Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-kindles-not-obsolete-it-needs-a-jailbreak-ill-show-you-how-its-done/ 📚 #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks #eReader #Books #Reading #Tech #Jailbreak
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For independent bookstore day, I wrote a guide to #Draft2Digital alternatives.
https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/
Feedback welcome since I don't know all of those platforms myself.
Stay strong, everyone 💖
#IndieBookstoreDay #IndependentBookStoreDay #writingcommunity #bookstodon #erotica #smutstodon #Amazon #Kobo #IngramSpark #itchio
Advance of the far right threatens the Amazon
"The far right is moving in on the Amazon. Outsider and attorney Abelardo de la Espriella's win in Colombia, Keiko Fujimori's triumph in Peru, and the state of emergency in Bolivia point to an increasingly hostile future for the planet's largest rainforest.
Added to this scenario is the alarming fact that Venezuela is a ward of the United States.
If Flávio Bolsonaro comes out on top in Brazil’s October elections, nearly the entire Amazon will be held hostage to a project based on the limitless exploration of Nature, along with most of the countries in Latin America."
#farright #environment #climate #climatecrisis #rainforest #Amazon #Colombia #Peru #Bolivia #Venezuela #Brazil #LatinAmerica #Latam #elections
https://sumauma.com/en/o-avanco-da-extrema-direita-nas-americas-ameaca-a-amazonia-e-reduz-as-chances-de-sobrevivencia/
#wildberries, #russia's #amazon, is droned to ruins
#ukraine is strangling russia's #economy
Andrei Klepach:
'Russia was “falling behind” China and the US and “in some respects Ukraine”… a “social crisis” would erupt “when no one particularly expects it… We will not win this competition in a war of attrition with Ukraine… We have an illusion that everything will collapse there… it won’t”'
and… he's fired
without dissent the folly of the echo chamber means failure
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/andrei-klepach-russian-banker-fired-warning-economy
I got an email today from ACX (the audiobook production platform) to say they are unilaterally changing the contract terms for how royalties are paid.
Authors need to opt into the new plan by the end of the year. Or else they will not receive any further payments. And neither will their narrators.
Surely this stretches the meaning of opt in.
They suggest that if narrators want to continue to be paid for their work, we should harass our authors to sign up for the new plan.
Que sera, sera. I'm not playing cop for ACX. (The books earn pennies at best anyway.)
When I say that I am no longer actively narrating audiobookx because the industry is a trashfire... *gestures at everything*
*Before some reply guy shows up to say, "You should sue!"... hahah, no I should not.
If you're an audiobook listener: support your narrators while you can.
If you're an author who has used ACX in the past, make sure to update your contract.
If you're a narrator, good luck.
If you want to buy my books while I'm still getting paid, you can find them here:
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
#Audiobook #Audiobooks #AudiobookNarrator #AudiobookNarrators #AudiobookNarration #VoiceWork #VoiceActor #ACX #Audible #Amazon #PeakCapitalism
Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them.
How long can we allow this cultural theft and erasure masked as 'progress' to continue?
So, not a surprise that Apple is renaming Lake Ontario to appease the child rapist that occupies the White House.
If you're stuck using an iPhone or other Apple device you don't have to use Apple Maps or their services. For maps download a privacy respecting, open source map app like Organic Maps.
Pull your data out of iCloud and use a service like Proton which offers a package that includes email, cloud storage, documents, Password manager, VPN, etc.
Boycott #Apple #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft and any other #US #Tech that supports fascism.
No one forces you to use or pay for their services. Move your data. Boycott them.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-maps-gps/id1567437057
Looks like the LLMs have come for grandpa.
My dad, age 90, a longtime tech enthusiast who uses an #Amazon Echo to check the weather and baseball statistics, reports to me that the Echo has started asking him personal, intrusive questions, including whether he lives in an assisted living facility. I witnessed this yesterday — he asked for a pollen count and it tried to start a chat about his favorite methods for coping with ragweed allergies.
They’re trying to sell old people drugs.
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“How #Bezos’s Surrender to #Trump Freed Him to Dodge US Labor Laws.
Those drivers in Amazon uniforms who drive Amazon trucks?
Amazon says they don’t really work for #Amazon, and now Trump’s NLRB no longer disputes that.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/215022/jeff-bezos-dodge-labor-laws
I stopped using #Google and any other #bigtech products a long, long time ago (2015-ish? maybe earlier). It's time for everyone else to move away too, and this includes #Apple, Microslop (#Microsoft), #Meta, #Amazon and many others.
