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Sources: the FBI has declared a recent China-linked hack of a system, which contained pen register and trap and trace surveillance returns, a "major incident" (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
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Sona, which uses AI to help companies with scheduling, HR, payroll, and other workflows, raised a $45M Series B led by N47, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take "several weeks" before the incident is resolved, after it detected an intrusion on March 28 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Secondary share marketplaces say OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor, in some cases becoming difficult to unload, as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)
Anthropic's Claude Code leak reveals its "Kairos" updates, including letting Claude work in the background and using a "dream mode" to consolidate its memories (The Information)
US kid safety groups say they didn't know OpenAI had entirely funded the Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition to promote CA legislation until after it was announced (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco ...)
Sources: Amazon's "sponsored prompts" for its Rufus AI shopping assistant are driving significantly lower traffic than its traditional ads, but they cost less (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
Intel agrees to pay $14.2B to repurchase Apollo's 49% stake in the Fab 34 joint venture in Ireland, and plans to issue $6.5B in new debt to fund it; INTC up 10% (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Eli Lilly Will Buy a Narcolepsy Drug Developer for $6.3 Billion
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FDA Is Expected to Lift Restriction on Peptides, Heeding RFK Jr.’s Wishes
Edward Russo Says Donald Trump Is an ‘Environmental Hero’
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AITA FOR LEADING 300 SPARTANS TO THEIR DEATHS?
I (35/m/HRH) just lowered tea taxes on my colonies (166/gender neutral) and now they're throwing the tea in the harbor. AITAH?
AITA for playing pranks on my courtiers?
WIBTA if I (M22) show up unannounced in the country of the girl I want to marry (F16) with my dad’s boyfriend (M30) and a small retinue?
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In Regency England, who fulfilled the role of ‘mistress of the house’ for unmarried men, and were such arrangements considered necessary for social respectability?
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Was Ea-Nasir possibly a character or a contemporary joke?
WIBTA If I Changed the Emperor?
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AITA for telling an aspiring singer that she won't share in the Pierian roses and will be forgotten?
AITA for leading expeditions in the Australian wild that were maybe a little ambitious?
WIBTA if I put up a fence between my house and my neighbour?
Why do Greek myths have so many weird conditionals? Did people argue about them?
AITA for standing up to my in-laws who don’t respect my boundaries (absolute power over most of the known world)?
AITA for trying to usurp my brother?
AITA for raising a goddamn stick because these shit-ass officials refuse to correctly tabulate my score and recognize that I'm actually an incredible shot and DO NOT FUCKING MISS?
AITA for defending the sacred honor of my dear, sweet wife against the foulest of LIES and Calumnies?
AITA for Sending My Wife Away
Why is sipping a beverage with the little finger raised associated with the aristocracy--or upper-class pretensions?
AITA for defending the rights of mine and my fellow man against a draconian dictator?
Where can I read on the history of waste management (feces and urine)?
What were the lives of Mid 17th Century Scottish Sex Workers Like?

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Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
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!

MetaFilter Projects

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Fiction About Trans People
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[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
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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
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Open Culture

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How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene
Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete
Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models
How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits

NYT > Technology

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
A.I. Companies Shatter Fund-Raising Records, as Boom Accelerates
One of Apple’s First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years
Apple’s Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring
WhatsApp Whistle-Blower Suit Is Dismissed
Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?
OpenAI Adds Another $12 Billion to Latest Funding Round
How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion
Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million
What to Know About California’s Executive Order on A.I.
States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump
From Foe to Ally: The S.E.C. Is Now Writing Crypto-Friendly Policies
Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
Elon Musk Joins in Phone Call Between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media
Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier
The Clues Binance Missed That Led to Billions in Crypto Flowing to Iran
U.S. Accuses NewYork-Presbyterian of Reaching Deals That Kept Costs High
Shield AI, a Start-Up Making Military Drones, Raises $2 Billion
Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
Leonid Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans

