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WhatsApp vs NSO Group, round 2
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Bruce Wayne Banned From Walmart!
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That's what rose to the top for whatever reason
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
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My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Kiki – The accountability monster for people who are easily distracted
Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
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MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
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Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
Margin Call
The Book of PF, 4th edition
Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
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SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)
Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z)
Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (Reuters)
Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some compare to an executive assistant filter unwanted calls, as others complain it makes people hard to reach (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal)
Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World)
A look at China's "genius class" system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit $200K+ as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their companies were pitched lower amounts (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

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Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
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lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
Beautiful Mermaid — Mermaid Rendering, Made Beautiful
OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications · Luna’s Blog
Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic
Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier
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AntiRender - See Through The Architectural BS
Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung
The Agent Skills Directory
AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) - YouTube
Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level | Hacker News
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
Best gas masks | The Verge
[2601.20245] How AI Impacts Skill Formation
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Code is cheap. Show me the talk.
Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like - MacStories
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants | Hacker News
Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
The LEGO Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership - About Us - LEGO.com
flameshot: Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software (Qt/C++)
Software Survival 3.0. I spent a lot of time writing software… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 – Wiki Education
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Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
Grid.Space for Education - STEM Learning Tools
Wallace and Gromit Font
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level — University of Bonn
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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
Claude Code Opus 4.5 Performance Tracker | Marginlab
Some notes on starting to use Django
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory – Dan Shapiro's Blog
HN Arcade - Discover games from Hacker News
Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post
The state of Linux music players in 2026 // crescentro.se
SparkToro research - AIs are highly inconsistent when recommending brands or products
WaPo Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory
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Moltbook | Hacker News
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How British queues got out of hand • Tim Harford
Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"
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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast - Ars Technica
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microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
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You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule
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Jeff Geerling: Ode to the AA Battery
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Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant
Playstation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible – RedGamingTech
Artvee
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amlalabs/amla-sandbox
How to explain Generative AI in the classroom « dale lane
A lot of population numbers are fake
The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension...in his garage
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apt-bundle A declarative package manager for apt, inspired by Homebrew’s brew bundle.
Bogdan's Blog – From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
Singing the gospel of collective efficacy (Interconnected)
Overview - Agent Skills
Shelvy - Share Your Reading List
Where I'm at with AI | Paul Osman
My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)
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The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers
Cutting Up Curved Things - Cam Pedersen
Opinion | Young People Are Using A.I. to Skip the Hardest Part of Growing Up - The New York Times
The People’s Graphic Design Archive.
Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent | OpenAI
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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
Rare Albatross Coasts Above California Waters Far From Home
You Wouldn’t Want to Butt Heads With This Small Dinosaur
How to View the Artemis II Moon Launch
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
A New Way to Flirt: Dazzle Potential Mates With Patterns Invisible to Humans
Sonic Booms and Seismic Waves Can Reveal Where Space Junk Crash-Lands
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
Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas
Dutch Court Orders Netherlands to Protect Bonaire From Climate Change
Texas Sues Delaware Nurse Practitioner for Mailing Abortion Pills to the State
Camping on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Pillbugs Are Getting Top Dollar Online. Poachers Have Noticed.
Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95
Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned H.I.V. Denialist, Dies
A Shift for NOAA’s Surveys: From Science to Mining
How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier
Radar Scans of Antarctica Offer Clues to What’s Happening on Jupiter’s Moon
U.S Has Officially Withdrawn From the Paris Climate Accord
Thomas Fogarty, 91, Who Helped Revolutionize Vascular Surgery, Dies

