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Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B+ valuation, and reports 100+ clients (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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European leaders rebuff Trump’s call to open the Strait of Hormuz
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Cannabis was first cultivated in China 12,000 years ago, and was grown extensively throughout East Asia. How come there is no evidence of cannabis consumption for hallucinogenic effect, both amongst shamans and the general public?
I found out how common eating out was in ancient Rome. Did they have any chain restaurants?
Did they actually say "hold...hold...now!" when the enemy charged?
I am a British citizen living in the UK in 1930. Can I just move to Canada, Australia, or New Zealand without any visa requirements, since they are British dominions? If not, which year was the final year that freedom-of-mobility ended between the UK and the 3 former British colonies?
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Who is the father of modern asymmetric warfare? T.E. Lawrence? Or Mao Zedong?
Byzantine homes, how did they work?
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Is Kings and Generals good history youtuber?
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What is the historical reality of men expressing emotion, and grief in particular?
On what occasions after ww2 has the use of nuclear weapons been a distinct possibility?
How did the Germans know the Soviet Nachthexen were women?
Would Jesus (or similar 1st century Judean men of common social standing) have worn socks with sandals?
When did American fraternities become mainly about drinking and partying, or has it always been that way?
Once surnames as we know them came into common use have they largely become static and unchanging or have surnames continued to be created over time?
What happened the wives of sailors who were off for years at the time?
How much did mercenaries earn in early modern europe? What kind of lifestyle could they afford?
How inaccurate / accurate was the costumes in the movie troy (2004)?
Did most Germans really read Mein Kampf, or was it more an accessory than an influential text?

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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”
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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]
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!
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

MetaFilter Projects

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

Open Culture

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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)
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

NYT > Technology

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Silicon Valley Bet on War. The Bets Are Paying Off.
U.S. Says Anthropic Is an ‘Unacceptable’ National Security Risk
Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus
How to Follow the Game, Even When You Can’t See It Live
Arizona Files Criminal Charges Against Kalshi, the Prediction Site
Netanyahu Posts ‘Proof of Life’ Video as A.I. Sows Doubts About What’s Real
Trapped in a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack
Nvidia Debuts New A.I. Product at GTC Developer Conference
How Trump Drove a Wedge Between Florida Republicans Over A.I.
TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration
Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions
U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets.
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
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

NYT > Arts

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With ‘Ready or Not 2,’ Samara Weaving Can’t Stop Screaming
Got an Idea About Who Robbed the Gardner Museum? Get in Line.
The Loud Nights and Quiet Days of Avalon Emerson
BTS: A Guide to the K-Pop Group’s Discography
‘My Joy Is Heavy’ Review: Hope and Horror Live in the Same House
John Lithgow’s Career Spans 200 Roles — From ‘3rd Rock’ to Roald Dahl
With Twin Babies, the Opera Star Lise Davidsen Wonders What Comes Next
In the Oscars Audience, Stars Caught Their Breath
What to Know About Banksy and the Street Artist’s Identity
‘Ulster American’ Review: Matthew Broderick as a Star Blinded by Privilege
How Readers Voted on Miscast Roles in the Movies
Grace Ives Was Tipped as a Top Indie-Rock Star. Then She Hit the Bottom.
Academy ‘Extremely Upset’ After Teyana Taylor Says Oscars Security Shoved Her
How Michael B. Jordan Won (and Timothée Chalamet Lost) Best Actor at 2026 Oscars
A ‘Hail Mary’ for Earth, Built on Solid Science
Goo Goo Dolls’ ‘Iris’ Is Back as ’90s Trend Soundtrack
Late Night Wonders Which Former President Spoke With Trump
Alfredo Bryce Echenique, 87, Dies; Novelist Bared Peru’s Privileged Class
8 Great Songs That Make It Easy to Be Green
Playwrights Horizons Settles Case Over Discounts for People of Color
Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe in ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ and More Theater to Stream
Albert Zuckerman, Literary Agent and ‘Hero of the Blockbuster,’ Dies at 94
Len Deighton, Author of Espionage Best-Sellers, Dies at 97
Jocelyn Bioh’s ‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’ Heads to Broadway
Meg Webster’s Life in Five Artworks
Jimmy Kimmel Has a Bone to Pick With Trump’s War Plans
Inside the Katseye Fandom: Friendships, Rivalries and Boycotts Over Manon’s Hiatus
Richard Grenell: From Trump Cabinet Hopeful to Ex-Kennedy Center Manager
House Adopts Bill to Ease Heirs’ Recovery of Art That Nazis Looted
How ‘Marty Supreme’ and Timothée Chalamet Went Home With No Oscars
Judy Pace, 83, Dies; Actress Brought Layers to Black Characters
Live Nation Antitrust Case Resumes With Testimony About Springsteen Fees
At Dance Reflections, Embodied Acts of Memory
Oscars Cut Off ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Speech in Brutal Live Moment
Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close for 2-Year Renovation Project
John Bengtson, Modern-Day Silent-Film Sleuth, Dies at 68
For Once, the Oscars Got a Lot Right (Even the In Memoriam Segment)
Michael B. Jordan Wins Best Actor
Review: ‘The Silent Serenade’ at Mannes Opera
Review: Handel’s ‘Hercules’ at Carnegie Hall
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Winners, From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Sinners’
The Politics of Teyana Taylor’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Character
At the Governors Ball After-Party, Stars Celebrate the 2026 Oscars
Norway Celebrates Oscar Win for Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’
The Best Oscars Fashion Trend Was Dresses You Can Breathe In
Pope to Make a (Virtual) Visit for the United States’ 250th Birthday
Best and Worst Moments From the 2026 Oscars
Where to Stream the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
Jess and Morgs Blur the Boundaries Between Live Performance and Film
In ‘The Lady,’ a Current Royal Scandal Meets an Older One
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 Caps Award Season with ‘Hamnet’ Oscar Win for Best Actress
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