ONLY use #openSource products:
- use #linux
- use degoogled Android ROMs like @GrapheneOS, and many others for any Android phone
- use @fdroidorg as your store
- use #OpenStreetMap clients (like @organicmaps)
- music: @powerampache
Reply here or DM me for guidance
An #Amazon cargo plane barreled off a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing at least 5 people as it struck vehicles & burst into flames, authorities said.
The aircraft overran the runway around 2PM after arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico. 5 people were killed, 3 critically injured & 2 others hospitalized with less severe injuries, Miami-Dade County officials told a news conference.
#TSA #FAA #cutbacks #Trump #MassFirings
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-cargo-plane-miami-airport-47411c751782887757922efa5f634aa5?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link
無料公開中！
第８３話『秋は行事がいっぱい』 安比奈のまんがジャック https://amzn.asia/d/0eR9fXSw #Amazon
Jailbreaking my Kindle and using RSS https://somethingwonderful.eu/jailbreaking-my-kindle-and-using-rss.html #Kindle #Amazon #RSS
1983 leitete das deutsche Bundesverfassungsgericht aus der Menschenwürde (Artikel 1 GG) und dem Recht auf freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit (Artikel 2 GG) das „Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung“ ab.
Ich meine, dass dieses Grundrecht durch KI-Konzerne wie Amazon & Google massiv bedroht wird & empfinde die derzeitige Konzern-Lobby geprägte Bundespolitik als Ausverkauf unseres Mittelstandes (Einzelhandel, Innenstädte) & unserer Grundrechte.
Habe darüber in gleich zwei Videocasts gesprochen & lade bewusst auch zum Dialog im Fediversum darüber ein.
#Grundrecht #Bundesverfassungsgericht #Information #Selbstbestimmung #Panoptikum #Fediverse #Judikative #Scientiktaive #KIKonzerne #Amazon #Google #Politikwissenschaft #BWL
👻 🚑 Part 2/2 See Part 1
#Google, #Facebook, Meta, #Oracle = ( #AWS ;), #Twitter and #Amazon >> Kings of #VIOLATING your #God_Given #Privacy_Rights and #Security_of_Persons via 3rd party cookies and much more.
👻 🚑 Using GPS tracking; they even know when you are opening your car door and what merchant store you have walked into within 2 feet (by illegal Civilian cell phone #GPS tracking, not WWW Internet Compliant >> they are not the same). (GPS = Private sats = #child_abduction, #RAPE, #Assassinations or #Mobile_ADS? ) UGH?
#ARREST #BOARD OF #DIRECTORS OF #PALANTIR! They are Responsible for #Gaza_Murders in #Cold_Blood (aka #JEW #Pegasus #Murder_Ware Rebranded) !
👻 🚑 ..or they WILL BE #SHUT_DOWN AND IT WONT BE #PRETTY!
Why do you think CROOKed Elon mush launched all those rockets?? aka cheap tracking cube #GPS #Tracking_satellite's #LEASED TO #PRIVATE COMPANIES??
The Plan (and still is) was to turn your Tesla into a taxi during the day, while your working as a slave, a Tracking beacon (same as Amazon delivery trucks and #APPSTORES) for COMPLETE #SURVEILLANCE #TRIANGULATED with dangerous 6-7 G towers and Illegal Surveillance Centers #not Data Centers.
Btw thousand of data centers have already been built-out over the last 3 #decades and why we can confirm these are not #Data_Centers but illegal #surveillance centers. We have hired overseas from every country on the planet. They all have 100’s if not thousands of data center ALREADY #decentralized worldwide.
ALL TRACKING DEVICES FOR BIG TECH and the USA Government has been using the GPS #Prism_Program Developed in 2007, to in fact Steal from the General Public for the last 2 decades via GPS data Collection w/o consent of the Citizen!
ILLEGAL PRIVACY INVASION on a MASSIVE scale by the USA Government, AIPAC CONGRESS AND BOTH PARTIES and MUST BE REMOVED BY FORCE! >> 2 decades ago!
Total #Breach of your Personal Privacy and security rights of persons and the only way this #JEWISH_OWNED Platform; called Google--can now #Turn_a_Dollar. by third party cookies only!
= #THEFT! >> Bank Robberies = your Data being sold to the highest bidder in real time by shadow brokers.
