back your friends.

Rolling Stone has listed the top 100 shows of all time. Let the arguing begin.

+ Daniel Jovanov does fantastic impressions of cars. (Watching this makes me finally understand how my parents felt when I told them I was gonna write a newsletter...)