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Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors (Kelly Tyko/Axios)
Chapter, which uses AI to help seniors enroll in Medicare, raised a $100M Series E, doubling its valuation to $3B and bringing its total funding to $285M (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
RISC-V chip designer SiFive raised a $400M Series G led by Atreides at a $3.65B valuation; CEO Patrick Little says it is the final funding round before an IPO (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (Bloomberg)
Google and Intel expand their partnership to deploy Xeon chips, including Xeon 6, and co-develop custom Infrastructure Processing Units to improve efficiency (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Documents: OpenAI expects ads to generate ~$2.4B in revenue in 2026, ~$11B in 2027, and ~$102B in 2030, or 36% of its total revenue for 2030 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
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Researchers: a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader has been actively exploited since at least December 2025, and some docs contain Russian-language lures (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released AI video model HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks at the top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Meta commits to spending additional $21B on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave, running from 2027 to 2032, on top of its prior $14.2B deal that ends in 2031 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)

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For Artemis II, Returning to Earth May Be the Most Dangerous Part of the Mission
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Who owned the Love Shack?
What Regency-era cause of death would have been passive, repeatable, and not easily solved by era-appropriate forensic science?
in the first half of the 90s, eurodance/eurobeat became popular in Europe and grunge, in the US. Is there any socio-economic explanation for such stark contrast?
Did any mongol soldiers suffer psychologically from their massacres against civilians?
Were Russian Aristocrats Always in Debt?
How do we know, how the Borders looked like for every Year?
When did weddings change the vows to not be out of touch?
What music played at the surrender at Yorktown?
What was the purpose of the colonial idea of the “civilizing mission”?
What were some of the key differences in the lives of non-royalty Muslim and Catholic women in medieval Spain?
Good resources on WW2 military uniforms?
Societies where both men and women are treated equally should be more efficient because it would allow half the population to contribute in productive ways other than as sex providers and childbearers, domestics and servants. So why didn't egalitarian societies win out over patriarchical ones?
Why didn't the mongol invasion trigger another migration period similar to Late Antiquity?
Who got the apartments of the families of Jews killed during World War 2?
Do we know of any actual cases of organized crime burying bodies in construction projects? Did it weaken the structures built on top of them?
Has they/them always been the pronoun set of choice for nonbinary/genderqueer English-speakers? Has the popularity of they/them vs neopronouns changed over time? More broadly, what influenced the language of nonbinary/genderqueer people pre-internet?
Who are the two people who run onto the field during Hank Aaron's 715th home run and what happened to them?
How ruthless were the Soviets of WW2 towards their own soldiers?
Around how many copies would there have been of a popular book like The Iliad in the Roman era around 100 AD? What about a newer and less popular book such as the Gospel of Mark?
When and how did dictionaries start to contain clear definitions of sexual terms?
In Don Quixote the Priest at the behest of his relatives burn most of his Chivalry Novels, throughout it the Priest reads them and discerns whether they are worth keeping or pitching. Was there ever a large movement in the church against these novels?
How unique was the Macedonian logistics system?
Would the children depicted in the Bruegel painting "Children's Games" (1560, Flemish Renaissance) have attended school? What level of education would they have received? What are common jobs they/their parents would have had in this type of village?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation
75% of medicinal plant knowledge is recorded in only one language. 86% of those languages are threatened. New research suggests the most scientifically accurate knowledge is also the most linguistically vulnerable.
Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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Morellet Art Generator
In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system
Fiction About Trans People
Taeliana Creative
Parasite Personality Quiz
The Pelican
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics

Open Culture

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Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow
How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today
How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene
Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

