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A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India (Darren Loucaides/Financial Times)
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California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (Bloomberg)
YouTube revises policy to allow full monetization of nongraphic videos on sensitive issues including abortion, self-harm, suicide, and domestic and sexual abuse (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the last couple of months to raise a new round of financing (Alex Heath/Sources)
Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk's children, sues xAI, alleging Grok refused to stop making sexualized deepfakes of her, amid custody disputes (Peter Senzamici/New York Post)
As Meta shifts resources away from its Supernatural VR fitness service, users mourn the loss of a community built around the platform and its coaches (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama (Wired)
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Highlights From NASA’s Medical Evacuation From the Space Station
For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts
Toby Kiers, World Champion of Mycorrhizal Fungus
What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction
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Why This Fish Actually Needs a Hole in the Head
This Dinosaur Really Knew How to Get a Grip
Trump’s Steep Science Budget Cuts to Be Turned Back by Congress
Google’s Ex-CEO Backs Start-Up Approach to Big Telescopes for Space and Astronomy
Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules
U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments
Who is left on the International Space Station?
How NASA deals with astronauts’ medical needs on the I.S.S.
What happens during the astronauts’ return to Earth?
Is it risky to fly a sick astronaut home to Earth?
NASA Astronauts Return to Earth After Medical Evacuation From International Space Station
Kaiser Permanente Agrees to Pay $556 Million to Settle Medicare Overbilling Claims
NASA Begins Astronaut Space Station Medical Evacuation: What to Know
Weather Detours a Scientific Expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Extreme Weather Events Hit Around the World in 2025
E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines
Initial Obamacare Enrollment Drops by 1.4 Million as Expiring ACA Subsidies Drive Up Premiums
Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
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U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
Psilocybin Leads in Psychedelic Medicine, but Rollout Is Bumpy
China’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ Thinks Time Is on His Side
Trump Cuts to Energy Projects in Blue States Were Unlawful, Judge Rules
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Stop Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind Project
F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds
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New Children’s Vaccine Schedule May Not Be the Last of RFK Jr.’s Big Changes
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Louisiana’s Eroding Coast
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An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus
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Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing
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Iranians abroad wait for news from loved ones amid communications blackout
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U.S. announces launch of second phase of Gaza peace plan
Senate blocks Venezuela war powers bill after Vance breaks deadlock
Vance’s Greenland meeting ends with ‘fundamental disagreement’
Trump says Iran has stopped killings as U.S. weighs military options
Venezuela releases multiple detained U.S. citizens, State Department says
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With tensions high, Israel and Iran secretly reassured each other via Russia
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At Least 26 Faculty Members Faced Scrutiny for Charlie Kirk Comments. Here’s What Happened Next.
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | January 15, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 14, 2026
I am a hot-blooded young computer enthusiast in 1990 with a Windows 3.0 PC, a dial-up modem, and no regard for my parents' phone bill. What kind of vice and digital pleasures are available to me?
Did the absurdly light sentence for Ronald Ebens, an American autoworker who beat a Chinese engineer’s brains in with a baseball bat in 1982, represent a larger trend of anti-Asian sentiment?
Here they are! The winners of the r/AskHistorians "Best of 2025" Awards!
In Fellowship of the Ring, Pipe Weed is said to “probably” be a variety of Nicotiana, but today it’s a common to joke that it’s Cannabis. Did Tolkien ever make a statement on the matter? How would a contemporary man of his background view Cannabis use?
The city of Detroit lost about half a million residents between 1960 and 1980 as it faced high unemployment and rising crime. Despite this, Detroit's black population grew by about 250,000 in the same period. What would have attracted African Americans to move there during this time?
If a white parent had a child with a black or "coloured" person in Apartheid South Africa, what was their status?
Did the British Government run the British Empire?
Were there city planners in the 1950-70s who opposed the idea of the suburbs, car infrastructure, manicured lawns , etc?
How were medieval streets lit?
If someone was born in "Czechoslovakia" in 1867, where were they probably born?
What are the primary sources on "disproven" Malcolm Gladwell assertions? I've only ever heard blanket "well that's been disproven" replies to his work, does anyone have anything peer reviewed?
Why did Martin Luther suggest that Henry VIII's solution to not being able to divorce his first wife should be to simply "commit bigamy", and proceed with marrying Anne Boleyn without securing an annulment first?
In Martin Scorsese's film Kundun, a monk informs the Dalai Lama of Tibetan monks and nuns being forced to have sex at gunpoint by the Chinese army, and of children being forced to murder their parents. What are the sources and validity behind these claims?
How many US presidents have, while in office, sued journalists or news stations for libel or similar charges, and under what circumstances have they done so?
The Mongols are invading. As an unmarried noblewoman in Song-era China, what‘s going to happen to me?
How interconnected were Ashkanazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi communities historically? What did they think of each other?
What sort of music would the average person actually be used to singing and hearing in high medieval times? Was there some sort of equivalent of modern day pop and dance music, culturally? Is modern folk reflective at all of how it might have sounded like?
Did Nicolae Ceaușescu really not know what was coming?
How common were communists in the West who opposed the Eastern bloc/China, and how were they viewed?
What books to read on rise of fascist movements?
Where did Holocaust denying originate?
How old is the "kids these days worry me" mindset?
Have there been any significant "International Zones" in modern history?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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
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?
Site about online dictionaries of languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan etc.)
Q&A weekly thread - December 22, 2025 - post all questions here!
Death of Lars Johanson (8 Mar 1936 - 24 Nov 2025)
To the sign language experts here: researchers help create signs related to mental health terminology in Bangla Sign Language. Can I get a linguist's perspective?
The Attentional Optimization Hypothesis
Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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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
DOCTYPE magazine
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
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges)

