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Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reported 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$86.99M, data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.89M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors (Sylvia Chang/BBC)
Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a "standstill" (Financial Times)
An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure vs. ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns about software stocks (Wall Street Journal)
Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI's core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)
Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause (Business Insider)
Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
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Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
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For NASA’s Artemis II Crew, Journey to the Moon ‘Starting to Feel Real’
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Robert Trivers, Eccentric Scientist Who Probed Human Nature, Dies at 83
Japan and the U.S. Agree to Team Up on Seabed Mining
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Winter Sea Ice in the Arctic Ties a Record Low
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
Wealthy Investors Target Foes of Clean Energy, Seeking Revenge
Schumer Pledges Democrats Will Restore Clean Energy Tax Credits
Trump to Delay Nominating New C.D.C. Director
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Giants of the deep and the wonder of space: Books in Brief
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Topological soliton frequency comb in nanophotonic lithium niobate
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CO2 subsurface mineral storage by its co-injection with recirculating water
Electrochemical corrosion accompanies dendrite growth in solid electrolytes
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Epigenetic memory of colitis promotes tumour growth
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Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
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Amid a Series of Strikes, Faculty Pay Is Once Again Front and Center
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | March 29, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 25, 2026
What was it like being the Husband of the King’s Mistress?
When and how did wine connoisseur-ing become a thing? When Hadrian was served wine as emperor in 119, was there some expert there to tell him "This is our finest vintage from Italica, robust with notes of blackberry and pepper, 43 was a wonderful year for this varietal"?
When I see photos of U.S. city streets in the early 1900s, horses and cars were often used right alongside one another. Obviously, cars soon won out. When would using horses for everyday transportation in American cities have stopped being common?
How Much Whale Oil Did It Take to Keep Household Lamp Lit for an Hour?
Is Cinderella's famous blue dress in the animated Disney film based on any historical clothing, or is it just whatever the animators thought looked nice?
How effective was ancient medicine, generally? For example, if someone went to a temple of Asclepius is Ancient Greece to be treated, how improved were their chances of recovery, if at all?
Why did Catherine the Great insist on projecting herself as Russian despite being born as German?
Did the crusaders have misinformation about Muslims and pigs?
If Socrates was sentenced to death, why wasn’t Plato also condemned, or his teachings banned ? How did Athens allow the ideas of a man it executed to spread and become so influential ?
Why did Europeans use Africa for slave labor for the Americas and not other Europeans?
How, if at all, did the large American population of German descent fit into the Nazi’s racial worldview? Could groups, like the Pennsylvania Dutch, for example, have been considered “Volksdeutsche?”
Why did the Indian soldiers under Dyer shoot at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre? Did they not have any moral feelings about shooting at their own people?
When was the last time Christians were forbidden to celebrate mass on Palm Sunday in the Church of the Sepulchre? Is it an exceptional happening? has it actually happened before in post crusader times?
Was WWII always seen, from the very beginning, as one war, or did people originally consider it a collection of disjoint wars (e.g. Japan doing their thing, while Europe does its thing)? If the latter, when did people start viewing it as one global war?
When did holders of high office start referring to themselves using the "Royal We"? Was it only used in documents or did they use it in conversation as well?
How did "changing horses at an inn" work in Regency-era England?
Did the cultural revolution in China make people at the time to value bluntness and directness, and to change the way people value politeness?
If All the major battles of prophet Muhammad were only to defend himself, and mostly he was the weak part in each battle, why people call him a warlord ? Do people confuse him with the Empires after him like the Arab Umayyads who eradicated all his family ?
I read somewhere that the myth of STIs being transmitted through toilet seats came from incest - is that true?
How did Ali Shariati’s thoughts contribute to the ideological groundwork of the1979 Iranian Revolution? In what ways did his ideas help legitimize or energize support for Khomeini, and how did different Iranian groups respond when the post-revolutionary state did not fully reflect Shariati’s vision?
Did the time at which Leonidas needed to leave to get Thermopylae in 480 BC, mean leaving before the harvest - and if so - did this constrain the food supplies for the military force and therefore its size ? (Presumably they couldn’t raid and loot whilst in the Greek territory they were defending ?)
Before the Lunar Landing, were there large demographics opposed to this endeavor?
What do we actually know about the "Sea Peoples" and their role in the Late Bronze Age Collapse? Was it a single invasion, or a symptom of a wider systemic failure?

