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Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable "MaaS" models led to Qwen exec departures (Financial Times)
AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M+ annual run rate (Anna Tong/Forbes)
Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M (Seth Joseph/Forbes)
Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is "outraged" and exploring legal options (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project (Reuters)
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections (Financial Times)
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and "compete in the AI race" (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
EFF says it is leaving X, as "X is no longer where the fight is happening" and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago (Kenyatta Thomas/Electronic Frontier ...)

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For Artemis II, Returning to Earth May Be the Most Dangerous Part of the Mission
These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.
NASA Prepares for Artemis II Splashdown After Historic Moon Flyby
See First Photos From NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Capturing a Setting Earth and Eclipse
Artemis II Astronauts Head Home After Historic Journey Around the Moon
NASA Families Don’t Go to the Moon, but They’re on the Mission, Too
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New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling
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Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results
Artemis II Astronauts Get a Break After Journey Around the Moon
How Psychedelics Affect the Brain
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Spread ‘Moon Joy’ to the Public
Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.
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The Artemis II crew breaks a distance record.
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NASA Artemis II Astronauts Race Into Moon’s Embrace After Quiet Easter
Where Are NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Now? Closer to the Moon Than Earth.
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Ambiphilic cross-coupling with aryl-bismuth reagents
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Genetic predictors of GLP1 receptor agonist weight loss and side effects
Mummified early Permian reptile reveals ancient amniote breathing apparatus
Clinical application of base editing for treating β-thalassaemia
Asymmetric selection of a rice immune module and rebuild of disease resistance
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Multiomics and deep learning dissect regulatory syntax in human development
Population-scale repeat expansions elucidate disease risk and brain atrophy
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Winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest
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Only Losers Play the Madman
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Maybe You’ll Never Really Know Who You’re Marrying
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U.S. fertility rate hits a new low as teenage births fall, CDC says
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Israel to open direct talks with Lebanon but not halt attacks on Hezbollah
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Trump vents at NATO but avoids rupture after meeting with alliance’s leader
Israel kills scores in Beirut as U.S. says Lebanon is not part of Iran truce
Airstrikes, turmoil in Strait of Hormuz imperil ceasefire with Iran
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Trump administration expected to slash Iran war funding request
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War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China
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To Prevent AI From Taking Graduates’ Jobs, Comp-Sci Professors Try ... More AI
Lots of Social Science Didn't Replicate. Does That Mean It's Bunk?
AI Is a Better Researcher Than You
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Hate Your Job? You're Probably Stuck With It.
As Expected, the U. of Wisconsin System Fired Its President. It Won't Say Why.
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This President Defended Taking Pride Flags Off Faculty Windows. Now She's Paused the Practice.
Identity-Based Student Groups at Mizzou Lose Designated University Funding
When AI Use Makes You Uncool

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | April 05, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 08, 2026
Roman Judea around the year 0 was a hotbed of itinerant preachers and doomsday cults. Was there anything special or unique about Jesus Christ or his congregation that made him historically more successful than his now-forgotten contemporary ‘competitors?’
What did the rest of the allied forces think about the US Nuking Japan the second time?
Who owned the Love Shack?
Why Did the Allies Decide to Use Inexperienced Units on D-Day?
What was the first drug (or other thing, if applicable) that people got addicted to that was widely considered to be a problem? Likewise, what did the very first ways of dealing with addiction back then look like, if there were any?
I am reading Book I of The Odyssey (new to the ancient Greek literature) and wondering why Athena seems to be exempt from misogyny, knowing that Greek women were inferior to men?
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are many drinking parties and instances of drunkenness. What was the drinking culture like during the period, and what might they have been drinking?
When did princesses start being marketed to little girls? Does this predate Disney?
Was there a myth in 70s that a scorpion sting was instantly deadly?
How would someone like Plato go about writing something like The Republic?
What happened to the Afro-Abkhazians?
Where did the Indian right-wing paranoia surrounding "illegal Muslim immigration" originate historically?
Were Russian Aristocrats Always in Debt?
Are there folklores that are considered especially "weird"? Not necessarily from the folklorist's perspective - do some peoples value weirdness and consider their own stories weird?
Did the Homestead Acts make it easier for Black Americans to claim land or were there additional hurdles a Black family had to jump through to acquire land out in the West?
Is the "fusionist" picture of post-WWII American conservatism correct?
Did Kuwait Really expel 18% of its population post gulf war?
When did weddings change the vows to not be out of touch?
Why didn’t Greeks in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires identify by their own Hellenic heritage but rather the imperial Roman culture that was put onto them?
in the first half of the 90s, eurodance/eurobeat became popular in Europe and grunge, in the US. Is there any socio-economic explanation for such stark contrast?
How feasible would it have been for a freed slave in the US to get a copy of their freedom papers and store them somewhere safe like a bank or church records?
Why didn't the UK give Gibralatar back to Spain after the American Revolution?
19th century french nationalism primary sources?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025)
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation
Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
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!

