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Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 5.3% YoY to $1.25B, vs. $1.23B est., online revenue up 2.6% to $489.7M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted profit per share below estimates (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)
AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei (Reuters)
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to "advance Claude's computer use capabilities" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, "a general-purpose digital worker" that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: the two sets of pixels that lets users toggle the viewing angle to prevent screen peeking is very impressive (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

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Lipid nanoparticles engineered to target therapeutic RNA to the pancreas
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COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know
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Another College Stops Recognizing Faculty Unions, Citing Catholic Identity and Need for 'Flexibility'
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 22, 2026
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When did Worlds Fairs stop being such a huge deal?
How and why did Indo-European peoples lose cultural memory of the Indo-European migrations?
How long did someone wait for their traveling family member?
How/why did some countries with fewer rights for women end up with women in very high positions of power?
Marcus Licinius Crassus was often known as the "richest man in Rome". What happened to his vast wealth after his death at the Battle of Carrhae in 53BC?
Can a 1st person written account of the Dragon/ Serpent Killed by Roman Army in 256bc be found?
What was it like living in Englush Calais?
How did people in the Regency Era know the dances?
How did Albert Speer manage such a light sentence at the nuremberg trials?
You wake up tomorrow in Uruk at its height in 3000 BCE as commoner. What does your day look like?
How did people buy tickets for the Titanic (or other ocean liners of that time)?
How would severe acne be perceived in the late 1600s?
How respected is Heather Cox Richardson in the historical community?
Why is there no distinction between female rulers and wives of kings in English?
Why did the Romans have such an intense disdain for kings?
Contemporary Spain historians, can you share your thoughts about the released 23-F documents?
Many ancient books rhyme in their original languages (the Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Vedas...), does the Bible rhyme in its original language?
What explains the lack of chattel slavery in the Inka Empire?
Was it safe to walk the streets of Soviet era Moscow at night?
Why only South Africa and Rhodesia were able to form white-controlled post colonial states in Africa post independence?
How do historians come up with "modern estimates" for things like army sizes and casualty numbers?
What led to the rise of the mass-market paperback?

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Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
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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
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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
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An Archive of the Caijia Language

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The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
A Tour Inside the Chelsea Hotel: Once Home to Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen & More
How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife
Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity
An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork
Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible’s Oldest and Strangest Texts
An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece
Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More

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How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives
The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
Racing to Catch Up With Nvidia, AMD Signs Chips-for-Stock Deal With Meta
Intel Strikes Deal With a Chip Start-Up Its C.E.O. Invested In
Nvidia’s Quarterly Profit Hits $43 Billion on Strong A.I. Chip Sales
Podcasts? TV Talk Shows? Netflix Just Hopes They’re Hits.
Can A.I. Detection Tools Really Spot Fake Images and Videos?
Wayve, an A.I. Driverless Car Start-Up in Europe, Raises $1.2 Billion
Pentagon Gives Anthropic an Ultimatum Over the Company’s A.I. Model
Senator Blumenthal Opens Inquiry Into Iran Transactions on Binance
More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data
Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits
Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Will Be Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala
Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities
Backed by Anthropic, a Super PAC Group Begins an Ad Blitz in Support of A.I. Regulation
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‘A.I. Literacy’ Is the New Drivers’ Ed at This Newark School
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
His Team Devised Ways to Keep World Cup Crowds Safe
A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet.
West Virginia Sues Apple, Claiming It Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material

