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From harassment to healing
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It
The largest meteorite on Earth is still exactly where it landed
When Unemployment Became a Political Tool
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for ICE Agent
Chains
America's problems are solved problems
The economic ouroboros goes round and round
If you are looking for Tommy in your area
vehement loathing of the left
Free Thread - Anxiety
Little red Courbet
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
Hacker News
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Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip
Postal Arbitrage
Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014)
The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]
Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Provenance Is the New Version Control
Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature
Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
Text-Based Web Browsers
Date is out, Temporal is in
Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
LLVM: The bad parts
Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
Show HN: AI in SolidWorks
Kafka Inc
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir
F2 (YC S25) Is Hiring
Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws
Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load
Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises)
Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C
Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
Techmeme
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Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (Financial Times)
Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state (Mike Solana/Pirate Wires)
SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (Reuters)
Trump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
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Thought I'd grown up, but in therapy I feel like an angry teen again
When a dog adoption isn't the right fit – seeking perspective
Love, like a rose, a rose in bloom: 1950s British song after Chopin?
Can I Eat This: Tortilla Soup left unrefrigerated for ~6 hours
Do I actually need or want tinting on my rear windshield?
Song recommendations for performances at assisted living/memory care
I changed my phone number and my dad showed up at my work?
The most boring question about my dryer
And no stabbing yourself with a fork, either
Yo La Tengo's noisiest song
Have you worked with a travel agent recently, and if yes... suggestions?
Podcasts about autism - any recommendations?
Pinboard (popular bookmarks)
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2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – no.heger
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype -
You probably don't need Oh My Zsh | Artem Golubin
GitHub - MedUnes/go-kata: A collection of daily coding challenges designed to help you master idiomatic Go through deliberate, repetitive practice.
Stateful sandboxes
Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak – Mitchell Hashimoto
GitHub - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader: A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
iCloud Photos Downloader | Hacker News
MAGA’s Foundational Lie - The Atlantic
The Concise TypeScript Book
步道 --- 小径
Lend Me Your Ears
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell - Federal Reserve Board
AI is a business model stress test | Dries Buytaert
How I use Jujutsu | abhinavsarkar.net
GitHub - vercel-labs/agent-browser: Browser automation CLI for AI agents
2026 is the Year of Self-hosting | Hacker News
FUSE is All You Need - Giving agents access to anything via filesystems | Jakob Emmerling
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/
AddyOsmani.com - The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
MTV REWIND - Music Television
Pebble founder says his new company is 'not a startup' | TechCrunch
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great | The Verge
Hit Post
PMU Counters on Apple Silicon | Bugsik
Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C.
LLVM: The bad parts
Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
A Software Library with No Code
Elo — An expression language
Jan 10, 2026 · Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t. The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.
Joint statement from Google and Apple
Daring Fireball: ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - Martin Alderson
AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them • The Register
My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated, Literally
The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made - Big Think
GitHub - tw93/Mole: 🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac. 🦡 像鼹鼠一样深入挖掘来清理您的 Mac
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
The Concise TypeScript Book | TypeScript Book
How to downgrade macOS update: Rollback Tahoe to Sequoia | Macworld
GitHub - dbreunig/whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code.
Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering | Hacker News
我的 2025 年度自托管服务报告
enclose.horse
Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie - The New York Times
A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece
What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time | The New Yorker
Chicken Piccata Pasta Recipe
If users notice your software, you’re already a loser – Pivot to AI
Prisoners of Fortune - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work
Cursor agent best practices
C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories | Hacker News
lorentz app
GitHub - RhetTbull/osxphotos: Provides read-only access to Apple's Photos app library on MacOS. Includes command line tool for querying the Photos database. NOTE: Alpha support for Mac OS 10.15 / Photos 5 which required significant re-write.
OlaProeis/Ferrite：一款快速轻量级的文本编辑器，支持 Markdown、JSON、YAML 和 TOML 文件。它使用 Rust 和 egui 构建，提供快速且响应迅速的用户体验。 --- OlaProeis/Ferrite：一款快速、轻量级的文本编辑器
qmd
EktuPy - Learn Python Through Games
Eat Real Food
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards | The Verge
Merry Sky
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow | The Guardian
1rgs/nanocode: Minimal Claude Code alternative. Single Python file, zero dependencies, ~250 lines.
