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OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
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Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Many of the Education Dept.’s Accreditation Ideas Appear to Be Illegal, Experts Say
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Has our feeling of disgust been changed by our discovery of germ theory?
There's a suspicion that Irans Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is either dead or incapacitated and the government is pretending he is making decisions, is there any example where a country actually did pretend their leader was still alive and governing for an extended period of time?
When Caesar reportedly said "the die, it is cast" before crossing the Rubicon, what was he saying? Was he referring to taking a gamble, or some use of dice for divination?
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Was Having both male twins in the Medieval monarchy dangerous for the succession?
I’m Dr. Anny Gaul, author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato. I’m here to talk about Egyptian food cultures, the tomato’s global history, and researching the history of home cooking & everyday foods. Ask me anything!
How come the USA tends not to station as many troops on Taiwan as it does in Japan, South Korea, or the Philippines?
What did people do with payments of grain, bread, beer, etc. in Ancient Mesopotamia?
How did families know if a soldier was executed in WWII for a capital crime?
When did people begin using specific start and end times for arranging social gatherings?
Was there much of a fear of America turning into a monarchy when John Quincy Adam's was elected president?
I'm a 16-year-old Soviet girl growing up on a kolkhoz in 1965 and desperately want to leave, but internal passports are not issued to us. What are my realistic options?
Why did the Altamont and Isle of Wight festivals in 1970 turn into chaos and Woodstock was well, Woodstock?
Were there any Swedish legitimist movements that sought to restore the house of Holstein Gottorp after the succession of Jean Bernadotte?
Greece was under Ottoman rule for approximately 400 years. How is it that a Greek national identity persisted for centuries?
Was there ever a "Goldilocks zone" for human nourishment?
When and how did the idea of a "universal gay accent" become commonplace in western cultures?
How did wearing sunglasses become associated with being a "cool guy"?
The year is ~1908. I’m John D. Moneybags, an American millionaire and a widower. I’ve fallen in love with Maggie, the Dowager Viscountesses of Statelyhome. If we get married, what will happen after that?
In what way was a Hydraulis used in the Roman arena?
Roman Judea around the year 0 was a hotbed of itinerant preachers and doomsday cults. Was there anything special or unique about Jesus Christ or his congregation that made him historically more successful than his now-forgotten contemporary ‘competitors?’
When did wearing of your countries badge become common?
Were there economic motives for the Crusades?

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Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
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Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
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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]

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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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
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

NYT > Technology

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Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO
Federal Court Denies Anthropic’s Motion to Lift ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
Meta Unveils New A.I. Model, Its First From the Superintelligence Lab
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
Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’
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

NYT > Arts

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My 5 Favorite Places for Art in London
Billy Magnussen Has Mixed Feelings on Playing ‘Punchable’ Guys So Well
‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time
The Sense of Touch at Billboard Scale
‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know.
Protoje, One of Reggae’s Premier Ambassadors, Doubles Down on His Roots
Why Beauty and Ugliness Go Hand in Hand
In This Film About Amy Goodman, Independent Journalism Is the Real Star
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
The Teens of ‘The Testaments’ Follow Up on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
MoMA Survey Shows How Marcel Duchamp Changed the Art Game
‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reaches Closing Arguments
A Stroke and a Coma Couldn’t Stop Matt Pinfield, Rock’s Big Booster
Lady Gaga and Doechii, the Strokes: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel Discuss Their Pairing in ‘The Christophers’
Movie Review: You, Me & Tuscany
Exercise Used to Bore Bob Odenkirk. Now He’s Doing Stunts.
Review: A George Lewis Premiere at the New York Philharmonic
Hilde Limondjian, Met Museum’s Longtime Concert Impresario, Dies at 89
The Enduring Body and Soul of Martha Graham at 100
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
How Authors and Readers Feel About the ‘Shy Girl’ Cancellation
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.
Jimmy Kimmel Salutes Melania’s White House Surprise
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap: Physician, Heal Thyself
Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead
Pink Will Host the 2026 Tony Awards
Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations
Review: At Gibney Dance, Reaping the Maelstrom
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Review: Nostalgia’s the Boss of TV Now
‘Exit 8’ Review: Round and Round and Round He Goes …
‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside
Melissa Chiu Exits Hirshhorn Museum to Lead Guggenheim
Her Museum Was Surviving in Russia. Then the Threats Became Too Much.
Cannes Film Festival Lineup Spotlights Almodóvar and Other Heavyweights
Rosamund Pike to Star in ‘Inter Alia’ on Broadway
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
‘The Boys’ Got Bigger Than Ever. That Seemed Like the Time to End It.
‘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
‘The Christophers’ Review: Fine Art, Frayed Artists
‘Faces of Death’ Review: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
True Crime Streaming: In ‘A Friend, a Murderer,’ the Killer Was Close
‘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
An Audacious $724 Million Building Reinvents LACMA
This Audacious Film Festival Should Be Better Known
Modern Love: My Husband’s Breakdown Was My Breakthrough
‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Talks Tragedy, the Internet and the End of the Show
Frankie Muniz Refuses to Stay in His Lane