~ #Boycott BIG TECH Worldwide. They are a #PROVEN #SECURITY_THREAT that has been #Weaponized by the #USA.gov (eg: 9 #Billion TAX dollars to INTEL contract) and is now considered a SECURITY THREAT to NOT ONLY Private Companies and Civilians. BUT all Countries WORLDWIDE. Imho
Calling for a #WORLD_WIDE_BAN OF ALL #USA_BIGTECH! Or just #HANG ALL OF #USA_CONGRESS AND BE DONE WITH IT! The Blatant steal is soooo.. #PRE_MEDITATED they deserve #NOTHING except #death! In reality.
~Google #DELAYS #THIRD_PARTY COOKIE DEMISE AGAIN!??~
🍪 Problem with Google is that they never knew what they wanted to be ONCE they grew up?
Now scrambling to fit round pegs into square wholes.. aka THE #BIG_COVERUP.. not bigtech actually NO TECH!
So whats it gonna be #ANTON??!! A Public Search engine or a #DEDICATED #Pay_Per_Click Engine?? -- So decided to look like a search engine (Concealment); but #ACTING_AS a #DEDICATE #PAY_PER_CLICK ENGINE (#PPC), BEHIND THE SCENES FOR USA Fortune 500 COMPANIES ( = EXCLUSION & ANTI-COMPETITIVENESS >> Sherman Anti trust violations up the Ying Yang w/ #USA & #Israel Complicit!) Section 2 is a #FELONY!!
#NOT A #VIABLE or #legitimate Major Search Engine -- since 2007.
They are no longer DEDICATED MAJOR search engines.. OH NO they are #DEDICATED #PAY_PER_CLICKS ENGINE for the highest bidder for Fortune 500 companies #EXCLUDING the Rest of the world??
Not on TastingTraffic LLC watch! We will drag your asses into hell and back, as many times as it takes, until you comply diminishing your ad spend and all company profits until your company is a #dead_duck and we don play! Just like we have just done with an ENTIRE #COUNTRY CALLED THE #USA!
Unfortunately you cannot TRUST ONE WORD coming out of the mouths of these inept #thieves that should all be in #prison long ago for #raping and #pillaging the American PUBLIC'S pocket BOOKS to the tune of TRILLIONS over the last 26 years. .
#ALERT! NOTICE not one word mentioned about #1ST_PARTY_COOKIES???
GOOGLES BOARD OF DIRECTORS ALL NEED TO BE #ARRESTED FOR #MASSIVE_IP_THEFT and #AD_FRAUD and/or #ADWORDS #OVERCHARGING at the very least DATING BACK TO 1999. W/ MASSIVE #PROOF!
ALL We the People NEED is #FIRST_PARTY_COOKIES to be #RESTORED and Policed by WebTrafficCops.com w/ #FULL_TRANSPARENCY!!
INSTEAD what did the #Jew_Terrorists, #rOMAN_pAGAN #Congress do?
The REMOVED #ANONYMITY from the Original #BLOCKCHAIN CODE IN THE NAME OF #BULLSHIT #TRANSPARENCY THAT BLOCKCHAIN #NEVER_CONTAINED IN THE FIRST PLACE;) And why no mention of Blockchain to focus on the place hold called a Coin NOTBITCOIN WHICH IS A #BIG_FAT_JEW_LIE!!
Can you say “I AM A #Fool”?? Bc YOU ARE! #WITHOUT_APOLOGY
NEWS FLASH! 🍪 #1ST_PARTY_COOKIES #DISCLOSING #SEARCH_REFERRERS #PUBLICLY WAS originally accepted by the masses in 1999 until Google implemented CHEATING & DATA THEFT by the implementation of #THIRD_PARTY_COOKIES w/ stolen 3rd party software invented by WebTrafficBrokers in 1999 called #RTB (Real Time Bidding) #without Author Consent and without being #BROUGHT to #JUSTICE as of this writing on October 31, 2026 #Halloween;) The #Real_Ghost_Busters to the #Rescue!! 👻 🚑
#TRANSPARENT #1ST_PARTY_COOKIES 🍪 ONLY>>> IS THE #FIX_ALL #REMEDY! Not removing the #flour in the #blockchain cake called #anonymity, replaced with bullshit #transparency to confuse the MASSES!
Our USA so-called Anti Trust Regulators appointed by Biden are obviously COMPLICIT! Imho.