2025 letter | Dan Wang
I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) · Thomas Letan’s website
The coolest feature in Python 3.14 | Savannah Ostrowski
Parent Phone Calls - Brushtail - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]
Hacker News Book Recommendations
Simple Claude Code
Open Culture: J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering — and lost-city legends - Big Think
ZIPAIR Official Website
The Technium: How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
The Normalization of Deviance in AI · Embrace The Red
Introducing Cowork | Claude | Claude
Demystifying evals for AI agents Anthropic
GitHub - OlaProeis/Ferrite: A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
text me when you see this by @emilystopflying.ao3
Why I Write (And You Should Too!)
Open-Meteo.com - free weather forecast APIs for open-source developers and non-commercial use
OLED… Not for me. – nuxx.net
Reading across books with Claude Code | Pieter Maes
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5 accessibility checks to run on every component - zeroheight
C'était Paris en 1970
それ、本当に安全？ ファイルアップロードで見落としがちなセキュリティリスクと対策 - Speaker Deck
Warum ich gendere: Die Evidenz - by Sebastian Tillmann
huseyinbabal/taws: Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager
GitHub - er-bharat/Win8DE: windows 8 like de for linux
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk | Google | The Guardian
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings - WSJ
jj tug | Shaddy's
The Website League
SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor
Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in. - Martin Alderson
“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders — Seth Larson
The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC
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What to do in Durham this week (January 12-18)
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs
looking for a veterinarian?
Is there a volunteering club/organization you know that you think deserves a shoutout/has made huge impact on the durham community? Or orange county
DnD next Saturday (the 24th)
Noodle places with big portions?
Pediatrics office (desperate mom)
Wegmans scanning faces here, and what other stores around Durham?
In Durham, North Carolina, neighbors are protecting neighbors from ICE: ‘We care for each other’
Is the DPAC area safe at night for two women?
Telugu clases
Quilt cleaning
Storage unit recs
Male Massage Therapist Recs
Build a Bear Southpoint
Windshield Replacement Recommendations
Veep Trivia?
Two small dogs, Hope Valley and MLK
Doula in the OR at Duke?
Trans: Looking for plastic surgeon that accepts insurance
Notary with witnesses
Need Pillow Covers made
Stolen minivan in Durham
Independent Pilates studio
Your underused yard/land 🤝 anxious dogs
NYT > Science
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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
Scientists Discover Cloud-9, a Starless ‘Galaxy That Wasn’t’
Dogs Build Their Vocabularies Like Toddlers
NASA Will Bring I.S.S. Astronauts Home Early After Medical Issue
Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution
Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows
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
Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet
Is Grass-Fed Beef Better?
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
Bird Flu Viruses Raise Mounting Concerns Among Scientists
An Up-Close Look at the Thwaites Glacier
Joel Habener, Whose Research Led to Weight-Loss Drugs, Dies at 88
Jerome Lowenstein, 92, Dies; Teaching Doctor With a Literary Sideline
The War Over the Weedkiller Roundup Might Be Headed to the Supreme Court
The Icebreaker Araon Stops Near the Thwaites Glacier
The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming
What Is the UNFCCC and Why Is the U.S. Pulling Out?
Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Icebreaker Araon Reaches the Thwaites Glacier
Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Companies’ Knowledge of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol
Nature
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Developing super-tortillas to address malnutrition in Latin America
Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
US scientists push back as Trump eyes Greenland
Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia
‘We’re humans — brilliant and a mess’: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on trust and optimism
AIs are biased toward some Indian castes — how can researchers fix this?
