Leeds Children’s Hospital Christmas Wish List – Amazon
If you’d like to buy a gift for a child in Leeds Children’s Hospital this Christmas, simply choose a present from our wish list and it will be delivered straight to the wards. Please make sure you select ‘Lisa Beaumont Children’s Hospital’ as the delivery address at checkout. Thank you!
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Electric Dreams: Art and technology before the internet – Tate
As the field gained international popularity in the 1960s, second-generation cyberneticists introduced principles of ‘observation’ and ‘influence’. This allowed them to link systems together into complex ecologies. Cybernetics became applied more widely to various social, environmental and philosophical contexts. It developed a cultural dimension among the 1960s hippie counterculture. They experimented with new technologies alongside their interest in alternative lifestyles and mind-altering experiences.Many artists and thinkers turned to cybernetics to make sense of a newly interconnected world, increasingly driven by technological development and interactions with machines. As a field concerned with constructing systems, cybernetics also holds the potential to dismantle existing structures and rebuild them anew. Artists responded to these ideas by creating systems-based works that performed creative acts with minimal human intervention, or which responded in real-time to the interactions of their viewers
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Alexa’s new AI brain is stuck in the lab – Bloomberg
It’s true that Alexa is little more than a glorified kitchen timer for many people. It hasn’t become the money maker Amazon anticipated, despite the company once estimating that more than a quarter of US households own at least one Alexa-enabled device. But if Amazon can capitalize on that reach and convince even a fraction of its customers to pay for a souped-up AlexaGPT, the floundering unit could finally turn a profit and secure its future at an institutionally frugal company. If Amazon fails to meet the challenge, Alexa may go down as one of the biggest upsets in the history of consumer electronics, on par with Microsoft’s smartphone whiff. -
See the light pour through: how art can free us from the exhaustion of smartphone addiction – The Guardian
As the writer Iris Murdoch said in an interview: “Most of the time we fail to see the big wide real world at all because we are blinded by obsession, anxiety, envy, resentment, fear. We make a small personal world in which we remain enclosed. Great art is liberating, it enables us to see and take pleasure in what is not ourselves.” Art reminds us to look up from the tiny world we’ve made on the black mirror that lives in our pocket. It helps us to understand our place in the universe, and look out to the expanse, rather than into our filtered selves through tech. It’s time to take back our attention; and to give it to the things we deserve and that matter. -
It’s the racism, stupid – BuzzMachine
This is why it is so horribly wrong to hear the likes of Chris Matthews smugly declare on Morning Joe that identity politics is dead because identity politics are to blame for Harris’ loss. Can he not hear himself? The election of Trump is the product of identity politics: white identity politics, dismissing, disdaining, and threatening people of every other identity. -
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting – One Useful Thing
Instead, let me propose a new analogy: treat AI like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation, one that comes highly recommended but whose actual abilities are not that clear. And I mean literally treat AI just like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation. Two parts of this are analogous to working with humans (being new on the job and being a coworker) and two of them are very alien (forgetting everything and being infinitely patient). -
An A.I. granny is phone scammers’ worst nightmare – The New York Times
Daisy, with her befuddlement about technology and eagerness to engage, is meant to come across, at least initially, as the perfect target. Her developers said they leaned into expectations, often using their own grandmothers for inspiration. “I drew a lot from my gran. She always went on about the birds in her garden,” said Ben Hopkins, who also worked on the VCCP project. Instead of using a voice actor to train Daisy, the team opted to use one of its colleagues’ grandmothers, who came in for some tea and recorded hours of dialogue.A prolific scambaiter based in Northern Ireland who posts on YouTube under the name Jim Browning worked with O2 and VCCP in developing Daisy, pumping her full of techniques to keep scammers on the phone. Among them: Go on lots of tangents on topics like hobbies and your family, and feign technological ineptitude. In one instance, three phone scammers teamed up on a call that lasted nearly an hour, trying to get Daisy to type “www.” into a web browser.
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Photographs of sunsets as reflected through shattered mirrors by Bing Wright – Colossal
Broken Mirror/Evening Sky is a series of images by New York photographer Bing Wright who captured the reflections of sunsets on shattered mirrors. The final prints are displayed quite large, measuring nearly 4′ across by 6′ tall, creating what I can only imagine to be the appearance of stained glass windows. -
Lynn Hershman Leeson predicted our digital hellscape – Hyperallergic
Another work, “CybeRoberta” (1996), comprised of a seemingly ordinary doll sitting inside a glass vitrine, allows viewers to access a designated website via a QR code displayed on the wall and then to change the position of “Roberta”’s digital eye to see real-time images of themselves in the gallery. Needless to say, finding myself so thoroughly surveilled by a seemingly benign toy was morbidly riveting, but also genuinely disconcerting. -
The Painted Protest: How politics destroyed contemporary art – Harper’s Magazine
It was the most depressing exhibition I had ever seen at the gallery, hardly worth a visit, let alone losing one’s legs. While Unravel pretended to be politically radical—even revolutionary—it didn’t seem to stand for much beyond liberal orthodoxy and feel-good ambient diversity. It offered fantasies of resistance, but had little to offer in terms of genuine, substantive social change or artistic experimentation. The works were almost entirely produced with traditional methods and materials, in recognizable aesthetics, and might as well have dated from half a century ago, if not much earlier. […]The extent to which the art world has taken up these concerns raises another question: When the world’s most influential, best-funded exhibitions are dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices, are those voices still marginalized? They speak for the cultural mainstream, backed by institutional authority. The project of centering the previously excluded has been completed; it no longer needs to be museums’ main priority and has by now been hollowed out into a trope. These voices have lost their own unique qualities. In a world with Foreigners Everywhere, differences have flattened and all forms of oppression have blended into one universal grief. We are bombarded with identities until they become meaningless. When everyone’s tossed together into the big salad of marginalization, otherness is made banal and abstract.
