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Friday Free-for-All | May 23, 2025
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Why did the USSR collapse under Gorbachev, even though 77% of voters supported preserving the Union in the 1991 referendum?
In Robert Graves's novel "Claudius the God" the eponymous narrator refers to the God of the Jewish people as the strangest God he's ever heard of. Did Roman people actually believe, having encountered so many foreign faiths, that Judaism was particularly unusual? If so, why?
When was lined paper invented for writing?
Why didn't early medieval people use stone for their agricultural tools?
Presumably the two atomic bombs dropped in 1945 are the two most deadly single bombs ever dropped. Do we have reliable information on the third?
I am a young man in Leningrad in 1975. I have just been arrested for stealing someone's coat. What will my detention, trial and punishment be like?
William Cobbett, in his "Rural Rides," refers to subscription-backed "vagabonds" with "tea-licences" who "vend tea, drugs, and religious tracts" all over Regency England. What were these people called, who funded them and how, what exactly did they sell, and how did they go about selling it?
Why are Vikings and Romans often romanticized despite their brutality?
How did the French and English get cod from North America to Europe before refrigeration?
What happened to the jury that rejected Adolf Hitler's entry to the Academy of Fine Arts ?
I'm a knight in the HRE circa 1226(random year) what book/books would I have read as part of my education? Does that overlap with the education of higher rank nobles?
Is it true that a lot of the European colonies in Africa were not even profitable?
Did Hitler/Nazis harbour special hatred towards Serbs even in comparison to other Slavs?
Were there issues with distributing movies to low-literacy countries in the era of silent movies, and if so, were there narrators staffed?
How did mass deportations during antiquity like the Israelite exile to Babylon work? I just can’t see how it was possible? How could they stop people from slipping away? And how would they round up people living in remote hard to reach areas?
Did Robin Hood actually exist? What do the sources say?
Did Newton’s interest in Jewish texts go beyond scholarly curiosity?
Is there historical evidence of book sales being common in places like train stations and ports?
Why did the Europeans never develop the same level of agricultural and biotechnological complexity as Indigenous Americans before contact?
How did previous authoritarian power seizures deescalate?
Before the opium crisis of the Qing empire and the Opium wars in the mid 19th century, were there any earlier places and times when narcotics and addiction were seen as a major social issue?
There were abolitionists movements or thinkers in US in the 18th century ?
Which scholars support the theory that Jesus was buried in an trench grave?
How easy or hard would it have been for a writer like William Shakespeare to do research on historical figures?
did pirate ships actually look like that?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - May 19, 2025 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
In the Pursuit of the Lost Language: The Last Recordings of Ubykh (Chirikba 2025)
RIP Haj Ross
Analysing the Tension Between Community-Oriented Language Policy and ‘New-Speakerness’ in the Case of Irish: Should These Two Approaches Be Considered as Independent or as Two Sides of the Same Coin? - Pozzi 2021 (Masters Thesis)
New Ways of Analysing Variation - Asia Pacific 8 Conference (4-7 Aug 2025) and pre-workshops open for registration!
Q&A weekly thread - May 12, 2025 - post all questions here!
SAY IT WITH RESPECT: A Journalists’ Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages, Language Endangerment, and Language Revitalization
Q&A weekly thread - May 05, 2025 - post all questions here!
English textbooks for beginners assume kids can read — teachers say that’s setting them up for failure
Phonemic Surprisal and Iconicity in Lexeme Processing
Q&A weekly thread - April 28, 2025 - post all questions here!
The Role of the Danish Language in Iceland
Research Methods in Armchair Linguistics
Q&A weekly thread - April 21, 2025 - post all questions here!
Article on the effects of presentation in political language/media: "It's not what you say, it's how you say it"
Language, Linguistics and Life Conference at Temple University
Leipzig Corpora Collection Viewer
The English complementizer of - Kayne 1997
Q&A weekly thread - April 14, 2025 - post all questions here!
Do Inuit languages really have many words for snow? The most interesting finds from our study of 616 languages
Q&A weekly thread - April 07, 2025 - post all questions here!
Prof. Robert A. Leonard on Forensic Linguistics (NYU Guest Lecture)
Why is West-Saxon English different from Old Saxon?
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
The Future Perfect in Oscan and Umbrian, and the Ō-Perfect in South Picene - Zair, Nicholas. 2014.
A Lexical Distance Study of Arabic Dialects

MetaFilter Projects

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Historical Mystery Novel: The Missing Floor
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Etymology Dad Joke
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Open Culture