Student mental health is in crisis — here’s how to help
This shapeshifting polymer was inspired by octopus skin
Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings
Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
To infinity and beyond Earth’s pale blue dot: Books in brief
Daily briefing: Fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit
‘Coming out as a transgender scientist made me the best teacher I’ve ever been’
AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers
Can’t get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why — and it can be turned off
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
We need to talk about salaries in science
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next
Author Correction: Structural insights into BCDX2 complex function in homologous recombination
Putting immune cells into ‘night mode’ reduces heart-attack damage
Huge Chinese cell atlas reveals surprising immune variation among peoples
Daily briefing: Octopus-inspired synthetic ‘skin’ changes appearance on demand
Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways
Electrochemical defluorinative Matteson-type homologation
Systematic analyses of lipid mobilization by human lipid transfer proteins
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
A framework for addressing racial and related inequities in conservation
A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks
RNA-triggered Cas12a3 cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity
Plastic landmark anchoring in zebrafish compass neurons
An expanded registry of candidate
cis
-regulatory elements
High-voltage anode-free sodium–sulfur batteries
Climate change shifts the North Pacific storm track polewards
Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours
Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit
Soft biodegradable implants for long-distance and wide-angle sensing
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the
Homo sapiens
lineage
Genetic switch between unicellularity and multicellularity in marine yeasts
Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants
Pulse heating and slip enhance charging of phase-change thermal batteries
Neuro-epithelial circuits promote sensory convergence and intestinal immunity
Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer
Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared
Aharonov–Bohm interference in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
Soft photonic skins with dynamic texture and colour control
Mitochondrial transfer from glia to neurons protects against peripheral neuropathy
Intratumoural vaccination via checkpoint degradation-coupled antigen presentation
An ancient DNA perspective on the Russian conquest of Yakutia
Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits
Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context
A mechanical ratchet drives unilateral cytokinesis
Albumin orchestrates a natural host defence mechanism against mucormycosis
Small persistent humid forest clearings drive tropical forest biomass losses
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex
Stress controls heterochromatin inheritance via histone H3 ubiquitylation
Oral 4′-fluorouridine rescues nonhuman primates from advanced Lassa fever
Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans’ technological talents
The complex role of nutrients in cancer spread
Ultra-low-density exoplanets observed around a young star
Of all the quarries: Casablanca fossils reveal African ancestors of
Homo sapiens
Daily briefing: How 400-year-old sharks keep their vision sharp
Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand
How viral RNAs escape a host mechanism that controls translation
Chronic pain could be eased by uncoupling the sensory and emotional experiences
Exotic quasiparticles glimpsed in graphene
A way to identify the biological basis of gene–trait associations
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
A troubleshooting guide to your flat-pack planet
Blood protein thwarts deadly fungal disease
The poetic life and death of a glow-worm
Rethink how we build AI to enable effective climate-change mitigation
AAAS: Science: Table of Contents
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Rethinking drug use and addiction
The paradox of conscientious medicine
Mapping somatosensory afferent circuitry to bone identifies neurotrophic signals required for fracture healing
Deep contrastive learning enables genome-wide virtual screening
IDH-mutant gliomas arise from glial progenitor cells harboring the initial driver mutation
Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests
Leveraging triatropic rearrangements for stereoselective skeletal reshuffling
Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
Multivalent ligands regulate dimensional engineering for inverted perovskite solar modules
Molecular press annealing enables robust perovskite solar cells
Access to four-membered cyclic sulfinamides by energy transfer catalysis
Chinese Immune Multi-Omics Atlas
Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Self-induced Floquet magnons in magnetic vortices
Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes
Recurrent acquisition of nuclease-protease pairs in antiviral immunity
Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient
The molecular basis of the binding and specific activation of rhizobial NodD by flavonoids
Data sharing helps avoid “smoking gun” claims of topological milestones
Learning to lead
In Other Journals
The source of IDH-mutant gliomas
Making faces
Not just a pain in the bone
Tree bark microbes for climate management
Improve air quality in public transportation
Iran’s ancient Hyrcanian forests on fire
Iran’s largest river in crisis
Erratum for the Research Article “Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors” by M. P. Thakur et al.
The real da Vinci code
Can ecosystems recover after the deep sea is mined?
