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Anthropic debuts Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark combining its societal impacts, red team, and economic research teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers (Alice French/Bloomberg)
Anduril agrees to acquire missile defense modeling company ExoAnalytic for an undisclosed sum and says the deal will grow its space unit staff from 120 to ~250 (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg)
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November 2025 as head of industrial compute, as he helps guide OpenAI's infrastructure efforts (Bloomberg)
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Applied Materials partners with Micron and SK Hynix to develop next-gen memory chips for AI and HPC at its new EPIC center, part of a planned $5B R&D investment (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Sources: Chinese state enterprises and agencies move to curb in-office OpenClaw use over potential security risks as users across China experiment with OpenClaw (Bloomberg)
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome to India, Canada, and New Zealand, and adds support for over 50 additional languages, including Hindi, French, and Spanish (Charmaine D'Silva/The Keyword)
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)
A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
A look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January (Bloomberg)
Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000x faster than top Intel server CPUs (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC)

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Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater
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Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — But Also to Coal
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The Big Story: Signalgate, One Year Later
The Iranian Regime Doubles Down
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Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has Hit a Snag
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Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man who didn’t kill anyone
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Alexander Butterfield, who revealed Nixon White House tapes, dies at 99
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Russians say Iran attack shows U.S. can’t be trusted in Ukraine talks
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Democrats argue Trump’s China policy risks ‘strategic failure’
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Meta’s Oversight Board races to govern the AI surge
Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers
Big Tech’s Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points
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Open-source AI hardware could weaken Big Tech’s grip on AI
India’s tech sovereignty is built on digital dependence
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'Inappropriate Relationship' Leads Ohio State's President to Resign
The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 08, 2026
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Were horses more robust in ancient/medieval times?
Why is Alexander a great but Genghis Khan is considered a barbarian?
I'm a Roman cloth merchant who thought he was getting a great deal on Tyrian purple dye, but instead was given common red madder. What recourse do I have, legal, extralegal, or supernatural, to get my money back?
Why do ages of maturity occur in non-intuitive numbers, such as 16 18 or 21?
Why is Chinese History so untranslated?
Before modern painkillers existed, what did people with chronic pain actually do? Not soldiers or kings — ordinary people. A farmer with a shattered knee. A seamstress with crippling arthritis. Did they just... suffer every single day of their lives?
Did RAF pilots really nudge flying bombs off their target path?
How did the Nazis respond to the evactuation of Danish Jews?
Reading Meditations. What other books gained fame despite the author having no intention of publishing them?
Homosexuality In Islamic Golden age was so tolerated, and even seen as luxurious, what changed now ?
At the battle of Brunkeberg wikipedia says that there were 1300 mounted knights on Sweden's side. How true is this?
Is A Song Of Ice And Fire's "Kinslaying" based on any European tradition?
Is it true black tea became popular in England, because the countries that sold it to them didn't know how to make it taste good?
What exactly caused Germany to have such a huge anti-nuclear power lobby?
What orchids would’ve been available to a middle class man in the late 18th century?
During the First Indochina War, how brutal and far reaching were the Viet Minh's campaigns in urban areas?
Before the concept of "retirement" existed, what actually happened to people who were too old or injured to work? Were elderly peasants just left to starve, or did pre-modern societies have support systems we've completely forgotten about?
During the Persian invasions of Greece did the ancient “Greeks” consider themselves Greek?
Did pre-modern Chinese military leaders consider Sun Tzu's Art of War to be obvious advice for idiot failsons?
Did the Argentines have a chance at winning the Falklands War?
Have sleeper cells ever been a real thing?
What was the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his mom like?
When did we know that Leif Erikson and Christopher Columbus found the same land?

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Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
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)

MetaFilter Projects

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'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
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

Open Culture

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Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?
The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art
AI Figures Out the Rules of a Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Board Game from Ancient Rome
Inside the Automats Where Coin-Operated Machines Created a Modern, Democratic Dining Experience
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)
Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More
Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics

NYT > Technology

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
How Do You Use A.I. for Daily Life?
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s Dance With the Pentagon: What to Know
‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?
From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101
OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.
How $800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes
Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit
Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power
Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm

NYT > Arts

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Who Should Control the Legacy of This Master Photographer?
How ‘The Sopranos’ Came to Life
To Pay the Bills, a Cult Band Becomes a Doors Tribute Act
At This Festival, the Dead of Winter Is the Life of the Party
Michelle Pfeiffer Makes It Look Easy. It Isn’t.
Fed Up With High Costs, American Theater Takes a Trip to London
Casting, Which Will Be Celebrated at This Year’s Oscars, Has Changed Drastically
Review: A New ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Metropolitan Opera
Bill Kurtis to Leave NPR’s ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’
Harry Styles and 8 More Boy Band Stars Who Went Solo
‘Scarpetta’ Review: Nicole Kidman Stars in Long-Awaited Forensics Drama
Dozens of States Weigh Continuing Live Nation Antitrust Case
New York Philharmonic Announces 2026-27 Season
Through Violent Memes on Social Media, Trump Promotes the War on Iran
Jessie Buckley Became a Mother for ‘Hamnet.’ Then She Became a Real One. (Encore)
Late Night Makes Fun of Pete Hegseth’s Fruit Baskets
Suspect in Rihanna Shooting Is Charged With Attempted Murder
How ‘Sync Music’ Became the Soundtrack to Our Lives
Alma Allen Signs With Mega-Gallery After Venice Biennale Fallout
At 100, György Kurtág Is Still Searching for the Right Note
‘Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare’ Review: An Emotional Choice
How the Oscars Best Picture Winner Is Chosen
Book Review: ‘Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! A Memoir,’ by Liza Minnelli
Late Night Scolds Trump Over Gasoline Prices
Monti Rock III, Gleefully Untalented ‘Tonight Show’ Favorite, Dies at 86
‘Let’s Go for a Walk’: Three Dance Artists Strip Down Movement
Greg Greeley, Former Amazon Executive, to Lead Simon & Schuster
After Kennedy Center Exit, Washington National Opera Returns
Review: Jealousy, Deception and Another Round of ‘Othello’
Review: Harry Styles Hits the Club on ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’
Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s Owner, Settles Antitrust Case With Justice Dept.
‘Testament of Ann Lee’ and the Entwining of Dance and God
Don’t Fence Ted McGinley In
For Longtime Kennedy Center Patrons, a ‘Lifeline’ Has Been Cut
‘Scarpetta,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
After a Shooting at Rihanna’s Home, a Woman Is Held on Suspicion of Attempted Murder
Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84
On ‘S.N.L.’, Pete Hegseth Says Iran ‘Isn’t a War, It’s a Situationship’
‘New Michelangelos’ and the ‘Dan Brown Approach’ to Art History
‘Rooster’ Review: Steve Carell Goes to School
In a Screen-Dazzled World, a Theater Critic Has the Antidote
MoMath Brings Prime Numbers to a Prime New Location
The Met Opera’s Desperate Hunt for Money
Tatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Found Fame in His Last Decade, Dies at 99
Conductor Andris Nelsons Has Become a Cautionary Tale
I Make Connections. Here’s What I’m Actually Thinking.
Sturgill Simpson, Olivia Rodrigo: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Bill Lawrence’s TV Empire Is Built on Humor and Heart
A Washington Museum Zeros In on the Watergate Scandal
Book Review: ‘Stories,’ by Helen Garner
Bobby Cannavale Loves ‘Heated Rivalry’ and His Bearded Dragon
Alan Trustman, Lawyer Who Wrote ‘Thomas Crown Affair,’ Dies at 95
Boston Symphony Abruptly Ends Andris Nelsons’ Contract
Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet
Bob Power on His Work on A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Low End Theory’
Jeremy Larner, 88, Dies; Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic
Top National Symphony Leader Quits in New Blow to Kennedy Center
A Philharmonic Conductor’s Concerts Surprise, for Better and Worse
For the Friars, a Sad Sale of Their Club’s Last Vestiges
From 1999: Charlotte Perriand, Designer, Is Dead at 96

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What are some cities whose relevance has waned or faded completely?
Why do we hear so little from central asia ?
The largest endorheic river of Indian subcontinent (Case Study)
What are some places on earth that are toxic to humans?
Is this the most underpopulated land on earth?
The Strait of Hormuz: A comparison of a Google Maps image and an allegedly real satellite image published by Reuters
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano sends fiery lava 400 metres into the air
Every Dot is 100k people in The Horn of Africa
Algar de Benagil (Benagil Sea Cave) in Portugal
50 Largest US Counties by GDP in 2024
The distance between Northern Turkey and Southern Yemen is the same as Winnipeg and Mexico City
What causes these arc features on the north Bay Area coast? Eddies from the bay?
Are those holes in the cliff natural or manmade?
Lesser known but regionally important cities in the world.
Considering England's population is over 55 million and approximately 450 people/km^2, just how crowded is life there, including the rural areas?
I have few questions about the Southern Alps. This does seem like an anomalous geological feature to me (my opinion)
St Vincent Island
The American Atlas (Map #27 - Ohio)
what is the longest sightline on google streetview?
Which places over time have now become pretty different from their historical common stereotypes?
Cities with an “Emerald Necklace”?
The iran ground invasion will be worse than Afghanistan
Which countries in the world have altered time zones?
Why is Poland’s birthrate so shockingly low

The Public Domain Review

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)