MetaFilter Projects

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Morellet Art Generator
In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system
Fiction About Trans People
Taeliana Creative
Parasite Personality Quiz
The Pelican
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
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

Open Culture

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Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow
How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today
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

NYT > Technology

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Federal Court Denies Anthropic’s Motion to Lift ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
Meta Unveils New A.I. Model, Its First From the Superintelligence Lab
Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’
Volkswagen to End E.V. Production at Tennessee Plant
Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
Uber and Lyft Offer Gas Price Relief, but Drivers Say It’s Not Enough
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Took iPhones Into Space
Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children
Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.
The Revival of the Fashion-Tech Love Affair
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.

NYT > Arts

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The Teens of ‘The Testaments’ Follow Up on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
MoMA Survey Shows How Marcel Duchamp Changed the Art Game
A Stroke and a Coma Couldn’t Stop Matt Pinfield, Rock’s Big Booster
Melissa Chiu Exits Hirshhorn Museum to Lead Guggenheim
‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reaches Closing Arguments
‘The Boys’ Got Bigger Than Ever. That Seemed Like the Time to End It.
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Review: Nostalgia’s the Boss of TV Now
Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations
Pink Will Host the 2026 Tony Awards
Cannes Film Festival Lineup Spotlights Almodóvar and Other Heavyweights
‘Faces of Death’ Review: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
‘Exit 8’ Review: Round and Round and Round He Goes …
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Review: At Gibney Dance, Reaping the Maelstrom
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap: Physician, Heal Thyself
‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time
Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead
‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside
Her Museum Was Surviving in Russia. Then the Threats Became Too Much.
Rosamund Pike to Star in ‘Inter Alia’ on Broadway
‘The Travel Companion’ Review: Friendship, Insecurely Fastened
‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves as a Washed-Up Star Making Amends
‘Newborn’ Review: After Solitary Confinement, New Horrors Await
‘Hamlet’ Review: (In)action Hero
‘Fiume o Morte!’ Review: Scenes From a Mini Dictatorship
‘The Christophers’ Review: Fine Art, Frayed Artists
True Crime Streaming: In ‘A Friend, a Murderer,’ the Killer Was Close
‘Bunnylovr’ Review: Run, Rabbit
Best Alien Books by Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang and More
Stephen Colbert Skewers Trump’s ‘Double-Sided’ Cease-Fire
Popeye the Art Icon
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Joy to Your Day
Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74
‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death
Duke Ellington and John Adams: Titans of Classical Americana
Matisse Is a Crowd-Pleaser. Here’s What the Crowds Rarely Get to See
An Audacious $724 Million Building Reinvents LACMA
This Audacious Film Festival Should Be Better Known
Modern Love: My Husband’s Breakdown Was My Breakthrough
‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Talks Tragedy, the Internet and the End of the Show
Frankie Muniz Refuses to Stay in His Lane
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Detroit Jazz
‘Faces of Death’ Set the Bar for Hardcore Horror. It’s Baaack.
Late Night Puzzles Over Trump’s ‘Mixed Message’ on Iran
Fanciful and Fabulous: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway
Taylor Frankie Paul Files Competing Court Petition Against Dakota Mortensen
Nathan Farb’s Roving Lens
Nathan Farb, 85, Dies; Photographed Hippies, Siberians and Mountains
Peter Schrag Dies at 94; Wrote of Dangers of California’s Populist Streak
9 Ethereal, Emotional, Chaotic and Goofy Cloud-Rap Gems
Review: ‘Innocence’ Tackles School Shootings at the Met Opera
Joe Conzo Sr., Guardian of Tito Puente’s Legacy, Dies at 83
Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain
Wireless Festival Canceled After U.K. Blocks Kanye West From Entering Country
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Bids to Buy Universal Music Group
At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky
How Duchamp Inspired These 4 Artists
Irvine Wanted a New Concert Venue. But Not on Live Nation’s Terms.
Justice Dept. Resolves Broadway Touring Company Investigation
Europe’s Museums Confront the (Literal) Skeletons in Their Closets

