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GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform
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A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
The Day the Telnet Died
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
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Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
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An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to "deep reservations" about ads and OpenAI's strategy (Zoë Hitzig/New York Times)
A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more "predictable and auditable", exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
GitGuardian, which integrates with GitHub to offer nonhuman identity and AI agent security, raised a $50M Series C, taking its total funding to ~$106M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (New York Times)
Filing: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others (Bloomberg)
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming "this spring" in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the market selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC)
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $3.7B, vs. $3.59B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue growth at a low-thirties percentage rate, vs. 25% est.; SHOP jumps 10% (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
Mistral says it will spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden with partner EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 as its first data center outside France (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings (Ryan Felton/Wall Street Journal)
Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than analysts, likely due to incentives (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
Maple Mono
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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
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Offpunk 3.0
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Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing | Larvitz Blog
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My AI adoption journey
Art of Roads in Games
GitHub Agentic Workflows | GitHub Agentic Workflows
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Nice Select · February 3, 2026
What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems - Ian Duncan
Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models. (Latent Space) [Another article critical of AI written by AI - she last pasted excerpt]
six thoughts on generating c — wingolog
Moltbook was peak AI theater | MIT Technology Review
GitHub - jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock: Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock.
Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built
Bluesky Map
Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding
Sheldon Brown-Bicycle Technical Information
OpenClaw Is Changing My Life | Reorx’s Forge
ClawHub
The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday - Cam Pedersen
CCC vs GCC - Harshanu
Last Week on My Mac: Why E cores make Apple silicon fast – The Eclectic Light Company
The Anthropic Hive Mind. As you’ve probably noticed, something… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
A Benchmark for Evaluating Outcome-Driven Constraint Violations in Autonomous AI Agents
It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data
I 3D-print whistles now, and you can too | The Verge
dimartarmizi/web-flight-simulator: A browser-based arcade flight simulator using Three.js and CesiumJS, focused on fast-paced flight experience over real-world terrain.
Etymology of "Foo"
GitHub - google/langextract: A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
ReMemory - Split a recovery key among friends
GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Eight more months of agents
The Toughest Sell: A Founder's Guide to Startup Exits | Derek Yan
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters | Substack | The Guardian
Living Wage Calculator - Introduction to the Living Wage Calculator
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show - YouTube
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Don't Get Distracted
The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most | TechCrunch
Welcome to the Room | Jeffrey Snover's blog
afterglow by christinegrrl (Adult, 7,902 words)
Global Temperature Dashboard
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The marionette theater of AI
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday | Hacker News
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Understanding Neural Network, Visually
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LiftKit: The Universal Design System for Modern UI's by Chainlift
Flood fill vs. the magic circle
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either | The New Yorker
Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!
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Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents | Hacker News
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts | Reuters
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
Discord Alternatives, Ranked | Hacker News
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One — Smashing Magazine
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What, then, are we paying for? | Quinn Keast
DOJ Deleted an Epstein Prosecution Memo About Possible Co-Conspirators. We Saved It.

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Southern equipment co on mangum for lease
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NC Board of Elections taking public comments on new voter roll rules (citizenship challenges) - worth looking into and commenting on
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Lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found
Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same
These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test
Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block
6 Fishermen Reel In a 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut, Setting a Local Record
At a Bonobo’s ‘Tea Party,’ Scientists Find Hints of Imagination
Rare Deep-Sea Giant Phantom Jellyfish Sighting Is Recorded on Video
Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges
Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding
‘Galileo’ Musical, Starring Raúl Esparza, Will Open on Broadway
Dr. Oz Says Drinking Is a ‘Social Lubricant.’ Some Experts Worry About That.
Seals Are Recruited to Study the Ocean Under Antarctic Glaciers
A Gray Wolf’s Visit to Los Angeles County Is a First in Nearly a Century
Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests
How Are Health Care Costs Affecting You?
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.
Can Mountain Lions Survive as Humans Close In? California Is Trying to Find a Way.
Hims & Hers Withdraws Knockoff Weight-Loss Pill After Regulatory Scrutiny
Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change
TrumpRx: What to Know About Insurance Benefits, Pricing and Savings
Studying Antarctica’s Ice From the Side of a Helicopter
Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Legal Battles
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots
TrumpRx, the President’s Online Drugstore, Opens for Business
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels
He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
Dozens of Earthquakes Have Rattled San Ramon, California
F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on ‘Naturally Derived’ Dyes
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
Senators Accuse Equifax of ‘Price-Gouging’ Medicaid Programs
Doctors’ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors
F.T.C. Settles With Express Scripts Over High Insulin Prices
Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects

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My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong
What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data
18,000,000 minutes
Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall
Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown
Preserving water under megacities is crucial — and urgent
Publishing less won’t save the research system
Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief
China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead
Public-speaking tips from the experts: what scientists can learn from comics, musicians and actors
Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook
What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized?
Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed
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Daily briefing: The dark side of the battery boom
The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost?
Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people
Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk?
How to deal with the survey-taking AI agents that threaten to upend social science
Author Correction: Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy
Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions
Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant
Universities in exile: displaced scholars count the costs of starting afresh
Daily briefing: Bonobo’s tea party is first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
US applications for prestigious European research grants surge
‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’
Publisher Correction: Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding
Author Correction: PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis
Not just a chip off the old block: nanoparticles reveal odd traits
This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans
These mysterious ridges could be the secret to younger skin
Beetle is locked in to an eternal dance ― with an ant
Daily briefing: Tumours use neurons as hotline to the brain
First ‘practical PhDs’ awarded in China — for products rather than papers
NASA’s latest telescope is a feat of early-career leadership
Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety
Author Correction: Cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes revealed by ribosome profiling
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
A universal concept for melting in mantle upwellings
Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming
Regulatory grammar in human promoters uncovered by MPRA-based deep learning
Biofluid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative dementias
PtdIns(3,5)P2 is an endogenous ligand of STING in innate immune signalling
Atmospheric H2 variability over the past 1,100 years
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models
Discovery Learning predicts battery cycle life from minimal experiments
Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers
Signatures of fractional charges via anyon–trions in twisted MoTe2
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Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis
Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth
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ZFTA–RELA ependymomas make itaconate to epigenetically drive fusion expression
Spin-wave band-pass filters for 6G communication
Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistor
Regulation of STING activation by phosphoinositide and cholesterol
Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
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Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin
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Integrated structural dynamics uncover a new B12 photoreceptor activation mode
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads
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AI research deluge: why one conference is asking authors to rank their own papers

