#anti amazon

[phoenixyfriend]

Hi! Bookshop.org is having a sale, with free shipping, to combat Amazon Prime Day.

I have an affiliate storefront! I have added their list of discounted Pride Month Books to that storefront!

(Also, my friend @bethany-sensei just released a book called Balances, and I have put it at the top of the list. Go preorder!)

Please buy from them, through me, for both a discount on the books and a wee bit of kickback to me, and to combat the evil forces of hypercapitalism. Also, here's their blurb:

Also, a set of their curated picks, hosted on my storefront (images were meant to be links but it's not working as expected).

Curated by the Site: 100 Books Celebrating Bookstores and Libraries

Curated by the Site: eBooks on Anti-Prime Day

Curated by the site: Get in the Know: Billionaires, Big Tech, and Monopoly

Curated by the site: 100 Bestselling Books of 2026 (So Far)

Trade Paperbacks

Nonfiction - Fashion

Nonfiction - City History and Planning

Nonfiction - Other

Fiction - Nostalgia (Children's and YA Lit)

I did have a general fiction list but it deleted most of itself and IDK what happened there.

Happy shopping!

[simonsezsorry]

Thank you to all the awesome people who I got to meet and take photos with at Fan Expo Cleveland, and of course to everyone who supported me in the Fan Expo 2026 Cosplay Craftsmanship Competition!! I'm thrilled to have received the Sustainability Award!!

I'll be providing my build book below so you can see how I made my entire cosplay for just $52 and from nothing but locally-thrifted and pre-owned or second-hand materials! No online-shopping required! ;)

Feel free to ask any cosplay questions in the comments! :D

(I apologize if anything is too difficult to read. I made this in procreate since I currently don't have a word processor that can place images and have paragraphs snap to individual pages, whoops... If anything is unclear, pls ask in the comments!)

[icedsodapop]

The Rise and Fall of Chris Smalls

Chris Smalls shot to prominence for playing a key role in the shock union win at a New York Amazon warehouse. He was charismatic and energet

Shitty ass fucking hit piece of labour organiser Chris Smalls by a leftist white woman. Yes, Chris Smalls, the former amazon worker who led a strike against amazon, put his body on the line for Palestine and got tortured by the IOF.

I can't help but see this article as a representation of white leftists feeling threatened by Black leadership in leftist spaces and the white need to "humble" vocal and visible Black people. Like hmm, it's funny how Jacobinmag would criticise a Black labour organiser for being "egotistical" while writing glowing articles for Graham Platner, the former Blackwater merc and Abu Gharib prison warden with a Nazi tattoo.

[scribeherself]

Just a nudge that pre-orders of ACOTAR 6 (and 7) from your local indie bookstore will probably pay their rent and staff for a month, but pre-orders from Amazon will pay Jeff Bezos money he won’t give to employees and he won’t even notice he earned.

[dkafterdark]

Kindle’s New AI Feature Can Answer Questions About Your Books (Whether Authors Want It or Not)

The Kindle app's new feature will provide AI-generated tips to explain your book's plot or how the characters relate to one another, though

always some new bullshit I hate it

[mysteryofvampires]

"You need to nerd out." Honey, you're not a nerd for reading Sarah J Maas, Fourth Wing, Shatter Me, Powerless and smutty dark romance books on your fucking kindle and documenting everything on goodreads

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

I'm out of the blue here but why do Tolkien fans hate Rings Of Power? How is it damaging his work and legacy?

We don't hate it because it's damaging Tolkien's work or legacy, which stand on their own merits. We hate it because it's an awful adaptation that treats his world and characters horribly. We hate it because it's made by a company that utterly betrays Tolkien's values and showrunners who have arrogantly compared themselves to him as if they're on his level. Not only that, ROP is being shoved down our throats: it's all over online spaces, it's mentioned in Tolkien-related news articles that have nothing to do with it, and ROP images have even been plastered on the covers of Tolkien's books just to make more money for Amazon. I have more than a few criticisms of Peter Jackson's films, but they all pale in comparison to the criticisms I have of this dumpster fire of a show and the company that made it. ROP has tried to present itself as diverse, but it actually has extremely regressive writing and tokenistic casting, not to mention abhorrent labor practices because it's made by fucking Amazon. Its plotlines and dialogue and internal consistency are shit. Despite an absurdly high budget, its production value is also shit. Even if it were a standalone fantasy series that had nothing to do with Tolkien and we weren't comparing it to canon, the whole thing is embarrassingly, sickeningly bad. Does this answer your question?

[youtube-privacy-union]

Amazon announced that their shutting down their AI token leader board because of employees over using tokens

“Amazon is looking to minimize "tokenmaxxing."

Amazon says it shut down a token leaderboard: 'Don't use AI just to use AI'

Amazon nixed an employee-created AI leaderboard called "KiroRank" after concerns it encouraged excessive AI spending.

The company is shutting down an employee-made leaderboard that tracked AI token use because it encouraged some staff to perform tasks that didn't necessarily solve problems, just so they could climb the ranks.”

Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior vice president has gone record to say

"Please don't use AI just for the sake of using AI. Use AI to help you solve customer problems, to help you solve business problems, to innovate."

“The move, first reported by the Financial Times, is the latest sign that big companies are pivoting from a culture of free-wheeling AI spending amid concerns about ballooning AI budgets that lack the returns to justify them.

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that the internal leaderboard, called "KiroRank," had been "deprecated."

The spokesperson said the dashboard was an informal tracker created by a group of employees and "was never intended to promote the use of AI for usage's sake."”

the spokesperson said in a statement.

"We're focused on AI adoption and sharing best practices to celebrate innovation and operational efficiency gains across the company, and we're proud of the way our teams are embracing this technology,"

“The spokesperson said that Amazon teams have the freedom to determine how to both use AI tools and track that usage.

While the tech giant does track AI token usage to measure costs, it doesn't encourage "tokenmaxxing," the Silicon Valley trend of measuring AI productivity by the amount of AI that an employee or company uses.”