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We trim your hedges, we fight your wars
Better Call Saul, but it's set in New Orleans and real.
New ways to be puzzled
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"Oh! There is bread! What a fun surprise."
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USA Organizing Calendar - April 16 to May 1
This op shop fixes donated items to reduce landfill
If I could stop time, I wood.
Mamdani introduces pied à terre tax

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Codex for almost everything
Claude Opus 4.7
A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
Join Akkari's Founding Team (YC P26) as an Engineer
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf]
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof
A Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design
Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research
Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task
Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh
European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp
Six Characters
Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
Cloudflare Email Service
AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants
PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
Sir-Bench – benchmark for security incident response agents
RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update
North American English Dialects

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Netflix says its 2026 ad revenue remains on track to reach $3B, doubling from 2025, and it now works with over 4,000 advertising clients, up 70% YoY (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise $180M to $200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months (Bloomberg)
AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build "reinforcement learning gyms" and train AI agents in simulated workplaces (Anna Tong/Forbes)
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen (Megan Morrone/Axios)
OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI "doomers" and says "when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences" (Caroline O'Donovan/The San Francisco ...)
Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model (Bloomberg)
DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (Joel Khalili/Wired)
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

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The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind - Viktor Cessan
Good sleep, good learning, good life
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
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What is jj and why should I care? - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
Most people can't juggle one ball — LessWrong
Saying Goodbye to Agile
The Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Internet Archive
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How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack | Steve Hanov's Blog
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Every train, a note.
They See Your Photos
www.dbreunig.com
All elementary functions from a single operator
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
My AI-Assisted workflow | maiobarbero.dev
DaVinci Resolve – Photo | Blackmagic Design
5NF and Database Design | Database Design Book
FontSelf
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God sleeps in the minerals (some extremely pretty rocks)
GitHub Stacked PRs | GitHub Stacked PRs
Introducing Apple Frames 4: A Revamped Shortcut, Support for Frame Colors, Proportional Scaling, and the Apple Frames CLI for Developers - MacStories
Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit | 404 Media
The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity - by Denis Stetskov
No one can force me to have a secure website
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine
Little LaTeX Pearls
delphitools: Handmade Developer Tools
Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug.
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now | TechCrunch
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
Testing tip: Enable the zoom peek gesture – Unsung
Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work
State of Homelab 2026 | Tech blog about the boring stuff.
Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website
Getting the Flock out
boringBar - Taskbar Dock Replacement for macOS
Make Tmux Pretty and Usable | Hacker News
It's OK to compare floating-points for equality | lisyarus blog
The secrets of the shinkansen • Works In Progress
I tried an abliterated local LLM and it feels nothing like the others
Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking"  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
Rising AI Adoption Spurs Workforce Changes
Guide world
Welcome - GAIA SDK
The paper computer « the jsomers.net blog
The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
I Just Want Simple S3 – Makefile.feld
From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online
Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
Things you didn't know about indexes
How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon's Clutches | Lifehacker
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent - by Brian Merchant
GitHub - google/magika: Detect file content types with deep learning
The Agent Skills Directory
Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008) | Hacker News
From Hierarchy to Intelligence | Sequoia Capital
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment
New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy | The New Yorker
Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store
Golden tickets. – Present & Correct
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
Typotheque: Zed font system for information accessibility.
Brocards for vulnerability triage
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive | Hacker News
My adventure in designing API keys
AgentSeal/codeburn: See where your AI coding tokens go. Interactive TUI dashboard for Claude Code and Codex cost observability.
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China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart – Sophie Alpert
The AI Layoff Trap
China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall | Vale.Rocks
I went to school with Graham Platner. Here's a look at his success
Large Scale Systems Museum / Museum of Applied Computer Technology
Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'œil Tableaux — Colossal
Top (Modern Common Lisp with FSet)
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The AI Great Leap Forward
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
Type Scale Tool – Craft Precise Typography, Get CSS Fast
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
Mark’s Magic Multiply
Installing every* Firefox extension
Is math big or small?
GitHub - saffron-health/libretto: The AI toolkit for building and maintaining browser automations · GitHub
To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain - Ars Technica
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else | TechCrunch
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Things to do in Durham this week (April 13-19)
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs
Found another sticker ✨
Reopening Family Business
Sophia Chitlik's husband dubbed a scammer & fraud by FERC, officially
This is most likely 20 minutes from you
STOP at RR crossings
How would the commute be living in Durham and working at UNC Hospital?
We just won our Live Nation / Ticketmaster monopoly case. - AG Jeff Jackson
DRX buses just disappear
First time veggie gardener tips??
Hillsborough Vintage Market this Saturday 4/18
Any fairytale eggplant starts found locally?
Drought Conditions and Water Restrictions
Had to bury my GT08 Scooter Charger and it's replacement is at least a week away Dx
FADING SIGNAL, CIRCLE FIVE, GET WISE + MORE DURHAM NC TOMORROW APRIL 17TH
Lost dog seen at the ATT
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Help with Landlord Dispute
Hypothetical Community Service Campaign
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Power outage?
hair donation?
Every time I walk past this I laugh
Best park for a picnic?