Open Culture

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Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old
Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
When Pianist Maria João Pires Prepared to Perform the Wrong Mozart Concerto, Then Recovered Miraculously
“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir
Trevor Noah Explains How Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Pottery, Helped Him Overcome Life’s Tragedies
Can Genius Be Taught? The Polgár Sisters and the Experiment That Put the Question to the Test
Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)
The Ancient Tool Used in Japan to Strengthen Memory & Focus: The Abacus
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related
300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library

NYT > Technology

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How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online
A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington
State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy
Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok
OpenAI Teams Up With Cerebras in Chip Maker Deal
California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofits Say
Microsoft Pledges to Pay More for Electricity, Drawing Praise From Trump
Can We Build a Better Social Network?
Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images
Follow Ian McKellen Into the Mixed Reality Future in ‘An Ark’
Stewart Cheifet, Host of TV’s ‘Computer Chronicles,’ Dies at 87
Volkswagen Suffers More Than Rivals From Auto Industry Woes
Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Reduce Ties to California
Google’s Ex-CEO Backs Start-Up Approach to Big Telescopes for Space and Astronomy
Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I., Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

NYT > Arts

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Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020
He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day.
Holly Hunter Reaches for the Stars
As Megadeth Counts Down to Extinction, Dave Mustaine Opens Up
Bob Weir Is Gone, but the Dead’s Music Plays On
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas
‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Sympathy for the Devil
‘A Private Life’ Review: Jodie Foster Uncovers a Twisty Plot in Paris
‘Riot Women’ Review: Women of a Certain Rage
Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries
White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Rousseau
In ‘Sons of Echo’ Male Dancers March to Female Choreographers’ Beat
Tessa Thompson in ‘Hedda,’ and More Theater to Stream
Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dirty Work
‘The Rip’ Review: Clean Cop, Dirty Cop
Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs
Harvey Pratt, Who Designed the Native American Veterans Memorial, Dies at 84
John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93
‘Queen Kelly’ Review: His Majesty, Von Stroheim
‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Machine Yearning
‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Fortress of Feminine Mysteries
‘Shuffle’ Review: The Real Price of Rehab
‘Night Patrol’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the Night
‘Deepfaking Sam Altman’ Review: Altmanesque
‘All You Need Is Kill’ Review: It Doesn’t Bear Repeating
Colbert Jokes That Trump Has Found ‘a New National Bird’
Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Director Who Gave Theater a Free-Spirited Spin
Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook
Leonardo DiCaprio Is Honored at Annual National Board of Review Gala
Applying Richard Foreman’s Off-Kilter Aesthetic (and Ducks) to Opera
Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South in Letters to a Friend
