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Gallup: 12% of employed US adults reported using AI daily in their job in Q4 2025, compared to 10% in Q3 and 8% in Q2; 49% say they never use AI in their role (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)
Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Q&A with David Liu, CEO of PlusAI, which is slated to go public next month, on the ongoing commercial trial of its autonomous truck driving software, and more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
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HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
EquipmentShare, which runs a jobsite tech and equipment rental platform for the construction industry, raised $747.3M in its IPO, valuing the company at $7.16B (Reuters)
Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT is citing Grokipedia as a source on some obscure topics, including Iranian political structures (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
Source: OpenAI mulls new tools to help business users understand the financial benefits of using its products and has made changes to its sales force strategy (The Information)
SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)

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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said at a news conference that his team...
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Border Patrol official characterizes the incident as an attack on agents
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Most ICE and Border Patrol officers still lack body cameras
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Minnesota Democrats condemn latest shooting
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Is AI a bubble? Davos leaders say no
Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
Six years, two presidents, and one app: TikTok’s U.S. saga explained
She built an AI bot of her mother to help her grieve
What will tech jobs look like in 2026?
Data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons
Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet
China steers the Gulf’s driverless future as U.S. rivals stay home
Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives
Is a billion dollars still cool?
Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs
64% of UAE residents now use generative AI

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice

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The Anti-Woke University's Identity Crisis
UT-Austin Is Closing Its Teaching Center. Faculty Members Ask: Why?
Higher Ed's Secret Provost Club
The Admissions Funnel Is Clogged. Here's How to Fix It.
Higher Ed's Future Is Managed Decline
This Spat Shows Just How Messy Texas A&M’s New Course Reviews Are
Another State's Public Universities Are Tightening Post-Tenure Review and Dictating Teaching Loads
‘The Perception of Danger Everywhere’: Navigating Campus Life Amid ICE Enforcement
After 40 Years at Harvard, James Hankins Is Disillusioned. He's Starting Over in Florida.
Lured by AI, Colleges Are Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance

AskHistorians

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 25, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 21, 2026
How did normal people resist the Nazis?
Why are Anglo-Canadian surnames similar to common surnames in the UK but French-Canadian surnames are so different from common surnames in France?
The American Civil Rights movement saw several situations in which the US Federal Government intervened militarily to enforce Civil Rights. Was there any internal dissension within military units over this?
Were Jesus of Nazareth and Barabbas the same person?
How were tensions defused after the Kent State Massacre?
What are some examples of cities or towns standing up to the Nazis as they came to power?
Robert E. Howard wrote in fantasy fiction, horror, science fiction, westerns, mysteries, and weird menace genres, which continue to this day. But boxing fiction, in which Howard wrote more stories than about Conan the Cimmerian, is no longer commercially viable or popular. Why is this?
Are there any documented examples of husband and wife surviving the Nazi death camps? Did they stay married or too changed to be with each other?
When and how did truffles become an extremely expensive luxury item and not something your pig dug up and ate?
Is the optical illusion in Mafra convent real?
How have government bureaucrats responded to growth of authoritarianism / fascism / etc. for the states they worked for?
Were castles or forts ever infiltrated by a solo climber?
What do actual food historians think of Tasting History with Max Miller?
Do you think the ‘Wild West wasn’t Wild’ idea had gone too far?
What did Egyptians think about Exodus?
Was adoption a thing in the Middle Ages?
European folklore has elves, gnomes, fae, etc., What sort of mythological creatures did Native Americans have in their traditions, and where could I read about them?
(Australia Day question) Did Britain have a contingency plan if their colony in Australia failed?
Who was the man behind the iron mask?
Opinions about William Manchester?
Where was the modern pizza born?
German-American or Dutch-American versions of "Albion's Seed"?
Why is is taught that Treaty of Versailles was ‘too harsh’?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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)
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)
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?

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
DOCTYPE magazine
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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Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago
The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes
Watch the Evolution of Paris Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 300 BCE to 2025
Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)
How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”
What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol
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

NYT > Technology

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TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China
Will I Have to Download a New TikTok App? And Other Big Questions About The Deal.
Here’s Who Just Bought TikTok
Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code
Why the Power May Not Go Out Until After the Storm Has Passed
U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada
S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
Why iPhone and Android Weather Apps Are Freaking Out About Winter Storm Forecasts
The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets
Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID
Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
F.T.C. Appeals Loss in Meta Antitrust Case
Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’
An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
The Rise of Prediction Markets
AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT

