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How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions (Matthew Carey/Bloomberg Law)
The EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate a growing number of roles at the bank, including client vetting and onboarding (Hugh Son/CNBC)
AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (Anuj Behal/The Guardian)
Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (Reuters)
Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall (Wall Street Journal)
Sapiom, which is developing a financial layer for enterprises to let AI agents automatically buy the services they need, raised a $15M seed led by Accel (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk)
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (Bloomberg)
French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming "human responsibility over AI-powered weapons", with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges (Victoria Waldersee/Reuters)
A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (Emily Steel/New York Times)

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Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy | The Verge
originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.
A sane but extremely bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (Brandon Wang)
I miss thinking hard.
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OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
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Owning a $5M data center: Data centers are cool, everyone should have one. (comma.ai)
AI is Killing B2B SaaS | N’s Blog
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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic
safe-now.live - emergency info on slow connections for usa and canada
Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of my First Hardware Product
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The Everdeck: A Universal Card System – The Wrong Tools
Map to Poster - Generate Beautiful City Map Posters
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fluid.sh
Competence as Tragedy
gavrielc/nanoclaw: My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs.
GitHub - puemos/craftplan：用于管理手工D2C微型企业的自托管软件
Sandboxing AI agents in Linux — Senko Rašić
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing. - Martin Alderson
Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem. Why we need bots that elicit good discussions, not just write better code.
Resonant Computing Manifesto
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OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Proxmox
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In under 500 words, a judge weaponized wit to free the child detained by ICE – The New York Times
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding - Apple
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Claude is a space to think | Anthropic Anthropic
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It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data
GitHub - sheeki03/tirith: Your browser catches homograph attacks. Your terminal doesn't. Tirith guards the gate — intercepts suspicious URLs, ANSI injection, and pipe-to-shell attacks before they execute.
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Beautiful Mermaid — Mermaid Rendering, Made Beautiful
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The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
Migrate Wizard - Fast & Secure Email Migration Service
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Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments A straightforward task made difficult by historic bad decisions
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
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Carta de Pedro Sánchez sobre immigració al NY Times
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Introducing Bunny Database: The SQLite-Compatible Edge DB
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
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Liberty as Resistance — Matt Gemmell
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The Problem With Using AI in Your Personal Life - The Atlantic
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2026 Durham Sheriff and District Court Judge Primaries
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Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block
At a Bonobo’s ‘Tea Party,’ Scientists Find Hints of Imagination
Rare Deep-Sea Giant Phantom Jellyfish Sighting Is Recorded on Video
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
TrumpRx, the President’s Online Drugstore, Opens for Business
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
Rare Albatross Coasts Above California Waters Far From Home
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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Universities in exile: displaced scholars count the costs of starting afresh
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’
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
Daily briefing: Tumours use neurons as hotline to the brain
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
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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
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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
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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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The ovarian stroma as a therapeutic target
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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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Iran Is at Work on Missile and Nuclear Sites, Satellite Images Show
The Growing List of Names in the Epstein Files, and the Federal Investigation into D.E.I. at Nike
The Olympics Are a Show Of Global Harmony. The World is Anything But.
What to Expect at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, From the Man Behind Them
Milan Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony: What Time to Watch, How to Watch, and More
The Dark Side of A.I. Weighs on the Stock Market
It’s Time to Rethink the Standard Investment Advice. But Not Too Much.
Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Price Since Trump Was Elected as Crypto Faces Slump
‘Gang Stuff’ and ‘Illicit Trysts’: How Epstein Sought Leverage With the Wealthy
Norway Rallies Behind Royals, Despite Dismay Over Epstein Links
My Dog Tintin’s Trans-Atlantic Voyage on the Queen Mary 2
How the Black Panthers’ Playbook Helped Minneapolis Activists Fight Trump
As Minnesota Reels Amid Immigration Crackdown, a Sheriff Agonizes Over Her Role
What to Know About Minnesota’s Immigration Policies Amid Federal Crackdown
Senators Clash Over Immigration Enforcement, Risking a D.H.S. Shutdown
Trump Shares Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
Argentina and U.S. Sign Sweeping Trade Deal as Alliance Deepens
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Gives Way to Trump’s Patriotic Fair
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steps Onto a Wider Stage
Muslims Move to Assert Political Power in New York City
New Jersey House Primary Remains Too Close to Call
Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Thousands of Cases
Trump’s Immigration Policy Is 100 Years Old
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The 2026 Super Bowl Ads (So Far), Ranked
New York’s Next Archbishop Introduces Himself to ‘the Parish of America’
The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
America’s Game
Late Night Finds Trump Out of Place at Prayer Breakfast
Savannah Guthrie’s Brother Renews Plea for Return of Their Missing Mother, Nancy
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change
She’s Upending Japanese Politics With Two Words: ‘I’m Pregnant’

