TouchStone Reads - December 19th, 2025

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• AI Eats the World | Benedict Evans - YouTube
• The Collapse of Human Knowledge: And why you should create more in the age of AI. (Grant Varner’s Almanack)
• Teaching when to trust: As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge. (New Humanist)
• The Streaming Wars and Affordability (Prof G)
• 52 things I learned in 2025 (Medium - Tom Whitwell)
• Dave Barry’s gift list ranges from a toilet mirror and Norwegian fish balls, to the world’s manliest mug and a big red car bow.
• The New Yorker list includes a pocket-sized AI gizmo, an in-home hologram machine, and human-sized robot servants…up to a tech-addiction breaker and Meta Ray-Ban Glasses.
• Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler: (Techspot)
• Carol Season officially begins…with Little Drummer Boy. Then morphs into Firelight Jig, then changes gear at a Christmas version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Then goes completely over the top with Renée Fleming and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
• 'Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50 (The Guardian)
• Here are 12 years of plants growing…in 20 minutes.

Source: Axios

 

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