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Publisher Correction: A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
Publisher Correction: Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous
Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough
Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
Light-powered bacteria become living chemical factories
This robot hand detaches and walks by itself
Can academia handle my religious faith?
How DeepMind's genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries
China is betting on ‘optical’ computer chips – will they power AI?
Author Correction: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands
Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable
Genetically engineered ‘stinkweed’ comes up roses for making seed oil
Developmental convergence and divergence in human stem cell models of autism
Still conscious? Brain marker signals when anaesthesia takes hold
ArXiv says submissions must be in English: are AI translators up for the job?
This AI has chemical expertise — and helps synthesize 35 new compounds
Daily briefing: Brain–immune crosstalk worsens the damage of heart attacks
48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant
Five ways to make the academic workplace happier and healthier this year
Critical social-media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Preserving the respiratory system
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
How much exercise do you really need?
Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa
Constraints on axion dark matter by distributed intercity quantum sensors
Prethermalization by random multipolar driving on a 78-qubit processor
Multimodal learning with next-token prediction for large multimodal models
Radiation-tolerant atomic-layer-scale RF system for spaceborne communication
Accurate determination of the 3D atomic structure of amorphous materials
Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut–brain axis
Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour
Optical control of integer and fractional Chern insulators
Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy
Population-scale sequencing resolves determinants of persistent EBV DNA
Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source
Bandwidth-tuned Mott transition and superconductivity in moiré WSe2
Human and bacterial genetic variation shape oral microbiomes and health
Frequency reproducibility of solid-state thorium-229 nuclear clocks
PAF15–PCNA exhaustion governs the strand-specific control of DNA replication
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance
A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread
Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability
Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome
A cavity-array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing
A cross-population compendium of gene–environment interactions
Vacuum ultraviolet second-harmonic generation in NH4B4O6F crystal
Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated Gi signalling
Limit of atomic-resolution-tomography reconstruction of amorphous nanoparticles
Optofluidic three-dimensional microfabrication and nanofabrication
Ferromagnet-like binary switching of a Stoner–Wohlfarth antiferromagnet
The Ocean Equity Index
A flexible digital compute-in-memory chip for edge intelligence
Optical control over topological Chern number in moiré materials
Disentangling multiple gas kinematic drivers in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Holistic motor control of zebra finch song syllable sequences
A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities
GlycoRNA complexed with heparan sulfate regulates VEGF-A signalling
Pre-assembly of biomolecular condensate seeds drives RSV replication
Structures of Ostα/β reveal a unique fold and bile acid transport mechanism
Observation of a superfluid-to-insulator transition of bilayer excitons
Optical switching of a moiré Chern ferromagnet
Vagal blood volume receptors compensate for haemorrhage and posture change
Structure and mechanism of the human bile acid transporter OSTα–OSTβ
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Chill out: freezing temperatures produced by letting a stressed alloy relax
Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious ‘dark oxygen’
Exposome studies can improve lung health
AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection
A step towards building miniature human livers
Scraps of viral DNA in biobank samples reveal secrets of Epstein–Barr virus
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields
Funding cuts could put research into emerging threats to lung health at risk

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The essential nature of creative endeavors
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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
From sequence to function: Bridging single-molecule kinetics and molecular diversity
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Can Tom Homan De-escalate ICE Tensions in Minnesota?
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Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Energy Sector, Killing 12 Miners
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A Surprisingly Humane SNL Sketch About Changing Your Mind
The Storms That Teach What We Can Tolerate
The Man Who Broke Physics
The AI Companies Trying to Make Grief Obsolete
Ammon Bundy Is All Alone
‘Trust Has Been Breached’
Trump’s Relationship With the Media
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Could Flood the Earth. Can a 50-Mile Wall Stop It?
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The Upside of Not Fitting In
Trump’s New Method of Humiliation
The Iranian Hedgehog vs. the American Fox
Americans Love Their Neighbors
Melania Is a Horror Movie
The Markets Are Getting Used to Trump
America Will Be Reading the Epstein Files for Decades
‘She Works on Levels That People Don’t Even Know’
Trump’s Fed-Chair Pick Is an Interest-Rate Hawk—Or Is He?
The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous
‘It’s a Five-Alarm Fire’
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Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Noninterchangeable Parts
Meet the New Proud Boys
How to Survive the Information War
The Writer’s Magic Trick

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Judge ordered 5-year-old released, but data shows ICE is detaining more kids
The chairs from that viral photo of the Bidens and Carters? They sold for $11K.
The Minneapolis police chief tried to repair his force. Can it survive ICE?
Can you pass this quiz on Black history?
Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minneapolis
Farmers took in a freezing calf. Their kids cuddled up with her.
Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS.
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Protesters take to streets nationwide to decry ICE tactics in Minneapolis

