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Leona Health, the maker of an AI copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts for patient chats in Latin America, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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Will DeepSeek’s new model spark another global AI shake-up in 2026?
H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S.
ChatGPT turns 3

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice

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Under Trump, Accreditation Oversight Committee Produces Some Smoke, but No Fire
At the U. of Austin, a Raft of Departures Leaves More Questions Than Answers
Academic Politics at Their Most Counteproductive
The Man Behind Texas Tech’s Controversial Curriculum Crackdown
Are Bad Researchers Bad People?
Johns Hopkins U. Pares Back Diversity Programs, Limits Mentoring Efforts Aimed at Minority Students
If You Care About It, Do It in Class
Will Trump Try to Strong-Arm College Accreditors?
The Fraught Task of Hiring Pro-Zionist Professors
No Suspects Named in Brown U. Shooting That Killed 2, Wounded 9

AskHistorians

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | December 14, 2025
Short Answers to Simple Questions | December 10, 2025
How did Ancient People cut their nails?
How Did Bars Work in the U.S.S.R.?
What kind of accent did Christopher Columbus have?
In the 1950s and onwards, has there been a significant overlap between the biker community, the ex-military community, the kink community, and the queer community?
Why did a propeller hat become the default "child's hat" in a lot of older media?
I am Edward Baring, here to talk about my book "Vulgar Marxism" and the history of Marxist thought. AMA!
How did the British in South Asia come to believe in this theory of "martial races", considering that they conquered the subcontinent with Bengalis?
Why is Germany often tied to their crimes in WWII by the public whereas Italy and Japan are not?
Why does India still use lakhs and crores?
Is the story of the russian second pacific squadron voyage exaggerated? How could a fleet be so incompetent?
Are there any relations between Buddhist monasticism and Christian monasticism historically?
In and around the Revolutionary and early Republic days of the U.S., the letter 's' was often written and printed in two different ways, a 'short' s and a 'long' s. Why was this, and why (and how) did the long-s finally fall out of favor in written and printed English?
Did Britain defeat France in the numerous wars they had in the 18th/19th century because of London's access to deeper capital markets?
Why are there thousands of secondary works about the real origins of Christianity and none about the real origins of Islam?
Each pueblo in Mexico City employs a cronista, whose job is both to document unfolding history and to serve has a historical resource for the community. How did this position originate and how has it influenced the nature of historical research in Mexico/CDMX?
How do historians define "country"?
When Surgeons Extracted "Stones of Madness" from people's brains, what were they pulling out?
What is the source for Bleda the Hun dying in a hunting accident?
How do modern military historians view Grant’s tactics and strategy in the Overland campaign?
What did the publishing industry look like in Colonial and Revolutionary America?
Why did Spain never conquer Portugal?
Is there any work connecting the historical Caudillos of Latin America to the power structures of contemporary cartels?
What is the oldest surviving Christian relic which we can say with a considerable degree of confidence is authentic?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!
Semantic-argumentative study uses Freire’s “reading the world” to examine dwarfism in Disney’s live-action Snow White
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken”
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason"
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism
AMA with Indiana University Computational Linguistics
Q&A weekly thread - November 24, 2025 - post all questions here!
Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations by Vit Bubenik
Q&A weekly thread - November 17, 2025 - post all questions here!
Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2023)
Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025).
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here!
Is this that? The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice. - JSTOR Daily
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here!
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview
Research Preview: "A Descriptive Study of Factors Affecting English (L2) Pronunciation”
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post
Old Irish Slang & Jargon: a Grammatical Approach, lecture by David Stifter
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals. Comrie & Zamponi (2024). Italian Journal of Linguistics, 36/2: 3–28.

