The kindness of nerds

This week: strippers, scammers, Secret Santas, remote work, girlbosses, kitchen witches and stoned lobsters

While I’ve never participated myself — and now never will, I guess!! — I read with great sadness the news that Reddit effectively killed r/secretsanta after 12 long years in business. Secret Santa was one of those rare, naïve internet things that seemed unequivocally and improbably good: a service in which strangers purchased gifts for other people all …