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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • It wasn’t always that way. When it started, Amazon had some neat ideas like having customers vote on pilot TV shows to indicate which ones should go to series. A lot of the pilots they didn’t pick up were pretty good.

    They also bought the rights to the Expanse novels and did a great job making them into different TV seasons. They even took chances on some interesting shows like “The Peripheral” and “Moonhaven”.

    The enshittification of Amazon Prime likely has a lot to do with paying for Bezos’ big budget pet projects like “wheel of time” “and Lord of the rings” sucking the funding out of other projects. I expect with the Bond franchise purchase, this will just continue to be a problem. Even with as much money as Amazon, there’s only so much you can throw around.










  • Brutalist architecture follows function through form about as well as modern big box warehouses. Slather a bunch of concrete or other rock together, make sure it’s dimly lit with recessed or tiny windows, then make sure none of these windows open to let in fresh air.

    Remember how prior to 1970 you had these cool grocery stores with curved rooflines and all glass fronts? Now you have square boxes with flat rooflines that leak, stained drop ceilings, and garish fluorescent lighting. Same concept.