Jim McBride Dies at 78; Brought Honky-Tonk Back to Country Music
Want Your MTV? A Rogue Site Is Bringing Back the Videos.
The Art of a Good Awards-Show Speech
If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One
Inside an Exploding Marriage: Belle Burden in Her Own Words
Jodie Foster: An American Oscar-Winner in Paris
In ‘Sound of Falling,’ a House Full of Secrets
Stephen Colbert Accuses Trump of ‘Invading Minnesota’
Kiefer Sutherland Is Arrested After Assaulting Ride-Share Driver, Police Say
Smithsonian Submits More Records in Face of Trump Deadline
The Kid Mero, Now a Morning-Radio Motormouth
Jimmy Carter, the Man From Plains, Had a Passion for Painting
BTS Unveils 2026-27 World Tour Dates. Here’s Where The K-Pop Stars Have Been.
Review: Boston Symphony Can’t Make the Case for Barber’s ‘Vanessa’
7 Albums I’m Looking Forward to in 2026
How Readers Voted on 17 Ways to Improve New York City
After Sudden Loss, Park Avenue Armory Hires New Artistic Leader
Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson to Star in ‘Fear of 13’ on Broadway
Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Win for His Stand-Up Special Sends a Bad Message
The New Museum Sets Reopening Date With New Artist Commissions
In ‘Ponies,’ Emilia Clarke Is Done With Dragons
130 Tracks of Guitar Per Song? Sunn O))) Is Back, and Going Big.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Books: A Guide
Jon Stewart Skewers Trump as ‘Acting President of Venezuela’
Leaders of Historians’ Group Veto Resolutions Critical of Israel
Dan Bongino, No Longer at the F.B.I., Will Return to Podcasting
L.A. Reid Settles Lawsuit Shortly Before Sexual Assault Trial
8 Stars Nikki Glaser Roasted in Her Golden Globes Monologue
Review: ‘Collage Revisited’ at Live Artery Festival

Geography

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What other countries besides New Zealand have retained their indigenous culture?
What would the world be like it north America was titled 90 degrees.
Top 10 countries with most positive perception of Russia (2025)
Japan's GDP per capita is now almost 10k lower than Italy
Who controls the North Pole?
Tristan da Cunha: Most isolated inhabited island in the world 🌋
What would happen to the World Climate if Chile would to suddenly appear in that position, including its mountains?
The reason why Warsaw has some of Europe's most modern skylines is because the Nazis destroyed 90% of the city and killed/expelled almost 1 million citizens. What's another city that was successfully rebuilt and is now beautiful?
each dot/pixel equals 100000 people in Europe
Can we all agree that regardless of your views, if USSR really did all these projects, it would be badass from geography's POV?
Shaded relief of Monterey Canyon (California)
Which places was been naturally, but recently formed?
Why do the two Koreas have opposite gender ratios?
The Auckland Islands, about 465 km south of mainland NZ, has an extremely consistent mild temperature. It's habour has never exceeded 19 degrees C, or subceeded -2.5 degrees. Is there any other places with such a consistent mild climate?
The White Cliffs of Iturup: A rare formation of volcanic pumice and glass eroded into giant 'organ pipes' on the edge of the Pacific
Why do snowbelts fall to the east of the bodies of water that produce them?
What if all land (except Antarctica) shifted 10 degrees south?
Anyone Know Why New England Swamps Look Like This?
Manpupuner Rock Formations (humans for scale)
Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
Soon Dong Vietnam - The Largest Cave in the world
Does the eastern part of Lincoln national forest really have the same climate as NW Europe?
The iron oxide terraces of Badab-e Surt, Iran. One of the only places on Earth where travertine turns orange
It's in the middle of winter and Socal is 29 degree Celsius
Enormous snowfall in Russia's Kamchatka.

