A list of good reads

• Adam Mastroianni lays out his research that shows that people have not become less ethical—and yet people are convinced we have. And that's not good.
• Mint Lounge profiles poet Joseph Fasano whose poetry prompts on Twitter have gone viral.
• Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) explores the decline of the airline loyalty program—and asks if it is worth signing up for those frequent flyer miles. 
• Popular Mechanics put together an interesting guide to AI music generators that help anyone create their own music. One of them is better at suggesting new music than Spotify.
• Did you hear that US military intelligence officials have ‘admitted’ to retrieving alien spacecraft and their pilots? Vox looks at whether there are indeed aliens among us.
• WellBeing has an interesting piece on the power of being an early riser—which is sure to annoy night owls.
• Economist gives voice to every Indian fan’s outrage at the decision to bench Ravichandran Ashwin.
• The Markup has a disturbing read on the different ways in which advertisers target consumers based on highly specific and often intimate information.
• BBC Science Focus has an important read on how the celeb favourite ‘one meal a day’ diet may actually be harmful. 
• Sheon Han in The Atlantic makes a case for ‘selective slackerism’.