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Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)

MetaFilter Projects

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PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)

Open Culture

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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete
Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models
How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits
How Quentin Tarantino’s One-Night “Detest Fest” Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction
An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection
In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”
Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard

NYT > Technology

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Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’
An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
The Clues Binance Missed That Led to Billions in Crypto Flowing to Iran
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
Elon Musk Joins in Phone Call Between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media
Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier
U.S. Accuses NewYork-Presbyterian of Reaching Deals That Kept Costs High
Shield AI, a Start-Up Making Military Drones, Raises $2 Billion
Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
Leonid Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans
Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator
Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations
Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump
Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips
Judge Hears State Challenge to Trump’s Tech Deal Settlement
‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years

NYT > Arts

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How a Mistake Made ‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Rocky Into a Breakout Star
‘The Wild Party’ Is a Vivacious Play That Started as a Scandalous Poem
Taylor Frankie Paul’s Past Was No Secret. A Child’s Cry Changed Everything.
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Bringing ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ to Broadway
Don’t Let the Name Harry Hole Fool You. The Important One Is Jo Nesbo.
Bruce Hornsby Isn’t Playing It Safe on ‘Indigo Park’
‘Life! Life! Life!’: Reviving a Globe-Trotting Sculptor of the Gilded Age
Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?
7 Podcasts to Boost Your Spirits
Yearning for Sun, New Yorkers Soak Up the Sauna
‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Met Opera Has a Troubling Problem
Thundercat Can Geek Out With the Best of Them
Paul McCartney, Robyn: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
New York City Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances
‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 2: Getting the Band Back Together
Eric Overmyer, Who Wrote for Modern Television Classics, Dies at 74
Overlooked No More: Gertrude Chandler Warner, Author of ‘The Boxcar Children’
Outside Kennedy Center, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez Raise Voices in Protest
Alexander Kluge, 94, Revolutionary Filmmaker in Postwar Germany, Dies
The BTS Connection With Howard University
Stream These Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in April
Coleman Barks, Who Popularized the Islamic Poet Rumi in the West, Dies at 88
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
5 Takeaways From Netflix’s ‘BTS: The Return’ Documentary
How ‘Love Story’ Gave Viewers a History Lesson on the Kennedys and ’90s NYC
‘For All Mankind’ Is the Anti-‘Black Mirror’
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Can We Settle Your Music Debate? Of Course We Can.
33 Fun Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Spring
Late Night Disses Trump’s New ‘America First’ Award
Tracking Trump’s Efforts to Reshape Cultural Institutions
Salzburg Festival Fires Its Artistic Director
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap: Breaking Points
Han Kang Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
FKA twigs Says in Suit That Shia LaBeouf Had Her Sign ‘Illegal’ NDA
Sam Kieth, Creator of Surreal Comic Book Series The Maxx, Dies at 63
Robert Fox, Acclaimed Producer in Britain and on Broadway, Dies at 73
‘Yes’ Review: From Israel, an Uncomfortable Existential Howl
Dash Crofts, of the Soft-Rock Duo That Sang ‘Summer Breeze,’ Dies at 87
‘Public Charge’ Review: The World Is Messy. Being a Force for Good Is, Too.
‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’: A Pop Diva and a Flamed-Out Rock Music Revolution
The Kennedy Center Is Giving Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize
Raphael and the Renaissance of Divine Beauty
Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” New York Debut On Hold Due to Mideast War
Rare Books Stolen From a Jesuit Archive in Rome Are Returned to Italy
What’s Your Star Sign? The Ancients Could Offer You Some Insight.
A Storied Rockefeller Art Trove Goes on View at Asia Society
When a Not-So-Dark Knight and His Sidekick Saved a Wacky Gotham
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
‘They Will Kill You’ Review: The Co-Op From Hell
‘She Dances’ Review: Steve Zahn Is a Reluctant Chaperone
Mearns and Melnick, Dance Stars Who Choose Each Other
‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Review: Lost Souls and Found Follies
‘A Magnificent Life’ Review: An Era of Artistic Revolutions
‘Forbidden Fruits’ Review: Queen Bees of the Food Court
‘BTS: The Return’ Review: Back in the Recording Booth
‘Fantasy Life’ Review: Digging Out of the Doldrums
‘Alpha’ Review: Body Trouble
Marriage Might Not Happen. But ‘Something Very Bad’ Did.
The Thailand Biennale Brings More to Phuket Than Mass Tourism
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why does Indonesia not get as hot as southeast Asia
Why hasn’t the Louisiana Bayou been entered as a national park?
How come SEA peninsula isn't as densely populated as India or China?
What are some cities whose relevance outlived that of their founding states?
Why does Belgium have a province called "Luxembourg" right next to Luxembourg which is bigger than Luxembourg?
Is new zealand one of the only places where humans can survive if nuclear ww3 occurs?
Cyprus has turned green within a year after a winter with heavy rainfall.
In this climate map of india (wikipedia) , can anyone tell me where this red dot is irl? (Inside the white circle)
What are some of the most beautiful places in your state?
Which country that you visited has the best nature?
Why is western Ontario so empty compared to other western Canadian provinces
Volcano 🌋 over Nicaragua 🇳🇮
Why is the biggest time zone difference 26 hours when there are only 24 hours in a day?
Why are Central Asian countries’ capital cities located near/ right on their borders?
Is there an equatorial line in which both hemispheres have the same amount of landmass?
Iraq in 2025 after a severe drought vs. 2026 after a season of heavy rain and snowfall
Which places' weather is actually not as good as stereotyped? Which ones' is actually not as bad?
Why is this area near the brazil guyana border barren?
In 1953 two scientists looking for oil found something else all together.
What explains the very high concentration of diabetes-affected individuals in Pakistan?
Why are place names taken multiple times and sometimes very different to their more known version of us?
How come this part of Pakistan is relatively empty?
Which country has the most volcanoes for its land size?
Geography in Higher Ed.