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What Happens When Books Aren’t News
Democracy Under Occupation
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
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

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This longtime custodian retired, then signed up as a school volunteer
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
Those seeking to sue ICE for injuries or damage face an uphill battle
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

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Top Russian general shot in Moscow as talks stall on Ukraine ceasefire
U.S. and Iran in Oman to discuss Iran’s nuclear program
Epstein built ties to Russians and sought to meet Putin, files show
Young people in China have a new alternative to marriage and babies: AI pets
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

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Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can’t solve
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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

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

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Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Vast Majority of Adjuncts Have Another Source of Income, Study Finds
How Higher Ed Staved Off a Research-Funding Bloodbath — For Now
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
Did Japanese doctors routinely lie to their patients?
Where WWII soldiers regularly carrying toilet paper? Or was everyone running around fighting with poopy butts?
[NSFW] So, why was a bunny, in particular, chosen to be the main motif, and icon, for Playboy?
How the hell do people deal with wisdom teeth in the past?
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?
What is the earliest pornography we have evidence of?
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?
how did the tokugawa shogunate justify opposing the emperor during the meiji restoration?
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)?
“Just because you wear hats. What does that make you?!” So ends a Xiongnu ambassadors response to a Chinese envoy’s criticism of their culture and customs. But what do they mean when they say “hats”? What’s the significance of them?
Was there such a thing as an ID before photography existed?
During the 1932 German presidential election, Hindenburg was 84 years old, and he died of cancer two years later. Was anyone concerned that his age would undermine his ability to govern effectively or serve out a full seven-year term?
how did the roman empire encourage conversion to Christianity in non-Christian places?
Where did the idea of a "Company as a family" come from? Was it ever true?
How accurate is the depiction of (what is most likely) the Vendémiaire Uprising in Kubrick's unproduced screenplay for "Napoleon"?
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?
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?
Where can I find a large collection of documents from Metternich?
When did Americans start to view Canada as a separate nation from Britain?
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?
How did the beating of Rodney King affect the verdict of the OJ Simpson trial?
When did Western men's fashion become limited to some variant of a trouser and a shirt?

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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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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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
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
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

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
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
The 2026 Super Bowl Ads (So Far), Ranked
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
Bad Bunny’s All-American, All-Spanish, All-Eyes-on-Him Super Bowl
‘High Spirits’ Review: A Ghostly Delight From Encores!
Farewell, Pocket Books
‘Queen of Chess’ Review: The Surprising Story of a Grandmaster
7 Brothers, a Rom-com and a Dream
Saying Goodbye to the Mass Market Paperback
The Fight Between a Watch Heiress and an Art Museum on the French Riviera
Late Night Finds Trump Out of Place at Prayer Breakfast
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Reunited
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Gives Way to Trump’s Patriotic Fair
‘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

Geography

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Death Valley
Recently visited the USA from The Netherlands. Here is my take on the cities we visited.
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 does rain have a specific smell? Is there anything you can identify besides seeing the raindrops?
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?
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?
USA National Risk Index by Census Tract 2023
🌧️ Monthly Rainfall Dynamics over Pakistan (2025) | Google Earth Engine + CHIRPS
US states classified into a spectrum of similar states. (Methodology in the comments)
What's your favorite city park?
Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert?
Foods commonly assumed to be foreign, mapped to where their modern U.S. versions became popular
Where to get accurate info now that CIA World Factbook is defunct?
What are these massive strips of dry sand in northern Italy?
Flying over northern Victoria, Australia - what would cause these striations on the land?
What is this part of the USA/Louisiana like to live in or visit?
The Punjab ( The land of 5 rivers)
Which place on Earth has the perfect sunrise and sunset times throughout the year in your opinion?
What are the development prospects of India and Vietnam?
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 this part of Europe have so many freeways?
Interesting structure and logging/clearing in Peru
Recommendation Needed for a Comprehensive World Atlas
Why does India and Indonesia consider each other neighbouring countries?

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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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
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

Bandcamp Updates

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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
Emily Scott Robinson, “Appalachia”

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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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 Leaked 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
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

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
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