Fake data from trial sites ruin studies, drug firms say
NIH leadership turmoil adds to politicization concerns
Jellyfish sleep a lot like us—and for the same reasons
Art historians turn to biology
New conflicts erupt over key virus database
Natural grasslands used for grazing livestock can mitigate climate change
Weathering budget cuts: Lessons from NASA
Did the illicit fentanyl trade experience a supply shock?
In Science Journals
NYT > Top Stories
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Run Headlong Into Reality
Lawyer Whom Maduro Didn’t Hire Is Booted From His Case
FBI’s ICE Shooting Inquiry Examines Renee Good’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
Trump Suggests Renee Good’s ‘Disrespectful’ Attitude Justified Fatal ICE Shooting
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump’s Political Fight
A Top Fed Official Conveys Little Urgency for Immediate Rate Cuts
Labor Secretary’s Aides Placed on Leave in Misconduct Investigation
Kelly Sues Pentagon Over Threats of Punishment From Hegseth
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Stop Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind Project
Trump Cuts to Energy Projects in Blue States Were Unlawful, Judge Rules
Photos: Backstage With Teyana Taylor, Owen Cooper and More Golden Globe Winners
Nikki Glaser’s Monologue, Teyana Taylor’s Speech and Other Moments From the 2026 Globes
Trump Explores Diplomacy With Iran While Weighing Strikes, Officials Say
Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty
Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Arson Suspect Targeted Mississippi Synagogue for Its ‘Jewish Ties,’ F.B.I. Says
Synagogue Is Vandalized Days After Anniversary of L.A. Wildfire That Leveled It
Gavin Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
Why New Jersey Is Running Out of Groundhogs
Trump’s Attack on the Federal Reserve Is Already Backfiring
The Resistance Libs Were Right
Elle Simone Scott, Chef and Cooking Show Stalwart, Dies at 49
Pitching Crypto and Needling Mamdani: Adams’s Post-Mayoralty Takes Shape
Dan Bongino, No Longer at the F.B.I., Will Return to Podcasting
Former Congressional Employee Accused of Stealing 240 Phones
The Atlantic
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A Breathtaking Week of Pure Trump Id
The Candor of Jerome Powell
Some Other Things Donald Trump Will Probably Try to Buy
Today’s
Atlantic
Trivia: Our Deer Departed
The Soul of the Grateful Dead
The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
The Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants
Banana Republicanism
What
Black Swan
Knew About Leaning In
First Memory
Trump’s Shrinking Coalition
The Golden Globes Tried to Have It Both Ways
A Sobering Awards-Season Pivot
The Purged
How Bad Bunny Did It
What If There Is No Domino Effect?
The YIMBY Hero Everyone Is Shouting At
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
Trump’s Greenland Threats
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
The Messiness of Friendship
The Flu Really Is That Bad
Americans Are Afraid of Authority
National
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ICE arrests New York City Council employee at immigration appointment
Man shot by Border Patrol in Portland charged with assaulting officer
Minnesota sues DHS, ICE over immigration enforcement
Arson suspect attacked Mississippi synagogue for its ‘Jewish ties,’ FBI says
A young lawmaker comes of age in Minneapolis, a city that keeps grieving
They say they’re monitoring ICE arrests. Feds say they’re breaking the law.
Suspect arrested after fire damages Mississippi’s largest synagogue
With young adults less likely to go to the dentist, doctors get creative
Two congressmen watched an ICE shooting video. Only one is sure of what he saw.
World
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Trump announces 25 percent tariff on countries that trade with Iran
U.S. plane used in boat strike was made to look like civilian aircraft
Venezuelan opposition leader meets with Pope Leo before Trump visit
A Trump confidant arrives in New Delhi. Can he reset U.S.-India relations?
Ukraine’s ex-commander in chief, envoy to Britain and maybe next president
Hundreds of Iranian protesters feared killed; U.S. considers military strikes
In a Venezuelan home, a father grieves ‘hero’ son killed in U.S. raid
Iran’s protests seem different this time. Is the regime on the brink?
Rest of World -
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BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla
AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages
Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI
Will the Meta-Manus deal push more Chinese AI startups to Singapore — or shut the door?
A global crackdown on online gambling
The AI race is creating a new world order
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health. Should we trust it?
