Friday morning coffee reads

A regular roundup of interesting stories to enjoy with your Friday morning coffee.

  1. Virtual reality so good Disney should just buy the whole company.
  2. The politicization of everything.
  3. The “Simpsons” jokes that never quite made it (and a few that barely did).
  4. Behind the scenes at Tokyo’s lost and found center.
  5. A few words to the graduates from David Sedaris.
  6. EU copyright proposal has free speech advocates worried.
  7. Netflix is hiring everybody in and out of Hollywood to make more TV shows than any network ever has. And it already knows which ones you’ll like. Related: How Netflix is trying to make sure its shows don’t get lost.
  8. An extensive investigation of the Grenfell Tower fire.
  9. Does musical paralysis set in at 28?
  10. A list of everything Anthony Bourdain hated.
  11. The wounds of the drone warrior.