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As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage (Aria Bendix/NBC News)
Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Kuo: A20 chips in iPhone 18 models will be made using TSMC's 2nm process, as TSMC's trial production of 2nm chips reached yields well above the 60-70% range (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, a new reasoning AI model powered by its Hunyuan Turbo S AI model, and claims it rivals DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024 (Reuters)
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month (Financial Times)
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A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Israel-based Kela, which develops tech for integrating AI, sensors, and edge devices into existing military systems, raised a $28M Series A and a $11M seed (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)
Inspiren, which provides workflow and staffing tech and AI-based fall detection for senior living facilities, raised a $35M Series A led by Avenir (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
The crypto-lending industry, nearly wiped out in the last bear market, is staging a comeback as Cantor Fitzgerald launches a $2B Bitcoin financing business (David Pan/Bloomberg)
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E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk
Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil
Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say
Kilmer McCully, Pathologist Scorned for New Theory of Heart Disease, Dies at 91
U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump
Science Data May Soon Vanish From Government Websites.
Trump Administration Delays Requirement for Companies to Track Tainted Food
U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million
Trump Administration Dialing Back Support for H.I.V. Prevention
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Isotopic and compositional constraints on the source of basalt collected from the lunar farside
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Direct effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversity
Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
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Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example
Netanyahu ousts intelligence chief as Israeli troops continue Gaza operations
London’s Heathrow Airport partially reopens after fire cut power
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Saturday Showcase | March 22, 2025
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Were the Beatles really only playing live for 30 minutes at each live show during Beatlemania?
where are white people descendants in Muslim countries?
So did anyone clean up all the bits of people after ww1? Or at they bone fields?
Why was The USSR the only nation to use rocket-artillery on a large scale in WW2?
With Canadian patriotic sentiment being so high currently, I've been investigating Canadian contributions to WW2, and am seeing references to how such a small country at the time "batted above it's weight". Can anyone help to put this into perspective for me?
What would an instrument engineer working in Oak Ridge, TN as part of the Manhattan project likely have known about what he was contributing to?m
How common was it actually for castles and manor houses to have secret passages?
Do historians check every single piece of data as in a text as much as humanly possible?
Were Hispanics segregated too?
How was the prize money value of a captured ship calculated during the Napoleonic Wars?
Why is Iceland rich?
Is it true that the "Welfare State" emerged as a way to prevent socialist revolutions?
Why is Liangzhu not considered a separate cradle of civilization?
TB was present in the Americas prior to Columbus, how effective were native treatment for the disease?
How were politically apathetic people treated by the Soviets?
Why did French Louisiana prioritize the expulsion of Jews as the first article of their 1724 Black Code?
How heavily fortified was Vladivostok at the time of the Russo-Japanese War? And how does one go about researching the answer to such a question?
Did Oppenheimer really tried to kill his professor with poisoned apple? And if the story is true, how he just got away with attempted murder? Was his family so rich and influential?
Shakespeare is credited with inventing many words we use today. Was he the only one doing this, or was everyone making up new words during that time?
How copper coexisted with an iron over the history?
Despite the flags being famous for being so similar in design, the Nordic Cross flags use an ever so slightly different flag ratios, and I was wondering why?
What are the best history online courses that you can access for free?
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Gendering the Jordanian Dinar: A Study of Lexical Variation Among Jordanian University Students According to Gender Performativity Theory
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The Entangled Nature of First Language Learning, Education, and Literacy
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Reconstruction beyond proto-languages in the middle Andes
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Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family
Speech Learning: perception, production & training
Projected speaker numbers and dormancy risks of Canada’s Indigenous languages
From Isolates to Families: Using Neural Networks for Automated Language Affiliation
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What makes business speakers sound charismatic? A contrastive acoustic-melodic analysis of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg
The pre‑Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon (Swanenvleugel 2025)
Early English and the Celtic hypothesis, Raymon Hickey 2012
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Lexicalization and Social Meaning of the Italian Subjunctive
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Drive down Gregson St today
Duke Energy’s rate hike now in effect, with another 3% hike coming next year.
Rufus is looking for a home!
Garden Nerds - Carolina Habitats open for 2025! Native plants, happy ecosystems!
Girlfriend proposal
🌼 APRIL is upon us soon and with the pollen comes a brand new month of workshops! 🌼 Come out next month and get crafty with us. SCRAPEXCHANGE.ORG ▶️ CALENDAR ▶️ WORKSHOP CALENDAR
Bad Experience with Management at Family Care PA
Chai Latte on the sweeter side?
The Big Pop Show (Live Music )
Giant Concrete Pipes on Glenwood Ave
Couples Therapy
how do we get a flea market up in this abandoned parking lot? Fayetteville St (old food world)
HVAC in Durham - private familyl run - not private equity owned
What is up with the Southpoint Target?
Microclover?
Protests on April 5: HANDS OFF
Recommendations for activities with visitors?
Wanting to meet new girl friends
Come join Us(ps) at The Bull Statue to help save post office this Sunday.
UFOs or the government?
Barbee Road
Former Triangle actor J. Alphonse Nicholson Joins ‘Lanterns’ DC Series At HBO
Updated Durham Unemployment Figures | released March 21, 2025
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COLD - a film about a dead lady
Flavor maps
Ecards for Creeps
Styscraper porcine physics game
irregular-expressions a GIS and spatial blog
Wildcard Deck
Songs About Dinosaurs - Professor Goldstein and the Adjuncts
Calc/16
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Back Catalogue Barrage
Tortura - short short stories for the TikTok era
Metropolis, the Audio Drama
Getting Unstuck: A Compassion Centered Approach to Writing Difficulties
Roguelike Radio #159, on Shiren the Wanderer
Biden Delivered

