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I Fixed Windows Native Development
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Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State
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Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a "global AI commons" at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (Financial Times)
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (Wall Street Journal)
Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit "relates to a recent procurement decision" (Business Insider)
Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain (Financial Times)
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits (Axios)
India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Shamblog
MonoSketch - Unleash your ideas with ASCII
Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed. | Can.ac
Introducing Markdown for Agents
Searching for Birds
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
The AI Vampire. This was an unusually hard post to… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium
How I Use Claude Code | Boris Tane
The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
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Font Rendering from First Principles
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
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Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube
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OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
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The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday - Cam Pedersen
My Skill Makes Claude Code GREAT At TDD
The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026? | by Lukas Niessen | Feb, 2026 | Medium
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Functional Data Structures and Algorithms. A Proof Assistant Approach
I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed
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Why Vampires Live Forever | Machiel Reyneke
Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 - Ars Technica
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief
jsattler/BetterCapture: The macOS screen recorder for the rest of us - always free and open source with a native look and feel 📺
The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage
The Bootstrap | Internals for Interns
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Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
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UE mira a eliminare lo scroll infinito: primo intervento DSA contro il design 'addictive'
50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century | TIME
Font Review Journal
The surprising case for AI judges | The Verge
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark | OpenAI
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool) (Interconnected)
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses - The New York Times
My Grandma Was a Fed - Lessons from Digitizing Hundreds of Hours of Childhood - Sam Patterson
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Data Engineering for Large Models: Architecture, Algorithms & Projects
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asciimoo/hister: Web history on steroids
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (theshamblog.com)
Do Not Outsource Judgement. AI Is a Power Tool, Not a Substitute… | by Dan Crews | Feb, 2026 | Medium
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From specification to stress test: a weekend with Claude
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
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Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed | Hacker News
Epstein Exposed - The Most Comprehensive Epstein Files Database
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The wonder of modern drywall | Hacker News
Matt Shumer on X: "Something Big Is Happening" / X
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics | OpenAI
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Opinion | This Is the Real Reason to Make Bus Rides Free - The New York Times
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Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings - Aether Mug
Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here's what we plan to do for maintainers. - The GitHub Blog
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More Thoughts on the Authoritarian International - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Lines of Code Are Back (And It's Worse Than Before)
Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai
Optimal Timing for Superintelligence
Steve Yegge - AI Agents and the Future of Software Engineering: “employers shouldn’t reasonably expect more than three hours of AI-augmented work from engineers, per day.”
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How to make a living as an artist | Hacker News
Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
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Adventures in Neural Rendering – Interplay of Light
Four Apple products could be discontinued imminently - 9to5Mac
Amazon Engineers Grate Against Internal Limits on Claude Code - Business Insider
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About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views
The Scott Shambaugh Situation Clarifies How Dumb We Are Acting | Ardent Performance Computing

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NC gas bill Absurd!!!!
Petition to City Council to revoke rezoning adjacent to Sandy Creek Park
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Bernie Sanders heads to Durham, backing challenger against NC Democrat in Congress
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Today’s Google Alert “Durham Distillery shuts down” gave us a Conniption: it’s Canada, not Durham NC.
Durham convention center filling for Bernie and Nida event

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These Unsinkable Tubes Could Help Harvest Energy From the Ocean
Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs
Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks
An Elephant Is Blind Without Its Whiskers
TV, It’s Not Just for Humans Anymore
This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward.
Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
Lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found
Could an Electronic Coach Help Ski Jumpers Leap Farther?
Alfred Blumstein, Who Transformed the Study of Crime, Dies at 95
Trump Erased the Endangerment Finding. Here Come the Lawsuits.
A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.
RFK Jr. Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schools
El Niño May Be Back This Summer, Bringing Drought and Floods
What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation
Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change
‘Kramer/Fauci’ Revisits a Sparring Match During the AIDS Crisis
4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease
Senate Questions Health Care Firm for Profiting Off Program Meant for Poor
Satellite Pictures Show Snow And Ice Across North America
New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
Bans on Many CBD Products Loom This Year
Four States Sue Administration Over Loss of Public Health Funds
Mexico May Be on Brink of Losing Its Measles-Free Status
Trump Orders Dept. of Defense to Buy Electricity From Coal Sources
U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges
Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding
‘Galileo’ Musical, Starring Raúl Esparza, Will Open on Broadway
Dr. Oz Says Drinking Is a ‘Social Lubricant.’ Some Experts Worry About That.
Seals Are Recruited to Study the Ocean Under Antarctic Glaciers
A Gray Wolf’s Visit to Los Angeles County Is a First in Nearly a Century
Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests
How Are Health Care Costs Affecting You?
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.
Can Mountain Lions Survive as Humans Close In? California Is Trying to Find a Way.

