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A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)
Beaconcha.in: a record ~36M ethereum tokens, or 30% of ethereum's total supply, worth ~$119B, are now staked, as institutional investors grow their share (Sage D. Young/Sherwood News)
Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow (Sherwood News)
Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)

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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail - Lalit Maganti
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AddyOsmani.com - How to write a good spec for AI agents
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Personal Intelligence: Connecting Gemini to Google apps
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Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Begins Rolling Giant Rocket to Launchpad
If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should
NASA Astronauts Return to Earth After Medical Evacuation From International Space Station
For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts
Toby Kiers, World Champion of Mycorrhizal Fungus
What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction
The Sea Lions of the Galápagos Are Not Ready to Give Up Mother’s Milk
Why This Fish Actually Needs a Hole in the Head
This Dinosaur Really Knew How to Get a Grip
Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Explain the Cosmos, Dies at 80
3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People
World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law
No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a New Study Finds
Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shielded From Lawsuits
Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Project Can Continue, Judge Rules
For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much?
Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules
U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments
Who is left on the International Space Station?
How NASA deals with astronauts’ medical needs on the I.S.S.
What happens during the astronauts’ return to Earth?
Is it risky to fly a sick astronaut home to Earth?
Kaiser Permanente Agrees to Pay $556 Million to Settle Medicare Overbilling Claims
NASA Begins Astronaut Space Station Medical Evacuation: What to Know
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Extreme Weather Events Hit Around the World in 2025
E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines
Initial Obamacare Enrollment Drops by 1.4 Million as Expiring ACA Subsidies Drive Up Premiums
Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
A Scientific Expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier Deals With Weather Hiccups
U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
Psilocybin Leads in Psychedelic Medicine, but Rollout Is Bumpy
China’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ Thinks Time Is on His Side
Trump Cuts to Energy Projects in Blue States Were Unlawful, Judge Rules
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Stop Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind Project
F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds
Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet
Is Grass-Fed Beef Better?
New Children’s Vaccine Schedule May Not Be the Last of RFK Jr.’s Big Changes
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Louisiana’s Eroding Coast

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Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking
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AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope
Retraction Note: Antibodies against endogenous retroviruses promote lung cancer immunotherapy
Mosaic lateral heterostructures in two-dimensional perovskite
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
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Exciplex-enabled high-efficiency, fully stretchable OLEDs
Direct observation of the Migdal effect induced by neutron bombardment
Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment
Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons
A foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring data
3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators
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Disease tolerance and infection pathogenesis age-related tradeoffs in mice
Global subsidence of river deltas
Enriching African genome representation through the AGenDA project
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays
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The ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 drives resistance to CD8+ T cell dysfunction
N1-Methylpseudouridine directly modulates translation dynamics
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Ultra-high-throughput mapping of genetic design space
Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of mammalian metabolites
CFAP20 salvages arrested RNAPII from the path of co-directional replisomes
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus
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Sub-zero Celsius elastocaloric cooling via low-transition-temperature alloys
Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing
AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole
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LLMs behaving badly: mistrained AI models quickly go off the rails
Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat
Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
How ageing harms the body’s response to raging infection
Ice age wolf pup’s stomach yields rare DNA from woolly rhino
Stretchy organic LED devices with an ‘exciplex’ state are highly efficient
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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility
Genomic clues to the origin of eukaryotic cells
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A sudden change and recovery in the magnetic environment around a repeating fast radio burst
Nucleotide metabolic rewiring enables NLRP3 inflammasome hyperactivation in obesity
Macrophage MR1 antigen presentation promotes MAIT cell immunity and lung microbiota modulation
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A hierarchical shell locks and stabilizes perovskite nanocrystals with near-unity quantum yield
Chronic low-dose exposure to chlorpyrifos reduces life span in a wild fish by accelerating aging
Deep-learning analysis of 3D microarchitectural remodeling in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Complex mesoscale landscapes beneath Antarctica mapped from space
Characterizing transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights
Transforming mental health research and care through artificial intelligence
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Trump Announces New Tariffs on Some European Countries in Greenland Standoff
Black Women Turn to One Another as Their Career Paths Suddenly Recede
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Will the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Be Prosecuted?
The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE: A Street-Level View
After Renee Good’s Killing, Some Conservatives Scorn Liberal Women
Before Criticizing Pro-Hamas Chants, Mamdani Sought Jewish Leaders’ Input
Mamdani Appoints New Parks Commissioner to Oversee NYC Green Spaces
A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.
Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere
AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era
One Year In, Trump’s Attack on American Justice is Accelerating
As Office Rents Rise, Doctors Get Creative
World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law
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The Surprising Relationship Between Happiness and Intelligence
Trump’s Mixed Messages
My Students Write Their Papers Backwards
America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster
The End of the Underdog in College Football
The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men
‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’
The Ex-President Who Went to Prison
What’s Going on With the Epstein Files?
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Shivers on the Shore
Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump
Trump’s Fateful Choice in Iran
The Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Grok
Taking the Internet Novel Offline
The Unspeakable, Enabled
The Silence of the Left on Iran
Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children
Photos of the Week: Icy Dip, Resting Goose, Campaign Bear
The Question That the Lawyers Representing Trans Athletes Didn’t Answer
Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off
High January Was Bound to Happen
How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption
The Sacrifice of the Danes
A Tipping Point in Online Child Abuse
For Trump, Everything Is an Existential Threat