Open Culture

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The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990–2024)
Why There Isn’t a Bridge from Italy to Sicily – And Why the 2,000-Year-Old Dream of Building the Bridge May Soon Be Realized
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NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism
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A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
Puppets of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens & Edgar Allan Poe Star in 1957 Frank Capra Educational Film
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When Salvador Dalí Created a Chilling Anti-Venereal Disease Poster During World War II
Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse
How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

NYT > Technology

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How Blueprint Founder Bryan Johnson Sought Control Via Confidentiality Agreements
Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE
The Baby Tech That One Parent Found Helped the Most
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A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express
Risking Trump’s Ire, E.U. Accuses Apple and Google of Unfair Practices
Reddit Becomes a Lifeline for Federal Workers Scared of Losing Their Jobs
Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny
Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission
Google Seals $32 Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz
Nvidia Is Hosting the Super Bowl of A.I.
The One Place on Social Media That Still Feels Human
How CoreWeave Went From Crypto Mining to Wall Street’s A.I. Bellwether
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds
Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?
Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide
Carl Lundstrom, Who Financed the Pirate Bay, Dies in Plane Crash
Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

NYT > Arts

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‘Severance’ Finale: Which Fan Theories Were Correct?
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‘Love Life,’ the Lost Great American Musical, Returns Over 75 Years Later
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Takeaways From the ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale
The ‘Severance’ Actress Who Plays Natalie On Those ‘Terrifying’ Scenes
Raise a Glass to the Messy, Cringey Wedding Toast
How ‘Severance’ Uses Old Tricks to Make Its Office Hell
‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale Recap: Mark vs. Mark
‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: The Stiff Who Saved Europe
In Wes Anderson’s World, It’s All About the Details
Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Environmental Music Is Enchanting a New Generation
When the Walls Close In on the ‘Wolf Hall’ Saga
Japanese Breakfast’s Shimmering Sadness, and 8 More New Songs
Thomas Hoobler, Half of a Prolific Writing Couple, Dies at 82
2 Books With Celebrity Cameos
In Taipei, a Mother and Daughter Reflect on the Art Scene
Finding This Party Was Half the Fun
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‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: ‘Barbecue’
Art Basel Hong Kong’s Film Section Features Work by 30 Filmmakers
Long-Lost Klimt Portrays African Prince
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
V.E. Schwab’s Favorite Fantasy Books By Genre
This A.S.M.R.-Inspired Art Show May Put You To Sleep
In Hong Kong, an Art Scene Thrives in an Industrial District
At Art Basel Hong Kong, Evidence of a Shifting Art World
Late Night Gives Trump’s Education Agency Shutdown a Failing Grade
Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
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‘Shared Custody’ Is a Prickly Spanish Divorce Drama
Lenny Schultz, Comedian Who Made a Lot of Noise, Dies at 91
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For Cleveland Orchestra, It’s Beethoven (and Freedom) to the Rescue
A Hong Kong Picasso Show Aims to Shed New Light on the Master
Hong Kong Bookshops Persist Amid Change and Challenges
‘The Residence’ Review: Murder and Mystery in the White House
Pearl Lam Knows the Hong Kong Art Scene, and Is Happy to Talk
A Show at Art Basel Hong Kong Revisits History to Interpret Today
‘Misericordia’ Review: Danger Always Hides in the Bushes
Flannery O’Connor’s Artworks Finally See the Light
Robert E. Ginna Jr., Whose Article Bolstered U.F.O. Claims, Dies at 99
The Sudden Weirdness of TV Presidents
‘Locked’ Review: Cramped Quarters
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Jensen McRae and 10 More Artists to Watch
Brandon Flynn and Jordan Tannahill’s Cinematic East Village Apartment
The 17th-Century Palazzo That Made an Art Dealer Fall Back in Love With Venice
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Late Night Tackles the Attacks on Tesla

