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Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
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India tightens its rules on social media content, especially for AI-generated and manipulated material, giving platforms three hours to comply with takedowns (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)
Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like coding, a source says for $275M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and says it will pre-train world models (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
Cadence rolls out ChipStack, an AI agent to help chipmakers like Nvidia speed up the complex chip design process by up to 10x by building a "mental model" (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
How a16z became the dominant influence on Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-official says it has "veto power" (Bloomberg)
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes)
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California proposes a 5% billionaire tax (Wall Street Journal)
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $211M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on 24 standards developed by experts (Ian Duncan/Washington Post)
Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max "super app" (Deana Kjuka/Bloomberg)
xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he "resigned", following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Tencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITDA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M monthly active players (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)

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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Basics
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These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same
These Mathematicians Are Trying to Educate A.I.
Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block
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Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown
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Publisher Correction: Colibactin-driven colon cancer requires adhesin-mediated epithelial binding
Author Correction: PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis
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The Novel as Extended Op-Ed
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 08, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 04, 2026
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?
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?
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?
Why are so many weightlifting exercises named (in English) after Eastern European countries?
Did the Third Reich really model the Nuremberg laws after the Jim Crow Laws of the US?
Why didn't Rome immediately get rid of emperors after Augustus died?
Do we know what Nazis who fled to much more ethnically diverse countries at the end of WWII thought of their daily life in these societies?
The graphic novel Persepolis shows Reza Khan (later Pahlavi) originally wanting Iran to be a republic before the British convince him to be a monarch, which he did in 1925. Is there any truth to this?
Say I am a debutante who's just come out in polite society during the Victorian era marriage season. How would I go about finding a husband? What would my chances of finding a husband be? What would happen if I wasn't successful?
What was the Chinese opinion about the Rites Controversy that was about Chinese Catholic converts perform rites such as ancestor veneration?
What was the Great Depression like in England or even Europe in general?
Do Historians View Western Bathrooms As A Tool of Colonization & Cultural Hegemony?
During the Cold War, how "neutral" were the Neutral and Non-Aligned States of Europe (Finland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia) really?
How did the Grand Canal work throughout China's history? Was it used mostly for economic reasons? Was it ever used for military reason such as transporting troops? Did people ever use it for transportation from city to city?
Tuesday Trivia: Love & Romance! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!
How was Lewis Strauss able to so thoroughly monopolize presidential science advice during the Eisenhower administration?
Was it actually illegal for women to act in early modern England? Or was it more based on social expectation?
Why are the foreign empires (Yuan, Qing) that ruled over China considered "conquest dynasties"? Why are they used in tandem with "China" rather than to describe a different nation or empire altogether?
Myth of American Revolutionaries fighting “from cover” - where does it come from?
From a historical-critical perspective, how do historians explain early belief in Jesus' resurrection?
Ever wonder how Abraham Lincoln became known as an almost-perfect commander-in-chief? I'm Dr. Kenneth W. Noe, a Civil War historian, and I wrote a book on the legend of Lincoln's military prowess. AMA!
What would life have been like for the non-super wealthy during the 1920s both in America and in England? What kind of things would be available to them in terms of food, homes, career paths, and day to day living?
Why did some ancient empires completely erase the names of defeated enemies while others preserved them in monuments?

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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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
Bruce Springsteen Won’t Back Down: Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” Live in Minneapolis
Scott Galloway Unveils “Resist and Unsubscribe,” an Action Plan for Consumers to Push Back Against Government Overreach

NYT > Technology

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Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Argue in Landmark Trial
Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change
Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know.
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 Trying to Educate A.I.
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
Spain Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Under 16
Siemens Energy Bets $1 Billion That A.I. Power Demand Will Last

NYT > Arts

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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
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Best and Worst Moments
They Carry a Cake Onstage, and Share Dumplings Off
A YouTuber’s Film Beat ‘Melania’ at the Box Office. Here’s How.
Like Fireworks: When Masters of Tap and Kathak Dance Meet
Catherine O’Hara Died From Pulmonary Embolism, Death Certificate Says
The 2026 Super Bowl Ads, Ranked
‘The All-American Halftime’ Featured an Electric Anthem Unlike Hendrix’s
Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra Illuminates Mahler’s Third
Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files
Philippe Gaulier, Revered Clown and ‘Tormentor’ of Aspiring Comedians, Dies at 82
Jon Stewart Defends Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
‘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
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
7 Brothers, a Rom-com and a Dream
Saying Goodbye to the Mass Market Paperback
The Fight Between a Watch Heiress and an Art Museum on the French Riviera
Late Night Finds Trump Out of Place at Prayer Breakfast
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Reunited
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Gives Way to Trump’s Patriotic Fair
‘The Strangers: Chapter 3’ Review: Devils in Disguise
‘Moulin Rouge!’ Musical Will End Its Broadway Run This Summer
Savannah Guthrie’s Video Shows a Rare and Anguished Reality
Art Gallery Shows to See in February
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Restores Its Old Name
Ted Berger, Indefatigable Patron of Artists and Schools, Dies at 85
Toni Morrison’s Best Books: A Guide

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Is there any reason there is such a abnormaly massive jump between the third and second most populated countries or is it just arbitrary?
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?
How did Andorra remain independent while bordering France and Spain?
Some common misconceptions about China, India, and Korea
Remarkably one island one nation, How did this current situation come about?
Why don't more people live in northern New Zealand, with its incredibly mild climate?
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?
New Delhi and Beijing are the capital of more than a third of the global population and do not have a regular scheduled flight between them because of political reasons.
Why does Singapore have a larger GDP than the whole of the Philippines while only having 6 million people Vs 114 million?
Why does Turkish geography resemble Spanish geography more than Italian and Greek geography?
Why is Barbados more than twice as densely populated as all the other islands in the West Indies/Antilles ?
I Made an Interactive Climate Classification Tool
Do you think the Southern Hemisphere will ever host a Winter Olympic Games? If so, which country?
I’m not usually surprised by size comparisons, but Cuba compared to the Iberian Peninsula stands out
What does Africa eat if it doesn't grow either wheat or rice?
Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth
What is the biggest temperature difference direct flight?
Why does Cfa seem so climactically diverse compared to other climate types?
Why does Myanmar use imperial system?
Iraq is planning on moving it's Administrative center out of the city of Baghdad to Madain (Ctesiphon), the former capital of the Parthian Empire.
What Is This Tiny, Unnamed Island In The Delaware River On The New Jersey Side Near Philladelphia?
Countries that bridge cultural regions.

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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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
Annie Hogan – Tongues In My Head
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
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
Geologist – Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Ain’t Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie: The Suburban Origins of De La Soul
Laurel Halo to Release Soundtrack for Film ‘Midnight Zone’

Bandcamp Updates

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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
Cub, “Come Out Come Out (30th Anniversary Edition)”

dusted

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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)
Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer
Spectral Lore — IV (Part 2-Demo) (Self released)

Pitchfork

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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
Wednesday Leave Wasserman Over CEO’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
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 .
Jessica Pratt
Graze the Bell
Bad Bunny’s Incredible Super Bowl Halftime Show Planted a New Flag
Doechii, Kacey Musgraves Celebrate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Watch Green Day Perform American Idiot Medley at Super Bowl LX
Watch Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Watch Charlie Puth Sing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LX
Television Bassist Fred Smith Dies at 77
Behind the Magnolia Curtain
“Chase”
western beats
Watch Mariah Carey Perform at Milan 2026 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Yellow Swans’ Gabriel Saloman Mindel Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis

Cool Tools

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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
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #208

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
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