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As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
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Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico)
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)
China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia)
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times)
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)

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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!

MetaFilter Projects

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'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
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
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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

Open Culture

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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)
Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More
Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did

NYT > Technology

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OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins
Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s Dance With the Pentagon: What to Know
‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?
From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101
The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.
How $800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes
Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit
Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power
Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm
Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles
OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder
Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators.
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners

NYT > Arts

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Bill Lawrence’s TV Empire Is Built on Humor and Heart
Conductor Andris Nelsons Has Become a Cautionary Tale
A Washington Museum Zeros In on the Watergate Scandal
Bobby Cannavale Loves ‘Heated Rivalry’ and His Bearded Dragon
Sturgill Simpson, Olivia Rodrigo: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
When Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Ended, Concern for Her Did Not
Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Olympic Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body’
Top National Symphony Leader Quits in New Blow to Kennedy Center
Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet
For the Friars, a Sad Sale of Their Club’s Last Vestiges
Inside Harry Styles’s ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’ With Kid Harpoon
Bob Power on His Work on A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Low End Theory’
Chris Fleming: Is This the Funniest Special of the Year So Far?
Three 6 Mafia on Their Oscars Win, 20 Years Later
Tatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Found Fame in His Last Decade, Dies at 99
I Make Connections. Here’s What I’m Actually Thinking.
Book Review: ‘Stories,’ by Helen Garner
Alan Trustman, Who Wrote ‘Bullitt’ and ‘Thomas Crown Affair,’ Dies at 95
Boston Symphony Abruptly Ends Andris Nelsons’ Contract
Jeremy Larner, Who Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic, Dies at 88
A Philharmonic Conductor’s Concerts Surprise, for Better and Worse
From 1999: Charlotte Perriand, Designer, Is Dead at 96
From 2001: Aaliyah, 22, Singer Who First Hit the Charts at 14
From 2014: Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86
From 1983: Karen Carpenter, 32, Is Dead; Singer Teamed With Brother
From 2007: Anna Nicole Smith Dies at 39
From 1995: Grammy-Winning Singer Selena Killed in Shooting at Texas Motel
From 1962: Brilliant Stardom and Personal Tragedy Punctuated the Life of Marilyn Monroe
From 1981: Death Ends a 39-Year Career, Starting With Child Roles at 4
From 1992: Marlene Dietrich, 90, Symbol of Glamour, Dies
From 2019: Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88
From 1969: Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead
From 1977: Maria Callas, 53, Is Dead of Heart Attack in Paris
From 2005: Ruth Clement Bond, 101, Quilter and Civic Leader, Is Dead
From 2010: Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Black Lives, Dies at 73
From 1967: Dorothy Parker, Literary Wit, Dies at Age 73
From 1992: Audre Lorde, 58, a Poet, Memoirist and Lecturer, Dies
From 1959: Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence
From 2011: Amy Winehouse, British Soul Singer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 27
From 2019: Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Dies at 90
From 2000: Hedy Lamarr, Sultry Star Who Reigned in Hollywood
From 1960: Zora Hurston, 57, Writer, Is Dead
From 2018: Aretha Franklin, Indomitable ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76
From 1975: Josephine Baker Is Dead in Paris at 68
From 2006: Oriana Fallaci, Incisive Italian Journalist, Is Dead at 77
From 1961: Anna May Wong Is Dead at 54; Actress Won Movie Fame in ’24
From 1975: Hannah Arendt, Political Scientist, Is Dead at 69
From 2003: Leni Riefenstahl, Filmmaker and Nazi Propagandist, Dies at 101
Five International Movies to Stream Now
Batman and Daredevil Artist Klaus Janson Flies Solo in Gallery Show
A Fast-Rising American Director Is Wowing the West End
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
A Film That Makes a Strong Argument for the Value of Debate
‘War Machine’ Review: On the Fritz
Late Night Isn’t Sad to See Kristi Noem Leave Homeland Security
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap: Family Separation
Wallace Shawn’s ‘What We Did Before Our Moth Days’ Is Purgatory Done Right
Art Gallery Shows to See in March
António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83
Pokémon Company Objects to White House’s Political Memes

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What city is this? Spotted on the way from London to Istanbul.
Does anyone know why most of the nuclear power plants in the USA are in the east of the country ?
Why is the population of Italy declining so much?
What are the most extreme highway drives in the world? This is G318, Sichuan, China
Spotted in Northwestern Territories
Lots of metro areas have great parks and nature. Which ones definitely don't?
Why don’t you find Swamp like this image in Florida?
Found this interesting
What countries will be least affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz?
The Ireland-Scotland Platform
What are some natural wonders or distinct landmarks that no longer exist?
Are there any extraordinary factor why Reunion Island (of France) 🇷🇪🇫🇷 possess so many Rivers and Streams?
Does Republika Srpska have the right to secede from Bosnia?
Spotted all these lights in the ocean off the Kuril Islands on a flight back from Japan. Ships? Oil? Atlantis?
Why didn't the South Korean government develop Busan into a major urban center like Seoul?
Thinking of majoring in geography. What are some good ways to learn more about it before taking classes?
Why do both the southern and northern pacific coasts of the americas have this kind of fractured, archipelago-like coastline? is there any relationship or is it just a coincidence?
What if there were no Himalayas ? How would it have changed the course of time and what would have been the effects on people from the surrounding region ?
Mapa da expansão territorial da Sérvia e Montenegro durante o século XIX, até 1913.
Very interesting square borders on south east side of Navajo Nation (USA)
For anyone who still gets confused about Latitude and Longitude...
What is this kind of island formation called and how was it formed?
Human Geo for Beginner
Christ the Redeemer scale