In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Why Venezuela’s political shock had MercadoLibre’s stock rallying
Chinese AI unicorns beat Silicon Valley giants in race to go public
Countries are outlawing online gambling ads. Meta is selling them anyway
The day the cloud went out
The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice
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A College Missed Its Enrollment Goal by Nearly Half. What Happened?
Why a Fraternity Wants Students to Pay Up for an Alleged Hazing Incident
Want to Transform College Accreditation? Trump Has a Grant for You.
Another Former Republican Lawmaker Snags a Permanent Presidency in Florida
5 Ways Colleges Can Boost Graduation Rates
The Case for Compromising With Trump
I'm an AI Power User. It Has No Place in the Classroom.
The Influential Center Filling the Ranks of America’s Civic-Thought Schools
Colleges Have Forgotten How to Argue
Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course
AskHistorians
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 11, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 07, 2026
Contemporary discourse often suggests the U.S. is becoming more fascist. Historically, were phenomena such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Legion, the Red Summer of 1919, or the American Nazi Party viewed at the time as signs of a turn toward fascism?
Is the phrase "One of ours, all of yours" an old Nazi slogan advocating for collective punishment?
Do Spaniards imagine world's history in a different way than most other European countries?
An unknown patron left a pamphlet in my library. It is from 1947, and it is questioning the natural passing of FDR, and at one point it posits that he had not yet actually died. Were conspiracies about his death common at the time?
Did anyone predict the USA would become what it became?
What was Teutoburg Forest like? Not the battle, but the forest itself
What is the origin of pawn promotion to Queen in chess?
How did people like John Adams make a living? Would he be considered wealthy or middle class by today’s standards?
AMA: Why did Operation Barbarossa fail?
How did people get cabs before phones?
What was the closest thing to the turning point at which Hitler abolished democracy?
How and when did urinals diverge from toilets?
Where did contempt for the poor come from?
Were uncastrated male horses rarely used for cavalry?
Why was Foucault such a big fan of Khomeini given their differing views on things like religion and society?
When did rhyming song lyrics become standard and were there any cultures who deliberately avoided rhyming in their folk music?
What are the best resources to teach teens about fascism and how it begins?
Were there any pre-industrial societies that did not have some form of life after death?
How did Regiments, Kurin, and Sotnia work in Cossack military administration and what is the difference between them? And how about how large are each of them?
How bad were Ottoman taxes that it would be more profitable to sail around Africa?
How true is the statement that the Iranian plateau has always been an ancient superpower due to its close proximity to and within of huge populations of nomadic tribes which they could muster to pacify/govern their empires?
Other than Rome, were there any cultures who claimed to be descended from the Trojans?
Was there a change in reporting or classification in 1993 United States that caused the number of juvenile murder to peak?
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
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!
Semantic-argumentative study uses Freire’s “reading the world” to examine dwarfism in Disney’s live-action Snow White
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken”
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason"
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
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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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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
Discover Ichi-go Ichi‑e, the Japanese Art of Savoring Every Moment
J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog
The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
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Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business
Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products
Trump Administration Nears Trade Deal With Taiwan
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
New Jersey Is Latest State to Ban Student Phones in Schools
G.M. Books a $7.1 Billion Loss as It Scales Back E.V. Ambitions
Apple’s John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook’s Successor as CEO
The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2026
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death
Anthropic Said to Be in Talks to Raise Funding at a $350 Billion Valuation
California Tech Executives Plot Against Rep. Ro Khanna Over Support of Wealth Tax
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion
Optimism About Nuclear Energy Is Rising Again. Will It Last?
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Richard Marx Is No Softy
Photos: Backstage With Teyana Taylor, Owen Cooper and More Golden Globe Winners
Nikki Glaser’s Monologue, Teyana Taylor’s Speech and Other Moments From the 2026 Globes
Follow Ian McKellen Into the Mixed Reality Future in ‘An Ark’
L.A. Reid Settles Lawsuit Shortly Before Sexual Assault Trial
‘Tehran’ Review: Israel vs. Iran, Retold as a Spy Thriller
Golden Globes Winners 2026: Full List Including ’One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ and ‘Good Hang With Amy Poehler’
Golden Globes Highlights: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘The Pitt’ Win Big, Chalamet and Seehorn Among First-Time Winners
8 Stars Nikki Glaser Roasted in Her Golden Globes Monologue
Ricky Gervais Won the Comedy Award. Wanda Sykes Got the Last Laugh.