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Russia strikes Ukrainian energy sector after Trump push for pause
Iran’s missiles pose deadly threat, gulf allies warn, as Trump weighs strikes
Israeli airstrikes kill 32 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Epstein file photos appear to show Andrew crouched over female on floor
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Death of an Indian tech worker
While politicians shape U.S.-China relations, their families turn to the stock market
Is AI a bubble? Davos leaders say no
Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
Six years, two presidents, and one app: TikTok’s U.S. saga explained
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More Colleges Are Using Direct Admissions. They're Still Discovering What Makes It Successful.
Texas A&M Shutters Women's and Gender Studies Program, Citing New Curricular Rules
UVa to Trump: No Illegal DEI Here
Can an AI Tool Help Students Disagree Better?
Does American Studies Have a Credibility Problem?
What Keeps Higher Ed Up at Night
AI Detection Pushed My Students to Use AI
Can AI Improve Intro Courses? A New Courseware Project Hopes So.
Two States Are Pausing H-1B Hiring at Public Universities. Here's What That Could Mean.
Is 'Literary Fiction' Just Another Genre Now?

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 01, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 28, 2026
I recently read something claiming "no peaceful protest has ever been successful without a threat of violence from a third party." Does this hold up from a historical context?
In societies with menstruation taboos, how were women who didn't have periods viewed?
High School Musical (Jan 20, 2006) argues that in high school dynamics, the basketball players and theater kids had to stick to the stuff you know. How accurately does this reflect turn-of-the-century student social dynamics sticking to the status quo in North American suburban schools?
where to start reading history ?
In modern times we have “weeaboos” and “wehraboos”, in colonial America were there colonists who felt the same cultural obsession with Native Americans?
I'm a serving member of the British armed forces on 1 Sept 1939. What are my chances of surviving WWII and how does it differ between the services?
Oftentimes, the America of the 2020s is described as akin to the Gilded age (i.e. 1890s). Today, our robber barons are all connected to a certain J. Epstein. Was there a similar sort of figure in the america of the gilded age? In the days of child labor and exploitation, surely there must have been?
Why do the British produce so many things about detectives and the French produce so many things about thieves?
In the ancient world, how did society regard people who doubted or disbelieved mainstream explanatory beliefs?
Why would a dictator need a peasants signature in order to steal their land and become the sole owner?
How much did the Zoroastrians influence the Abrahamic faiths?
When a new bust or statue of a Roman or Greek is discovered, how do people figure out who the bust is of? Is it just based on resemblance to other works, or are there inscriptions or other contextual indicators?
Did British colonists in Australia/South Africa/etc die of skin cancer in large numbers?
Why did China annex Tibet?
Why are Arab tribes still politically and socially important in countries like Syria and Iraq, but much less influential in places like Lebanon or the Maghreb? What historical factors explain this difference?
Why are the children of interracial relationships said to have poor health in historic documents?
What, if any, rights or laws did citizens of fallen states willingly give up, and why?
Is the "800 years of Muslim Rule" in Spain a historiographical oversimplification? Would a period of ~350 years (711-1085) be a more accurate definition of sovereign hegemony?
Is Seven Pillars of Wisdom worth reading?
When did American public opinion change on service-industry jobs? Society went from “any honest work is good work” to fast-food jobs are for teenagers and “losers”.
Did the Vatican investigate miricales during the late middle ages, and if so how were such invesigations conducted?
On average, how many books would a literate person read in their lifetime before the printing press?
[Time] The invention of mechanical clock is often credited for accelerating economic development and leading to the rise of modernity. Why did it emerge first in Western/Central Europe and not in any other commercially and technologically advanced societies (ex. Song China)?

Linguistics

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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
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)
Kaskean. A new recorded language in the archives of Ḫattuša?

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New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
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The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy
Halloween costume: the night sky
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025

Open Culture

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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
The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago
The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas

NYT > Technology

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The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis
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
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
Apple Reports Record iPhone Sales Amid Holiday Bump
Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%
Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year
Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care
With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
G.M. Shares Rise as Investors Are Encouraged by 2026 Prospects
The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know
Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety
As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over Minneapolis Shootings
New Videos of the Beckham Feud Are Fake. Nobody Seems to Care.
Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok
Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own
Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End

