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Amazon MGM Studio plans to develop new AI tools via its "AI Studio" to speed TV and film production and cut costs, in collaboration with AWS and LLM providers (Reuters)
Multicoin co-founder and Managing Partner Kyle Samani says he is stepping back from the VC firm and has transitioned to an advisory role (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
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Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.21B est., and projects Q2 revenue below est. due to memory supply shortage; QCOM drops 9%+ after hours (Reuters)
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., and license and other revenue up 25% to $505M, vs. $519.9M est.; ARM drops 7%+ after hours (Reuters)
Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B, vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M, vs. 478M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 5%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Alphabet says it expects 2026 capex to be in the range of $175B to $185B, vs. ~$120B est., up from $91.4B in 2025; Q4 capex was $27.9B, up from $14B a year ago (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
Google parent Alphabet forecasts sharp surge in 2026 capital spending (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue "surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $113.83B, vs. $111.43B est., Google Cloud revenue up 48% to $17.66B, vs. $16.18B est., net income up 30% to $34.46B (Alphabet)
Internal memos: Meta said Avocado is its "most capable pre-trained base model" and achieves 10x compute efficiency "wins" on text tasks vs. Llama 4 Maverick (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but "dishonest", and Anthropic serves a "product to rich people" while OpenAI is "committed to free access" (Sam Altman/@sama)
Lunar Energy, which develops software that syncs batteries across homes into "virtual power plants" and began deploying its own batteries in 2025, raised $232M (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)
Google teases the Pixel 10a in a new 15-second video, revealing a completely flat dual-camera system on the back, and says preorders begin on February 18 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Microsoft integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for Copilot Pro Plus and Enterprise users (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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gavrielc/nanoclaw: My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs.
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
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NetBird - Zero configuration VPN for fast-moving teams
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How to Scale a System from 0 to 10 million+ Users
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A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats | The Verge
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Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
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Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel
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Ratchets in software development
How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down
I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works
Beautiful Mermaid — Mermaid Rendering, Made Beautiful
Text Behind Image Online | 100% free to use
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/2/introducing-the-codex-app/
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Best Of Moltbook
My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Here's how Epstein broke the internet
Home - The Retro Web
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 – Wiki Education
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns - Log - nibzard
Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way – Rands in Repose
A pedagogy of the inevitable
Tangible Media: A Historical Collection of Information Storage Technology
4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) - Jeff Geerling
iPhone Developer Mode: Run your own apps using this switch | Cult of Mac
forbes.com
The largest number representable in 64 bits
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why – On my Om
Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
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Sandboxing AI agents in Linux — Senko Rašić
Outsourcing thinking
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The Everdeck: A Universal Card System – The Wrong Tools
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
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Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
RageCheck — Detect Outrage Bait Patterns
Library of Juggling - all of the popular (and perhaps not so popular) juggling tricks
International AI Safety Report 2026 | International AI Safety Report
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding - Apple
From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology. - YouTube
all things end (we begin again) - Catja - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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“the polycrisis of the 1600s gave birth to the Enlightenment”
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The One Where I Announce I’m Stepping Back From Mac Power Users - 512 Pixels
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OpenClaw – Amazing Hands for a Brain That Doesn’t Yet Exist
How can someone in midst of legal process to stay be deported? And other questions about America's confusing immigration laws | The Spokesman Review
Algorithme de Grok : les locaux français de X perquisitionnés, Elon Musk convoqué en audition libre - France 24
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Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X) | The Verge