NYT > Arts

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S.N.L. Recap: Teyana Taylor Hosts, the First Trump Awards and More
Luke Thompson Finally Takes the ‘Bridgerton’ Spotlight
Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata
For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
5 Takeaways From the HBO Documentary ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’
Renée Fleming Won’t Perform at Kennedy Center Concerts
Sophie Turner Swears By a Chaotic Spotify Playlist
Candi Staton Is a Survivor. At 85, She’s Also a Grammy Nominee.
6 Podcasts About Medicine and Health Care
9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Documentary Oscar Nominees Resist Authority in Different Ways
Review: Thomas Adès and America at the New York Philharmonic
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Mamma Mia!,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and More
Floyd Vivino, Throwback Comedian Known as Uncle Floyd, Dies at 74
Marian Goodman, Eminent New York Art Dealer, Dies at 97
Geese Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ Viewers Something to Talk About
Long-Lost Robert Burns Portrait Is on Display for Burns Night
If You’re Marc Shaiman, for Every Plotz There’s a Zetz
Beatriz González, Who Chronicled Colombia’s Turmoil in Paint, Dies at 93
John H. Beyer, 92, Dies; Architect Championed Historic Preservation
2026 Oscar Nominees: Surprises and Snubs
South African Artist Sues Over Venice Biennale Snub
Five Action Movies to Stream Now
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Turning 4 Miles of Silk Into a Stunning Theater Spectacle
7 Sports Documentaries to Stream Now
Immersive Historical Fiction Full of Rule Breakers and Rebels
Seth Meyers Says Trump’s Deals Are as Strong as a Pinkie Swear
‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Expect the Unexpected
James Bernard, a Founding Editor of a Hip-Hop ‘Bible,’ Dies at 58
The Cliburn, Known for Piano Competitions, Will Hold One for Conductors
Fine Arts Panel, Remade by Trump, Indicates Support for His Ballroom Plan
Stream These 8 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in February
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and More
Harry Styles Books 30 Dates for Madison Square Garden Residency
‘Clika’ Review: Dreaming of the Stage
These Objects Will Draw You Out of the Cold
Five Fronts in Trump’s Culture War
Oscar Snubs and Surprises: ‘Sinners’ Makes History, ‘Wicked’ Withers
A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
‘Sinners’ Broke the Oscars Record These 3 Films Once Held
The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving
2026 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List
Oscar Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Breaks Record With 16
Jason Mantzoukas Makes It Weird
When Jasper Johns Drew the Line
A Public-Art Veteran Will Lead Creative Time
America Turns 250: A Guide to the Coming Festivities
‘Mercy’ Review: Chris Pratt Trapped in a Dystopian Future
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: A Macabre Spectacle
‘In Cold Light’ Review: On Parole and on the Run
‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: All Shall Be Well
‘A New Love in Tokyo’ Review: Sex in the Air
‘Disneyland Handcrafted’ Review: Making the Happiest Place on Earth
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Review: Indoctrination in the Classroom
Kimmel Says Comedy Is Political Lately Because Politics Are Comedic
Manolo Villaverde, Tender Father on Bilingual TV Show, Dies at 89
Prue Leith Says She Is Leaving ‘The Great British Baking Show’
Months After Daniel Naroditsky’s Death, the Chess World Remains Divided
Esa-Pekka Salonen Returns to L.A. Philharmonic With New Job
Saving La Clef Cinema, With Help From Scorsese and Tarantino

Geography

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Just posting it here cause I think the difference is crazy.
What's the reason Inuit/Siberians and Europeans have different features despite evolving in similar cold climates?
Brazil has the largest Italian population outside of Italy
What’s the story behind this massive ship in the middle of Hong Kong?
What's the reason South Asian ethnic groups tend to have denser facial and body hair despite developing in a warm/humid climate?
I saw the post about the temperature difference n continental US. Now this is Nepal with only average distance of 193 km from North to South.
What's the reason Greenland people never settled in Iceland?
The American Atlas (Map #22 : Mississippi)
What happens around Baja California? What makes it look so dry?
Is there any place in the world where the air humidity is high but the precipitation is low? (And vice-versa?)
Tracking the winter storm
Why was Serbia fine with Montenegro seceding in 2006 which had coastal access and 35% Serbian population but not Kosovo in 2008 which is mostly mountainous and less than 5% Serbian?
The telephone country codes
Even the states out west that aren’t particularly known for their large area are still colossal
Were there any aesthetically Wild West-style towns directly on the US Pacific coast? If so, where and when?
When did Mesopotamia stop being fertile?
Visa requirements for Brazilian citizens (from Wikipedia)
What is this non existent nation above albania
Any explanation for this massive temperature difference in the US?
Clarify Misinformation This is the actual site of the Tunguska Blast , photo not be me
Thessaloniki, Greece and NYC, US are on the same latitude. Different climates and this week one is in a warm wave while the other under arctic attack.
Can you see land from the middle of lake Michigan?
Ganges Delta, Bangladesh
Which two places on the same latitude have the biggest average temperature difference?
Why are cities in the southern United States warmer than cities at the same latitude in East Asia?

