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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 25, 2026
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Why did they name it the Department of Homeland Security?
How did massive empires, especially transcontinental ones, hold themselves together before modern telecommunications and transportation?
In the US, canned baked beans are suspended in a sweet, sugar-based sauce. In the UK, they are suspended in a savoury, tomato-based sauce. The most popular beans brand in the UK is Heinz, an American company that doesn't sell beans in the US. How did all this happen?
How did Martin Luther's antisemitic views affect the church as a whole, mainly Protestants?
AMA: The Education Culture Wars, 1970 to the Present
How reliable is the History of Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson?
How many swings of a sword would a soldier typically make in a battle?
Where does Vietnam's culture of drinking beer that's brewed fresh daily (bia hoi) come from?
before electric lighting, did people sleep 12+ hours a day in the winter?
Internet posts and my coworker keep saying that all Paleolithic religions focused on goddesses until some bad point where religions all became patriarchal. Is this even true?
How much of the American Revolutionary War is really King George's fault?
How was Hitler's role as a messenger viewed among World War I veterans? Esteemed? Underestimated?
The scientific discovery of "deep time" during the 19th century posed many problems for Christian intellectuals, but how this discovery change Christian anti-Hindu and anti-Buddhist polemics, given that these religions teach that the world and universe are as old as deep time claims if not older?
Did the Chinese Communist Party order all Shih Tzu dogs to be killed due to their aristocratic associations after 1949?
Historical question: What does a hammer tattoo from 1907 mean for a German man?
Why was it okay for dresses in medievel Europe to show cleavage when women otherwise dressed very conservatively?
How did Maronite christians survive so long around Mount Lebanon? And how were they treated under Muslim rule?
How expensive or cheap were basic household goods such as furniture, kitchenware, cloth, etc to an ancient or medieval peasant? Would I consider the loss of say a pot or a frying pan a great financial loss to me or would they easily be replaceable?
How much did the Holocaust affect the war efforts of the Nazis?
"His Majesty's Courts," "The King's Justice." Did British monarchs ever become directly involved in criminal or civil proceedings, acting as judge?
How vulnerable was peak plate armor?
How did Horace Greely go from a firebrand abolitionist to a pro-South opponent of Reconstruction?
AMA with the Battleship Missouri Memorial Curatorial Team

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
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!
Grammar of the Carapana language (1981) [Spanish]
Lihir Language Organised Phonology Data (2002)
Kaskean. A new recorded language in the archives of Ḫattuša?
Site about online dictionaries of languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan etc.)

MetaFilter Projects

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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
Halloween costume: the night sky
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025

Open Culture

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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
Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion”
Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse
The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago
The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes
Watch the Evolution of Paris Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 300 BCE to 2025
Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)
How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”

NYT > Technology

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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety
With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
G.M. Shares Rise as Investors Are Encouraged by 2026 Prospects
The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know
As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over Minneapolis Shootings
New Videos of the Beckham Feud Are Fake. Nobody Seems to Care.
Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok
Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own
Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End
Why the Power May Not Go Out Until After the Storm Has Passed
U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada
S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code
TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China
Why iPhone and Android Weather Apps Are Freaking Out About Winter Storm Forecasts
The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets
Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show