NYT > Arts

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Grammy Awards Live Updates: Kendrick Lamar and Leon Thomas Win Early Awards
Grammys 2026 Winners: Updating List
On ‘S.N.L.,’ Tom Homan’s Advice to ICE: ‘Don’t Get Filmed’
‘Melania’ Review: 20 Stage-Managed Days in the Life of the First Lady
How Lesley Manville Is Leaving ‘Oedipus’ Audiences Spellbound
Catherine O’Hara Was Always a Delight
Art for All: A Smithsonian Museum Spreads Its Bounty for America’s 250th
The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler
Sean Hayes, Ethan Slater and Alia Shawkat Star in Off Broadway Shows in February
At a Grammys Light on Drama, All Eyes Will Be on Bad Bunny
R&B May Have a Major Grammys Night. Leon Thomas Is Ready.
6 Takeaways from ‘Melania,’ the Melania Trump Documentary
J. Cole, Bruce Springsteen: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Starts His Days With This Podcast
‘Golden’ gives K-pop its first ever Grammy.
Meet the 8 nominees for best new artist.
Here’s the latest.
After nearly 40 years, Candi Staton returns to the Grammys.
Who’s nominated, performing and hosting?
How to watch the 68th annual Grammy Awards.
‘Golden’ From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Wins, Giving K-Pop Its First Grammy
X.J. Kennedy, a Poet of Wit Who Clung to Rhyme and Meter, Dies at 96
Best Movies and Shows Streaming in February 2026
2026 Grammys: How to Watch, Red Carpet Time and Stream Details
28 Fun Things to Do in NYC in February 2026
The Times Needed Broadway Fans. Enter the Mincefluencers.
Demond Wilson, Long-Suffering Son on ‘Sanford and Son,’ Dies at 79
Where to Watch Catherine O’Hara’s Best Performances, From ‘Beetlejuice’ to ‘Best in Show’
Catherine O’Hara: A Life in Pictures
Macaulay Culkin And Others Pay Tribute to Catherine O’Hara After Her Death
Roger Allers Dies at 76; Helped Put ‘Lion King’ on Screens and Onstage
Björn Roth, Steward of an Expansive Family Art Practice, Dies at 64
Catherine O’Hara, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71
The Last Sundance in Park City Ends on an Aptly Misty Moment
Review: In Justin Peck’s New Ballet, Beethoven Gets Sporty
How Timothée Chalamet Makes His Point in ‘Marty Supreme’
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
‘Marty Supreme’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Peyton List Steps Into ‘Heathers’ for Her Off Broadway Debut
10 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Can Food Be Art? Denmark Is Finding Out.
Brett Ratner Makes Directing Comeback With ‘Melania’
Cartier-Bresson’s Portrait of a Changing Europe, 70 Years On
28 Fun Things to Do With You Kids in NYC This Winter
These Pictures of Westminster Dogs Are Best in Show
‘Natchez’: Histories Clash in a Complex Look at the City
Jimmy Kimmel Teases ‘Melania’
‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: Wanna Bet?
Trump and First Lady Attend Premiere of ‘Melania’ at Kennedy Center
In Hostile Times, Maine Immigrants Cherish Artistic Traditions
Clark Art Institute Names Esther Bell as Next Director
Review: Without Its Star, Noche Flamenca Still Shines
Dudamel and the Philharmonic Partner With Carnegie Hall on Operas
Will Eisner’s Comics and Graphic Novel IP is Up for Sale
Wynton Marsalis, Founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, to Step Down
‘The Karate Kid’ and ‘Clueless’ Join National Film Registry
Alive on the Edge of the World, and Suddenly at Its Center
Bad Bunny vs. Kendrick Lamar vs. Lady Gaga! Who Should Win at the Grammys.
The Shakers’ Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
Newark Museum of Art Names a New Leader
Before Tilly Norwood, This C.G.I. Actress Was Considered an ‘It Girl’
Rediscovered Warhols That Warhol Never Saw
A Puppet Theater Festival in Chicago Brings Warmth and Light

