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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 15, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 11, 2026
Industrialists like Cadbury and Rowntree used to build homes and provide education for their workers and their families. Do we know when and why that philanthropic tradition died out?
Why did many WW2 snipers not use spotters?
In 1952, the CIA supported the Free Officers coup against the British-backed King Farouk of Egypt, and in 1956 Eisenhower famously opposed the UK and France during the Suez crisis. When did American and British policy re: the Middle East become more closely aligned, and why?
When Alexander the Great conquered previously uncontacted land (to the Greeks and Macedonians) in modern day Pakistan, how did he communicate his demands to the locals? Did he have to rely on foreign translators? If so, how did he know that they were accurate or trustworthy?
Was Franco's Spain, Tojo's japan, and Nazi Germany fascist, or did they all have their own ideologies?
In the canonical Gospels, Jesus' followers sometimes address him as 'rabbi.' What meaning did the term have in Second Temple Judaism at the time, and what was required of someone to become a rabbi?
Why are the suits of playing cards what they are? When Was that standardized? Where did they come from?
Why was there a historical tendency to build capital cities on swampy marshland (ex. Washington, D.C., Berlin, Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, Jakarta, St. Petersburg, Moscow, London, Amsterdam)?
Do we have any recorded accounts of transgender people in renassaince italy?
The instability of the Orient/"Middle East" has been a common punchline for decades. When did it become so unstable and prone to war?
How often did people live with a landlady in the 19th century?
Are there any significant historical artifacts rumored to exist in private collections that have never been definitively confirmed?
Is this claim substantiated?
When did Catholics start to refer to Orthodox Christians as "Orthodox", and vice versa?
How did European countries react to the union of England and Scotland in 1707?
How do military leaders get the confidence to stage a coup?
Kvasir was known as the wisest of the Norse gods. His blood was made into the mead of poetry, which granted skaldic inspiration, but do we have any evidence that he himself was a poet?
The North Americas, South Asias and Africas were former British colonies that fought for freedom. Why is it that the former came out with highly developed couple of nations and the latter are highly fragmented and developing countries with poverty problems?
Between 1980 to 2005, the US had a nationwide moratorium on creating new medical schools and intentionally lowered or froze the number of people who could enroll in medical schools. Why did they do that, and how much did that contribute to the current physician shortage?
How exactly did the local schisms between orthodox (Santri) and less orthodox Muslim groups (Abangan) contribute or serve as motive for the Indonesian Mass killings of 1965-66?
In the decade after World War 1, were there people and countries preparing for a potential war of that scale to happen again in the near future?
Giuseppe Garibaldi later associated himself with the International Workingmen’s Association/First International, and somewhat identified with socialism. What did he mean by that?
Genuine questions about sub Saharan slave trade?

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Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
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Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
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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]
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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
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Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions

MetaFilter Projects

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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)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat

Open Culture

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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)
The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans
How the Long-Lost Body of Richard III Was Found Under a Parking Lot: Solving a 500-Year-Old Mystery
How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer
The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More
Watch Peter Tork Quietly Mouth Other Actors’ Lines in The Monkees: A Strange Quirk You’ll Never Unsee
Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?
The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art
AI Figures Out the Rules of a Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Board Game from Ancient Rome
Inside the Automats Where Coin-Operated Machines Created a Modern, Democratic Dining Experience
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897

NYT > Technology

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U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets.
Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration
Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions
Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.
A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.
Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
How Do You Use A.I. for Daily Life?
YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal

