Thursday, January 12, 2017

Amazon's Jeff Bezos buys former Textile Museum in Kalorama, Dupont Circle neighborhood--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/01/12/jeff-bezos-is-the-anonymous-buyer-of-the-biggest-house-in-washington/?utm_term=.8409a5ebb4de

I've been there so many times to see textiles, and right next door is the Burmese embassy.

So 2300 will be worth a lot now too.

Burmese dissidents take note.

KMKaung
1-12-2017

Amazon destroying rare books, for AI training.

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us