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Claude Opus 4.6
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
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My AI Adoption Journey
We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk
LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
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Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough
What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)
OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?
Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate
PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library
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150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
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Don't rent the cloud, own instead
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Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
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Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
The New Collabora Office for Desktop
Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6

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Strategy reports Q4 net loss grew to $12.4B from $671M a year earlier, as BTC trades below its ~$76K average purchase price; MSTR is down 68% in the past year (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Apple wound down plans for an AI-based virtual health coach in recent weeks; Eddy Cue has told colleagues that Apple needs to move faster in health (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Roblox reports Q4 bookings up 63% YoY to $2.2B vs. $2.05B est., DAUs up 69% to 144M, and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates; RBLX jumps 18%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Amazon projects its 2026 capex to hit $200B, above $146.6B est. and up from $131B in 2025, and reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, above $34.9B est. (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $213.39B, vs. $211.33B est., EPS of $1.95, vs. $1.97 est., and net income up 6% to $21.19B; AMZN drops 11%+ after hours (Amazon)
Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions (Anthropic)
How Anthropic's ruthless efficiency comes in part from its mission-obsessed culture, which eliminates the friction that tends to slow things down at Big Tech (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more (Bloomberg)
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply distraught" with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
YC adds Canada back to its accepted countries of incorporation list, saying the initial decision was due to its top Canadian companies reincorporating in the US (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 "brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to" and "thinks more deeply and more carefully" (Anthropic)
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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gavrielc/nanoclaw: My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs.
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing. - Martin Alderson
OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
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Best gas masks | The Verge
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What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? – Random Thoughts
A sane but extremely bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (Brandon Wang)
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys | Wiz Blog
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
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A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats | The Verge
The Agent Skills Directory
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OldInsuranceMaps.net
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Sandboxing AI agents in Linux — Senko Rašić
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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Open Visualization Academy – A public online repository of knowledge about data visualization and information design
GitHub - puemos/craftplan：用于管理手工D2C微型企业的自托管软件
get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code
Poems | Data Visualizations
I miss thinking hard.
Minimalistic City Map Posters
Beautiful Mermaid — Mermaid Rendering, Made Beautiful
4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) - Jeff Geerling
Text Behind Image Online | 100% free to use
AI is Killing B2B SaaS | N’s Blog
Library of Juggling - all of the popular (and perhaps not so popular) juggling tricks
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
The Everdeck: A Universal Card System – The Wrong Tools
Overview - Agent Skills
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My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Adventure Game Studio
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Introducing the Codex app | OpenAI
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface
Mother says asking 13-year-old son to swim four hours to save family ‘one of the hardest decisions’ | Western Australia | The Guardian
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/2/introducing-the-codex-app/
Map to Poster - Generate Beautiful City Map Posters
I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware Product
Data centers in space makes no sense - CivAI Blog
Isometric NYC
How to Scale a System from 0 to 10 million+ Users
A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs – PDF Association
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding - Apple
Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem. Why we need bots that elicit good discussions, not just write better code.
Home - The Retro Web
Ratchets in software development
AntiRender - See Through The Architectural BS
A pedagogy of the inevitable
iPhone Developer Mode: Run your own apps using this switch | Cult of Mac
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
GitHub - HKUDS/nanobot: "🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot"
OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
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fluid.sh
International AI Safety Report 2026 | International AI Safety Report
The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity? (Anthropic)
In under 500 words, a judge weaponized wit to free the child detained by ICE – The New York Times
Neat Calendar
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depthfirst | 1-Click RCE To Steal Your Moltbot Data and Keys
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel
Introducing Bunny Database: The SQLite-Compatible Edge DB
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Claude’s Constitution
I miss thinking hard | Hacker News
[2601.20245] How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
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Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix - Michael Stapelberg
Competence as Tragedy
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 – Wiki Education
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant
Software Survival 3.0. I spent a lot of time writing software… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat • Ars Technica