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Can anyone explain why the roads on this key in florida could possibly be designed this way?
Considering a lot of Europeans emigrated to Latin America, why is the city of Buenos Aires so unique in regard to its architecture?
Why did New Orleans never become a major hub like Miami or Orlando
Why didn't Austria and Germany remain a single nation after the end of the WWII?
Why has Indonesia failed at becoming a world power at least to the extent of Russia?
What was it? Lidar hillshade image of former farm field
What are the chances that there are more islands (not discovered or not public knowledge) in the Pacific Ocean?
An expedition team has discovered a previously unknown mini-island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
A third of earth's habitable land is used for animal agriculture
How does Western Colorado get so much precipitation when the state is in the Sierra rain shadow?
Altough the villages Beğendik (Turkey) and Rezovo (Bulgaria) are only a few hundred meters apart, seperated by a river, the shortest travel distance between both villages is almost 250km, since there is no border crossing.
For the first time in history, Europe is set to overtake China in terms of annual births
Which landlocked countries would have the chance to become coastal states if sea levels rise?
Why is this border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan straight as a line?
The Pequest Fill
Why are ex Portuguese colonies so likely to have mixed race people who are half Portuguese, when most other colonizers (except Spain maybe) have none or barely any?
Why is this section of I-82 routed around the Yakima River?
US National Parks & Regional Geography
Why do most modern "Earth in the future" maps not include the split somali plate?
Malaysia and Singapore are both multiethnic former British colonies. As such, why are there virtually no white Malaysians or Singaporeans?
What climate zone is the hottest/warmer: Humid Subtropical or Oceanic?
Why does every Continent or (big) Island have a Mountainrange only on one edge, while the other Side is flat?
Im starting to get curious of how well do people actually know basic geography?
I made a geography site and would love some feedback

The Public Domain Review

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Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
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)

The Quietus

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Afrika Bambaataa has Died, Aged 68
Skaņu Mežs Adds Smerz and More to 2026 Lineup
Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri Reveal Collaborative LP, ‘Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun’
Radiohead Unveil ‘Kid A Mnesia’ Touring Audiovisual Installation
A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed
Low Culture Podcast: Children Of The Stones
Kinetic Energy: Seismo by Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
Memorials – All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Nine Inch Nails Reveal New Collaborative LP with Boys Noize
Fan-Made SOPHIE Archive Launches Online
Björk is Throwing a Rave in Iceland to Mark the Total Solar Eclipse
Loraine James, Laurel Halo and More Contribute to New Compilation Honouring Women Who Have Shaped Electronic Music
Kelela Returns with New Single, ‘idea 1’
Crisis Energy: An Interview with Guttersnipe
Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg
Parasocial Security: Why Harry Styles’ Meltdown is Fireproof
Iceage Detail New Album, ‘For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter’
Boards Of Canada Trigger Comeback Speculation Amid Cryptic VHS Mailouts
Kanye West Blocked From Entering the UK, Wireless Festival Appearances Cancelled
Norman Records Announce Birthday Special Edition LPs
Different League: Mark Gatiss’ Favourite Albums
Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley
Mr Vast – Upping The Ante
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG – Pompeii // Utility
The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine
Reissue of the Week: Connecters by Larrison
Ghosts in the Machine: Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge Talk Doublespeak
Thundercat – Distracted
Wanderfal Festival at The Cornish Bank for April 10 – 11
Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996
The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))

Bandcamp Updates

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The Art of Rock
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
Lero Lero, “Lero Lero”
The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepeices Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
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

dusted

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Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby)
Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies)
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
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)

Pitchfork

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DJ Khaled, Future, and Lil Baby Reunite for New “One of Them” Video
Isaiah Rashad Confronts His Shadow in New “Same Sh!t” Video
My New Band Believe
Kehlani Recruits Missy Elliott for New Song “Back and Forth”
Wak’a
Hyperphantasia
Everything Else
Anitta Teams Up With Shakira for New Song “Choka Choka”
Brooklyn Mirage to Reopen in June as Pacha New York
Lady Gaga and Doechii Release New Devil Wears Prada 2 Song “Runway”
Afrika Bambaataa Dies at 67
“Lived and Ive Learned”
Girl Trouble Return With First Album in 23 Years
Watch Robert Plant Perform Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” on Colbert
Aldous Harding FaceTimes H. Hawkline in New Video “Venus in the Zinnia”
Jack White Extends 2026 Tour
Mitski Brings a Regal “If I Leave” to Kimmel
Wendy Eisenberg
Concrète Waves
METLASR
herts on fire
Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal Is Writing an “Astrological Memoir”
“Idea 1”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Confirm Collaborative Album
Olivia Rodrigo to Host and Perform on SNL
Björk Will Spend the Eclipse Raving in Iceland
Juvenile on the Music That Made Him
Lindsey Buckingham’s Stalker Charged After Attacking Him in Santa Monica
Kelela Drops Video for Grungey New Song “Idea 1”
Radiohead Announce Kid A Mnesia Touring Installation

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Semi Chellas
The Science Book / Encyclopedia of Sensors
Folding Bikes
Retro Recomendo: Followable
Book Freak #204: Living for Pleasure
Happiest Countries/Monthly Flight Pass/Favorite US Airports
What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes
Weeders
The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull

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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