Post by Andrew M.

Meta’s spectacles present a curious proposition. One is invited to purchase, at one’s own expense, a pair of exquisitely engineered informants whose principal occupation appears to be reporting back to America, or wherever their modern Mechanical Turks happen to be reviewing your salacious footage these days. They call it innovation. Previous empires were at least courteous enough to pay their spies. Now, apparently, the spy sends you the bill. No, thank you. 📸 Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk (1979). Directed by Carl Reiner. Universal Pictures.