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March led by pardoned Jan. 6 rioter in Minneapolis ends in scuffle
Colorado’s wolves in the political crosshairs as Trump targets the state
Minneapolis judge bars DHS agents from arresting peaceful protesters
Trump administration won’t seize wages and tax refunds for defaulted student loans
Family of man shot by ICE in Minneapolis disputes key aspects of DHS account
What’s to blame for political violence? Here’s what Americans say.
Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says
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Trump announces tariffs on European countries opposing Greenland takeover
In Iran crisis, Trump confronted limits of U.S. military power
In Denmark, U.S. lawmakers contradict Trump on Greenland
Trump names Kushner, Rubio, Blair to Gaza board; Israel objects to lineup
RFK Jr.-backed infant vaccine study in Africa to proceed despite backlash, U.S. says
Ugandan ruler Museveni wins seventh term to extend 40-year rule
Thousands prayed for a new Venezuela. One mother pleaded for her son’s release.
E.U., spurred by Trump, to sign mega free-trade deal with South America
Trump’s tariffs push Canada and China to strike a deal of their own
U.S. says seizing Venezuelan oil hurts its foes. How dependent are they?
With Maduro in U.S. custody, his lieutenants warm to Trump
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Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives
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Uganda shuts down internet two days before election
Tesla is losing the EV race. Its stock keeps winning
Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry
Why India’s plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global
BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla
AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages
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When Robert P. George Was Offered the U. of Florida Presidency
GOP’s Civics-Education Push Gets Boost With Millions From Trump’s NEH
Four Scholars Agree, Disagree, and Agree to Disagree on Viewpoint Diversity
A New Dean Was Hired. Then Lawmakers Found Out She'd Signed a Legal Brief About Trans Athletes.
The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp
The Viewpoint-Diversity Debate Misunderstands Science
Can This Man Quiet the Controversy at Michigan's Flagship?
At Least 26 Faculty Members Faced Scrutiny for Charlie Kirk Comments. Here’s What Happened Next.
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How true is the joke "The presence of Chocolate in Frozen (2013) means they participated in the trans-atlantic slave trade"?
When did we stop adding new surnames?
How long did "business as usual" carry on in Germany during the third reich?
French roosters say cocorico, German ones kikiriki, English ones cock-a-doodle-doo, and Palestinian ones kukuriku. But in Vietnam they say ò ó o and in the Philippines tik-tilá-ok. What did the Latin roosters of classical Rome say, and if I walked across the empire, would I observe a change?
Are there any “rags to riches” cases in the Middle Ages? How easy was it for a commoner to acquire power or wealth and change status?
[META] Is it possible to answer a previously unanswered question that has been archived?
Why was Chiang Kai-shek so lenient toward Japan?
What did medieval people think of the roman empire?
Did military personnel from the American South ever resent being called “Yankees”?
Did Old Hollywood stars really just "get discovered" randomly by studios?
Were the names of Native Americans so obvious even to their own ears? Or were they normalized by usage?
'The New York Times' recently called Chinese scientist He Jiankui the 'new Dr. Frankenstein' due to his "unethical human experiments". How was Dr. Frankenstein seen when 'Frankenstein' was first published in 1818?
Was Gaddafi as bad as the Establishment said?
The full court martial trial video of military commander Xu Qinxian, who refused orders to mobilize on student protestors in 1989 Tiananmen Square, was leaked in 2025. He was actually VERY defiant on camera during the trial. Do we know why he was not executed by the CCP?
What would be the buying power of 7 Guineas a week in 1780?
How is The Mexican Revolution taught about in Mexico?
Was kingship actually ever thrust upon someone?
Did the Inca and Aztec empires have at least a vague awareness of each other?
Why was the Black Death in the 14th Century so much deadlier than later bubonic plague outbreaks?
Why weren't the Japanese tried for crimes against humanity in the tokyo trials?
In 1848 Louisiana passed a law that said any babies born to Black women with life sentences would become property of the state and auctioned off to the highest bidder. How many pregnant Black women were being given life sentences that this needed to be made a law?
Who are the modern descendants of the Scythians?
Could we be in World War III and not know it?

