I used a Powershell script to put all of the 65000 Amazon Prime day specials from an Excel spreadsheet into a single web page organized by category. https://bookofadamz.com/all-of-the-2026-amazon-prime-deals-in-one-big-list/
Nielsen: the World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox, and 22M on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
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Trump threatened to destroy Iran on Sunday
-- and suggested that the US could take full control of the Strait of Hormuz, becoming the “Guardian Angel” of the oil choke point
-- and take 20% of the crude if the fragile peace deal falls apart.
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Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
Vorzüglich, allerdings ohne Zitronensaft besser als mit. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/77
The share of people who give a shit about whether a given piece of writing, art, or code was produced with AI is going to fall off a cliff, and that fall has already started.
Five years from now, asking “Is this AI?” will feel about as urgent and meaningful as asking whether a photo was taken on film or digital.
A few specialists will care intensely. Everyone else will have moved on.
I’m not making a values or morality-based call on whether this is a good or bad thing.
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e…