I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

#books #bookstodon #reading #readingCommunity #AmReading #amazon

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k…

Kindle's New Gen AI-Powered "Ask This Book" Feature Raises Rights Concerns - Writer Beware

In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. We’re adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle.

^{Victoria Strauss (Writer Beware)}

Tucson Voted Against An Amazon Data Center In the Desert. The Tech Giant Is Building It Anyway.

youtube.com/shorts/FTQKxdh8ZEY

Tucson residents fought back against Amazon’s secretive plans to build a data center in the desert — and won. But now, in a blatant attempt to override the City Council and the will of the people, Amazon and the project’s developer is pushing ahead anyway.

#Amazon #DataCenter #VotedDown #MovingAhead #PublicIgnored #Bribery #Corporations #DontCare #BealeInfrastructure

As the We Ain't Buying It campaign calls on shoppers to boycott Trump-supporting businesses over the Black Friday sale period — Home Depot, Target, and Amazon are at the top of their list -- Heather Cox Richardson reminds us of the effectiveness of boycotts:

#boycott #BlackFriday #HomeDepot #Target #Amazon #WeAintBuyingIt #Musk #Tesla #Disney #Hulu
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

November 25, 2025

Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

📦 This is not only via #Amazon, it's common practice, many many packages from #China I have checked are mislabeled either in content or price.

Has anyone else ever noticed that? If so from where did you order? Please let me know below ⬇️

heise.de/en/news/Smuggled-Chin…

#News #Chinese #Delivery #Package #Customs #Products #Product #smuggling #heise #mail

Smuggled Chinese products? Raids at Amazon in Italy

A police force in Italy responsible for combating economic crime has searched Amazon buildings. The fraud allegations could expand.

^{Martin Holland (heise online)}

...Geld, um nur ein Fünftel des Wertes zurückzubekommen.👈
#Amazon hat eine Infrastruktur aufgebaut, die einen Umsatz von 38 Milliarden US-Dollar generieren könnte, aber tatsächlich wurden nur 4,6 Milliarden US-Dollar erzielt, was bedeutet, dass nur 12 % der Kapazität gewinnbringend genutzt werden.

Der Umsatz pro Einheit von #Microsoft sank nach der Umstellung auf #KI von 17 Milliarden Dollar auf 11 Milliarden Dollar. 👉Das sind keine Start-ups, die noch am Anfang stehen, sondern die...

...modernsten #Technologieunternehmen der Welt, deren Renditen immer schlechter werden.👈

👉Alle sagen, dass die Monetarisierung später kommen wird, aber die Zahlen von #Amazon zeigen, dass die Infrastruktur bereits vorhanden ist.

Die Kunden sind einfach nicht bereit, genug zu bezahlen, damit es sich lohnt.👈

//

...erzielte einen Umsatz von 17 Milliarden Dollar pro Gigawatt, bevor #Azure sich auf #KI-Workloads umstellte, jetzt sind es etwa 11 Milliarden Dollar.
#Amazon fügte 3,8 Gigawatt Kapazität hinzu, was einem potenziellen Jahresumsatz von 38 Milliarden Dollar entspricht, meldete jedoch nur ein annualisiertes Umsatzwachstum von 4,6 Milliarden Dollar.

*Meine Meinung*
👉Dies ist die bislang deutlichste Aufschlüsselung, warum die Ausgaben für KI nicht funktionieren.
Man investiert sechsmal mehr...

#BigTech #Kapitalmärkte

👉Ein erster quantitativer Nachweis für die #KIBlase? 👈

(1/n)

*KI-Infrastrukturinvestitionen könnten eine Geldvernichtungsmaschine darstellen*

von #HedgieMarkets /XdotCom

"#🦔Rothschild stufte #Amazon und #Microsoft auf „neutral“ herab und argumentierte, dass die #KI-Infrastruktur sechsmal so viel Kapital erfordert, um denselben wirtschaftlichen Wert wie die ursprüngliche Cloud-Umstellung zu...

r.jina.ai/x.com/HedgieMarkets/…

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 around

^{Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker)}