NYT > Science

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Artemis II Crew Discusses NASA Moon Mission and Next Steps
In Defense of Dumb Dogs
Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
Whydah Gally Shipwreck Corrects a Myth About African Gold
Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease from Animals to People
In the Desert, a ‘Cleaning Station’ for Ants
Artemis II Splashdown Gives NASA Momentum in Renewed Moon Race
These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.
Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii
Analysis of Alzheimer’s Drugs Stirs Debate About Their Effectiveness
A New Exhibition at New York’s Natural History Museum Honors Fossil Hunters
Youths Who Sued Trump Over Orders to ‘Unleash’ Energy Try to Revive Case
Gray Whales Are Dying in San Francisco Bay
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Reunite With Friends and Family After 10-Day Moon Mission
Another Giant Leap Reminds Us How Small We Are
The Northeast Hoped to Lead on Climate. Now It’s Rethinking.
How Recovery Personnel Will Secure Artemis II Capsule at Sea After Splashdown
What will happen during the final hours of the Artemis II mission?
Here’s what the astronauts did for 10 days in space.
Thomas S. Langner, Who Linked Social Ills to Mental Illness, Dies at 102
See Photos From All 10 Days of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission
NASA Artemis II Splashdown: Time, Live Stream and How to Watch Landing
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.

Nature

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Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust
Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll
Ageing could prime women for autoimmune disorders
‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms
The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal?
Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2 million contest
Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity
Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes
Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship song
Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements
Author Correction: HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells
Carbonyl swapping converts cyclic ketones to saturated heterocycles
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments
Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics
Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires
Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans
Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations
Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia
Tumour promotion through the lens of evolution
mRNA vaccines engage unconventional pathways in CD8+ T cell priming
Prospective evaluation of genomics-guided off-label treatment
Cell-type-targeted mitochondrial transplantation rescues cell degeneration
A spatial atlas of the healthy human liver from live donors
A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer
Molecular basis for methylation-sensitive editing by Cas9
Emergence of oncofetal plasticity is ubiquitous in early colorectal cancers
Template-driven scaffolding of SCFFBXO42 regulates PP2A degradation
Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in a semiconductor laser
The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs
300-unit-per-second roll-to-roll manufacturing of visible metalenses
Imaging interface-controlled bulk oxygen spillover
Mapping convergent regulators of melanoma drug resistance by PerturbFate
EBV strain interacts with host HLA to drive nasopharyngeal carcinoma risk
Composable neural emulators accelerate thermoelectric generator design
What China’s Great Green Wall can teach the world
Four rising stars shaping the future of cancer research
AI speeds up design of devices that turn waste heat into electricity
Here are the top locations for cancer research in the Nature Index
I was set to lead an undergraduate research trip abroad. Then my visa was denied
Improving cancer survival rates will require hard policy choices
Molecular profiling of gene-edited cells reveals shared drug-resistance mechanisms
Brain–machine interface reveals the origin of a widely used neural signal
AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit biases when training other systems
Global cancer rates are rising. How are countries reacting?
A guide to the Nature Index
Therapeutic mitochondria transplants made more efficient with targeting tool
Daily briefing: Youthifying 'mirror' brings back more vivid childhood memories
Bad influence: LLMs can transmit malicious traits using hidden signals
A picture of health: gene-expression maps of the human liver from living donors
Can China’s Great Green Wall shape efforts to keep the world’s deserts at bay?
Early-onset cancer fuels calls for wider screening — but at what cost?
Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis
How effective is the personalized off-label use of targeted cancer treatment?
Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data
Ozymandias undead
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
Polyclonal selection of immune checkpoint mutations in thyroid autoimmunity
Autonomous closed-loop framework for reproducible perovskite solar cells
The striking history of safety matches
Stop overlooking librarians’ expertise
Deep-sea mining mustn’t go ahead until there are baseline data
AI agents replicate human social dynamics in days
Marine heatwaves can supercharge cyclones
China discontinues prominent journal ranking list
Researchers: here’s how to audit your fragmented digital identity
The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
Daily briefing: The air is full of DNA — here’s what it can teach us
AI needs solid botanical data more than ever
Stop the ‘space race’: space exploration must be a shared human endeavour
NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move
What Orbán’s fall from power means for research
Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide
Saving face: why facial scars are smaller than back scars