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DNA origami vaccines program antigen-focused germinal centers
Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s
Gapless pangenome analyses reveal fast Brassica rapa subspeciation
Antifibrotic drug finerenone restores fertility in premature ovarian insufficiency
Continental mantle earthquakes of the world
Patchy peptide particles for pH-responsive assembly into liquid crystals or lattices
Atomically resolved two-dimensional amorphous nuclei formed during MoS2 chemical vapor deposition
Zwitterionic organoboron complexes for overcoming the concentration barrier in chemical protein synthesis
Device-independent quantum key distribution over 100 km with single atoms
Silicon cyclopentadienides featuring a nonplanar 6π aromatic Si5 ring
Pentasilacyclopentadienide: A Hückel aromatic species at the border of resonance and equilibrium
Increasing applied pesticide toxicity trends counteract the global reduction target to safeguard biodiversity
Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
Synergy between regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
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Ineffective marine protected areas in Azores
Halt illegal cyber tiger trade in Asia
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Side effects dim hopes for first chikungunya vaccine
Attendance drops at some U.S. conferences, but others hold steady
Lawmakers spend big on home state science projects
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Quantum encryption heralds a hack-proof internet
Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions
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Will Trump’s Order on Housing Help?
Trump Decries a ‘Nation of Renters’ but His New Policy Promotes One
Kalshi and Polymarket Create New Competition for Professional Economists
Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. Investors Are Slow to Back Him.
A Deadly Mass Shooting in Canada, and the Latest on the Search for Nancy Guthrie
9 Killed and 25 Injured in Shootings in Tumbler Ridge, Canada
Students and Teachers Hid in School for Hours During British Columbia Shooting
Canada Launched Major Gun Reforms in 2020 After Its Deadliest Mass Shooting
A Peaceful Mountain Town in Western Canada Is Shaken by Deadly Shooting
The Secret to Happiness May Lie in Our Social Skills
Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video
Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms
After Trump’s Cuts, Some Former Federal Workers Are Now Seeking Office
Fired Former Trump Prosecutor to Run for Congress in Virginia as a Democrat
Revelations in Epstein Files Lead to Resignations and Investigations Around the World
Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors
Trump to Meet Netanyahu in Washington Amid Tensions With Iran
U.S. Brings Dozens of Foreign Military Chiefs to Washington
Iran’s Missile Program Tops Israel’s Concerns as Netanyahu Meets Trump
NATO Is Expected to Step Up Arctic Security. Here’s Why.
Top Border Official Praised Agent Who Shot Chicago Woman, Evidence Shows
Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up
Man Accused of Killing His Father Said He Was on a ‘Mission From God’
Bulgaria Is at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
Hong Kong Activist Anna Kwok’s Father Convicted of National Security Crime
Marc Jacobs Revisits His Heyday
Rachel Scott Wants to Dress the New New York Woman
I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw.
Donald Trump, Pagan King
Paging Dr. Chatbot
Late Night Mines Trump’s Million Mentions in the Epstein Files
Across the South, Residents Grieve for Thousands of Storm-Ravaged Trees
N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Charged With Assault and Misconduct Over 2 Episodes
Murdaugh Takes Appeal of Murder Convictions to South Carolina’s Top Court
California Man Sentenced to 4 Years for Covert Work on China’s Behalf

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What Happened to the Great American Protest Concert?
‘A Lot of Us Have Let Go of the Old Way of Success’
The Eclipse of Dallas
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions
What Mamdani Doesn’t Know About Tenants
The Democrats Aren’t Built for This
I Went to the March for Billionaires
The Grim Paradox of the Nancy Guthrie Case
What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump’s Power
Trump’s Gaza Plans Are Profoundly Unserious
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Wipeout on the Ice
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Where on Earth Is Ashgabat?
The Christian Influencers Protecting Their Peace
What Spielberg, Lucas, and Coppola Got Right
The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft
The Poet Laureate of Madness
The Novel as Extended Op-Ed
The Atlantic’s March Cover: Josh Tyrangiel on AI and the Future of Work—“What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”
The One Tiny Problem With Trump’s Affordability Agenda
Please, Not Another Kennedy
A Foreign Policy Worse Than Regime Change
America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.
Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Midair Celebration

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Home renovation reveals surprising photo under the floor: ‘Hey, that’s my mom’
Police search Arizona property in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her.
Trump administration removes Pride flag from Stonewall gay rights monument
Number of Americans who expect ‘high quality lives’ drops to two-decade low
These hockey players in their 80s are still on the ice: ‘I never quit’

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At least 9 killed, many injured in shootings at Canada school and home
Vance visits Armenia, Azerbaijan as Trump eyes deals in Russia’s sphere
Trump mulls second aircraft carrier off Iran, as Netanyahu flies to D.C. for talks
Trump threatens to block opening of bridge between U.S. and Canada
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Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?
Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
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Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs
The great Chinese EV exodus
Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can’t solve
Free boba and “red envelopes”: China’s AI giants launch marketing blitz for Lunar New Year
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China is running the EV playbook on humanoid robots — and it’s working
China prioritizes investments outside the U.S.