NYT > Arts

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sondheim
Who Will Win the Best Actor Oscar?
Strauss and Haydn Take a Hit as Cash-Crunched Vienna Cuts Budgets
When Bruce Springsteen (Hank Azaria) Met Michael Stipe (Michael Shannon)
On ‘Shrinking,’ Jessica Williams Moves the Needle
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, a Cult Figure Silenced Too Soon
How Did a 2017 Song Get a 2026 Oscar Nomination?
‘Ulysses,’ ‘Watch Me Walk’ and Other Festival Shows Revisit the Past
Philip Glass Withdraws From Kennedy Center, as Its Symphony Vows to Play On
Greenland’s Biggest Band Is Thrust Into an Uneasy Spotlight
BAFTA Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’ Face Off
‘Wonder Man’ Pushes Marvel Into Unfamiliar Territory
‘Wonder Man’ Review: A Break From the Multiverse
‘The Outsiders’ Musical Recoups on Broadway
Lauryn Hill Will Lead Grammy Tribute to Roberta Flack and D’Angelo
Bruce Springsteen Releases ‘Streets of Minneapolis,’ a Song Protesting ICE
South Africa Cancels Release of ‘Melania’ Documentary
Being the Fun Dad Almost Destroyed My Marriage
‘The Wrecking Crew’ Review: Super Smash Brothers
Desi Lydic Says Gregory Bovino Got ‘Iced Out’
Johnny Legend, a King of Trash Culture, Dies at 77
Meet the Grammys’ Best New Artist Nominees
Did Don DeLillo Invent Hockey Erotica?
62 Discs Offer a Last Word on the Pianist Maurizio Pollini
‘Volcano,’ the L.A. Disaster Movie That Boils Over With Unintended Comedy
Seth Meyers Won’t Let ICE Co-Opt the Weather
Art Stars Honor a Dealer and Her Labor of Love
Kanye West Apologizes for Antisemitic Behavior in Full-Page Wall Street Journal Ad
Review: How ‘Data’ Channels the Shock of Right Now
Memory and Speech Are Their Everyday Struggles. Then They Get to Sing.
Denyce Graves Says Goodbye to the Opera Stage After 40 Years
In ‘Memory of a Killer,’ Patrick Dempsey Takes the Wheel
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, on the (Bumpy) Road to Reconciliation
For This Influencer, Rejection Is the New Perfection
‘Bridgerton,’ Plus 5 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1 Episode 2 Recap: A Man Among Princes
Floyd Vivino, Throwback Comedian Known as Uncle Floyd, Dies at 74
Marian Goodman, Eminent New York Art Dealer, Dies at 97
Geese Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ Viewers Something to Talk About
S.N.L. Recap: Teyana Taylor Hosts, the First Trump Awards and More
Long-Lost Robert Burns Portrait Is on Display for Burns Night
Marc Shaiman, ‘Hairspray’ Composer, on Surviving Life in the Musical Trenches
Beatriz González, Who Chronicled Colombia’s Turmoil in Paint, Dies at 93
Sophie Turner Swears By a Chaotic Spotify Playlist
6 Podcasts About Medicine and Health Care
9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Renée Fleming Won’t Perform at Kennedy Center Concerts
John H. Beyer, 92, Dies; Architect Championed Historic Preservation
2026 Oscar Nominees: Surprises and Snubs
For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
South African Artist Sues Over Venice Biennale Snub
Five Action Movies to Stream Now
Review: Thomas Adès and America at the New York Philharmonic
Documentary Oscar Nominees Resist Authority in Different Ways
Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
5 Takeaways From the HBO Documentary ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’
Turning 4 Miles of Silk Into a Stunning Theater Spectacle
7 Sports Documentaries to Stream Now
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Mamma Mia!,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and More
Luke Thompson Finally Takes the ‘Bridgerton’ Spotlight
Candi Staton Is a Survivor. At 85, She’s Also a Grammy Nominee.

Geography

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I've been born and raised in the world's coldest city, Yakutsk, AMA.
"Don't judge a book by its cover" - in which countries is the largest city considerably worse than the rest of the country?
How is Korea able to accomodate such a large population?
These pairs of cities in different countries share names, but one isn't named after the other, and they don't share an etymological root. Which other similar examples are there?
Why is the sunlight hours change so dramatic after the 6h mark?
I from a random island with very intersting geography and politics. AMA
How much would the world change if all the water in the world became drinkable?”
Which natural geographical feature that doesn't exist/occur in your country do you most wish existed/occurred there?
Why do continental climate cities in Scandinavia get so much less snow than North American cities in the same climate?
National self-sufficiency of food production
Enrique of Malacca was the first person to circumnavigate the world?
Pre Colonial Map of Africa 🌍
What if China had access to the Bay of Bengal? How would this affect the Straight of Malacca and global politics?
What site or program allows you to view topographic maps with great 3D elevations?
Any other places named after dates ?
A Google Maps for Waterfalls !
Why are people there, who consider New york as subtropical or meditterranean, if they have weeks of subzero and bottomed at -20°C? Shouldnt palms grow in Subtropics?
Why does the deflection of the westerlies/trade winds happen every 30 degrees?
Is Majuli Island of Assam, India really an island?
Accessibility to countries
How does Iran support a large population throughout all of history?. It looks very arid with rough terrain and i don't see any rivers or flat plains for major crop production.
What country or province is this outline
Help a girl out plz 💅🌏🎁
About Australia
What would be the European equivalent to Madison, Wisconsin when it comes to geographical location?

