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Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the "MATCH Act", which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
Google says Meet's Gemini-powered Take Notes for Me feature can now be used for in-person meetings and adds support for Teams and Zoom (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Google unveils a new TPU lineup consisting of the TPU 8t for AI training and the TPU 8i for inference, with general availability scheduled for later in 2026 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
The UK's High Court rules that London's Metropolitan Police can keep using live facial recognition; police say the tech has led to 2,100+ arrests since 2024 (Connor Jones/The Register)
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Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds (John Higgins/The Verge)
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A South Korean court sentences a former Samsung researcher to seven years in prison for leaking semiconductor tech to China's CXMT, helping it develop HBM (Reuters)
Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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What do we know about the origin of pants in the ancient world? Was it a phenomenon that spread from a single origin point or was it innovated independently? And how did they come to replace skirts, dresses, togas and tunics as the most common form of dress for men?
Who first conceived of combining Boolean logic with electronics?
The Time Traveler’s Guide to England mentions that they believed in a people called “Wife-givers”, men who encourage travelers to sleep with their wives and daughters for gifts. Was this a real myth?
I am a peasant in Northern France. My child falls down in a fit, and afterwards claims to have visions. Word spreads. What happens next? What makes the difference between her being regarded as having holy visions, being a "witch", or simply being insane?
In "Master and Commander", the crew of the Surprise is careful to "let fly" (run up the proper flag) before they actually start firing on the Acheron. Was this a formal requirement or just generally understood? What would have been the consequences if they didn't?
Why did southern slaveowners treat their slaves as poorly as they did, in spite of the fact that, from a surface-level standpoint, better treatment of their slaves would have been more profitable?
Some Ghanaians have European surnames. Does this indicate European admixture, or did the colonial authorities try to institute something similar to the Claveria Decree in the Philippines?
Are there any examples in history where a neighbouring country in a profoundly unequal relationship with a hegemonic power has been able to retain its economic and political independence? What were the key factors of success or failure?
I am from a non-Christian part of the Chinese diaspora and given both a name from the bible and a Chinese name. What is the history of Chinese naming conventions? I only heard of courtesy names when I started reading history; did my family just not have those because we were peasants?
The Historia Augusta has plenty of praise for the young Emperor Caracalla, but two anecdotes stick out, that he wept to see criminals eaten by beasts and that he sympathised with a friend who was scourged for converting to Judaism. Would a contemporary audience have seen these as positive traits?
Why wasn’t the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) persecuted by Indian nobility, despite actively undermining Hinduism and the caste system?
Christopher Columbus had a biological son named Diego, and later adopted a Taino boy whom he also named Diego. Did the two Diegos have a personal relationship? What did they think of each other?
During WWII, Yitzhak Shamir started a terrorist group, Lehi, in hopes of forming an alliance with the Nazis. From today's perspective, that feels like a real career-ender, but he went on to become Speaker of the Knesset and later Prime Minister of Israel. How?
When historians refer to a date prior to the introduction of the Julian Calendar (45 BCE), are the lengths of those years taken “as-is” or are they adjusted to our now standard ~365.25 days?
How did emperor Charles V get his money?
Artisans and craftspeople in Ethiopia are frequently victims of superstitious suspicion, being accused of evil magic (or "buda"). Why did this belief develop, and what impact did this have on the economic and artistic development of the country?
What is the beef between Russians and Chechens, exactly?
Did medieval cookshop owners belong to guilds?
What are scholars expecting to find in the Herculaneum scrolls that are currently being deciphered using AI?
When relatives of a deposed leader flee, how are they installed in other territories?
Why where father-son relationships so hostile in the premodern world?
How did European colonial empires stop politically organized subjects from fighting each other?
Is there historical evidence for the origins of Halal and Kosher?

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Statistical structure and the evolution of languages
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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
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Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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Female Kill Machine 3
iheartlists game - from easy to death
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

Open Culture

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Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts
“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More
Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40)
The Greatest Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Wang Bing’s Nine-Hour Tie Xi Qu
Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC
The $666 Board That Built Apple: How the Apple I Changed Computing 50 Years Ago
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back
Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light

NYT > Technology

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SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
A Wish List for John Ternus, the Man Replacing Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO
Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money
Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.
Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O.
Aging in Place: How Technology Might Help You Grow Old at Home
Amazon Plans to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic
Apple C.E.O.s Through the Years: From Michael Scott (Not That One) to John Ternus
Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.
Elon Musk Ignores French Prosecutors, Widening Tech Rift With Europe
California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing
White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise
Cerebras, an A.I. Chip Maker, Files to Go Public as Tech Offerings Ramp Up
How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
Through A.I. Glasses-Powered Translation, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment
Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M.
Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I. Yes, A.I.
Ford Says Doug Field, Who Led Company's E.V. Push, is Leaving
Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
What Is ‘Jagged Intelligence’ and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?