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‘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
Amid White House Scrutiny, Columbia Seeks to Expand Middle East Studies
The Chilling Effect of Student-Visa Vetting
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Few Adjuncts Say Teaching Is Their Primary Source of Income, Study Finds
How Higher Ed Staved Off a Research-Funding Bloodbath — For Now
Conservatives Want Colleges to Speak, Too
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 08, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 11, 2026
Which cities of Nazi-Germany wold have been likely targets for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Urban enslaved Romans often had outside jobs or ran stalls & other businesses for their owner's profit but also a bit for themselves. Were they "given" these jobs/businesses by their owners or were they just cast out into the world & told "find a way to make money or else"?
HBO's Chernobyl shows a bureaucracy bogged down by apparatchiks who are terrified to pass unpleasant truths up the chain, and who are under constant surveillance and threat from the KGB for any hints that they aren't toeing the party line. How accurate is this portrayal to the USSR of the 1980s?
I've gotten into russian civil war lately. Did the whites really fumble that hard or am I missing something?
How "Mongol" was the Yuan Military? What was the proportion of "Traditional Mongol" Military compared to auxiliaries from elsewhere? Was there strict segregation between the forces?
In the 19th century, ballet was perceived as a debased art form and often associated with prostitution. How did it come to be seen as an upper class and elite activity today?
Did the Third Reich really model the Nuremberg laws after the Jim Crow Laws of the US?
Today we often refer to many regime changes as US-backed coups (Chile, Iran, Latin America). But at the time, how were they seen? Did Americans or the people of those countries think these were the US forcing government changes? Or were they seen as just normal coups?
I am a roman citizen. While travelling I have been kidnapped by bandits or pirates and I'm going to be sold as a slave. How do I prove that I am a citizen in this situation?
Did people in Britain (and Europe as a whole) know before WW2 that war was coming? And if so how early was it obvious that war was unavoidable?
Did Romans say the letters when counting?
Realistically did the D-Day landing save Europe from the Soviet steamroller?
How accurate are Debord's claims about the May 1968 unrest in France?
What did the Ottoman Empire's infantry look like in the XVIII century, in comparison to the modernizing armies of the Russian Empire and of Austria?
I'm a wealthy, very devout Catholic living in (what would later become) Italy in the 17th century, and my greatest dream is for my bright young son to one day be elected as Pope. What is the most optimal method that will give my son the highest likelihood of eventually becoming supreme pontiff?
how did cultures that wear little clothing historically avoid constant infection from minor cuts and scrapes on their exposed skin?
Why do mathematicians and navigators measure angles in the opposite direction to each other?
In Chaucer's day, were there scholars who could read Old English?
What was behind Saddam Hussein's decision to invade Iran in 1980? Was there any US involvement/influence in his decision?
After the defeat of Germany but before the defeat of Japan, was the plan to send Allied soldiers from Europe to the Pacific for a possible Japanese invasion? How did soldiers in the European theater feel about potentially being sent to an entirely new war after already "winning" the war in Europe?
Did the Aztec and Maya Have Vinegar?
The opening of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 shows the British East India Co. carrying out mass executions and suspending a litany of rights including right to assembly and trial by peers, habius corpus, etc. Assuming British colonial subjects had such rights, could the EIC actually revoke them?
In the 1953 Disney film, "Peter Pan", the Darling children have a dose of "tonic" prepared for them to take before bed. What kind of health supplementation might a middle-class London family make part of their routine during the turn of the 20th century?

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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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
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.

