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Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by "commercially motivated" actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~400K per week in six cities now (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials (Theo Wayt/The Information)
AI tools like Opus 4.6 actually do make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but the "AI Vampire" effect is causing widespread developer burnout (Steve Yegge)
Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15%+ (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers, as it seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (Financial Times)
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B, below est., and Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, after a $4.2B gain in its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
Sources: some OpenAI executives were surprised by a WSJ report that OpenAI was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (New York Times)
Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital (Bloomberg)
Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

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KeygraphHQ/shannon: Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark.
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Offpunk 3.0
I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed
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What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems - Ian Duncan
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models. (Latent Space) [Another article critical of AI written by AI - she last pasted excerpt]
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A Benchmark for Evaluating Outcome-Driven Constraint Violations in Autonomous AI Agents
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Art of Roads in Games
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It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | Tiger Data
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Awesome LLM Reasoning Failures
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Python Only Has One Real Competitor: Clojure
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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers
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TV, It’s Not Just for Humans Anymore
This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward.
Baboon Sibling Rivalry Suggests Monkeys Feel Jealousy Like People
Satellite Pictures Show Snow And Ice Across North America
Lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found
These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same
These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test
Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block
New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
Bans on Many CBD Products Loom This Year
Four States Sue Administration Over Loss of Public Health Funds
Mexico May Be on Brink of Losing Its Measles-Free Status
Trump Orders Dept. of Defense to Buy Electricity From Coal Sources
U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges
Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding
‘Galileo’ Musical, Starring Raúl Esparza, Will Open on Broadway
Dr. Oz Says Drinking Is a ‘Social Lubricant.’ Some Experts Worry About That.
Seals Are Recruited to Study the Ocean Under Antarctic Glaciers
A Gray Wolf’s Visit to Los Angeles County Is a First in Nearly a Century
Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests
How Are Health Care Costs Affecting You?
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.
Can Mountain Lions Survive as Humans Close In? California Is Trying to Find a Way.
Hims & Hers Withdraws Knockoff Weight-Loss Pill After Regulatory Scrutiny
6 Fishermen Reel In a 244-Pound Atlantic Halibut, Setting a Local Record
Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change
TrumpRx: What to Know About Insurance Benefits, Pricing and Savings
Studying Antarctica’s Ice From the Side of a Helicopter
Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Legal Battles
Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots
TrumpRx, the President’s Online Drugstore, Opens for Business
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels
At a Bonobo’s ‘Tea Party,’ Scientists Find Hints of Imagination
Rare Deep-Sea Giant Phantom Jellyfish Sighting Is Recorded on Video
He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
Dozens of Earthquakes Have Rattled San Ramon, California
F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on ‘Naturally Derived’ Dyes