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Hallucinogenic sci-fi movie: Inside the rather bizarre relaunch of Jaguar – Car Dealer Magazine
Unveiling a new concept car – the details of which are still under embargo until December 3 – Jaguar’s passionate team spoke for most of the day about how they plan to ‘delete ordinary’ and ‘live vivid’. Whatever that means… In what, at times, felt like a drunken dream, Jaguar personnel walked journalists through its plans to ‘reimagine’ the much-loved brand over the next few years. Calling it a ‘complete reset’, McGovern at one point told journalists that his team had ‘not been sniffing the white stuff – this is real’. -
Banana artwork sells for $6.2 million – Hyperallergic
Tonight’s top bidder didn’t acquire a “part of history” — he bought a banana and a roll of tape. … Following auctioneer Oliver Barker’s nervous introduction (“Not quite sure what to expect here”), a rhythmic volley ensued between several bidders on the phones, a paddle in the room, and an ambitious online bidder. Six minutes later, the hammer finally plopped down at $5.2 million ($6,240,000, with the house’s fees) thanks to a phone bidder with Jen Hua, head of Sotheby’s China. The buyer, it was announced in an email blast shortly thereafter, was Chinese collector Justin Sun, owner of BitCurrent and founder of the crypto platform Tron. It’s not surprising considering that this was the only lot in the sale eligible for payment in cryptocurrencies and that two coins inspired by Cattelan’s work — the Solana-based “Banana Tape Wall” ($BTW) and a token called $BAN started by a Sotheby’s employee — are in thousands of digital “wallets.” That information, and the fact that Sun once paid nearly as much for a chance to have lunch with Warren Buffet, should tell you all you need to know about the bro energy surrounding this auction. Sun said in the email blast that he plans to “personally eat the banana” in the coming days as “part of this unique artistic experience.” -
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86 – The Guardian
Blair recounted the moment Prescott punched the egg-throwing protester. “This caused a huge sort of fracas, obviously. We had to give a press conference in the election campaign the next day … I just said: ‘Well, John is John.’ And so was that supposed to be an answer? I said: ‘Yeah, that’s an answer, that’s as much as you can say.’” -
Magritte, master of surrealism, joins the $100 million dollar club – The New York Times
Painted in 1954 and measuring almost five-feet-high, “The Empire of Light” was the last of 19 works that Christie’s offered from the collection of the socialite, designer and philanthropist Mica Ertegun. It was one of the largest of the 17 versions of this subject that Magritte painted in oil. The best-known is probably the monumental “L’empire des lumières” in the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Ertegun’s slightly smaller canvas, which she acquired privately in 1968, is the first in the series to include water in the foreground. “It’s maybe the best,” said Paolo Vedovi, the director of a gallery in Brussels specializing in works by Magritte and other 20th-century artists. “It seems that every big collector now wants a Magritte.” Vedovi added of the Surrealist’s appeal: “He’s so contemporary. Maybe you get away from this world and bad thinking. You don’t want something that is tough. He is poetic.” -
Amazon’s Temu competitor Haul is an AI image wasteland – Modern Retail
In Hensell’s view, the proliferation of these shoddy images is indicative of the type of seller Amazon has been recruiting for Haul. “A lot of these Chinese manufacturers, they’re built for volume,” she said. The fact that Amazon has so far allowed these listings to remain up, she went on, is a bad look for brands on Amazon’s dominant marketplace. “It degrades Amazon as a platform when you allow that kind of stuff to happen.” -
Introducing Amazon Haul—a broad selection of products $20 or less, with most under $10 – Amazon
Building on this longstanding partnership, we’re introducing an experience in the Amazon shopping app and mobile website called “Amazon Haul” that provides customers in the U.S. a place to discover even more affordable fashion, home, lifestyle, electronics, and other products with ultra-low prices and typical delivery times of one to two weeks. Amazon Haul offers a wide selection of products—all priced $20 and under—backed by Amazon’s A-to-z Guarantee, which protects customers when they buy in our store whether they are sold by Amazon or one of our selling partners. -
Here’s why I decided to buy ‘InfoWars’ – The Onion
Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon. -
This AI-powered invention machine automates eureka moments – IEEE Spectrum
When Ierides gets someone to sign on the bottom line, Iprova begins sending their company proposals for patentable inventions in their area of interest. Any resulting patents will name humans as the inventors, but those humans will have benefited from Iprova’s AI tool. The software’s primary purpose is to scan the literature in both the company’s field and in far-off fields and then suggest new inventions made of old, previously disconnected ones. Iprova has found a niche tracking fast-changing industries and suggesting new inventions to large corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Deutsche Telekom, and Panasonic. The company has even patented its own AI-assisted invention method. -
Rustica Cybercafe – Second Life
Welcome to Rustica Cybercafe from where you can ‘surf’ the ‘information superhighway’. We also have photocopy and fax services but no laminator sorry. -
“Subway Therapy” displays New Yorkers’ post-election thoughts – Hyperallergic
