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Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs (Financial Times)
India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads (Financial Times)
SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months ending December 31, 2025 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
Sources: recently the DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE (New York Times)
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
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Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
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Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
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MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII
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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs
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An Elephant Is Blind Without Its Whiskers
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China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct
Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound
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Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source
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The elusive nature of consciousness
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Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River
Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
Poxvirus attack of antiviral defense pathways unleashes an effector-triggered NF-κB response
Structural ontogeny of protein-protein interactions
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Mitochondrial control of fuel switching via carnitine biosynthesis
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Disappearance of a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy due to formation of a black hole
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Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
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The Clash of Civilizations Was an Inside Job
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Authorities conduct operation near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson
Don Lemon indictment: Video appears to contradict key claims
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Rubio says U.S., Europe ‘belong together,’ despite rifts over Trump policies
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Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
Immigrant women founders face double hurdle in Silicon Valley
Morocco wants to build AI that speaks for Africa
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The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump's 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What's Its Plan for 2026?
Iowa, Kansas Consider Bills to Ban Race, Gender, Sexuality Content in Some College Courses
Oklahoma Is 'Phasing Out' Tenure. Will the Idea Catch On?
What's Max Weber Doing in the Columbia Antisemitism Report?
Assessment Is Ruining Teaching
A Small University Bet Big on Enrolling Athletes. Now It Will Close.
A Professor Tackled a Man Who Was Trying to Interview Gordon Gee. Now He’s on Leave.
‘A Moment of Reckoning’: After Epstein, Higher Ed Faces Hard Questions About Its Proximity to Power
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Stanford Cuts Fellowship Program for Underrepresented Students

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Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 11, 2026
Antibiotics really are a miracle of modern medicine. Do we have first person accounts of people’s reactions of what it was like when penicillin became available to the general population (not just military)?
Were the concentration camps in the third reich all owned by the government or were there private owners, too? How were they paid for? Did they turn a profit?
George Washington was known as "Devourer of Villages" to the Iroquois. How did he get that name and did he live up to the reputation?
When treating Alexei Romanov’s hemophilia, what treatments did his doctors use? And what treatments were standard for hemophilia in the 1910s?
Did people really pack so little back then when travelling?
To what extent was Italy's poor performance in World War 2 attributable to Mussolini personally?
I know this is a niche question but was Alan Shepard given the all clear medically to fly again in as a way to force Gordon Cooper out of a command spot for Apollo 13/14?
What do we know about flower sellers and plant nurseries in Ancient Rome?
Did phonecians make up the Worker class of carthage?
The Nazis proclaimed themselves as the third Reich, imagining a realm lasting a thousand years. In their imagination of that future, who would lead this Reich after Hitler?
Did ancient generals and rulers actually use human beings as step ladders to mount their horses?
Why did Buddhism survive the Tang-era Huichang persecution while Nestorian Christianity did not?
Arranged Marriages: When did they stop being a thing in Europe and why do they still continue in the order countries?
Prior to the last century, as I understand it, education centered on reading the classics for centuries. Did those students know stuff ABOUT Plato or the Greeks, or did they simply take the texts on their own terms, sort of like the great books curriculum at St. John's College?
It's widely known that grapefruit interacts with a lot of common medications. Why is it widely known? When did physicians start warning patients about grapefruit specifically? Just how much grapefruit were people eating?
Were Theodor Adorno and other Frankfurt School members wrong about the nature of Hitler and the holocaust?
Say I am a debutante who's just come out in polite society during the marriage season in Victorian England. What are some ways I would go about finding a husband? What would my chances of finding a husband be? Would I be treated well if I were unsuccessful and ended up as a spinster?
When the Catholic Church made it so priests had to be celibate what happened to the wives and kids?
After the loss at Midway, the navy high command engaged in an elaborate cover-up, leaking details of the scale of the loss in a drip-feed manner. Did the same happen after the Battle of Khalin Gol?
What is the history of the idea that all children are born Muslim, and how have the implications of apostasy among those born to non-Muslims been dealt with?
Why do many Turkish people still consider Kemal Ataturk their greatest leader ever, despite the genocides that where committed by him and his followers (Armenian genocide, Greek-Pontic genocide)?
How could the transition to iron occur simultaneously with the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
Please help me find historical materials for Lebanon?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 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)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
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)