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why is Southern China ethnically more diverse than other parts of China?
What is the red spot in Norther Mali?
What area in Google Earth has you feeling the saddest?
This nearly perfect stratovolcano in Oregon—Mount Hood. What are some other lesser-known but just as impressive examples?
Why does Sudan have this little bump on its border with Egypt?
I have been reading about strike-slip tectonics when I found this cool example. The Piqiang fault in chinas Tian Shan mountains!
What are these strange grid things on this island in the Aegean?
How did Lithuania shrink so much?
Why did French-colonized North America retained so few place names compared Spanish ones?
Why did New Orleans never become a major hub like Miami or Orlando
People that life very close to a border but have never crossed it, why?
What sparked your love of Physical Geography?
Which two places have a very different climate in reality but are in the same Koppen climate zone?
Why has Guyana's capital city, Georgetown, along with neighbouring settlements, grown in this way?
What are the places in the world with the greatest differences between Summer and Winter Temperatures (which places get the hottest and the coldest in the same year)?
Can anyone explain why the roads on this key in florida could possibly be designed this way?
Does Canada or USA have more lakes? I keep seeing conflicting info. Some say Canada has 800k lakes and others over 3 million.
Considering a lot of Europeans emigrated to Latin America, why is the city of Buenos Aires so unique in regard to its architecture?
Southwest USA - Where to live if you love the desert, make no money, and fear climate change?
Why are there so many ponds in rural West Bengal?
Anybody knows what this city/town is and the history behind it?
What country has the smallest proportion of its land area home to half its population?
The Turkmenbashi Gulf next to the shrinking Caspian Sea (+ dug out lanes for ships)
Study Finds Devils Tower Is In Constant Motion

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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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
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

Bandcamp Updates

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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
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

dusted

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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)
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

Pitchfork

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Watch Brendan Yates’ Dad Introduce Turnstile at Coachella 2026
Watch Sabrina Carpenter Headline the First Night of Coachella 2026
“Flim”
Songs to Remember (2026 Remaster)
Watch Bruce Springsteen Cover “Purple Rain” in High-Def
How Hardtekk Became the Cursed Soundtrack of Looksmaxxing
Gucci Mane Unleashes Diss Track After Alleged Kidnapping by Pooh Shiesty
Listen to Alabama Shakes’ New Protest Song “American Dream”
“Yo Baby”
Pitchfork and GQ Senior Designer Chris Panicker Wins 2026 ASME Next Award
The Rolling Stones Prepping New Album
10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: My New Band Believe, Mei Semones, Lone, and More
Coachella 2026 YouTube Live Stream Schedule & Details
DJ Khaled, Future, and Lil Baby Reunite for New “One of Them” Video
Isaiah Rashad Confronts His Shadow in New “Same Sh!t” Video
My New Band Believe
Kehlani Recruits Missy Elliott for New Song “Back and Forth”
Wak’a
Hyperphantasia
Everything Else
Anitta and Shakira Drop New Duet “Choka Choka”
Brooklyn Mirage to Reopen as Pacha New York
Lady Gaga and Doechii Release New Devil Wears Prada 2 Song “Runway”
Afrika Bambaataa Dies at 67
“Lived and Ive Learned”
Girl Trouble Return With First Album in 23 Years
Watch Robert Plant Perform Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” on Colbert
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

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?
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
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