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NASA Eyes March Artemis II Launch After Hydrogen Leaks Delay Moon Mission
What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?
Snow Drought in the West Reaches Record Levels
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
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You Wouldn’t Want to Butt Heads With This Small Dinosaur
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
A New Way to Flirt: Dazzle Potential Mates With Patterns Invisible to Humans
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Doctors’ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors
F.T.C. Settles With Express Scripts Over High Insulin Prices
Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects
A Chevron Refinery May Take in More Venezuelan Oil. Its Neighbors Are Concerned.
Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices
Plastic Surgeons’ Group Advises Delaying Gender-Affirming Procedures Until Age 19
Woman Wins Malpractice Suit Over Gender Surgery as a Minor
The Questionable Science Behind the Odd-Looking Football Helmets
‘Biblical Diseases’ Could Resurge in Africa, Health Officials Fear
Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health
H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection
Attempt to Drill Through Thwaites Glacier Is Foiled
Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects
Psychosis Diagnoses Have Risen Among Young Canadians, Data Shows
The Wonder Drug That’s Plaguing Sports
When the Doctor Needs a Checkup
Morris Waxler, F.D.A. Official Who Switched Stance on Lasik, Dies at 88
A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.
D.O.E. Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.
Drilling Through the Thwaites Glacier for Clues to Its Melting
Algae Growth on Greenland’s Ice Contributes to Melting, Studies Show
Kennedy Overhauls Federal Autism Panel in His Own Image
Genes May Control Your Longevity, However Healthily You Live
Svalbard Polar Bears Are Getting Fatter (for Now), Study Finds
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Author Correction: Cotranslational assembly of protein complexes in eukaryotes revealed by ribosome profiling
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Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming
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Atmospheric H2 variability over the past 1,100 years
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
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Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional superconductor
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Phenome-wide analysis of copy number variants in 470,727 UK Biobank genomes
Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis
Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth
Single-molecule dynamics of the TRiC chaperonin system in vivo
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Imaging the sub-moiré potential using an atomic single electron transistor
Regulation of STING activation by phosphoinositide and cholesterol
Cleavage of mRNAs by a minority of pachytene piRNAs improves sperm fitness
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
Activated ATF6α is a hepatic tumour driver restricting immunosurveillance
Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin
Mosquito–capsid interactions contribute to flavivirus vector specificity
Integrated structural dynamics uncover a new B12 photoreceptor activation mode
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement
Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation
Author knows best? Top AI conference asks for self-ranked papers amid paper deluge
The smart sensors improving the world’s biggest cities
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects
Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it
NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern
‘It means I can sleep at night’: how sensors are helping to solve scientists’ problems
Machine learning slashes the testing needed to work out battery lifetimes
What my cave stay taught me about sensors
A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences
Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
Particle collisions cast light on how matter forms from seemingly empty space
How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells
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Atlantic ocean currents defied the ice age
Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution
Evolutionary insights into a skin fold
Immune cells from the gut drive development of Parkinson’s disease in the brain
A way to gauge the equity of ocean-related initiatives
How a protein repurposes vitamin B12 as a light sensor
AI could transform research assessment — and some academics are worried
Ontogeny and transcriptional regulation of Thetis cells
Author Correction: Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling
Embrace diverse PhD supervision styles — but enforce essential standards
Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues
A history of hocus pocus: witchcraft down the ages
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Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
The ‘bible for psychiatry’ is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM
The global plastics treaty can be saved — here’s how to break the deadlock
More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds
Daily briefing: What people with no ‘mind’s eye’ can tell us about consciousness
Now is not the time to defund human fetal tissue research
I know science can’t fix the world — here’s why I do it anyway
A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB
Long-lived remote ion-ion entanglement for scalable quantum repeaters
Author Correction: Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis
Daily briefing: Scientists delve into the smells of history
Are health influencers making us sick?
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars
Don’t talk science, play science: translate your data into music to improve its reach