NYT > Arts

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Highlights From the 2026 Oscars: ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Six Awards, Including Best Picture
Our Favorite Oscars Red Carpet Photos Featuring Jessie Buckley and Emma Stone
Oscars 2026 Winners List: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ and More
Brené Brown and Adam Grant Want to Repair the Discourse
Why Are We in Iran? On ‘S.N.L.’, Pete Hegseth Has the Answer: ‘I Don’t Know’
‘Trash’ Review: Bickering About Chores, in Sign Language
The City That Inspired Rothko (It’s Not New York)
Gorillaz on ‘The Mountain’ and Celebrating Lost Musicians
Kacey Musgraves, the Pussycat Dolls: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Coalition of States Will Carry on Live Nation Antitrust Case
On the Road, Primal Screams Optional, With Mae Martin
Kennedy Center’s President, Richard Grenell, Is Leaving After a Tumultuous Year
Crisis Follows Conductor’s Dismissal at the Boston Symphony
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
Why Did Trump Officials Award $2 Million to a Small Art School in Queens?
‘Imperfect Women,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Javier Bardem and Other Stars Address Wars and Free Speech at Oscars
‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Picture at 2026 Oscars After Awards Sweep
Jessie Buckley Wins First Oscar for Best Actress in ‘Hamnet’
Michael B. Jordan Wins the Best Actor Oscar for ‘Sinners’
Paul Thomas Anderson Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘One Battle After Another’
Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes History as First Woman to Win Best Cinematography
A Surprising Oscars Tie Is the Seventh in Academy Awards History
‘The Singers’ and ‘Two People Exchanging Saliva’ Tie for Oscar
Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford at 2026 Oscars
Billy Crystal Leads 2026 Oscars Tribute to Rob and Michele Reiner
Conan O’Brien Parodies ‘Weapons’ and Roasts Timothée Chalamet in 2026 Oscars Monologue
Sean Penn Wins Best Supporting Actor for ‘One Battle After Another’ but Skips Oscars
All about the new Oscar for casting.
Amy Madigan Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in ‘Weapons’
Matt Berry will be this year’s ‘Voice of God.’
Best picture nominees had mixed box office firepower.
Oscars Security Remains Tight Amid U.S.-Israel War With Iran
Anti-ICE campaign takes to the streets near the ceremony.
How The New York Times Covers the Oscars
What to expect on Sunday.
Oscars 2026 Takeaways: ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes Top Honors
How to watch the ceremony tonight.
‘Doctor Who’ Fans Have Fresh Chance to Time Travel With Found Episodes
Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93
Paula Doress-Worters, an Author of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ Dies at 87
How to Watch the Oscars 2026: Start Time, Host and Streaming
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
How Not to Become the ‘Dead Wife in a Movie’ Trope
What to Watch for at the 2026 Oscars: Best Actor Race, Conan O’Brien and More
Michael B. Jordan of ‘Sinners’ Is a Star. But Is He an Oscar-Worthy Actor?
Prediction Markets? An 83% Chance That Oscars Pundits Hate Them.
Forget ‘Marty Supreme.’ Meet the Real Table Tennis Champion of New York.
After DOGE Deposition Videos Go Viral, Judge Orders Them Taken Down
Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies; Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying
At Dinners, Over Jokes With Comedians, Epstein Honed His Networking
Kneecap Gets Serious on Its New Album, ‘Fenian’
Jack Harlow Was a Chart-Topping Rapper. He Doesn’t Want to Brag Anymore.
5 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
1,865 Coats in 15 Minutes: A Fine-Tuned Opera House Team
How ‘Virgin River’ Became One of Netflix’s Biggest Hits
Why Dogs Are a Writer’s Best Friend
From ‘It Ends With Us’ to ‘Reminders of Him,’ How Colleen Hoover Captured Hollywood
Behind the Scenes of the 2026 Oscar Best Picture Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Hamnet’ and More
Grasping Esoteric Dance? It’s Child’s Play
Late Night Unwraps ‘War’ vs. ‘Excursion’ vs. ‘Both’
Daniel Radcliffe Shines in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ on Broadway
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 10 Recap: Invisible String

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why does Islam seem to follow mostly desert countries?
Why is Sicily’s population 5 million whereas Peloponnese has only 1 ? They have similar sized territories
What is the most beautiful coastline in your country?
Borders on Caspian Sea
This might be a weird question, but are there places in the world today where you could basically live like a feudal lord if you have the right connections or money?
Found this interesting abandon village in middle of saraha in Niger called Djado.
Is this part of the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border disputed?
I have one question about this Criminally under appreciated Range: Cardamom Hills.
TIL that there is an exclave of Oman inside of UAE called Madha, and inside it there is a UAE enclave called Nahwa - border situation in UAE is almost like Russian nesting dolls.
Most popular book genre by country, 36 countries mapped
Which countries have a "second city" that is often more traveled to, admired and popular than its largest city?
This ecoregion is the most biodiverse temperate region of the whole world
Geography Joke
Why had Arabian peninsula migration routes begun in modern day Yemen and Oman, but not the others?
Why is Malawi's population density particularly high compared to the surrounding areas?
How come small towns aren't jumping up to mid size cities and mid size cities to larger metropolises [USA]
Is there anything on earth that is close to this natural phenomenon?
Qual é o ano aproximado desse mapa?
Countries with a “Bible Belt”
American Midwest Weather
What are your favorite places to view on Google earth?
Anyone know what this is?
T2 Chrome GLOBAL iOS Translate H 16X9 10s C Y UI N Pr B Ph B ST NIL MO en q224c #weiserprivacy.
Ontario Divided into 230 Distinct Regions (Part 1)

