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In our last show before Christmas, Joe and Alex break down, one final time, who's been naughty and nice this year. Why are we hopeful for 2026? Who are the humbugs Trippi thinks needs to work extra hard to avoid coal on 2026? And what were the best gifts of the year? Happy holidays to all. 
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Merry Christmas! This present combines two of my favorite things into one shirt. 🎄

Terrific interaction design from The New York Times. Not so terrific interior design from the president.

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I am no longer a full-time writer primarily because I work too slowly and the pay sucks. But a secondary reason is that my brain does not carve out hardline stances that make for good takes. For example: I don’t particularly like Christmas! But even with my humbug sliders maxed out, I could never reach the level of contempt that ur-crank Albert Burneko doled out for Santa Claus:

Just realized I'm like a Black Lab. I always have to have a ball to chase, and really like it if someone says I'm a good boy. I think it really is that simple. Maybe it's different for other men, but I think a lot of us are just that simple.

It is Christmas Day, and last night the emails did not go out. I think I know what the problem is and if it's correct the emails should go out very shortly. Lucky that it's Christmas themed! Ho ho ho.

I asked ChatGPT to put together a subscription list of student newspapers at American universities. Added it to lists.opml.org.

Joni Mitchell wrote a sad and lovely Christmas song.

This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of their own orifices.

All reports are taken from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits, all descriptions are verbatim, and all the people involved had a very bad time.

“It’s that time of the year!” read the email from Stanford Online. As he approaches his 88th birthday, Donald Knuth

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More than two miles under the Greenland Sea, tubeworms, snails, crustaceans, and microbes live on gas hydrate seeps that leak crude oil and methane.

I am starting to think I will never receive my horny novelty holiday decorations.

Here's how to make iPhone and Android devices a little easier to use.

Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, ‘Born to Run,’ came out 50 years ago this year, marking a turning point for rock and roll — and for "The Boss." Before he made that record, Springsteen's label, Columbia, was on the verge of dropping him because his first two albums, though critically acclaimed, had sold poorly. Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the creation of ‘Born to Run’ as an "existential moment" for Springsteen. His book is ‘Tonight in Jungleland.’ 

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If anything, iPhones and Pixels are practically vanilla. The next generation is thinner, more transparent, and folds in half. That’s a good thing.

This year, the right-to-repair movement got a boost from—surprisingly—big tech, tariffs, and economic downturn. But the companies controlling who fixes their stuff aren’t giving up that power willingly.

Research shows that watching a simulated fire may have real psychological benefits.

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day canines carry a small amount of wolf genes.

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