We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun — for weekend reading. Below are some from this week — pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• Substack: Empire of Narratives: It’s a multi-media network and cultural powerhouse (The Generalist)

• I Asked an Algorithm to Optimize My Life. Here’s What Happened (Wired)

• The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it (MIT Technology Review)

• No More Passwords: How to Set Up Apple’s Passkeys for Easy Sign-ins (PC Mag)

• When covid politics collides with covid science, public health loses (Grid)

• Rupert Murdoch’s deposition in $1.6 billion defamation case is ‘a nightmare’ for Fox News, legal experts say (Grid)

• Inside the Dissident Fringe, Where the New Right Meets the Far Left, and Everyone’s Bracing For Apocalypse (Vanity Fair)

• Fake Assistants Are All Over TikTok (The Cut)

• The Best One Hit Wonders Of The ’90s, According To Reddit (Digg)

• Ontario just lived through the darkest Winter in 73 YEARS. #Irritable (Weather Channel)

What are you reading or listening to?