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Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data
CAR-T therapy provides relief for children with autoimmune diseases
Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars
Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate
When a colleague dies: exploring academia's ‘death-denying’ culture
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
‘I was nearly arrested’: escaping Myanmar’s military leadership for a PhD abroad
AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists
Publisher Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant
Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species
How some COVID vaccines triggered rare blood-clot disorder
US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat
From ancient temples to bomb craters: explore Laos’s layered history — in photos
Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection
Daily briefing: Hunter-gatherers in Europe’s ‘water world’ resisted the switch to farming for millennia
Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding
The ‘astounding’ rise of semaglutide — and what’s next for weight-loss drugs
Exercise rewires the brain — boosting the body’s endurance
Science funding needs fixing — but not through chaotic reforms
Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data
Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains
An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct
Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound
Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes
CSN5i-3 is an orthosteric molecular glue inhibitor of COP9 signalosome
Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys
Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction
Conformational diversity and fully opening mechanism of native NMDA receptor
Pre-incision structures reveal principles of DNA nucleotide excision repair
Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs
Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory
Months-long stability of the head-direction system
SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer
Targeting excessive cholesterol deposition alleviates secondary lymphoedema
Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet
Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source
Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value
Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules
Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells
Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen
Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics
African countries must take control of health policy
Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked
Babies at nursery shape each other’s microbiomes
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European ‘water world’ for millennia
Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe?
Robust partitioning of cell contents by physical instabilities and biological clocks
My ‘detective’ job as a competitive-intelligence consultant for pharma
Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves
Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches
Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier
My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong
Support people and their livelihoods rather than fossil-fuel industries
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Charge-neutral electrons are odd — except when they’re even
What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data
Daily briefing: The centre of our Galaxy might not be a black hole
Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema
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Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall
Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown
Preserving water under megacities is crucial — and urgent
Publishing less won’t save the research system
Marine protection in the Azores: a triumph for conservation and sustainability
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief
China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead
Daily briefing: Caffeine might reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline

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Imagining the rich lives of invertebrates
The elusive nature of consciousness
Myelin sheaths in the central nervous system can withstand damage and dynamically remodel
Transcription factor Etv3 controls the tolerogenic function of dendritic cells
Fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline in the Yangtze River
Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
Poxvirus attack of antiviral defense pathways unleashes an effector-triggered NF-κB response
Structural ontogeny of protein-protein interactions
Detecting supramolecular organic nanoparticles during heat wave
Mitochondrial control of fuel switching via carnitine biosynthesis
Mechanisms linking cytoplasmic decay of translation-defective mRNA to transcriptional adaptation
Metallic θ-phase tantalum nitride has a thermal conductivity triple that of copper
Dihydroxyhexanoic acid biosynthesis controls turgor in pathogenic fungi
Disappearance of a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy due to formation of a black hole
Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate
Functional gradients facilitate tactile sensing in elephant whiskers
Enhanced Li-ion diffusion improves N2-to-NH3 current efficiency at 100 mA cm−2
More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation
The invisible scientist
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e-Waste trade drives environmental injustice
Revive Brazil’s soy moratorium
Endangered Species Act changes threaten reefs
Erratum for the Research Article “Of the first five US states with food waste bans, Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste”
Erratum for the Research Article “WAPL functions as a rheostat of Protocadherin isoform diversity that controls neural wiring”
Building a better working dog
Giant primate research center may become sanctuary
Projects on silty Himalayan rivers raise alarms
RNA comes close to copying itself
Rare, dangerous side effects from COVID-19 vaccines explained
Polar Year plans heat up
Stewarding AI in agriculture research
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Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.
In First Public Comments Since Trump’s Racist Video, Obama Laments Lost Decorum
Texas Students Protest ICE Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s Threats
Shivering Americans Snap Up Firewood as Winter Grinds On
Republican State Legislators Rush to Limit Their Own Regulators
Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations
What They Wanted From Jeffrey Epstein
The Olympics Take Themselves Too Seriously. Bring Back Ski Ballet.
Everybody’s Mom
Iran Protester Dies in Custody, Raising Fears of Execution
Islamist Party’s Rise Overshadows Student Revolution in Bangladesh
Software? No Way. We’re an A.I. Company Now!
What We Know About the Kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s Mother