Geography

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Is India the hottest region in the world that is not primarily a desert?
What Does Permafrost Feel Like?
Why wasn't a national park created around Niagara Falls?
Large, Untouched Flatland Forests in the U.S. How common are they?
Can anyone identify this location
Which city can be classified as the peak of human civilisation right now in terms of standard of living, quality of life and infrastructure?
% of People Who Have Read a Book in the Past 12 Months
Countries and territories that make up the West Indies international cricket team
What are some regions or landscapes that might surprise people because of common geographical assumptions?
What are those ? Giant dams ?
What area has the worst mosquitos / annoying bugs?
Now that it's spring, here's the day this winter when the largest portion of the US experienced freezing temperatures.
Countries with not much craze for internal migration?
Typhoon Tracks of the Philippines since 1980
Which is the prettiest beach/ marine ecosystem you've been to?
which cities are in 2 countries?
Do you think American style suburbs have more cons than pros?
Is the ocean an endorheic basin?
7 wonders of the ancient world
why tf are this little islands that are over 100km away from hamburg pary of it?
What exactly are they up to in Owyhee Canyonlands, Oregon?
Another side of Tibet...
Why does northern Alaska have so many tiny lakes?
When did the population of the United States surpass the combined population of the Post-Soviet States?
A geographical misconception: the origin of Alaska's tundra lakes

The Public Domain Review

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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2024
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
The Man and The Crowd (1928): Photography, Film, and Fate
Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)
“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)
Sensitive Material: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)
Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)
“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Same as It Ever Was?: Eternal Recurrence in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)
The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)
Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature
Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)
Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce
Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)
Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)
Windows Onto History: The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)
Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
[Door creaks open. Footsteps]: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)
A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
Little Boney: James Gillray and Napoleon’s Fragile Masculinity
Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

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“Waveforms that Vibrate like Distant Galaxies”: David Keenan’s Volcanic Tongue
The Rest is Noise: M.I.A.’s Arular at 20
GASH! Fundraising Party at the Rio Dalston with Princess Julia & Faux Naïf
Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon Half A Century On
Reissue of the Week: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith
More Eaze & Claire Rousay – No Floor
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Ready New Album, ‘Death Hilarious’
Broadcast’s The Noise Made By People Turns 25
Heimat – Iti Eta No
A Gilded Palace of Sin: Goldstar by Imperial Triumphant
Plans Tabled for ‘Nightlife Zones’ in Central London
Horse Lords Launch New Label, OMA Editions
Erasure’s Andy Bell Shares New Track, ‘Dance For Mercy’
EFG London Jazz Festival Announces First Acts for 2025 Event
London Festival RALLY Returns for 2025 Edition
The Low Culture Essay: Jeanette Leech on Elastica’s The Menace
Clipping – Dead Channel Sky
LOW’s Alan Sparhawk Reveals New Solo LP, ‘With Trampled By Turtles’
Planet Mu Details 30th Anniversary Compilation
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Rattle – Encircle
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington
Posthumous Marianne Faithfull EP to be Released
59 People Killed in Pyrotechnics Fire at North Macedonian Nightclub
Circuit des Yeux on the Poop Jokes of Scott Walker
Boba Sopa – That Moment
Moons Under Water: The Iconography of the Pub Sign
30 Years On: Me Against The World By 2Pac Revisited
Reissue of the Week: Nico’s Chelsea Town Hall
Organic Intelligence XLII: British Bengalis in 90s subculture
Marina Zispin – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
New Spinal Tap Film Gets Long-Awaited Release Date

