Amazon just laid off 16,000 more workers. I would be willing to bet this explains our groundless termination, as well as how quickly it was upheld upon “review”.
Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October. In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs were part of an ongoing effort to “strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy.” That coincides with a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence.
The job reductions come just a few months after October’s layoffs, when 14,000 employees were let go across Amazon’s corporate workforce. At the time, the company indicated the cuts would continue in 2026 as it found “additional places we can remove layers.”
Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, didn’t rule out more job cuts in the future, but said the company isn’t trying to create “a new rhythm” of broad layoffs every few months.
It also might explain why the executive to whom I appealed the KDP decision was a little too busy to pay any attention to one minor KDP account right away, because apparently, he did us the favor of stepping in again and telling whomever was left at KDP to stop screwing around and reinstate us. I was a little confused this morning to see Castalia’s inbox had been bombarded with email alerts from KDP informing us repeatedly that a new book was available through Amazon and Audible, as well as this one from a different member of the Content Review Team.
I can confirm that your account is now active and you have full access to your Bookshelf. Please let us know if you still cannot access your account, so we can further investigate this issue.
None of this means that the lesson about platforms doesn’t apply. But it does give us more time to build our own correctly.
Being back on Amazon also lets us see that PROBABILITY ZERO received its first one-star review, courtesy of one of Dennis McCarthy’s readers.
Bryan H. Wildenthal
1.0 out of 5 stars This book is pseudoscientific garbage
This books is complete and utter GARBAGE and pseudoscience. The author doesn’t understand basic statistics and blatantly misuses scientific papers he relies on. Dennis McCarthy, author of widely praised articles and a book on evolution and biogeography, has demolished Vox Day’s argument in a short recent blog post. Google “Dennis McCarthy why Probability Zero is wrong evolution.”
Clearly this is some new use of the word “demolished” with which I was hitherto unfamiliar. But it’s an apt demonstration of how midwits operate. They don’t understand any of the words they use, which is why they rely upon others to do their thinking for them, then posture grandly, and confidently, with absolutely no awareness of how ridiculous they look or how insupportable their position is.
Anyhow, I’m pretty sure what happened is that some KDP employees of the “I fucking love Science” variety were informed that they were laid off and decided to strike a blow for Science while they still could. So it was SJW shenanigans after all.