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The life and legacy of George Schaller
Our cosmos, ourselves
Stem cell control in the lung by an autocrine injury-activated Igf complex
Determination of the Solar System contribution to the soft x-ray sky
Calcium-triggered apoplastic ROS bursts balance gravity and mechanical signals for soil navigation
Late Miocene Colorado River arrival in the Bidahochi basin supports spillover origin of Grand Canyon
B lymphocyte protein factories produced by hematopoietic stem cell gene editing
Guidance of cellular nematic elastomers into shape-programmable living surfaces
An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization
HNF1B integrates signals in a feed-forward loop driving kidney disease progression
Structural basis for DNA processing and membrane translocation by ComEC in natural transformation
Sex effects on gene expression across the human cerebral cortex at cell type resolution
Agroseismology and the impact of farming practices on soil hydrodynamics
Ferroelectricity in atomic-scale titanium dioxide dielectric films
Super-nano domains enable strength-conductivity synergy in copper foils
Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903
Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape
Mesothermic fishes face high fuel demands and overheating risk in warming oceans
Talk therapy
In Other Journals
Shaping tissues with defects
Programmable cellular protein factories
Channels of transformation
Express yourself
Accurately accounting for China’s typhoon losses
Blind box culture exacerbates plastic waste
Protect polar wildlife from microplastics
Cold rush
Ancient lake’s flood may have etched the Grand Canyon
Differences in ribosomes may help explain human diversity
Rise of farming, cultural shifts supercharged human evolution
Fog, a research ‘underdog,’ gets serious attention
Trump seeks to jump-start stalled icebreaker
Today’s robots walk, swim, fly, and manipulate objects on the go—and they’re just getting started
The Arctic’s growing mosquito problem
Prediction markets as a public health threat
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NYT > Top Stories

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Judge Again Halts Aboveground Construction on Trump Ballroom
Panel Advances Trump’s Triumphal Arch, Even as Key Member Suggests Changes
RFK Jr. Shifts Tone on Vaccines in Congressional Hearing
Utah Becomes the New Center of U.S. Measles Cases
ICE Agent Charged With Assault After Motorists Say He Brandished Gun
ICE Has Detained Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, an 85-Year-Old Widow
House Votes to Preserve Deportation Protections for Haitians, Rebuking Trump
The Costa Rican Mountain Town Offering Sanctuary to Families Deported by Trump
Roger Adams Dies at 71; Invented the Rolling Sneakers Known as Heelys
What Heelys, the Sneakers With Wheels, Taught Me About Momentum as a Child
Virginia Ex-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say
Reed Hastings Will Leave Netflix as Board Chairman
Mandelson, a Friend of Epstein’s, Became U.S. Ambassador Despite Failing Security Vetting
Mamdani’s Tax Return: $1,600 From Rapping and $131,000 From Politics
Mamdani Says He Plans to Skip the 2026 Met Gala
Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Boundary Waters Wilderness
Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii
Can Webcams Help Solve New York’s Restaurant Line Problem?
Where Has All of New York City’s Outdoor Dining Gone?
Kendrick Lamar’s Protégé Baby Keem Tells the Whole Story, Warts and All
What We Know About Clavicular’s Apparent Overdose and Hospitalization
Luke Tennie’s Journey From ‘Shrinking’ to ‘The Pitt’ and Beyond
If You Love ‘The Pitt,’ You’ll Love These Memoirs by Real E.R. Doctors
Trump Is the End of a 100-Year Experiment
Older Women Are in Demand by Younger Men
Are You an International Student Looking for Work?
How Gavin Newsom Boosted His Book Sales With $1.5 Million From His PAC
Artemis II Crew Discusses NASA Moon Mission and Next Steps
Will It Cost $150 to Take the Train to a Single World Cup Match?
Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science

