Ada’s Technical Books cannot be allowed to die! Somebody with money please swoop in and save it 😭

www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Dear authors and other pubfolk:

I am aware that someone is impersonating me in spam emails to authors, offering to help publicize their books.
While I do work for a book review publication, that email is NOT from me or my company.
Please email me at Shelf Awareness if you have any questions.

Dear Patrick, At Adobe, our mission is to support your creativity. Over the last few years, we’ve added a lot of new technology, tools, and performance improvements that help you create more efficiently than ever in our core creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, explore new ideas with our Firefly generative AI technology, and exercise expanded creative control. Aligned with those improvements and ongoing innovation, we’re enhancing the current Creative Cloud All Apps with a new name, price, and benefits. Your Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro and will include all your existing benefits, along with a wide range of new benefits explained below. This will happen at your upcoming renewal. Creative Cloud Pro will cost US$69.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Your subscription will automatically renew monthly on 05-May-2026 (PT) until you cancel. As always, you can manage or cancel your plan at any time via your Adobe Account or by contacting Customer Support.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

I really don't know--I was talking about the shuttle bus schedule, no idea what word he thought of. He was deeply Southern, maybe it's a regional thing? I was hoping someone here could explain the objection.

A colleague called me out when I said jitney.

Why does everyone who's about to ask for the manager start with "I never complain, but..."

I don't feel a day over 70

Some American talking head on BBC just described Trump as "circumspect."

Iguana. I have experience with this.

+another 10¢ this morning. (and this is for regular, not premium)

Gas is now 65¢/gallon more than it was the last time I filled up, about 10 days ago. Wonder what changed?

One was a dentist, the other a storekeep.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

'Moments of Grace': A Bookselling Parable Yesterday American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill welcomed attendees at the 21st Winter Institute with a story about the parallels

Allison Hill on the difficulty and triumph of being a bookseller now. Love books? Read this: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Well that was a mildly scary, very delayed takeoff from DC in heavy snow.
17 hours of frustrating travel to end up in the same place I started.

I have spent literally the entire day at IAD after my connecting flight to Winter Institute was cancelled. Now watching the snow as I wait for a flight home that's overbooked and already late. Any bets on where I sleep tonight?

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Trump is giving tax cuts to Bezos but none to you.

Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend...

We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again.

Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.

Wow.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

Fuck these fucking thieves

Travel alert issued by civil rights groups for Florida tourists Groups like the ACLU warn Florida tourists their rights, liberty and physical security could be in danger.

Civil rights groups issue warning alert about #Florida dangers to would-be tourists. palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...

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.

they both have female characters with long dark hair, I guess?

Netflix promo pic for a 2013 teen drama TV series called The Lying Game

Someone please splain Netflix algorithm to me. Because I watched THE WITCHER, I should like this?

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

For now, support now ex-editor Ron Charles! open.substack.com/pub/roncharl...

If I hadn't cancelled WaPo months ago, I sure would now. So sorry for all the excellent reporters and editors suffering Bezos's greed. #books