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PFAS are a problem, micro plastics maybe not so much...
Strait of Hormuz - the global impact.
Author of new Weimar book says, stop comparing now to then
Polychromatic Cloaks & Snooty Unicorns
Andrew Tate's empire of abuse
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To block illegal bottom trawlers, Cambodia is building concrete towers
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macOS Container Machines
Claude Fable 5
Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100
RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
Computer Lessons
OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
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Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools
A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
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Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
Exif Smuggling (2025)
It's death
Making Graphics Like it's 1993
Value Numbering
WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search

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ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging (Bloomberg)
Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified "deficiencies" (Financial Times)
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
Nintendo's shares fell as much as 8.2% Wednesday morning in Tokyo after its 2026 Game Showcase came up short on new titles from major franchises such as Mario (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, with 168 MW capacity; separately, Meta says it has contracted ~1GW of renewable energy (Meta Newsroom)
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new "designer" drug precursors that evade existing product blacklists (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise $6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from $10B (Bloomberg)
Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $105M (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)
CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% (Ella Feldman/Bloomberg)
ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
Super Micro aims to raise $7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

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ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
When AI builds itself Anthropic
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
To my students
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | the human in the loop
Playing with Vision Embeddings | Preston Jensen
Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
Ian's Shoelace Site - Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious by Ted Chiang (The Atlantic, 6/3/2026)
Mechanical Pencil
Dopamine Fracking | Hacker News
https://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precision
AI, Argentina and the Antichrist: Thiel’s Vision Blooms
IP KVMs
Daring Fireball: SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps
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New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
Social media is turning into a freak show - by Nate Silver
The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python | Hacker News
Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
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Browse the Collection — Storied Colors
How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
A Minneapolis Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up. - The New York Times
(10) isUpMap — issues
RyanCodrai/turbovec: A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings
Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
luke8086/gentleos32: Hobby operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs
Halide Mark III
VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System - YouTube
Write your Own Virtual Machine
performative-ui | AI-native React Components
One schema. Every platform.
Stop Using Conventional Commits - Sumner Evans
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Is AI Profitable Yet?
Introduction - Rust for Python Programmers
Say precisely what you mean.
The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
graphify
The Cypherpunk Library
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea | South Korea | The Guardian
Making Peace With Your Unlived Dreams | nik.art
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연구를 위한 클로드 코드 스킬-PKM커뮤니티. Imbad0202/academic-research-skills: Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints - Ars Technica
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Haven Blog: Retro-Tech Parenting
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | Hacker News
The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum
ArtBuddy WebTools
kepano/obsidian-skills: Claude Skills for Obsidian
The Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems right on your desktop | The Verge
I can’t bear to read AI-generated prose
EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin: Official Claude Code compound engineering plugin
The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized
Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? | Hacker News
My Software North Star | Loris Cro's Blog
Apple's new foundation models don't contain a drop of Gemini
cpaczek/skylight: Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling in real time, from an RTL-SDR — with a live sky layer (sun, moon, stars, ISS) and where each plane is headed.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Stop Trying to ‘Help Me Write’ | Dan Chiasson | The New York Review of Books
Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements | Hacker News
Man-Computer Symbiosis
Why Your Next Diagnosis May Be Guided by an A.I. Helper - The New York Times
TIL: The Man Who Invented the Future, Then Starved to Death in It
Here's how Apple Watch Series 11 stacks up against Oura, Fitbit, and Whoop, per WSJ - 9to5Mac
Sopravvissuto a sparatoria scolastica fa causa a società di rilevamento armi con IA dopo il fallimento del sistema
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zeroserve: a zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Here comes Apple’s new Siri again | The Verge
Leave It to Beaver | Forrest Wilder
AI Is Slowing Down
Online playable Commodore 64 games
Inside Delaney Hall's black box
Il boom dell'IA alimenta l'estremismo anti‑tech e il rischio di violenza politica
大雨-Ooame, Giorgio Sancristoforo
Too Good to Be True – James Gleick
Everyone treats Claude Code like one agent, but it can be an army
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OpenAI Rolls Out A Lockdown Mode For Extra Protection Against Prompt Injection Attacks

