TouchStone Reads - July 10th, 2026

We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy... 

• Richmond | Goodman Wealth Management (Cybersecurity Strategies to Help Protect Your Family | Webinar Replay)

• Surveillance Tech Company Is Pitching An Unholy ALPR/Stingray Hybrid To Law Enforcement: Here’s something no one but cops and the tech firms that love cops wanted: an Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) that can scoop up pretty much any information being broadcast by cars and the devices carried by the people inside them. (TechDirt)

• What Big Food Did to Ice Cream: The slow degradation of the supermarket pint, explained with real food science. (Medium)

• Forget Baseball: Gambling Is America’s Real National Pastime. “It is one of the defects of our national character… that no sooner do we get hold of a good thing of this sort, than we proceed to make it hurtful by excess.” (Next Big Idea Club)

• How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy: ProPublica traces how an oil major’s hand quietly steered the influential ‘wedges’ framework. A story about who gets to write the science. (ProPublica)

• Video of the day: Are Humans Badly Designed For Modern Life? (YouTube)

• The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn’t Exist Anymore: A thorough retrospective of my time on the internet. (Christian Cleberg)

• Phil Mickelson’s Long History of Misconduct: A detailed accounting of behavior the golf world has long whispered about. (Skratch)

• Video of the day: Google Maps is unreasonably fast. Let me explain (YouTube)

• Boy Scouts of America, an organization that's hard to imagine could be in a life-and-death struggle with the Trump administration, but is. (Scouting America)

• Record labels no longer dominate which artists get radio airplay (Source: Bloomberg)
  

What are you reading or listening to?