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From ancient temples to bomb craters: explore Laos’s layered history — in photos
Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection
Science funding needs fixing — but not through chaotic reforms
Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data
Author Correction: Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains
An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help
China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct
Tiny robot fish could swim through the body powered by ultrasound
Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes
CSN5i-3 is an orthosteric molecular glue inhibitor of COP9 signalosome
Transmission of MPXV from fire-footed rope squirrels to sooty mangabeys
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Conformational diversity and fully opening mechanism of native NMDA receptor
Pre-incision structures reveal principles of DNA nucleotide excision repair
Fossil isotope evidence for trophic simplification on modern Caribbean reefs
Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory
Months-long stability of the head-direction system
SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer
Targeting excessive cholesterol deposition alleviates secondary lymphoedema
Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet
Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source
Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value
Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules
Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells
Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen
Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics
African countries must take control of health policy
Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked
Babies at nursery shape each other’s microbiomes
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia
Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe?
Robust partitioning of cell contents by physical instabilities and biological clocks
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Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves
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Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier
My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong
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Internet blackout: Iran’s academic shutdown
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DNA origami vaccines program antigen-focused germinal centers
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Gapless pangenome analyses reveal fast Brassica rapa subspeciation
Antifibrotic drug finerenone restores fertility in premature ovarian insufficiency
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Patchy peptide particles for pH-responsive assembly into liquid crystals or lattices
Atomically resolved two-dimensional amorphous nuclei formed during MoS2 chemical vapor deposition
Zwitterionic organoboron complexes for overcoming the concentration barrier in chemical protein synthesis
Device-independent quantum key distribution over 100 km with single atoms
Silicon cyclopentadienides featuring a nonplanar 6π aromatic Si5 ring
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Increasing applied pesticide toxicity trends counteract the global reduction target to safeguard biodiversity
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Synergy between regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function
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Ineffective marine protected areas in Azores
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Side effects dim hopes for first chikungunya vaccine
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Lawmakers spend big on home state science projects
As the world warms, freezing rain shifts to U.S. South
Quantum encryption heralds a hack-proof internet
Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions
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Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser
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Weapons Used to Fight Drones Don’t Mix Well With Civilian Airspace
Anti-Drone Laser Is Said to Have Caused El Paso Airport Chaos, and Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Victims
Trump’s Director of Election Security Is an Election Denier
House Passes Strict Voter ID Bill, Amplifying Trump’s Claims of Fraud
U.S. Attorney Chosen to Replace Trump Pick Is Quickly Fired by White House
Why Pennsylvania’s Two Most Powerful Democrats Don’t Speak
In North Carolina, a Tight Primary Could Upend the Balance of Conservative Power
Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI
Olympic Figure Skaters Are on Thin Ice Over Music Copyright Rules
Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet With Images of War Dead
Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
Immigration Officials Set to Testify Before Senate Panel
Woman in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure After Falling
Push for Body Cameras for D.H.S. Underscores Trump Administration’s Shift
Under Trump, ICE’s Work Force Grew as Other Immigration Agencies Shrank
Why Nancy Guthrie’s Disappearance Is Breaking Through the Noise
Eyeing the Midterms, Kennedy Pivots Toward Food and Away From Vaccines
U.S. Health Officials Defend Rejection of Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
Bans on Many CBD Products Loom This Year
New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
India’s Prime Minister Faces Blowback Over Trade Deal With Trump to Lower Tariffs
House Votes to Cancel Trump’s Canada Tariffs
Satellite Pictures Show Snow And Ice Across North America
Turkish Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
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What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?
Why the U.S. Hasn’t Yet Struck Iran
Iran Wants Him Arrested. He’s Going Back Anyway.
The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race
Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Story Doesn’t Make Any Sense
Scientists Figured Out the Problem With Johnson & Johnson’s COVID Vaccine
Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: Starting Speed
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Where Does the Other 0.01 Percent Live?
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How Trump Could Break the 2026 Elections
What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
What Happened to the Great American Protest Concert?
The Indie Cinema Dilemma
People Who Don’t Understand Downtowns Are Destroying Downtowns
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions
What Mamdani Doesn’t Know About Tenants
The Democrats Aren’t Built for This
I Went to the March for Billionaires
The Grim Paradox of the Nancy Guthrie Case
What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump’s Power
Trump’s Gaza Plans Are Profoundly Unserious
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Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE
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For these clergy, Trump’s immigration blitz became a call to action
Police release man detained for questioning in Guthrie disappearance
National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities
Home renovation reveals surprising photo under the floor: ‘Hey, that’s my mom’
She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her.
Trump administration removes Pride flag from Stonewall gay rights monument
Number of Americans who expect ‘high quality lives’ drops to two-decade low
These hockey players in their 80s are still on the ice: ‘I never quit’

