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The Zealot Gene [multi-link page for listening] is Jethro Tull's first album of all new material YouTube playlist] since 1999's J-Tull Dot Com. (Yes, I know.) It's the first Tull album [Wikipedia] to have an entirely new line-up aside from Ian Anderson. Released Jan 28, 2022. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 9:10 PM PST - 10 comments

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]
posted by BiggerJ at 7:18 PM PST - 10 comments

April 1, 2022 will mark 42 years since Einstürzende Neubauten first performed. [more inside]
posted by mubba at 4:51 PM PST - 34 comments

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]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 3:52 PM PST - 20 comments

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]
posted by box at 12:44 PM PST - 67 comments

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.
posted by sciatrix at 11:31 AM PST - 24 comments

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.
posted by SaharaRose at 11:10 AM PST - 17 comments

"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]
posted by Rhaomi at 11:09 AM PST - 2 comments

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]
posted by fiercekitten at 11:07 AM PST - 11 comments

I decided to attempt the task myself and found it very hard going. The resulting piece is over the fold. I tried a few outlets for it, and no one was interested in publishing it. So, I’m putting it out here, with all its faults.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 9:14 AM PST - 37 comments

Let's let the guy we're investigating decide whether we can publish what we find out. Nothing wrong with that, right!? [more inside]
posted by 47WaysToLeaveYourLover at 8:47 AM PST - 10 comments

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.
posted by elkevelvet at 7:37 AM PST - 86 comments

Don’t feel too bad. Not everyone is born with talent. [more inside]
posted by scratch at 7:25 AM PST - 36 comments

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]
posted by kmt at 3:21 AM PST - 19 comments

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]
posted by JHarris at 2:44 AM PST - 33 comments