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Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
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Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
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Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will be subject only to a voluntary framework rather than binding rules under EU's Digital Networks Act (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
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Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
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New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol
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The Bat Woman of North London: ‘It’s Like Tuning In to Another World’
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
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A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup
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NRA sues its own charity in growing schism over trademarks, fundraising
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Democrats from Illinois demand Noem’s removal
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Community members in Minneapolis held a vigil for Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman shot and...
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Noem calls ICE shooting a ‘tragedy’ but blames victim
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ICE agents kept neighbor who was doctor from shooting scene, witness says
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Speaker Johnson and GOP lawmakers blame left’s rhetoric, rally around ICE
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The Influential Center Filling the Ranks of America’s Civic-Thought Schools
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | January 08, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 07, 2026
How much of Christianity is based on Paul’s teaching vs those of Jesus and the apostles who actually knew him?
When did the average German realize that Hitler wasn't good?
Why did France resist algerian independence so fiercely, while letting their other north african colonies go without much fuss?
If I was a surgeon for the 101st Airborne in WW2, would I have jumped into Normandy in the first wave?
When and why did police in USA become more or less completely unaccountable?
When did it become acceptable for judges to “lean” Republican or Democrat and undermine objectivity and separation of powers?
Did any older generation in history think that the youth were actually morally improved or superior compared to themselves?
Why does the Gregorian calendar start 10 days after the winter solstice?
How did Japanese Castles defend against projectiles?
How did the cross become the universal symbol for Christianity, and were there any competing symbols in its early history?
Did Christopher Columbus know how far Asia would be by sea from Spain?
What units of measurement would someone living in Qing dynasty ruled 19th century Mongolia likely have used?
When did we stop sending people to the seaside to recover from illness?
When Mathew Perry (no not that one) went on his expedition to Japan, did he have a translator to convey the US's demands, or did he just kinda have to wing it when he got there?
Why is the Anglo-Spanish War of 1625-1630 not considered part of the Thirty Years' War?
In WW1 how were troops able to build trenches so close together? Wouldn’t they just have been shot before making any progress?
What is the earliest surviving law code for which there's actually credible evidence that it was enforced?
Why does the Duchy of Marlborough have this phrase on its coat of arms?
Are trans-Atlantic Portugueses less mutually intelligible than trans-Atlantic Spanishes or Englishes? If so, how come?
Why did feminism emerge as a social movement when it did?
Did Gavrilo Princip actually try to shoot himself while smiling right before he got arrested?
In ancient greece, did sex between women counted as having sex?
What were voluptuary laws in Britain and did they exist elsewhere?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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.)
Q&A weekly thread - December 22, 2025 - post all questions here!
Death of Lars Johanson (8 Mar 1936 - 24 Nov 2025)
To the sign language experts here: researchers help create signs related to mental health terminology in Bangla Sign Language. Can I get a linguist's perspective?
The Attentional Optimization Hypothesis
Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!
Semantic-argumentative study uses Freire’s “reading the world” to examine dwarfism in Disney’s live-action Snow White
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken”
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason"
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism
AMA with Indiana University Computational Linguistics

MetaFilter Projects

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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
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges)
New MeFiCoFo board elected

Open Culture

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Can Genius Be Taught? The Polgár Sisters and the Experiment That Put the Question to the Test
Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)
The Ancient Tool Used in Japan to Strengthen Memory & Focus: The Abacus
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related
300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Discover Ichi-go Ichi‑e, the Japanese Art of Savoring Every Moment
J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog
The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice
J. R. R. Tolkien Admitted to Disliking Dune “With Some Intensity” (1966)
Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations

NYT > Technology

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Apple’s John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook’s Successor as CEO
The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2026
China Is Investigating Meta’s Acquisition of the AI Start-Ip Manus
Anthropic Said to Be in Talks to Raise Funding at a $350 Billion Valuation
New Jersey Is Latest State to Ban Student Phones in Schools
G.M. Books a $7.1 Billion Loss as It Scales Back E.V. Ambitions
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death
California Tech Executives Plot Against Rep. Ro Khanna Over Support of Wealth Tax
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion
Optimism About Nuclear Energy Is Rising Again. Will It Last?
A.I. Images of Maduro Spread Rapidly, Despite Safeguards
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes
New Car Sales Are Rising Thanks to Purchases by the Well-Off
China’s BYD Surpasses Tesla as World Leader in Electric Car Sales
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns
Even the Sky May Not Be the Limit for A.I. Data Centers
In Ukraine, an Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born in War Against Russia
Phone Searches at U.S. Borders: What Travelers Need to Know