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Things to do in Durham this week (February 2-8)
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Bernie is coming to town to endorse the congress candidate Nida Allam! Early voting starts Feb 13.
Your Ring Camera is an ICE Agent: Ring doorbell cameras partner with ICE & Flock for mass gov’t surveillance
New development on hold in East Durham as sewage is 'at full capacity'
Where has all the good Chinese gone
Duke, “White Lotus” and Epstein
whats with the speeding in school zones here???
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Kid’s Moose Plushie Lost in Corcoran St Garage
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Footprints?
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Gift policy for Duke employees
RDU to get more Cancun, Iceland flights this summer
Holly Hill 'Hospital' Lawsuit
Fire trucks around Carolina Theater
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I wrote to each of our Federal Elected Officials objecting to ICE, here are the replies.
APS of Durham needing short term fosters!
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Rare Deep-Sea Giant Phantom Jellyfish Sighting Is Recorded on Video
At a Bonobo’s ‘Tea Party,’ Scientists Find Hints of Imagination
He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
NASA Eyes March Artemis II Launch After Hydrogen Leaks Delay Moon Mission
Dozens of Earthquakes Have Rattled San Ramon, California
What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?
Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
Rare Albatross Coasts Above California Waters Far From Home
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels
F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on ‘Naturally Derived’ Dyes
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
Senators Accuse Equifax of ‘Price-Gouging’ Medicaid Programs
Doctors’ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors
F.T.C. Settles With Express Scripts Over High Insulin Prices
Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects
A Chevron Refinery May Take in More Venezuelan Oil. Its Neighbors Are Concerned.
Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices
Plastic Surgeons’ Group Advises Delaying Gender-Affirming Procedures Until Age 19
Woman Wins Malpractice Suit Over Gender Surgery as a Minor
The Questionable Science Behind the Odd-Looking Football Helmets
‘Biblical Diseases’ Could Resurge in Africa, Health Officials Fear
Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health
H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection
Attempt to Drill Through Thwaites Glacier Is Foiled
Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects
Psychosis Diagnoses Have Risen Among Young Canadians, Data Shows
The Wonder Drug That’s Plaguing Sports
When the Doctor Needs a Checkup
Morris Waxler, F.D.A. Official Who Switched Stance on Lasik, Dies at 88
A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.
D.O.E. Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.
Drilling Through the Thwaites Glacier for Clues to Its Melting
Algae Growth on Greenland’s Ice Contributes to Melting, Studies Show

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Publisher Correction: Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding
Author Correction: PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis
Not just a chip off the old block: nanoparticles reveal odd traits
This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans
These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin
Beetle is locked in to an eternal dance ― with an ant
First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers
NASA’s latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership
Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety
Author Correction: Cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes revealed by ribosome profiling
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
A universal concept for melting in mantle upwellings
Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming
Regulatory grammar in human promoters uncovered by MPRA-based deep learning
Biofluid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias
PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling
Atmospheric H2 variability over the past 1,100 years
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models
Discovery Learning predicts battery cycle life from minimal experiments
Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers
Signatures of fractional charges via anyon–trions in twisted MoTe2
A pore-forming antiphage defence is activated by oligomeric phage proteins
Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis
Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth
Single-molecule dynamics of the TRiC chaperonin system in vivo
ZFTA–RELA ependymomas make itaconate to epigenetically drive fusion expression
Spin-wave band-pass filters for 6G communication
Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistor
Regulation of STING activation by phosphoinositide and cholesterol
Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
Activated ATF6α is a hepatic tumour driver restricting immunosurveillance
Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin
Mosquito–capsid interactions contribute to flavivirus vector specificity
Integrated structural dynamics uncover a new B12 photoreceptor activation mode
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement
Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation
Author knows best? Top AI conference asks for self-ranked papers amid paper deluge
The smart sensors improving the world’s biggest cities
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects
Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it
NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern
‘It means I can sleep at night’: how sensors are helping to solve scientists’ problems
Machine learning slashes the testing needed to work out battery lifetimes
What my cave stay taught me about sensors
A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences
Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
Particle collisions cast light on how matter forms from seemingly empty space
How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells
Eviction notice
Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age
Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution
Evolutionary insights into a skin fold
Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain
Daily briefing: More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable
A way to gauge the equity of ocean-related initiatives
How a protein repurposes vitamin B12 as a light sensor
AI could transform research assessment — and some academics are worried
Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells
Author Correction: Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling
Embrace diverse PhD supervision styles — but enforce essential standards
Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues
A history of hocus pocus: witchcraft down the ages
Who does academic consulting serve?
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
The ‘bible for psychiatry’ is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM
The global plastics treaty can be saved — here’s how to break the deadlock
More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds
Daily briefing: What people with no ‘mind’s eye’ can tell us about consciousness