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why do I have to listen to your car from half a mile away
To the I-147 overpass Tuesday morning protestors
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Produce that's out of this world???
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Durham County Passes Budget, Grapples with Pride Display Controversy
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Carolina Blaze opening day
Black house music?
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Has anyone gotten married at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens?
Lost dog around Duke Park
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Company rec for brick staining?
Here’s a breakdown of our case against Duke Energy’s proposed 15% rate increase. - AG Jeff Jackson
Tell me your favorite native plant.
No A/C at Murray-Massenburg Elementary
Where to find piononos (not the dessert type)?
Hits and Misses: Part Deux
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What weekend in Durham has the best weather of the year?

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Meet the NASA Astronauts in the Artemis III 4-Person Crew
A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random
A Surprising Find in Ancient Squirrel Poop: Woolly Mammoth Meat
They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.
Scientist Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle Mpox Virus Into U.S.
Bowerbirds Are Stealing Cash, Plastic and Handcuffs for Love
Leaks on Space Station Lead Astronauts Briefly to Seek Shelter in Spacecraft
The New World Screwworm Is Back. Here’s What That Means.
In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes
Can NASA Really Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2028?
NASA’s moon-base plans are off to a slow start.
How Will the Artemis III Astronauts Train?
The Artemis II mission transfixed the nation.
Artemis III Astronauts to Wear Prada Spacesuits
Why is NASA going back to the moon?
Remember Apollo 9? No? Have a Look at Artemis III.
Who gets to be a NASA astronaut?
What Is Artemis III? What to Know About NASA’s Latest Space Mission.
How Does the Blue Origin Rocket Explosion affect NASA’s Moon Plans?
What is the Orion spacecraft?
NASA Will Announce New Artemis III Astronauts and an Update on Its Moon Program
As Screwworm Cases Mount, U.S. Officials Ramp Up Response
ANWR Oil Draws Few Bids, Despite Trump’s Push for ‘Liquid Gold’
U.S. Forest Service to Open Millions of Acres to Off-Road Vehicles
Trump Announces $700 Million in Funds Meant to Boost Coal Industry
Bernard Roizman, Virologist Who Demystified Herpes, Dies at 96
Gwynne Shotwell, Elon Musk’s No. 2 at SpaceX, Is the Company’s Steady Hand
Urban Light Pollution Might Be Worsening Allergies
Arizona, Nevada Agree to Trade for Desalinated Pacific Ocean Water
NASA Says Goodbye to its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission
E.U. Steps Up Ocean Monitoring as Trump Administration Backs Away
Unusual Greenpeace Lawsuit May Proceed, Dutch Court Says

