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...

• Capitalism Devours Crypto…by blowing up and looting DeFi to enrich TradFi (System Change)

• South Park’s Creators Are Now Billionaires (Forbes)

• Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move. (CNN)

• How does the risk of death change as we age – and how has this changed over time? (Our world in Data)

• China Secretly Executed Four Canadians. A Former Prisoner Explains Why (The Walrus)

• Sales Are Down While Mortgage Applications Are Up (Housing Notes)

• ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing (The Guardian)

• Murmurations. The most interesting shapes happen when starlings are attacked by birds of prey. (YouTube)

• Orcas offer gifts of food to humans. (Science alert)

• If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them? (Derek Thompson)

• The General Theory of Enshittification (SIC): It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more (Paul Krugman)

• The Washington Post is dying. I can tell you “how.” But not “why.” Is Jeff Bezos killing the newspaper on purpose or by accident? (The Bulwark)

• Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe: Gordon Pennycook: “It might be one of the biggest false consensus effects that’s been observed.” (Ars Technica)

• 27 Notes On Growing Old(er): A Universal Process That’s Also Mighty Strange (The Ruffian)

What are you reading or listening to?