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Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless
A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Victory Leap
The Most Sought-After Head of Government in Europe
The Rise of Stephen Miller
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
An Enduring Assumption About Love
The Clash of Civilizations Was an Inside Job
10 Standout Indie Movies to Watch for This Year
This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters
Kristi Noem’s Audience of One
Why Europe Is Talking About Nukes
Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Who Is Fighting Over Nagorno-Karabakh?
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Soaring Through the Dark
Trump Is Suing His Own Government
The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Volodymyr Zelensky
Is AI Ruining Music?
The Blind Spot at the Top of the World
Matt Lauer’s Accuser Complicates Her Story
Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’
Photos of the Week: Plum Blossoms, Iron Fireworks, Carnival Queen
Putin Didn’t Know How Good He Had It
First Jobs Matter More Than We Think

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This small school district kept losing students to ICE. So it mobilized.
Authorities conduct operation near Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson
Don Lemon indictment: Video appears to contradict key claims

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‘Highly likely’ that rare poison killed Putin nemesis Navalny, Europeans say
Rubio says U.S., Europe ‘belong together,’ despite rifts over Trump policies
First major protests since capture of Maduro test Venezuela’s new leader
U.S. orders second aircraft carrier to Middle East as Trump pressures Iran
Transfer of ISIS suspects concludes as Trump pursues Syria exit
Ocasio-Cortez, Rubio to offer dueling visions of world order in Munich
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I let Alibaba’s AI agent plan my holiday. I ended up doing more work
Chinese boxing robots win fans in San Francisco
OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of “free-riding” on American R&D
How cheap Chinese phones catapulted Kenya into the global digital economy
Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?
Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
Immigrant women founders face double hurdle in Silicon Valley
Morocco wants to build AI that speaks for Africa
AI is dominating the world’s memory chips. That could make phones more expensive
Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs
The great Chinese EV exodus
Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can’t solve

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

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The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump's 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What's Its Plan for 2026?
Iowa, Kansas Consider Bills to Ban Race, Gender, Sexuality Content in Some College Courses
Oklahoma Is 'Phasing Out' Tenure. Will the Idea Catch On?
What's Max Weber Doing in the Columbia Antisemitism Report?
Assessment Is Ruining Teaching
A Small University Bet Big on Enrolling Athletes. Now It Will Close.
A Professor Tackled a Man Who Was Trying to Interview Gordon Gee. Now He’s on Leave.
‘A Moment of Reckoning’: After Epstein, Higher Ed Faces Hard Questions About Its Proximity to Power
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Stanford Cuts Fellowship Program for Underrepresented Students