The Quietus

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That’s How We Make It Our Home: Will Oldham Selects 13 Valiant Records from Louisville, Kentucky
Tanya Tagaq – Saputjiji
BIG|BRAVE Detail New Album, ‘In Grief Or In Hope’
Live Nation and US Justice Department Edge Towards Settling Antitrust Lawsuit
Wasserman Agency Rebrands as The·Team
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March
Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble – Signals
New UK Fund Established to Support Artists with Touring Costs
How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
New Age Doom featuring H.R. – Angels Against Angels
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
Fugazi Share Previously Unreleased Recordings Made Alongside Steve Albini
The White Hotel Adds Kali Malone, Klein and More to Lineup for Blackpool Festival
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
Shabaka – Of The Earth
Justin K. Broadrick Halts Godflesh Live Shows Following Abdominal Surgery
Carla dal Forno to Release New Album, ‘Confession’
Aldous Harding Details New Album, ‘Train On The Island’
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50
Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah
Ragger – Euphonic Sounds
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years
Green Man Unveils Lineup for 2026 Edition
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30
Out of this World: SHERELLE’s Favourite Records
GENA – The Pleasure Is Yours
Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild
Loraine James Details New Album, ‘Detached From The Rest Of You’
DJ Marcelle to Take DJing Hiatus After Heart Attack
Arca, Mark Pritchard and More Rework Nine Inch Nails for ‘TRON: Ares’ Remix Album
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington
Guest Playlist: Alexis Taylor

Bandcamp Updates

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Upset The Rhythm is One Big, Weird, Wonderful Family
The Notwist, “News from Planet Zombie”
Fugazi, “Albini Sessions”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
Various Artists, “HELP(2)”
Essential Releases, March 6th, 2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026
The Tape Label Report, February 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026
Shabaka, “Of The Earth”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026
NIMF, “Sirenoscape”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58”
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move”
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya”
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea
Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun”
The Women of Detroit House
Midori Hirano, “ OTONOMA”
The Bug Remembers
Big Ups: Gorillaz Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Chris Crack, “Too Late to Start Following the Rules Now”
Steve Shelley’s Sonic Afterlife
Hen Ogledd, “DISCOMBOBULATED”
Essential Releases, February 20, 2026
Carpenter Brut Picks His Bandcamp Favorites

dusted

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Lande Hekt — Lucky Now (Tapete)
Dwellnought — Monolith of Ephemerality (Caligari)
Listed: Department
What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free)
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Iron & Wine — Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)
Michael Pisaro-Liu / Forming — Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Sawyer Editions)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World)
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination)
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City)
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records)
Various Artists — Music From The Mountain People Of Central Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies)
Dog Chocolate — So Inspired So Done In (Upset the Rhythm)
Vorago — Morulus (Amor Fati)
Abronia — Shapes Unravel (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)

Pitchfork

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Mutiny After Midnight
A Rush to Nowhere
a short history of decay
Somersaults
Dionne Warwick Claims Rights Firm Stole Millions in Royalties
Modest Mouse Return With First New Song in Five Years
Big Thief Set 2026 North American Tour
Travis Scott, Young Thug Petition Supreme Court Over Use of Rap Lyrics in Death Sentence
Lucy Dacus Plots 2026 North American Tour
Rostam Details Tour and First Album in 5 Years
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Surf Gang Made an Album Together
Kim Gordon Shares Play Me Title Track, Announces 2026 Tour
“How Shit Go”
Woman Accused of Shooting at Rihanna’s Home Charged With Attempted Murder
Ex-Dead Kennedys Singer Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke
Make-Up Is a Lie
IOWA
The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore
El Niño Bola
Donald Glover Cast as Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Dot Rotten, Rapper and Grime Pioneer, Dies at 37
Live Nation and Justice Department Move to Settle in Antitrust Lawsuit
Wasserman Agency Rebrands to The·Team
Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur, and the Rajasthan Express Reunite for New Album
Franz Ferdinand “Nauseous and Furious” After IDF’s Use of “Take Me Out”
Jill Scott Announces 2026 Tour
Aldous Harding, Seefeel, Bassvictim, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Hayley Williams Covers This Is Lorelei’s “Perfect Hand”
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
BIG MAMA

Cool Tools

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What is a Witch / Rosalie Lightning
Dental Care
Maverick tours / Protocol cards / Kitchen sponge
Book Freak #199: Thinking in Systems
Ski Coat Sales/Delayed Luggage Tactics/Another United Devaluation
What’s in my NOW? — Amanda McClendon
Smuggler’s Cove / Hieronymous Bosch
E-Books
Free sports TV / Hot and cold face wand / Best pencil
Book Freak #198: How We Know What Isn’t So

McMansion Hell

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

Serious Eats

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