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Here are ten items worth your time this week:

šŸ“¹ 1) For Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too [The Intercept]

“Beginning in 2016, according to one source, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazonā€™s S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world.”

šŸ‘“šŸ» 2) People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds [The Verge]

“In fact, age predicted their behavior better than any other characteristic ā€” including party affiliation.”

ā­ 3) How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success [New Yorker]

“‘I donā€™t think any of us could have known what this would become,’ Katherine Walker, a producer on the first five seasons of ‘The Apprentice,’ told me. ‘But Donald would not be President had it not been for that show.’”

šŸ‘½ 4) Avi Loeb on the Mysterious Interstellar Body ’Oumuamua [Spiegel]

Astronomer Avi Loeb believes that the interstellar object dubbed ’Oumuamua could actually be a probe sent by alien beings. Given the evidence that has so far been gathered, he says, it is a possible conclusion to draw.

šŸš¬ 5) Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think? [New Yorker]

"In some cases, heavy cannabis use does seem to cause mental illness. As the National Academy panel declared, in one of its few unequivocal conclusions, ‘Cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use, the greater the risk.’’

āž”ļø 6) The Weight I Carry [The Atlantic]

“I weigh 460 pounds. Those are the hardest words Iā€™ve ever had to write. Nobody knows that numberā€”not my wife, not my doctor, not my closest friends. It feels like confessing a crime.”

šŸ“š 7) The best books on Creating a Career You Love [FiveBooks]

“Bestselling business author Emma Gannon tells Five Books about the career advice books that have inspired her most.”

šŸ“ŗ 8) The 20 Best TV Dramas Since ā€˜The Sopranosā€™ [NY Times]

“Before ‘The Sopranos,’’ yes, TV dramas could take risks (‘Twin Peaks’) and tell stories about difficult people (‘NYPD Blue’). But after the ducks landed in Tonyā€™s backyard pool in January 1999, an immense flock followed….If ‘The Sopranos,’’ which debuted 20 years ago this week, built the ground floor, this list looks at what TV erected on top of it.”

šŸŒ 9) The Mysterious Life (and Death) of Africaā€™s Oldest Trees [TOPIC]

“A shocking study published in 2018 found that some of the most beautiful, and famous, baobab trees are dying. What will this mean for the people who depend on themā€”and for the planet?”

šŸ§™ā€ā™‚ļø 10) my dog only responds to Harry Potter spells [YouTube]

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