The Public Domain Review

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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)
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

The Quietus

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Places To Be: Emma Warren on the Importance of Youth Clubs to British Culture
The Body & The Person: Cosey Fanni Tutti at Humber Street Gallery
Reissue of the Week:  Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95
Notions of Decadence: Half a Century of Bowie’s Station To Station
Megadeth – Megadeth
Pulp, Depeche Mode, Beth Gibbons and More Feature on New War Child Charity Record
Kim Gordon, KMRU and More Join Rewire 2026 Lineup
Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan on Susumu Yokota
Beautiful Chaos & Crying to Frozen: Powell Interviewed
Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics
Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix – The New Worlds Fair
Geordie Greep Pays Tribute to Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin
Lightning Bolt and OOIOO Announce Split Album, ‘The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral’
Mohammad Syfkhan, Eric Chenaux and More to Play This Year’s Dig That Treasure! Festival
MPTL Microplastics Album Launch in Brixton
Dekmantel Reveals Full 2026 Lineup
The Strange World of… David Berman
PVA – No More Like This
Pitchfork Launches Reviews Paywall
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington
Jane Weaver Septiéme Sœur – The Fallen By Watch Bird (Expanded Edition)
Shabaka Hutchings Details New Album, ‘Of The Earth’
Pulp Release Statement on Adelaide Festival Following Boycott U-Turn
A less Oblique Strategy: reading PVA’s Tarot
Pullman – III
Rhythmic Cinema: Why Battleship Potemkin Remains Relevant, 100 Years On
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
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum

Bandcamp Updates

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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)”
Sunday Mourners, “A-Rhythm Absolute”
Before UK Garage, 2-Step Was All About the Soul
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

dusted

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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)
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

Pitchfork

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fakemink Announces New Mixtape The Boy Who Cried Terrified
Watch Geese Perform “Au Pays du Cocaine” and “Trinidad” on Saturday Night Live
Ænima
Pharrell Williams Sued by Neptunes’ Partner Chad Hugo
The Return of the Durutti Column (Expanded & Remastered)
“Human Behaviour”
Steven Drozd Says Flaming Lips Exit Followed His Decision to Stop Touring
Fred again.. and Young Thug Share Video for “Scared”
Death Cab for Cutie Announce Tour and Anti- Records Signing
“Aperture”
7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Ari Lennox, Lucinda Williams, and More
Jessie Ware Makes a Secret Garden in New “I Could Get Used to This” Video
ATLiens
Sexta dos Crias 2.0
Doppelgänger
I Am
Harry Styles Releases “Aperture” Video
Summer Walker Announces Tour With Monaleo and Odeal
James Blake Announces First Album on Good Boy Records
Drake Appeals “Not Like Us” Lawsuit Ruling
Harry Styles Is Playing 30 Nights at Madison Square Garden
Netflix Cancels The Vince Staples Show
Denzel Curry, TiaCorine, A$AP Ferg, Bktherula, and Key Nyata Form Supergroup the Scythe
A$AP Rocky Drops New Song “Flackito Jodye” with Tokischa
Arctic Monkeys Share New Song “Opening Night”
Oscars Nominations 2026: See the Full List Here
Oscars 2026: Nick Cave, Huntr/x Nominated for Best Original Song
Jonny Greenwood, Max Richter Nominated for Best Original Score at 2026 Oscars
If You’re Feeling Sinister
The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Soundtrack)

Cool Tools

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TeamLab Borderless / Listen to Whales / Kitchen drawer multitool
Book Freak #194: When Things Fall Apart
Most Popular City/Europe Rail Travel Trends/Mexican Sites Admission Hikes
What’s in my NOW? — Joele Lucherini
Fight Club 2 / Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
Baby Care
Recomendo Deals / Zip Air / 35 simple health tips
Book Freak #193: How to Decide
Cheapest Flight Destinations/Packable Daypacks/Europe Ski Bargains
What’s in my NOW? — Jeremiah Krage

McMansion Hell

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