NYT > Arts

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The Smithsonian Faces New Pressure to Submit to Trump’s Will
‘The Pitt’ Asks: Is TV Better in Small Doses?
Josh O’Connor’s Masterly 2025 Performances: ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ and More
Can Shawn Levy Resuscitate ‘Star Wars’?
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
‘Magellan’ Review: The Beauty and the Bloodshed of a Smaller World
‘Young Mothers’ Review: Teen Parents, Breaking Cycles
The Movie That Inspired Michael Mann to Direct
Everything Happens at Once in Faith Ringgold’s Mini-Retrospective
Convention-Defying in Life. In Art, Not So Much
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
The Cast and Creators of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ on How the Movie Came to Be
To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Question Filmmakers Can’t Resist
Nick Reiner’s Lawyer, Alan Jackson, Removes Himself From Murder Case
‘People We Meet on Vacation’ Review: When Stuffy Met Silly
John Wilson’s Enduring Art of Racial Politics and Personal Memory
Amos Poe, New York’s No Wave Film Pioneer, Dies at 76
2026 Directors Guild Nominations: ‘One Battle,’ ‘Sinners’
Ron Protas, Polarizing Keeper of Martha Graham’s Legacy, Dies at 84
Stars of ‘The Pitt’ Gathered At HBO’s Premiere Party to Toast Season 2
‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Review: The New World
‘OBEX’ Review: An Analog Nightmare
‘My Neighbor Adolf’ Review: The Nazi Next Door
‘Holding Liat’ Review: Hostage Situation
‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: When the Action Is Razor Thin
‘All That’s Left of You’ Review: Hearts, Minds, History
Late Night Responds to Trump’s Bid to Be an Oil Baron
Arthur Cohn, Film Producer With an Oscar-Winning Touch, Dies at 98
‘Ulysses’ and 8 More Under the Radar Shows to See This Month
Bruce Crawford, Arts-Loving Adman Who Led the Met Opera, Dies at 96
2026 SAG Actor Award Nominations List: ‘One Battle’ and ‘Sinners’ Lead
Ronny Chieng Remarks on Trump ‘DoorDash-ing’ Maduro to Brooklyn
Can Timothée Chalamet Break This Oscar Curse?
‘Hands in the Air, Butts on the Ground’: Kes Heads to Jazz at Lincoln Center
His Plays Are Silent for a Reason: ‘Words Can Limit Things’
From ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Stranger Things,’ What Hive Minds Tell Us About Ourselves
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Dexter Gordon
Modern Love Better Sex
Béla Fleck Withdraws From Kennedy Center Concerts
Rosa von Praunheim, 83, Dies; Captured Gay Life in Germany on Film
Mickey Rourke Declines $100,000 in Donations After His Eviction
Readers Pick the Songs That Defined Their 2025
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Will Publish a New Book
Bela Tarr, Titan of Slow-Moving Cinema, Dies at 70
Paris Opera Names Semyon Bychkov as Its Next Musical Director
Modern American Opera Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Her
Stephen Colbert Doubts Trump Can Run Two Countries at Once
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Amazon, HBO Max, Peacock and More in January
Georgian National Ballet Brings Country’s Folk Dance to New York
The Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2026: Movies and TV Shows
Dance Moves From the Street, City Edition
I’m New to Jazz. Where Do I Start?
‘The Pitt,’ Plus 10 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Robert Heide, Daring Playwright and Warhol Collaborator, Dies at 91
Critics Choice Awards 2026: The Complete Winners List
Francis Patrelle, Champion of the Story Ballet, Dies at 78
‘The Pitt’ Season 2: Behind the Scenes with Noah Wyle
Marina Viotti: The Opera Star With Heavy-Metal Chops
Kevin O’Leary on ‘Marty Supreme’ and Notes He Gave Josh Safdie

Geography

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How different/similar are the 2 sides of Guinea to live in
Lot of Western Europeans underestimate how hot United-States is during summer.
What’s something you always wondered about Iraq?
Why Does Germany Have Such a High Population?
Why is the Isle of Man not part of the UK yet also not independent?
Great start of the year for all us geography nerds: Ciudad de la Paz is now the official capital of Equatorial Guinea, replacing Malabo as of Jan 2, 2026.
What are the requirements to become a mountain?
The Guiana Amazonian Park is the largest national park in the European Union
What is this line of forest in Northern Somalia called and why does it exist
how Dubai's world islands affected the surrounding environment
Why do we use mercator world map projection when robinson projection is much more accurate? (not perfect but much better)
Why didn't china annex any of it's smaller/weaker neighbours same way it did to tibet? (No hate against any country intended)
What percentage of Greenland is populated?
How did such mountainous borders form?
Chicago-Milwaukee and the Greater Golden Horseshoe Both Form Near-Contiguous Urban Areas with 11 Million People in 8300 Square-Miles (Sources: StatsCan GGH 2024 Population Estimates + US Census 2020 Chicago + Milwaukee MSA Data)
Are the villages between Cyprus and the UK Base Areas legally part of Cyprus or the UK?
Why are there so many islands across the coast of Finland?
Why Hokkaido isn't splitted into more than one prefecture?
If someone was compiling a list of countries with no land borders, then island countries with borders like Ireland, Haiti and Papua New Guinea would be off the table. But would you also exclude Singapore and Bahrain, islands which are connected to Malaysia and Saudi Arabia via artificial bridges?
Why is Venezuela claiming Guyana?
What is this brain-shaped formation in the middle of Paraguayan Chaco?
What is the widest separation of different direction US Interstate Highway lanes ?
Why haven't large cities developed in the Orinoco River basin of Venezuela?
Dumb question, if a South Korean was born in the northern part of the country, what would he call himself? North South Korean as well?
Which places in the world are very different from how you expected them to be? Which places are exactly as you imagined them to be?