Open Culture

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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)
The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
David Lynch Remembers Attending the Beatles’ First American Concert in 1964

NYT > Technology

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Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
NLRB Dismisses Case Brought by Fired SpaceX Employees
A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years
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
These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test
After Merging xAI and SpaceX, Elon Musk Hopes He Can Win Over Wall Street
Stellantis’s Shift Away From Electric Cars Will Cost It $26 Billion
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Price Since Trump Was Elected as Crypto Faces Slump
At Ukraine’s Request, Starlink Denies Internet Access to Russian Troops
France’s Raid on X Escalates Trans-Atlantic Showdown Over Social Media
Moltbook Mania Explained
Netflix Leader Pushes Warner Deal Before Skeptical Lawmakers
‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home

NYT > Arts

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Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor and Jacob Elordi at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?
In ‘Soul Power,’ a Fresh Look at the League That Helped Launch Dr. J
Decades of Palestinian History, Told by 3 Films With Awards Hopes
Mike Tirico Went From the Super Bowl to the Olympics on Two Cups of Coffee
Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and the Everyday People Who Made It Authentic
‘Galileo’ Musical, Starring Raúl Esparza, Will Open on Broadway
In ‘Love Story,’ Sarah Pidgeon Has Big Stilettos to Fill
Broadway’s Great Imitators, Now on TikTok
What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?
The Artist Nick Cave Couches His Critique in Dazzle
Inside Danny L Harle’s Synthetic Universe
Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Review: A History Lesson Full of Puerto Rican Pride
The Book Jackets Were Ready. Then Charlie Kirk Was Shot.
Late Night Mines Trump’s Million Mentions in the Epstein Files
Hudson Talbott Dies at 76; Wrote and Illustrated Wide-Ranging Children’s Books
Gabor Boritt, Refugee Who Became Expert on Lincoln, Dies at 86
13 Transcendent Beatles Covers by Black Musicians
Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files
Philippe Gaulier, Clown Who Taught Actors Like Sacha Baron Cohen, Dies at 82
Jon Stewart Defends Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
Catherine O’Hara Died From Pulmonary Embolism, Death Certificate Says
‘The All-American Halftime’ Featured an Electric Anthem Unlike Hendrix’s
Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra Illuminates Mahler’s Third
Like Fireworks: When Masters of Tap and Kathak Dance Meet
A YouTuber’s Film Beat ‘Melania’ at the Box Office. Here’s How.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Best and Worst Moments
They Carry a Cake Onstage, and Share Dumplings Off
‘Love Story,’ Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Takeaways and Best Moments
The Child in Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was an Actor
Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime
Turning Point USA’s Halftime Show Pays Tribute to Charlie Kirk
Green Day Condemns ICE as Part of Super Bowl Festivities
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Key Moments on Bad Bunny’s Path to the Super Bowl Halftime Show
DGA Winners 2026: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar Momentum Builds
Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
Brad Arnold, Rocker Who Fronted 3 Doors Down, Dies at 47
Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir
Ejae, Sombr: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
‘Send Help’ and Other Great Movies About Castaways
5 Super Bowl Halftime Shows That Sparked Controversies
This ‘Summer House’ Star Loves to Eat Like a Child
Super Bowl Halftime Is the World’s Biggest Stage. He Designs It.
Partying With Charli XCX at Sundance After Premiere of ‘The Moment’
‘Melania’ and the Real Housewives of Washington
Body of Nathan Smith, Lil Jon’s Son, Found in Georgia Pond, Police Say
White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display
These ceremonies have a tough act to follow: Italy’s last Olympics spectacle.
Review: Alexei Ratmansky, Ballet’s King of Comedy, Fights Back
Timothy Busfield Is Indicted on Charges of Child Sexual Abuse
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Is There No True Knight?
Five International Movies to Stream Now
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
The 2026 Super Bowl Ads, Ranked
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
Bad Bunny’s All-American, All-Spanish, All-Eyes-on-Him Super Bowl Halftime Show
‘High Spirits’ Review: A Ghostly Delight From Encores!
Farewell, Pocket Books
‘Queen of Chess’ Review: The Surprising Story of a Grandmaster

