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A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)
A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)
Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash (Javi West Larrañaga/Reuters)
Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC "continues to sharpen its focus"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (Reuters)
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (Victor Swezey/Bloomberg)
Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (Bloomberg)
Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 (The Information)
A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player "whales" spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms (Bloomberg)

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The past, present and future of de novo protein design
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My dad was infantry in the 101st Airborne during Vietnam, yet never deployed and spent his whole enlistment in the US. Given that a draft was implemented and people were being forcibly sent to Vietnam, was this common?
Is it true that Cadillac sold autos to black Americans before they could buy cars elsewhere?
Why didn't Manila become a powerful international port city similar to Hongkong or Singapore?
In the video game RDR2 (set in 1899) there is a significant side quest where the player steals from a gang of moonshiners (connected to regional organized crime). The Volstead Act passed in 1919, so would moonshining even have been illegal in 1899? What did the illegal alcohol trade look like then?
In his “To be, or not to be” monologue, Hamlet argues that the nature of the afterlife is unknown. Given the religious intolerance of Shakespeare’s England, were Hamlet’s doubt considered acceptable? Would contemporary audiences relate to Hamlet’s apparent agnosticism?
Why did the Native American population declined more in Anglo America than in Latin America?
Were David and Solomon real people?
How much did the Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Visigoths and Franks differ from each other during the late/post-Roman era?
English longbowmen during the Hundred Year's War earned 6 pence a day. A single arrow cost 0.3125 pence, so you'd start losing money on the 20th arrow. That doesn't seem like a lot when battles could last multiple hours. Are there accounts or archers refusing to put themselves in the red?
I am a servant working in a village inn in 15th-century England. Am I given time off to attend Mass on Sundays?
How much did the decline of smoking in the United States affect the kinds of things people ate?
what happened to the Roman ruling class in the aftermath of Germanic invasions?
Did Wilkes-Booth and his co-conspirators know Johnson would sabotage reconstruction? Did Lincoln’s choice of VP encourage his assassination?
How did the United states begin losing in Vietnam despite 500k troops and bombings by Johnson and Nixon ?
Why did James Buchanan switch from the Federalists to the Democrats?
were “house slaves” being allowed inside because they were lighter just an excuse to keep the slave owners biological children closer?
While living in Mexico City, Che Guevara was employed at two hospitals, gave medical lectures at the national university, and worked as... a news photographer. Was this something a doctor (even a radical one) might do in Mexico City in the 1950s?
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What Mistake Crusaders made on Siege/Sack of Constantinople (1203/1204) during The 4th Crusade?
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Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs
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XOXO Explore
Resistance is Everywhere (part of The Democracy Habit)
Female Kill Machine 3
iheartlists game - from easy to death
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

Open Culture

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How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutes
Why Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel Made the Still-Shocking Un Chien Andalou (1929)
The Simpsons Present Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” and Teachers Now Use It to Teach Kids the Joys of Literature
The Productive Writing Routines of Haruki Murakami, Stephen King, and Virginia Woolf, Explained
The Psychology Behind Why Some Homes Feel Good But Most Don’t: Interior Design Principles Explained
Explosive Cats Imagined in a Strange, 16th Century Military Manual
Harvard Professor Answers Burning Questions About Iranian History
Discover the Copiale Cipher: The Mysterious 18th-Century Book That Took 260 Years to Decode
When Brazil Built Its Capital on Modernist Principles: The Controversial Design of Brasília
An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years
What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished
Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche
Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts
“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More
Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40)