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A poet grapples with extinction
Love, connection, and happily ever after
Blocking RAN translation without altering repeat RNAs rescues C9ORF72-related ALS and FTD phenotypes
Multiscale pangenome graphs empower the genomic dissection of mixed-ploidy sugarcane species
DNA origami vaccines program antigen-focused germinal centers
Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s
Gapless pangenome analyses reveal fast Brassica rapa subspeciation
Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
Antifibrotic drug finerenone restores fertility in premature ovarian insufficiency
Continental mantle earthquakes of the world
Patchy peptide particles for pH-responsive assembly into liquid crystals or lattices
Atomically resolved two-dimensional amorphous nuclei formed during MoS2 chemical vapor deposition
Zwitterionic organoboron complexes for overcoming the concentration barrier in chemical protein synthesis
Device-independent quantum key distribution over 100 km with single atoms
Silicon cyclopentadienides featuring a nonplanar 6π aromatic Si5 ring
Pentasilacyclopentadienide: A Hückel aromatic species at the border of resonance and equilibrium
Increasing applied pesticide toxicity trends counteract the global reduction target to safeguard biodiversity
Synergy between regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
Learning to leave home
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A panorama of plant pangenomes
Pinpointing protein as the problem
The ovarian stroma as a therapeutic target
Ineffective marine protected areas in Azores
Halt illegal cyber tiger trade in Asia
Softening the blow
Side effects dim hopes for first chikungunya vaccine
Attendance drops at some U.S. conferences, but others hold steady
Lawmakers spend big on home state science projects
As the world warms, freezing rain shifts to U.S. South
Quantum encryption heralds a hack-proof internet
Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions
A tale of many twos
Biological data governance in an age of AI
Satellite data can help transform food systems: Satellite data can be used to increase yields and improve sustainability in smallholder agricultural systems
Turning the web against sex traffickers: Scalable artificial intelligence is harnessed for investigative search
Retraction of Research Article “Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree”
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Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Price Since Trump Was Elected as Crypto Faces Slump
Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
Senators Clash Over Immigration Enforcement, Risking a D.H.S. Shutdown
Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia
White House Offers Shifting Story on Gabbard’s Presence at Georgia Raid
Carney Increases E.V. Investments as Trump’s Trade Policy Disrupts Canada’s Auto Industry
U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada
Trump’s Migrant Detention Pipeline Extends From Minnesota to El Paso
Congress Nixes Visas for Afghan Partners, Closing Off a Key Path
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained
Jessie Diggins is the Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance
Italy Toughens Protest Laws, Hours Before Planned Rallies at Winter Olympics
At Ukraine’s Request, Starlink Denies Internet Access to Russian Troops
Camera Was Disconnected From Nancy Guthrie’s Home Shortly Before Disappearance
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What to Know About the Disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s Mom, Nancy
Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Shows Limits of Tracking Pacemakers in Police Work
Who Has ‘Dibs’ on That Freshly Shoveled Parking Space?
New York City Forecast to See More Snow and then Bitter Cold
Dozens of Earthquakes Have Rattled San Ramon, California
Rare Deep-Sea Giant Phantom Jellyfish Sighting Is Recorded on Video
‘Melania’: Watching a First Lady Vanish in Plain Sight
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement
Trump Calls for New Treaty as Nuclear Arms Control Era Ends
The Louvre Thieves Dropped This Priceless Crown. Now It Looks Like This.
C.I.A. World Factbook Ends Publication After 6 Decades
Toronto Police Charged in Sweeping Drug and Corruption Case
LA Olympics Chief Keeps Low Profile in Milan Games After Appearing in Epstein Files

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America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht?
You’ve Never Seen Super Bowl Betting Like This Before
Ballet’s New Iron Curtain
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: What Do You Call a Snake Swallowing Its Own Tail?
Democrats Mess With Winning in Texas
Winners of the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year
The Relentless Andrew Yang
Mike Vrabel Is Redefining NFL Coaching
The Western Was Never About Freedom
How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post
The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back
The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP
You Can’t Kill Swagger
Why Trump Wants a Weaker Dollar
It Was Too Easy for Her to Kill Herself
The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing
The Queen of Mockumentaries
How to Actually Reform ICE
Trump vs. Canada
This Is Not the Kennedy Center
American Milk Has Changed
People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
The Second Death of Charlie Kirk
The Murder of The Washington Post

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Before Trump ban, universities were slowly making faculties more diverse
Border czar Tom Homan says 700 ICE and CBP officers are leaving Minneapolis
Minnesota teachers sue to keep ICE off school property
Why nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis

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U.S., Russia to resume high-level military talks
The treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arms expired. What to know.
In northwest Nigeria, U.S. confronts a growing terrorist threat
As West goes after Russia’s oil fleet, Moscow fears for its war funding
Trump touts ‘very positive’ call with Chinese leader Xi
Andrew, ex-prince linked to Epstein, moves out of royal residence
On a paradise island in the Pacific, meth and HIV epidemics rage
Ahead of the Winter Olympics, Milan wins gold in gentrification
Russia delivers worst attack this year to Ukraine’s power sector
A year after aid cuts, the image of American power shifts under Trump

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China’s AI giants launch “red envelope” marketing blitz for Lunar New Year
$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts
China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it’s working
China prioritizes investments outside the U.S.
The volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slop
To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet
Why won’t people buy these tiny electric cars?
Is India softening its stance toward Chinese tech?
Temu’s global rise runs into a regulatory wall
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
What it takes to get an H-1B visa in Trump’s America
AI agent Moltbot makes waves in China and Silicon Valley

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

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Vast Majority of Adjuncts Have Another Source of Income, Study Finds
How Higher Ed Staved Off a Research-Funding Bloodbath — For Now
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Conservatives Want Colleges to Speak, Too
An AI Bot Is Making Podcasts With Scholars’ Research. Many of Them Aren’t Impressed.
An Instructor Was Fired After a Viral Recording of a Gender Lesson. Now She’s Suing the University.
Higher Ed's Public Funding Has Entered a New Phase of Low Growth
How Colleges’ Pursuit of a Diverse Professoriate Came Back to Bite Them
Higher Ed’s Bullying Problem
The Campaign to Make Professors Teach More

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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | February 05, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 04, 2026
Where WWII soldiers regularly carrying toilet paper? Or was everyone running around fighting with poopy butts?
I am a Roman legionary armed with a scutum, a gladius, and a pilum. I have been carrying and maintaining them for three years across several long marches. We engage a rival pike formation and I throw the pilum. We win. After the battle, do I try to find "my" pilum?
Why is Hirohito never mentioned when discussing the most dangerous world leaders?
What are the origins of "House of the Rising Sun" ("Rising Sun Blues")? Does the tune date back to the 1600s, or is it newer (1800s)?
What is the earliest pornography we have evidence of?
The CIA is sunsetting its World Factbook - but why was it even published in the first place, and what did the rest of the world think?
Why are Golden/Labrador Retrievers the stereotypical dog breed of upper middle class white Americans? Where did they get this image as a "family" dog rather then the hunting dogs they originally were for?
During the Rwandan Genocide, the international community, especially the UN, did not refer to the genocide as a genocide due to its legal definition and mandate for action. Were there any countries that acknowledged the genocide contemporaneously?
In the UK, even almost 1000 years after the Norman conquest, Norman surnames are still over-represented in elite professions and institutions. Did a similar pattern emerge with Magyar names in Hungary?
Why did Native American demographics not rebound more quickly?
When (and why) did short hair become the default for men?
When did Americans start to view Canada as a separate nation from Britain?
Before the invention of underwear and socks how did people deal with chafing and blisters?
Ulysses Grant wrote, "Respect for human rights is the first duty for those set as rulers". Would his concept of human rights have been similar to ours? Would he have been the first US President to invoke the term?
Why did the British empire settle Chinese and Indian laborers in Malaysia instead of British ones?
Has anyone in Congress ever voted for a law even though it contained provisions they disagree with, on the assumption that those provisions would be struck down as unconstitutional?
Why did first names shift from having literal, descriptive meanings to being mostly just arbitrary labels?
Family history research: What was life like for ethnic Germans in Hungary ca. 1944/45?
How did the beating of Rodney King affect the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial?
How strict was US-Canadian border conrol during the time of the underground railroad?
Why did so many Nazi officials at the Nuremberg trials deny that the concept of the ‘master race’ was their central ideological point and say they didn’t believe that the slavs were an inferior race? Was it ideologically consistent or were they being misleading?
In what ways did the Jewish emancipations in Europe done under the wave of enlightenment ideals in the late 18th-19th centuries transform the nature of anti-semitism?
How did the Mongol army achieve such advanced tracking and pursuit capabilities for their era ( ~1200–1260)?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
UAM Corpus Tool
Hierarchical structure in language and action.
Introduction to the templatic verb morphology of Birhor (Birhoɽ), a Kherwarian Munda language
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
Modern Kohistani languages are the closest living match to ancient Gāndhārī — Jakob Halfmann (2024)
New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)
A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022)
Q&A weekly thread - December 29, 2025 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
DOCTYPE magazine
The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy

Open Culture

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The Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s Mysterious Manuscript That No One Can Read
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings
How the Beatles Wrote Their Songs: From Early Demos to Final Recordings
The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)
The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
David Lynch Remembers Attending the Beatles’ First American Concert in 1964
Bruce Springsteen Won’t Back Down: Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” Live in Minneapolis
Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach
How the Incas Performed Skull Surgery More Successfully Than U.S. Civil War Doctors
Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”
Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
Lessons in Creativity from Rick Rubin: Focus on Your Art, Not the Audience

NYT > Technology

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Files Reveal Epstein’s Money Mingled with Silicon Valley’s Tech Start-Ups
Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race
France’s Raid on X Escalates Trans-Atlantic Showdown Over Social Media
Moltbook Mania Explained
Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Price Since Trump Was Elected as Crypto Faces Slump
At Ukraine’s Request, Starlink Denies Internet Access to Russian Troops
Netflix Leader Pushes Warner Deal Before Skeptical Lawmakers
‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
Spain Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Under 16
Siemens Energy Bets $1 Billion That A.I. Power Demand Will Last
Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth
Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI
Trump Unveils $12 Billion Critical Minerals Stockpile
A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.
Energy Bills Have Soared Recently. How Can States Bring Costs Down?
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
Tesla’s Model S, Soon to Be History, Changed the Auto Industry
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis

NYT > Arts

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Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen Federal Building
Savannah Guthrie’s Video Shows a Rare and Anguished Reality
How Trump Brought the Fight Over American History to Philadelphia
‘Moulin Rouge!’ Musical Will End Its Broadway Run This Summer
Bad Bunny Means a Breakthrough for Puerto Rican Athletes, Too
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Restores Its Old Name
‘DWI: Drinking With Instruments’: Experiments in Tipsy Music Making
One Episode of ‘Wonder Man’ Points a Way Forward for the Marvel Universe
‘Sirat’ Review: A Shocker in the Desert
Carnegie Hall’s 2026-27 Season: What We Want to Hear
Outside the Art World’s Echo Chamber, at Art Basel Qatar
The Churn of Fast Fashion, Slowed Down
A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full
At the Bronx Biennial, the Promise of New Voices
‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Review: Devils in Disguise
Art Gallery Shows to See in February
Ted Berger, Indefatigable Patron of Artists and Schools, Dies at 85
Toni Morrison’s Best Books: A Guide
Tom Stoppard Is Gone. In ‘Arcadia,’ His Wit Still Sparkles.
Jimmy Kimmel Hints ‘Melania’ Box Office Was a ‘Rigged Outcome’
Who Is That Masked Man? The Orchids Aren’t Telling.
‘Pillion’ Review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling Star in ‘Dom-Com’
‘The President’s Cake’ Review: Party Politics
‘Kokuho’ Review: Over Decades, an Artist’s Life
‘Dracula’ Review: Fangs and a Lot of Fragrance
‘Jimpa’ Review: In Search of a Queer Education
‘Calle Málaga’ Review: Living an Even Better Life
Best One-Night Stand Romance Books, According to Hannah Bonam-Young
Rethinking Shakespeare in Shanghai
Blanche Marvin, 100, Dies; Critic Was, Maybe, ‘Streetcar’ Inspiration
Alvin Ailey Company to Get $10 Million Endowment to Fund Top Job
Libby Howes, a Promising Young Actress, Left New York in 1981 and Disappeared. What Happened?
The Real Story Behind Jennette McCurdy’s Novel ‘Half His Age’
A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began.
In ‘Nadja,’ Dracula’s Daughter Goes Downtown
The Bedazzling, Wild Designs of Modernism’s Forgotten Genius
10 Composers, 2 Directors, 1 Opera: ‘Complications in Sue’
In Mona Hatoum’s Art, a Warning for a Wobbling World
‘America’s Next Top Model’: Unhinged Moments That Helped Define the Show’s Legacy
How Miss Piggy Went From Minor Muppet to TV’s Top Hog
‘Starman’ Review: What’s Really Out There?
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Impulse! Records
‘Bridgerton’ Is Built on Romance. But Its Backbone Is Dance.
Stellan Skarsgard on ‘Sentimental Value’ and His Wide-Ranging Career
Talk Talk’s Experiment ‘Spirit of Eden’ Was a Flop. And a Cult Favorite.
Harry Melling Went From PG ‘Harry Potter’ to B.D.S.M. ‘Pillion’
Michael Kosta Blasts the Super Bowl Halftime Alternative
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in February
Tom Britt, Designer of Larger-Than-Life Interiors, Dies at 89
7 Great Grammy Winners You Didn’t Hear on TV
Chuck Negron, Hitmaking Singer With Three Dog Night, Dies at 83
10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month
Before a Rape Trial, a Theater Piece Passes Its Own Judgment
Review: This Is Your Grandparents’ ‘Muppet Show,’ Fortunately
Trump’s Kennedy Center Shutdown Plan Jolts Workers and Performers
Jewish Heirs Say Met Museum Pissarro Was Sold Under Nazi-Era Duress
At a Charged Time for Jewish Culture, Stand-ups Confront the Moment
Sean Hayes Suffers Writer’s Block and More Horrors in ‘The Unknown’
At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky’s Morality Tale Is Wrapped in Farce
My 5 Favorite Places for Art in Los Angeles
Jon Stewart Can’t Believe Elon Musk’s Choice of Holiday Party Venue

