February 4, 2022
Kid's Got a Point
Three (four?) Pinocchio movies are coming out this year. Let's look to Russia for some alternatives, hm? All live-action unless otherwise noted:
The Golden Key (1939) (English subtitles; click the CC button)
The Adventures of Buratino (1959) (as Pinocchio and the Golden Key, the 1995 English dub of the Soyuzmultfilm animation, starring Bill Murray) (original undubbed version)
The Adventures of Buratino, first half, second half (1975) (English subtitles)
Buratino, first half, second half (2009) (untranslated) [more inside]
The Golden Key (1939) (English subtitles; click the CC button)
The Adventures of Buratino (1959) (as Pinocchio and the Golden Key, the 1995 English dub of the Soyuzmultfilm animation, starring Bill Murray) (original undubbed version)
The Adventures of Buratino, first half, second half (1975) (English subtitles)
Buratino, first half, second half (2009) (untranslated) [more inside]
Einstürzende Neubauten Is Almost 42
GY!BE's ALFOTHAD... fr? fr fr?
Whispered about on back alley forums, yearned for but never found, it's thought to be the lost first album by Canadian experimental post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor. While the band has long-assumed it would surface on the internet one day, we have so far only witnessed foul pretenders. Until now... witness All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling [more inside]
Maximum Profit Rather than Reliably Getting Things to People
How We Broke the Supply Chain (David Dayen and Rakeen Mabud for The American Prospect) Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits. [more inside]
Fraud is no fun without friends
The work-from-home phenomenon has triggered a fresh frustration for U.S. corporations: Americans are blowing the whistle on their employers like never before. Matt Levine [Bloomberg Opinions] contextualizes the findings: grooming new people to engage in fraud takes time, social flattery, and bonding, and COVID isolation makes that a lot harder and makes it a lot easier for new people to complain to compliance officers. More data on the phenomenon from the SEC at Bloomberg.
Furries Save Libraries
Furries fundraise for intellectual freedom I didn't have "furries raise money to help fight back against library censorship and book banning" on my 2022 bingo card.
"Last week, a Mississippi mayor tried to strong-arm a local library into banning some books. The result was swift, and in retrospect, entirely predictable: A group of furries got on Twitter to do something about it."
I'm delighted by this bit of news.
Monsters Inc + Nightmare Before Christmas + retro Japanese videogame = …
"Once upon a time there was a game that nobody ever played, sitting on the floor in the back room of an empty arcade. The game was full of life and strife, mega-monsters and robot fights. We Are The Strange was the title. Now meet the players who live inside, idle." Fifteen years on, revisit the improbable story of outsider filmmaker M dot Strange and his solo indie fever dream, We Are The Strange. [more inside]
Look At This Cat!
Remember when all we did on the Internet was Look at This Cat? So much so that there was a MeFi project and FPP about this very thing? [more inside]
The end of American democracy is unimaginable.
Commanders owner Daniel Snyder has say in whether findings are released
Let's let the guy we're investigating decide whether we can publish what we find out. Nothing wrong with that, right!? [more inside]
Alberta plans to drop vaccine passports
As Coutts anti-mandate blockade continues, Alberta government plans to drop vaccine passports: With attention on the "Freedom Convoy" in Ottawa, some of us may have missed the Alberta/Montana blockade. The Kenney government appears poised to end vaccine passports (referred to as the Restrictions Exemption Program). I'm hearing rumors of the provincial government looking for ways to override municipal mask bylaws but I haven't started digging for verification.
Thank you. Yes.
LaTeX to HTML5 at scale
The ar5iv.org project makes articles from arXiv.org accessible as responsive HTML5 web pages. Sample paper: A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula (1910.06709) [more inside]
1890: Caster's big toes become opposable like thumbs
𝕱or 𝕯oubles 𝕵ubilee, let us all revisit the Net Libram of Random Magical Effects (PDF), still a D10000 table a DM can roll on for incredibly random wild magic surge effects, now available as a site where you can roll on it by just pressing a button. (Previously, in 2019) [more inside]
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