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 15, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 11, 2026
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis famously died in an insane asylum for his insistence that other doctors wash their hands to reduce surgery mortality. What accounts do we have from colleagues who rejected ridiculed Semmelweis in life, only to find out many years after his death that he was right?
Is it actually historically accurate that pre-Famine Irish men really ate 12-14 pounds of potatoes a day? Is this a food myth that kept getting repeated or verified somewhere?
I’m a hot blooded 22 year old Roman male aristocrat in the middle-late Republic. My family is rich and prominent enough that I’ll most likely become Quaestor at 30, but Praetor is a stretch and consul is a long shot. What do I do with my time?
There's this post going around Reddit describing the Korean War as a genocide. Do historians consider it a genocide?
What preparations did the Germans make to the external weapons on u-boats to protect them against the effects of salt water in WWII?
"Jewish terrorism demanding independence [in Palestine]"? How much truth is behind that?
How quickly did Holocaust denialism emerge after the discovery of Nazi extermination camps in WWII?
One thing that seems pretty prevalent within capitalist economies are a variety of different scams/cons What kinds of conmen, scams and trickery existed within soviet style economies or Yugoslavia? What did "being a huckster" or conman look like in the socialist world? How did it differ?
George Washington was known as "Devourer of Villages" to the Iroquois. How did he get that name and did he live up to the reputation?
Were servants considered chaperones during the Regency Era onwards?
Why didn’t the USSR invade Romania in 1968? How close were we to such an invasion? Would the Western response have been different than that during the Prague Spring?
Practice of female warriors in Feudal Japan?
Antibiotics really are a miracle of modern medicine. Do we have first person accounts of people’s reactions of what it was like when penicillin became available to the general population (not just military)?
Did you really have to be of 'noble birth' to be a knight?
What caused the 1930's obsession with planets crashing into each other?
Did people ever feel like they were living in revolutionary times, even though they were not?
What was Umayyad Caliph Abdul Malik bin Marwan contribution to Arabisation exactly , and what were its long - term effects on the Islamic world?
When ancient empires fell, societies often reorganized to be more local/communal. Did the lowered inequality and reduced resource extraction lead to higher personal freedoms and standard of living for your typical commoner, or did the reduction of overall wealth and institutions do the opposite?
How did pre-modern people feed housecats before catfood without accidentally poisoning them?
I'm a young person of limited means in the northeastern US at the start of the 20th century. Don't have much going for me around these parts, and anyway I'd like to get out of town have some adventure, see the world. WHat options are available to me?
How did Roman soldiers rotate front to back during combat?
What's the history behind naming Mexico City's Avenida Presidente Masaryk after the Czech President?
We often hear that the middle ages were a period of scientific stagnation and religious zealotry. How did a scholar in 1200s Baghdad or Paris actually view the relationship between empirical observation and faith, and when did the dark ages narrative actually start?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
A centum Indo-Aryan language Bangani spoken in Uttarakhand, India. (Some grammatical observations on Baṅgāṇī)
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
UAM Corpus Tool
Hierarchical structure in language and action.
Introduction to the templatic verb morphology of Birhor (Birhoɽ), a Kherwarian Munda language
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)

MetaFilter Projects

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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
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New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
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Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
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The Immortal Remains

Open Culture

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The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism
How This Skyscraper Ruined Paris, and Why They’re Now Trying to Make It Invisible
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
How Brunelleschi Engineered Florence’s Iconic Dome
Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose
Were the Egyptian Pyramids Not Built Up, But Carved Down?: A Bold New Theory Explains Their Construction
Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964)
Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings
Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk
Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
The Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s Mysterious Manuscript That No One Can Read
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings
How the Beatles Wrote Their Songs: From Early Demos to Final Recordings
The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)

NYT > Technology

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Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
Could an Electronic Coach Help Ski Jumpers Leap Farther?
More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.
Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad
David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App
F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News
Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round
Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction
Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief
Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI
Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial
OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control
Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Argue in Landmark Trial
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?

