Category: critical thinking

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  dresden #1

  I re-read Slaughterhouse-Five earlier this year. It’s an unnerving and funny read that centers on an American POW named Billy Pilgrim who was captured by the Germans and kept in a slaughterhouse in Dresden. Although he becomes “unstuck in time,” Billy was there when the allied forces carpet-bombed Dresden in…

  March 26, 2026
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  ready player one

  **lots of spoilers ahead** I read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One with my daughter — a bookworm and avid video game player — and was pleasantly surprised by what we found: a dystopian future where jobs are scant, mega-corporations control critical infrastructure and stop at nothing to grow and consolidate…

  May 19, 2025