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Author Correction: De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages
Author Correction: PTC-bearing mRNA elicits a genetic compensation response via Upf3a and COMPASS components
Author Correction: A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB
A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins
AI technology must serve human cognitive development, not the other way around
A treasure trove of Neolithic necklace beads
Arson attacks at Ebola hospitals are a cry for regional development
Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few
Preventing cancer requires more than a list of carcinogens
Ocean ‘cold blob’ is evidence for a troubling climate trend
World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person
People are turning to AI chatbots to plug gaps in health information
Let’s talk about biomedical research kits
Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future
The best way to start your day? The science backs naked cartwheels in the sun
Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals
TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial
Good recycling starts at home — and benefits the world
My overseas job offer was rescinded. Here’s how I bounced back
Seven steps for critically analysing research papers
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
How ice forms is a mystery — now scientists are cracking the case
GPR15-guided CD8+ T regulatory cells control intestinal inflammation
Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome
Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding
Daily briefing: Human embryo genomes precisely altered
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology
How AI is reshaping discovery in maths and physics
Why are so many young people getting cancer? What researchers do and don’t know
Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond?
AI is taking on antibiotic resistance — here’s how
Nuclear-fusion firm says plant will deliver electricity to grid — but big questions remain
Sustainability or dystopia? What past patterns tell us about where society is heading
Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments
Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm
Europe is ditching US tech — what does this mean for researchers?
Daily briefing: A spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way
See a helicopter destined for Mars and a spectacular flowery frame for the Milky Way — May’s best science images
Electric vehicles cut pollution in China — and prevent 260,000 premature deaths
Author Correction: Physiology and immunology of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant
Device could sniff out fusion reactors secretly making material for a nuclear bomb
Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents
This mysterious lung disease affects millions of people — but a drug tested in mice shows promise
Science with military applications is cited more than civilian-only research
Daily briefing: Lung microbiome linked to a mysterious tissue-scarring condition
What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?
Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo
AI in science recruitment: friend or foe? Join our free webinar
Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate
Reply to: The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production
A natural depsipeptide antibiotic binds the E-site of the bacterial ribosome
Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry
Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond
Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression
Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield
Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein in maize
Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk
Plastoglobules compartmentalize nitrogen assimilation in maize
Analysis of trade-offs of post-sorting plastic packaging
Spermine is an endogenous iron chelator that inhibits ferroptosis
Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices at room temperature
Mechanophore cross-linking enhances ballistic energy dissipation of polymers
Commensal-derived acetylcholine enhances mucosal immune education
Nuclear shell structure governs short-range nucleon pairing
High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked laser using a Mamyshev oscillator
LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair
Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods
Enamel nanocrystal misorientation increased with meat-eating and agriculture
High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa
Centromeric footprints preserve telomere integrity in ALT cancers
Queen cell architecture shapes honey bee queen development
Why a synthetic human genome is still worth building
Book of Cron Job

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Patently imperfect
A provocative view of evolution turns 50
Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community
Severe obesity in human HFpEF alters contractile protein function and organization
Global extent and drivers of tree cover loss quantified with high-resolution satellite data
Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation
Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States
Photocatalyzed oxidative cleavage of alkenes using CO2 as an oxygen donor
Memory reactivation underlies experience-dependent adaptive regulation of sleep
Confined growth of armchair MoS2 nanotubes at the 1-nm limit
Stereoretentive radical-based alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling
Ultralow chromium doping enables all-PbSe thermoelectric cooling
Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades
A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2
Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor
Landscape efficiency frontiers for biodiversity, climate mitigation, and net economic value
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Believing I belong
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Ozone from wildfire plumes increases mortality
Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence
Bad memories, bad sleep
The lost social infrastructure of work
Aquavoltaics knowledge gaps undercut benefits
Wine’s warning for farming in climate change
Effects of China’s underground infrastructure
Erratum for the Research Article “Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors”
Erratum for the Research Article “Preventing hypocontractility-induced fibro-blast expansion alleviates dilated cardiomyopathy”
Proposed orbital ‘airbag’ would block solar storms
Trump seeks tighter grip on grantmaking
Brain-mapping effort searches for roots of neurodegenerative diseases
String theory is rebuilt from first principles
White House defangs NSF watchdog unit
Antiviral pill gets first test for Ebola prevention
Threatened ‘rolling stone reefs’ are surprisingly diverse
The last astronomers
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
A narrowing window to understand AI
Dual-use research under scrutiny
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Editorial Expression of Concern for the Research Article “Continental mantle earthquakes of the world”

