When considering privacy, Americans trust landlines over cell phones and various forms of digital communication. So it makes perfect sense that use of landlines is consistently dropping. Why? Because we live in a privacy opposite world. The NYT's Claire Cain Miller sums it up: Americans say they want privacy, but act as if they don't. There must be something about sharing personal information that means more to us than our own privacy (and much more to us than Kim Kardashian's privacy).

+ Pew: Public perceptions of privacy and security in the post-Snowden era.

In what promises to set up a major political battle, President Obama plans to announce a major overhaul to the immigration enforcement system. One part of the plan "will allow many parents of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away."

Lately, ISIS hasn't been in the news for taking large swaths of territory. But that doesn't mean that the group is not growing geographically. Other terrorist groups from surrounding countries are joining their club. From PBS: What a pledge of allegiance to ISIS means.

+ "We have heard of the expansion of the Islamic State to New lands, from Yemen to Egypt, Libya and Algeria. We accept their bay'ah [pledges of allegiance]." A new audio recording of the leader of ISIS appears to prove he was not killed in recent airstrikes.

+ A Frontline Documentary: The miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS.

After a months-long and very public spat, Amazon and Hachette have reached a deal that will allow the publisher to set the consumer prices of its e-books.

+ Vox: 9 questions about Amazon's fight with Hachette.

+ The Chronicle of Higher Education asked 12 scholars to name a nonfiction book that profoundly changed their minds.

"I friended a few dozen Aiglon graduates and waited for the social network's algorithm to play matchmaker. Two weeks later, I received a Facebook notification suggesting that I contact him. A few hours after that, my childhood enemy became my Facebook friend." In The New Yorker, author Allen Kurzweil explains why he spent forty years looking for his bully.

Earlier this week, Bill Cosby asked Twitter users to meme him. And they responded by resurfacing rape allegations. With the past coming back, one of Cosby's accusers takes to the pages of The Washington Post to ask: Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?

+ Here's a look at a story Robert Huber wrote for Philadelphia Magazine back in 2006: Dr. Huxtable & Mr. Hyde.

After a two-year investigation into corruption claims, FIFA found that FIFA was not guilty of any wrongdoing. But the guy FIFA hired to do the investigation for them says that FIFA's claim of innocence is erroneous. FIFA is looking into that.

+ The FBI is moving ahead with its own FIFA corruption probe.

"All the attention being paid to the lopsided statistics hasn't diminished the everyday strangeness of being one of the few." From Bloomberg: What It's Like to Be Black or Female in Silicon Valley.

+ "I did my best to make them feel comfortable around me so that I would be included. I laughed at their terribly racist and sexist jokes, I co-opted their negative attitudes, I began to dress as they did, I brushed it off when they made passes at me. I did everything I could to make them feel like I was one of them, even though I clearly was not." Erica Joy on the psychological effects of being a minority in a mostly homogeneous workplace: The Other Side of Diversity.

The robot probe Philae didn't quite stick its landing on the comet yesterday -- it bounced a couple times. Scientists are worried that it landed in a shadow that could prevent it from getting enough sunlight to charge its battery. (I suppose an extension cord is out of the question).

+ Even if the battery dies, we can find some solace in the fact that the probe has already sent back some pretty incredible photos.

+ The Verge: A tenuous path to a comet: the Rosetta mission in photos.

+ Looking for some technology that hits a little closer to home? Check out Toshiba's high-tech grow rooms where new age farmers are turning out lettuce that never needs to be washed.

They were all set for their biggest media moment. They were going to interview the President of the United States. But first, they needed to find just the right ferns. GQ's Amy Wallace on the rise of Funny or Die and the making of the most powerful Internet mogul of the year ... Will Ferrell.

+ Looking for a nice family home? The one where the Corleones lived on Staten Island is up for sale. (I recommend negotiating with Fredo.) Not in the market for a house? Well, you can at least score a Marlon Brando jacket.

+ The world's tallest man and the world's shortest man met.

+ A shopper tried to steal a chainsaw by slipping it into his pants. In other words, Florida.

+ And finally, a responsive yoga mat with built-in sensor technology designed to improve your yoga practice. (We've lost our minds...)