MetaFilter Projects

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Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
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The Immortal Remains
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Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy
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Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025
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Resynthesizing "Invention in D Minor" from Switched-On Bach
The 1% Guild
I gave a lecture about my Egyptian furniture replicas
Dot Battle - a Javascript Physics Toy

Open Culture

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How Movies Created Their Special Effects Before CGI: Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More
How Many Humans Have Ever Lived, and How Many Are Alive Right Now?
Take a Tour of 18th-Century London, Recreated with AI
Tom Jones Performs Prince’s “Purple Rain” Accompanied by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour (1992)
Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization
Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli
The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet
Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)
See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like
Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)
How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Changed Architecture
“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History
The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose

NYT > Technology

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U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans
Trump Administration Begins Program to Increase Government’s Tech Worker Ranks
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
Elon Musk Tests Europe’s Willingness to Enforce Its Online Laws
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
Harold Hamm, Oklahoma Oil Tycoon, Allies With Trump to Reshape U.S. Energy
China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips
Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order
Do Kwon, Crypto Entrepreneur Who Caused 2022 Crash, Sentenced to 15 Years
Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?
After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Became a Gaming Tour de Force
Trump’s Interest in Warner Bros. Deal Weighs On Justice Department
Trump Administration Rules Threaten Nobel Prizes Won by Immigrants
Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question.
Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says

NYT > Arts

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Rob Reiner Gave Us Great Reasons to Go to the Movies
What We Know About Nick Reiner, Accused of Killing Rob and Michele Reiner
Watching ‘Liberation’ With a Women’s Movement Pioneer, My Mom
A Second Doctor Is Sentenced in Matthew Perry Ketamine Case
Bristow: A Founding Father of the American Symphony
Oscar Shortlists: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Wicked: for Good’ Lead
Tuan Andrew Nguyen Wins High Line Commission
The Best True Crime of 2025: ‘Predators” and More
‘Beaches’ Was a Novel. Then a Movie. Next, It’ll Be a Broadway Musical.
Rob Reiner Made Clear What He Believed In, Onscreen and Off
As Michael Stivic in ‘All in the Family,’ Rob Reiner Brought Political Arguments Home
A Pipe Organist Invites You to Bliss Out to Her Dreamy Colors
Olivia Dean, Josh Johnson and Chase Infiniti Are Among Our 2025 Breakout Stars
Whitney Biennial Names 56 Artists to Unwind These ‘Weird Times’
‘Tartuffe’ Review: Matthew Broderick and David Cross Face Off
Hear the Best Albums and Songs of 2025
Who Is the Ultimate Onscreen Mr. Darcy From ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
Late Night Pays Tribute to Rob Reiner
Nick Reiner’s Struggles With Drugs Left His Parents ‘Desperate’
Anthony Geary, Luke on ‘General Hospital,’ Dies at 78
Rob Reiner: A Life in Pictures
Trump’s Post Attacking Rob Reiner After Stabbing Death Draws Immediate Outrage
Rob Reiner’s Movies and TV Shows: ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ ‘The Princess Bride’ and More
The Berlin Film Festival Moves Forward Despite Challenges
‘Titaníque,’ Singing and Spoofing Celine Dion, Sets Sail for Broadway
Michele Singer Reiner Inspired Rob Reiner to Change the Ending of ‘When Harry Met Sally’
What Would Be Lost if We Didn’t Have the HBO Comedy Special
Out From Russia’s Shadow: Lithuania’s National Ballet at 100
11 New Holiday Albums That Will Make You Gasp, Laugh and Sway
‘The Emperor’s New Groove’ at 25: Kronk’s Enduring Appeal
‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Dead Outlaw’ and More Theater to Stream
What Can I Watch With My Kids?
As Regional Theaters Struggle, Some Defy the Odds
‘Emily in Paris,’ Plus 10 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Rob Reiner, Actor Who Went on to Direct Classic Films, Dies at 78
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Mist
Jeanette Winter, Who Told Children About Artists’ Lives, Dies at 86
‘Anna Christie’ Review: Michelle Williams on the Waterfront
Surveillance Never Looked So Good
On ‘SNL,’ Trump Blows Up a Familiar Sleigh
Tom Hanks on the Electrifying (and Terrifying) Experience of Writing a Play
Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’ Keeps Shocking Us, After 100 Years
Abraham Quintanilla Jr., 86, Dies; Music Producer Steered Daughter Selena’s Career
Peter Greene, ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Mask’ Actor, Dies at 60
The Year Hollywood Finally Confronted Our Political Moment
41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025
Hanukkah Concerts With Israeli Military Cantor Raise Outcry in Amsterdam
Slick Rick Likes His Tea ‘Strong and British’
Stream These 10 Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in January
Phil Upchurch, Jazz Guitarist and Sideman to Stars, Dies at 84
At Alvin Ailey, Premieres by Jamar Roberts and Matthew Neenan
Joseph Byrd, Who Shook Up Psychedelic Rock, Dies at 87
Taylor Swift’s ‘The End of an Era’: 5 Takeaways
Tate Museums Are in Choppy Waters. Now, Their Director Is Leaving.
This ‘Into the Woods’ Is Not That Deep. That’s What Makes It Great.
Joanna Trollope, Popular British Author, Dies at 82
Broadway’s ‘Little Bear Ridge Road,’ With Laurie Metcalf, to Close Early
From ‘Spaghetti Western’ Scores to the Opera Stage
Watch an Ensemble Scene From ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week

