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  • Vox has a longread about the toxic culture of SoulCycle.
  • The Times spoke to five New Yorkers about how they are handling spending the holidays alone.
  • The White House Management Office informed staffers in the Executive Office of the President that they “will start departing” on the week of Jan. 4th...or DID they?
  • Here's your chance to learn the Naked Cowboy's workout routine.
  • Texas has broken from the CDC by vaccinating elderly residents over police and teachers.
  • IndieWire has an oral history of the infamous Rudy Giuliani scene from Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm: "I’ve been working in this business for a long time. I’ve never seen anyone have to lie on a bed and put their hand in their pants to take a microphone out"
  • Don't hold your breath for your packages to get delivered in time for the holidays, but spare some sympathy for the overworked USPS workers.
  • The NY Times Magazine looks back at some of the "artists, innovators and thinkers" who died in 2020.
  • Can Internet celebrity Bunny the Talking Dog really talk? “Right now, if you ask me, ‘Does Bunny talk?’ the answer is, I don’t know,” said a lead researcher who works with Bunny. "What I can tell you is that Bunny clearly seems to be engaging in some sort of communicative exchange.”
  • Sex And The City might be getting rebooted on HBO Max...without Kim Cattrall.
  • Slate discusses the worst music of 2020.
  • And finally, this seal misses the club scene: