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New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese components (Stephen Wilmot/Wall Street Journal)
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US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global (Wall Street Journal)
Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastructure, raised a $31M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
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New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)
US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (Emily Herbert/Financial Times)
Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through "final assembly" in Miami and full assembly in the US is a "goal" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital (Wall Street Journal)
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (Reuters)
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Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block
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He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
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Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Legal Battles
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F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on ‘Naturally Derived’ Dyes
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Author Correction: Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy
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Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
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Author Correction: Cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes revealed by ribosome profiling
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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
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Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
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Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers
Signatures of fractional charges via anyon–trions in twisted MoTe2
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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes
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Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
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A tale of many twos
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The Chilling Effect of Student-Visa Vetting
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Were pole showers really the norm for guys locker rooms back in the day?
After WW2, how did German Jews, communists, and others live alongside groups that had, just years prior, wanted them dead? What measures were taken to socially de-Nazify Germany?
Why did Egypt not have colonies like the Romans, Greeks & Phoenicians and if they did why were they not as prominent?
What was the vibe like in 1928 Germany, politically?
International War Crimes Tribunal (“unanimous” findings against the US in Vietnam of genocide) - Why is this information not more widely known?
Are there any instances of independent discovery of sterile technique? (before the enlightenment).
Why were children “seen but not heard?” Were entire societies raised with emotional abuse as a parenting expectation, or was it not as bad as it sounds?
Christianity co-opted a lot of local faiths and traditions when it spread in to an area. Has the same happened with the spread of Islam? Which local traditions and beliefs has this belief assimilated during it's spread?
Why is it that in much of South America many people have mixed origins between native populations and colonists, but not in North America?
How was (the future UAW president) Walter Reuther's letters to the Moscow Daily News after inefficiencies in Soviet factories received?
The Troubles in Northern Ireland seems very well documented compared to other conflicts during and after the Cold War. Is this a correct analysis and if so, why?
When did Western men's fashion become limited to some variant of a trouser and a shirt?
Books to understand history and geopolitics?
Why did World War 1 cause the inhabitants of British dominions identify less as British?
Was acute shell shock ever significantly prevented in certain places or regiments?
How impactful really was Algeria's Mecca of Revolution era to the movements it gave support to?
What did the Ancient Greeks Think of the Germanic Peoples?
Why were medieval appointments such as the Captaincy of Calais seen as desirable and how did they work?
Did Japanese doctors routinely lie to their patients?
What was mountain warfare like during WW1?
is STALIN: HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A BLACK LEGEND worth reading??
How much credibility did people give to folklore and superstitions?
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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)
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The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
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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)
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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
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An Archive of the Caijia Language
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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)
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New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)
A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022)

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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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Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
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

NYT > Technology

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Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change
Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know.
An Indian Film Embraces a Taj Majal Conspiracy Theory
These Mathematicians Are Trying to Educate A.I.
Elon Musk Is Betting Another Tech Conglomerate (His) Can Win Over Wall St.
Stellantis’s Shift Away From Electric Cars Will Cost It $26 Billion
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
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
France’s Raid on X Escalates Trans-Atlantic Showdown Over Social Media
Moltbook Mania Explained
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.

NYT > Arts

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Bad Bunny’s All-American, All-Spanish, All-Eyes-on-Him Super Bowl
The 2026 Super Bowl Ads (So Far), Ranked
The Fight Between a Watch Heiress and an Art Museum on the French Riviera
7 Brothers, a Rom-com and a Dream
White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display
Review: Alexei Ratmansky, Ballet’s King of Comedy, Fights Back
‘High Spirits’ Review: A Ghostly Delight From Encores!
Timothy Busfield Is Indicted on Charges of Child Sexual Abuse
Savannah Guthrie’s Video Shows a Rare and Anguished Reality
‘Queen of Chess’ Review: The Surprising Story of a Grandmaster
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Gives Way to Trump’s Patriotic Fair
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen Federal Building
Ejae, Sombr: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
‘Send Help’ and Other Great Movies About Castaways
5 Super Bowl Halftime Shows That Sparked Controversies
This ‘Summer House’ Star Loves to Eat Like a Child
Super Bowl Halftime Is the World’s Biggest Stage. He Designs It.
Partying With Charli XCX at Sundance After Premiere of ‘The Moment’
‘Melania’ and the Real Housewives of Washington
Body of Nathan Smith, Lil Jon’s Son, Found in Georgia Pond, Police Say
These ceremonies have a tough act to follow: Italy’s last Olympics spectacle.
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Is There No True Knight?
Five International Movies to Stream Now
Farewell, Pocket Books
Saying Goodbye to the Mass Market Paperback
Late Night Finds Trump Out of Place at Prayer Breakfast
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Reunited
‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Review: Devils in Disguise
‘Moulin Rouge!’ Musical Will End Its Broadway Run This Summer
Art Gallery Shows to See in February
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Restores Its Old Name
Ted Berger, Indefatigable Patron of Artists and Schools, Dies at 85
Toni Morrison’s Best Books: A Guide
‘Sirat’ Review: A Shocker in the Desert
Tom Stoppard Is Gone. In ‘Arcadia,’ His Wit Still Sparkles.
Carnegie Hall’s 2026-27 Season: What We Want to Hear
Jimmy Kimmel Hints ‘Melania’ Box Office Was a ‘Rigged Outcome’
Outside the Art World’s Echo Chamber, at Art Basel Qatar
One Episode of ‘Wonder Man’ Points a Way Forward for the Marvel Universe
Who Is That Masked Man? The Orchids Aren’t Telling.
‘DWI: Drinking With Instruments’: Experiments in Tipsy Music Making
The Churn of Fast Fashion, Slowed Down
A Stunning ‘King Lear’ That Reveals, Finally, a King in Full
How Trump Brought the Fight Over American History to Philadelphia
At the Bronx Biennial, the Promise of New Voices
‘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
Bad Bunny Means a Breakthrough for Puerto Rican Athletes, Too
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

Geography

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That's in Uganda. What's another country that has pretty surprising mountains?
What thing/product is incredibly popular in a country but hard/impossible to produce in there?
Is lake Nicaragua the biggest lake in relation to total area? (and the lake lies entirely in one country)
Hainan has a population of 11 million, making it the most populous offshore island governed from the mainland
Why did open borders develop in some places but not others?
Why is the border here drawn so that German ships can't leave the bay without entering the Netherlands? Why is the border not in the middle of the bay?
If Earth were discovered today as an exoplanet, which single geographic feature would most strongly suggest intelligent life existed here?
The Vasyugan swamp are the largest swamps in the world. This area, the size of Croatia, is virtually uninhabited. Parts of space satellites and rockets have been dumped here.
Why is it that Latin American states were able to build their largest and economically most important cities in temperate highlands whereas Southeast Asian states built their largest and most important cities in tropical lowlands?
The Great Migration: How the Foundations of the English-Speaking World Were Laid
Death Valley
As someone who grew up in an island (notably small ones), do you feel it had an impact in your mentality and if so in which ways has it affected you?
🌍 Environmental Malaria Risk Map of Pakistan (Remote Sensing + GIS)
What’s this shelf area between Puerto Rico and Venezuela
Coastal Relief Map of Puerto Rico
Recently visited the USA from The Netherlands. Here is my take on the cities we visited.
What makes natural looking contour intervals happen in nature?
Urban Sprawl in 4 American Cities
Why does rain have a specific smell? Is there anything you can identify besides seeing the raindrops?
Why does Java hold so much of Indonesia’s population?
How do the lived conditions of normal people in lower-middle income countries like Bangladesh, Nigeria, or The Philippines compare to those of people who lived in 19th century Europe?
Will this river form an oxbow lake over time?
Was the Sub-40 year life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa due to the same reasons as in Pre-Industrial Europe?
Places that have year long perfect temperatures?
What's your favorite city park?

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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What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich Donates Gold Disc for Auction to Support Margate Venue WhereElse
Seb Rochford Shares New Finding Ways Track With Patrick Walden, Announces Tour
OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow
The Writing’s on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran
Sam Slater – Lunng
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
The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Black to the Future: A Bleak King Cometh by Qasu
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

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026
Daphni, “Butterfly”
Essential Releases, February 6, 2026
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

dusted

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Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken — Double Reality Beyond Space And Time (Grong)
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)

Pitchfork

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western beats
“Chase”
Watch Mariah Carey Perform at Milan 2026 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Yellow Swans’ Gabriel Saloman Mindel Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
“What If”
Robyn Announces 2026 Arena Tour
8 New Albums You Should Listen To: Ratboys, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, and More
An Interview With the Kid Mero, the New Best Hope of Hot 97
Taylor Swift Finds Love in New “Opalite” Video Starring Domnhall Gleeson
Listen to Chat Pile’s New Songs “Masks” and “Sifting”
Singin’ to an Empty Chair
PLAGUE MUSIC EP
Rosacea
Shadow Language
Bethany Cosentino Calls on Wasserman CEO to Step Down Over Epstein Emails
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

Cool Tools

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Book Freak #196: The Art of Spending Money
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

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)
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale
What is Sumac?
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not)
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer?
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake)
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home
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