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Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist (@themidasproj)
Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)
Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (David Phelan/Forbes)
Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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The Toll of a ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind
Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories
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Genetic Scores are Booming. But Will Anti-Discrimination Laws Cover Your DNA?
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | May 31, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | June 03, 2026
How and why did funk music become associated with pornography?
As an American, I've always been confused at the resentment towards our cities from rural citizens. I feel like throughout history, major cities were usually seen as the pride of countries and kingdoms (ex. Uruk, Rome, Athens). Is there historical precedent for this kind of Rural/Urban rivalry?
How would a Roman patrician family respond to a pregnancy between their teenage son and an enslaved woman?
Very silly question but did the "dumb blonde" thing, whenever it originated, carry any connotations of race or class, or was it purely a sexist trope? If the latter, was the hair color chosen basically by coincidence?
Did the Red army really use human wave tactics on the germans?
What type of musket ammunition is bolt?
Modern lockpickers can easily defeat advanced locks using very simple tools. Since historical locks were less sophisticated, was lockpicking a widespread problem in the past? Did people actually trust locks to secure their property?
How were Black American slaves so successfully converted to Christianity?
How did allied soldiers treat gay people when the camps were liberated ?
Did the Secretary of the Navy John Lehman ACTUALLY say "Who the hell cleared it?" in regards to The Hunt for Red October? Was Tom Clancy actually investigated for his writings?
Why was there a 2000 year gap between the first city states and the first empire?
Is it accurate to say grenades were invented and used, then became largely obsolete, then were greatly improved and have been used since? Is there any other weapon that followed a similar trajectory in invention-> obsolescence -> reintroduction after improvements?
"Malcolm X would have been successful without MLK, but MLK wouldn't have been successful without Malcolm X" — Is this true?
Are there examples in history of the peacable transfer of significant wealth from the rich to the lower classes?
In Marxist circles, Foucault (And Post-Modernism more generally) is accused of being paid for & promoted by the CIA. Is there any truth to these accusations?
The United Democratic Front (UDF) and Inkatha were both opposed to Apartheid in South Africa. What was the major source of conflict/ideological difference between the two parties that led to events such as the violence at the University of Zululand in 1983?
I was reading Ashoka by pop historian Charles Allen. In it, he makes a claim that a lot of major historical Hindu temples started out as Buddhist places of worship (excerpt in the post). He cites examples such as the Badrinath shrine and Puri Jagannath temple. Is this claim based in evidence?
Best of May Voting Thread
Were "adventurer-explorers" actually a thing in the interwar period?
How did goats become associated with Satan?
Why do so many state-level governments in the US have bicameral legislatures?
Books or articles about Lazaro Cardenas/Mexican economic policy in English?
Preparing for America 250: What Two History Books Should We Read?

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Q&A weekly thread - June 01, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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 - 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
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Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
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Open Culture

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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)
M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040
Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing
The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974)
Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI
Who Would Be King of the United States If George Washington Had Become a Monarch?
Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough

NYT > Technology

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European Union Outlines Plan to Reduce Dependence on American Tech
Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
Meta Expands Safety Features for Teenagers
Florida Sues OpenAI Over Chatbot Safety Concerns
Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?
How Box Created 13 New Types of Jobs Because of A.I.
Chinese Military Sought Nvidia Chips for Years, Report Says
China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk
Nvidia Has a Plan to Put Its Chips in Personal Computers
Joby Demonstrated its Air Taxi in Manhattan, but You Can’t Fly in It Yet
Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
What’s Next for Blue Origin After Rocket Explosion
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up
A.I. Is Making Scams Hard to Spot. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
I Tried to Sell My House With A.I.
Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time
Spencer Pratt Wants to Be Mayor. His Fans Want Him to Be Batman.