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Steve Hilton Wins Second Spot in California Governor Race, Beating Tom Steyer
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Lindsey Graham Wins Republican Senate Primary in South Carolina
Nevada Attorney General Wins Democratic Nomination for Governor
Navy Admiral Fired by Hegseth Advances to Runoff to Replace Mace
Blanche Was Once Seen as Tempering Trump’s Tactics. Now He’s All In.
House Passes G.O.P.’s $70 Billion Immigration Bill
House defies Johnson and passes Democratic-led labor bill
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F.D.A. Clears Sunscreen Ingredient Long Used in Europe and Asia
Everybody Is a Loser in This Middle East War
For America’s 250th, Let’s Get Something Clear About Our National Identity
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The Screwworm Is Messing With America’s Beef
A Disorienting Weekend With the Women of Turning Point
Driving in America Is Headlight Hell
The Revolutionary Gordon Wood
Obama’s and Trump’s Presidential Centers Have One Thing in Common
An Alien Movie for a Post-Truth Moment
Actually, the SAT Was Necessary After All
Why This Summer’s Airfares Are Unaffordable—And Unpredictable
The Only Way to Be Absolutely Sure You Are Drawing a Fair Congressional Map
The Defiance of Marjane Satrapi
What Donald Trump Will Never Understand About Fighting
Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military
The Americans Shelling Out Five Figures for a Coat of Arms
Why the Public Is Gravitating Toward the Hunter Biden Approach
Why Republicans Aren’t Condemning Trump’s Meet the Press Walkout
The Unglamorous Truth About the Average Tradwife
The Atlantic’s July Issue: How to Tell the American Story
The White Identitarians Are Having a Moment
The Two Kinds of American Patriotism
The ‘Battle Hymn’ Can’t Be Ignored
America’s Promise
How America Gave Up on Its Own History
The Absurd World Cup
The Road Wound Upward
The Liberal District That Could Oust a Trump-Defying Democrat

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Texas teenager sentenced to 35 years in prison in murder of high school student
A Texas city was already struggling with racial divisions. Then came a bitter murder trial.
After Mormon lawmakers object, Pentagon revises Christian religious categories
States are pushing back last call for the World Cup. Bar owners aren’t elated.
He grabbed a mic to riff about the Knicks. The rhyme became an anthem of unity.
A record die-off of sea stars was followed by something that stunned biologists
Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of U.S. history, struck by car and killed at 92
This agent sent models to meet Jeffrey Epstein. Now he’s trying to explain why.

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Bad Bunny’s private audience: Latin trap megastar met Pope Leo in Spain
Why rescue donkeys are wearing donated socks from a pro soccer team
NATO shoots down drone over Latvia as concern about Ukraine war’s spread grows
After escalating strikes, Israel and Iran signal end to attacks
Israelis push Netanyahu to resist U.S. pressure and keep fighting in Lebanon
Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes rare trip to North Korea in show of unity

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The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance
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China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time
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China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
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U. of Florida Plays Punching Bag — Again
More Than 40 Million Adults Plan to Pursue Education. Here's What Stops Them.
For Enrollment-Strapped Small Colleges, ‘Flat Is the New Growth’
A Professor Was Ejected From a Conference for Criticizing the Trump Administration. He Says He Was 'Shocked.'
At This Flagship, a Decades-Long Enrollment Strategy Is Cracking
The Ungovernable University
Why Good Presidents Are Walking Away
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Office Hours June 08, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit
Short Answers to Simple Questions | June 03, 2026
Did Shakespeare sit down and go, "Ok I'm going to write this play in iambic pentameter" or was it simply a natural development? Were linguistic concepts like syllables common knowledge?
Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"?
Are autoimmune diseases a modern phenomenon?
Why does China have such a strong unification trend through its history? Or another way, why didnt break away states develop a unique "cultural" identity separate from a unified China like how the post Roman states did?
Why did the communist bloc restrict freedom of movement so much?
How did the average Ancient Egyptian experience their temples?
What did mediaeval people think of the future?
I am Dr. Ketil Slagstad, here to talk about my book "Standardizing Sex" and the history of trans medicine. AMA!
Archaeological evidence suggests that the ancestors of Aboriginal Australians arrived in Sahul by sea from Southeast Asia around 50,000 years ago. Do any Aboriginal oral traditions describe ancestral arrivals or migrations into Australia, or do they generally understand origins in other ways?
Mass deportations following the revolutions of 1848?
Before Andrew Jackson, did representation in America resemble that in communist states?
Why did the Romans react so strongly to the massacre at the Teutoberg Forest? When compared to, say, Cannae it really doesn't seem so bad. Was the Teutoberg Forest really the primary reason the frontier was drawn permanently at the Rhine, or were there other factors?
I'm a Varangian Viking mercenary in service to the Byzantine Empire. I was born in the British Isles and speak Anglo-Saxon. To what extent would the Byzantine Empire consider me as "from" the lost province of Britannia, if at all?
Was Athena actually worshipped in Troy or was this interpretatio graeca of local goddess? If so, what deity it was?
How did prussian culture disappear so quickly after world War II, and are still any remnants of it in German or Polish regions?
How much of Europe’s technological edge over the Americas was simply a matter of timing?
I have been transported back in time 2000ish years to the Roman Empire. What is the best way for me to preserve a message back to my own time?
Was he wrong about the ziggurats?
North Korea Pre War, what was it like?
Is there any recorded example of the "boobietrapped child running up to hug soldiers" motif?
What sort of fitness equipment or instruction would have been available and popular with Italian gym-goers circa 1973?
When did people start going to the gym/working out just because?
How much influence did Bill Clinton's third way political ideology have on Tony Blair's New Labour ideology?

