Monday/Lundi July/Juillet 21st, 2025

Behind GSD&M’s White Castle win—creative and media accounts slide over to the Omnicom agency [Ad Age]

Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews — The cost of replacing ageing ICBMs is soaring as a new arms race looms [The Economist]

One William Woods was telling the truth. The other was living his life [1843 Mag]

Land of the rising shun? Immigration and Japan’s politics [The Economist Podcasts]

With EIU’s Global Liveability Index, organisations around the world can benchmark urban performance metrics—examining the drivers shaping quality of life, investment appeal and sustainable growth. Download our free report for in-depth liveability analysis http://econgrp.co/Ww [The EIU]

How to Weigh the Risks of Disclosing a Disability [Harvard Business Review]

UK and 27 nations accuse Israel of 'drip feeding' aid to Gaza civilians as they condemn 'horrifying' killings [BBC News]

RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure [Bloomberg]

Microsoft server hack hit about 100 organizations, researchers say [Reuters]

‘Sadistic death trap’: Israel-US aid sites in starved Gaza denounced by UN [AL-Jazeera News]

Iran Urged To Stop Mass Deportations of Afghans, Respect Human Dignity [Afghanistan International]

How the 2017 Trump tax cuts BALLOONED the ‘big, beautiful bill’ [POLITICO]

The Price of Occupation — In Sakir Khader’s photographs of the West Bank, life and death coexist. [The New Yorker]

This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop [The Verge]

What we know about Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein [Vox]

Grok’s AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money [TechCrunch]

How to run an LLM on your laptop [MIT Technology Review]

Millennials, it's a good time to take a break from your manager era [Business Insider]

Join us in wishing our host and Ally 🇧🇪 Belgium a happy National Day! #WeAreNATO 🤝 [LinkedIn] #NATO

Jeffrey Epstein accuser urged FBI to investigate Trump decades ago – report [The Guardian]

Shootings, Devastation, Hunger: Israel Fails to Address Gaza’s Power Vacuum — Israeli soldiers shot Palestinians near an aid site and a U.N. convoy. Both episodes pointed to Israel’s refusal to allow new governance structures in Gaza. [The New York Times]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Drops Biggest Hint Yet About A Potential 2028 Presidential Run [Huffington Post]

This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built — The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible. [The Atlantic]

President Trump signs first major federal cryptocurrency bill into law [FiveThirtyEight]

Where heavy rain will hit already soggy regions of the U.S. this week [The Washington Post]

How Big Tech and the American left broke up [Le Monde]

ICE just got access to 79 million Americans' Medicaid data [Mashable]

We Sent a Writer to Work Behind the Bar at the Big Oasis Show Last Night [VICE]

Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making. [The Intercept_]

See 100 years of New York City [National Geographic]

Airline pilot was about to land in N.D. when he saw a B-52 'coming at us' [NPR]

Sacramento’s financing deal for Republic FC stadium halted, project still expected to proceed [Cap Radio News]

Aux larmes, citoyens ! [Le Monde diplomatique]

Moscow’s Recognition of the Taliban Will Backfire [Foreign Policy]

Making America Alone Again — History Offers Few Parallels for Washington’s Repudiation of Its Own Alliances [Foreign Affairs]

Can Rapidus Achieve Japan’s Semiconductor Revival? [The Diplomat]

Experts Warn of Insurgents' Paradise in West Africa [The Cipher Brief]

Delta, le très contesté système de fusion de données de l'armée ukrainienne [Intelligence Online FR]

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. [Quanta Magazine]

Un klystron est un composant électronique utilisé pour amplifier les ondes radio haute fréquence jusqu'à un facteur d'un million. Dans les collisionneurs de particules, ils alimentent les cavités radiofréquence et jouer ainsi un rôle clé dans l'accélération des particules. [CERN_FR]

NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart [NASA]

HT Safeguard: A Revolutionary App to Combat Human Trafficking [DeliverFund]

Global human trafficking operation detects 1,194 potential victims, arrests 158 suspects [INTERPOL]

USAF F-35s Fly from Philippines for First Time During Cope Thunder Exercise [Air & Space Forces Magazine]

Humanizing the Machine Age [AIRMAN MAGAZINE]

Once More... With Feeling. 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX vs. Mitsubishi Evo IX MR [MOTORTREND]

Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.61 is Coming Next Week, With Three New Cars [GTPlanet.net]

What’s up, everybody! It’s Monday, July 21st, 2025. I hope you had a great weekend. Myself, not so much, due to personal reasons, and the fact that I ran out of XFINITY bandwidth until August 1st, 2025. Also, I’m getting closer and closer to the maximum mileage to my VW. I need help. I need a new full-size sedan ASAP. Please consider making a donation to my GoFundMe, which only has $61, with every donation made by me. If you donate $5 to Limonade Stands, or other ordeals, but you refuse to donate $1 or more to my GoFundMe, I really question your loyatly. Put some money where your mouth is, I’ve been slaving away for the past 14 years on Zack.coffee. I finally have 23,000 unique weekly viewers on LinkedIn for Zack Technology LLC. Everybody in the SF Valley is getting millions of dollars of funding for silly apps. Meanwhile, I do good deeds and all I ask is for a brand-new car. Help me out. Thanks in advance. PS. Yes, more and more people at #IntelCorp are getting fired until I receive an apology letter and a job offer letter. It’s been 7 years without paychecks.