NYT > Technology

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Why So Many People Already Own Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work
Elon Musk’s A.I. Claims of Danger Face Limits in OpenAI Trial
Struggling With Phone Addiction? Try These Remedies.
How Running Shoes Have Evolved, From Ancient Greece to a Record-Breaking Marathon Time
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
Musk vs. Altman: What Is This Really About?
Apple Reports 17% Sales Jump, Powered by iPhones
Elon Musk suffered a rare loss in his last jury trial.
Musk says he ‘was a fool’ to provide OpenAI’s early funding.
Here’s the latest.
Palantir Is Making a French Chore Coat. Yes, That Palantir.
Musk Says He ‘Was a Fool’ to Provide OpenAI’s Early Funding
A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight
Ford Reports Higher Profit Thanks Partly to Tariff Refund
Even without OpenAI, Elon Musk has made A.I. a big part of his business empire.
Who is the judge in the case?
Et tu, Brute? What Elon Musk’s clash with Sam Altman is really about.
Here’s the latest.
A.I. Helps Online Ad Businesses Boom
In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years
Here’s what OpenAI’s lawyer argued in his opening statement.
Why does Elon Musk talk so much about saving humanity?
Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Cisco
Here’s what Musk’s lawyer argued in his opening statement.
Who are the lawyers representing Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft?
Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
Here Are the Key Players in the OpenAI Trial
This trial comes amid a growing national backlash against A.I.
G.M.’s Profit Bolstered by a $500 Million Tariff Refund
Elon Musk Assails Sam Altman on Social Media Before OpenAI Trial
What are Elon Musk’s claims against Altman and OpenAI?
Oakland, which is playing host to the trial, is not exactly known as a tech hub.
Here’s the latest.
Here’s the contentious history behind OpenAI.
Internet Restrictions Spur Russians to Openly Question Putin’s Moves
What Elon Musk’s Clash With Sam Altman of OpenAI Is Really About
From Indiana to Idaho, a Backlash Against A.I. Gathers Momentum
Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side
Elon Musk and Sam Altman Bring OpenAI Trial Spectacle to Oakland
Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Partnership
After Correspondents Dinner Shooting, Rumors and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Online
Social Media Captures the Chaos and Mundane of Shooting at Correspondents’ Dinner

NYT > Arts

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Actors From ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Bear’ and More Take Over Broadway
How 7 Looks for ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Came Together
Francisco de Zurbarán: Paintings So Real, You Can Hardly Resist Believing
Ashley McBryde Saved Her Own Life. Now She’s Rocking Out Her Way.
The Audacity of Art at the Obama Presidential Center
These 5 Actors Are Already Screen Stars. Now They’re on Broadway.
Asmik Grigorian on Performing the Opera ‘Eugene Onegin’
How ‘The Boys’ Choreographs Its ‘Ballet of Goo’
Kacey Musgraves Sounds Right at Home in the ‘Middle of Nowhere’
This Dance Duo Gets Down to Business, With a Dose of the Erotic
Sofiane Pamart Emerged From France’s Rap Scene. Now, He’s Setting the Piano World on Fire.
In ‘Our Land,’ Lucrecia Martel Turns Her Camera on a Killing
35 Fun Things to Do in N.Y.C. in May
Nicole Hollander, Acerbic Feminist Cartoonist, Dies at 86
Trump’s Vision for D.C. ‘Garden of Heroes’ Statues Grows in Size and Cost
18 Off Broadway Shows to Catch in May
Seymour Bernstein Dies at 99; Stage Fright Cut Short His Piano Career
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Lobs a Shot at Corporate Media
Andy Kershaw, Radio D.J. Who Tuned Britons Into World Music, Dies at 66
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in May
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director’s Oscar Is Found After Airline Lost It
16 Photos That Captured the Dawn of Punk
Stephanie Chernikowski, 84, Dies; Photographed the ‘Rough Magic’ of Punk
At the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony’s Show Goes On
The Taylor Swift Interview: Behind the Scenes
Five International Movies to Stream Now
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Gerry Conway, a Creator of the Punisher in Spider-Man Comics, Dies at 73
The Best Movies and Shows Streaming in May 2026
Can the Costume Institute Survive Without the Met Gala?
‘Swapped’ Review: It’s Freaky Friday in the Animal Kingdom
Seth Meyers Gives Trump an Earful About Ear Jokes
‘Moby Dick’ Review: Robert Wilson’s Last Masterpiece
New Banksy Statue Causes Stir in Central London
Britney Spears Is Charged With D.U.I. Involving Drugs and Alcohol
Fortnite Issues Refunds for D4vd Gameplay Items
‘Widow’s Bay’ Promises a Cursed Vacation
A ‘Bachelorette’ Season Hangs in the Balance as Abuse Claims Are Aired
Georg Baselitz, German Neo-Expressionist Painter, Dies at 88
Venice Biennale Jury Resigns Amid Tension Over Awards Ban
August Wilson Like You’ve Never Heard Him Before: In Italian
Dean Tavoularis, 93, Oscar-Winning Production Designer for Coppola, Dies
Michelangelo and Rodin: Finding the Living Spirit in Stone
David Allan Coe, Singer Who Personified Outlaw Country, Dies at 86
Top 10 Reasons We Love the Original ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Movie
Review: RZA’s ‘One Spoon of Chocolate’ Hammers Away at Racism
‘Wowsabout’ Looks to Nature, and Jim Henson, in Hopes of Inspiring Awe
Is Yoko Ono Still Our Most Radical Artist?
‘Two Pianos’ Review: Striking an Odd Chord
Review: ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea’
‘Hokum’ Review: Adam Scott Confronts His Demons and an Ancient Witch
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: A Rhapsody in Cerulean
‘Deep Water’ Review: Prepare for an Emergency Landing, With Fins
‘Animal Farm’ Review: George Orwell, Lost in the Mud
The Prince of Italian Pop Art Smiles Again
Is Ilana Glazer Growing Up?
Rush Lost Its Beloved Drummer. The Band Is Ready to Get Back on the Road.
Josh Johnson Gives King Charles Props for His Comedy Chops
D4vd Bought Chain Saws to Dispose of Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Body, Prosecutors Say
Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91
Queen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh With a Long-Lost Friend

