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Since many of us are trying to avoid altogether or cut down on #Amazon purchases, please consider taking advantage of #JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress holiday sale. Until 12/8, all books are 40% off w/discount code HHOL24. Shipping free on purchases over $50. Hopkins' list is great & I'm very proud my memoir about my father's early-onset Alzheimer's, our grief, & brain health (thanks to my co-author neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller) is on it.
Finding the Right Words - Cindy Weinstein & Dr. Bruce Miller
Literary critic Cindy Weinstein reflects upon her father’s experience with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and writes in conversation with neurologist Dr.Finding the Right Words
Love them or hate them, #ElonMusk & #JeffBezos knew what they were doing by backing #DonaldTrump with money, promoting #Trump online or silencing media outlets critical of the former President.
👉🏾 Accused of violating worker rights, #SpaceX and #Amazon go after labor board npr.org/2024/11/18/nx-s1-51929…
> Today, six years after that patent was granted, we can that this idea has progressed [..]:
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>> Thousands of people catching trains in the #UnitedKingdom likely had their faces scanned by #Amazon software as part of widespread #AI trials, new documents reveal. The image recognition system was used to predict travelers’ age, gender, and potential emotions — with the suggestion that the data could be used in #advertising systems in the future.
Amazon has cancelled its secret "fertility tracker device" project. In other news, Amazon had a secret "fertility tracker device" project.
The program was ended in late October but apparently someone is just now talking to CNBC about it.
cnbc.com/2024/11/13/amazon-shu…
#Amazon #FertilityTracker
Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker
The project, codenamed "Encore," was part of Amazon's moonshot incubator Grand Challenge, which launched under founder Jeff Bezos.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
#Amazon confirms #employee data stolen after #hacker claims #MOVEit #breach
source: techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/amaz…
“Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a #security event. We were notified about a security event at one of our property management vendors that impacted several of its customers including Amazon. The only Amazon information involved was employee work contact information, for example work email addresses, desk phone numbers, and building locations,” Montgomery said.
If not even a company like Amazon can store its data securely, is there any security at all? Amazon doesn't lack money or experts, but it does seem to lack secure software.
#fail #cybersecurity #problem #software #internet #news #economy #hack #cloud
Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach | TechCrunch
Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday,Carly Page (TechCrunch)
theconversation.com/us-governm…
#netflix #amazon #subscriptions
US government tries to rein in an out-of-control subscription economy
It’s never been easier to sign up for subscriptions – and they’ve never been harder to manage.The Conversation
It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, just a ho-hum announcement of something not happening. Instead the greatest salesperson of the era, whose customer obsession had made #Amazon into a #colossus…, got the greatest customer #rejection of a lifetime.
A ¼M #WashingtonPost readers canceled their subscriptions….That is ~10% of the total circulation. The speed & decisive force of the cancellations was a bit of a shock but also appropriate, said Danny Caine, author of “How to Resist Amazon & Why.”
The decision by #Bezos, the #billionaire founder of #Amazon, was first reported by NPR on Friday. In the days since, 2 columnists have resigned from the paper & 2 writers have stepped down from the #editorial board.
One of those #writers, Molly Roberts, warned of the possible consequences of the 11th-hour decision to stay quiet rather than publish the editorial endorsing #Harris. "#Trump is not yet a #dictator," she wrote in a stmnt. "But the quieter we are, the closer he comes."
The future #JeffBezos is envisioning doesn’t only have #HitlersGenerals but #GoebbelsNewspapers.
theverge.com/2024/10/25/242796…
Jeff Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement
WaPo reports that its billionaire owner intervened to cancel an editorial board endorsement that had already been written.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Love Borowitz
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#satire #borowitzreport #USPol #USPolitics #Amazon
Jeff Bezos Sells Washington Post’s Integrity in Latest Amazon Prime Deal
The Amazon product page called the Post’s integrity “a signature feature that made this former newspaper great."Andy Borowitz (The Borowitz Report)
The rise and fall of Facebook (and other dominant online services). Interesting read.
#TedGioia #facebook #google #amazon
tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-we…
How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study
Or ten times Mark Zuckerberg jerked me aroundTed Gioia (The Honest Broker)