Geography

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Why did humans as a tropical species migrate to colder places but still lack many adaptations like fur?
Does North America have anything remotely similar to the Scottish landscapes?
Japan's GDP per capita is now almost 10k lower than Italy
Cities With the Most Diverse Climates
What's this sparsely populated area in the Eastern Kansas, in-between its densely populated corridors?
Snow cover in Europe (February 1, 2026)
Could flooding the depressions in the Sahara help turn the desert green?
Why is Somalia a desert near equator and why do they look different from other Africans?
What are these large 'holes' around Military Installations?
Is El Capitan the hardest mountain to climb?
What are the most unusual road signs in your country/region?
Is there a non-Cold War reason for why the area around Berlin is so empty?
The most inhospitable human settlements, in terms of climate: Dallol, Ethiopia and Oymyakon, Russia
Where would you consider to be the most geographically ideal place to live?
A river within the water? What is the reason for this phenomenon? It's amazing how mysterious and immense the sea is.
What's the story behind this patch of German territory inside the Swiss boarder?
North of the Kan'etsu tunnel, Yuzawa is one of the snowiest towns in the world (11 m/year on average). To the south, it barely snows. What are other examples of dramatic, visible differences in weather within short distances?
Between the Rocky Mountains and the Alps, where can you find the most beautiful landscapes and awe inspiring vistas?
Why are cars in South Korea so big despite the country's density and mountainous topography that limits space?
"The Star and Crescent Volcano" in the Haruj Volcanic Field, Libya
Why is it common for coastal Southern California to record a higher peak temperature during a winter month than a summer month?
Longest River
Population Density of the World in 1900. Most of the Earth except Europe, India and China was pretty sparsely populated just a century ago
Countries just a little above the equator have highest recorded temp but closest to the equator don’t.
Ecoregions of USA

The Public Domain Review

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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)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut

The Quietus

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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
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for January by JR Moores
Tashi Dorji – Low Clouds Hang, This Land is on Fire
Cabaret Voltaire Announce Final North America Tour
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
Marta Del Grandi – Dream Life
Places To Be: Emma Warren on the Importance of Youth Clubs to British Culture
The Body & The Person: Cosey Fanni Tutti at Humber Street Gallery
Reissue of the Week:  Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95
Notions of Decadence: Half a Century of Bowie’s Station To Station
Megadeth – Megadeth
Pulp, Depeche Mode, Beth Gibbons and More Feature on New War Child Charity Record
Kim Gordon, KMRU and More Join Rewire 2026 Lineup
Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan on Susumu Yokota

Bandcamp Updates

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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”
Tall Dwarfs & Hairybreath Monsters: A Chris Knox Bestiary
Kill Ugly Pop: A Guide to Lip Cream
Jersey Club Keeps on Moving
The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
The Best Metal Albums of 2025

dusted

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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)
Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan)
Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)

Pitchfork

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Grammy Winners 2026: See the Full List
Inside Pitchfork’s First-Ever Best New Music Party
Chromakopia Wins the First-Ever Best Album Cover Award at 2026 Grammys
Kehlani Wins Best R&B Performance for “Folded” at 2026 Grammys
Zach Top Wins Best Traditional Country Album for Ain’t in It for My Health at 2026 Grammys
Clipse Win Best Rap Performance for “Chains & Whips” at 2026 Grammys
Cirkut Wins Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at 2026 Grammys
Nine Inch Nails Win Best Rock Song for “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” at 2026 Grammys
The Cure Wins Best Alternative Music Album for Songs of a Lost World at 2026 Grammys
The Cure Win Best Alternative Music Performance for “Alone” at 2026 Grammys
Yungblud Wins Best Rock Performance for “Changes” at 2026 Grammys
Grammys 2026 Red Carpet Photos: Sabrina Carpenter, FKA twigs, Wet Leg, and More
Doechii Wins Best Music Video for “Anxiety” at 2026 Grammys
FKA twigs Wins Best Dance/Electronic Album at 2026 Grammys
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Win Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at 2026 Grammys
Watch Cardi B Perform “Bodega Baddie” and “ErrTime” on Saturday Night Live
How to Live Stream the 2026 Grammys
Grammys Performers 2026: See the Full Lineup
A Walk Across the Rooftops
Completely Necessary
“Murder She Wrote”
Bruno Mars to Perform at 2026 Grammys
Listen to Hayley Williams’ New Project, Power Snatch
Red Hot Chili Peppers Documentary Coming to Netflix
See Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, and More in First Look at Sam Mendes’ Beatles Biopics
Gabe ’Nandez Will Show Them All
11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: xaviersobased, Shackleton, and Joyce Manor
Grammy Nominations 2026: See the Full List Here
Charli XCX’s The Moment Review: The Pop Music Satire This Era Deserves
I Used to Go to This Bar

Cool Tools

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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
TeamLab Borderless / Listen to Whales / Kitchen drawer multitool
Book Freak #194: When Things Fall Apart
Most Popular City/Europe Rail Travel Trends/Mexican Sites Admission Hikes

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)
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
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