Maybe he worked a few years at a temp agency?

Like other states, California won’t financially penalize violators, but it will post the names of violators on the state Department of Justice’s website.

Sounds like the state is just giving the violators free advertising to potential donors who want to exploit the practice.

The theory you’re referring to sounds like the free energy principle (or a variation of it).

I assume the article itself is an example of the brilliant writing we’d all be capable of if we just subscribed to ChatGPT instead of Netflix.

Yeah. In my case, though, a lot of my library consists of relatively expensive reference works that I use regularly and that would be prohibitive to replace if Amazon decided to play games with them.

Did they mean to say “overzealous”?

Because a “zealous” prosecutor is just one committed to doing their job.

Yeah—I finally got a physical Kindle in part to simplify the process of downloading and backing up my ebooks.

To be fair, though, their devices and apps have mutually-incompatible file formats, so if the only point of downloading a file were to put it on an offline Kindle via USB (which is the only use case they acknowledge), they’d need to know what device you’ve got so they can convert the file to an appropriate format.

I don’t know.

You can put unmanaged files (in a readable format) onto a Kindle via USB, though, so if you’d backed up the file somewhere you could presumably put it back again manually.

They compute the odds of a human ever getting hit by a PBH in the lifetime of the solar system, and it’s… considerably less than the odds of getting a stroke.

There are also Kindle books sold without DRM at the request of the author.