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Q&A weekly thread - June 08, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Subject-Avatar in Computerized Enunciative Spaces
The accentuation of the PIE word for ‘daughter’ by Alwin Kloekhorst
Learning to read written text fundamentally alters the pathways the human brain uses to process spoken words
Q&A weekly thread - June 01, 2026 - post all questions here!
Q&A weekly thread - May 25, 2026 - post all questions here!
Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements (Schoubben 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - May 18, 2026 - post all questions here!
Eichner’s law: a critical survey of the evidence by Tijmen Pronk (2019)
Q&A weekly thread - May 11, 2026 - post all questions here!
Q&A weekly thread - May 04, 2026 - post all questions here!
Luwic Stress: Uncovering word accent in an extinct language family (2026)
Q&A weekly thread - April 27, 2026 - post all questions here!
Studies in the Atharvaveda (Leach et. al 2025)
Birth of a Language in the Backlands of Brazil (Anderson Almeida-Silva & al. 2025)
"AI for the Good of All"?
Q&A weekly thread - April 20, 2026 - post all questions here!
Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs
A historical grammar of Phrygian (Sorgo 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here!
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!

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Happy Foot Sad Foot sign (a Wikipedia article)
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A Cave in the Woods
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Open Culture

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The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text
How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First
How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library
Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More
A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions
The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)

NYT > Technology

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Dutch Authorities Block $115 Million Deal by a U.S. Tech Company
Why Apple’s A.I. Upgrade for Siri Won’t Be Available in Europe
OpenAI Files Confidentially for IPO as AI Companies Rush to Wall St.
In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?
G.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag
Meta A.I. Bug Allowed Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts
Anthropic Releases ‘Safe’ Version of Its Mythos A.I. Technology
Apple Reveals New A.I.-Powered Version of Its Siri Digital Assistant
Sam Bankman-Fried Has Applied for a Pardon From Trump
How Elon Musk’s Friendship With the F.C.C. Smooths the Way for SpaceX’s I.P.O.
The Iran War is Forcing Energy-Importing Countries to Turn Inward
Apple Expected to Detail Its A.I. Plans at Conference
Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline?
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and 430 Videos in Archive of Viral Moments
People Love to Hate This Fake Private Equity Guy
SpaceX Has $30 Billion Deal to Provide Google With A.I. Computing Power
Reid Hoffman to Leave Microsoft’s Board of Directors
Why the SpaceX IPO Will Affect Your 401(k), Like It or Not
Hot I.P.O. Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I.
Wary of U.S., Carney Bets on AI Strategy for Canada
What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing?
How LinkedIn Found Its Social Platform Era
Who’s Excited for SpaceX’s I.P.O.? Space Nerds.
Gwynne Shotwell, Elon Musk’s No. 2 at SpaceX, Is the Company’s Steady Hand
The Do’s and Don’ts of Buying Used Tech Gadgets
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees
Can These ChatGPT Ads Make You Love A.I.?
‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School
SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price
European Union Outlines Plan to Reduce Dependence on American Tech

