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A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to "north of $120B" (Morgan Chittum/CNBC)
Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is "troubling" and that "it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" (Maria Curi/Axios)
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A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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NASA Sets Out New Plans and Timelines for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission
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Gerd Faltings of Germany Wins 2026 Abel Prize in Mathematics
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Author Correction: 7-Dehydrocholesterol is an endogenous suppressor of ferroptosis
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UK scraps airborne lab that tracks climate, pollution and weather systems
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Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
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The intelligence illusion: why AI isn’t as smart as it is made out to be
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What the Markets Tell Trump
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The In Living Color Effect
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Trump declares Iran war ‘won’ as Tehran denies claims of peace talk progress
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Can You Hang a Pride Flag in Your Office Window? This University Says No.
Elise Stefanik Goes Woke
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Economic Affirmative Action Is Working
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 22, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 18, 2026
Why Judaism and Islam banned pork but Christianity allowed it despite all of them being Abrahamic religions. Historically what change happened in the middle for this to occur?
In Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Angel Clare is described as wearing "a cabbage-leaf inside his hat to keep his head cool." Was this an actual, common practice at the time?
What factors led to Haiti to be the currently poorest country in the Americas by a considerable margin?
How much time did monarchs sit on their thrones?
How was the Bible used to condemn interracial marriage in the United States?
Was Afghanistan impacted by the Bronze Age Collapse, since that’s one of the major locations where tin comes from?
After the Bar Kokba revolt and before the early-to-mid 4th century, was Palestine majority-pagan or Jewish?
Rose water being a popular ingredient in 18th century England - Why was this?
Why weren't scythe shaped weapons used in battles to reach over and around shields used in formations?
How prominent was foraging in England during the Victorian Era?
Was Germany before unification considered to be militarily weak?
Were Mongolian conquests any more ruthless than Reconquista, American colonization, Crusades, Roman Empire and etc?
Do arranged marriages exist (or did they ever exist) in Western countries(America or Europe)?
What were some things the Roman Empire were surpassed at by other empires at their time?
When would a monarch wear their crown?
Why was Aramaic so culturally dominant in the Middle East and Levant in specific during Antiquity?
After WW2, was there an Italian equivalent to The Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Tribunal?
What was boot camp in previous wars like WWII like?
How did Shakespeare fit into the political landscape of early 17th century Britain?
What documentation/book/documentary/BD would you recommend when looking for World War II details outside of the main events ?
Was salting the earth a real procedure?
What was the average person’s understanding on how illnesses were transmitted?
To date, what is the most plausible outcome of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's disappearance?

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Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
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!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[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
'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)

Open Culture

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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
How Quentin Tarantino’s One-Night “Detest Fest” Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction
An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection
In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”
Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard
Hear Paul McCartney’s Forgotten 1967 Movie Soundtrack, Arranged by George Martin
Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition
The Fascinating Engineering of the Titanic: How the Great Ocean Liner Was Built
How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014)

NYT > Technology

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Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips
Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.
Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator
Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations
Judge Hears State Challenge to Trump’s Tech Deal Settlement
‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years
Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker
What to Know About Electric Cars When Gas Prices Are Surging
Elon Musk Is Responsible for Some Twitter Investor Losses, Jury Finds
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws
Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I.
Have You Turned to A.I. For Advice on a Romantic Relationship?
The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
A.I. Bots Can Act as Personal Digital Assistants, but There Are Serious Risks
AI Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in ‘As Deep as the Grave’
Silicon Valley Musters Behind-the-Scenes Support for Anthropic
Google Sits Pretty as A.I. Rivals Compete for Pentagon Favor
How to Follow the Game, Even When You Can’t See It Live
Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
Silicon Valley Bet on War. The Bets Are Paying Off.