The Public Domain Review

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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 Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia

The Quietus

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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
Reissue of the Week: Prostitute’s Attempted Martyr
Low Culture Podcast: Suicide’s Debut Album
Kim Gordon – Play Me
Rewire Completes 2026 Lineup
Kneecap Member Mo Chara Will Not Face New Trial After UK Government Loses Appeal
Tara Clerkin Trio Detail New Album, ‘Somewhere Good’
Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More
The Four Seasons: Bill Orcutt’s Music In Continuous Motion
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto – Paper Masks
Olof Dreijer Reveals Debut Solo Album, ‘Loud Bloom’
Skaņu Mežs Announces First Artists Playing 2026 Edition
Modest Mouse Return with First New Song in Five Years
MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt Unveil Split Album, ‘POMPEII // UTILITY’
Iceage Share First New Song in Five Years, ‘Star’
That’s How We Make It Our Home: Will Oldham Selects 13 Valiant Records from Louisville, Kentucky
Tanya Tagaq – Saputjiji
BIG|BRAVE Detail New Album, ‘In Grief Or In Hope’
Live Nation and US Justice Department Edge Towards Settling Antitrust Lawsuit
Wasserman Agency Rebrands as The·Team
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March
Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble – Signals
New UK Fund Established to Support Artists with Touring Costs
How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
New Age Doom featuring H.R. – Angels Against Angels
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
Fugazi Share Previously Unreleased Recordings Made Alongside Steve Albini
The White Hotel Adds Kali Malone, Klein and More to Lineup for Blackpool Festival
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God

Bandcamp Updates

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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
The Tape Label Report, February 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026
Shabaka, “Of The Earth”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026
NIMF, “Sirenoscape”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58”
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move”
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya”
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea
Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun”
The Women of Detroit House

dusted

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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
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World)
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination)
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City)
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records)

Pitchfork

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Watch Barbra Streisand Sing “The Way We Were” in Robert Redford Tribute at 2026 Oscars
Midnight Zone (Original Soundtrack)
Hard Hearted Woman
Music in Continuous Motion
Kyriemo Irving
Oscars 2026: KPop Demon Hunters’ “Golden” Wins Best Original Song
Oscars 2026: Ludwig Göransson Wins Best Original Score for Sinners
Oscars 2026: Watch Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq, and More Perform “I Lied to You”
Oscars 2026 Winners: See the Full List
Motörhead Guitarist Phil Campbell Dies at 64
Watch Harry Styles Bring “Dance No More” and “Coming Up Roses” to SNL
I Could Live in Hope
Paris in the Spring
“Ante Up (Robbing-Hoodz Theory)”
“Oh! Give me something to believe in”
Quavo’s New Street-Racing Movie Features Takeoff’s Final Acting Role
Watch the Sunny Music Video to ML Buch’s New Song
Oneohtrix Point Never on the Music That Made Him
The 2Slimey Roundtable
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt Share First Songs From Collaborative Album
Lykke Li Shares “Knife in the Heart,” Her “Brutalist Nursery Rhyme Anthem”
9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Kim Gordon, James Blake, and More
Listen to Broken Social Scene’s New Song “Hey Amanda”
PLAY ME
Lateral
early life crisis
Exuvie
Pras Michel Drops Lawsuit Against Ms. Lauryn Hill Over Fugees Reunion Tour
Live Nation Executives Brag About “Robbing” Ticket Buyers in Slack DMs
Beabadoobee and the Marías Team Up for New Song “All I Did Was Dream of You”

Cool Tools

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Articles of Interest / Still Here / Secret exec contacts
Book Freak #200: The 5 Types of Wealth
Wraparound Sleep Mask/Hotel Point Changes/Remote Worker Lodging
What’s in my NOW? — Paul Parkinson
What is a Witch / Rosalie Lightning
Dental Care
Maverick tours / Protocol cards / Kitchen sponge
Book Freak #199: Thinking in Systems
Ski Coat Sales/Delayed Luggage Tactics/Another United Devaluation
What’s in my NOW? — Amanda McClendon

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?
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not)
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
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