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...

• ‘Water is more valuable than oil’: the corporation cashing in on America’s drought: (The Guardian)

• LISTEN : The Axe Files - Living in an Age of Revolution - with Guest Fareed Zakaria (Apple)

• What the Upper-Middle-Class Left Doesn’t Get About Inflation (The Atlantic) 

• A brief, weird history of brainwashing (MIT Technology Review)

• Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges - and Heading South (The Free Press)

• Time is a Thief. Time is slippery. Don’t waste yours. (Finding Joy)

• Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis (Pen America)

• Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought: (Vox)

• Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life (Quanta Magazine)

• Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now: (The Verge)

• To make sure grandmas like his don’t get conned, he scams the scammers (NPR)

• Goodbye film, hello YouTube. “The movie business is over,” says Jerry Seinfeld in a new interview (GQ)

What are you reading or listening to?