NYT > Arts

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Bruce Springsteen Brings Fiery Speeches and Songs to Minneapolis
How ‘American Psycho’ and Marina Abramovic Fed the Met Opera’s ‘Tristan’
When Stars’ Plastic Surgery Is Played for Your Entertainment
Lucy Sante on Collage: ‘You Have to Kill One Thing to Make Another.’
The Best Movies and TV Shows Streaming in April 2026
Jane Fonda, Jennifer Tilly and More Star in Off Broadway Shows This April
At the National Archives, the Declaration Gets More Company
How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
‘The Book of Mormon’ Is Sorry if You Were Offended for 15 Years
International Booker Prize Shortlist: 6 Novels With ‘Burning Humanity’
Morton Feldman Was Loud. His Music Was Quietly Haunting.
‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway Has Help From Something Old
Celine Dion Announces Comeback Concerts in Paris
Symphony Space to Undergo a $45 Million Makeover
The Good List: 7 Things to Add Some Delight to Your Day
Bravo’s ‘Summer House’ West Wilson and Amanda Batula Scandal, Explained
Fosse! Robbins! Making the Case for Vintage Broadway Dance
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in April
Josefina Aguilar, Who Depicted Mexican Life in Clay, Dies at 80
Megan Thee Stallion Rushed to the Hospital During Moulin Rouge Broadway Performance
Adaptations of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Titus Andronicus’ Explore Themes of Life, Death and Joy
New York City Ballet in 2026-27: A Rare Balanchine and Ratmansky’s ‘Romeo’
Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe and the Wonder of Young Love, in ‘Romeo and Juliet’
‘Star Spangled to Death’: Ken Jacobs’s History of the United States
34 Fun Things to Do in N.Y.C. in April
10 Short Books for Spring
Stephen Colbert Blames ‘The Bachelorette’ Cancellation for $4 Gas
Slava Tsukerman, Who Directed the Cult Classic ‘Liquid Sky,’ Dies at 86
Melvin Edwards, Sculptor Who Wove Black History Into Art, Dies at 88
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: It’s-a Meh
10 Synth-Pop Songs That Bring the Drama
Eurovision Song Contest to Add Asian Edition This Year
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
The Next British Invasion Is Here, and It’s Led by Women
Stephen Colbert Marvels at ‘No Kings’ Rallies Worldwide
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ on Broadway, With Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Is Underbaked
Ben Stevenson, Choreographer With Global Reach, Dies at 89
Mary Beth Hurt, Actress Acclaimed in ‘Interiors’ and ‘Garp,’ Dies at 79
Agosto Machado Is Dead; Artist Memorialized New York’s Avant-Garde
Mark Morris’s Stations of the Cross: Simple and Stinging
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Artworks Are Stolen in 3-Minute Museum Heist, Police Say
For a High Priestess of Extreme Theater, Death Is Gentler Than Life
In Her Broadway Debut, Mariska Hargitay Will Replace Daniel Radcliffe in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’
How Dancers Are Helping Scientists Rethink Bodies Without Gravity
Sarah Shahi Plays a Therapist on ‘Paradise’ and Nearly Everywhere Else
In a New Memoir, Arsenio Hall Recalls His High-Flying Years as a Talk-Show Host
29 New Books to Read in April: Emma Straub, Patrick Radden Keefe, TJ Klune and More
With Mario and Minecraft, Hollywood Courts Gamers
‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 2: Getting the Band Back Together
Eric Overmyer, Who Wrote for Modern Television Classics, Dies at 74
How a Mistake Made ‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Rocky Into a Breakout Star
‘The Wild Party’ Is a Vivacious Play That Started as a Scandalous Poem
Taylor Frankie Paul’s Past Was No Secret. A Child’s Cry Changed Everything.
‘Life! Life! Life!’: Reviving a Globe-Trotting Sculptor of the Gilded Age
Yearning for Sun, New Yorkers Soak Up the Sauna
Paul McCartney, Robyn: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Bruce Hornsby Isn’t Playing It Safe on ‘Indigo Park’
Thundercat Can Geek Out With the Best of Them
7 Podcasts to Boost Your Spirits
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Bringing ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ to Broadway
Overlooked No More: Gertrude Chandler Warner, Author of ‘The Boxcar Children’
Outside Kennedy Center, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez Raise Voices in Protest

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Most unique setting for a high school?
What is this double dotted line in Cyprus?
Number of rice growing seasons per year
The status of Easter
The aravalli range in north west india is one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world formed 2 billion years ago
Would Australia’s population rival the US if its interior were fertile instead of arid?
Iraq and Syria after one of the best winter seasons we’ve had in recent memory(you can somewhat make out the shape of the ancient Fertile Crescent aswell)
The Strait of Hormuz looks up to 60 miles wide on a map, but the actual shipping lanes that carry a fifth of the world's oil are only 2 miles wide. I never realized how tight this chokepoint actually is
Vintage Australian map tablecloth
Why does this bridge exist when the land right under it looks perfectly suitable for a highway?
All roads lead to San Joses
Why are there no big cats(even historically) in southern europe?
In most regions, plains are more populated than mountains. Why is the opposite true in the U.S. state of Montana, where the mountains in the west are more populated than the eastern plains?
TIL these 3 islands are still claimed by the UAE. They were occupied by Iran just two days before the establishment of the UAE in 1971.
Why does congo become so narroq here all of a sudden?
Could Spain close the Strait of Gibraltar like Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz?
Can anyone give me the names of some uninhabited atolls that lie in the middle of the pacific? I'm trying to find some but I can't really,thank you!
Why were Europeans in Africa mainly in the south of the continent compared to the north? Is there a geographical reasoning for this?
Are all these bodies of water northeast of Lyon man-made or glaciated?
San Francisco is a river city: my pitch for the “Golden Gate River”
Minnesota is only one state away from Ohio, due to its maritime border with Michigan. What is your favorite example of this? Can apply to U.S. states or any other border!
What is the correct pace to industrialize an underdeveloped nation efficiently?
How come Indus-Gangetic basin has higher steppe ancestry % than Iran?
Where else on Earth is there a tidal stait as prominent as the East River in NYC?