NYT > Arts

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Delroy Lindo on ‘Sinners,’ the Oscars and the Power of Affirmation
Gathering Force in the Art Market: Female Collectors
In ‘Mother Russia,’ Lauren Yee Raucously Examines a Shifting Post-Soviet Society
Podcasts? TV Talk Shows? Netflix Just Hopes They’re Hits.
What Do They Eat at Awards Shows (and Why Do We Care)?
Phil Collins, Wu-Tang Clan and Lauryn Hill Are Among Rock Hall of Fame Nominees
A Seasoned French Museum Chief Takes Over a Louvre in Crisis
Watch Renate Reinsve Struggle With Stage Fright in ‘Sentimental Value’
Resident Evil Requiem Shines Within Its Confines
The New York International Children’s Film Festival
Three Great Frederick Wiseman Documentaries to Stream
Gustavo Dudamel’s Long Goodbye to L.A., and Long Hello to New York
A Chimney in Search of a Home Lands 3,000 Miles Away
Anne Frank’s Love for Classical Music L Her Diary
Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76
Lauren Chapin, Youngest Child on ‘Father Knows Best,’ Dies at 80
‘Modern Love’: I Didn’t Want to Have Kids. My Husband Did. Could Our Marriage Survive?
‘Days and Nights in the Forest’: Into the Woods With Satyajit Ray
‘The Bluff’ Review: She Has a Very Particular Set of Skills
‘Sentimental Value’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Jimmy Kimmel Goes Live After a Super Long State of the Union
Éliane Radigue, Composer of Time, Silence and Space, Dies at 94
‘Heated Rivalry’ Author Says Parkinson’s Symptoms Are Worsening and Delays Book
6 (More) Albums I’m Looking Forward to in 2026
Review: ‘You Got Older,’ With Alia Shawkat, Gets a Sharp Revival
International Booker Prize Nominees: 13 Books to Get You Talking
Robert Carradine, Actor Who Played the Father in ‘Lizzie McGuire,’ Dies at 71
Russell Brand Pleads Not Guilty to Further Rape and Sexual Assault Charges
For Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Equal Footing at the Met
Reanimal Is a Modern-Day Fairy Tale About Cycles of Trauma
Dance Reflections Returns With Bumps but a Thrilling Ride
Late Night Sums Up Trump’s Tariff Tiff with the Supreme Court
‘Mother Russia’ Review: A New Play That’s as Funny as It’s Smart
A Wake for The Washington Post’s Book World
Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Will Be Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala
Edward Hoagland, Literary Explorer of Nature and Himself, Dies at 93
The Never-Ending Trial of Tyra Banks
Nick Reiner Pleads Not Guilty in the Killing of His Parents
BAFTAs Guest With Tourettes Shouts Racial Slur During Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo’s Appearance
‘Survivor’ Is America
Architecture Prize Responds After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface
BAFTAs 2026: The Best and Worst Moments
The Soundtrack of the Doomscroll Generation? It’s Phonk.
‘The Inquisitor’ Review: Barbara Jordan Is Speaking
From Sundance Director to Head of Film Forum
Bad Bunny Sparks a Salsa Surge With Young Dancers
The ‘Scrubs’ Reboot, Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1 Finale Recap: On the Road Again
Susan Sheehan, Pulitzer-Winning Chronicler of Lives on the Margins, Dies at 88
Ethan Slater Stars as the Mime Marcel Marceau in ‘Marcel on the Train’
BAFTAs Winners 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Film, Besting ‘Sinners’
‘The Waterfall’ Review: A Mother’s Blessing and a Daughter’s Burden
Lisa Rinna Tells All in New Memoir, Including ‘Real Housewives’ and More
Rose Byrne Can, and Does, Do It All
Tom Noonan, Actor Renowned for Onscreen Menace, Dies at 74
Willie Colón: 14 Essential Songs and Albums
Political Drama ‘Yellow Letters’ Wins Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival
Kennedy Center Performance Canceled After Substance Poured on Ice Rink
Willie Colón, a Luminary of Salsa Music, Dies at 75
Prosecutors Oppose Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Appeal, Asserting Sentence Was Just
‘Shoresy’ Review: Heated (Brotherly) Rivalry
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Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why does the Yukon River look like that?
The non-UN member states with limited recognition (Updated 2026)
Same scenery as Cali but without the cost and crowds.
Given that rivers migrate over time, and that the entire border of The Gambia encircles the Gambia river - how likely is the river (or even parts of it under flow stress) to completely migrate out of The Gambias borders eventually? What will happen to the country as a whole?
Atoll land reclamation
Gobeklitepe - Sanliurfa/Turkiye
With Sao Paulo & Mexico City both knocked out of the top 10 largest cities in the world alongside recent fertility declines, is it probable that a city in the New World will not be in the top 10 for the rest of the century?
Greece’s snow cover (red) faces historic low. Only 2% of its territory. The average for this day of the year is 14% (2004-2026)
China and India would have 6 spots in the Top 20 most populous countries if counting only by their provinces/states.
In 1930 were these cliques in china controlled by the republic of china or were they all their own independent countries?
What is this?
Rivers in czechia
Which place or region in the world would you most associate with the geographical concept of "plentiful abundance"?
Could this be an eskar?
Flag Map of The Earth In Minecraft (330x134 and by me)
Why did French Indochina got split into multiple small entities unlike Dutch East Indies or even British India to some extent?
Why is Los Padres National Forest in California divided into two non-contiguous areas?
Other seasons?
Aside from New York, New York what other cities carry the same name as the state, province or country they're in?
What's with the one red spot on this map?
Why isn't Baguio (Philippines) a lot bigger?
Among countries that have moved their capital in the last 50-100 years, how has this generally been viewed later?
What would happen if the world reentered the ice age?
Deserts of the world

The Public Domain Review

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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)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)

