Sunday December 28, 2025
Opinion | Sick of Trump News? I’m Here for You. - The New York Times — David Brooks’ Sidney Awards.
Our 25 Most-Read Pieces of 2025 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 | The New Yorker
An Ounce of Silver Is Now Worth More Than a Barrel of Oil - WSJ
Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One - The New York Times
Merry Christmas!
Among many activities today, I watched Home Alone. It is a deceptively great movie. Funny and campy, yes. Also, thoughtful and well constructed.
Bari Weiss’s A Charlie Brown Christmas - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
A 3-D Look Inside Trump’s Revamped Oval Office - The New York Times
The Jobs You’re Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father - The New York Times
Children often pursue their parents’ jobs because of the breakfast-table effect: Family conversations influence them. They fuel interests or teach children what less commonly understood careers entail (probably one reason textile spinning and shoemaking are high on the list of jobs disproportionately passed on to children). In interviews, people who followed their parents’ career paths described it as speaking the same language.
Certain aptitudes may be inherited. Families also have their own cultures, reflected in how they value spending time — whether making things by hand, achieving academically or filling the home with art and music. People described flirtations with other careers as teenage rebellions before settling into a parent’s occupation.
Daily run, part one | Derek Sivers — Don’t forget to read part two.
Doctor Answers Vaccine Questions | Tech Support | WIRED - YouTube
Why Tech Upgrades Feel Pointless Now (The Post-Plateau Paradox) - YouTube — Deep thinking.
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025 | The New Yorker
A Woman Froze to Death on an Alpine Trek. Is Her Boyfriend to Blame? - The New York Times
The case has brought to the fore a legal doctrine known as Garantenstellung, a broad concept in Germanic law that establishes a responsibility to intervene for people who have a “duty of care” in a range of situations, including parents caring for children or a driver who hits a pedestrian — and can put liability on those people.
It is often invoked on trips with hired guides, but has rarely been applied to a private hike like the couple’s excursion, experts said.
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