NYT > Arts

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Even on His Own, Nick Is Still a Jonas Brother
At Interlochen, Where Jeffrey Epstein’s Shadow Still Lingers
N.B.A. Finals Introduce Music by Nicholas Britell and Nas
A New Play, ‘Kenrex,’ Revisits the Story of a Bully’s Unsolved Murder
What’s Next Now That Live Nation Has Been Found to Act as a Monopoly
Artists Threaten to Sue Venice Biennale for Including Them in Awards
Making Scottish Ballet’s ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ Legible to Americans
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Charlie Parker
‘Jerome’ Review: Darkness Swallows a Three-Way Romance
Obama Center’s Two Sides: A Lovely Park and a Forbidding Tower
Shannon Elizabeth Reflects on Being the Y2K Era’s ‘Hot Girl’
‘Amadeus’ and Beyond: Where to Watch Movies About Composers
The Dark Side of Paul McCartney
New Federal Guidelines Threaten Almost Half of Graduate Arts Programs
Caissie Levy, Tony Awards Contender and ‘Ragtime’ Star, Is Having a Moment
I Tried to Have a Kid With My Best Friend. It Got Complicated.
Late Night Wants Trump to Give Peace Talks a Chance
Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75
MoMA Names Makeda Best as New Photography Chief
Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning ‘Star Wars’ Editor, Dies at 80
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in June
Ballet Tech Gave Them Dance. Now They Give Back.
Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.
Was Churchill a Serious Artist? This Exhibition Says, ‘Yes.’
Movie Highlights at the Tribeca Festival, Now 25
17 Plays (and 3 Festivals) to Jazz Up Your June
Late Night Updates America on the Lineup for Its 250th Birthday Bash
Andy Halliday, a Star of ‘Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,’ Dies at 73
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Amazon, AMC+, Apple TV and More in June
Tribeca Festival 25th Anniversary: An Interview With Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Rebecca Glashow
Edward Burns on What It’s like to Be a Tribeca Festival Veteran
Tribeca Festival: Andre Holland’s Ability to Connect to Audiences Is on Display
At Tribeca, a New Look at an ’80s Thriller About New York’s Gay Underground
In the ‘Euphoria’ Finale, the HBO Show Goes Out With a Whimper
Azniv Korkejian on Bedouine’s ‘Neon Summer Skin’
33 Fun Things to Do in N.Y.C. in June
‘Awake and Sing!’ Heads to Broadway With Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht
Hoyt Richards, Former Model, on ‘Bring Me The Beauties’ and How to Escape a Cult
Mark and Joaquin Consuelos, Father and Son, Make Broadway Debuts Together
What’s On in London Theaters This Summer
9 Comic Books and Graphic Novels to Celebrate Pride Month
28 New Books to Read in June: Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Daniel Kraus and More
Joana Avillez Revisits Her Waterfront Childhood
‘Cape Fear’ and 7 More Shows to Watch on TV This Week
Sam Levinson on Why ‘Euphoria’ Had to End This Way. For Good.
‘And Then the Rodeo Burned Down’ Review: Tenderness as Transgression
Vasana Montgomery, ‘Love Island USA’ Contestant, Dismissed After Using Racial Slur
Young Moviegoers Power ‘Backrooms’ to $82 Million in Ticket Sales
‘Othello’ Review: Wendell Pierce Steps Into Iago’s Twisted Web
A Festival of Black Culture With a ’90s Vibe
Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out
A Judge Ordered Trump’s Name to be Removed From the Kennedy Center. What Happens Next?
Ariana Grande, Ravyn Lenae: 7 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
‘Spider-Noir’ Review: Your Friendly Neighborhood Nicolas Cage
50 Years of Skateboarding at London’s Southbank Undercroft
On ‘Euphoria’ and Elsewhere, TV Is Having a Sex Cam Spring
7 Podcasts About the Joys of Bird-Watching
Ginger Minj Knows You Can Never Go Wrong With Rhinestones
Claude Bessy, Who Ruled Paris Opera Ballet School, Dies at 93
Kennedy Center Must Remove Trump’s Name From Building, Judge Orders
Overlooked No More: Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why Uruguay has a low population?
Why doesn't Saudi shift it's capital to those cooler areas? It's much better than Riyadh in terms of climate as well as cultivation.
Kinshasa-Brazzaville and Mbamu Island. Combined metropolitan area population ≈ 20 million
The house that is in both India and Myanmar. 🇲🇲🇮🇳
Is there an actual reason why Namibia's capital is located at the center of the country?
Where most deserves the title of the world’s “Sin City”?
Effect of Elevation on Suicide Rates
How world industry has shifted overtime: 1914 vs. 2024
Why don't the United Nations and most countries recognize Somaliland as an independent country? It has its own government, people, and administration, and it has considered itself independent since 1991. What is the issue?
If the earth's landmass were like this; would this intensify wars or would help global economy
The longest place name in the world is a hill in New Zealand called "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu"
Himalayas be like:
The difference in the temperature here is crazy, almost a 16-degree Celsius difference in a distance of 52km. (without any major elevation hike, perhaps cooler at the lower elevation)
Is there any other people on this sub that are obsessed with the part of russia around the Okhotsk sea ? Any fun facts to share ?
Kiribati is the only country located in all four hemispheres (Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western)
The Great Divide - Teton / Yellowstone
Trekearth
Saskatoon has gotten used to low water levels, but Alberta's melting snowpack is coming
I’m an 85yo explorer who walked across Australia twice. My son and I run a text-only, free eLibrary for commuters, and I just finished our book on the geography of Lake Turkana.
Which inhabited place on earth has the lowest recorded high temperature, except Antarctica?
Why are lakes are the only body of water that use “Lake __________” as nomenclature?
Could copying the Dutch possibly save New Orleans from being submerged?
Why did countries such as Brazil and Argentina never achieve the same economic success as other countries settled by Europeans like Australia or the USA
PHYS.Org: Plate tectonics shaped the Cradle of Civilization by merging two ancient rivers, study suggests

The Public Domain Review

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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
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