1. PART 2 VIDEO (Full Documentary) 2,823,946 views Premiered Sep 11, 2021 #Documentary | #PRISM PROGRAM: VIDEO HERE: #PBS_FRONTLINE
2. https://digiday.com/marketing/google-delays-third-party-cookie-demise-yet-again/
3. https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/22/google_chrome_privacy_sandbox/
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Part 2/2 See Part 1
‘This is a lethal threat’: Indigenous groups fear Bolsonaro’s hold on voters in Brazil’s Amazon towns
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Looks like I have made a mistake. (Another one? you say. Indeed, says I.)
I have been working on an ePub of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe, under the impression that a single file with all 150 texts and >300 illustrations would land at more than half a gigabyte. After all, the #Vellum file has grown that big.
But no.
After compiling the work, the #ePub turns out at around 65MB, which is manageable on modern systems.
It's still too big to sell on #Amazon, because their download fees, which they take out of royalties, would make it necessary for me to bump the price up by about $10, which is just stupid.
So, here's the new strategy:
Amazon: the whole collection split into 15 volumes at necessarily inflated prices. (Customers may like giving Bozo their money; he's not stealing from me.)
Ko-fi: the whole collection in a single 65MB ePub (no-DRM) that can be stored wherever you store stuff, and sideloaded on to any ereader or app, at a price that is less than a quarter of what the full 15 volumes costs on Amazon.
More information will be forthcoming.
#NorwegianFolklore #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folklore #Folktales #Legends #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthors
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Not everyone can afford to say, "Fuck you, I will not let you exploit me through GenAI anything", but it's all the more important that those who *can*, actually do it.
#NicholasCage #SpiderNoir #SayNoToGenAI #Amazon
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/
安比奈のまんがジャック 第８４話『依存症と戦うためには』| [安比奈誠伸] #Kindleインディーズマンガ で公開しました。 Amazonで今すぐ無料で読もう！
https://amzn.asia/d/02gSfpNj #amazon
So, I am a self-published author, and I wanted to diversify away from the #Amazon ecosystem for some time. However, I am hitting a snag with the Print on Demand options.
My paperback books are sold in a 6"x9" format, which is a standard format for paperbacks. With Amazon KDP, I sell my books for a standard price of $17.99, and I get about 5$ in royalties for each paperback sold.
Now I've used online calculators to calculate printing prices for a 384 page book on assorted Print on Demand platforms (this is the length of my current manuscript).
With Amazon KDP, I get the usual $5.19 in revenues.
With OneBookShelf (a platform that is primarily for #TTRPG, but which also sells fiction) I get US printing costs of $11.73, which should leave me revenues of about 4$. Still acceptable.
However, the biggest "alternative" Print on Demand platform is Draft2Digital, and there I would only get revenues of $1.11. Which is too low for my tastes.
So if I want to keep decent revenues for my print books, my options are:
- Increase the prices for my paperbacks. And I would have increase the price all the way to $24.49 if I want to get at least $4 in royalties.
- Skip Draft2Digital as a print publishing platform, and stick to Amazon KDP and OneBookShelf - although the latter only prints in the USA and the UK, which means customers in other countries will have to have to pay extra for shipping.
What are your thoughts what I should do? And what are some other Print on Demand platforms I should look into?
#amwriting #publishing
" #Brazil is globally relevant because more than 60 percent of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest lies within its borders. This is what makes the far right’s advance in the first round of the elections a concern to the entire world population. To fail to realize this is to fail to grasp what is at stake in our era—and failing to grasp what is at stake today might cost the future of our children and the children of other species, species whose parents cannot vote but are directly affected by our good or bad choices.
If Flávio Bolsonaro beats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff, there is a high probability the Forest will cease to exist as Forest, which means it will no longer function as a climate regulator or carbon sink, absorbing one of the gases that produces global heating.
There will be bare land, converted for grazing cattle, raising soybean monoculture, and extracting ores and oil, but there will be no Forest. There will be other types of vegetation, but there will be no Forest. The rainfall cycle will be altered, and even the agribusiness sector that today destroys the Forest and cheers on Flávio Bolsonaro will lose, and lose big.
This is the very near future looming before us. But it seems Brazil and the world have not realized this clearly enough."
https://sumauma.com/en/o-que-vai-acontecer-com-a-floresta-e-com-a-gente-se-flavio-bolsonaro-ganhar/
#elections #rainforest #amazon #environment #Lula #bolsonaro #climate #climatecrisis #carbon
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