NYT > Arts

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Inside LACMA’s Eye-Popping New Home, How Do You Find the Art?
École des Sables, Africa’s Premier Dance School, Faces a Precarious Future
Dutch Panel Designs Plan to Deal With ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art
Vilma Jää’s Voice Is Unlike Anything in Opera
With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation
Review: In ‘The Balusters,’ Neighborly Dysfunction Is on the Agenda
Krysten Ritter Returns as Jessica Jones in “Daredevil: Born Again”
Imagining the Manosphere as a Kinder, Gentler Place
Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson and the Truth Behind ‘The Fear of 13’
‘Michael’ Review: A Jackson Biopic Leaves Too Much Unsaid
Nate Smith Is Bringing a Big-Tent Approach to the Newport Jazz Festival
Smithsonian American Art Museum Names a New Director
In ‘What Happened Was …,’ Cecily Strong and Corey Stoll Cook Up a Storm
7 New Songs You Should Hear Now
4 Takeaways From ‘Lorne,’ the Movie About Lorne Michaels and ‘S.N.L.’
Michael Kosta Introduces Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Dave Mason, Songwriter Who Co-Founded Traffic, Dies at 79
Olafur Eliasson Uses Art and Sound to Raise Climate Awareness in Utah
The Vienna Climate Biennale Contrasts Chaos with Hope
A Mural by the Painter of ‘American Gothic’ Gets New Life
An Installation in Nature has Climate Lessons for Humans
The Haas Brothers’ Creative Creations Are on Tour
Andrew Hacker, Provocative Political Scientist, Dies at 96
‘My Brother the Minotaur’ Is a Visually Stunning Animated Series
Gregory Spears: Composer Who Loops Musical Time and History
Madonna Says Her Vintage Outfit Is Missing After Coachella Performance
America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.
How John Dowland Built a Music Career on Tearful Melancholy
On ‘This Is a Gardening Show,’ Zach Galifianakis Plays Dirty
For Italy’s Art Pioneer, a New Bronze Age
‘Funny Pages,’ ‘BlackBerry’ and More Streaming Gems
Jimmy Kimmel Refers to Kash Patel’s Job in the Past Tense
How an Art Event in the California Desert Became a Community
An Artist Asks: Without Darkness, Who Are We?
‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: Oh, What a Beautiful Sendup
An L.A. Artist Devoted to the Process of Paint
The Next Frontier in Design? The Humble Birdhouse.
Patrick Muldoon, Actor on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘Melrose Place,’ Dies at 57
With Orban Out, the Pianist Andras Schiff Plans a Return to Hungary
How Coachella Became a Pop Spectacle With Surprise Guests Like Madonna and Olivia Rodrigo
Singer D4vd Charged With Murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
To Play a Man With Tourette’s, He Swapped the Script for Real Life
Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found
Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?
Met Gala 2026 Guide: Theme, Hosts, Dress Code and More
‘Reefer Madness,’ the P.S.A. That Backfired Spectacularly
New York City Ballet’s Spring Season: Dancers to Watch
‘Half Man,’ and 5 More Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: No Captain
U.S. Museums Reach Deep into America’s Past
Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Seduce in ‘Fallen Angels’
Gwendolyn Chisolm, Who Rhymed on Rap’s First Female Hit, Dies at 66
Group Efforts Succeed During Milan Design Week
At Milan Design Week, Function and Form Take on New Meanings
Vintage Designs Take on New Lives at Milan Design Week
At Milan Design Week, Creative Seating Brings Fresh Ideas to the Table
A Fountain of Creativity from Arid Uzbekistan
How Two Men with Hard Heads Broke Through Murano’s Glass Ceiling
With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’?
A Time of Growth for Museums for Children

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
A map of Africa's rivers (I don't know how accurate this is), but it's still cool:)
Arizona is the state which has both the metropolitan area with the most days over 100 °F (38 °C) (Phoenix), and the metropolitan area in the lower 48 states with the most days with a low temperature below freezing (Flagstaff).
Why is Bermuda triangle even a thing? I could create a million shapes by connecting random landmasses
I know it’s serious sub but this geo fact meme made me laugh
Is this bridge possible?
The Power of Krakatoa (1883)
Why do I never hear about the Coast Mountains of Canada?
Is Albania the only country where both the exonym and endonym have native origins? But one of them fell out of local use.
What did I see flying near Albuquerque NM?
What explains English ethnic ancestry being more majorly concentrated towards the south and northeast of the USA, with German ethnic ancestry being more concentrated towards the north and central regions of the US?
What are these brownish-yellowish places in Devon?
what’s this settlement in the Darien gap?
Is there a sadder case of a natural resource being slowly strangled by civil engineering than the Aral Sea?
How did these two lakes in the aral sea bead not dry up despite not receiving any water from the rivers?
Does Gulf of Mexico moist air mass make it all the way to the northwest USA and the western Canadian Prairies? And how come the prevailing westerlies dont prevent the moist gulf air from going west?
Why do all these lagoons by the amazon not get filled up with silt?
Do both the north and south of Italy benefit from being one country? How would both be affected if they split?
Why there is so many lakes in Alpes and so few in Caucausus?
What region of the US do the locals consider Wheeling, West Virginia to be in? Northeast? South? Midwest? Combo platter?
Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status?
USA Summer Humidity Map
Why does China have this kind of unique mountains? Why are they not found elsewhere in earth?
What is this mysterious geometric square in central florida that i found?
Any idea why these areas in Asunción, Paraguay have no street view?