NYT > Technology

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

NYT > Arts

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The Teens of ‘The Testaments’ Follow Up on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
MoMA Survey Shows How Marcel Duchamp Changed the Art Game
A Stroke and a Coma Couldn’t Stop Matt Pinfield, Rock’s Big Booster
‘The Boys’ Got Bigger Than Ever. That Seemed Like the Time to End It.
Melissa Chiu Exits Hirshhorn Museum to Lead Guggenheim
Cannes Film Festival Lineup Spotlights Almodóvar and Other Heavyweights
Rosamund Pike to Star in ‘Inter Alia’ on Broadway
‘Faces of Death’ Review: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
True Crime Streaming: In ‘A Friend, a Murderer,’ the Killer Was Close
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
‘The Christophers’ Review: Fine Art, Frayed Artists
An Audacious $724 Million Building Reinvents LACMA
Frankie Muniz Refuses to Stay in His Lane
‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Talks Tragedy, the Internet and the End of the Show
‘Exit 8’ Review: Round and Round and Round He Goes …
‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside
Her Museum Was Surviving in Russia. Then the Threats Became Too Much.
‘The Travel Companion’ Review: Friendship, Insecurely Fastened
‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves as a Washed-Up Star Making Amends
‘Newborn’ Review: After Solitary Confinement, New Horrors Await
‘Hamlet’ Review: (In)action Hero
‘Fiume o Morte!’ Review: Scenes From a Mini Dictatorship
‘Bunnylovr’ Review: Run, Rabbit
Best Alien Books by Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang and More
Stephen Colbert Skewers Trump’s ‘Double-Sided’ Cease-Fire
Popeye the Art Icon
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Joy to Your Day
Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74
‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death
Duke Ellington and John Adams: Titans of Classical Americana
Matisse Is a Crowd-Pleaser. Here’s What the Crowds Rarely Get to See
This Audacious Film Festival Should Be Better Known
Modern Love: My Husband’s Breakdown Was My Breakthrough
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Detroit Jazz
‘Faces of Death’ Set the Bar for Hardcore Horror. It’s Baaack.
Late Night Puzzles Over Trump’s ‘Mixed Message’ on Iran
Fanciful and Fabulous: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway
Taylor Frankie Paul Files Competing Court Petition Against Dakota Mortensen
Nathan Farb’s Roving Lens
Nathan Farb, 85, Dies; Photographed Hippies, Siberians and Mountains
Peter Schrag Dies at 94; Wrote of Dangers of California’s Populist Streak
9 Ethereal, Emotional, Chaotic and Goofy Cloud-Rap Gems
Review: ‘Innocence’ Tackles School Shootings at the Met Opera
Joe Conzo Sr., Guardian of Tito Puente’s Legacy, Dies at 83
Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain
Wireless Festival Canceled After U.K. Blocks Kanye West From Entering Country
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Bids to Buy Universal Music Group
At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky
How Duchamp Inspired These 4 Artists
Irvine Wanted a New Concert Venue. But Not on Live Nation’s Terms.
Justice Dept. Resolves Broadway Touring Company Investigation
Europe’s Museums Confront the (Literal) Skeletons in Their Closets
Netflix Explores a Buzzy Chess Cheating Scandal
A Brief History of 4 Urinals
Presto! In Chicago, a High-End Magic Palace Appears
Duchamp Made a Urinal Into Art in 1917. We’re Still Discussing It.
Is This Bach’s Most Underrated Music?
How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” Live From the New York Times Office
Finding Trends in Sports Stats and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Puzzles
Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s Expletive-Filled Post Threatening Iran

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why has Indonesia failed at becoming a world power at least to the extent of Russia?
What are the chances that there are more islands (not discovered or not public knowledge) in the Pacific Ocean?
Why didn't Austria and Germany remain a single nation after the end of the WWII?
Welcome to the Map: A new island is expected to receive an official name following standard geographical naming procedures.
An expedition team has discovered a previously unknown mini-island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea
A third of earth's habitable land is used for animal agriculture
For the first time in history, Europe is set to overtake China in terms of annual births
Altough the villages Beğendik (Turkey) and Rezovo (Bulgaria) are only a few hundred meters apart, seperated by a river, the shortest travel distance between both villages is almost 250km, since there is no border crossing.
Which landlocked countries would have the chance to become coastal states if sea levels rise?
Why is this border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan straight as a line?
Why are ex Portuguese colonies so likely to have mixed race people who are half Portuguese, when most other colonizers (except Spain maybe) have none or barely any?
How does Western Colorado get so much precipitation when the state is in the Sierra rain shadow?
Why is this section of I-82 routed around the Yakima River?
Why do most modern "Earth in the future" maps not include the split somali plate?
Malaysia and Singapore are both multiethnic former British colonies. As such, why are there virtually no white Malaysians or Singaporeans?
Why does every Continent or (big) Island have a Mountainrange only on one edge, while the other Side is flat?
Im starting to get curious of how well do people actually know basic geography?
I made a geography site and would love some feedback
Batagaika Crator, the fastest growing sper- uhh Thermokarst
Why doesn't Chicago have multiple skylines?
Does anyone else feel like map memory only “works” while you’re looking at it?
Passau, Bavaria is the city where the three rivers Danube, Inn and Ilz meet
So, who controlls north syria now?
Satellite imagery of the dried up Zayandehrud in Isfahan, Iran