The Public Domain Review

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
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)

The Quietus

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More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
Fugazi Share Previously Unreleased Recordings Made Alongside Steve Albini
The White Hotel Adds Kali Malone, Klein and More to Lineup for Blackpool Festival
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
Shabaka – Of The Earth
Justin K. Broadrick Halts Godflesh Live Shows Following Abdominal Surgery
Carla dal Forno to Release New Album, ‘Confession’
Aldous Harding Details New Album, ‘Train On The Island’
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50
Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah
Ragger – Euphonic Sounds
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years
Green Man Unveils Lineup for 2026 Edition
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30
Out of this World: SHERELLE’s Favourite Records
GENA – The Pleasure Is Yours
Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild
Loraine James Details New Album, ‘Detached From The Rest Of You’
DJ Marcelle to Take DJing Hiatus After Heart Attack
Arca, Mark Pritchard and More Rework Nine Inch Nails for ‘TRON: Ares’ Remix Album
Guest Playlist: Alexis Taylor
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58
London to Get New 2,300-Capacity Music Venue in Late 2027
Berlin Atonal and Unsound to Collaborate on New Event, The Infinite Now
Your February Catch-up Playlist is Here
Radiohead Tell ICE to “Go Fuck Yourselves” in Social Media Dispute
Bong II – This Time It’s Personnel
The Early – I Want To Be Ready
Behind NME Lines: The 1990s Through The Lens of Martyn Goodacre
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of February 2026
Reissue Of The Week: Circle X’s Prehistory

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
Various Artists, “HELP(2)”
Essential Releases, March 6th, 2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026
The Tape Label Report, February 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026
Shabaka, “Of The Earth”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026
NIMF, “Sirenoscape”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58”
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move”
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya”
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea
Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun”
The Women of Detroit House
Midori Hirano, “ OTONOMA”
The Bug Remembers
Big Ups: Gorillaz Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Chris Crack, “Too Late to Start Following the Rules Now”
Steve Shelley’s Sonic Afterlife
Hen Ogledd, “DISCOMBOBULATED”
Essential Releases, February 20, 2026
Carpenter Brut Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
The Past, Present, and Future of Dance Music in D.C.
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto, “Paper Masks”
More Bands Left Behind By Streaming

dusted

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Listed: Department
What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free)
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Iron & Wine — Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)
Michael Pisaro-Liu / Forming — Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Sawyer Editions)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World)
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination)
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City)
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records)
Various Artists — Music From The Mountain People Of Central Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies)
Dog Chocolate — So Inspired So Done In (Upset the Rhythm)
Vorago — Morulus (Amor Fati)
Abronia — Shapes Unravel (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
rest symbol — s/t (AN1MA)
Midori Hirano — Otonoma (Thrill Jockey)

Pitchfork

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TRON Ares: Divergence
“Stickerbush Symphony”
Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar Announce New Album and Tour, Share Title Track
Angélique Kidjo Announces Album With Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, and More
Fugazi Unearth Shelved Steve Albini Sessions for New Charity Album
Honey Dijon Drops New Track “Just Friends”
Nettspend Drops New Album Early Life Crisis
5 Takeaways From Harry Styles’ New Album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Harry Styles, Johnny Blue Skies, and More
Harry Styles Releases New Album: Listen and Read the Full Credits
Live at Third Man Records
In My Dreams
Autechre Guitar
Dreamers in Exile
“One of Those”
Anne Hathaway’s New Song “Burial” Does Not Feature Burial
Justin Broadrick Says Godflesh Will End Soon Due to Doctor’s Orders
Bill Callahan Is Coming to a Record Store Near You
The Pleasure Is Yours
Nondi…
My Name
Rockie
Ekko Astral Postpone Album Release, Won’t Play Liberation Weekend II
Listen to Cash Cobain’s New Song “Wish”
Bruce Johnston Leaves Beach Boys After Six Decades
Hammok Sign to Sargent House, Announce New Album
Smerz Announce Spring and Summer 2026 Tour Dates
GENA Announce Tour of North America and United Kingdom
Octo Octa Returns With First Album in 7 Years
Aldous Harding Announces New Album Train on the Island

Cool Tools

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Book Freak #199: Thinking in Systems
Ski Coat Sales/Delayed Luggage Tactics/Another United Devaluation
What’s in my NOW? — Amanda McClendon
Smuggler’s Cove / Hieronymous Bosch
E-Books
Free sports TV / Hot and cold face wand / Best pencil
Book Freak #198: How We Know What Isn’t So
Best Hotel Values/Reserved Seat Tactics/Fastest-growing Tourism Destinations
What’s in my NOW? — Eric Goebelbecker
The Art of Finding Dory / Jellyfish: A Natural History

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
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

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Shack Sauce
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce)
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread)
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale
What is Sumac?
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not)
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
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