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Mapping U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific
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Vance visits Armenia, Azerbaijan as Trump eyes deals in Russia’s sphere
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How cheap Chinese phones catapulted Kenya into the global digital economy
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Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data
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Morocco wants to build AI that speaks for Africa
AI is dominating the world’s memory chips. That could make phones more expensive
Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs
The great Chinese EV exodus
Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can’t solve
Free boba and “red envelopes”: China’s AI giants launch marketing blitz for Lunar New Year
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A Small University Bet Big on Enrolling Athletes. Now It Will Close.
A Professor Tackled a Man Who Was Trying to Interview Gordon Gee. Now He’s on Leave.
‘A Moment of Reckoning’: After Epstein, Higher Ed Faces Hard Questions About Its Proximity to Power
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Stanford Cuts Fellowship Program for Underrepresented Students
Amid White House Scrutiny, Columbia Seeks to Expand Middle East Studies
The Chilling Effect of Student-Visa Vetting
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Few Adjuncts Say Teaching Is Their Primary Source of Income, Study Finds
How Higher Ed Staved Off a Research-Funding Bloodbath — For Now

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | February 08, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | February 11, 2026
Has any President in U.S. history ever seriously, consistently threatened to nationalize the country’s elections prior to 20 years ago? Is there ANY precedent for that happening at all prior to 2006?
Did Chernobyl really have the potential to "spread its poison until the entire continent is dead"?
What are the historic, sociological and cultural reasons for the relatively higher rates of rejection of the hijab by Persian women, compared to their Arab counterparts?
Why is Mongolia such an outlier in mainland Asia with regards to having a free, stable democracy with a strong democratic political culture? How'd they manage such a "clean" transition from the previous one-party Communist-aligned government to the current multi-party democracy?
In the 19th century, ballet was perceived as a debased art form and often associated with prostitution. How did it come to be seen as an upper class and elite activity today?
Urban enslaved Romans often had outside jobs or ran stalls & other businesses for their owner's profit but also a bit for themselves. Were they "given" these jobs/businesses by their owners or were they just cast out into the world & told "find a way to make money or else"?
Kit Carson is depicted by some as a ruthless purveyor of Native American conquest and genocide but by others as promoting Native American rights, culture and determination. Which version is more accurate? How does Carsons actions and ethos compare to his contemporaries?
How were siege towers actually used?
It would have been quite problematic for the Allies if a WWII nuclear bomb were to fall into Japanese hands. What was the plan if one of the planes carrying one of the bombs faced mechanical issues or was shot down? Would they have blown it up midair to protect the technology?
Australia's voting system is favorable to minor parties than first-past-the-post voting in UK and Canada. Then why didn't Australia get major third party like LibDem in UK or NDP in Canada?
Did other scientists look down upon or shame the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project?
During military campaigns in the ancient world (Rome, Ancient Macedonia), how long did conquering armies remain in a conquered city, and whom did they leave behind?
America introduced income tax in 1913, how did they function before? (BTW I'm not some right wing anti-tax guy, just curious)
My friends in Italy tell me that although the main language of Italy is Italian, each region has it's own native tongue, with some being incomprehensible to others, thus using Italian as a unifiying language. Would it be similar in the British Isles in the past?
I'm a foreign Pilgrim visiting Rome in the 13th century - am I at risk of falling for a tourist trap?
Why didn't Brazil/Portugal conquer Suriname?
Would someone who was forced into the British army due to the Press Act of 1744 have to stay in the army for life?
How scientific did Nazi race science seem at the time? Was it like, you are a dumb superstitious person not trusting the scientists if you don’t believe in it? Was it obviously silly or did serious people, even if they disagreed, think: there might be something to this?
Historically, how often would average people felt like they were "living in interesting times"?
Is there a continued impact of Napoleon's propaganda (commissioned art works and theatre) on the periods histography?
What did the public’s view on nuclear weapons look like in the years after they were first created? Did they think of them in the same apocalyptic way we do now?
I am a roman citizen. While travelling I have been kidnapped by bandits or pirates and I'm going to be sold as a slave. How do I prove that I am a citizen in this situation?
In "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly", the bounty hunter continuously delivers a convict, then frees them from hanging and delivers again to another town, sharing the bounty. Do we have documented occurences of this and were there any safeguards in place to protect against such fraud in Wild West?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
UAM Corpus Tool
Hierarchical structure in language and action.
Introduction to the templatic verb morphology of Birhor (Birhoɽ), a Kherwarian Munda language
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
Modern Kohistani languages are the closest living match to ancient Gāndhārī — Jakob Halfmann (2024)
New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)

MetaFilter Projects

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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
DOCTYPE magazine
The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.

