Six great reads: the OnlyFans legacy, stolen cargo and Meta’s ‘creepy’ glasses

1. The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machine

Amelia Gentleman took a fascinating look at what the death of Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive 43-year-old owner of OnlyFans, means for the future of the controversial adult-content site.

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2. My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’

Photograph: Cibola County Sheriff’s Office/AP

Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a “free love ministry” in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah told Simon Hattenstone about her terrifying upbringing – and dramatic escape.

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3. 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

In the Long read, we published Stuart McGurk’s hugely entertaining piece about the rise of cargo theft (of anything from wheels of cheese to barrels of Guinness) – and the one British cop trying to put a stop to it.

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4. Visible from space: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses

Photograph: Alessandro Gandolfi

Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world. More than 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of land are covered in plastic, a geometric labyrinth five times the size of Manhattan, where 3.5m tons of vegetables are produced every year – enough to feed half a billion people and generate a turnover of more than €3bn. This incredible photo essay by Alessandro Gandolfi captured the scale of the operation.

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5. ‘I wrote The Sopranos to get over my mother wishing me dead’: David Chase on his mob masterpiece – and his new LSD epic

Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

It’s nearly two decades since the screen turned black on Tony Soprano. And Sopranos creator David Chase hasn’t written a word for TV since. But that could soon change with a new limited series about the CIA’s MKUltra programme. Stuart Heritage sat down with him.

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Photograph: Ali Smith/The Guardian

Content creators love the built-in camera on Meta’s Ray-Ban smart specs – while sceptics call them “pervert glasses”. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench? After a month wearing them, Elle Hunt wasn’t convinced.

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