Reads: Climate Change, White Gold & More

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

1. Paul Le Roux, the Coder Who Became a Criminal Mastermind - Wired
2. Is Big Tech Merging With Big Brother? Kinda Looks Like It - Wired
3. Private Messages Are the New (Old) Social Network - Wired
4. Rome: Where Migrants Face Eviction as Fascists Find a Home - The New York Review of Books
5. When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples With Self-doubt - Literary Hub
6. Missing, in an Age of Mass Displacement - Harper's
7. Elegy in Times Square - Longreads
8. A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager's Body - The Cut
9. A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads - EFF
10. Apple's Empty Grandstanding About Privacy - The Atlantic
11. Run a Comprehensive Background Check on Yourself - Lifehacker
12. Automated Background Checks Are Deciding Who's Fit for a Home - The Verge
13. Fiction: The God Box - The Verge
14. Trevor Timm: Facebook Doesn't Care About You - Medium
15. How Did Evolution Shape the Human Appreciation of Beauty? - Aeon
16. Why Wonder Is the Most Human of All Emotions - Aeon
17. It's Time for a Robust Philosophical Defence of Truth in Science - Aeon
18. Pentagon Connect: Inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America - The Guardian
19. White Gold: the Unstoppable Rise of Alternative Milks - The Guardian
20. Loneliness, Poverty and Japan's Elderly Crime Wave - BBC
21. Gone in a Generation: Across America, Climate Change Is Already Disrupting Lives - The Washington Post
22. Dave Asprey's Quest to Live to 180 - Men's Health
23. Fiction: The Convoy - Motherboard