Geography

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Is there a reason why most of Canada's largest lakes are situated on the same line?
Montana is huge. And isolated
Is there any interesting thing to say about the Laptev sea ?
Are countries like Japan and South Korea actually going to “collapse and disappear” or is this merely an exaggeration? What’s really going to happen to all the bellow replacement countries in the coming years?
Why does this area of Paris not have 3D imagery, and even the center part is blurred?
Sometimes I find myself thinking about the fact that Moldova does not have access to the sea by 1.5 miles (2.41 kilometers).
What Place is On This Bumper Sticker?
Just learned that Australia is wider than the moon.
Catholic Saints & Blesseds by Country
Which country has notable conditions that lead to low operating costs?
Could any of these countries support a population of a billion people.
What is Vancouver Island like during the different seasons?
Google maps finds of rural villages/towns in DRC near Tshopo river
What's the reason for this curved band of light-green in the central east part of the USA?
The American Atlas (Part 12 - Maryland)
Parana River mindblowing width
Would the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea dry out if the Strait of Sicily would be closed and the only water flow would be through the Strait of Messina?
What is going on here
After Europe and North America, here's the map of the tides of Indo-pacific region! [OC]
I just realized how steep western China is; how did the ancient Chinese travel to western countries?
Why has Nigeria been such a populous country throughout history?
Did you know about the Tsingy de Bemaraha — Madagascar?
Necesito la ubicación de esta foto urgente. Es en china
Scientists discover a 20 km-thick rock layer beneath Bermuda
The Great Islands

The Public Domain Review

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A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

The Quietus

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Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025
Ambagious Tactics pays Tribute to Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies
Sacrifice Zone, Sophie Sleigh Johnson and Charlie Osborne for Cafe Oto this week
Moundabout – Esker Hippy Bastard Blues
Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
AICHER – Defensive Acoustics
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
DJ Narciso – DENTRO DE MIM
Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan’s Telekon
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations
Low Culture Essay: Tariq Goddard on Jeremy Brett, the Perfect Sherlock Holmes
Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025
Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live God
Wrens – Half What You See
Rockfort! The Best French Music of 2025
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City
Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star
Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music of 2025
F.Ampism – The Vertical Luminous
tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)
Retail Drugs – Factory Reset
Sri Lankan Cyclone Ditwah Fundraiser in London this Sunday
Reissue of the Week: CELESTE’s Morte(s) Née(s)
Kibrom Birhane – Lisané Bahir
New Weird Britain: 2025 in Review by Noel Gardner
Charles Hayward x Dälek – HAYWARDxDÄLEK
Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock of 2025
Low Culture Podcast: John & Luke Reflect on 2025
Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025
Siriusmo – Buletten & Blumen