The Public Domain Review

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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
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

The Quietus

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Craven Faults – Sidings
The Strange World Of… Free Jazz & Improvised Music
Organic Intelligence LII: Treasures of the Basque Country
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum
Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus
Ljubljana Festival MENT Reveals Full Lineup for 2026 Edition
Bandcamp Announces Ban on AI-Generated Music
Kim Gordon Reveals Third Solo LP, ‘PLAY ME’
Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske Collaborate on New EP, ‘At Source’
Time Of Your Life: Mike Dirnt’s Favourite Albums
Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X
Sunn O))) Unveil Self-Titled New Album
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for January
Founding Black Midi Guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin has Died
Robyn Details First Album in Eight Years, ‘Sexistential’
Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic
Low Culture Podcast: Mulholland Drive
Your November & December Playlists are Here
Hey Colossus Announce 15th Album via Short Film
Organic Intelligence LI: Laura Cannell’s Guide to Early-ish Christmas Music
Conversational Improvisational: Stewart Lee & EarthBall get Free
Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of November and December 2025
Mark S. Williamson  – folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out
Shackleton to Release New Album, ‘Euphoria Bound’, Via AD 93
Why Reports of the Death of UK Nightlife are Greatly Exaggerated
Blarke Bayer – The King In Yellow
Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025
Ambagious Tactics pays Tribute to Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies
Sacrifice Zone, Sophie Sleigh Johnson and Charlie Osborne for Cafe Oto this week

Bandcamp Updates

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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
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025
The Best Punk Music of 2025
Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons”
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z
Ikonika, “SAD”
Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk”
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L
Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt
Von Pea & The Other Guys, “Putcha Weight On It”
The Tape Label Report, November 2025
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife”
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Iona Zajac, “BANG”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2025
MJ Noble, “Songs From My Castle Tower”
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, November 2025

dusted

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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)
Éliane Radigue — Asymptote Versatile (1963-1964) (Amgen)
Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter)
Slept Ons and Listening Pest 2025: Things that we missed and albums that disappointed
2025: Patrick Masterson
Ian Mathers’ 2025: I’m tired, I am dead/If you live it, then you love it
The Year We Need to be Free of Freestyle: Ray Garraty
“That’s Okay, Things Are Going To Be Okay”: Bryon Hayes
Another Year of Pissed-off Music, to Take to the Streets, or Down in the Dirt: Jonathan Shaw
Top 10 of 2025: Tim Clarke
Favorites in 2025: Christian Carey
The Body Breaks: Jennifer Kelly’s 2025 year in review
Happy Holidays from Dusted
Listed: Andrew Weathers
Wreckless Eric — England Screaming (Tapete)

Pitchfork

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Tragic Magic
In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist
Quicksand Heart
Love and Fortune
Watch Gwar Play “Pink Pony Club”
xaviersobased Is Running Back His Riverside Tour
Harry Styles Announces New Album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
Skrillex Surprise-Releases Kora EP
A New Robert Christgau Documentary Will Feature Randy Newman, Thurston Moore, and Boots Riley
Bandcamp Announces Ban on AI Music
Watch the Trailer for Paul McCartney’s Man on the Run Documentary
Aldous Harding to Tour Europe and North America
Shabaka Readies New Album to Launch His Own Record Label
Coke Wave 3.5: Narcos
Raquel Baby
Live
Slutworld
Elucid Announces New Album I Guess U Had to Be There
WU LYF Announce First North American Tour in 14 Years
J. Cole’s The Fall-Off Finally Has a Release Date
C2C Festival Returning to New York With Los Thuthanaka, Nourished by Time, and Arca
Blackpink Sets Release Date for Comeback Album
John Forté, Rapper and Fugees Producer, Dies at 50
Flea Announces Debut Solo Album, Tour, and New Song With Thom Yorke
Rolling Loud 2026: Playboi Carti, YoungBoy, Don Toliver to Headline
Kim Gordon Announces New Album Play Me
Bloodline
Desert So Green
Selfless
This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Happening Right Now

Cool Tools

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Cheapest Flight Destinations/Packable Daypacks/Europe Ski Bargains
What’s in my NOW? — Jeremiah Krage
Woody Guthrie / Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
Game Design
Retro Recomendo: Career
Book Freak #192: Arrow
Busiest Air Routes/Best Headphones/TSA + Staples
What’s in my NOW? — Magnus Ojala
The Wolves of Currumpaw / Sinatra 100
Paper Cutting

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?
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