The Public Domain Review

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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
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution

The Quietus

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Low Culture Podcast: Mulholland Drive
Your November & December Playlists are Here
Hey Colossus Announce 15th Album via Short Film
Organic Intelligence LI: Laura Cannell’s Guide to Early-ish Christmas Music
Conversational Improvisational: Stewart Lee & EarthBall get Free
Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of November and December 2025
Mark S. Williamson  – folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out
Shackleton to Release New Album, ‘Euphoria Bound’, Via AD 93
Why Reports of the Death of UK Nightlife are Greatly Exaggerated
Blarke Bayer – The King In Yellow
Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025
Ambagious Tactics pays Tribute to Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies
Sacrifice Zone, Sophie Sleigh Johnson and Charlie Osborne for Cafe Oto this week
Moundabout – Esker Hippy Bastard Blues
Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
AICHER – Defensive Acoustics
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
DJ Narciso – DENTRO DE MIM
Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan’s Telekon
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations
Low Culture Essay: Tariq Goddard on Jeremy Brett, the Perfect Sherlock Holmes
Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025
Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live God
Wrens – Half What You See
Rockfort! The Best French Music of 2025
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City
Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star
Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music of 2025
F.Ampism – The Vertical Luminous
tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

Bandcamp Updates

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

dusted

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2025: Patrick Masterson
Ian Mathers’ 2025: I’m tired, I am dead/If you live it, then you love it
The Year We Need to be Free of Freestyle: Ray Garraty
“That’s Okay, Things Are Going To Be Okay”: Bryon Hayes
Another Year of Pissed-off Music, to Take to the Streets, or Down in the Dirt: Jonathan Shaw
Top 10 of 2025: Tim Clarke
Favorites in 2025: Christian Carey
The Body Breaks: Jennifer Kelly’s 2025 year in review
Happy Holidays from Dusted
Listed: Andrew Weathers
Wreckless Eric — England Screaming (Tapete)
Tavare — Too Small to Be So High (God Unknown)
Black Mold — Antinomy (Hellprod)
Equipment Pointed Ankh — Eggs a Little Late (Petty Bunco)
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki— Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol 1 (Asian Improv)
Split Apex — Thoughts in 3D (ever/never)
Sha La Das — Your Picture (Diamond Head)
Listed: Citric Dummies
Tacoma Park — Glosson Circle Sessions (self released)/ex-corp — assemblage (cached.media)
Sam Shalabi / Mike Gangloff & Liam Grant — Mont-real (Carbon)

Pitchfork

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ICE Recruitment Ads No Longer on Spotify
The 45 Most Anticipated Tours of 2026
David Byrne Covers Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License”
Lala Lala Signs to Sub Pop for New Album Heaven 2, Plots Tour
Maria BC Preps New Album Marathon, Shares Title Track
Cate Le Bon and St. Vincent Reunite for “Always the Same”
Bruno Mars Plots Sprawling Stadium Tour
Light-Years
Neverland
sankofa
Geese to Perform on Saturday Night Live
Bruno Mars’ First Album in a Decade Arrives Next Month
“Sexistential” / “Talk to Me”
Robyn Announces New Album Sexistential, Drops Two Songs
Big Thief’s Buck Meek Shares New Album Title, Single, and Tour Dates
Iron & Wine Details New Album Hen’s Teeth
Bonnie “Prince” Billy Announces New Album We Are Together Again
The Spiritual Sound
The Sludge of the Land
Desaceleradas
Universal and Nvidia Promise New Partnership Is an “Antidote to AI Slop”
Heavenly Announce First Album in 30 Years
Kali Uchis, Lorde, and Geese to Play Governors Ball 2026
As Above, So Below
The Velvet Underground & Rowan
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
Björk Calls for Greenlandic Independence
Winona Ryder Stars as A$AP Rocky's Next-Door Neighbor in “Punk Rocky” Video
The 55 Most Anticipated Albums of 2026
9 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist

Cool Tools

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Busiest Air Routes/Best Headphones/TSA + Staples
What’s in my NOW? — Magnus Ojala
The Wolves of Currumpaw / Sinatra 100
Paper Cutting
KK / Flat phone grip / Is it a cult?
Best Retiree Spots/Welcoming Nomad Destinations/Loyalty Doesn’t Pay
Mann’s Pictorial Dictionary / Death is Stupid
Canning
Soulmates / Exhalation / Instant dice
Expiring Perks/Bone-conducting Earbuds/Forge Travel Wallet

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?
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