The Quietus

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“Sounds can have their own meaning” – Remembering Éliane Radigue
Vic Bang – Oda
The Strange World of… Shane Parish
Relentless Alloys: MENT in review
Éliane Radigue has Died, Aged 94
Lamisi – Let Us Clap
Julian Hand & Demian Castellanos – Callanish Audio Visual Research
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for February Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Ishmael Ali – Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper
Getting off the Bus: Loula Yorke Interviewed
Ben Vince – Street Druid
Forgotten Words: The Raincoats’ Three Lives
Three Decades On: Sepultura’s Roots At 30
Reissue Of The Week: Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse
Unbeatable: Drum’s Not Dead by Liars, 20 Years On
Peaches – No Lube So Rude
Pulp Share New Song, ‘Begging For Change’
Sunn O))) Share New Song, ‘Butch’s Guns’
John Coltrane Live Album ‘Tiberi Tapes’ Set for First Release
Language, Land, Truth: First Nations Music in So-Called Australia, by Vanessa Morris
Organic Intelligence LIII: Slovakian Techno
Ancient to the Future: Discombobulated by Hen Ogledd
Voka Gentle – Domestic Bliss
Black Midi’s Cameron Picton Launches New Band, My New Band Believe
Bristol New Music Reveals Lineup for 2026 Edition
Cabaret Voltaire Unveil Live Album, ‘But What Time Is It Really?’
Alabaster DePlume Details New EP, ‘Dear Children Of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue’
Vecna Guy’s Track Record: Jamie Campbell Bower’s Favourite Albums
Charli xcx – Wuthering Heights
Visible Cloaks Detail First Album in Nine Years, ‘Paradessence’
London Festival RALLY Announces 2026 Lineup
Ana Roxanne Returns with First Solo Album in Six Years

Bandcamp Updates

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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
The Past, Present, and Future of Dance Music in D.C.
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto, “Paper Masks”
More Bands Left Behind By Streaming
Lucid Express, “Instant Comfort”
Class of ’86: Unsung Classics From The Year Thrash Broke
The Sound of One String Singing: A Guide to Arnold Dreyblatt
Cracking Open the Crypt of the Wizard
KMRU, “Kin”
The Improbable Journey of Dr Strangely Strange, Ireland’s Psych-Folk Pioneers
Worm, “Necropalace”
Essential Releases, February 13, 2026
25 Years In, Morr Music’s Electronic Empire Remains Unstoppable
Melbourne’s Cosmic Funk and Jazz Scene Punches Above Its Weight
Various Artists, “Mastery Quantum Sound”
The Tape Label Report, January 2026
Bandcamp Radio Adds Electronic Music and Indie to the Lineup
Where to Start With M., Black Metal’s Ascendant Dark Prince
Colin Self, “respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (Expanded)”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
In the ’70s, Grupo Um Forged New Pathways in Brazilian Jazz
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Laughter In Summer”
Kenneth Kirschner’s Book of Musical Days
Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker, “DOUBLE-WIDE”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, January 2026

dusted

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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)
rest symbol — s/t (AN1MA)
Midori Hirano — Otonoma (Thrill Jockey)
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
The Paranoid Style  —  Known Associates (Bar/None)
Final Dose — Endless Woe (Self-released)
Luke Temple & The Cascading Moms — Hungry Animal (Western Vinyl)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Eliza Garth — By the River (Centaur)
Shaking Hand — Shaking Hand (Melodic)
Robert Deeble — The Space Between Us (Mind Bomb Publishing)
Tyshawn Sorey — Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
YĪN YĪN — Yatta! (Glitterbeat)

Pitchfork

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Underscores Drops New Single “Tell Me (U Want It)”
Metallica Confirm Life Burns Faster Residency at Sphere
Bill Callahan Laughs at Death
Squarepusher Readies New Album Kammerkonzert
Buke and Gase Break Up
American Football Share Video for New Song “Bad Moons”
Wu Lyf Announce New Album A Wave That Will Never Break
Phil Collins, Wu-Tang Clan, Sade, and Oasis Nominated for Rock Hall
Still Right Here
Days of Ash EP
No Lube So Rude
Everywhere Isn’t Texas
Éliane Radigue, Minimalist and Musique Concrète Innovator, Dies at 94
Turnstile, Geese, Pavement Booked for Atlanta Festival Shaky Knees
Tori Amos Introduces Her New Album With “Stronger Together”
Ca$ino
petal rock black
Cloud 9
Blasé Saint
Topshelf Records Drops Ekko Astral
Watch Baby Keem Get Scammed in “Birds & the Bees” Video
Hurray for the Riff Raff Announce Live Album Live Forever
PinkPantheress Named BRIT Awards’ 2026 Producer of the Year
Harry Styles Set to Host and Play SNL
Yaya Bey, Baby Keem, Visible Cloaks, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Mike Patton Supergroup Tomahawk Reunite for Tour With the Melvins
Max Richter Lines Up North American Tour
Bon Iver to Launch Archival Series With New Live Album
Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, Hayden Pedigo, June Chikuma, More Join NTS Radio as Residents
Blame the Clown

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Eric Goebelbecker
The Art of Finding Dory / Jellyfish: A Natural History
Small Pens
Retro Recomendo: Sleep
Book Freak #197: The Denial of Death
Lodging Hacks/Unusual Tours/Better Asia Nomad Options
What’s in my NOW? — Marcus Baw
Batmanga Vol. 1 / Vader
Fertilizer
Best Case Scenarios / Unloop / Craft Supply Bin

McMansion Hell

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for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
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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
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer?
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake)
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home
Homestyle Bibimbap
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New)
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù)
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs)
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens)
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Madeleines
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing)
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear
Fake 'Nduja
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile?
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales
Our Favorite Features of 2022
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