NYT > Arts

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Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back
The Gustavo Dudamel Era in Los Angeles Approaches Its End
In an Italy of Many Voices, Emma Dante’s Plays Speak ‘the Language of the People’
Kyle Gallner Is More Than Just a Scream King
What Happens When ‘Star Wars’ Replaces Mozart?
At City Ballet, Spring Fever Hit, With Ups and Some Dispiriting Downs
The Victoria and Albert Museum Gets Nostalgic for Britain’s Lost Music Venues
Best and Worst Moments From the 2026 Tony Awards: Pink, Maya Rudolph, Cole Escola, ‘Cats’
Was Scott Rudin the Biggest Winner at This Year’s Tony Awards?
On Broadway’s Biggest Night, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Shows Its Strength
‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’: The Lessons Behind These Horror Hits
Bounty of Frida Kahlo Art Emerges in Mexico’s Restored Museum
Tony Award Winners 2026: See the Full List
John Basinger, Who Memorized All 12 Books of ‘Paradise Lost,’ Dies at 92
Knicks in ’73: Revisiting the Charts From a Championship Year
Nick Reiner, Accused of Killing Parents, Asks to Use Trust Fund for His Defense
Julio Le Park, Kinetic Sculpture and Op-Art Master, Dies at 97
Albert Wolsky, Costume Designer for ‘All That Jazz’ and ‘Grease,’ Dies at 95
Late Night Roasts Trump for Walking Out on ‘Meet the Press’
Maximalism Is Back at the Tonys
2026 Tonys: How to Get Tickets for Winning Plays and Musicals
Patrick Bruel, French Singer, Is Taken Into Custody Over Sex Assault Claims
The One Tony Award Our Readers Would Have Changed
Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92
At the Tony Awards After-Parties, a ‘Harry Potter’ Reunion and Winner Celebrations
The New York Hip-Hop Soundtracking the Knicks’ Run to the N.B.A. Finals
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and 430 Videos in Archive of Viral Moments
‘Every Year After’ and 8 More Shows to Watch on TV This Week
At the Tonys, calls in support of trans rights and free speech.
‘Schmigadoon!’ Wins Best Musical Tony Award
Joshua Henry Wins the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.
Caissie Levy wins the Tony for best actress in a musical.
‘Death of a Salesman’ Wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Play
‘Ragtime’ Wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical
Lesley Manville wins the Tony for best actress in a play.
‘Liberation’ Wins the Tony for Best Play
June Squibb is one of the oldest actors ever to be nominated for a Tony.
John Lithgow Wins the Tony for Best Actor in a Play
A Landmark Tonys Win for the Trans Costume Designer Qween Jean
Pink Is Hosting Tonight’s Tony Awards
A middle-school teacher who’s sent students to Broadway wins excellence in education award.
Who is going to win tonight?
American Players Theater is receiving the regional theater award.
André Bishop, Jules Fisher and James Lapine to receive lifetime achievement awards.
38 Tony nominees on the strangest skills they’ve picked up for a show.
Our Favorite Photos From the Tony Awards
What’s onstage this summer?
Tonys 2026 Takeaways: ‘Schmigadoon!’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’ Are Big Winners
Here’s what to expect at tonight’s ceremony.
How to watch the Tony Awards.
Tribeca Festival Denounces Pair Who Joked on the Red Carpet About Rape
‘Scary Movie’ Returns Politically Incorrect Humor to Top of the Box Office
‘Earth, Wind & Fire’ Review: Questlove’s Tribute to an Inspiration
5 Takeaways From Scott Pelley’s Interview With The New York Times
Carter Brey, New York Philharmonic Cellist, Retires
‘Scary Movie’ and the Art of the Pop Culture Gag