NYT > Arts

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John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in ‘Giant’: A Study in Monstrosity
Comedy’s Most Manipulative Shot … and Its Greatest Weapon
Is It Possible to Solve the Ending of Puccini’s ‘Turandot’?
The Final, Flying Colors of Matisse’s ‘Second Life’
Brooklyn Museum’s African Art Galleries to Unite Continent
11 Robyn Bangers for the Pop Star’s Long-Awaited Return
Bill Cosby Loses Sex Assault Lawsuit and Faces a $59 Million Judgment
‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years
At ‘Baywatch’ Tryouts, Hoping to Be the Next Pam Anderson or Jason Momoa
A Review of the U.K.’s ‘S.N.L.’ Debut From Both Sides of the Atlantic
The Man Who Taught Boy Bands How to Move
Review: On ‘Arirang,’ BTS Is Too Big to Fail. But Not Too Big to Succeed.
Why Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Go-Go Dancer Piece Remains Subversive
Two Choreographers, Two Visions of Philadelphia Freedom
Through Bamboo, the Artist Lap-See Lam Explores Her Family’s History
Mike Vernon, Who Helped Spark the British Blues Boom, Dies at 81
Robert White, Tenor Renowned for Irish Ballads, Dies at 89
David A. Ross Sought Epstein’s Help to Build Art Museums. Now He’s Facing the Fallout.
Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients
Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharoah Gets a Reputational Makeover
Late Night Doesn’t Feel So Hot About ICE at the Airport
How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Collecting
Gold, A New Art Space in Hong Kong, Opens
A Painter Reveals Hong Kong’s Natural Wonders — and Where to See Them
Outside Art Basel Hong Kong, Cyborgs, Abstractions and More
Exploring Hong Kong’s Textile Trail
Valerie Perrine, Screen Siren Who Won Critical Acclaim, Dies at 82
Augie Meyers, Pioneer of Tex-Mex Music, Dies at 85
What’s It Like to Be Back in Print After 20 Years? A Bit Odd.
New Yorkers, Have You Found Your Microscene?
‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen,’ Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: The Old Razzle-Dazzle
For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated Everyman
Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds
Taylor Frankie Paul and the Downfall of the ‘Bachelor’ Empire
Choose Your Netflix Mystery: Agatha Christie or Jo Nesbo
Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause.
Why Are We Obsessed With Antigone?
K-Pop’s BTS Returns to the Stage
The director of the Netflix livestream is a veteran of the Oscars and the Super Bowl.
Behind the scenes of the BTS livestream.
Why BTS Is Promoting Its New Album, ‘Arirang,’ in Korea Before Hitting the Road
What BTS Wore for Its Comeback Concert and Why
Here’s how America met BTS.
There was extra security as BTS fans arrived at the concert site.
One reason BTS went on hiatus? To do military service.
​Gwanghwamun Square, the venue of the show, has long attracted crowds.
Here’s the latest.
St. Vincent, Death Cab for Cutie: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Art Basel Hong Kong: Injecting Energy Into the Art Fair Experience
At Hong Kong Art Basel, an Exhibition of Works by El Anatsui
A Navy Veteran Finds His Niche in the Art World
Scott Evans Recommends These Books to the Women in His Life
Nicholas Brendon, Beloved Sidekick on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ Dies at 54
‘The Bachelorette’ Took a Risk on Taylor Frankie Paul. It Backfired.
Don DeLillo’s Hockey Novel, ‘Amazons,’ Will Return to Stores
Chuck Norris: A Life in Pictures
Chuck Norris Punched This Article Into the Sun: How an Action Hero Became a Meme
‘Dhurandhar the Revenge’ Review: A License to Kill, a Lot
Man Arrested After Valuable Glass Artwork Is Shattered at Seattle Museum

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
can someone explain what is this called, how did it form and why is the inside of it much more lush than the surrounding
Why is this part of Turkey so different? How did the mountains do this circle?
What are some of your favorite underrated/lesser known geographical location? One of mine is Malören in Sweden. It's a small island with a beach covered in exclusively round stones from the polishing of ocean waves over 1500 years
Is this the worst designed metro area in the United States in terms of planning and layout?
What are some places that look like a starter Cities: Skylines run?
Has anyone else visited every town in a state?
Which city has the nicest views on the subway / metro rail line?
Regions for Book Project
What is this geographical feature called
I want to be a geologist
Why are there small exclaives of tatarstan in the udmurtic republic?
The Atlas mountain Morocco
Is there a place where the sun goes down, is half over the horizont and then goes up again
Official IDF graphic showing the reach of Iranian missiles in Europe.
Liechtenstein has a stark Elevation difference between Eastern and Western borders. Is there any other country in Europe with the same?
Scientists discover freshwater hidden beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake
What's it like living on an Island?
What are good games or techniques to help me remember 72 political and physical features on a map?
The largest man made island in the world
Seen on the sea ice in Greenland, what is this phenomenon called?
Life in the Amazon where water is abundant but not always safe to drink
Welche Erklärung gibt es dafür, dass der Luftdruck in einem Land in Äquatornähe monatelang zwischen 1017 hPa und 1025 hPa liegt?
The damn Green Belts are its biggest impediment, but I also think part of the reason why Manchester–Liverpool–Leeds–Sheffield is so overlooked as a major urban area is that there's no one marketing it, someone should find a fancy name for it like Northern England's Metroplex or the British Randstad
Which are the wildest places to visit on this planet? Those that are close to the state that the world was in before humans.