The Public Domain Review

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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)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut

The Quietus

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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
The Reaches of Peaches: Peaches’ Favourite Albums
Backengrillen – Backengrillen
London Nightlife Taskforce Shares Report Recommending Urgent Action
Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for January by JR Moores
Tashi Dorji – Low Clouds Hang, This Land is on Fire
Cabaret Voltaire Announce Final North America Tour
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
Marta Del Grandi – Dream Life
Places To Be: Emma Warren on the Importance of Youth Clubs to British Culture
The Body & The Person: Cosey Fanni Tutti at Humber Street Gallery
Reissue of the Week:  Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95
Notions of Decadence: Half a Century of Bowie’s Station To Station
Megadeth – Megadeth
Pulp, Depeche Mode, Beth Gibbons and More Feature on New War Child Charity Record
Kim Gordon, KMRU and More Join Rewire 2026 Lineup
Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan on Susumu Yokota
Beautiful Chaos & Crying to Frozen: Powell Interviewed
Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics
Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix – The New Worlds Fair
Geordie Greep Pays Tribute to Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin
Lightning Bolt and OOIOO Announce Split Album, ‘The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral’
Mohammad Syfkhan, Eric Chenaux and More to Play This Year’s Dig That Treasure! Festival
MPTL Microplastics Album Launch in Brixton
Dekmantel Reveals Full 2026 Lineup
The Strange World of… David Berman
PVA – No More Like This
Pitchfork Launches Reviews Paywall

Bandcamp Updates

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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
Xiu Xiu, “Xiu Mutha F—in’ Xiu: Vol. 1”
A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life
Sotomayor, “WABI SABI”
Tall Dwarfs & Hairybreath Monsters: A Chris Knox Bestiary
Kill Ugly Pop: A Guide to Lip Cream
Jersey Club Keeps on Moving
The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
The Best Metal Albums of 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025

dusted

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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)
Bruno Duplant & Judith Wegmann — Univers Parallèles: Des Nuits Et Des Jours (Moving Furniture)
Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan)
Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)
Éliane Radigue — Asymptote Versatile (1963-1964) (Amgen)
Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter)
Slept Ons and Listening Pest 2025: Things that we missed and albums that disappointed

Pitchfork

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Bruce Springsteen Rallies Against Trump and ICE in New Protest Song “Streets of Minneapolis”
Laura Jane Grace, Ekko Astral, and Illuminati Hotties to Headline Liberation Weekend II
AI Music Is Here to Stay. How Do We Reckon With It?
J. Cole Surprise Releases New EP
Green-House Sign to Ghostly for New Album
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Death in the Business of Whaling
Dialect: Full Serpent EP
EL NUEVO SONIDO
Lady Gaga Covers Mister Rogers’ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
Wilco Detail Spring 2026 Tour
ADULT. Announce Album and Tour, Share Video for New Song
Neil Young Gifts Full Music Archive to Every Greenland Resident
Sideshow Announces New Album, Shares Lead Single
Bikini Kill to Tour in 2026
Miss Grit Announces New Album Under My Umbrella, Shares Video for “Stranger”
Marilyn Manson Sexual Assault Suit From Ex-Assistant Revived
Peanut
locket
The Demise of Planet X
My Heart Is a Room With No Cameras in It
TikTok Completes Deal to Create U.S. Entity and Avert Ban
Sly & Robbie’s Lowell “Sly” Dunbar Dies at 73
Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire Team Up for Another Tour
“Bring Custo”
Kid Cudi Announces the Rebel Ragers Tour
Grammys 2026 Predictions: Who Will and Should Win?
King Tuff Announces Album and Tour, Shares Video for New Song
xaviersobased Announces New Album, Xavier
Kanye West, in Wall Street Journal Ad, Attributes Antisemitism and Erratic Behavior to Brain Damage

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Jayme Boucher
Irving Harper: Works in Paper / Where’s Warhol?
Wealth Building
TeamLab Borderless / Listen to Whales / Kitchen drawer multitool
Book Freak #194: When Things Fall Apart
Most Popular City/Europe Rail Travel Trends/Mexican Sites Admission Hikes
What’s in my NOW? — Joele Lucherini
Fight Club 2 / Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
Baby Care
Recomendo Deals / Zip Air / 35 simple health tips

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
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