Bandcamp Updates

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Essential Releases, March 21, 2025
Hiroshi Yoshimura, “Flora”
When Folk Meets Dub and Reggae
For Annie & The Caldwells, Music is Family
Goya Gumbani, “Warlord of the Weejuns”
Contemporary Music from Kinshasa
Bambara, “Birthmarks”
A Guide to Rodrigo Amado’s Spontaneously Composed Jazz
Throwing Muses, “Moonlight Concessions”
Celebrating 25 years of Room40
Tour Tips from Etran de L’Aïr’s Trips to the United States
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson & Sam Wilkes, “Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes”
Essential Releases, March 14, 2025
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, “Yarın Yoksa”
Brutalist Riffs: A Guide to Math Rock
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek, “Greyhound Days”
Exploring the Genius of Ronald Shannon Jackson
Thurnin, “Harmr”
Will Guthrie, In Many Guises
Your Light Till Doomsday: The Legacy and Influence of Richard Thompson
Andreaus Haley & Custom Made, “It’s Nasty Outside”
Thirty Years of New York Reggae Label Easy Star
The Sound of Silence: A Wandelweiser Group Primer
Various Artists, “Strata-East: The Legacy Begins”
The Tape Label Report, February 2025
Essential Releases, March 7, 2025
Kedr Livanskiy, “Myrtus Myth”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, February 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2025
Los Pirañas, “Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2025
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2025
Saint Vengeur, “Sex and Repression in Higher Society”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2025
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2025
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2025
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Marie Davidson, “City of Clowns”
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dusted

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Dust Volume 11, Number 3
Terraplana — Natural (Balaclava)
Roger Clark Miller — Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (Cuneiform)
Rwake — The Return of Magik (Relapse)
Ed Kuepper & Jim White — After the Flood (12XU)
Cloakroom — Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities)
Bryn Harrison — Towards a Slowing of the Past (Another Timbre)
Consumables — Infinite Games (We Are Time/Fierce Panda)
Marcelo Dos Reis — Life… Repeat!!! (Miria)
Saffron Bloom — Saffron Bloom (Delicate)
Listening Post: The Ancients
Masma Dream World — PLEASE COME TO ME (Valley of Search)
Horsegirl — Phonetics On and On (Matador)
David Ivan Neil — I Hope Yer OK (Perpetual Doom)
BASIC — Dream City (No Quarter)
The Tubs — Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind)
Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian — Noor-E Vojood (Centripetal Force)
Drop Nineteens — 1991 (Wharf Cat)
Prison — Downstate (Drag City)
Pyres — Yun (Hypaethral)

Cool Tools

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Southwest’s Decline/Tiny Travel Speaker/Poor Suitcase Choices
What’s in my NOW? — Noah Donmoyer
Cow Boy / The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Living History
Netflix codes/Travel Adapter/Real China
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #195
Oscar-winning Travel Movie/UK Entry Fee/Searches Without AI
What’s in my NOW? — David Stackleather
Food Anatomy / Kaijumax Season One
Mushrooms

McMansion Hell

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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
pre-recession, post-taste
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington
mojo dojo casa house
BONUS MCMANSION HELL: liminal edition
dome sweet dome
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In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I…
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.
in which i take on the argument that windowless bedrooms will somehow solve the housing crisis (lol)