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A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looked Like 2,500 Years Ago
Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Mac and Cheese
The “Dark Relics” of Christianity: Preserved Skulls, Blood & Other Grim Artifacts
How Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & Jethro Tull Financed the Making Monty Python and the Holy Grail
60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang
How the First Rock Concert Ended in Mayhem (Cleveland, 1952)
1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults
Watch Pablo Picasso’s Creative Process Unfold in Real-Time: Rare Footage Shows Him Creating Drawings of Faces, Bulls & Chickens
How Steven Soderbergh Directs a Scene & Makes It Great
The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
The PhD Theses of Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein & Others, Explained with Illustrations
The Secret Link Between Jazz and Physics: How Einstein & Coltrane Shared Improvisation and Intuition in Common
How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities
The Cleanest Recordings of 1920s Louis Armstrong Songs You Will Ever Hear
How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America

NYT > Technology

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Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult
Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More
OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive New Data Center in the U.A.E.
South Africa Sets the Stage for Starlink Approval
How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill
FTC Is Investigating Liberal Group Media Matters
Here’s What Meta Argued to Fend Off Monopoly Claims in Landmark Trial
Laurene Powell Jobs Cuts 10% of Jobs at Emerson Collective
A.I.-Generated Reading List in Chicago Sun-Times Recommends Nonexistent Books
OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices
British Retailer M&S Says Cyberattack Will Cost It $400 Million
Fortnite Returns to Apple’s App Store After Scoring a Legal Victory
Fortnite’s Darth Vader Is A.I.-Powered. Voice Actors Are Rebelling.
Google Unveils ‘A.I. Mode’ Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
Elon Musk Plans ‘a Lot Less’ Spending as He Edges Away From Politics
Trump’s Gulf Trip Also Brought Benefits to Elon Musk
G.M. Stops Exporting Cars to China
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future
How to Travel Without a Phone
Apple’s Alibaba A.I. Deal Provokes Washington’s Resistance

NYT > Arts

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A New Pee-wee Herman Documentary Peeks Inside the Playhouse
The Best Movies of 2025, So Far
Mexico City Art Favorites: Museums, Sculptures, Architecture and More
Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies
Aix-en-Provence Celebrates Cézanne With Monthslong Series of Events
3 Unsettled Questions in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial
Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic Play Philip Glass
International TV Series to Stream Now: ‘Miss Austen,’ ‘I, Jack Wright’ and More
Scarlett Johansson Makes Her Debut as Director of ‘Eleanor the Great’
Review: ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Finds the Man Behind the Man-Child
Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds
Jeff Goldblum Says Jeff Goldblum Is ‘Not a Performance’
Candida Alvarez’s Full Life in Living Color
Drummer and Music Agent Among 6 Killed in San Diego Plane Crash
Art Spiegelman Documentary Had Trump Criticism Removed Before Airing on Public TV
Karol G’s Ode to Curves, Plus 7 More New Songs
At Cannes, Sneaky Period Pieces and Film Lovers’ Delights Rule the Screen
Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
Yuri Grigorovich Dead: Soviet Ballet Choreographer Was 98
Billy Joel Announces Brain Disorder and Cancels All Concerts
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
Jimmy Kimmel Digests Trump’s Crypto Dinner
The Year’s Most Addictive Mobile Game Is Delightfully Absurd
6 Comedy Specials Worth Watching Over Memorial Day Weekend
7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits
‘O.K.!’ Review: When the Abortion Clinic Cancels
For the Creators of ‘Adults,’ Maturity Is Overrated
A ‘Chicano Hieronymus Bosch’ Has an Unflinching Vision of America
Andrew Veyette of City Ballet Has One Last Chance to Leave It All Onstage
If This Movie Wins the Palme d’Or, It Will Extend a Staggering Streak
Judith Hope Blau, Who Turned Bagels Into Art, Dies at 87
‘Sirens’ Is a Poppy Summer Getaway
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale Lead Broadway ‘Art’
Without a Prenup, David Geffen’s Divorce Could Get Interesting
At Cannes, Can You Trust the Length of a Standing Ovation?
‘Fountain of Youth’ Review: John Krasinski Goes Continent Hopping
How ‘The Queen of Spades’ Brought Two Tchaikovsky Brothers Together
DanceAfrica Festival at BAM Holds Up a Mirror to Mozambique
Mexico City to Welcome a New Frida Kahlo Museum
A New View of John Singer Sargent’s American Socialites
In Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, Kid Cudi Testifies to His Car Being Torched
‘Bad Shabbos’ Review: Guess Who’s Kvetching About Dinner?
‘The Last Rodeo’ Review: One for the Money, Two for the Show
Late Night Thinks Trump’s ‘White Genocide’ Video Was a Bit Much
4 Summer Books We’re Looking Forward To
The Enduring Appeal of the American Drive-In
‘The New Boy’ Review: Finding a Light in the Darkness
‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: It’s Not Me, It’s Jane
David Lazer, Executive Who Joined the World of Muppets, Dies at 89
‘Business Ideas’ Review: A Parable in a Cute Cafe
Salt-N-Pepa Demands Its Master Recordings in Lawsuit
Bruce Springsteen Releases EP Including Remarks That Angered Trump
How Do You Follow One of the Craziest Cannes Movies Ever?
Morgan Wallen Retreats Into Sadness, While His Protégés Party On
‘Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole’ Review: Dimming a Great Talent
Hans Noë, Architect, Sculptor and Proprietor of Fanelli Cafe, Dies at 96
The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere
Can Shoplifting Be Justified? This Artist Wants You to Decide.
Chris Brown Released on $6 Million Bail by London Court
Tom Hanks Will Perform His Play ‘This World of Tomorrow’ Off Broadway
At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, Details of a Raid That Found Guns and Baby Oil