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The essential nature of creative endeavors
Making sense of disease
High-resolution geodetic velocities reveal role of weak faults in deformation of Tibetan Plateau
Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Cellular survivorship bias as a mechanistic driver of muscle stem cell aging
Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs
Probing supersolidity through excitations in a spin-orbit–coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
Engineered aldehyde dehydrogenases for amide bond formation
The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development
Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants
DNA-protein cross-links promote cGAS-STING–driven premature aging and embryonic lethality
Extreme plate boundary localization promotes shallow earthquake slip at the Japan Trench
High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed
Wafer-scale ultrathin and uniform van der Waals ferroelectric oxide
Lithographic crystallinity regulation in additive fabrication of thermoplastics (CRAFT)
Kinetic acceleration of MoS2 growth by oxy-metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
The origin of hepatocellular carcinoma depends on metabolic zonation
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A global imperative to remediate Ukraine’s soils
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Educators Sue to Keep Immigration Agents From Schools and Bus Stops
Doctors’ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors
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Why Trump Wants a Weaker Dollar
It Was Too Easy for Eileen Mihich to Kill Herself
The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing
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This Is Not the Kennedy Center
American Milk Has Changed
People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
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Let Your Kids Fail
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Why This Shutdown Is Different
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The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid
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Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship
The Mystery of Henry Fordham
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Border czar Tom Homan says 700 ICE and CBP officers are leaving Minneapolis
Minnesota teachers sue to keep ICE off school property
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Trump touts ‘very positive’ call with Chinese leader Xi
Andrew, ex-prince linked to Epstein, moves out of royal residence
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Russia delivers worst attack this year to Ukraine’s power sector
The treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arms is expiring. What to know.
A year after aid cuts, the image of American power shifts under Trump
U.S. shoots down Iranian drone that approached aircraft carrier
Iran’s killing of protesters reached level rarely seen, emergent count shows
When his family was swept out to sea, boy swam and ran miles to save them
Stepson of Norwegian crown prince stands trial on rape, other charges
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To understand China, we need to understand the Chinese internet
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Temu’s global rise runs into a regulatory wall
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What it takes to get an H-1B visa in Trump’s America
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India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot
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How Colleges’ Pursuit of a Diverse Professoriate Came Back to Bite Them
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The Strange New Job Market for Conservative Scholars
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Why was my Great Grandfather a Hero of the Soviet Union? Was he a spy?
Where does the idea of "true names" having special power come from?
AMA: Arab American and Muslim American History
Would an infantry batallion on the front lines have any concept of a weather forecast in WWI? How would things change by WWII?
At what point did Colonial powers realize they were the ones introducing diseases to indigenous populations?
Why did it take so long for a bridge to be built between Buda and Pest in what is now the united city of Budapest?
Why are coins considered such an important archeological resource?
Could a child really drown in the streets of Chicago like in the Jungle?
Historians, how did you pick your area of study?
What’s the farthest the Romans have ever went? (Expedition, trade conquest, etc) And how much of it did they map?
How come there's no famous music older than baroque music?
Before the age of electricity what did people think static shocks were through out history?
In what languages were documents written in Italy before the unification?
How come revolutionary france was able to be on par, if not ahead, with the rest of europe?
How did people deal with presbyopia (aging-related far-sightedness), especially people who did detail-oriented arts or everyday tasks? Also how did they light their workspaces?
Economic history question from musical theater: was credit really old fashioned in 1912?
Why weren't currencies base 10 or 100 by default?
How likely is it that the gold and silver used in modern products and electronics once came from ancient objects, such as Egyptian jewelry or even royal crowns?
Were Republican Romans aware of the fact they were one of the few societies (if only at the time) which embraced outright antimonarchism and established republican institutions and popular liberties? Did they take pride in their unique sociopolitical organisation?
Why did New York City vote against Lincoln in 1860?
People are often nostalgic about the past when inflation wasn't as high. This begs the question, when did affordability peak in the US?
How did the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque survive the crusades?
Did Gilded Age New York Society go beyond NYC & Newport?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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)
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)

MetaFilter Projects

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[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
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Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
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Hamster Mortis Audioboook
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Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
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The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy

Open Culture

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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
How the Incas Performed Skull Surgery More Successfully Than U.S. Civil War Doctors
Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”
Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
Lessons in Creativity from Rick Rubin: Focus on Your Art, Not the Audience
Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion”
Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse

NYT > Technology

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‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
Netflix Leader Pushes Warner Deal Before Skeptical Lawmakers
Spain Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Under 16
Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI
France’s Raid on X Escalates Trans-Atlantic Showdown Over Social Media
Moltbook Mania Explained
Siemens Energy Bets $1 Billion That A.I. Power Demand Will Last
Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth
Trump Unveils $12 Billion Critical Minerals Stockpile
A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.
Energy Bills Have Soared Recently. How Can States Bring Costs Down?
Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon
Tesla’s Model S, Soon to Be History, Changed the Auto Industry
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis
Apple Reports Record iPhone Sales Amid Holiday Bump
OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion
How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC
Amazon and Google Eat Into Nvidia’s A.I. Chip Supremacy
Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%