Review: ‘Collage Revisited’ at Live Artery Festival
Bob Weir Was the Dead’s Invisible Thread
Bob Weir: A Life in Pictures
Golden Globes 2026 Photos: Stars of ‘Hamnet,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and More
Leaders of Historians’ Group Veto Resolutions Critical of Israel
Dan Bongino, No Longer at the F.B.I., Will Return to Podcasting
‘Tell Me Lies,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Nikki Glaser Ended the Golden Globes by Honoring Rob Reiner
‘Hamnet’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Drama
‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Comedy
Wagner Moura wins best actor, motion picture drama.
Jessie Buckley Wins Golden Globe for ‘Hamnet’ as Best Actress, Motion Picture Drama
‘The Studio’ wins best TV comedy.
‘Adolescence’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Limited Series, Marking a Triumph for Owen Cooper
‘The Pitt’ wins best TV drama.
Rhea Seehorn wins best actress in a TV drama for ‘Pluribus.’
Nikki Glaser Doesn’t Spare CBS News in 2026 Golden Globes Monologue
Timothée Chalamet Wins Best Actor at the Golden Globes for ‘Marty Supreme’
Rose Byrne wins best actress, motion picture musical or comedy.
Owen Cooper of ‘Adolescence’ wins best supporting TV actor.
With the Golden Globes, podcasts are ready for their close-up.
Neon, an indie studio with an international bent, tops Globes nominations.
Where’s the best original score award? Not on the telecast.
The lifetime achievement winners have already been honored.
Jean Smart, Mark Ruffalo and Natasha Lyonne Wear Anti-ICE Pins at 2026 Golden Globes
Who will be the big winners tonight? Here’s what to expect.
Here’s how to watch the Globes tonight.
Golden Globes 2026 Takeaways: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Adolescence’ Win Big
Bob Weir, a Virtuoso of Hot Pants
How to Watch the Golden Globes 2026: Date, Time and Streaming
Kit Harington Returns to HBO for ‘Industry’ Season 4, Leaving Jon Snow Behind
Bob Weir: 10 Essential Songs
Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments
Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict
Fetty Wap, ‘Trap Queen’ Rapper, Is Released Early From Prison
Timothy Busfield, Actor and Director, Is Accused of Child Sex Abuse
Golden Globes 2026: What to Expect From Sunday’s Awards Ceremony
Judge Denies Salt-N-Pepa’s Attempt to Obtain Master Recordings
Bruno Mars, Robyn, Jill Scott and More: 8 Songs We’re Talking About
Unpacking ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ with Emily Henry, Emily Bader and Tom Blyth
Bob the Drag Queen Is ‘Fully Obsessed’ With League of Legends
How Wagner Moura Stayed True to Himself and Earned a Golden Globe Nomination
In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to Hyper-Real
Who Should the Oscar Nominees Be? Our Movie Critics Pick.
Rare Comic Introducing Superman Sells Privately for $15 Million
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
Bahram Beyzaie, Filmmaker Who Led Iran’s New Wave, Dies at 87
Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’ as He Hands Out Free Tickets
X Sues Music Publishers, Alleging ‘Collusion’ Over Licensing Deals
Jerome Lowenstein, 92, Dies; Teaching Doctor With a Literary Sideline
Producers Guild Nominations Strengthen Oscar Odds for Five Films
Five International Movies to Stream Now
Geography
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Butterfly Effect: A Saudi Arabian decides to build a giant city in the shape of a straight line in the middle of the desert. And because of that, I'm forced to get stuck in traffic in Rio de Janeiro.
Why isn’t the U.S. side of this part of the border populated at all, while the Canadian side is?