MetaFilter Projects

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The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[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

Open Culture

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The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism
How This Skyscraper Ruined Paris, and Why They’re Now Trying to Make It Invisible
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
How Brunelleschi Engineered Florence’s Iconic Dome
Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose
Were the Egyptian Pyramids Not Built Up, But Carved Down?: A Bold New Theory Explains Their Construction
Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964)
Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings
Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk
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)

NYT > Technology

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Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App
F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News
Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round
Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction
Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief
Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI
Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial
OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control
Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Argue in Landmark Trial
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
These A.I. Dreamers Don’t Fit the Stereotype
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

NYT > Arts

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Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait
In ‘Neighbors,’ the Golden Rule Is ‘Get Off My Lawn’
Jacob Elordi, Heathcliff and the Controversy Over ‘Wuthering Heights’
Christie’s to Auction 3 of Agnes Gund’s Art Jewels
‘Neighbors’ Review: One Battle After Another
Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork
‘The Unknown’ Review: Sean Hayes Turns One Man Into a Mystery
A Family’s Memories and a Nation’s Struggles in ‘My Father’s Shadow’
‘Love Story’ Recreates a Tragic Romance
Stream These Documentaries on the Winter Olympics Going Back a Century
How ‘The Traitors’ Builds Its Perfect Reality TV Cast
‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors
PEN America Names New Leadership After Gaza Fallout
Taylor Stanley Makes Their Presence Known in NYCB’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’
MIO: Memories in Orbit Evolves From Infuriating to Ingenious
Noah Kahan, James Blake: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
A Winter Surfer at Rockaway Beach Questions His Dedication
Tom Ellis on the 1960s Movie That Blew His Mind
How ‘Wonder Man’ Can Reshape the Marvel Franchise
Ebo Taylor, Musical Innovator of Highlife and Afrobeat, Dies at 90
Vicki Abt, Who Said TV Talk Shows Coarsened Society, Dies at 83
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip’ Review: Grandpa Knows Best
10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
The Times’s TV Editor Shares How He Recaps Episodes
Watch: Emerald Fennell Narrates a Clip of Margot Robbie in ‘Wuthering Heights’
‘Wuthering Heights’ | Anatomy of a Scene
‘The Daily Show’ Gives President Trump Yet Another Inaugural Award
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: No Time for Goodbye
Greg Brown, Guitarist Who Wrote Cake’s Biggest Hit, Dies at 56
‘Cold Storage’ Review: Liam Neeson vs. the Gross Green Threat
‘Kramer/Fauci’ Revisits a Sparring Match During the AIDS Crisis
Helmuth Rilling, Who Recorded Huge Swaths of Bach, Dies at 92
Beethoven’s ‘Egmont,’ by Way of Cate Blanchett and Jeremy O. Harris
‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Review: Canadian Fakin’
Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’: Lisa McGee Spins a Comedic Mystery
Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis
Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal Stolen Art.
‘The Monsters’ Review: A Redemptive Sibling Rivalry
‘Scarlet’ Review: The Rest Is Anime
‘My Father’s Shadow’ Review: The Double Frame of Memory
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: Saving the World Again
‘Goat’ Review: Stephen Curry’s Animated Basketball Debut
‘Crime 101’ Review: Chris Hemsworth Leads Heist Drama
‘By Design’ Review: She’s Getting the Chair
Why Are So Many Artists Night Owls?
New York Is Getting Sleepier. These Artists Are Wide Awake.
Jill Scott and Bisa Butler on Staying the Course
Late Night Boos Pam Bondi’s ‘Bratty’ Behavior
Turkish Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
Where to Stream ‘Varsity Blues’ and James Van Der Beek’s Best Performances
‘The Other Place’: Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy in a Psychosexual Sophocles Update
Artforum’s Top Editor Will Step Down
James Van Der Beek: The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star’s Life and Career in Photos
Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77
In His Second Act, James Van Der Beek Starred Online as a Proud Dad and Family Man
Tamas Vasary, Pianist of Power and Sensitivity, Dies at 92
Ken Peplowski, Who Helped Revive the Jazz Clarinet, Dies at 66
LaMonte McLemore, Founding Singer With the 5th Dimension, Dies at 90