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What country or region has a higher obesity rate than you would have thought?
Lesser-known isthmus cities
What is Columbia?
Why is this coast in Denmark a nearly perfect 90 degree angle
Does Africa have any safe freshwater swim holes to swim in at all ?
Ecuador - Quito and Guayaquil
Topobathymetric Map of the Main Hawaiian Islands
Why do people live on these specific pacific island groups ?
Can someone please explain these borders only shown on Apple Maps?
Is there a reason why this channel in Alaska is so straight?
What's happening to the Niger river south of Timbuktu ?
Tell me one geography fun fact that most people don't know ! i will go first
The Beaver Capital of the World (Atlas Obscura)
How does Budapest compare to Hungary’s other major cities in terms of green space? (OC)
Why are these trees arranged in a river shaped structure on the south-east of Volta Lake in Ghana?
Why does the central valley of California get as hot in summer as northern Nevada and the Great Plains, but not as cold as them in winter?
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land | US news | The Guardian
What Areas in the United States have the Potential to face Negative Demographic and Economic Events over the next 50 years?
Why is the Mississippi delta called a delta when it's hundreds of miles inland?
Midwestern States lead the country in growth. Is this the beginning of the shift away from southern cities?
Classification of World Coastlines!
taiwanese chicken 🤔
Did Pangea have any landlocked seas or large lakes?
what is this urban blob in the middle of Borneo that doesn’t exist?

The Public Domain Review

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The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26)
Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary
Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century)
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype
Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)
“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

The Quietus

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Vince Staples – Cry Baby
Thomas Bangalter Shares Rare DJ Set for The Lot Radio
Gaswerk Music Days Finalises 2026 Music Programme
Space Afrika Return with New LP, ‘Quiet Storm’
Sarah Davachi Details New Album, ‘The Will Of Tongues’
Interpol Reveal New Album, ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’
Beastie Boys’ Mike D to Release Debut LP, ‘Thank You’
Cabaret Voltaire Collaborate with Henderson’s Relish for Final Live Show
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for June Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Strange Attraction: Why Olivia Rodrigo’s Love of The Cure is Pop’s Greatest Medicine
Soft Cell Announce Final Album, ‘Danceteria’
Arooj Aftab on Adopting Stray Cats
Káryyn – Physics Universal Love Language (PULL)
Suede Reveal ‘Antidepressants’ Deluxe Edition
The American Federation of Musicians Sues Major Labels Over AI Licensing Deals
Floating Point Details New Album, ‘Mere Mortals’
The Strange World Of… Melinda Gebbie
KOGG – Mechanista
Coastal Time: New Fiction by M. John Harrison
Pixies Announces 2026 Remasters of ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe Le Monde’
MOBO Awards Founder and CEO Kanya King CBE Dies, Aged 57
Primavera Sound’s First Full Night Mired by Adverse Weather Conditions
Europe Eternal: Kraftwerk in Bournemouth
Reissue of the Week: Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack, by Sun Ra
Only Fangs: Daniel Hart on Writing the Music for The Vampire Lestat
Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars – Spatial, No Problem.
Khun Narin Electric Phin Band – III
How Should We Remember Ozzy Osbourne?
What Lasts is Consciousness: All Gates Open – the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Blood Incantation
Fire-Toolz – Lavender Networks
The Afghan Whigs Detail New LP, ‘Soft Control’
Black Bananas Return with First Album in 12 Years

