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between all the bookstores he put out of business and now the books section of the WaPo, you could make a case that Jeff Bezos is the greatest enemy of literacy there has ever been.

Dreamwidth still exists

At this point, I think the entire publishing industry needs to have a serious conversation about the degree to which the last 15 years have increasingly seen book promo become an online venture, and what that means now that entire social media and digital platforms are getting torched overnight. 🧵

That‘s the spirit.

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

Covid kinda broke me in terms of people not caring, but this is the opposite, where people from all over the whole danged country are like "No, I'M Spartacus the Whistle Nerd!"

Let me explain the math behind why the destruction of the Washington Post isn't about money.

The paper is now losing $100 million a year. Jeff Bezos is worth $253 billion. This means he could self-fund the Washington Post for THE NEXT 2,000 YEARS and still have $53 billion LEFT OVER.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

The economy section is going to be the next thing Bezos cuts because he doesn't like their reporting

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

This app did the thing yet again where it updated itself and turned “Require alt text before posting” off, so if you have that set, go into Settings > Accessibility and turn it back on (and if you don’t have it set, I recommend doing that)

By entering the competition and in consideration for Hearst publishing your entry, you assign to Hearst the entire worldwide copyright in your entry for all uses in all print and non-print media formats, including but not limited to all rights to use your entry in any and all electronic and digital formats, and in any future medium hereafter developed for the full period of copyright therein, and all renewals and extensions thereof, any rental and lending rights and retransmission rights and all rights of a like nature wherever subsisting.

Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

Crouton is a brown and gray tabby cat with a white face and feet, folded under a blanket and fast asleep

Triscuit is a brown and gray tabby cat bundled under a blanket

Purritos 🧡🥰

Meanwhile Schumer is negotiating himself down to “ICE can wear a mask if they really want to and say please and promise to not do any murders with it on”

A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”.

He couldn’t hear their orders.

They denied him an interpreter.

Denied him accommodations.

This is who they are.

They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

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I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

This is why nobody is going to trust the US for a good long time.

It's not just the rot and corruption and cruelty. It's the lack of official swift removal of those doing the rot and corruption and cruelty.

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

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I'm pretty sure I put more planning and research into the last vacuum cleaner I bought that these dipshits put into their "Let's sell perishable food, but with much less safety than usual!" business plan.

I think it should be a bigger story that Republicans think the 4th Amendment is just some piece of annoying bureaucracy

Hugs and hopes for improvement

Sam Altman, the man being trusted with so much money that he's basically become the wobbly jenga block for the global economy, thinks Dyson Spheres are a few decades away and like ... I'm sorry this man knows nothing about engineering and his predictions cannot be trusted

Chuck. Chuck.

Read the room.

Democrats do not want "commonsense reform."

Democrats do not want "bipartisanship."

We want NO ICE.

We want an opposition that fights tooth and nail.

There's a battle outside, and it's raging.

I think about this a lot

I'll never stop being mad about the rose garden