Geography

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1,000,000 r/geography Members
Why doesn’t this sticker of the US have the northeast in it?
Why does Ireland have so little fjords compared to other European countries on the Atlantic?
What is this hole in the middle of Germany?
South amrica over 100 years
What is this large desolate area?
What goes on in this part of Indonesia?
what is this large crater looking formation in Madagascar?
What is, in your opinion, the most beautiful city in the former USSR?
If all ice melted in Greenland, global sea level will rise by 7 meters (24 feet) and large inland sea will form inside Greenland.
A satellite image, discovered on Google Earth, appears to show a SpaceX Starlink satellite crossing directly in front of the lens of a high-resolution Pléiades satellite operated by Airbus Defence and Space.
How does your country define a town and a city? On the left of this image: a town. On the right: a city.
The tallest buildings in the United States: every year
A map of France, after it became a hydrocracy [OC]
The is finally setting on the British "Empire" update
Why are the microstates concentrated in Western Europe, while Eastern Europe has none?
What are these white spots in central Indonesia?
Is there any reason why Vestmannaeyjabær is so populated? It houses 1.12% of Iceland's population on an small island ~14km away from the shore and far from any major population center in Iceland
This guy made me love geography in middle school
Where does this place get it's rainfall from? It seems enclosed from every direction
what would you say is the most interesting place geographically?
In this area of South Dakota, all of the trees are knocked down. What happened here?
How is life in Northern Cyprus?
What is this remote area and why does it require a helipad? (Located sort of near Mandip Hills in England)
What Italian city is this?
Which is the best country to live in Central America? Why?

The Public Domain Review

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The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2024
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
The Man and The Crowd (1928): Photography, Film, and Fate
Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)
“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)
Sensitive Material: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

The Quietus

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Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing
Pulp Share New Song, ‘Got To Have Love’
Le Guess Who? Reveals 2025 Guest Curators and First Acts
Grinderman to Reissue Albums on CD and Vinyl
Slikback Details Debut Album for Planet Mu, ‘Attrition’
Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
Water Damage – Instruments
Higher Frequencies: Instant Holograms on Metal Film by Stereolab
Four Tet Unveils New Album with Folk Artist William Tyler
The Strange World Of… Editions Mego
Karman Line Collective – To Be
Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums
Skaņu Mežs Reveals First Acts Playing 2025 Edition
Suede Detail New Album, ‘Antidepressants’
The Chameleons’ What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40
Pedal Off The Metal: Backxwash Interviewed
The Fall – Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81
Brockwell Park Festivals to Go Ahead Despite Court Ruling
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for May Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Low Culture Podcast: Doctor Who – The Daemons
INTERVIEW: a Lesser Version on Liverpool’s New Outer Waves Festival
Last Few Acid Horse Weekend & Day Tickets Remaining
Goddess – Goddess
The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall
Tectonic Details 20th Anniversary Compilation
Semibreve Reveals First Acts Playing 2025 Edition
Reissue of the Week: Shirley Collins’ Sweet England
I’m Being Good – Shapeshitter
35 Years On: X-Clan’s To The East Blackwards Revisited
The Quietus Spring Subscriber Sale is Here!
Ash Fure – Animal

