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Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025 (The Information)
Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows "limited evidence" of AI-led job loss so far (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it "will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Meta says it hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the startup that makes the vibe coding app Gizmo, earlier in 2026 to join its Superintelligence Labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input and $15/1M output tokens while GPT-5.4 Pro is $30/1M input and $180/1M output tokens, more than GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Pro (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work" and its first with native computer use capabilities (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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4 U.S. soldiers killed in Iran conflict identified; 3 U.S. embassies close amid air strikes
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused President Donald Trump of “bombing the negotiation table” and betraying...
The Israel Defense Forces said one of its F-35 fighter jets shot down a Russian-made Iranian...
Satellite imagery shows heavy damage to Iranian government buildings
Iran’s ‘entire’ navy under attack, senior U.S. military officer says
Iranians hold funeral procession for students killed in strike
Amid unconfirmed reports in Iranian opposition media that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the slain supreme...
Army reservists killed in Kuwait remembered as loving parents, dedicated students
Where Iran’s retaliatory strikes have landed
Iranians hold funeral procession for students killed in strike
Iran’s ‘entire’ navy under attack, senior U.S. military officer says
Satellite imagery shows heavy damage to Iranian government buildings
Pentagon restricts social media accounts during Iran operation
CIA station in Saudi capital hit in drone attack
Israel sends more troops into southern Lebanon
Pentagon releases names of four U.S. service members killed
Huckabee jokes to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering

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Black-box AI and cheap drones are outpacing global rules of war
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An AI avatar is running to represent Indigenous voters in Colombia
Open-source AI hardware could weaken Big Tech’s grip on AI
India’s tech sovereignty is built on digital dependence
Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream
Trump opens for Vietnam the chip door he locked on China
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The next AI whistleblower could come from anywhere in the world
Dubai taps U.S. startups to go over, under, and around its traffic

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

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Censoring Courses Isn't the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway.
Welcome to Academe's Age of Cutthroat Competition
‘We Are in a Crisis’: Why Louisville’s Leaders Are Proposing a Cap on Sports Spending
When You're an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly — But You Didn't Know It
He Vibe-Coded a Crisis for Higher Education
The Self-Flagellating President
Think Workforce Pell Is a Jackpot? Think Again.
Oklahoma Moves to Block Tenure as Iowa Approves Expansion of Four-Year Degrees
The Lobbying Arms Race
The Coming Dual-Enrollment Wars

AskHistorians

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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | March 05, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 04, 2026
Did Bram Stoker intend, and/or (more importantly to me) did his contemporaneous readership perceive, homoerotic themes in 'Dracula'? It's something modern readers discuss & something I perceived myself reading it but I don't know if that's reflective of Stoker's intent or just modern biases.
How did it happen that the 38th President of the United States was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. and died Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.?
The SI unit of pressure was only defined in 1978, and most students still have to learn several other units. How did pressure come to have so many units, and why did it take so long to standardize?
Hi, I am Dr Stephen Neufeld of CSU Fullerton here to talk about my new book Perilous Beasts: Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths, and Blood Sports, 1870-1920 Ask Me Anything about topics including stray dogs, rabies, bullfighting, cockfights, and hunting in Mexico.
Why did Roman shields have a boss was it only for hand protection or did it have a combat purpose?
At what point during the world war 2 did people realise they were in another “world war”?
How far back in time would I have to go to be the world's greatest doctor armed only with standard OTC medicine from a drugstore?
What position in society would a retired Captain of the Royal Navy enjoy in 18th century Britain?
How Jewish was Herod the Great in terms of identity, practice, and outside perception?
To what extent might people have gossiped or speculated about others’ sexual orientation in the late 1800s-early 1900s?
Wikipedia says "Henry's conflicts with his older brother, King Frederick II of Prussia, are almost legendary. " and then doesnt elaborate. Can you?
Was Neville Chamberlain and his mocked and misquoted “peace in our time” a strategy he truly believed Inpuld avert war? Does he deserve more credit than he gets for the Munich Agreement?
Books historical and fiction taking place in the late 1600’s?
What impact did World War 2 have on wild life?
In the 1800s, were people below 18 allowed into the militaries/wars?
How much detail did other countries know, at the time, of the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France?
Did Stalin go to church during world war 2 ?
Historically when and how did the existence of early Islamic empires defined by the idea of a single religious Islamic identity (such as the Rashidun & Abbasid Caliphates)eventually transition to later Muslim empires like the Mughal and Safavid Empire being defined more around their unique cultures?
Did medieval kingdoms mint commemorative coins?
what are the best ways to learn history when you feel like you don’t know it?
Does anyone have book recommendations for a few specific aspects of El Salvador?
During the Second Sino-Japanese war, did the Japanese seriously consider to create a puppet government in Wuhan/Hankou? Also are there any good modern English sources on the puppet states that Japan set up in China?
Michelangelo painted God's butt on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Was this part of the plan or did he just manage to sneak it up there without anyone noticing?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
gradient.horse
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