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Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
Modern Kohistani languages are the closest living match to ancient Gāndhārī — Jakob Halfmann (2024)
New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)
A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022)
Q&A weekly thread - December 29, 2025 - post all questions here!
Grammar of the Carapana language (1981) [Spanish]
Lihir Language Organised Phonology Data (2002)
Kaskean. A new recorded language in the archives of Ḫattuša?
Site about online dictionaries of languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan etc.)
Q&A weekly thread - December 22, 2025 - post all questions here!
Death of Lars Johanson (8 Mar 1936 - 24 Nov 2025)
To the sign language experts here: researchers help create signs related to mental health terminology in Bangla Sign Language. Can I get a linguist's perspective?
The Attentional Optimization Hypothesis
Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
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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
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The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy
Halloween costume: the night sky
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025

Open Culture

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MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV
Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old
Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
When Pianist Maria João Pires Prepared to Perform the Wrong Mozart Concerto, Then Recovered Miraculously
“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir
Trevor Noah Explains How Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Pottery, Helped Him Overcome Life’s Tragedies
Can Genius Be Taught? The Polgár Sisters and the Experiment That Put the Question to the Test
Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)
The Ancient Tool Used in Japan to Strengthen Memory & Focus: The Abacus
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related

NYT > Technology

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How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online
Battles Over Truth Rage Online Amid Iran’s Internet Blackout
A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Trump and States Aim to Stop A.I. From Inflating Energy Bills
State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy
Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington
Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok
OpenAI Teams Up With Cerebras in Chip Maker Deal
California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofits Say
Microsoft Pledges to Pay More for Electricity, Drawing Praise From Trump
Can We Build a Better Social Network?
Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images
Follow Ian McKellen Into the Mixed Reality Future in ‘An Ark’

NYT > Arts

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Could Marcello Hernández Be the Next ‘SNL’ Cast Member to Become a Superstar?
How a Play Skewering Modern Russia Evaded a Crackdown to Become a Hit
A ‘Weird, Wonderful’ Night at the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’
With ‘Sinners’ and ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,’ Jack O’Connell Is in His Villain Era
Rebecca Hall Is OK With Her Cats Waking Her at All Hours
Mitski, Flea: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review: Go Westeros, Young Man
‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel, Explores Dunk and Egg
After an Earthquake, Preserving a Slow Craft in a Fast World
ASAP Rocky Grew Up, Settled Down (with Rihanna) and Returned to Rap
Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center
‘The Disappear’ Review: A Couple on the Rocks and Out of Sync
Viva the Absurd: ‘What to Wear’ and a Wave of Opera Surrealism
Washington National Opera Finds a Stage Outside Kennedy Center Amid Trump Tensions
Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93
Prize Fight
Photographing the Golden Globes Winners
As Kennedy Center Rebrands It’s Mired in Black Tape
Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75
Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize
Julio Iglesias Denies Sexual Abuse Claims by Former Employees
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Eat the Rich’: Cambridge Was a Culture Shock. She’s Getting the Last Laugh.
Five Free Movies to Stream Now
10 Steamy Books Like ‘Heated Rivalry’
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
‘Seeds’ Review: Farms and a Way of Life Hang in the Balance
Seth Meyers Never Guessed Trump Was Such a Milk Fan
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dirty Work
‘The Rip’ Review: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Star in Cop Thriller
Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs
Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020
Harvey Pratt, Who Designed the Native American Veterans Memorial, Dies at 84
John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93
In ‘Sons of Echo’ Male Dancers March to Female Choreographers’ Beat
Tessa Thompson in ‘Hedda,’ and More Theater to Stream
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas
Bob Weir Is Gone, but the Dead’s Music Plays On
‘Riot Women’ Review: Women of a Certain Rage
Holly Hunter Reaches for the Stars
‘Queen Kelly’ Review: His Majesty, Von Stroheim
He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day.
As Megadeth Counts Down to Extinction, Dave Mustaine Opens Up
White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Rousseau
‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Machine Yearning
‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Fortress of Feminine Mysteries
‘Shuffle’ Review: The Real Price of Rehab
‘A Private Life’ Review: Jodie Foster Uncovers a Twisty Plot in Paris
‘Night Patrol’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the Night
‘Deepfaking Sam Altman’ Review: Altmanesque
Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries
‘All You Need Is Kill’ Review: It Doesn’t Bear Repeating
‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Sympathy for the Devil
Colbert Jokes That Trump Has Found ‘a New National Bird’
Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Director Who Gave Theater a Free-Spirited Spin
Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook
Star Seize Chance to Speak Out at Night Honoring Leonardo DiCaprio
Applying Richard Foreman’s Off-Kilter Aesthetic (and Ducks) to Opera
Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend
Jim McBride Dies at 78; Brought Honky-Tonk Back to Country Music
Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch
Want Your MTV? A Rogue Site Is Bringing Back the Videos.