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Is there a tectonic reason why the tip of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula are so similar?
Why don't Eritreans immigrate by boat to Saudi Arabia? The shortest crossing is under 100 km.
What's going on with these wonky looking islands, are they left over from glaciers? The weirdest island I've ever seen
How is it possible that a F4 tornado hits the Yellowstone National park?
If India is plowing into Asia and the Himalayas are the result, how high can they get?
It looks like this border in Australia is straight, but if you zoom in, it isn't
Can you guess what city this is? 🌆
Which country has a terrible geography for driving like Colombia?
Blood river in West Kazakhstan
The most sunshine hours a person could get in a year would be 5,780 (by staying 6 months in Yuma and 6 months in Vostok station, Antarctica)
If you’ve ever looked out a plane window and wondered why the US suddenly turns into a giant grid west of Ohio, here is the math.
What do Americans think about the stereotype that they are bad at geography?
Half an hour drive away from central Athens, today it snowed in mt Parnitha (1000 meters).
Why is Northeast South Africa so dense with villages despite not being along any sizable waterway?
How did china manage to get parts of kashmir?
London and beyond
Is there anywhere else in the world where there is such a drastic change in climate and culture within 69 miles (110km)
What was the first country in history
What makes a person stateless? What is if somebody has a passport of an unrecognized nation, as Transnistria? Where are the most stateless people from?
During Argentina's Centenary in 1910, many foreign communities gifted monuments to Buenos Aires to honor their connection with the country. What’s your favourite?
Why do some people take map projections styles so seriously
Which country is the biggest underachiever in the world relative to its size and resources?
How is the Eastern coast of the Cà Mau Peninsula so straight?
What’s the biggest thing you noticed when visiting poor countries?

The Public Domain Review

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Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
Introducing PDR Press Minis
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)

The Quietus

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Your April Playlist is Here
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of April 2026
Who Needs Love Like That? Erasure’s Wonderland Revisited
Reissue of the Week: Precreation Percolation by Super Furry Animals
Bonner Kramer • Thurston Moore – They Came Like Swallows
OUT.FEST Confirms First Artists for 2026 Edition
Secret Punt: Mogwai’s Rock Action Revisited 25 Years on
Close Voices, Moving Lives: Oblivion Seekers by Ben Vida
Aja Ireland – Moult Mouth
Quentin Tolimieri – Monochromes II
The Strange World Of… Hildur Guðnadóttir
The Melbourne Legacy: Season 2 Interviewed
David Byrne Shares New Track, ‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’
Boards Of Canada Announce ‘Inferno’ Album Listening Events
Unsound Plots Dual-City 2026 Edition in Warsaw and Kraków
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for April Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
tQ’s Highlights of Supersonic 2026
Carla dal Forno – Confession
Kristen Gallerneaux on Surviving Near Death
Ricardo Villalobos to Release Remixes of goat (jp)
South London Residents Launch New Challenge to Brockwell Park Festivals
A Definitive Rant: Happy 45th birthday to The Fall’s Slates EP
Peer Review: Thurston Moore Interviews Bonner Kramer… and vice versa
Irmin Schmidt – Requiem
Dekmantel Completes 2026 Lineup with RADAR Programme
Live Album of the Week: Cabaret Voltaire’s But What Time Is It Really?
Quiet Light – Blue Angel Sparkling Silver Angel 2
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals New LP, ‘Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers’
Low Culture Essay: James Bailey on The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
The Ultimate Statement: John Robb’s Favourite Singles
Maramfa Musick Pro: Serokolo 7 Resurrects the Frenetic Pulse of Mapanta
Bali Gamelan Sound – Topeng Semar Pegulingan