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
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The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025
The Best Punk Music of 2025
Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons”
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z
Ikonika, “SAD”
Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk”
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L
Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt
Von Pea & The Other Guys, “Putcha Weight On It”
The Tape Label Report, November 2025
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife”
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Iona Zajac, “BANG”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2025
MJ Noble, “Songs From My Castle Tower”
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, November 2025
أحمد [Ahmed], “سماع [Sama’a] (Audition)”
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, “Implosion”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Indie Pop’s Big Year Out
Caroline True Obsesses Over Compilations So You Don’t Have To
DJ Lag, “Southside Mixtape”

dusted

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Equipment Pointed Ankh — Eggs a Little Late (Petty Bunco)
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki— Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol 1 (Asian Improv)
Split Apex — Thoughts in 3D (ever/never)
Sha La Das — Your Picture (Diamond Head)
Listed: Citric Dummies
Tacoma Park — Glosson Circle Sessions (self released)/ex-corp — assemblage (cached.media)
Sam Shalabi / Mike Gangloff & Liam Grant — Mont-real (Carbon)
Various Artists— Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers (Western Vinyl)
Glo-Worm — Glimmer (K)
Keith Oxman — Home (Capri)
The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir / Isleptonthemoon / Wounds of Recollection—All Things Which Came Before (Self-released)
Via — S-T (Dromedary)
Andrew Perer — Turn My Head into Sound: A History of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine (Jawbone Press)
Hannah Kendall — shouting forever into the receiver (NMC)
Seefeel — Pure, Impure (Stranded)
Gravetaker — Sheer Lunacy (Iron Bonehead)
Various Artists — Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland (Tompkins Square)
Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded (Domino)
Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier—Angel Falls (Intakt)
Guided by Voices — Thick Rich and Delicious (GBV Inc.)

Pitchfork

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Marilyn Manson Suit From Ex-Assistant Dismissed Again
Kay Flock Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison
Nine Inch Nails, Miley Cyrus Shortlisted for 2026 Oscars
Donna Summer Joins the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Dionne Warwick Is Getting Sued by Her Own Royalty Collectors
Label of the Year: AD 93
Joe Ely, Staple of Texas’ 1970s Progressive Country Scene, Dies at 78
USB002
The Pilot
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” Is Now the Longest-Running No. 1 Song in History
Rosalía Tries Her Hand at Fencing and Ice Skating in “La Perla” Video
Ice Spice, Leif and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Bill Callahan’s New Video Is a Charming Homage to New York City
Joseph Byrd, United States of America Bandleader, Dies at 87
amnesia
Dentro De Mim
Watch Lily Allen Perform “Sleepwalking,” Bring Out Dakota Johnson for “Madeline” on Saturday Night Live
Suburban Tours
lost in dreams
Alabama Shakes Set Spring 2026 Tour Dates
Pooh Shiesty Drops First Single Since Prison Release
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: 21 Savage, This Is Lorelei, and More
London Venue Apologizes After Primal Scream Display Star of David Entwined With Swastika
Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Release Palestine Benefit Single
Holo Boy
♡ EP
Cavejaz
Alex G Unveils 2026 Tour Dates
Cameron Winter Makes Lucas Hedges Direct Traffic in “Love Takes Miles” Video
Paul Simon Announces 2026 European Tour

Cool Tools

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The Gutsy Girl / North African Villages
Anatomy
MyTaxReceipt / Digital passport / 2025 photo dump
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #207
Sun-powered Africa/Vietnam Trains/Travel Laptop Mic
What’s in my NOW? — George Kosmopoulos
Chihuly on Fire / Cursed Pirate Girl
Baby Feed
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McMansion Hell

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ode to a faux grecian urn
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