The Public Domain Review

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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
“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

The Quietus

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Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw – The Undone Is Done Again
The Vanishing Twin: Tricky’s Nearly God turns 30
Gnod – Chronicles Of Gnowt Vol.1
New Weird Britain in Review for April, by Noel Gardner
Nine Inch Noize – Nine Inch Noize
Combustible Material: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Tinderbox at 40
Graham Dunning – Quern
Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin
A Different Beast: Abigail Snail Interviewed
Naná Rizinni – Epiblast
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
Kraftwerk Lose Long-Running Copyright Dispute
Djrum, Laurel Halo and More Remix Lyra Pramuk on New Release
Abigail Snail – Rad Berms
Reissue of the Week: The Beastie Boys’ To The 5 Boroughs
Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’
Massive Attack Collaborate with Tom Waits on New Song, ‘Boots On The Ground’
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture
ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye
Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux
The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years
Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Track, ‘Dim Stars’
Dean Blunt Releases New Babyfather EP, ‘icl’
Madonna Unveils ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ LP Sequel
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back
Drass – On The Hill
The Strange World Of… Spacemen 3
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland – Eternal Life No End
Gaswerk Music Days Announces First Acts Playing 2026 Edition
Rough Trade to Mark 50th Birthday with Southbank Centre Takeover
Primal Scream to Play ‘XTRMNTR’ in Full on UK Tour
Warp Records Hints at Boards Of Canada Return with Mysterious Posters

Bandcamp Updates

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Fat Ray & Raphy, “Santa Rosa”
Teen Suicide Comes Out of Hiding
Jimmy Scott, “Falling In Love Is Wonderful (2026 Remaster)”
Blu is The Warmest Color
This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices
Neo Geodesia, “Oknha Stamina”
How Sunn O))) Taught Us to Listen Beneath the Surface
Eve Maret, “Diamond Cutter”
Essential Releases, April 17, 2026
The Breathless Energy of Mexican Rave
How Nic Dalton’s Half A Cow Became an Australian Indie Mainstay
Rocketship, “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Hannah Lew, “Hannah Lew”
Trip Hop Strikes Back
Roger Doyle, Ireland’s Electronic Trailblazer
Rosa Pistola, “Incorregible”
Side Door No. 3: How Skerik Became the Noisy Punk Deviant of the Jam Band World
Prism Shores, “Softest Attack”
Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures
Nate Garrett on the Trials and Tribulations Behind Spirit Adrift’s Final LP
Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind”
Essential Releases, April 10, 2026
The Art of Rock
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
Lero Lero, “Lero Lero”
The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepeices Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026

dusted

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Mylingar — Út (Amor Fati)
Souled American — Sanctions (Jealous Butcher)
Irreversible Entanglements — Future Present Past (Impulse!)
Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP)
Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube)
Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC)
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw  —The Undone Is Done Again (Fire)
Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse)
Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby)
Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies)
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)

Pitchfork

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Tricky’s First Album in Six Years Is on the Way
Fidelity
Indigo Garden
CANDY
Red Hot Photo Committee
Baauer’s Announces First Album in Six Years, Shares New Single
Drake Confirms Iceman Release Date
Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber Is Releasing a Memoir
Thundercat, Angine de Poitrine to Play Newport Jazz Festival 2026
Karol G Readies Yearlong World Tour
How Long Until Drake’s Iceman Sculpture Melts? A Quantum Physicist Weighs In
Patti Smith, Morrissey Booked for CBGB Festival 2026
Beck Readies North American Tour, Shares Video for New Song
Modest Mouse Announce New Album An Eraser and a Maze
Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós Call for Eurovision 2026 Boycott
Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa
Cost of Living
Carve
I Don’t Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976-1979, Vol. 1
Coachella 2027 Dates Announced
Grimes Says She Made an Album Called Psy Opera
Madonna’s Coachella Outfits Are Missing
Shaboozey Returns With New Album The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales
Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Jane Remover Lines Up North American Tour
Lorde, Geese, Turnstile, and More to Play Form Arcosanti 2026
Ruth Garbus Readies New Album Profound
Beth Orton Announces New Album and Tour
Superbloom
HOTLIFE

Cool Tools

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Groundbreaking Food Gardens / World of Warcraft Chronicle
Drawing
Paint pens / Budget espresso / AI bird feeder
Young Adult Destinations/Bag Check Hikes/Hotel Labor Shortage
What’s in my NOW? — Augie Nielsen
Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury
Music Production
Best weather app / Airport delay tracker / Mars photos
Book Freak #205: Mindset
JetBlue Bag Gouging/2026 Summer Bargains/Canadian Immigration

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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