NYT > Arts

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Milo Rau’s ‘Hate Radio,’ ‘Pelicot Trial’ and More Theater of the Real
Tom Ellis on the 1960s Movie That Blew His Mind
Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait
A Winter Surfer at Rockaway Beach Questions His Dedication
MIO: Memories in Orbit Evolves From Infuriating to Ingenious
Noah Kahan, James Blake: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
In ‘Neighbors,’ the Golden Rule Is ‘Get Off My Lawn’
Jacob Elordi, Heathcliff and the Controversy Over ‘Wuthering Heights’
Christie’s to Auction 3 of Agnes Gund’s Art Jewels
‘Neighbors’ Review: One Battle After Another
Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork
A Family’s Memories and a Nation’s Struggles in ‘My Father’s Shadow’
Stream These Documentaries on the Winter Olympics Going Back a Century
‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors
‘The Simpsons’ Hits Another Milestone
Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations
How ‘Wonder Man’ Can Reshape the Marvel Franchise
Ebo Taylor, Musical Innovator of Highlife and Afrobeat, Dies at 90
Vicki Abt, Who Said TV Talk Shows Coarsened Society, Dies at 83
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip’ Review: Grandpa Knows Best
10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
The Times’s TV Editor Shares How He Recaps Episodes
Watch: Emerald Fennell Narrates a Clip of Margot Robbie in ‘Wuthering Heights’
‘Wuthering Heights’ | Anatomy of a Scene
‘The Daily Show’ Gives President Trump Yet Another Inaugural Award
‘The Unknown’ Review: Sean Hayes Turns One Man Into a Mystery
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: No Time for Goodbye
Greg Brown, Guitarist Who Wrote Cake’s Biggest Hit, Dies at 56
‘Love Story’ Recreates a Tragic Romance
PEN America Names New Leadership After Gaza Fallout
‘Cold Storage’ Review: Liam Neeson vs. the Gross Green Threat
‘Kramer/Fauci’ Revisits a Sparring Match During the AIDS Crisis
Helmuth Rilling, Who Recorded Huge Swaths of Bach, Dies at 92
Beethoven’s ‘Egmont,’ by Way of Cate Blanchett and Jeremy O. Harris
‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Review: Canadian Fakin’
Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’: Lisa McGee Spins a Comedic Mystery
Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis
Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal Stolen Art.
‘The Monsters’ Review: A Redemptive Sibling Rivalry
Taylor Stanley Makes Their Presence Known in NYCB’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’
‘Scarlet’ Review: The Rest Is Anime
‘My Father’s Shadow’ Review: The Double Frame of Memory
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: Saving the World Again
‘Goat’ Review: Stephen Curry’s Animated Basketball Debut
‘Crime 101’ Review: Chris Hemsworth Leads Heist Drama
‘By Design’ Review: She’s Getting the Chair
How ‘The Traitors’ Builds Its Perfect Reality TV Cast
Why Are So Many Artists Night Owls?
New York Is Getting Sleepier. These Artists Are Wide Awake.
Jill Scott and Bisa Butler on Staying the Course
Late Night Boos Pam Bondi’s ‘Bratty’ Behavior
Turkish Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
Where to Stream ‘Varsity Blues’ and James Van Der Beek’s Best Performances
‘The Other Place’: Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy in a Psychosexual Sophocles Update
Artforum’s Top Editor Will Step Down
James Van Der Beek: The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star’s Life and Career in Photos
Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77
In His Second Act, James Van Der Beek Starred Online as a Proud Dad and Family Man

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Densest 5-km Circles in Europe
What's the Deal with this insane setup in the North West corner of Australia?
Much of Australia's Indian Ocean coast is uninhabited. An especially remote part is in the central section, known as Zuytdorp Cliffs. For roughly 150 km, the land simply ends in a 200-meter drop into the Indian Ocean. There is not a single settlement, road or structure for the entire stretch
What causes the contrasting land patterns in North vs. South India
What is the most unexplored, unknown and unique place you have been to?
How different was India's geography and climate when it was an island?
What countries were historically and culturally close before but not today?
Most people don't know that there is an ethnic Indian-majority country that speaks Dutch in the Amazon Rainforest and celebrates both Chinese New Year and Eid as national holidays
It’s as if the landmasses hate each other
Why is São Paulo such a low-profile city considering its size?
An unnamed kettle lake on the Nechako Plateau in British Columbia [OC]
Rare sight of African dust in snow capped mountains in Greece
Why is Manila so much larger than other cities in the Philippines?
I-70 in the high plains
Why is the Dnipro/Dnieper River so wide?
Which season does Turkish cities gets highest precipitation of the year
Why does France have a nuclear power plant inside a protected area?
Why do the Andes feel so.. barren?
At what size does it stop being "really big complex meteor crater" and start being "planet cracker"?
Realistically does anyone live in this part of Australia and if so, how is life like living there?
Countries and territories of the Americas based on whether they were namedropped by Bad Bunny and in the Beach Boys song "Kokomo"
Is it normal in the US to build cities in the mountains like in Mexico?
Why does the South Island of New Zealand have 822 mountains but no volcanoes and the North Island have 34 mountains and 50 volcanoes?
LA area climate be like

The Public Domain Review

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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)
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