The Atlantic

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RFK Jr.’s New Normal
Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party
The Tyranny of AI Everywhere
Trump Voters Are Over It
What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
The Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to Crumble
The DNA Fix for Aging
AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Pope James David Vance the First
If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It
If Hungary Can Do It
A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong
History Is Running Backwards
Trump Doesn’t Have the Power to Enact His Latest Elections Scheme
It’s Not Just Iran. Trump Is Flailing on Multiple Fronts.
The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About
Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?
Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration
A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The Paradox of Modern Medicine
The High-Risk, Low-Reward Blockade of Hormuz
We Shouldn’t Need Accountants
What Viktor Orbán’s Opponents Sacrificed to Beat Him
Trump’s Logic for Blockading the Blockaders
A Blasphemous President

National

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ICE agent charged with assault for allegedly pointing gun at Minneapolis drivers
Ex-wife of firebombing suspect denied care for chest pain in ICE custody, lawyer says
More young men are attending religious services regularly, poll finds
Camp Mystic should stay shut after deadly flood, parents say in emotional letters
Woman, 96, enlists 150-pound dog to plant spring flowers: She points, he digs
Camp Mystic director breaks down under questioning over missing girl

World

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South African politician who drew Trump’s ire sentenced on gun charges
10-day ceasefire in Lebanon begins as Israel agrees to U.S.-backed deal
Trump says Iran agrees to hand over ‘nuclear dust’
House votes to restore protections for Haitians, defying Trump
Trump administration pushes nations to sign ‘trade over aid’ declaration
Pope Leo decries ‘tyrants’ ravaging world, days after insults from Trump
Airstrike by Nigeria, a U.S. ally against Islamist militants, kills scores
Japan is a pacifist nation, and now a hint of change is drawing rare protests
House defies Trump on immigration with move to shield Haitians
U.S. sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iran
Trump says China has agreed not to send weapons to Iran
Iranian sea trade blocked as six ships forced to turn back, U.S. military says

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The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire
Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
RedNote chases U.S. expansion after its “TikTok refugee” moment fades
In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance
Chinese entrepreneurs should go global before they go viral
War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China
A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border
Winners of the 2026 Photo Contest
India’s frugal AI models are a blueprint for resource-strapped nations
“Data embassies” and safeguarding digital assets during wartime
Amazon is betting on speed in a market that may not need it
Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice

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The Hard Budget Conversation Colleges Should Have
People Are Angry (Again) About Colleges' Donors. Will Anything Really Change?
A Jewish Trustee at Michigan Was Targeted. Now His Re-Election Fight Is All About Israel.
AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right
Meet the Donors Funding the Civil-Dialogue Boom at Colleges
Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them?
Higher Ed Has a Trust Problem. Yale Thinks It Has Solutions.
U. of Michigan's Incoming President Has Brain Cancer and Won't Take Office
Hampshire Announced It’s Closing. Will Other Small Colleges Follow?
Can a New Pact Help Higher-Ed Workers Secure Better Pay?