Open Culture

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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)
Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More
Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”

NYT > Technology

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Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes
Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit
Iranian TV and Social Media Project Defiant and Distorted View of the War
The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.
How $800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before
Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power
Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm
Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles
OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder
Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators.
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
The British Watch Brand Apiar Goes Beyond Traditional Constraints
OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
In a Memoir Draft, Changpeng Zhao of Binance Details the Talks Leading to His Prison Time
Instagram to Alert Parents to Teens’ Self-Harm Searches
Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump
Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War
Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
A World Where All Is Free? That’s Elon Musk’s Theory of ‘Sustainable Abundance.’
Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas
South Korea Clears Way for Google Maps to Fully Operate
India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.
Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic
Block Cuts 40% of Its Work Force Because of Its Embrace of A.I.

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How Jonathan Groff of ‘Just in Time’ Became Broadway’s Leading Man
At the Whitney, a Biennial Gets Personal
Britney Spears Is Arrested on Suspicion of D.U.I. in California
Harry Styles Left as a Dominant Male Pop Star. He Returns to a Crowd.
Druski Talks About His Influences, Hollywood Ambitions and Timothée Chalamet
Pokémon Company Objects to White House’s Political Memes
Olivier Awards: ‘Paddington’ and ‘Into the Woods’ Lead Nominations
The Creators of Halo and Destiny Go Cutthroat With Marathon
Chadwick Boseman’s Hip-Hop Play, in Shakespeare’s House
Squeeze Wrote a Rock Opera Five Decades Ago. It’s Coming Out Now.
‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Outlaws in Love
‘Hoppers’ Review: Animal Magnetism
‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’ Review: Trembling Beauties, Old and New
‘Theory of Flames’ Dives Down the Rabbit Hole of Paranoia
Art Gallery Shows to See in March
António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83
Megumi Yuasa’s Six-Decade-Long Love Affair With Clay
Paris Again Merges as a Mecca for the Arts
This Small Statue in Brussels Has a Large Bladder and Lots of Outfits
How the Florists Behind TEFAF Maastricht Work Their Magic
Welcome to Maastricht, Where All Things French Flourish
Margrethe Odgaard’s Explorations of Color Come to TEFAF
TEFAF Maastricht, Known for Old Art, Faces the Future
At TEFAF Maastricht, a Paris Gallery Honors a Revolutionary French Painter
More Than TEFAF Maastricht, Other Cities Are on Display
At TEFAF, Photography Displays Add a Contemporary Flavor
A Mexico City Design Gallery Hits the World Stage
‘Protector’ Review: She Knows How to Give Life, and How to Take It
Russia Returns to Venice Biennale, in Latest Sign of a Cultural Comeback
The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.
‘Youngblood’ Review: He’s Got a Reason to Be Chippy
‘The Napa Boys’ Review: You Had Me at Merlot
‘Heel’ Review: A Different Kind of House Training
‘André Is an Idiot’ Review: Dying Laughing
‘Dolly’ Review: Toy With Me
Late Night Doesn’t Understand Why America Is Attacking Iran
Sarah J. Mass Announces Two New ‘ACOTAR’ Books on ‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast
Former Barclays Center Executive Says Live Nation Threatened to Pull Tours
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV and More in March
Bob Power, 73, Hip-Hop Engineer and Tribe Called Quest Collaborator, Dies
Christian Astuguevieille, 79, Dies; Created Strange Scents and Enigmatic Objects
John P. Hammond, Pioneer in 1960s Blues Renaissance, Dies at 83
To Many, the Buildings Are Incredible Hulks. They’re Doomed Anyway.
Fusing the Personal and the Political, With Monumental Results
Hugh Jackman in ‘Sexual Misconduct’ and 23 Other Off Broadway Shows to See in March
Watch a Haunting Theatrical Scene From ‘Hamnet’
Did You Know These Oscar-Nominated Actresses Started in Reality TV?
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ray Barretto
On ‘You’re Free to Go,’ Anjimile Explores Rebirth and Transformation
‘Outlander’ Brought the World to Scotland, and Scotland to the World
The Many Brides of Frankenstein
Did Andrea Fraser’s Career Bloom Because Her Mother’s Career Died?
Why Bethany Collins Transcribed ‘Moby-Dick’ by Hand
‘Hamnet’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Jimmy Kimmel Wants to Host the White House Correspondents' Dinner
‘Cheap’ and ‘Appalling’: Trump’s Ballroom Plans Receive a Flood of Negative Comments
Live Nation Accused of Hurting Music Fans as Antitrust Trial Begins
Photographer Nick Ut Sues Netflix Over ‘Napalm Girl’ Documentary
‘Night Side Songs’ Review: Feel Free to Sing Along
Choosin’ 9 Songs About Texas

