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...

• The End of the South Florida Dream (Newsweek)

• America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back: The 14 Reasons Why these Tariffs Will Not Bring Manufacturing Back. (Molson Hart)

• ‘It’s Disneyland for preppers’: why apocalypse-minded shoppers go to Costco. A doomsday meal bucket drew attention to something end-timers have known forever: the bulk store is the perfect place for stockpiling. (The Guardian)

• 20 verification tools for combating misinformation. Fact-checking sites like Snopes and Google’s Fact Check Explorer, as well as reverse image search engines, identity verification sites, and AI detection tools. While this list is intended for journalists, these resources are useful for anyone who wants to evaluate what they read or find online critically. (Beyond Bylines)

• The DIY Dumbphone Method (she’sabeast)

• How to have friends past age 30: Individual friendships are great. But most people don’t just want one-on-one interactions — we want a gang of friends who all hang out together. (Noahpinion)

• The pundit’s dilemma (Noahpinion)

• An Autopsy of American Exceptionalism: The strange thing about this turmoil was that much of it was predicated on falsehoods. (Pragmatic Capitalism)

• 37 takeaways from 200 hours with Bach: Here are 37 takeaways from my survey of the complete works of J.S. Bach (Year of Bach)

• How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border: Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. (Wired)

• The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits. Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs. (MIT Press Reader)

• FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering (Pluralistic)

• What’s the Matter with Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi? Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye. (New Republic)

• Top metropolitan areas by population Growth (Source: Substack)
  

• Technology developments over time vs population (Source: Haim Israel, Merrill Lynch Thematic Investing)
  

What are you reading or listening to?