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why do the Andes feel so.. barren?
Why does the South Island of New Zealand have 822 mountains but no volcanoes and the North Island have 34 mountains and 50 volcanoes?
LA area climate be like
Are there any significant countries or islands that have only been populated by people in modern history?
Which side is Tijuana on?
Why is most development along the Nile on the West Bank?
is egypt overpopulated, and does the high population concentration hold back its development?
Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was shaped by Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers
Capital of Earth
Are there places with rainfall and minimum monthly temps high enough to be "tropical", but still have a more pleasant and tolerable climates for the human body than places with more "subtropical" climates?
How does the humidity and heat compare between the Philippines and Caribbean with both being at the same latitude?
Which U.S. State Is the Most Crowded?
Just found out that Dongguan in China might be the largest city with no airport. 10.57 million people.
Why doesn't Nepal's southern non-mountainous regions belong to India?
If we were to exclude the word "American", what would be the best demonym for someone from the United States of America?
Redder southern slope of Lanzarote tephra cone
What two famous places in different parts of the world are on the SAME latitude or longitude? As in ties, not comparisons
A cool guide showing the true size of Hawaii compared to the continental United States
I thought this was cool. TIL that the four pillars of the Eiffel Tower point in the four cardinal directions (North, South, East, West) just like a compass rose.
Black Sea ports and the new geography of power
~2.5% of all human who ever existed are now alive in India or China
German Silesia and Polish Saxony... what is going on there?
Hypothetical question
Any other cities with similar features like this?

The Public Domain Review

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Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
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

The Quietus

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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
River Tweed Celebrated in new Installation
“Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed
Reissue of the Week: Sex Mad by Nomeansno
Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern
Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti Collaborate on New Album, ‘Seismo’
Scritti Politti Unveil Reissue of Debut Album
Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive
Charles Tyler Ensemble – Voyage from Jericho
Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs
Kim Gordon Shares New Song, ‘DIRTY TECH’
The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Karshni – Buck Wild
Jonny Greenwood Launches Action for his Music to be Removed from ‘Melania’ Movie
Plex say Farewell to Corsica Studios
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for February Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Keep It Punk, Keep it Simple: Eva LeBlanc of Traidora Interviewed
Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs – Persian Carpets
Direct Action Gets the Goods: An Interview with Leather.head
Nilza Costa – Cantigas
How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50
What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich Donates Gold Disc for Auction to Support Margate Venue WhereElse
Seb Rochford Shares New Finding Ways Track With Patrick Walden, Announces Tour
OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow
The Writing’s on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran
Sam Slater – Lunng
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads As Gangsta Rap Album
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Annie Hogan – Tongues In My Head