Geography

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What country is very different from its group/relatives?
Why is the Japonic language family only spoken in Japan?
Correction: Colombia is the country most similar to Brazil, and it's not even close
Why is Kansas well known despite its relatively smaller population? (neighboring Missouri is more than twice the population, but often obscure)
Why isn’t Transnistria called Transdniestria (For the Dnestr)?
Japan's Population Change (1990-2020) visualizes the correlation between topography (73% mountainous) and unipolar urban concentration. Map by Milos Makes Maps (@milosmakesmaps)
Spotted in Tbilisi, Georgia at 41,7964500, 44,8248132. Can't imagine how much time this person spent writing those kind words
What are some languages that are geographically isolated from the rest of their language family?
What exactly is the iraq-kurdistan region border origin? (What is it based on)
how culturally similar are these cities?
Which cities’ airports most represent their cities'/region’s cultural geography?
Why do some countries have their most expensive suburbs near the CBD, while others have them far from the CBD?
Where is everyone from, where are you currently living, and what do you like about that area?
The American Atlas (Map #20 : Florida Peninsula)
Which countries do you think will be the most geographically important/valuable in the next 50 years?
Snow forecast in Greece this weekend. Pindus mountain range completely blocks the snow reaching the western part of the country
What are some ecosystems and/or animals from your country? They can be endemic or native only.
What other countries besides New Zealand have retained their indigenous culture?
Trade routes of the Caddo people.
Native NYer here. What are some myths/bad takes you have seen about the city you currently live in?
The Auckland Islands, about 465 km south of mainland NZ, has an extremely consistent mild temperature. It's habour has never exceeded 19 degrees C, or subceeded -2.5 degrees. Is there any other places with such a consistent mild climate?
Why do the two Koreas have opposite gender ratios?
What would the world be like it north America was titled 90 degrees.
The reason why Warsaw has some of Europe's most modern skylines is because the Nazis destroyed 90% of the city and killed/expelled almost 1 million citizens. What's another city that was successfully rebuilt and is now beautiful?
Tristan da Cunha: Most isolated inhabited island in the world 🌋

The Public Domain Review

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Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

The Quietus

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Covers Album of the week: Xiu Xiu’s Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1
Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on
Craven Faults – Sidings
The Strange World Of… Free Jazz & Improvised Music
Organic Intelligence LII: Treasures of the Basque Country
Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum
Ljubljana Festival MENT Reveals Full Lineup for 2026 Edition
Bandcamp Announces Ban on AI-Generated Music
Kim Gordon Reveals Third Solo LP, ‘PLAY ME’
Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske Collaborate on New EP, ‘At Source’
Time Of Your Life: Mike Dirnt’s Favourite Albums
Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X
Sunn O))) Unveil Self-Titled New Album
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for January
Founding Black Midi Guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin has Died
Robyn Details First Album in Eight Years, ‘Sexistential’
Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic
Low Culture Podcast: Mulholland Drive
Your November & December Playlists are Here
Hey Colossus Announce 15th Album via Short Film
Organic Intelligence LI: Laura Cannell’s Guide to Early-ish Christmas Music
Conversational Improvisational: Stewart Lee & EarthBall get Free
Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of November and December 2025
Mark S. Williamson  – folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out
Shackleton to Release New Album, ‘Euphoria Bound’, Via AD 93
Why Reports of the Death of UK Nightlife are Greatly Exaggerated
Blarke Bayer – The King In Yellow
Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025