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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | April 16, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 15, 2026
"For 99-plus percent of human history we did not engage in warfare, we are inherently peaceful as a species (...) that is what the archeological record shows us". Really?
Ariel Sharon was a long-term advocate for Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, only to unilaterally disengage in 2005 and support the creation of a Palestinian state. Why did he reverse his stance?
What historical factors led to make first-cousin marriage so common in the Muslim world?
What do we know about pre-contact indigenous forest gardens in North America, especially California?
What’s the deal with King Arthur?
What factors allowed Islam to spread to West Africa but not Christianity prior to the 15th century?
Mao is well known for the phrase "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". What is the context of this phrase and how did it seemingly became his defining quote (at least in the west)?
I’m a Zampolit on a Soviet destroyer in the 1960’s. Am I likely to have any naval training or experience?
How and at what age were children potty trained (or don't-poop-your-pants trained) in the time and place you study?
When did French kings start being named "Louis" in a way that a modern French speaker would understand it?
Was Gen. Forrest sincere when he spoke to the TN black people's group in 1875?
Why were the daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) such a target for 60's and 70's counterculture artists?
Why were most of the prostitutes in San Francisco during the Gold Rush Chilean?
Athens forcibly installed democracies on member states of the Delian League. How did this work in practice? Were the new regimes actually democractic, and why would they support Athenian hegemony?
What happened to Paul Valéry Scholarship and/or legacy?
How important was the French Popular Front in the French left imagination (especially the 1980s)?
Why did South Africa legalize interracial marriage before ending apartheid?
Why did Medieval calendars have two "dismal days" a month?
Spanish History. After the Reconquista, did conversos take on Spanish last names that were words for common objects?
In Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses there is a scene where a foreman of a Mexican wax camp feeds the three teenage protagonists and then attempts to buy one of them. The book is set in 1949ish. Was this something that actually went on?
During one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies Captain Jack robs a bank. Would the Caribbean have had actual banks at the time?
Was the swastika used to represent German identity after the rise of the Nazi party like national flags are used today?
I have a question about the lack of materials to save the decaying papyri between 400 and 600 AD. What was the perception of this supply chain and supply/demand problem by the decision makers of that time? How did they try to solve or mitigate it? Did the price of the materials rise as a result?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
A historical grammar of Phrygian (Sorgo 2026)
Statistical structure and the evolution of languages
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025)
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
Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
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

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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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How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back
Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
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

NYT > Technology

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What Is ‘Jagged Intelligence’ and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?
That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job
Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I. Yes, A.I.
Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M.
Ford Says Doug Field, Who Led Company's E.V. Push, is Leaving
Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
Spice Up Your Cooking Skills With Help From Your Phone
We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.
They Were YouTube’s First Stars. Here’s What They Wish They’d Known.
How Older Adults Are Using VR to Counter Social Isolation
Like Anthropic, OpenAI Will Share Latest Technology Only With Trusted Companies
Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion, Movingto Expand Its Satellite Internet Service
I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses
Man Held in Attack on OpenAI Chief’s Home Had List of A.I. Leaders, Officials Say
Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok
The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
Have You Used A.I. Chatbots for Nutrition Advice?
Volkswagen to End E.V. Production at Tennessee Plant
Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows

NYT > Arts

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Kendrick Lamar’s Protégé Baby Keem Tells the Whole Story, Warts and All
Luke Tennie’s Journey From ‘Shrinking’ to ‘The Pitt’ and Beyond
‘Greater New York’ Brings the Noisy, Messy Vitality of 53 Artists
Review: ‘The Fear of 13,’ With Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, Doesn’t Add Up
Kenya Barris on His New Documentary, ‘Jerry West: The Logo’
The Phillies Owner’s Other Superstars
‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway Strikes a Pose
The Enduring Beauty of Black-and-White Games
Coming to Broadway: Molière, ‘The Full Monty’ and a Play About D.J.s
5 Takeaways From the Live Nation Antitrust Trial
It’s (Always) the Season for Anime
A Sculptor’s Life, in Constant Motion
A Thomas J Price Bronze Opens Door to London’s V&A East
‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Review: Fresh From the Sarcophagus
Pittsburgh’s Children’s Museum Satisfies a Hunger for Eric Carle
A ‘Cabinet of Wonders’ on Show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters
In Its ‘Greater New York’ Show, MoMA PS1 Focuses on the Here and Now
What We Lose When Everything Is ‘-Coded’
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Returns With Contemporary Bite
‘Normal’ Review: This Town Is Anything But
‘Mad Bills to Pay’ Review: Growing Up Unexpectedly
‘Erupcja’ Review: Dancing Through the Ash
‘Eagles of the Republic’ Review: How Authoritarians Clip Wings
‘Blue Heron’ Review: Rewinding Time to Find a Brother
‘Amrum’ Review: A Moral Awakening
‘Balls Up’ Review: Offend It Like Beckham
Stephen Colbert Wants the Vice President to Lay Off the Pope
Julio Torres, Jennifer Tilly and More Star in Plays That Are Streaming Now
Barbara Gordon, 90, Dies; Wrote a Best Seller About Her Pill Addiction
The Good List: 7 Things to Add Some Delight to Your Day
Live Nation and Ticketmaster Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds
‘The Adding Machine’ Review: A Man Is Made Redundant
Review: Here’s Johnny! (And Bach and 4 Choreographers)
Paris Man Wins $1.2 Million Picasso Painting in Charity Raffle
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Puts Connecticut Artists in the Spotlight
In the Tech Heart of Texas, an Art Show Built on Data, Code and A.I.
Honoring Frederic Church: Beyond the Hudson River School
‘Giant’ Revisits Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Comments: What to Know
‘Rethinking, Reimagining and Reinstalling’ the Metropolitan Museum of Art
What to See This Spring at Museums Across the U.S.
Elizabeth Banks Reflects on 33 Years of Marriage
Review: ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Will Make an OnlyFan of You
‘No Picnic’ Is a Walk Down Mean Street Memory Lane
Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Have a Generational ‘Beef’
In Kannywood, a Film Scene Thrives Despite Censorship
They Were YouTube’s First Stars. Here’s What They Wish They’d Known.
As Los Angeles Rebuilds, a Surge of Experimentation
Obsessed With the Titanic? These Historical Fictional Books Will Transport You.
Late Night Laughs at Explanations of Trump’s Jesus ‘Joke’
Billy Crystal to Return to Broadway With Solo Show ‘860’ About Losing His Home in L.A. Fires
Taylor Frankie Paul Will Not Face New Domestic Violence Charges
The Museums That Helped Power Atlanta’s Rise Are Still Pushing Ahead
A New Exhibition at New York’s Natural History Museum Honors Fossil Hunters
Moon Rocks! 9 Lunar Songs for the Artemis Crew
At a Difficult Time, a Minnesota Museum Offers Respite to Somalis
The Benefactor of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation Curates Its Collection
Daring and Dazzling, a New LACMA Floats Above Los Angeles
‘Planet Money’ Is Now a Book. And a Game. And a Record Label.

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What "Camden" means in different countries.
Why does Lithuania have this protrusion into Belarus
Which city has the coolest nicknames in your opinion?
Why is tropical climate associated with sensuality?
Germany bartered with the British for the Caprivi Strip believing they could use it to access the Indian Ocean. Did they get fleeced or is that land valuable today?
Help me identify this mountain seen from flight travelling Delhi to Patna
This Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) can contain more of the minerals of manganese, nickel, cobalt, and copper than all known land-based reserves combined.
India To Witness Record-Breaking Heatwave, Set To Be World’s Hottest Region In Next Two Weeks | TimelineDaily
Why doesn't grass spread to areas such as this?
No filter needed . Turkey
Why does Cameroon have this arm all the way to Lake Chad?
Thank you, r/geography
Has anyone ever been in this point between China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia?
What are examples of cities that experienced rapid development in a controversial way?
Has anyone ever been in this point between China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia?
What country in the world do you know the least about?
Why did the Portuguese emigrate to the America's in such huge numbers compared to others??
To what extent would indian summers change if Himalayas didn't exist?
Why didn't the netherlands build several dams on the frisian islands instead of the zuidurzee dam?
Can someone help me identify this mountain?
Why do some regions in India feel hotter than desert regions with similar temperatures?
TIL that Gold Coast, Australia has a ton of rivers and canals
Super interesting geological formations in the Sakha Republic
Why does East Asia have so many mountains?

