#clickbait
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I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible. (gizmodo.com)"Its global empire also includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), the vast server network that provides the backbone for much of the internet, as well as Twitch.tv, the broadcasting behemoth that is the backbone of the online gaming industry, and Whole Foods, the organic backbone of the yuppie diet. "
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Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks (larseidnes.com)
In total, this gives us an infinite source of useless journalism, available at no cost. If I remember correctly from economics class, this should drive the market value of useless journalism down to zero, forcing other producers of useless journalism to produce something else.