Bandcamp Updates

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The Improbable Journey of Dr Strangely Strange, Ireland’s Psych-Folk Pioneers
Worm, “Necropalace”
Essential Releases, February 13, 2026
25 Years In, Morr Music’s Electronic Empire Remains Unstoppable
Melbourne’s Cosmic Funk and Jazz Scene Punches Above Its Weight
Various Artists, “Mastery Quantum Sound”
The Tape Label Report, January 2026
Bandcamp Radio Adds Electronic Music and Indie to the Lineup
Where to Start With M., Black Metal’s Ascendant Dark Prince
Colin Self, “respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (Expanded)”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
In the ’70s, Grupo Um Forged New Pathways in Brazilian Jazz
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Laughter In Summer”
Kenneth Kirschner’s Book of Musical Days
Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker, “DOUBLE-WIDE”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026
Daphni, “Butterfly”
Essential Releases, February 6, 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Yamila, “Noor”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tilaye Gebre, “Tilaye’s Saxophone With The Dahlak Band (የጥላዬ ሳክስ ከዳህላክ ባንድ ጋር)”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2026
Underground Medicine #1
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Ulrika Spacek, “EXPO”
Bandcamp Friday Returns This Friday, February 6
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Toni Geitani, “Wahj”
Introducing The Side Door, A New Column for Jam-Curious Weirdos
Haruhi Kobayashi, “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone”
Essential Releases, January 31, 2026
Perpetual Doom vs. Doomerism
Blackwater Holylight, “Not Here Not Gone”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tashi Dorji, “low clouds hang, this land is on fire”

dusted

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The Paranoid Style  —  Known Associates (Bar/None)
Final Dose — Endless Woe (Self-released)
Luke Temple & The Cascading Moms — Hungry Animal (Western Vinyl)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Eliza Garth — By the River (Centaur)
Shaking Hand — Shaking Hand (Melodic)
Robert Deeble — The Space Between Us (Mind Bomb Publishing)
Tyshawn Sorey — Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
YĪN YĪN — Yatta! (Glitterbeat)
Taker — Sons and Daughters (Self-released)
Department — The Audacity Files (Self-Release)
Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken — Double Reality Beyond Space And Time (Grong)
Cryptid Spawn — Black Phosphorous Dungeon (Iron Lung)
Cub — Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Editions (Mint)
أحمد [Ahmed] — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (OTOROKU)
Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 1
As previously mentioned, Dusted mainstay Jennifer Kelly is currently battling pancreatic cancer….
Angharad Davies & John Butcher — Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax)
Ye Vagabonds — All Tied Together (River Lea)

Pitchfork

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We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (Super Deluxe Edition)
“Iris”
Alex G and the Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan to Score Jane Schoenbrun Film
“Yeannn” [ft. Tezzus]
Lemonheads’ Fan Accuses Evan Dando of Sending Unsolicited Explicit Videos
James Blake Reveals North American Tour, Shares New Song
Irreversible Entanglements Announce New Album Future Present Past
Sturgill Simpson Unveils New Johnny Blue Skies Album
12 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Charli XCX, Feng, and More
Rewatching House Party, a True American Story
Jane Remover Drops New Venturing Song “In The Dark”
Listen to Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira’s New Wuthering Heights Song
Lykke Li Details Final Album The Afterparty, Shares New Song
COLD 2 THE TOUCH
MAN BITES DOG
Canada
Buckaroo
Scritti Politti to Reissue Rare Debut Album
“SPLURGINBAGS”
Watch Central Cee Turn Back Time in “Iceman Freestyle” Video
Tame Impala Announce 2026 North American Tour
Wednesday Leave Wasserman Over CEO’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Listen to Andrew Bird’s New Song for The Pitt
Dijon and Aimee Mann Set for Return of Bon Iver’s Eaux Claires Festival
Damon Albarn, Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest Join Forces for New Song
Butterfly
Cerulean
一包烟 (Yi Bao Yan)
Clearly Cursed
Bleachers Reveal New Album, Drop Song “You and Forever”

Cool Tools

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Purification Bottles/Cheapest Flights From Each State/Next Eclipse
What’s in my NOW? — Benoit
Things Organized Neatly / Sharks
Moving
Single sheet calendar / Secret Mall Apartment / Data poems
Book Freak #196: The Art of Spending Money
Travel Dollar Destinations/Bedbugs Tracking/Worldwide Rent Prices
What’s in my NOW? — Gearóid (Ged) Carroll
Wherever You Go / After Dinner Games
Gloves

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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