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Jiulong waterfalls, Luoping, China
What is the smallest big city in the world?
Why are there hardly any cities or infrastructure at the north end of the Persian Gulf?
About islands with the most tennis courts per m2
The Tree Cover Density Map of Asia surprises me a little. Can anyone clarify
Despite partly bordering the Atlantic Ocean, the Ilha de Marajo in Brazil is completely surrounded by freshwater due to the Amazon’s powerful flow and is the largest such island in the world.
What's the highest numbered street that you've ever found?
Oman's exclave at the Strait of Hormuz
Is Kinshasa just a oversized gigantic city or is Palestine small?
How likely is it that the world is undercounting or overcounting the number of people globally?
What's the cost/benefit of mapping the ocean floor?
26 or 21 states east of Mississippi?
Parts of Michigan are farther west than Minnesota’s easternmost point
Interactive Mars Ocean simulation
Geography podcast that covers individual countries?
What are the developmental prospects of these 2 large multi-ethnic states?
Any cities surrounded on all sides by mountains?
Local journalist reflects on one year of life under M23 rebel control in Goma, DRC, a city of 2 million people
B.A. in geography?
How dramatic are the downsides of being a landlocked country?
Valley within a valley
Longest River of Antarctica: Onyx. Physical Geography facts. (Also it is Seasonal & Endorheic)
Currently doing a BA in geography and environmental studies at a top 20 university but have a dilemma about wanting to finish with a science degree.
Qeshm Iran

The Public Domain Review

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)

The Quietus

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Justin K. Broadrick Halts Godflesh Live Shows Following Abdominal Surgery
Carla dal Forno to Release New Album, ‘Confession’
Aldous Harding Details New Album, ‘Train On The Island’
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50
Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah
Ragger – Euphonic Sounds
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years
Green Man Unveils Lineup for 2026 Edition
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30
Out of this World: SHERELLE’s Favourite Records
GENA – The Pleasure Is Yours
Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild
Loraine James Details New Album, ‘Detached From The Rest Of You’
DJ Marcelle to Take DJing Hiatus After Heart Attack
Arca, Mark Pritchard and More Rework Nine Inch Nails for ‘TRON: Ares’ Remix Album
Guest Playlist: Alexis Taylor
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58
London to Get New 2,300-Capacity Music Venue in Late 2027
Your February Catch-up Playlist is Here
Radiohead Tell ICE to “Go Fuck Yourselves” in Social Media Dispute
Bong II – This Time It’s Personnel
The Early – I Want To Be Ready
Behind NME Lines: The 1990s Through The Lens of Martyn Goodacre
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of February 2026
Reissue Of The Week: Circle X’s Prehistory
Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
Rewire Adds Moritz von Oswald, By Storm and More to 2026 Lineup
Music Venue Trust Launch Nationwide UK Festival Project
The Low Culture Essay: Kyle MacNeill on The Getaway
Acid Horse 26: tQ’s Ten Essential Picks
The Forest Murmurs: Marathon by Maria BC

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026
The Tape Label Report, February 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026
Shabaka, “Of The Earth”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026
NIMF, “Sirenoscape”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58”
This Friday is Bandcamp Friday
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move”
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya”
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea
Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun”
The Women of Detroit House
Midori Hirano, “ OTONOMA”
The Bug Remembers
Big Ups: Gorillaz Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Chris Crack, “Too Late to Start Following the Rules Now”
Steve Shelley’s Sonic Afterlife
Hen Ogledd, “DISCOMBOBULATED”
Essential Releases, February 20, 2026
Carpenter Brut Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
The Past, Present, and Future of Dance Music in D.C.
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto, “Paper Masks”
More Bands Left Behind By Streaming
Lucid Express, “Instant Comfort”
Class of ’86: Unsung Classics From The Year Thrash Broke

dusted

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What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free)
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Iron & Wine — Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)
Michael Pisaro-Liu / Forming — Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Sawyer Editions)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World)
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination)
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City)
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records)
Various Artists — Music From The Mountain People Of Central Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies)
Dog Chocolate — So Inspired So Done In (Upset the Rhythm)
Vorago — Morulus (Amor Fati)
Abronia — Shapes Unravel (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
rest symbol — s/t (AN1MA)
Midori Hirano — Otonoma (Thrill Jockey)
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Pitchfork

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“One of Those”
Anne Hathaway’s New Song “Burial” Does Not Feature Burial
Justin Broadrick Says Godflesh Will End Soon Due to Doctor’s Orders
Bill Callahan Is Coming to a Record Store Near You
The Pleasure Is Yours
Nondi…
My Name
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