TouchStone Reads - October 23rd, 2026

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... 

• Who do we arrest when AI commits a crime? (Common Dreams)
• The odd global success of Canada’s Arc’teryx (Instagram)
• Epic teams up with Amazon Pharmacy, LillyDirect and Mark Cuban to launch prescription drug pricing tool (Fierce Healthcare)
• Video of the day: What They’re Not Telling You About Data Centers (Maxinomics)
• Why Did DOGE Exist? Now We Know. Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending. They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves. (New Republic)
• Why aren’t AI companies being charged for hacking? (Musing Mortoray)
• The Online Shopping Trend Where You Buy Nothing: Itika Sharma Punit on South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” where the pleasure comes from browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery. (Rest of World)
• How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets: Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance (The Guardian)
• Your Brain May Not Actually “Make” Decisions: Indiana University’s Tom James on why the perceive-then-decide sequence we all imagine may be very different from what actually happens inside the brain. (ScienceDaily)
• Video of the day: I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit (YouTube)
• Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive (Source: San Francisco Chronicle
  

What are you reading or listening to?