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Carrie and Megan talk about the Epstein emails and Chomsky's correspondence with him. Carrie swears more than usual.
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Carrie and Megan talk about the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year.
TACO

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Carrie and Megan talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, By Hand, about the importance of handwriting.
NBER report
Current Affairs
WOTY: 
6-7
rage bait
parasocial
vibe coding
AI slop
maple washing

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Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly Sara Novič's article about it.

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Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent.
facsism
eldritch
ghost
vampire
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