Reads: Autonomous Weapons, Queer Food & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. What if People Were Paid for Their Data? - The Economist
2. Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? That's an Easy One - The New York Times
3. Conjuring Spirits in Florida - The New York Times
4. Inside X, the Moonshot Factory Racing to Build the Next Google - Wired
5. Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook's Wild Early Days - Wired
6. Why You Should Let a Robot Cook Your Next Meal - The Verge
7. Is Lab-Grown Meat Really Meat? - Slate
8. China, Silicon Valley, and the Rise of the Global Surveillance State - Popula
9. The World's Worst Industrial Disaster Is Still Unfolding - The Atlantic
10. The Staggering Rise of India's Super-rich - The Guardian
11. The Boy Who Cried Abuse - Narratively
12. Spy for Us — Or Never Speak to Your Family Again - Buzzfeed
13. Forget Killer Robots: Autonomous Weapons Are Already Online - Undark
14. Eating Alone - Longreads
15. The Deep Roots of Writing - Aeon
16. Attack on Skull Island - GQ
17. Queer Food is Hiding in Plain Sight - Eater
18. Ordinary Person, Wild Radical - The Atavist
19. Jaron Lanier on Fighting Big Tech's 'manipulation engine' - Financial Times (subscription)
20. Music's 'Moneyball' Moment: Why Data Is the New Talent Scout - Financial Times (subscription)