Thinking longer for a better answer. ☕️
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Brian Lehrer Weekend: Freakonomics; History of US Drug Use; 'Hamilton' Birthday
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
20 Years of Freakonomics (First) | Why Bombing 'Drug Boats' Will Do Nothing to Solve America's Fentanyl Crisis (Starts at 32) | Ten Years of Hamilton on Broadway (Starts at 59)
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Being Famous Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Scientists Find
Scientists found that major celebrities died four years earlier than their less famous peers, hinting that fame itself can be a mortality risk.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Loraine Lawson
Most Developers Call AI Data With APIs and A2A

A recent Theory Ventures survey found that 91% out of 413 senior technical builders surveyed are either directly building AI,
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WIRED
• Molly Higgins
Basepaws Pet Test Kits Are Half Off Right Now (2025)
Avoid expensive trips to the vet with up to half off at-home pet DNA testing kits.
WIRED
• Adrienne So
Whoop Subscription Plans Are on Sale (2025)
Whoop's subscription plans are discounted, and accessories are up to 70 percent off.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
Best Digital Notebook Black Friday Sales (2025): ReMarkable, Kobo, Kindle
These handy e-paper devices let you write notes, sketch ideas, and even read books—and they're on sale for Black Friday.
WIRED
• JP Aumasson, Lily Hay Newman
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
Our Favorite Color E-Reader (2025): Kobo Libra Colour
Kobo’s colorful e-readers are more affordable than the competition and still plenty powerful.
WIRED
• Justin Pot
Find Any Lost Phone—Even if It Uses a Different Operating System
The app RingIt helps Android users find iPhones, and vice versa. There's no location tracking or data collection, just an easy way to make your phone ring—loudly.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
Best Dyson Black Friday Deals (2025): Gen5 Detect, Airstrait
In the market for a new Dyson vacuum or hair tool? Here are all the best sales on Dyson gadgets our team loves.
The Daily
• The New York Times
'The Interview': Simon Cowell Is Sorry, Softer and Grieving Liam Payne
The competition-TV judge changed the music industry. Now he says he’s changed too.
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WIRED
• Adrienne So
Our Favorite Smart Glasses Are on Sale for Black Friday (2025)
Meta's big Black Friday sale includes 20 percent off on prescription lenses and sales on compatible Garmin watches.
WIRED
• Molly Higgins
Tractive Smart Cat and Dog Trackers Are 40 Percent Off Right Now (2025)
Tractive smart cat and dog GPS and health trackers are nearly half off right now.
Best Of: Nutritionist Marion Nestle / Science Writer Mary Roach
Food policy expert and nutritionist Marion Nestle's 2006 book, ‘What to Eat,’ became a consumer bible of sorts when it came out, guiding readers through the supermarket while exposing how industry marketing and policy steer our food choices. Now, two decades later, she's back with ‘What to Eat Now,’ a revised field guide for the supermarket of 2025.
Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the new film Hamnet.
Science writer Mary Roach’s latest book, ‘Replaceable You,’ is about innovations in transplant medicine thanks to promising research and breakthroughs. She tells us about organs transplanted from pigs and attempts to replace bald spots on the scalp with hair from other parts of our bodies.
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Amazing win by the Longhorns. I hope they end up making the playoffs. 🏈
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
SF WordPress Party
We’ve secured an amazing secret venue for State of the Word on Monday, but it has limited capacity in terms of people and has a lot of security hurdles to jump through to get in. So to open things up to the community more, we’re going to activate my hacker/maker art warehouse, TinkerTendo, in the … Continue reading SF WordPress Party →
WIRED
• Martin Cizmar
The Rocco Fridge Isn't So Smart, But It Sure Is Pretty
What the Rocco fridge lacks in smarts, it makes up for in looks. You have a few hours left to save on the brand's Black Friday sale.
Mickey Mouse holding horseshoe ornament. 🎄
I think it would've been easy to throw the #Mastodon logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely want to keep for years. This is why I chose the difficult path: Manually finding suppliers, prototyping, ordering in advance and distributing through our own shop. It's a lot of work, which is why it tends to happen as individual "drops" rather than a continuous, all year round stock.