NYT > Arts

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Libby Howes, a Promising Young Actress, Left New York in 1981 and Disappeared. What Happened?
How Miss Piggy Went From Minor Muppet to TV’s Top Hog
The Bedazzling, Wild Designs of Modernism’s Forgotten Genius
Stellan Skarsgard on ‘Sentimental Value’ and His Wide-Ranging Career
Harry Melling Went From PG ‘Harry Potter’ to B.D.S.M. ‘Pillion’
‘Bridgerton’ Is Built on Romance. But Its Backbone Is Dance.
A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began.
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Impulse! Records
Talk Talk’s Experiment ‘Spirit of Eden’ Was a Flop. And a Cult Favorite.
In Mona Hatoum’s Art, a Warning for a Wobbling World
10 Composers, 2 Directors, 1 Opera: ‘Complications in Sue’
Trump’s Kennedy Center Shutdown Plan Jolts Workers and Performers
Jewish Heirs Say Met Museum Pissarro Was Sold Under Nazi-Era Duress
My 5 Favorite Places for Art in Los Angeles
Blanche Marvin, 100, Dies; Critic Was, Maybe, ‘Streetcar’ Inspiration
Alvin Ailey Company to Get $10 Million Endowment to Fund Top Job
The Real Story Behind Jennette McCurdy’s Novel ‘Half His Age’
In ‘Nadja,’ Dracula’s Daughter Goes Downtown
‘America’s Next Top Model’: Unhinged Moments That Helped Define the Show’s Legacy
‘Starman’ Review: What’s Really Out There?
Michael Kosta Blasts the Super Bowl Halftime Alternative
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in February
Tom Britt, Designer of Larger-Than-Life Interiors, Dies at 89
7 Great Grammy Winners You Didn’t Hear on TV
Chuck Negron, Hitmaking Singer With Three Dog Night, Dies at 83
10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month
Before a Rape Trial, a Theater Piece Passes Its Own Judgment
Review: This is Your Grandparents’ ‘Muppet Show,’ Fortunately
At a Charged Time for Jewish Culture, Stand-ups Confront the Moment
Sean Hayes Suffers Writer’s Block and More Horrors in ‘The Unknown’
At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky’s Morality Tale Is Wrapped in Farce
Jon Stewart Can’t Believe Elon Musk’s Choice of Holiday Party Venue
From ‘Hamilton’ to Issa Rae to Philip Glass: Here’s a List of Kennedy Center Cancellations
Trump Says He’s Only Renovating the Kennedy Center
Woodie King Jr., a Driving Force in Black Theater, Dies at 88
John Forté, Who Forged a Hip-Hop Redemption Tale, Dies at 50
Cher’s Luther Vandross Grammys Gaffe Joins a Long List of Award Show Flubs
Billy Bass Nelson, Original Bassist for Funkadelic, Dies at 75
Kid Rock to Headline TPUSA Alternate Halftime Show
Stars Bring ‘ICE OUT’ Pins and Fiery Speeches to a Political Grammys
At the U.S.-Mexico Border, a Children’s Opera Sings to the Moment
When the Clowns Went to Church
Justin Bieber at the Grammys: A Stripped-Down, Perspective-Shifting Performance
What to Know About the Kennedy Center and Trump’s Campaign to Remake It
Best and Worst Moments From the 2026 Grammys
Slumping in the West, the Art Trade Eyes the Gulf
Emil Sands’s Fascination With the Mystery of the Human Form
What’s With That Voice People Use When Reciting Poetry?
‘Solo Mio’ Review: Wishful Thinking in Italy
The Utah High School Drill Teams Who Dance With Intense Precision
Trump Assails Grammys and Threatens to Sue Trevor Noah Over Epstein Joke
Popcast: Grammys Instant Reactions! Bad Bunny Owns the Night
Super Bowl LX, Plus 6 Things on TV This Week
Bad Bunny Wins Grammy for Album of the Year With ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’
Cher returns to the Grammys stage.
Kendrick Lamar Wins 2nd Record of the Year Grammy for ‘Luther’ With SZA
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Waking the Dragon
Billie Eilish Wins Song of the Year Grammy for ‘Wildflower,’ Her 3rd in the Category
Bad Bunny Says ‘ICE Out’ in Grammys Acceptance Speech
Justin Bieber breaks his public performance pause at the Grammys.