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Now, it is perfect✨✨
The Long Overdue Himalayan Mega Earthquake
Which city is more geographically constrained ? LA by mountains and basin, or NYC by water and islands?
Why does India get so hot compared to southern China ? Is it the Himalayas blocking cold fronts ? They have 35 degrees in February in a relatively north latitude
Is there any reason there is such a abnormaly massive jump between the third and second most populated countries or is it just arbitrary?
Remarkably one island one nation, How did this current situation come about?
To people who've done so, how does the experience of living in a humid subtropical city compare to living in a legitimately tropical city? How big of a difference, weather-wise is it and which was worse?
Why does Sudan claim this piece of Lake Nubia?
So how is a metropolitan area defined? Vibes?
Why did the engineers who built the bridge between Denmark and Sweden decide to ignore this island instead of taking advantage of it?
Dubai vs Las Vegas: Which city’s infrastructure is better designed to handle extreme summer heat?
Strange Belgium Cycle Path in Germany
Why is the form of rural settlement of Ethiopia so much more different than in most other countries?
Built-up (or lived) population density of some European countries in 2011
Why don't more people live in northern New Zealand, with its incredibly mild climate?
Some common misconceptions about China, India, and Korea
Unmarked island in the Russian area of the Arctic Circle
Every country in the world… named in ONE minute
Political Divisions Mentioned by Bad Bunny during the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show
A discovery was made of an expanding society with pyramids, moats, and "forest islands" that flourished between 500 and 1400 AD in the Bolivian Amazon. What happened to these societies in the Amazon? Why is there so much mystery surrounding them?
Lewis & Clark Expedition compared to the Two Ocean Pass?
Why does Singapore have a larger GDP than the whole of the Philippines while only having 6 million people Vs 114 million?
What happened to the old USGS maps that were available before the new software was introduced
Why does Turkish geography resemble Spanish geography more than Italian and Greek geography?

The Public Domain Review

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Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

The Quietus

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The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Karshni – Buck Wild
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
Outer Waves Confirms 2026 Return for Second Edition
Ricardo Villalobos, Underground Resistance and More Rework Sun Ra Arkestra on New Compilation
Clock DVA Unveil ‘Thirst’ Reissue
Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums
The Strange World Of… Crypt of the Wizard
Shackleton – Euphoria Bound
Xylitol Reveals New Album, ‘Blumenfantasie’, for Planet Mu
Arca Shares Remix of Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’
Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Bloody Head – Bend Down And Kiss The Ground
The January Subscriber Playlist is Here!
Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed

Bandcamp Updates

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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”
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

dusted

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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)
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)

Pitchfork

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Kim Gordon Resists “Dirty Tech” in New Video
A Sofia Kourtesis DJ Kicks Is on the Way
Piss in the Wind
Do You Still Love Me?
Paleo Sol
blue fifty-six
White Fence Announce First Album in Seven Years
Watch Charli XCX in First Trailer for New Movie Erupcja
Baby Keem Details New Album Ca$ino, Announces 2026 Tour
Wednesday Leave Wasserman Over CEO’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Lip Critic Announce New Album and Tour, Share Video for New Song
Muna Announce First Album in Four Years, Share Song
The Black Keys Line Up Massive 2026 Tour
Devo Add Yet More Tours to Their 2026 Slate
Jimmy Eat World Plot Bleed American Anniversary Tour
Los Thuthanaka’s Chuquimamani-Condori Releases New EP, Luzmila Edits
As of Now
The Fall-Off
Love Is Not Enough
Dirt Buyer III
Chappell Roan Exits Wasserman Music Agency Due to CEO’s Epstein Emails
Feng Announces Debut Album Weekend Rockstar
“There Goes My Heart”
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
10 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Greg Brown, Cake Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dies at 56
Anna Calvi Announces EP, Shares New Video with Iggy Pop
Jonny Greenwood Wants His Music Pulled From the Melania Movie
Anata
The Boy who cried Terrified .

Cool Tools

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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
Maintenance manifesto / Funeral for a tree / Budget earbuds
Book Freak #195: Eight Million Ways to Happiness

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?
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