In bookstores across the US on August 25. If ever there was a time to act, it is now.

The Amazon founder will serve as co-CEO for a new firm called Project Prometheus, The New York Times reports, citing anonymous sources.

A new UBS study reveals a record number of billionaires, with 287 minted over the past year.

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Washington Post’s Love Letter to American Fascism

Attached: 1 image Audiobooks are hands-down the most enshittified aspect of publishing, which is why I make my own audiobooks and pre-sell them on Kickstarter, which is how I get around the fact that Amazon *refuses* to carry my audiobooks: http://disenshittification.org -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/25/disenshittified-audiobooks/#canny-valley 1/

While chairman Jeff Bezos enjoys his honeymoon, Amazon workers are in line for record injuries and hospitalizations over the four-day summer sale.

This billionaire bad-taste gathering is (accidental) outrage fodder for the age of populism.