Rice China vs Wheat China - similar divisions in other countries?
Why are there so many endorheic basins in Africa?
Why do people from neighboring India and China look different? Are there any other similar cases?
A double standard I noticed in regards to ancestry/ethnic background. Have you noticed this too?
If the Angles and Saxons have Germanic origins and the Normans have French origins, can we say that the Scots and Welsh are what remains of the original inhabitants of Britain?
Why are these areas blurred out in Nauru?
You can leave the train for one hour each at three stops along the Orient Express. What do you do?
Why has Phoenix experienced sustained population growth while Albuquerque has remained relatively stagnant?
Which country has the most distinct culture compared to all of its neighboring countries?
Quito, the city of eternal spring
What are these spiky things on the shore along the river separating Germany and Poland?
Why does the High Jungle region in Peru (dark green) tend to be grouped with the rest of the Amazon region (light green) instead of the Andean region (brown) when it’s heavily mountainous like the latter?
Why is there virtually no tornados in Eastern Europe?
Podcasts for sleep
Why is the actual city of Perth so small? (As opposed to the greater Perth area)
Pacific Northwest
These two Indian states (Kerala & Tamil Nadu) seem to follow a natural mountain border, but at the far south one state extends to the other side of the mountains. How did this happen? (red - actual border; blue - mountain border)
Comparison of UN, CLDR and Wikipedia country names [OC]
Iraq's ports of Entry
When the monsoon meets the mountains — the Western Ghats [OC]
Seigneurial land system - Quebec
Last place populated on Earth
Top 10 Immigrant Arrivals in Spain in 2024, by country of birth
The Public Domain Review
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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
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
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Founding Black Midi guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin has died
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
Moundabout – Esker Hippy Bastard Blues
Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
AICHER – Defensive Acoustics
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
DJ Narciso – DENTRO DE MIM
Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan’s Telekon
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations
Low Culture Essay: Tariq Goddard on Jeremy Brett, the Perfect Sherlock Holmes
Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025
Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live God
Wrens – Half What You See
Rockfort! The Best French Music of 2025
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City
Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star
Bandcamp Updates
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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
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, November 2025
أحمد [Ahmed], “سماع [Sama’a] (Audition)”
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, “Implosion”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
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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)
Tavare — Too Small to Be So High (God Unknown)
Black Mold — Antinomy (Hellprod)
Equipment Pointed Ankh — Eggs a Little Late (Petty Bunco)
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki— Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol 1 (Asian Improv)
Split Apex — Thoughts in 3D (ever/never)
Sha La Das — Your Picture (Diamond West)
Pitchfork
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With Heaven on Top
Mrs.Key
La Dame
Feline’s Return
L.A. Reid Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” Is the Biggest Country Song of All Time
Bob Weir's Cosmic Touch
Watch A$AP Rocky Fly Through a Dystopian Riot in New “Helicopter$” Video
15 Songs You Should Listen to Now
Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin Dies at 26
Band of Horses Set 20th Anniversary Tour for Everything All the Time
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Other Girl
Ludwig Göransson Wins Best Original Score at 2026 Golden Globes for Sinners
Kpop Demon Hunters’ “Golden” Wins Best Original Song at 2026 Golden Globes
Bob Dylan, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, and More Remember Bob Weir
Discipline
Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Dies at 78
The Long Sleep
Listen to Sault’s New Album Chapter 1
Bad Bunny Sued for $16 Million Over Unauthorized Voice Recording
“I Just Might”
Salt-N-Pepa’s Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group Dismissed
6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Dry Cleaning, Zach Bryan, and More
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Reconvene for New Album and Tour
Morrissey Returns With New Album Make-Up Is a Lie
Ralphie Choo Drops New Songs “Tentacíon” and “Rocco”
Watch Bruno Mars’ Video for New Song “I Just Might”
Secret Love
Rebuilding
Cool Tools
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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
KK / Flat phone grip / Is it a cult?
Best Retiree Spots/Welcoming Nomad Destinations/Loyalty Doesn’t Pay
Mann’s Pictorial Dictionary / Death is Stupid
McMansion Hell
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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
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Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
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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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