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...

• Must Watch - Canadian (Torontonian) Jack Crawford wins the hardest Downhill Race (Kitzbuel) on the planet (YouTube)

• Humour (We Need it). Fred Armisen on Guitar Styles around the world (go to 5.20 mins) (YouTube)

• The Musk Digital Coup. (Letters from an American)

• A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI: America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it. (Wired)

• Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America”. Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person. (Nieman Lab)

• The Logic of Destruction - by Timothy Snyder (Thinking About…)

• Why taxi drivers are protected from Alzheimer’s. Their spatial muscle memory gets exercised every day. (Medscape)

• The Encyclopedia of Known Unknowns. It’s called Wikenigma and it chronicles existing problems no one has ever solved.

• The Interview: Dr. Anna Lembke Is Scared About What Modern Life Is Doing to Us (The New York Times)

• Interesting chart on media bias. (Ad Fontes Media)

• The New Serious Media.
  There's been a migration of serious journalists and quality critical thinkers from mainstream press in the last several years. Here are a few places that the credible have gone. Some are aggregators - some are original content providers. They are worth a look.
  Caveat emptor. Where are you getting your media?
  - The Free Press
  - Substack
  - Axios
  - Our World in Data
   

What are you reading or listening to?