The Public Domain Review

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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
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 Quietus

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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
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab’s ‘Super-Electric’
Neurosis Release First New Album in a Decade
Reissue of the Week: Roland Brival’s Créole Gypsy
Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone – Music for Intersecting Planes
Native Instruments to Go into Full Insolvency
The Afghan Whigs Share New Song, ‘House Of I’
UK Government Scraps Support for AI Models Being Trained on Copyrighted Creative Material
The Strange World Of… Ed Kuepper
Teerath Majumder – Dust To Dust
Twilight of the Idols: Yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell by The Heads
Organic Intelligence LIV: Psychedelic Porto
Kraftwerk Unveil 50th Anniversary Reissue of ‘Radio-Activity’
Ana Roxanne Shares New Song, ‘Untitled II’
Retro Instinct Versus Future Fetish: Emperor Tomato Ketchup 30 Years On
Kwes – Kinds
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: George Shaw’s Favourite Records
ELUCID & Sebb Bash – I Guess U Had To Be There
Horse Lords Reveal New Album, ‘Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!’
Feedbacker: Rock Music for March by JR Moores
A Question Of Lust: Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration Revisited
Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy – Dying Is The Internet
Alice Coltrane and Eternity in 1976
Delphine Dora – L’ineluctable pulsation du temps
A Cave of Wonders: Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten on the Record Shop that Made Him
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt to Release Collaborative Album
Music Company Concord Acquires Ninja Tune

Bandcamp Updates

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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
Essential Releases, March 13, 2026
Ora Cogan, “Hard Hearted Woman”
Underground Medicine #2
“Facts Aren’t Always Facts”: A Guide to Craven Faults
Mary Ocher, “Weimar”
ELUCID On The Chemistry That Powered His New Album
Bill Orcutt, “Music in Continuous Motion”
David Garland Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
Upset The Rhythm is One Big, Weird, Wonderful Family
The Notwist, “News from Planet Zombie”
Fugazi, “Albini Sessions”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
Various Artists, “HELP(2)”
Essential Releases, March 6th, 2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026

dusted

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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)
Laura Cetilia — Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
Lande Hekt — Lucky Now (Tapete)
Dwellnought — Monolith of Ephemerality (Caligari)
Listed: Department
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

Pitchfork

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Waxahatchee and Brennan Wedl Cover Kathleen Edwards’ “Six O’Clock News”
Watch Jim Legxacy Bop Around London in Video for New Song “IDK IDK”
Pixies Detail 40th Anniversary U.S. Shows
Fire-Toolz Signs to Warp for New Album Lavender Networks
Watch Flea Cover Frank Ocean on Fallon
Watch Jeff Tweedy Perform “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” on Kimmel
The 66 Most Anticipated Tours of Spring 2026
Downtown Boys Return With First Album in Nine Years
Jay-Z Opens Up About Kendrick-Drake Beef in Rare Interview
ARIRANG
I Guess U Had to Be There
Runoff
Assumption
FKA twigs Sues the Twigs Over Trademark Battle
Chance the Rapper Awarded $35 in Countersuit Against Ex-Manager
Listen to Two New Bladee Songs
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso Line Up 2026 Tour
Kesha to Embark on the Freedom Tour
Model/Actriz Share New EP, Announce 2026 Tour
The Kinks’ Dave Davies Slams Moby Over “Lola” Criticism: “I Am Highly Insulted”
Reader Q&A With Avalon Emerson
Underscores, Lightris, JWords, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Wu-Tang Clan Announce Another Leg of Their “Final” Tour
The 64 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2026
TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue Unite for Tour
U
sentence structure in the country
Blumenfantasie
BODY SOUND
Listen to SZA Cover the Goo Goo Doll’s “Iris”

Cool Tools

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Quidditch Through the Ages / Hurts Like a Mother
Power Gear
Flighty / 23 learnings on community / Keep the Meter Running
Book Freak #201: Indistractable
Earbud Straps/Companion Flights Perk/Extra Airport Time
What’s in my NOW? — Quentin Sinig
Creeping Death from Neptune / The Book of Gossage
Beekeeping
Articles of Interest / Still Here / Secret exec contacts
Book Freak #200: The 5 Types of Wealth

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
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Shack Sauce
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce)
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread)
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale
What is Sumac?
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