Open Culture

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

NYT > Technology

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Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial
OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control
Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI
Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Argue in Landmark Trial
A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?
These A.I. Dreamers Don’t Fit the Stereotype
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test
After Merging xAI and SpaceX, Elon Musk Hopes He Can Win Over Wall Street
Stellantis’s Shift Away From Electric Cars Will Cost It $26 Billion
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
Amazon’s $200 Billion Spending Plan Raises Stakes in A.I. Race
Bitcoin Drops to Lowest Price Since Trump Was Elected as Crypto Faces Slump
At Ukraine’s Request, Starlink Denies Internet Access to Russian Troops

NYT > Arts

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How ‘The Traitors’ Builds Its Perfect Reality TV Cast
‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors
Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis
Taylor Stanley Makes Their Presence Known in NYCB’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’
‘How to Get to Heaven From Belfast’: Lisa McGee Spins a Comedic Mystery
‘The Monsters’ Review: A Redemptive Sibling Rivalry
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: Saving the World Again
‘My Father’s Shadow’ Review: The Double Frame of Memory
Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal Stolen Art.
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor and Jacob Elordi at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?
In His Second Act, James Van Der Beek Starred Online as a Proud Dad and Family Man
James Van Der Beek: The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star’s Life and Career in Photos
Looking at ‘The Goldfinch,’ and Thinking About Extinction
‘Scarlet’ Review: The Rest Is Anime
‘Goat’ Review: Big League Dreams
‘Crime 101’ Review: Stealing Diamonds and Movie Ideas
‘By Design’ Review: She’s Getting the Chair
Why Are So Many Artists Night Owls?
New York Is Getting Sleepier. These Artists Are Wide Awake.
Jill Scott and Bisa Butler on Staying the Course
Late Night Boos Pam Bondi’s ‘Bratty’ Behavior
Turkish Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
Where to Stream ‘Varsity Blues’ and James Van Der Beek’s Best Performances
‘The Other Place’: Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy in a Psychosexual Sophocles Update
Artforum’s Top Editor Will Step Down
Bud Cort, Who Starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ Dies at 77
Tamas Vasary, Pianist of Power and Sensitivity, Dies at 92
Ken Peplowski, Who Helped Revive the Jazz Clarinet, Dies at 66
LaMonte McLemore, Founding Singer With the 5th Dimension, Dies at 90
Andrew Ranken, Whose Drumming Powered the Pogues, Dies at 72
James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Actor, Dies at 48 After Cancer Battle
In the Sci-Fi World of ‘Arco’, It’s About ‘Respecting Kids’ Intelligence’
In ‘Soul Power,’ a Fresh Look at the League That Helped Launch Dr. J
Decades of Palestinian History, Told by 3 Films With Awards Hopes
The Book Jackets Were Ready. Then Charlie Kirk Was Shot.
Mike Tirico Went From the Super Bowl to the Olympics on Two Cups of Coffee
Late Night Mines Trump’s Million Mentions in the Epstein Files
Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and the Everyday People Who Made It Authentic
Hudson Talbott Dies at 76; Wrote and Illustrated Wide-Ranging Children’s Books
Gabor Boritt, Refugee Who Became Expert on Lincoln, Dies at 86
13 Transcendent Beatles Covers by Black Musicians
‘Galileo’ Musical, Starring Raúl Esparza, Will Open on Broadway
Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files
Philippe Gaulier, Clown Who Taught Actors Like Sacha Baron Cohen, Dies at 82
In ‘Love Story,’ Sarah Pidgeon Has Big Stilettos to Fill
Inside Danny L Harle’s Synthetic Universe
What Happens in a Performer’s Brain While Playing Music?
The Artist Nick Cave Couches His Critique in Dazzle
Broadway’s Great Imitators, Now on TikTok
Jon Stewart Defends Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
Catherine O’Hara Died From Pulmonary Embolism, Death Certificate Says
‘The All-American Halftime’ Featured an Electric Anthem Unlike Hendrix’s
Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra Illuminates Mahler’s Third
Like Fireworks: When Masters of Tap and Kathak Dance Meet
A YouTuber’s Film Beat ‘Melania’ at the Box Office. Here’s How.
Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Review: A History Lesson Full of Puerto Rican Pride
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Best and Worst Moments
They Carry a Cake Onstage, and Share Dumplings Off

