Author: Jack Slater
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Good Time (2017)
Watching their movies out of order, Good Time was the previous Safdie Brothers film, another criminal thrill feature released years before Uncut Gems. Good Time features two brothers, Connie (Robert Pattinson) and Nick (Benny Safdie). Nick’s brain is non-typical and his brother Connie manipulates him into a bank heist that leaves Nick locked up for…
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Apple’s Headphone Lineup as 2021 Begins
Connectivity Issues with AirPods and the Mac Jason Snell writing for Macworld: But… connecting and disconnecting AirPods on the Mac is so much more frustrating than on iOS. While iOS 14 brought more intelligent connection and disconnection of AirPods, Big Sur can’t get with the program. It can take a long time to connect the…
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Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts
Lauren Kaori Gurley writing for Vice’s Motherboard tech subsite about a new change for Amazon workers: On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job. Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would…
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The Sinden Lightgun Gets Reviewed
Sam Machkovech has reviewed the Sinden Lightgun at Ars Technica. This is a $110 crowd-funded lightgun primarily targeted at emulation and I’ve been really curious how it would turn out once it actually shipped. Sounds OK according to Machkovech: That being said, when I got Sinden working with some of my favorite light-gun classics, from…
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Uncut Gems (2019)
Uncut Gems is a very wild thriller. If it were a book, it’d be a “page turner” that has the slightest of statements on how awful it is to step on people who have been stepped on for generations and how bad gambling addiction is. As with all things that depict some terrible fiction I…