The Quietus

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New Book Narrates the Oral History of Dubstep
EFG London Jazz Festival Adds Goldie and More to 2026 Lineup
Meakusma Festival Announces 2026 Lineup
An Enduring Howl: The Cultural Legacy of Allen Ginsberg
Feeble Little Horse – Bitknot
Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang – The Endless Dance
Sun Ra And His Arkestra’s ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ Set for Expanded Reissue
Belle & Sebastian Release Scottish World Cup Song, ‘It Only Takes One Lion’
YHWH Nailgun’s New Album is 11 Minutes Long
Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee on the Strange World of Rough Trade Records
Inner Ear: Latvian Music for June, by Jakub Knera
Neptune – Play Some Music
Kelela Shares New Song, ‘point blank’
Charli xcx Unveils New Album, ‘Music, Fashion, Film’
DJ Screw’s Back Catalogue Coming to Streaming for the First Time
Juno Download Shuts Down
The Subscriber-Exclusive May Playlist is Here
Kikù Hibino and Merzbow – Rococo ∞ Echomatter
For a Minute there… Radiohead’s Amnesiac a Quarter of a Century on
Chemical Romance: The Light-Sensitive Materials of Sapphire Goss
Independent Music Platform Nina Protocol to Go Offline
Skrillex Collaborates with Blawan and Randomer on New Track, ‘Thistle’
Semibreve Completes 2026 Music Programme
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2026
Reissue of the Week: Om’s Conference of the Birds
Boards of Canada – Inferno
J. Zunz – Obsidiana
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Shares Remix for CHANEL Collaboration
Trump Administration Uses Boards Of Canada Track in Promotional Video
Speaker Music Unveils Final Album, ‘Synoptic Audio’
Le Guess Who? Reveals First Wave of Acts Playing 2026 Edition
Reach for the Scars: Cicatrizes Do Futuro by Deafkids

Bandcamp Updates

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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”
Lea Bertucci and Norbert Rodenkirchen Reanimate Early Music
SUSS, “Counting Sunsets”
Press Start: A Guide to WRWTFWW, Switzerland’s Maverick Indie Label
Bringing Belgian Folk Music Back to Life
Marisa Anderson, “The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music”
Spencer’s Gifts
Death Kneel, “Remembering Well”
Escape From New York: The Hudson Valley Scene
π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης, “Paradise Metal”
Essential Releases, May 15, 2026
Fifteen Years of Hands In The Dark’s Beautiful Lucid Dreaming
Lost in the Signal: Radio as Instrument

dusted

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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)
Lazro Léandre Lovens — For Baritone Sax, Double Bass & Drumset (Relative Pitch)
Eluvium — Virga III (Temporary Residence)
Steve Gunn — Shape of a Wave (No Quarter)
Shewolff — We’re All Gonna Fukkin’ Die (Dying Victims Productions)

Pitchfork

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Weezer Launch The Gold Album With Wednesday Collaboration
The New DMV
Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy Set Co-Headlining Tour
Anysia Kym and Tony Seltzer Enlist 454, Loraine James, FearDorian for Remix Album
Mastodon Honor Brent Hinds in First Song Since Late Frontman’s Death
For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Rumspringa
Mastiff : Pink Tiles
Meg Stalter Loves All Gays in Her New Single “Gay”
Black Bananas Announce First Album in 12 Years
Two New Things You Can Do on Pitchfork.com
Belle and Sebastian Made a Scottish World Cup Anthem
YHWH Nailgun’s New Album Is 11 Minutes Long
Veeze: Y’all Won
Detour
Almost Waking
Hold Onto Me Infinity
Tierra Whack to Open New (Whack’s Museum) Mixtape on Juneteenth
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
Pitchfork Paris 2026 Announces First Wave of Artists
Julia Jacklin Signs to 4AD, Lines Up 2026 and 2027 Tour Dates
The Avalanches and Jamie xx Reunite for “Every Single Weekend”
Watch Justin Long Dig His Own Grave in Ariana Grande’s New Video
Ravyn Lenae, the Durutti Column, Tezzus, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Kelela Lines Up North America and Europe Tour
Charli XCX Announces New Album Music, Fashion, Film
Phoebe Bridgers to Play Surprise Madison Square Garden Show
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Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Pavel Guzhikov
Unflattening / Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
Recall
Life in ancient times / Desperate Oasis / Theatrical releases you can stream
Book Freak #211: Tolstoy’s Guide to Daily Wisdom
New Europe Stopover/National Park Deals/Schengen Shuffle
What’s in my NOW? — Gordon Tebo
Alien Invasion in My Backyard / Deceptive Desserts
Project Management
Retro Recomendo: Creative Practice

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
Homestyle Bibimbap
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New)
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù)
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs)
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens)
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Madeleines
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing)
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear
Fake 'Nduja
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile?
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales
Our Favorite Features of 2022
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors
Our Favorite Images of 2022
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A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast
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The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies
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Nigerian Beef Stew
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink)
How to Make Kombucha
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