Bandcamp Updates

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For Sharada Shashidhar, Play Comes Before Perfection
Diles Que No Me Maten, “Escrito en Agua”
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, May 2026
Zoh Amba Sees You
Neptune, “Play Some Music”
How Double Bassist Ron Carter Permanently Altered the DNA of Jazz
Essential Releases, June 5, 2026
Vince Staples, “Cry Baby”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Visitors, “Motherland (Remastered 2026)”
The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, May 2026
Swallow, “Blown”
The Ever-Expanding Ambient Album of the “Across the Horizon” Series
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Barigozzi Group, “Woman’s Colours”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, May 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, May 2026
Nathan Evans Fox, “Heirloom”
How Artists With Disabilities Are Blazing New Musical Frontiers
White Heaven, “Next to Nothing”
Essential Releases, May 29, 2026
Underground Medicine #4
Ambient Albums from Non-Ambient Artists
Monolord, “Neverending”
Latin Roots Music Fights Back
feeble little horse, “bitknot”
Genius of Dub: Mad Professor’s Guide to Ariwa Sounds
How Karen Borca Brought the Bassoon Into Free Jazz
aja monet, “the color of rain”
Essential Releases, May 22, 2026
Ital Tek, “Mind Abandon”
How Visible Cloaks Stitched Themselves Back Together
Takkak Takkak, “Abu”

dusted

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Aeger Anima — The Falling Leaves (eerie sounds)
Magic Tuber Stringband — Heavy Water (Thrill Jockey)
I AM HANDS — S-T (Self-Release)
Pharmacist — Vertebrae after Vertebrae (Hells Headbangers)
Danny and the Jupps—S-T (Self-Release)
White Heaven — Next to Nothing (Black Editions
Listed: Illusion of Safety
The Bug Club — Every Single Muscle (Sub Pop)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 5 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 5 — Part 1
Glissandro 70 — G70 2: Bones of Dundasa (Constellation)
Marbled Eye — Forever (Digital Regress)
Patois Counselors — Protection Racket (ever/never)
Kevin Morby — Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
Effigy — Burnt Offerings (Sealed)
Robert Poss and E-Clark Cornell—Kepler’s Choice (No Sides)
RIP Sonny Rollins
Happy Memorial Day from Dusted; we’ll be back as normal tomorrow.
Ed O’Brien — Blue Morpho (Transgressive)
Wendy Eisenberg — S/T (Joyful Noise)

Pitchfork

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Sir Render
Sinking
Roses
Bonobo Enlists Arooj Aftab, Nilüfer Yanya for New Album Distance in Static
Tortoise to Tour U.S. and Canada
James Blood Ullmer, Pioneering Funk and Jazz Guitarist, Dies art 86
Chat Pile Prep New Album Who Loves the Sun
Militarie Gun Promise 20 Songs for 20 Dollars on North American Tour
Peter Bjorn and John Plot Writer’s Block 20th Anniversary Tour
Ty Segall Is Releasing a New Album and EP on the Same Day
Interpol Ready New Album, Share Two Songs
Soft Cell Unveil Final Album Danceteria
EXIT 2B
Aethermead
The Professional
Eyes Full
Kelsey Lu Announces Fall Tour Dates
The Best of Primavera Sound 2026
Kim Petras, horsegiirL, Skrillex, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Beastie Boys’ Mike D Lines Up Debut Album
Pitchfork Festival London 2026 Announces Lineup
Charli XCX Invites You to the Music, Fashion, Film Tour
Cry Baby
Pareidolia
Give U Space
Every Single Muscle
Musicians Union Sues Universal and Warner Over AI Use
Evilgiane Announces #HEAVENSGATE VOL. 2
Duffy Announces First Live Show in 15 Years

Cool Tools

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Parent Hacks / The 50 States
Handy Stuff
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Book Freak #212: Prometheus Rising
Rocking Speaker/Don’t Work in Bali/Airbnb and Housing
What’s in my NOW? — Pavel Guzhikov
Unflattening / Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
Recall
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Book Freak #211: Tolstoy’s Guide to Daily Wisdom

McMansion Hell

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mcmodernslopcore
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!

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
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