The Public Domain Review

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“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)
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)

The Quietus

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Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’
Massive Attack Collaborate with Tom Waits on New Song, ‘Boots On The Ground’
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture
ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye
Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux
The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years
Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Track, ‘Dim Stars’
Dean Blunt Releases New Babyfather EP, ‘icl’
Madonna Unveils ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ LP Sequel
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back
Drass – On The Hill
The Strange World Of… Spacemen 3
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland – Eternal Life No End
Gaswerk Music Days Announces First Acts Playing 2026 Edition
Rough Trade to Mark 50th Birthday with Southbank Centre Takeover
Primal Scream to Play ‘XTRMNTR’ in Full on UK Tour
Warp Records Hints at Boards Of Canada Return with Mysterious Posters
Björk Reveals New Album to be Released in 2027
Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley of SunnO))) on Hiking
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke
My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja Arrested at Palestine Action Protest
Sound in All Forms: Rewire 2026 Reviewed
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for April Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Squarepusher – Kammerkonzert
Reissue of the Week: Scritti Politti’s Songs To Remember
Melvins & Napalm Death – Savage Imperial Death March
Afrika Bambaataa has Died, Aged 68
Skaņu Mežs Adds Smerz and More to 2026 Lineup
Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri Reveal Collaborative LP, ‘Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun’
Radiohead Unveil ‘Kid A Mnesia’ Touring Audiovisual Installation
A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed

Bandcamp Updates

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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”
Side Door No. 3: How Skerik Became the Noisy Punk Deviant of the Jam Band World
Prism Shores, “Softest Attack”
Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures
Nate Garrett on the Trials and Tribulations Behind Spirit Adrift’s Final LP
Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind”
Essential Releases, April 10, 2026
The Art of Rock
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 Sidepeices 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

dusted

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Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP)
Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube)
Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC)
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw  —The Undone Is Done Again (Fire)
Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse)
Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby)
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)

Pitchfork

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Massive Attack’s First Song in Six Years Features Tom Waits
Neko Case’s Thelma & Louise Musical to Debut This Fall
“trampstamp”
“Boots on the Ground”
Coachella 2026 Weekend 2 YouTube Live Stream Schedule & Details
Charli XCX Is Making a Rock Album
“Mob Untied”
Listen to Lana Del Rey’s Theme for the New James Bond… Video Game
“flee”
Boards of Canada Return With First New Music in 13 Years
Lyra Pramuk Announces Hymnal (Resung) and Shares New Djrum Rework
AMOR & DROGA
EMOTIONS
A Wave That Will Never Break
Kissing Luck Goodbye
Watch Ariana Grande Go Toe-to-Toe With Ben Stiller in Focker-in-Law Trailer
“Wisco”
Jury Finds Live Nation Acted as an Illegal Monopoly
Ekko Astral Announce New Live Album Fuck This Band: Live at the Chapel
Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Song “Dim Stars”
Jessie Ware Plots Fall 2026 Tour
The Field Announces First Project in Eight Years
Katy Perry Under Police Investigation for Alleged Sexual Assault of Ruby Rose
Watch Monaleo Channel Her Inner Barbie in “Crossroads Freestyle”
Madonna Announces New Album Confessions II
The Best Music of 2026 So Far
Coachella 2026 Weekend 2 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
Chicken Talkin Bastard
Buckle Up
STUNT 4 LIFE

Cool Tools

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Young Adult Destinations/Bag Check Hikes/Hotel Labor Shortage
What’s in my NOW? — Augie Nielsen
Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury
Music Production
Best weather app / Airport delay tracker / Mars photos
Book Freak #205: Mindset
JetBlue Bag Gouging/2026 Summer Bargains/Canadian Immigration
What’s in my NOW? — Semi Chellas
The Science Book / Encyclopedia of Sensors
Folding Bikes

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)
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home
Homestyle Bibimbap
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New)
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù)
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs)
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens)
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Madeleines
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing)
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear
Fake 'Nduja
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile?
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