The Public Domain Review

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“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
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)

The Quietus

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Robyn – Sexistential
Fishing for Pearls: Ghostface Killah in 2006
London’s MOTH Club Secures “Huge Win” After Nearby Development Application Refused
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, ‘Concrète Waves’
Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct
Taupe – Waxing | Waning
Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal
Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
Natalie Marlin on The Chemical Brothers’ Hanna OST
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release
Vince Clarke Launches Covers Project with Benge and Blancmange’s Neil Arthur
EFG London Jazz Festival Announces First Acts for 2026 Edition
james K Unveils ‘Friend’ Remix Album
Outside the Box: Sarah Nixey’s Favourite Albums
Ladytron – Paradises
FKA twigs Sues The Twigs Over Trademark Dispute
Rockfort! French Music for March, Reviewed by David McKenna
A lot of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys’ Please Revisited
The Leaf Library – After the Rain, Strange Seeds
Sweet Belief: Cameron Picton on My New Band Believe
Underscores – U
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab’s ‘Super-Electric’
Neurosis Release First New Album in a Decade
Reissue of the Week: Roland Brival’s Créole Gypsy
Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone – Music for Intersecting Planes
Native Instruments to Go into Full Insolvency
The Afghan Whigs Share New Song, ‘House Of I’

Bandcamp Updates

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Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026
Dagmar Zuniga, “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music”
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music
God Knows and MuRli: Ireland’s Hip-Hop Gamechangers
Crouch, “Breaking the Catatonic State”
Chicha Forever: The Evolution of Peruvian Cumbia
Xylitol, “Blumenfantasie”
The Ictus Ensemble Chart Classical Music’s Next Frontier
Duncecap & Samurai Banana, “Comfortably Suffering”
Cut Worms, “Transmitter”
Clover Records Is An Indie Pop Good-Luck Charm
Excavating the Pacific Northwest’s Art Rap Underground
Rapping with Kim Gordon
Essential Releases, March 13, 2026
Ora Cogan, “Hard Hearted Woman”
Underground Medicine #2
“Facts Aren’t Always Facts”: A Guide to Craven Faults
Mary Ocher, “Weimar”
ELUCID On The Chemistry That Powered His New Album
Bill Orcutt, “Music in Continuous Motion”
David Garland Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
Upset The Rhythm is One Big, Weird, Wonderful Family
The Notwist, “News from Planet Zombie”

dusted

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Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
The Notwist — News From Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
Barbaric Oath — Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari)
Isabel Pine — Fables (Kranky)
Pan•American — Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (Kranky)
Mors.Void.Discipline — Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Tinariwen — Hoggar (WEDGE)
Gunner — Reality Soldier (Iron Lung)
A note from the organizer that they’re still accepting tracks for this until the end of the week….
Landowner — Assumption (Exploding in Sound)
Laura Cetilia — Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
Lande Hekt — Lucky Now (Tapete)
Dwellnought — Monolith of Ephemerality (Caligari)
Listed: Department
What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free)
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi)

Pitchfork

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Ricochet
Whole World as Vigil
Consecrated Abysses of Dread
High Cube
Watch Joni Mitchell Perform, Accept Lifetime Achievement Award at 2026 Junos
Bob Dylan Launched a Patreon for Some Reason
Chuquimamani-Condori Confirms New Los Thuthanaka Music, Shares Unreleased Songs
Watch Wolf Alice Perform on Saturday Night Live UK
James Blake Requests Removal From Kanye West’s Bully Production Credits
Full Moon
Watch Thomas Bangalter and Fred again..’s Full Alexandra Palace DJ Set
Honora
“Golden”
“Klouds Will Carry Me to Sleep”
Choose Your Fighter in Pitchfork’s Bracket Challenge
Jack White Announces European 2026 Tour
Listen to Empress Of’s New Song “Dream House”
Skrillex and Young Miko Join Forces for “Duro”
Talking to Dylan Brady About Real Shit (Like Tubas)
12 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Robyn, Snail Mail, Chief Keef, and More
Kanye West Releases Bully
Miley Cyrus Shares New Hannah Montana Song
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Release Collaborative Live Album
Che Drops New EP
Sexistential
Creature of Habit
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Silent Way
Dua Lipa to Appear Alongside Connor Storrie in New A24 Film
Weezer Announce “Major” Gathering (It’s Another Tour)

Cool Tools

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The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull
Book Freak #203: Knowledge, Reality, and Value
Book Freak #202: Determined
Airplane Speakerphone Ban/Slomad Paradox/Colors of Asia
What’s in my NOW? — Mark Rae Peet
Quidditch Through the Ages / Hurts Like a Mother
Power Gear
Flighty / 23 learnings on community / Keep the Meter Running
Book Freak #201: Indistractable
Earbud Straps/Companion Flights Perk/Extra Airport Time

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)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer?
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake)
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