Geography

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Recently visited the USA from The Netherlands. Here is my take on the cities we visited.
Places that have year long perfect temperatures?
Why has the Philippines been developing at a glacier's pace compared to most other middle-income countries?
What's up with the structure of the provinces in Algeria?
Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert?
Why does rain have a specific smell? Is there anything you can identify besides seeing the raindrops?
Foods commonly assumed to be foreign, mapped to where their modern U.S. versions became popular
What are these massive strips of dry sand in northern Italy?
What are the development prospects of India and Vietnam?
US states classified into a spectrum of similar states. (Methodology in the comments)
Why does this part of Europe have so many freeways?
The Punjab ( The land of 5 rivers)
TIL even though both New England and the upper Midwest are famous for cold winters in the US, most of the Upper Midwest is a step colder than most of the New England on average. Only northern Maine compares.
Why does India and Indonesia consider each other neighbouring countries?
Why do so many maps still label this country as Myanmar (Burma)?
Anyone know what this place is? It’s kinda hard to research.
Why is this part of the border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia different from the straight line?
Where to get accurate info now that CIA World Factbook is defunct?
🌱 Monthly Vegetation Dynamics of Multan (2025) using Sentinel-2 & Google Earth Engine 🌍
Why are there these roads to nowhere in Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, and why do they have such a unique layout?
What are the least-densely populated areas of each countries?
USA National Risk Index by Census Tract 2023
Questions about the size of the countries
Has anyone moved their whole life overseas? How did you physically get it there?
Amazonian Tribe Blur Out

The Public Domain Review

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Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
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)

The Quietus

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads As Gangsta Rap Album
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Annie Hogan – Tongues In My Head
Outer Waves Confirms 2026 Return for Second Edition
Ricardo Villalobos, Underground Resistance and More Rework Sun Ra Arkestra on New Compilation
Clock DVA Unveil ‘Thirst’ Reissue
Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums
The Strange World Of… Crypt of the Wizard
Shackleton – Euphoria Bound
Xylitol Reveals New Album, ‘Blumenfantasie’, for Planet Mu
Arca Shares Remix of Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’
Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Bloody Head – Bend Down And Kiss The Ground
The January Subscriber Playlist is Here!
Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed
Geologist – Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Ain’t Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie: The Suburban Origins of De La Soul
Laurel Halo to Release Soundtrack for Film ‘Midnight Zone’
Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of January 2026
Black to the Future: A Bleak King Cometh by Qasu
The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Thundercat Details First Album in Six Years, ‘Distracted’
Simon Reynolds Documents the Rise of Shoegaze and Slacker Rock in New Book
Supersonic Announces Scaled-Back 2026 Edition
DIY Against the Oligarchy: Underground Music in Tbilisi, by Nick Hudson
Erik Hall – Solo Three
Earth Reportedly Cancel Bologna Show Over Venue’s Display of Palestinian Flag
Bruce Springsteen Shares Anti-Trump and ICE Protest Song
Dialect – Full Serpent
The Strange World Of… Toumani Diabaté

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Yamila, “Noor”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tilaye Gebre, “Tilaye’s Saxophone With The Dahlak Band (የጥላዬ ሳክስ ከዳህላክ ባንድ ጋር)”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2026
Underground Medicine #1
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Ulrika Spacek, “EXPO”
Bandcamp Friday Returns This Friday, February 6
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Toni Geitani, “Wahj”
Introducing The Side Door, A New Column for Jam-Curious Weirdos
Haruhi Kobayashi, “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone”
Essential Releases, January 31, 2026
Perpetual Doom vs. Doomerism
Blackwater Holylight, “Not Here Not Gone”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tashi Dorji, “low clouds hang, this land is on fire”
Get Splayed: A Guide to Genre-Busting Beatmaker Tony Bontana
YĪN YĪN, “Yatta!”
Orchestras Within Orchestras: A Prepared Piano Primer
Shackleton, “Euphoria Bound”
Another Side of Alan Vega
David Zé, “Mutudi Ua Ufolo / Viuva Da Liberdade 1975”
Essential Releases, January 23, 2026
Sassy 009’s Alt-Pop Fever Dreams Come to Fruition At Last
Winged Wheel, “Desert So Green”
José Pinhal, the Portuguese Artist Who Turned Kitsch Into Treasure
Cub, “Come Out Come Out (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Sunday Mourners, “A-Rhythm Absolute”
Before UK Garage, 2-Step Was All About the Soul
David Boring Return to a World of Horrors
Essential Releases, January 16, 2026
Emily Scott Robinson, “Appalachia”
Footwork’s New Wave