Geography

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Why is this part of the border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia different from the straight line?
Why does this part of Europe have so many freeways?
Northest but warmest big city?
Amazonian Tribe Blur Out
What densely populated regions nonetheless preserve nature effectively?
Who owns this US-Canada border brush
What’s the closest distance between airports in the world?
The Montana-South Dakota border, pictured here looking north, is the only interstate land border to not be crossed by a single paved road.[OC]
Why are the north siberian lowlands riddled with lakes? (Pic related)
fun fact: every single arab country has a coastline
Why do most Italians in Brazil come from Northern Italy as opposed to the U.S that comes from Southern Italy?
Niue and Germany now recognize each other / started diplomatic relations.
In which unexpected measure or statistic is your country/region/city "best/most/first in the world"?
How did Brazil manage to become the country with the most descendants of Italians in the world outside of Italy, even though it received fewer Italian immigrants than Argentina or the USA?
Climate and behavior
What's the story behind this "scar" on the land in Kentucky?
Geographic names with more than two suffixes?
What’s the story with Oecusse? It’s an exclave of Timor-Leste (East Timor) completely surrounded by Indonesian territory on Timor island.
Which poor countries has cities where the median wage is far above its average and has life standards that wouldn't be considered "poor"
Malaria Risk Mapping of Pakistan using Google Earth Engine
Please, please, PLEASE - stop calculating density using city limits or metro areas when possible. Use urbanized areas instead.
The Franklin Mountains (El Paso, Texas) are not the Southern Rocky Mountains
Why aren't the channel Islands more populated?
An underrated fact about Iraq (Mesopotamia) is that it’s officially the country with the most palm trees in the world.
Metro systems in ex-Soviet countries

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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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’
Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of January 2026
Black to the Future: A Bleak King Cometh by Qasu
The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Thundercat Details First Album in Six Years, ‘Distracted’
Simon Reynolds Documents the Rise of Shoegaze and Slacker Rock in New Book
Supersonic Announces Scaled-Back 2026 Edition
DIY Against the Oligarchy: Underground Music in Tbilisi, by Nick Hudson
Erik Hall – Solo Three
Earth Reportedly Cancel Bologna Show Over Venue’s Display of Palestinian Flag
Bruce Springsteen Shares Anti-Trump and ICE Protest Song
Dialect – Full Serpent
The Reaches of Peaches: Peaches’ Favourite Albums
The Strange World Of… Toumani Diabaté
Backengrillen – Backengrillen
London Nightlife Taskforce Shares Report Recommending Urgent Action
Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom

Bandcamp Updates

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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)”
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”

dusted

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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)
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)

Pitchfork

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Mclusky Announces Mini-Album, Shares New Song
Iron & Wine Expands 2026 Tour Into Fall
Listen to Xaviersobased’s Song With Skrillex and Dylan Brady
Asher White Drops Full-Album Cover of Jessica Pratt’s Debut
Bruce Hornsby Enlists Ezra Koenig, Bonnie Raitt, and the Late Bob Weir for New Album
Gia Margaret Returns to Singing With New Album and Tour
I Have to Get Hotter
Euphoria Bound
OCTANE
NAK
RCA Relaunches Jive Records
Dua Saleh Announces New Album, Shares Songs With Bon Iver
Ari Lennox Announces 2026 North American Tour
Mitski Announces Tour and Shares New Single
American Football Line Up Sprawling Tour
Friko Announce New Album, Share Video for “Seven Degrees”
Paul Simon Announces North American Tour
16 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Broken Social Scene Reveal First Album in Nine Years, Tour With Metric
Mandy, Indiana Enlist billy woods for New Song
Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold Plots Solo Tour
Xavier
Empty Hands
GIRL I LOVE YOU
African Skies
BTS Announce Live Comeback Concert on Netflix
Freddie Gibbs Hops Onto the Last Rabbit Tour
Black Country, New Road to Tour North America
Michael Jackson Biopic Gets New Trailer
“LDO (Last Day Out)”

Cool Tools

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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
Waterproof Pants/European Nomad Visas/Cheapest Places to Live in 2026/
What’s in my NOW? — Jayme Boucher
Irving Harper: Works in Paper / Where’s Warhol?
Wealth Building

McMansion Hell

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

Serious Eats

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