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Reacher Season 3: I just finished and it was pretty meh.
Six really slow episodes with tiny sporadic bursts of unmemorable action. A 7th episode rushing to get plot lines aligned for an 8th episode crammed full of hard to follow action. The pacing was horrible.
I wouldn’t mind the show wrapping it up now. But we know another season is coming.
Amazon är ytterligare ett av de fem stora IT-företagen. Precis som när det gäller Meta Platforms stöder Amazon och dess ägare Jeff Bezos Trumpregimen. Det finns alltså flera god skäl att överge även Amazons olika produkter.
South America – Stories | Droughts in the Amazon | Musuk Nolte
Elidia Carolina lives with her partner and their two-year-old daughter in a “floating house” built on stilts. Due to the droughts, the area around their home now resembles a desert, and they must walk almost 2km to reach the shore of the Solimões River. Manacapuru, Amazonas, Brazil, 3 October 2024.
The capitalist mindset.
#Amazon is just another store.
#Turkey is just another holiday destination.
A #Cybertruck is just another mode of transport.
#Nestle is just another coffee brand.
Factory farmed #chicken is just another source of protein.
#LLMs (#AI) are just another tool.
#Capitalism needs you to ignore the social and environmental costs, and think only of personal benefits.
DSGVO-Verstoß: Luxemburger Gericht bestätigt Rekordstrafe für Amazon
Amazon soll seine Rekordstrafe für Datenschutzverletzung zahlen, sagt das Verwaltungsgericht Luxemburgs: 746 Millionen Euro.
heise.de/news/DSGVO-Verstoss-L…
#Amazon #Datenschutz #DSGVO #Werbebranche #Recht #Wirtschaft #news
Spider-Bond? Bond, Harry Bond?
theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/…
#jamesbond #bond #mgm #amazon #movies
Amazon confirms producers to steer next James Bond film: ‘greatest sense of responsibility’
Spider-Man’s Amy Pascal and Harry Potter’s David Heyman will helm the tech company’s first official 007 adventureBenjamin Lee (The Guardian)
I completely agree that the #billionaires should suffer, not the common folk.
However, that same common folk continues to buy from #Amazon & the like en masse.
That same common folk voted for #Trump, many of whom indicate that they'd *still* vote for Trump even now.
That common folk stayed absent during the elections because they didn't agree with either candidate.
Not trying to defend billionaires, but come on....
Democracy doesn't protect itself, the people protect their #democracy.
For quite some time I knew that the #irish #dataprotection institution was an underfunded, understaffed, weak #pontemkin village #bigtech was taking advantage of - and only #noyb was really getting on their nerves.
I ordered it yesterday and will have the book in my hands tomorrow ( certainly not from #Amazon, but local bookshop! )
Well ... feels like another not so nice day coming.
Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
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#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta
👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈
👉 #SignalHack👈
(15/n)
...Clouds of #Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare. They can de-anonymise every user!
Here are all the tech details:
primal.net/e/note14hf9%E2%80%A…
Weitere Infos zum #SignalHack:
social.tchncs.de/@Optimus/1140…
fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…
chilemasto.casa/@sebagutiem/11…
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Sebastian (@sebagutiem@chilemasto.casa)
#Hackers explotan la función de dispositivos vinculados de #Signal para secuestrar cuentas por medio de códigos #QR maliciosos https://blogs.masterhacks.Chilemasto
👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈
(7/n)
... 👉our international discussion: 👈
pleroma.iselfhost.com/objects/…
In conclusion, as all services using #US servers like signal have been compromised since the #CloudAct went into force,
"Since #Signal's entire traffic runs over the clouds of #Amazon [#AWS,] #Google, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare.
👉All US services...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
#GAFAM #Amazon #Alexa #Privacy
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
You might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Cory (@pluralistic) with a banger of a post:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…
And this factoid:
"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."
#Amazon #Echo #Alexa #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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... felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense."
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#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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... for a copyrighted work:
pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/rec…
That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let you get inside your Echo and change the software back. Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a...
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa
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👉Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading👈
Is this globally?
How e. g. in the EU.
US laws don't apply there.
"If the #Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...
'My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house.
I looked at her and said "Spyware". She laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed, I shot Alexa, it was a good time."
#Amazon #spyware #Alexa #Echo #HomeAssistant
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
If you still have an Echo turned on anywhere, now's the time to crush it like the bug it is.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
#ai #surveillancecapitalism #amazon #broligarchy
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Mail from #Amazon:
Dear Amazon customer,
You know that option that you checked in your User T&C, "Please encrypt & protect my personal data"? Well we have decided to change that to "Please do whatever the fµck you like with all my personal data".🙂
Thank for your naivety in continuing to be a profitable product for our company.
Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
Welp, I just closed my #Amazon account.
My first order with that service was on the 22nd of October 1999. I ordered a copy of the User Friendly comic book. At the time, I was living in a student home.
If you think it's because Jeff Bezos supports #fascism in the #USA, directly and indirectly with the #WashingtonPost, you'd be wrong.
I mean, those are great reasons for sure! But whatever moral strength I may possess, I am also a creature of convenience. I managed to get away from #Google ...
Kontroverse um Elon Musk: Warum ich mir trotz allem einen Tesla kaufe
Auf einem Roadtrip durch Island hat sich die Autorin in einen Tesla verliebt – und kaufte sich einen. Für Empörung hat sie nicht viel Verständnis.Klaudia Lagozinski (taz)
#Amazon #forest felled to build road for #climate #summit 😱
source: bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…
A new four-lane #highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the #COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of #Belém.
#Brazil #fail #environment #nature #politics #future #earth #emissions #problem #ethics #humanity #news
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Amazon is now using AI voices to dub movies for streaming on Prime.
This technology "underscores their commitment to inclusivity" — for everyone except the voice actors who will lose work if we accept this.
cordcuttersnews.com/prime-vide…
Prime Video Introduces AI-Powered Dubbing of Movies & TV Shows | Cord Cutters News
Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming platform known for its extensive library of movies and series, announced today, March 5, 2025, the launch of a new AI-aided dubbing initiative aimed at breaking down language barriers for its global audience.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)