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Sunday, July 19, 2026

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articleNew York Times
The U.S. Braced For the World Cup. It Fell in Love Instead.

A month of matches across three countries ended with Spain lifting the trophy. The genuine surprise was the host: the tournament won America over on its way through.

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articleWall Street Journal
The Justice Department Is Pulling Back on Prosecuting Corporate Crime

In several recent cases prosecutors believed senior employees broke the law and declined to charge the company anyway. The pattern is the story, and the Journal names them.

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articleThe Atlantic
The True History of New England's Stone Walls

There is enough stacked stone in New England to reach the moon, and almost none of it was built to be looked at. A working waller explains what it was actually for.

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podcastUp First
Infertility doctor secretly fathered dozens of children: how strangers became family

A DNA test turned up a half-sibling. Then another, and another. What the people at the center chose to build out of that is the part nobody sees coming.

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articleHacker News
I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

The quoted replacement was $120,000. He did it with roughly $1,600 of microcontrollers and a great deal of patience — and the comments are the best part.

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