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
“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