Bandcamp Updates

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David Boring Return to a World of Horrors
Essential Releases, January 16, 2026
Emily Scott Robinson, “Appalachia”
Footwork’s New Wave
Xiu Xiu, “Xiu Mutha F—in’ Xiu: Vol. 1”
A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life
Sotomayor, “WABI SABI”
Tall Dwarfs & Hairybreath Monsters: A Chris Knox Bestiary
Kill Ugly Pop: A Guide to Lip Cream
Jersey Club Keeps on Moving
The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
The Best Metal Albums of 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025
The Best Punk Music of 2025
Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons”
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z
Ikonika, “SAD”
Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk”
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L
Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt
Von Pea & The Other Guys, “Putcha Weight On It”
The Tape Label Report, November 2025
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife”
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Iona Zajac, “BANG”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025

dusted

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Spectral Lore — IV (Part 2-Demo) (Self released)
Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz)
The Early — Cusp (Island House)
Morton Feldman — Trios (Another Timbre)
Bruno Duplant & Judith Wegmann — Univers Parallèles: Des Nuits Et Des Jours (Moving Furniture)
Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan)
Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)
Éliane Radigue — Asymptote Versatile (1963-1964) (Amgen)
Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter)
Slept Ons and Listening Pest 2025: Things that we missed and albums that disappointed
2025: Patrick Masterson
Ian Mathers’ 2025: I’m tired, I am dead/If you live it, then you love it
The Year We Need to be Free of Freestyle: Ray Garraty
“That’s Okay, Things Are Going To Be Okay”: Bryon Hayes
Another Year of Pissed-off Music, to Take to the Streets, or Down in the Dirt: Jonathan Shaw
Top 10 of 2025: Tim Clarke
Favorites in 2025: Christian Carey
The Body Breaks: Jennifer Kelly’s 2025 year in review
Happy Holidays from Dusted

Pitchfork

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Watching From a Distance (Reissue)
“Where’s My Phone”
Charli XCX Releases New Song “Wall of Sound”
Moby Preps New Album Future Quiet
7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, A$AP Rocky, and More
Mitski Announces New Album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
Tragic Magic
In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist
Quicksand Heart
Love and Fortune
Watch Gwar Play “Pink Pony Club”
xaviersobased Is Running Back His Riverside Tour
Harry Styles Announces New Album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
Skrillex Surprise-Releases Kora EP
A New Robert Christgau Documentary Will Feature Randy Newman, Thurston Moore, and Boots Riley
Bandcamp Announces Ban on AI Music
Watch the Trailer for Paul McCartney’s Man on the Run Documentary
Aldous Harding to Tour Europe and North America
Shabaka Readies New Album to Launch His Own Record Label
Coke Wave 3.5: Narcos
Raquel Baby
Live
Slutworld
Elucid Announces New Album I Guess U Had to Be There
WU LYF Announce First North American Tour in 14 Years
J. Cole’s The Fall-Off Finally Has a Release Date
C2C Festival Returning to New York With Los Thuthanaka, Nourished by Time, and Arca
Blackpink Sets Release Date for Comeback Album
John Forté, Rapper and Fugees Producer, Dies at 50
Flea Announces Debut Solo Album, Tour, and New Song With Thom Yorke

Cool Tools

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Book Freak #193: How to Decide
Cheapest Flight Destinations/Packable Daypacks/Europe Ski Bargains
What’s in my NOW? — Jeremiah Krage
Woody Guthrie / Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
Game Design
Retro Recomendo: Career
Book Freak #192: Arrow
Busiest Air Routes/Best Headphones/TSA + Staples
What’s in my NOW? — Magnus Ojala
The Wolves of Currumpaw / Sinatra 100

McMansion Hell

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for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven
pre-recession, post-taste

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
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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