Yet another reason not to buy from #Amazon: Today you would be crossing a picket line, digitally.
"More than 1,700 Amazon employees have pledged to walk off the job on Wednesday, demanding more flexibility with #RemoteWork and more attention on Amazon’s #climate impact."
Brazilian Congress approves a bill that, if it becomes law, could severely undermine indigenous rights by restricting demarcation claims only to lands occupied by indigenous peoples on the date of ratification of the current Brazilian Constitution in 1988. The vote represents a major defeat for president Lula's indigenous and environmental agenda.
it has dawned upon me that this also applies to adults. one day they'll also have toys with built-in #chatgpt too. no need to go outside and make friends anymore when you'll soon be able to buy them off #amazon
Public post because the recommendation is not exclusive, the book is quite fascinating IMHO even if you don’t participate in heated conversations very often.
@tyil@bonifartius@cnx Since I #boycott#Amazon, I clicked to buy the book on penguin.co.uk. Of all the unboycotted choices, one of them worked on my browser. So maybe I can get a copy.
Okay, so about Kindle for Mac and TTS. It looks like Amazon hasn’t updated its method for accessing the Mac’s TTS engine, so yeah it’s broken on Ventura. The function will start, but no sound will play, and the pages won’t turn, so it’s just sitting there stuck waiting on its TTS function to activate. It does have some good commands, for like continuous reading, reading the current sentence, stuff like that. Just needs updating. Meanwhile, you can use Voice in a Can for Mac to get Alexa to “read my Kindle book,” and everything Alexa can do.
I don't understand why when I order something on #Amazon. on the product page it says get it tomorrow get it tomorrow. But then when I actually check out it says it'll be delivered on Tuesday. I don't know why they do that, but it's damn frustrating!
Congratulations to Brazil and President #Lula for being selected to host COP30 in Belém, Brazil in 2025! COP30 in Belém is an opportunity for meaningful dialogue, cooperation and innovative solutions. #COP30#ClimateLeadership#Brazil#Amazon#Belem
OK, now I'm totally sold. Turns out that because of my history of building open source projects, I get to use #github#copilot for free. Kind of hard to beat that deal. I am definitely going to hype this project, even though I know some are not happy with it.
Addresses for Amazon’s South African marketplace fulfilment centres leak online
Amazon plans to have at least one fulfilment centre in Johannesburg and another in Cape Town, a document on its Carrier Central webpage for South Africa shows.
Reddit user u/Juanpees said he found the spreadsheet containing the information while perusing t ...continues
Amazon takes aim at Apple and Google with the $230 Fire Max 11, its biggest tablet ever - Amazon’s newest tablet is the Fire Max 11, priced at $230. (Amazon Photo)
Apple Announces WWDC 23 Keynote and State of the Union
Even thought many people already expected it, Apple has confirmed that it will hold its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote on June 5th at 10am Pacific time, or 1pm Eastern time.
Finally found an English language bookstore (in Milan) that sells used books in English (and is close enough to the Duomo that I can sometimes get there after work).
More than buying books, it finally seems I have a place to donate my used books, which will be a relief for our bookshelves 😉
People are shocked when I tell them there is no similar bookstore in Bologna (a university town through and through.) Welcome to the world Amazon has created.