Ariana Grande and the SNL cast provide an alternate Home Alone ending.
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SNL’s alternate Home Alone ending
Ariana Grande and the SNL cast provide an alternate Home Alone ending.
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Thick vs Thin desires
A new to me concept: thin and thick desires. A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t. The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of…
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45×45, a game
I don’t think this game has a name, but judging by its sparse, direct instructions to make 45 groups of 45 individual items, I’m going to call it 45×45. Part puzzle, trivia, logic, and clicking, you group individual items by a genre or topic. For example, you need to make a group for cheese, flowers,…
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My favorite media of 2025
I watched, listened, and read quite a bit last year. Below are my favorites from each category. Italicized items are a thing that I really liked. Movies TV Music Books
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Tech Force
In an attempt to fix a self-inflicted wound, the US government is launching a program called Tech Force to hire technology workers. But shortly after coming into office, Trump folded the USDS into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) before renaming it to the DOGE Service and firing dozens of workers at the agency. The…
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The making of a crash test dummy
A lot of consideration goes into a crash test dummy — making sure they move like a real person. But it’s absolutely essential that they move like a real body would, and record the forces a body would experience. That means a head that weighs what a human head would weigh, moving on a neck…
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IRS faces a lawsuit that would reclassify pets as dependents
IRS faces a lawsuit that would reclassify pets as dependents. The IRS defines pets as property. Reynolds, though, says they tick every box for a legal dependent under IRS rules: They have no independent income (we’ll leave Lassie off this); they reside exclusively with their humans, and they have annual expenses that top $5,000. Calling…
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Chat GPT paramour
The movie, Her, is becoming real life as people begin to fall in love with AI avatars. Michael Inzlicht, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, said people were more willing to share private information with a bot than with a human being. Generative A.I. chatbots, in turn, respond more empathetically than humans…
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Swiftie Dads
There is a lot of good in the world. This includes Swiftie Dads. Paul Scheer interviewed the men, who were with their daughter(s), in the parking lot during one of the Los Angeles to stops. It could have easily been a punchline, instead it’s a sincere and earnest capture of life.
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A really great video about how to be creative when you don’t feel very creative
A really great video about how to be creative when you don’t feel very creative.