Serious Eats

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Le Creuset’s Sale Has Up to 37% Off Our Favorite Dutch Ovens, Skillets, and More
We Taste-Tested 6 Dill Pickles—Here Are Our Favorites
Almond Croissants Meet Cinnamon Rolls In This Delightful Breakfast Pastry
Our Favorite Affordable Steak Knives Are Finally Back in Stock, and They're on Sale for Even Cheaper
These All-Clad Stainless Steel Pans Are So Lightweight, I Packed 2 in My Carry-On
This Indian Rice Dish Is Perfect for Oatmeal Lovers
The Easy Carrot Tart I’m Making This Easter and Beyond
15 Weekend Baking Projects for When You Need a Mental Escape
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Is Next Week, but Here Are Our Favorite Kitchen Deals You Can Grab Now
My Chinese Mom’s One-Pot Beef Stew Is a Weeknight Lifesaver
The Ninja Thirsti Soda Machine Makes it Easy to Customize Fizzy Drinks at Home
Revolutionize Your Vegetable Cooking With This Simple Tweak
18 Epic Breakfast Recipes That'll Make You a Morning Person
We Tested 9 Kitchen Trash Cans to Find Ones That Actually Contain Smells
This Moroccan Beef Stew Is Bursting With Vegetables
My Grandma's Applause-Worthy Tomato-Coconut Soup Is Ready in Just 15 Minutes
Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Coming—Here Are All the Details, Plus Kitchen Gear Deals You Can Grab Now
This Midwestern Chicken and Noodles Is Way More Satisfying Than Soup
The One-Pot North African Soup I Cook on Repeat
Arepa de Huevo (Colombian Egg-Stuffed Arepas)
Truly Great Churros
Crispy Chicken Chimichangas
Croquetas de Jamón
Pani Puri
Cheese Frenchee (Deep-Fried Grilled Cheese Sandwiches)
Serious Eats Editors Handpicked the Best Le Creuset and Staub Deals at Williams Sonoma's Spring Sale
Classic British Fish and Chips
I Swear by This Coffee Maker—Even With Its Quirks
This Dessert Combines the Best of Baklava and the Dubai Chocolate Bar
What's Better Than Fried Pickles? These Fried Pickles Dipped in Bacon-Ranch
This Sweet, Crunchy Carrot Salad Is Perfect for Spring
I Don’t Have a Le Creuset, but I Do Have This Lodge Dutch Oven That Costs a Fraction of the Price
Reconnecting With Eid Traditions in a New Home
The Easiest and Quickest Way to Shred Chicken
This Small Change to a Classic Salad Ingredient Has Become a Favorite of Chefs
The Easy, Flavor-Packed Lamb Meatballs I'm Cooking From Now Through Easter
These 5-Ingredient, One-Bowl Moroccan Biscuits Are Buttery Soft and Sweet Like Cornbread
I Tested 10 Ramekins to Find the Best Ones for Soufflés, Custards, and More
11 Irish Recipes to Make for St. Patrick's Day
We Taste-Tested 10 Plain Yogurts—Here Are Our Favorites
If You Like Creamy Mashed Potatoes, You’ll Love This Irish Potato and Cabbage Recipe
I Tested Vitamix’s Newest, Most Expensive Blender—Here’s My Honest Take
This Rolling Knife Sharpener Actually Makes Sharpening Knives Fun
This Machine Promises to Make (Good) Instant Cold Brew, But How Well Does It Work?
Breakfast Sausage Meets Meatloaf in This Cincinnati Breakfast Icon
If You Like Banana Bread, You'll Love These Pancakes
Lodge Cast Iron Is on Major Sale, Including The Skillet and Grill Pan That Aced Our Tests
I Tested 13 Food Gift Baskets to Find the Best Ones for Every Food Lover on Your List
10 Fragrant Basmati Rice Dishes From Around the World
Your Kitchen Is Missing This $15 Serrated Knife That Slices Through Fruit and Bread Like Butter
For the Best St. Patrick's Day, You Can Drink Your Guinness and Eat It Too (As Cake!)
These One-Pan Honey-Mustard Pork Chops Are the Easiest Weeknight Dinner
We Taste-Tested 12 Classic Pancake Mixes—Here Are Our Favorites
These Sweet Stuffed Pancakes Are an Iconic Ramadan Dessert
10 Recipes Our Editors Are Excited to Cook Right Now
I Got Sudsy (and Science-y) to Find the 2 Best Dish Soaps for Clean Dishes Every Time
These Are the 10 Best Japanese Knives We’ve Found After Years of Testing
Crispy Outside, Fluffy Inside—for the Best Potato Pancakes, Make Them the Irish Way
Serious Eats Editors Stand by These Kitchen Cleaning Products, and They're All on Sale
To Find the Best Champagne Glasses, I Poured Loads of Bubbly