The Quietus

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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
River Tweed Celebrated in new Installation
“Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed
Reissue of the Week: Sex Mad by Nomeansno
Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern
Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti Collaborate on New Album, ‘Seismo’
Scritti Politti Unveil Reissue of Debut Album
Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive
Charles Tyler Ensemble – Voyage from Jericho
Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs
Kim Gordon Shares New Song, ‘DIRTY TECH’
The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Karshni – Buck Wild
Jonny Greenwood Launches Action for his Music to be Removed from ‘Melania’ Movie
Plex say Farewell to Corsica Studios
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for February Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Keep It Punk, Keep it Simple: Eva LeBlanc of Traidora Interviewed
Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs – Persian Carpets
Direct Action Gets the Goods: An Interview with Leather.head
Nilza Costa – Cantigas
How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50
What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich Donates Gold Disc for Auction to Support Margate Venue WhereElse
Seb Rochford Shares New Finding Ways Track With Patrick Walden, Announces Tour
OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow
The Writing’s on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran
Sam Slater – Lunng
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads As Gangsta Rap Album
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Annie Hogan – Tongues In My Head

Bandcamp Updates

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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
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026
Daphni, “Butterfly”
Essential Releases, February 6, 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Yamila, “Noor”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tilaye Gebre, “Tilaye’s Saxophone With The Dahlak Band (የጥላዬ ሳክስ ከዳህላክ ባንድ ጋር)”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2026
Underground Medicine #1
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Ulrika Spacek, “EXPO”
Bandcamp Friday Returns This Friday, February 6
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Toni Geitani, “Wahj”
Introducing The Side Door, A New Column for Jam-Curious Weirdos
Haruhi Kobayashi, “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone”
Essential Releases, January 31, 2026
Perpetual Doom vs. Doomerism
Blackwater Holylight, “Not Here Not Gone”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tashi Dorji, “low clouds hang, this land is on fire”

dusted

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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)
Taker — Sons and Daughters (Self-released)
Department — The Audacity Files (Self-Release)
Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken — Double Reality Beyond Space And Time (Grong)
Cryptid Spawn — Black Phosphorous Dungeon (Iron Lung)
Cub — Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Editions (Mint)
أحمد [Ahmed] — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (OTOROKU)
Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 1
As previously mentioned, Dusted mainstay Jennifer Kelly is currently battling pancreatic cancer….
Angharad Davies & John Butcher — Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax)
Ye Vagabonds — All Tied Together (River Lea)

Pitchfork

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Cupid & Psyche 85
We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (Super Deluxe Edition)
“Iris”
Alex G and the Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan to Score Jane Schoenbrun Film
“Yeannn” [ft. Tezzus]
Lemonheads’ Fan Accuses Evan Dando of Sending Unsolicited Explicit Videos
James Blake Reveals North American Tour, Shares New Song
Irreversible Entanglements Announce New Album Future Present Past
Sturgill Simpson Unveils New Johnny Blue Skies Album
12 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Charli XCX, Feng, and More
Rewatching House Party, a True American Story
Jane Remover Drops New Venturing Song “In The Dark”
Listen to Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira’s New Wuthering Heights Song
Lykke Li Details Final Album The Afterparty, Shares New Song
COLD 2 THE TOUCH
MAN BITES DOG
Canada
Buckaroo
Scritti Politti to Reissue Rare Debut Album
“SPLURGINBAGS”
Watch Central Cee Turn Back Time in “Iceman Freestyle” Video
Tame Impala Announce 2026 North American Tour
Wednesday Leave Wasserman Over CEO’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Listen to Andrew Bird’s New Song for The Pitt
Dijon and Aimee Mann Set for Return of Bon Iver’s Eaux Claires Festival
Damon Albarn, Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest Join Forces for New Song
Butterfly
Cerulean
一包烟 (Yi Bao Yan)
Clearly Cursed

Cool Tools

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Purification Bottles/Cheapest Flights From Each State/Next Eclipse
What’s in my NOW? — Benoit
Things Organized Neatly / Sharks
Moving
Single sheet calendar / Secret Mall Apartment / Data poems
Book Freak #196: The Art of Spending Money
Travel Dollar Destinations/Bedbugs Tracking/Worldwide Rent Prices
What’s in my NOW? — Gearóid (Ged) Carroll
Wherever You Go / After Dinner Games
Gloves

McMansion Hell

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

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
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)
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