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Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing

If you were fired or excluded from a job due to your race, age, or other demographics unrelated to the work you're being paid to do, it's called _discrimination_. But in our late capitalist world, the yacht-owning powers-that-be call it _surveillance pricing_. — Read the rest

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Jeff Bezos,“Prometheus” isimli yeni yapay zeka girişimi hakkında açıklamalarda bulundu

Amazon’un kurucusu Jeff Bezos, “Prometheus” isimli yeni yapay zeka girişimi hakkında ilk kez açıklamalarda bulundu. İlk olarak Kasım 2025’te gündeme gelen Prometheus, Bezos ile Google’ın çatı şirketi Alphabet’in sağlık odaklı bölümü Verily’ın kurucu ortaklarından Vik Bajaj tarafından kuruldu. Kısa süre önce 12 milyar dolarlık yatırım turunu geride bırakan ve sonucunda 41 milyar dolarlık…

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Trump, Musk, Lutnick, and Bezos Hijacked Infrastructure Bill Broadband Grant Money, Causing A Giant Mess

A quick refresher: There was originally $42.5 billion in taxpayer-funded broadband grants headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents). Last election season, Republicans (with Ezra Klein’s help) made a giant stink about how this program, the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment […]

Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating about 3,000 new AI-generated podcasts every single week. The owners of the startup (who called critics of AI slop “Luddites,”) stated that because they […]

Melania | Jeff Bezos praises “good business decision”, but wasn’t involved in it, guv’nor

Jeff Bezos denies having anything to do with Amazon’s Melania documentary film, but insists it was a “good business decision.” A rare interview with Amazon founder and very rich man, Jeff Bezos, has popped up on CNBC over the last day or two. As many note, Bezos’ net worth is inseparable from conversations about the ... Melania | Jeff Bezos praises “good business decision”, but wasn’t involved…

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Millionaire Sarah Paulson Wears Dollar Bill Over Eyes at Met Gala to Protest “The 1%”

The annual Met Gala is an annual fundraising event and a night for some of the biggest names in entertainment to show off often bizarre outfits. Each year has a theme, and this year's was "Fashion is Art." However, actress Sarah Paulson and her designer used the Met Gala as opportunity to exercise fashion as protest—specifically, the wealthy group they identify as 1%.

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Conquête de l’espace : la fusée Ariane-6 décolle de Guyane chargée de satellites Amazon

L’Europe confirme son retour en force sur le marché commercial spatial. Jeudi 30 avril, le lanceur Ariane 6 a décollé avec succès du Centre spatial guyanais à Kourou, emportant à...

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Someone already pitched Bezos' 10,000-year clock — in 1903

In the November 1903 issue of _The Strand_ , a physician named David Watsu laid out a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park, faced in granite or terra-cotta, with catacombs for royalty, an observatory at the apex, and an octagonal central chamber built around a reproduction Druidical arch. — Read the rest

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Musk, Bezos, Both Cry To Trump’s FCC In Bid To Dominate Satellite Broadband

Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos. And now the two billionaires are engaged in proxy fights at Trump’s FCC over who’ll get the honor. Amazon’s LEO offering, Project Leo, is significantly behind Musk’s Starlink, and has been rushing to build out its LEO satellite constellation. […]

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Jeff Bezos Protecting Rings of Power – Divisive Series Will Complete All 5 Seasons

Suggesting that Jeff Bezos made a significant investment in Rings of Power is putting it mildly. According to The Ankler, Amazon paid $250 million for the global rights to Tolkien’s works, with the first season alone reportedly costing around $465 million to produce. Now approaching its third season—of a planned five—the series is widely described by industry insiders as the most expensive show…

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