The Public Domain Review

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Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

The Quietus

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A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed
Low Culture Podcast: Children Of The Stones
Kinetic Energy: Seismo by Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
Memorials – All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Nine Inch Nails Reveal New Collaborative LP with Boys Noize
Fan-Made SOPHIE Archive Launches Online
Björk is Throwing a Rave in Iceland to Mark the Total Solar Eclipse
Loraine James, Laurel Halo and More Contribute to New Compilation Honouring Women Who Have Shaped Electronic Music
Kelela Returns with New Single, ‘idea 1’
Crisis Energy: An Interview with Guttersnipe
Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg
Parasocial Security: Why Harry Styles’ Meltdown is Fireproof
Iceage Detail New Album, ‘For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter’
Boards Of Canada Trigger Comeback Speculation Amid Cryptic VHS Mailouts
Kanye West Blocked From Entering the UK, Wireless Festival Appearances Cancelled
Norman Records Announce Birthday Special Edition LPs
Different League: Mark Gatiss’ Favourite Albums
Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley
Mr Vast – Upping The Ante
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG – Pompeii // Utility
The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine
Reissue of the Week: Connecters by Larrison
Ghosts in the Machine: Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge Talk Doublespeak
Thundercat – Distracted
Wanderfal Festival at The Cornish Bank for April 10 – 11
Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996
The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie
The Shits – Diet Of Worms
Inner Ear: Croatian Music for April, by Jakub Knera
The Strange World Of… Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Bandcamp Updates

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Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
Lero Lero, “Lero Lero”
The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepieces Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Robber Robber, “Two Wheels Move the Soul”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Various Artists, “Fight The Fire: Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots and Dub in Nigeria 1986–91”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2026
Maryam Saleh’s Secret
Foote/Dickow, “High Cube”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026
Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music

dusted

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Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies)
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead — Live At The Hungry Brain (Trost)
Hässlig / Opresija — Kali Yuga Aural Terror (Self-released)
Chronotope Project — Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary)
Third Coast Percussion — Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)

Pitchfork

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Aldous Harding FaceTimes H. Hawkline in New Video “Venus in the Zinnia”
Jack White Extends 2026 Tour
Mitski Brings a Regal “If I Leave” to Kimmel
Wendy Eisenberg
Concrète Waves
METLASR
herts on fire
Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal Is Writing an “Astrological Memoir”
“Idea 1”
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Confirm Collaborative Album
Olivia Rodrigo to Host and Perform on SNL
Björk Will Spend the Eclipse Raving in Iceland
Juvenile on the Music That Made Him
Lindsey Buckingham’s Stalker Charged After Attacking Him in Santa Monica
Kelela Drops Video for Grungey New Song “Idea 1”
Radiohead Announce Kid A Mnesia Touring Installation
American Football Enlist Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for New Song
Otoboke Beaver Return With “I Don’t Need to Be in Your Strike Zone”
VOLUMES: ONE “SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6 PIECE BAND”
The Former Site Of
Jeune Morty Vol.1
Highway to Hell
Isaiah Rashad Teases Return With It’s Been Awful
Michael Jackson Estate Spent Up to $15 Million Removing Child Abuse Allegation Scenes
Thaiboy Digital Plots the Underworld Tour
“Addicted” [ft. Fivio Foreign]
Listen to the Strokes’ Auto-Tuned New Song “Going Shopping”
Iceage Announce New Album For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
M.I.A. Launches M.I.7 With New Song “Everything”

Cool Tools

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

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
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