July 2026 Dispatch

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month. Think of Dispatch as my monthly mixtape from the internet with no real theme except “this was neat.” Videos I read Ghost In The Wire by Kevin Mitnick a long long time ago but that is easily the most borrowed book in my “home library " among my techie friends. Kevin is famous for phreaking in the 80s with fern describes him in this video as the kid who hacked America. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has rightfully taken the internet by a storm and this is a great look into how a projectionist handles 70mm film. The process is quite intricate and very analog. Come to think of it, Nolan is singlehandedly ensuring such a profession remains active. Speeed has been described a a video version of a men’s magazine and it’s 100% true. In this video, James Pumphrey breaks down wristwatches: the vocabulary, how they work, the history, what to look out for. The video is quite…