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
How much does your country’s physical geography contribute to its natural defensibility?
Why isn’t this metro area more populated?
Why does the New York metro cut off so abruptly north?
Why have no major cities developed in the Green River Basin specifically north of the Flaming Gorge Resevoir?
Which cities have their upscale neighbourhoods actually physically "up"?
Now, it is perfect✨✨
Hao Xiaoguang's Vertical Map of Earth | "Normally we talk about the Norse making it to Iceland & North America as covering these incredible distances. This projection makes it seem inevitable they would, the usual Mercator projection really makes those seem much further apart than they are."
CA Central Valley Growth
Why does India get so hot compared to southern China ? Is it the Himalayas blocking cold fronts ? They have 35 degrees in February in a relatively north latitude
The Long Overdue Himalayan Mega Earthquake
What causes Denver's warm weather?
Which city is more geographically constrained ? LA by mountains and basin, or NYC by water and islands?
Asian Fruits
My ratings of US counties that are home to major cities based on how epic-sounding their names are
To people who've done so, how does the experience of living in a humid subtropical city compare to living in a legitimately tropical city? How big of a difference, weather-wise is it and which was worse?
Remarkably one island one nation, How did this current situation come about?
Is there any reason there is such a abnormaly massive jump between the third and second most populated countries or is it just arbitrary?
Why does Sudan claim this piece of Lake Nubia?
So how is a metropolitan area defined? Vibes?
Why did the engineers who built the bridge between Denmark and Sweden decide to ignore this island instead of taking advantage of it?
Strange Belgium Cycle Path in Germany
Dubai vs Las Vegas: Which city’s infrastructure is better designed to handle extreme summer heat?
Potential Regions
Why is the form of rural settlement of Ethiopia so much more different than in most other countries?

The Public Domain Review

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Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2

The Quietus

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Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive
Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs
Charles Tyler Ensemble – Voyage from Jericho
The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Karshni – Buck Wild
Plex say Farewell to Corsica Studios
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for February Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Keep It Punk, Keep it Simple: Eva LeBlanc of Traidora Interviewed
Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs – Persian Carpets
Direct Action Gets the Goods: An Interview with Leather.head
Nilza Costa – Cantigas
How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50
What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich Donates Gold Disc for Auction to Support Margate Venue WhereElse
Seb Rochford Shares New Finding Ways Track With Patrick Walden, Announces Tour
OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow
The Writing’s on the Wall for the Betrayal of Iran
Sam Slater – Lunng
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads As Gangsta Rap Album
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Annie Hogan – Tongues In My Head
Outer Waves Confirms 2026 Return for Second Edition
Ricardo Villalobos, Underground Resistance and More Rework Sun Ra Arkestra on New Compilation
Clock DVA Unveil ‘Thirst’ Reissue
Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums
The Strange World Of… Crypt of the Wizard
Shackleton – Euphoria Bound
Xylitol Reveals New Album, ‘Blumenfantasie’, for Planet Mu
Arca Shares Remix of Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’
Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Bandcamp Updates

