Bad news my friends, Dave Portnoy has a book and I acknowledged its existence. In slightly better news, the world cup was ruined by technology, Phoebe Gates’s app is doing some very shady things, StubHub is a scam, and Jia Tolentino wrote another essay.
14 min: Stubhub at it Again
22 min: Phia Broke the Law
33 min: Is VAR Ruining the World Cup?
44 min: Jia Tolentino’s New Essay
62 min: Dave Portnoy’s Memoir
96 min: Caps Off
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Jia:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/our-plastic-surgery-nightmare
Phia:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/phia-accused-of-cookie-stuffing-taking-affiliate-credit-on-purchases-it-didnt-earn/
World Cup VAR:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ce8jv326d7vo
https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2026-07-12/how-var-became-2026-world-cups-biggest-villain
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/world-cup/var-changes-are-the-worst-thing-about-the-best-world-cup/
Stubhub:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/stubhub-marketplace-mass-scalper-sec-filings-9.7265230
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