dusted

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Cryptid Spawn — Black Phosphorous Dungeon (Iron Lung)
Cub — Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Editions (Mint)
أحمد [Ahmed] — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (OTOROKU)
Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 1
As previously mentioned, Dusted mainstay Jennifer Kelly is currently battling pancreatic cancer….
Angharad Davies & John Butcher — Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax)
Ye Vagabonds — All Tied Together (River Lea)
David Vélez — Capsicum: Music Against Racism (Marginal Frequency)
Ty Segall and the Muggers—Live at the BBC (Drag City)
Evil Damn — Eons of Horror (Hells Headbangers)
Susumu Yokota — Will (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings)
Winged Wheel — Desert So Green (12XU)
Roland Kayn—Easy Music (Reiger-Records-Reeks)
Dry Cleaning — Secret Love (4AD)
Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer
Spectral Lore — IV (Part 2-Demo) (Self released)
Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz)
The Early — Cusp (Island House)
Morton Feldman — Trios (Another Timbre)

Pitchfork

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Boldy James, Nicholas Craven, and Ransom Are Releasing a Project
Flying Lotus Announces New EP and Film Big Mama
Kathryn Mohr Readies New Album Carve, Shares “Property”
The Black Keys Announce New Album Peaches!, Drop Song
URGH
Tenterhooks
low clouds hang, this land is on fire
Liturgy of Death
Sorry Share New Songs “Billy Elliot” and “Alone in Cologne”
Mclusky Announces Mini-Album, Shares New Song
Iron & Wine Expands 2026 Tour Into Fall
Listen to Xaviersobased’s Song With Skrillex and Dylan Brady
Asher White Drops Full-Album Cover of Jessica Pratt’s Debut
Bruce Hornsby Enlists Ezra Koenig, Bonnie Raitt, and the Late Bob Weir for New Album
Gia Margaret Returns to Singing With New Album and Tour
I Have to Get Hotter
Euphoria Bound
OCTANE
NAK
RCA Relaunches Jive Records
Dua Saleh Announces New Album, Shares Songs With Bon Iver
Ari Lennox Announces 2026 North American Tour
Mitski Announces Tour and Shares New Single
American Football Line Up Sprawling Tour
Friko Announce New Album, Share Video for “Seven Degrees”
Paul Simon Announces North American Tour
16 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Broken Social Scene Reveal First Album in Nine Years, Tour With Metric
Mandy, Indiana Enlist billy woods for New Song
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold Plots Solo Tour

Cool Tools

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Travel Dollar Destinations/Bedbugs Tracking/Worldwide Rent Prices
What’s in my NOW? — Gearóid (Ged) Carroll
Wherever You Go / After Dinner Games
Gloves
Maintenance manifesto / Funeral for a tree / Budget earbuds
Book Freak #195: Eight Million Ways to Happiness
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #208
Waterproof Pants/European Nomad Visas/Cheapest Places to Live in 2026/
What’s in my NOW? — Jayme Boucher
Irving Harper: Works in Paper / Where’s Warhol?

McMansion Hell

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for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven
pre-recession, post-taste

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Shack Sauce
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce)
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread)
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