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The Tape Label Report, January 2026
Bandcamp Radio Adds Electronic Music and Indie to the Lineup
Where to Start With M., Black Metal’s Ascendant Dark Prince
Colin Self, “respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (Expanded)”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
In the ’70s, Grupo Um Forged New Pathways in Brazilian Jazz
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Laughter In Summer”
Kenneth Kirschner’s Book of Musical Days
Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker, “DOUBLE-WIDE”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026
Daphni, “Butterfly”
Essential Releases, February 6, 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Yamila, “Noor”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tilaye Gebre, “Tilaye’s Saxophone With The Dahlak Band (የጥላዬ ሳክስ ከዳህላክ ባንድ ጋር)”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2026
Underground Medicine #1
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Ulrika Spacek, “EXPO”
Bandcamp Friday Returns This Friday, February 6
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Toni Geitani, “Wahj”
Introducing The Side Door, A New Column for Jam-Curious Weirdos
Haruhi Kobayashi, “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone”
Essential Releases, January 31, 2026
Perpetual Doom vs. Doomerism
Blackwater Holylight, “Not Here Not Gone”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tashi Dorji, “low clouds hang, this land is on fire”
Get Splayed: A Guide to Genre-Busting Beatmaker Tony Bontana
YĪN YĪN, “Yatta!”
Orchestras Within Orchestras: A Prepared Piano Primer
Shackleton, “Euphoria Bound”
Another Side of Alan Vega
David Zé, “Mutudi Ua Ufolo / Viuva Da Liberdade 1975”

dusted

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Shaking Hand — Shaking Hand (Melodic)
Robert Deeble — The Space Between Us (Mind Bomb Publishing)
Tyshawn Sorey — Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
YĪN YĪN — Yatta! (Glitterbeat)
Taker — Sons and Daughters (Self-released)
Department — The Audacity Files (Self-Release)
Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken — Double Reality Beyond Space And Time (Grong)
Cryptid Spawn — Black Phosphorous Dungeon (Iron Lung)
Cub — Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Editions (Mint)
أحمد [Ahmed] — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (OTOROKU)
Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 1
As previously mentioned, Dusted mainstay Jennifer Kelly is currently battling pancreatic cancer….
Angharad Davies & John Butcher — Two Seasons (Weight Of Wax)
Ye Vagabonds — All Tied Together (River Lea)
David Vélez — Capsicum: Music Against Racism (Marginal Frequency)
Ty Segall and the Muggers—Live at the BBC (Drag City)
Evil Damn — Eons of Horror (Hells Headbangers)
Susumu Yokota — Will (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings)
Winged Wheel — Desert So Green (12XU)

Pitchfork

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Butterfly
Cerulean
一包烟 (Yi Bao Yan)
Clearly Cursed
Bleachers Reveal New Album, Drop Song “You and Forever”
Pogues Drummer Andrew “The Clobberer” Ranken Dies at 72
Hiss Golden Messenger Announces New Album I’m People, U.S. Tour
Britney Spears Sells Rights to Her Music
Ekko Astral Announce Sophomore Album, Share New Song
Bon Iver’s Eaux Claires Festival Will Return After 8 Years
Kevin Morby Announces Album and Tour, Shares Video for New Song “Javelin”
Kim Gordon Resists “Dirty Tech” in New Video
A Sofia Kourtesis DJ Kicks Is on the Way
Piss in the Wind
Do You Still Love Me?
Paleo Sol
blue fifty-six
White Fence Announce First Album in Seven Years
Watch Charli XCX in First Trailer for New Movie Erupcja
Baby Keem Details New Album Ca$ino, Announces 2026 Tour
Wednesday Leave Wasserman Over CEO’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Lip Critic Announce New Album and Tour, Share Video for New Song
Muna Announce First Album in Four Years, Share Song
The Black Keys Line Up Massive 2026 Tour
Devo Add Yet More Tours to Their 2026 Slate
Jimmy Eat World Plot Bleed American Anniversary Tour
Los Thuthanaka’s Chuquimamani-Condori Releases New EP, Luzmila Edits
As of Now
The Fall-Off
Love Is Not Enough

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Benoit
Things Organized Neatly / Sharks
Moving
Single sheet calendar / Secret Mall Apartment / Data poems
Book Freak #196: The Art of Spending Money
Travel Dollar Destinations/Bedbugs Tracking/Worldwide Rent Prices
What’s in my NOW? — Gearóid (Ged) Carroll
Wherever You Go / After Dinner Games
Gloves
Maintenance manifesto / Funeral for a tree / Budget earbuds

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?
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