January 29, 2021

Are you prepared for the unbearable puns?

This is the thankfully long-lost 1983 film Grizzly II: Revenge ..., the proposed sequel to the mediocre but profitable 1976 Jaws knockoff Grizzly, about a huge bear that goes ape, if you will, after its cubs are killed by poachers and conceives a murderous loathing for all humans straying into its forest. Grizzly II was abandoned after filming finished... But its producer Suzanne C Nagy has, after 37 years of legal wrangling, finally got the unedited footage into shape, ... and shamelessly released it, capitalising on the extraordinary fact that the first three kids to be killed by the crazy grizzly are played by a big-haired, denim-clad George Clooney (22 years old), Laura Dern (16) and Charlie Sheen (18). [The Guardian]. Watch the trailer.
posted by ShooBoo at 7:55 PM PST - 46 comments

The Library of Eco

Umberto Eco tracks down a book in his personal library (Twitter video)
posted by adrianhon at 3:21 PM PST - 39 comments

How SoulCycle lost its soul

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down. "“Your riders should want to be you or fuck you. That was the mantra,” a former instructor I’ll call Bobby says. “And those two concepts are not mutually exclusive.” ... A former employee shared a photo with Vox of a sticky note that hung in the studio’s office. On it, a quote attributed to Janet said that if riders start asking if they were on cocaine or say that they look like they had an eating disorder, it means that instructors are hitting their goal weights."
posted by folklore724 at 12:59 PM PST - 60 comments

"Off-puttingly truthful": growing up in a family with no filters

"After growing up in a family that never lied, I spent decades being off-puttingly truthful."An essay by Michael Leviton, in The Atlantic.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:39 PM PST - 89 comments

Moon Rock in the Oval Office

Apollo 17 Lunar Sample 76015,143: chipped off a lunar boulder in 1972, now sitting on a table in the White House after a long, long journey.
posted by brownpau at 12:35 PM PST - 23 comments

The goal is to automate us.

The Other Coup - NYT today.
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
Two years ago Shoshana Zuboff published a The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - previous thread - Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us.
An Interview: Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy.
Twitter @shoshanazuboff.
posted by adamvasco at 12:17 PM PST - 24 comments

"Oh, shit, it's real."

Previously on Metafilter, we discussed how a flaw in an internet-enabled chastity cage could allow for hackers to bring new meaning to "denial of service". Now, Vice reports on active ransomware attacks in the wild, and interviews a victim of the attack.
posted by NoxAeternum at 12:10 PM PST - 40 comments

Happy Birthday To You free stock music

Good morning to all! Some of you are celebrating your birthday right now. Happy birthday to you! Have some free stock music. [via mefi projects] [more inside]
posted by aniola at 11:58 AM PST - 5 comments

Pocket the Thrush

Death with Dignity: How I Helped My Dad Die “I couldn’t change my dad’s decision about how and when to die. Nor could I honor his right to be in control without surrendering my own. So I helped the man who’d brought me into this world to leave it.“ (Esmé E Deprez In Bloomberg)
posted by SLC Mom at 11:47 AM PST - 8 comments

"We... curate our published content carefully."

When Dr. Amy Barnhorst decided not to follow up on editorial suggestions and withdrew her submission to the Journal of Health Services Psychology, she thought that was an end to the process. (link to Inside Higher Ed) It thus came as a surprise to her when she saw a nearly identical paper published in the journal, ascribed to the editor with who she'd been corresponding and another apparently unconnected nonacademic. [more inside]
posted by jackbishop at 10:46 AM PST - 25 comments

fighting words

How To Eat is a regular column at The Guardian. Today, they took on spag bol And there is no chance that could end well. The links are good, though. Sauce of controversy, THE SPOON QUESTION, OR HOW TO EAT PASTA LIKE AN EXPERT, and more [more inside]
posted by mumimor at 10:30 AM PST - 39 comments

NO NO NO AAR-

@AAAAAGGHHHH and r/perfectlycutscreams feature many, many short videos that cut off abruptly in the middle of a scream.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:03 AM PST - 6 comments

An Art Revolution, made with scissors and glue

An examination of Cubism, collage, and the society that birthed it. (SLNYT)
posted by PussKillian at 9:56 AM PST - 4 comments

you mean to tell me a stick did this walking

Mike Stinnett carves a walking stick with a lizard and rattlesnake elements. Including some absolutely St. Francis-ass shit with a western fence lizard at one point.
posted by cortex at 9:56 AM PST - 7 comments

Somebody That I Used To Sort-Of Know

"Understandably, much of the energy directed toward the problems of pandemic social life has been spent on keeping people tied to their families and closest friends. These other relationships have withered largely unremarked on after the places that hosted them closed. The pandemic has evaporated entire categories of friendship, and by doing so, depleted the joys that make up a human life—and buoy human health. But that does present an opportunity. In the coming months, as we begin to add people back into our lives, we’ll now know what it’s like to be without them."
posted by cosmic owl at 9:53 AM PST - 28 comments

Using their teeth to cut my intestine and drink my blood

Here is a story all about how one chap's life got turned upside down by 50 parasitic worms. "My worms are alive – & MATING apparently! I’m oddly relieved. My worms dying off before even hitting puberty would’ve been a letdown. At this time the worms are in my intestine... and using their teeth to cut my intestine & drink my blood. I notice nothing." [Original twitter thread] Content warning: worms, inestines, rashes, just ewwwww.
posted by humuhumu at 9:47 AM PST - 14 comments

a celluloid talisman against the vampire of lesbian erasure

On Twitter, Mark Miller shares the story and photographs of his great aunt, her lovers, and their son. Threadreader version
posted by dismas at 9:18 AM PST - 6 comments

Chaotic Good in its Most Pure Form

Last week, [Dakota Johnson] appeared on The Tonight Show and admitted to Jimmy Fallon that she did not actually love limes or think they were great. The truth was revealed when Fallon played a clip of Johnson saying, "I love limes." The host asked his guest, with feigned earnestness, "What do you do with all those limes?" She responded, "I actually didn't even know that they were in there." Two Truths & A Lime: Pulling Apart Dakota Johnson’s Glorious Web Of Lies by Olivia Harrison [Refinery29]
posted by chavenet at 7:08 AM PST - 36 comments

Lying liars who lie: Alberta, Canada edition

(Source link: article by Geoff Dembicki in Vice) Climate change journalists around the world are part of a “disturbing” effort to hype up Greta Thunberg and “distribute propagandized climate change issues in their reporting,” says a new report paid for by an inquiry set up by the government of Alberta. The 133-page report says reporters who focus full-time on climate change are aiding powerful progressive global elites whose goal is to abolish capitalism and create a society in which life “will be constantly monitored, short, cold, and miserable, just like pre-industrial times.” [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 6:13 AM PST - 51 comments

Wombats Like Three Squares a Day

Did you ever wonder why wombats poo cubes? Neither had I. [more inside]
posted by Joan Rivers of Babylon at 5:27 AM PST - 17 comments

Be Right Back

Microsoft has been granted a patent to use the personal information of deceased people to create a chatbot, allowing users to talk to the dead.
posted by adept256 at 4:48 AM PST - 28 comments

[Beef trusts] pride themselves on producing a safe and wholesome product

In 2008 Mexico refused a shipment of beef from the United States because its sampled copper content was too high to meet Mexican food safety standards. Regulators in the US could not prevent the beef from being re-sold to domestic distributors because the US does not have any limits on the copper content in food. A 2010 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General report concluded... [more inside]
posted by XMLicious at 12:44 AM PST - 9 comments

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