11 Tofu Recipes for Easy, Protein-Rich Meals on a Budget
This Recipe for Sweet and Savory Boiled Eggs Brings Me Back to My Childhood in Singapore
Vegetable-Beef Soup With a Top Hat and a Wink
13 Quick and Easy Breakfasts That Come Together Faster Than Your Morning Coffee
Easy, Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Knots
Why I’ll Choose a Spurtle Over a Wooden Spoon Every Time
This 6-Ingredient Chicken Dinner Delivers Maximum Flavor With Minimal Effort
This Easy French Pastry Tastes Just Like an Almond Croissant—and Takes Way Less Time to Make
DIY Honey-Mustard Seasoning Powder
20 Thai Recipes Full of All the Hot, Savory, Sour, Sweet Flavors We Love
Mac and Cheese and French Onion Soup Walk Into a Bar...
Homemade Honey-Mustard Popcorn Is the Upgrade Your Movie Night Needs
8 Delicious Chinese Beef Stir-Fries That Cook in 15 Minutes or Less
This Oniony, Garlicky Herb Packet Is So Delicious, I Sprinkle It on Everything
This Famous Singaporean Chocolate Cake Requires Little More Than a Bowl and Whisk
The 10-Second Restaurant Trick for Perfect Fluffy Rice Every Time
This Versatile Taiwanese Braising Liquid Makes Pretty Much Everything Taste Great
This One-Pot Moroccan White Bean and Tomato Stew Practically Cooks Itself
Serious Eats Editors Are Getting Ready for Spring With These 8 Kitchen Tools
18th Century Italians Proposed With Cream Buns—Do the Same With Our Maritozzi Recipe
This 4-Ingredient Honey-Mustard Salmon Is Ready in Just 15 Minutes
This Editor-Loved Chef’s Knife Is Finally on Sale, Plus 11 Other Knife Deals Worth Grabbing
We Taste-Tested 6 Orange Juices—Here Are Our Favorites
This Hario Pour-Over Dripper Looks Like a Flower—and Makes Great Coffee
How to Make Strawberry Cupcakes That Are Berry, Berry Good
How to Make Bakery-Worthy Morning Glory Muffins
A Moroccan Chef Shares Her Secret to Perfect Chicken With Couscous
The Nutty Ingredient That Has Transformed My Hot Chocolate Into a Delicious Green Drink
The Secret to Silky, Savory Cabbage? Melt It
This Comforting Moroccan Tagine Is Our Editors' Favorite Cure for the Winter Blues
We Taste-Tested 12 Buttermilk Pancake Mixes—Here Are Our Favorites
Our Favorite Le Creuset Dutch Ovens and Skillets Are Up to $245 Off for Presidents Day
Hit Pause on the Takeout and Make Pad Thai at Home With This Pro-Chef Recipe
Meet the Matzo Ball's Italian Cousin
Steak Oscar for Two: The OG Surf and Turf That's Fit for Royalty
13 Valentine's Day Breakfast Recipes, Because What's More Romantic Than Someone Delivering Food to You in Bed
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JUST IN: Elon Musk announces he is launching a lawsuit after former Rep. Jamaal Bowman called him a “thief” and a “Nazi” on live television. The comment from Bowman came last night on CNN. “I've had enough. Lawsuit inbound,” Musk said in response to the video clip below.
Who are the opening acts that become more the famous that they people who they used to open for ?
I've got some free time today. Let me draw your puppy!
What is no longer worth it because of how expensive it has become?
1 Million People Gathered in Istanbul against Erdogan According to CHP!
Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking
Kaufmann - ''DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem, billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand''
She played one hell of an amazing character.
Trump says ‘contract’ being drafted on ‘dividing up’ land in Ukraine war
George Foreman Dead At 76
Elon Musk showing off his engineering skills
Foam so smooth it looks like he’s working with whipped cream
You Know I Keep That Thang On Me [OC]
Tesla trade-ins surge to record high
If this isn't racism, then what is it?
AIO? BF is denying weird things on house camera while I’m out of town
Examples of 3D street painting designed to slow down traffic without the need for speed bumps or extra signage
There is really a gay str¡p cluB in gta6?
Parents are the real heros..
Howdy turned 5 this weekend! 🧡
The view of the crowd after Bernie and AOC spoke today (OC).
Lewis Hamilton wins the Sprint of the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix
Metro Statue