Bandcamp Updates

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The Tape Label Report, April 2026
Essential Releases, May 1, 2026
OOIOO / Lightning Bolt, “The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, April 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, April 2026
Pure Wrath, “Bleak Days Ahead”
Big Ups: Cyrus Moussavi of Mississippi Records Spotlights Iranian Music He Loves
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, April 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, April 2026
Charbel Harber, “May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable”
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, April 2026
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, April 2026
Ayman Fanous, “Brooklyn Stories 1-5”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, April 2026
Empowering Female Artists in Rural India, Village by Village
White Fence, “Orange”
Bandcamp Fridays in 2026
Carla dal Forno, “Confession”
Essential Releases, April 24, 2026
Retracing Belgian New Beat’s Accidental Explosion
Various Artists, “Ephemeral & Fleeting: Modular Music of Japan”
Underground Medicine #3: Rewiring the History of ‘90s American Noise Rock
“I Was Never Interested in Being Owned”: An Interview with Persian, the Anonymous Iranian Pioneer of UK Rave
Fat Ray & Raphy, “Santa Rosa”
Teen Suicide Comes Out of Hiding
Jimmy Scott, “Falling In Love Is Wonderful (2026 Remaster)”
Blu is The Warmest Color
This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices
Neo Geodesia, “Oknha Stamina”
How Sunn O))) Taught Us to Listen Beneath the Surface
Eve Maret, “Diamond Cutter”
Essential Releases, April 17, 2026
The Breathless Energy of Mexican Rave
How Nic Dalton’s Half A Cow Became an Australian Indie Mainstay
Rocketship, “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Hannah Lew, “Hannah Lew”
Trip Hop Strikes Back
Roger Doyle, Ireland’s Electronic Trailblazer
Rosa Pistola, “Incorregible”

dusted

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As Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny mentioned in an Instagram post, this wonderful new release…
Listed: Tacoma Park
Listed: This House
Lupo Cittá — Inverno (12XU)
Susumu Yokota — Laputa (Skintone Edition; Lo)
The Reds, Pinks and Purples — Acknowledge Kindness (Fire)
Alvarius B — Malarial Dreams (Abduction)
Stephen Becker — Gravity Blanket (One Is Three)
Penny Arcade — Double Exposure (Tapete)
Bullseye — S-T (ever/never)
White Fence — Orange (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 4 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 4 — Part 1
The Shits — Diet of Worms (Rocket Recordings)
Tacoma Park—Baltimore (Centripetal Force)
Mylingar — Út (Amor Fati)
Souled American — Sanctions (Jealous Butcher)
Irreversible Entanglements — Future Present Past (Impulse!)
Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP)
Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube)

Pitchfork

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Fanny Hill
“Mother”
Theft World
James Broadnax Executed After Failed Petitions From Travis Scott, Young Thug
“Midnight Sun (Girls Trip)”
“Runway”
“Bring Your Love”
14 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: American Football, Tori Amos, and More
Isaiah Rashad Links Up With SZA for New Song “Boy in Red”
Listen to Two More Lady Gaga Songs From The Devil Wears Prada 2
Middle of Nowhere
A Great Day in Newcastle
youbet
i guess bro
Watch the Magnetic Fields and Fleet Foxes Perform “Book of Love” Together
Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter Unveil New Song “Bring Your Love”
Jpegmafia Announces Tour and New Album Experimental Rap
Madeon Launches New Album With Slayyyter Collaboration
Interpol Plot 2026 North American Tour
How Jeff Parker Changed the Sound of Jazz
Olivia Rodrigo Announces the Unraveled Tour
Little Simz Dropping New EP Next Week
In Times of Dragons
FENIAN
Foundry
Backstage hologram
Alex G Drops Two New Songs on Personal YouTube Channel
Tupac Shakur’s Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Rapper’s Killing
Chanel Beads’ Your Day Will Come Follow-Up Is Called Your Day Will Come
An Idiot’s Guide to Music AI Companies

Cool Tools

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More Bad Flight News/Little-known Search Hacks/City Bike Tours
What’s in my NOW? — Jolyon Patten
Injection / Enormous Smallness
Pants
Key fobs / US Park finder / Movie theatre deal
Why doubling down on your position never works — and what does
Your Ideal Carry-on Bag/Better Budget Airline/Cultural Atlas
What’s in my NOW? — Camille Newsom
Groundbreaking Food Gardens / World of Warcraft Chronicle
Drawing

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
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