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Selected Amazon Reviews October 29, 2024
Shopping on Amazon is hard, and getting harder all the time. Despite Amazon’s patented (expired) and trademarked (still valid) “1-Click” ordering, I tend to get stuck browsing. I type “spatula” into the search bar and am instantly greeted with over 7...
Escaping the Mind Machine October 17, 2024
In 1714, the German polymath, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, wrote in The Monadology, “If we imagine a machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and have perceptions, we could conceive it enlarged, keeping the same proportions, so that we could ente...
The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble October 09, 2024
Jimmy Donaldson is one of the most popular entertainers in the world. Millennials know him as MrBeast, and for ten years, millions of us have haunted his YouTube channel, where he posts videos of insane, insanely expensive stunts with titles like I G...
Bezos Gets It Backwards September 27, 2024
At different points in my life, I have both worked for Amazon and been a regular writer for The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos owns both companies and both places have major issues.Amazon has an insane employee burnout rate—150 percent, according to doc...
Amazon Saved Bookstores September 17, 2024
Top Gun: Maverick was released on May 27, 2022. The view here is that the movie was boring, trite, and even quite “woke” despite a popular perception that it trampled on the overused notion. But that’s not the point of this opinion piece.Good or bad,...
Amazon Is Filled With Garbage Ebooks April 17, 2024
If you’re a millennial, you may remember that specific moment in time around the late 2000s when streaming video technology had just gotten good but there weren’t that many legitimate streaming platforms available yet. So if you were a student withou...
There Are Too Many Books April 12, 2024
And now for my hottest take in a minute: There are already too many books in the world. As a reader, I’m constantly overwhelmed with new material, and I know I’m not alone. And this is before we factor in how the market is flooded with AI-generated r...
Woody Allen Reëmerges April 05, 2024
The most recent movie directed by Woody Allen, “Coup de Chance,” which opens in theatres this Friday, April 5th, is the most prominent theatrical release that any of Allen’s films have had since “Wonder Wheel,” six and a half years ago. But it’s not ...