Bandcamp Updates

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Stereolab, “Instant Holograms On Metal Film”
Pan Amsterdam Turned His Back on Jazz—And Ended Up Finding His Voice
Tour Tips With Caroline Rose
Mares of Thrace, “The Loss”
Remembering Cola Boyy, King of Oxnard Indie
Big Ups with Beans
After-Hours Disco: A Guide to Morning Music and Sleaze
Swimming Bell, “Somnia”
A Guide to the Many Faces of Scott McCaughey
Alex Paxton, “Delicious”
Neuma Records is a Home for Unexpected Sound
“Severance” Composer Theodore Shapiro Has Heard Your Theories
Kawaguchi Masami 川口雅巳, Mike Vest, & Dave Sneddon, “To Be True, Then The Loop Will Run Forever”
Art Pepper Played With Love
Essential Releases, May 16, 2025
Artificial Go, “Musical Chairs”
Car Seat Headrest’s Musical Side Quests
Oakland’s Borderless Post-Punk Scene
Milena Casado, “Reflection Of Another Self”
Traveling the Wide World of Batida
Dinamarca & Meth Math, “pachamami”
The Internet-Born Label Fueling South Korea’s Avant-Electronic Boom
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, April 2025
Cole Pulice, “Land’s End Eternal”
A Goldmine for Beat Diggers in the ’90s, Folk Funk Makes A Comeback
Various Artists, “Road Fever: New Generation Carnival Riddims from St. Lucia and Dominica”
billy woods on Time Travel, Death, and His New Album’s Heart of Darkness
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, April 2025
Essential Releases, May 9th, 2025
Nechochwen, “spelewithiipi”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, April 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, April 2025
Enji, “Sonor”
The Tape Label Report, April 2025
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, April 2025
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, April 2025

dusted

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Dust Volume 11, Number 5
Quade — The Foel Tower (AD93)
Thalia Zedek Band — The Boat Outside Your Window (Thrill Jockey)
Blood Monolith — The Calling of Fire (Profound Lore)
Jacqueline Kerrod & Joe Morris — Morpeth Contemporary 2024 (Relative Pitch)
Psychic Pigs — S-T (Slovenly)
Full of Hell — Broken Sword, Rotten Shield (Closed Casket Activities)
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp — The Complete Recordings (Panegyric)
Telekaster — Tracing Back the Stream (Empanada Musik)
Rainy Miller — Joseph, What Have You Done (Fixed Abode)
The Convenience — Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear)
Labrador — My Version of Desire (Safe Suburban Home)
Kilynn Lunsford — Promiscuous Genes (Feel It!)
Samiarus — Reign Destroyer (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Dylan Golden Aycock — No New Summers (Feeding Tube/Worried Songs)
Babe Rainbow — Slipper imp and shakaerator (p(doom))
Amanda Mur — Neu Om (La Castanya)
The Almighty Yellow Star — S-T (Self-Released)
Jenny Hval — Iris Silver Mist (4AD)
Gotobeds — Masterclass (12XU)

Pitchfork

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Billy Joel Cancels All Concerts Due to Brain Disorder
Afrika Bambaataa Loses Child Sex Abuse and Trafficking Lawsuit via Default Judgment
Saint Etienne Announce Final Album, Share Video for New Song “Glad”: Watch
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Stereolab, Smerz, and More
Big city life
Better Dreaming
Land’s End Eternal
Sound Talent Group Co-Founder Dave Shapiro Killed in San Diego Plane Crash
Jane Remover Releases New Song “Supernova”: Listen
“Alive”
Forth Wanderers Announce First Album Since 2018, Share New Video: Watch
On the New York Knicks and New York Hip-Hop
Pulp Share Video for New Song “Got to Have Love”: Watch
Friendship Review: A Life of Not-So-Quiet Desperation
Kid Cudi Testifies in Diddy Trial
Watch Bad Bunny in the First Trailer for New Darren Aronofsky Movie Caught Stealing
Beastie Boys Settle Lawsuit Against Chili’s Owner Over “Sabotage” Ads
Watch Wednesday Perform “Elderberry Wine” on Colbert
Slikback Announces Debut Planet Mu Album, Shares New Song: Listen
Isabella Lovestory Announces New Album Vanity, Shares Video for New Song “Gorgeous”: Watch
Instant Holograms on Metal Film
LETHAL
Drained Strands
Burna Boy Reveals Release Date for New Album, Shares New Song Featuring Travis Scott: Listen
Kneecap’s Mo Chara Charged With Terror Offense for Displaying Hezbollah Flag at London Concert
Dead & Company to Celebrate Grateful Dead’s 60th Anniversary With San Francisco Concerts
Brian Eno Criticizes Microsoft for Support of Israeli Military
Rod Wave’s Attorneys Say Rapper Is Victim of a Burglary After Arrest on Assault Charges
Into the Horrid Depths of Instagram Reels Music
“Elderberry Wine”

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Jim Lord
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Google clean mode/Career Dreamer/Underrated Rituals
Real ID Day/Remote Worker Conferences/Maya Train
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McMansion Hell

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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
pre-recession, post-taste
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington
mojo dojo casa house
BONUS MCMANSION HELL: liminal edition
dome sweet dome
Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse…
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I…

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
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