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Adam's Peak from the Sea, Sri Lanka
Why does this lake exist in Central Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates, yet surrounded by desert?
Fes el Bali: The world’s largest car-free urban area. A medieval labyrinth of 9,400 streets where 150,000 people live and transport is still done by donkeys.
What caused eastern protestantism to be so large in Slovenia?
What is the smallest country without any freedom of movement agreements?
Why isn't trade in the Swahili Coast as powerful as it once was?
This is Vrelo Bune (the source of the Buna River), located in Blagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
What is this Canada find?
Is there an updated map like this?
Nepal has almost doubled its forest coverage since the early 90s
Missing island at the coast of Gaza
Biggest US Metro Area that doesn't get talked about?
Irrawaddy Delta: A case study to one of the most fertile deltas on one of the least dammed river
Is Niue island an anomaly in Pacific? 🇳🇺 (Realm of New Zealand 🇳🇿) . Unusual physical features compared to other Pacific Islands.
Which places in the world have the same languid, soft, dreamy paradise-like feel of the Californian coast?
Bachelors in geography
Is there any river in the world flowing in a spiral shape?
The UAE is just called "Pirate Coast" on this old globe
Islands with populations almost entirely on one side
career advice?
California's Population Imbalance: Greater LA vs. the Rest of the State
Major City With the Most Street Names?
The Cosquer cave is a Palaeolithic decorated cave, located in France, that contains numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP. The cave has more than 200 parietal figures and is also the only decorated cave whose entrance opens under the sea
Why are German villages on average more modern and better maintained than French ones, even in the east?

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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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
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
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

Bandcamp Updates

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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
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”

dusted

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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
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)

Pitchfork

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“Somewhere Good”
HELP(2)
Half Blood (BloodLuxe)
How to Make a Breakfast
The Weight EP
Dylan Brady Is Releasing a New EP
Horse Lords Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! With New Album
Kehlani Is Releasing Their Self-Titled Album Next Month
Public Image Ltd. Announce Sprawling North American Tour
Lollapalooza 2026 Lineup: the Smashing Pumpkins, Charli XCX, the xx, and Lorde
Of Montreal Plot Summer 2026 North American Tour
Lucinda Williams Sets Spring 2026 US Tour
The Wallflowers Announce Bringing Down the Horse Anniversary Tour
Lil Wayne Adds New Tha Carter Anniversary Tour Dates
Peter Frampton Recruits Sheryl Crow, Tom Morello, and More for Comeback Album
Ed O’Brien Announces New Solo Album Blue Morpho
Monica
Extra Stars
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Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings)
Here’s What Went Down at Rosalía’s Lux Tour Opener
Jack Black to Host, Jack White to Perform on Super-Jack Saturday Night Live
Sturgill Simpson Promises to Punish “Miserable Shit Asses” Who Leaked His Album
Reader Q&A With Mandy, Indiana
Jaeychino, Ora Cogan, Rostam, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Death Cab for Cutie Line Up New Album
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

Cool Tools

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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
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

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)
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