The Public Domain Review

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Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
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

The Quietus

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The Shits – Diet Of Worms
Inner Ear: Croatian Music for April, by Jakub Knera
Our Subscriber-Exclusive Playlist for March 2026
Triple Threat: An Interview with Orcutt Shelley Miller
Prince’s Parade (Under The Cherry Moon) 40 Years On
Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past
The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein
Robyn – Sexistential
Fishing for Pearls: Ghostface Killah in 2006
London’s MOTH Club Secures “Huge Win” After Nearby Development Application Refused
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, ‘Concrète Waves’
Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct
Taupe – Waxing | Waning
Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal
Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
Natalie Marlin on The Chemical Brothers’ Hanna OST
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release
Vince Clarke Launches Covers Project with Benge and Blancmange’s Neil Arthur
EFG London Jazz Festival Announces First Acts for 2026 Edition
james K Unveils ‘Friend’ Remix Album
Outside the Box: Sarah Nixey’s Favourite Albums
Ladytron – Paradises
FKA twigs Sues The Twigs Over Trademark Dispute
Rockfort! French Music for March, Reviewed by David McKenna
A lot of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys’ Please Revisited
The Leaf Library – After the Rain, Strange Seeds
Sweet Belief: Cameron Picton on My New Band Believe
Underscores – U

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Robber Robber, “Two Wheels Move the Soul”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Various Artists, “Fight The Fire: Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots and Dub in Nigeria 1986–91”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2026
Maryam Saleh’s Secret
Foote/Dickow, “High Cube”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026
Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026
Dagmar Zuniga, “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music”
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music
God Knows and MuRli: Ireland’s Hip-Hop Gamechangers
Crouch, “Breaking the Catatonic State”
Chicha Forever: The Evolution of Peruvian Cumbia
Xylitol, “Blumenfantasie”
The Ictus Ensemble Chart Classical Music’s Next Frontier
Duncecap & Samurai Banana, “Comfortably Suffering”
Cut Worms, “Transmitter”
Clover Records Is An Indie Pop Good-Luck Charm
Excavating the Pacific Northwest’s Art Rap Underground
Rapping with Kim Gordon

dusted

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dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead — Live At The Hungry Brain (Trost)
Hässlig / Opresija — Kali Yuga Aural Terror (Self-released)
Chronotope Project — Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary)
Third Coast Percussion — Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
The Notwist — News From Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
Barbaric Oath — Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari)
Isabel Pine — Fables (Kranky)
Pan•American — Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (Kranky)
Mors.Void.Discipline — Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Tinariwen — Hoggar (WEDGE)
Gunner — Reality Soldier (Iron Lung)
A note from the organizer that they’re still accepting tracks for this until the end of the week….
Landowner — Assumption (Exploding in Sound)

Pitchfork

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Converge Announce Second Album of 2026, Share New Song
Sturgill Simpson Lines Up Johnny Blue Skies Tour
Hear Anne Hathaway Sing a New FKA twigs Song for Mother Mary
Shakira Announces Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran U.S. Arena Tour
Cass McCombs and Hand Habits Team Up for New Split 7"
Watch Tems Perform “What You Need” on Fallon
Rochelle Jordan Shares Chic “Doing It Too” Video
Megan Thee Stallion Releases Statement After Hospitalization: “My Body Finally Said ‘Enough’”
Bully
Skeletor
Companion
THE COMEDOWN
Third Man Records to Reissue “Lost” Ted Lucas Album
Wendy Eisenberg, The Soft Pink Truth Lead New Benefit Compilation
Dry Cleaning Share New Song “Sliced by a Fingernail”
Bob’s Burgers Should Cover More Joy Division Songs
Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham Is Now Making Movies
Jeff Parker Announces ETA IVtet Album Happy Today
Billy Strings Sets Fall 2026 U.S. Tour
Thaiboy Digital Details New Album Paradise
Beth Orton Returns With “The Ground Above”
Lambrini Girls Return With Devilish New Song “Cult of Celebrity”
Taylor Swift Made an Elizabeth Taylor Fan Edit for Her “Elizabeth Taylor” Music Video
Watch David Byrne Perform “When We Are Singing” on Colbert
Ö
It’s the Long Goodbye
Hurts Like Hell
Morning Star
Madonna, Gracie Abrams, Muna Sign Petition to Close ICE Detention Center
Disclosure Share Video for New Song “The Sun Comes Up Tremendous”

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes
Weeders
The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull
Book Freak #203: Knowledge, Reality, and Value
Book Freak #202: Determined
Airplane Speakerphone Ban/Slomad Paradox/Colors of Asia
What’s in my NOW? — Mark Rae Peet
Quidditch Through the Ages / Hurts Like a Mother
Power Gear

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
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

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
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