At the height of the project’s post-election popularity in 2016, disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo left a note of his own: “New York State holds the torch high! – Andrew C.” Strangers left messages including “Trump is inhumane,” “Love to my Muslim brothers and sisters,” angry sentiments toward the electoral college, and the popular slogan “Love Trumps Hate.” Eight years later, the rhetoric hanging from the neon Post-it squares is different. While there was barely any room for even one more sticky note at the Union Square station in 2016, this year’s confessionals are more sparsely populated, and their messages seem less reactive to a Trump win. -
Animations 2024 – bleuje
I’m Etienne Jacob from France, born in 1994. I’m a software engineer. I graduated from Ecole des Ponts and MVA Master where I have studied a blend of computer science, applied mathematics and data science. I’m also an artist who creates GIFs using programming and enjoys exploring creative coding during my free time. -
“Here I gather all the friends”: Machiavelli and the emergence of the private study – The Public Domain Review
Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and finds a space where words mediate the world and the self. -
Trump team reportedly getting fed up with Elon Musk’s weird behavior – Futurism
Musk is “behaving as if he’s a co-president and making sure everyone knows it,” one person familiar with the matter told NBC News. … “He’s sure taking lots of credit for the president’s victory,” NBC’s source continued, speaking of Musk. “Bragging about America PAC and X to anyone who will listen. He’s trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one.” -
Elon Musk may already be overstaying his welcome in Trump’s orbit – NBC News
Musk traveled to Mar-a-Lago to watch the election returns come in last week, and he has been there much of the past week, the two sources said. They said he is there at all hours, sitting with Trump and joining calls and meetings. … The second person said that Musk has an “opinion on and about everything” and that he shares them so forcefully that he has begun to pester Trump insiders. “He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” this source said. -
The Necronomicon – Propnomicon
After spending half an evening, this came out, and while I found it funny in a ridiculous way, I also realized this is probably so specific as to be funny only to a very specific intersection of demographics. I present, Penguin books’ post-war publication of The Necronomicon, well typeset and affordable for the common man. (I was pondering for a bit whether it would rather be a Penguin Classic, but the idea of the book of unspeakable horrors as an inexpensive nonfiction publication for a broad audience seemed way funnier.) -
The Onion just bought Infowars – The Verge
The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to “end Infowars’ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion’s relentless barrage of humor for good” when it relaunches in January 2025. -
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ – The Guardian
“After surviving unimaginable loss with courage and integrity, they rejected Jones’s hollow offers for allegedly more money if they would only let him stay on the air because doing so would have put other families in harm’s way,” said Chris Mattei, an attorney for the families. In a post on social media earlier this week, Mattei added that “the breakup of Infowars this week is just the start of Alex Jones’s lesson in accountability” and that the families “will go after his future income and any new Infowars owner acting as a vehicle for Jones’s continued control of the business”. -
‘The most expensive photos ever taken’: the space shots that changed humanity’s view of itself – The Guardian
It was one of history’s monumental moments – but if John Glenn hadn’t popped into the supermarket to pick up a Contax camera and a roll of 35mm film on his way to board the Friendship 7, there may have been no visual document of it. The photographs the American astronaut took from the window of his capsule as he orbited Earth on 20 February 1962 gave an unprecedented testimony of the Mercury Project’s first orbital mission. -
The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars – The Washington Post
The fate of far-right website Infowars will be controlled by the Onion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the media company founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — an outcome the Onion’s CEO called “cosmic justice.” … Families who filed the Connecticut-based defamation lawsuit against Jones agreed to accept a smaller payout to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, which enabled its success, according to a statement Thursday from the families’ lawyers. … “We were told this outcome would be nearly impossible, but we are no strangers to impossible fights. The world needs to see that having a platform does not mean you are above accountability — the dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Sandy Hook parent Robbie Parker said in a statement. -
Booker Prize is awarded to Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – The New York Times
Harvey has said that while writing the novel she continually watched streaming video from the International Space Station showing Earth from space. “To look at the Earth from space was a bit like a child looking into a mirror and realizing for the first time that the person in the mirror is herself,” she said during her acceptance speech. -
The limits of virtual democracy – Virtual Jungle
The Power Elite within CDS is made up of avatars who have more time to devote than others. It is said that time is money, but within communities time is above all power, because influence is exercised by maintaining an active presence. Thus an “inner core” (borrowing the term from Prokofy Neva) has gradually formed over time in CDS. This is a relatively small group of avatars who have intimate knowledge of Second Life, of CDS and of each other, and who generally manage to steer the community in the direction that they want. -
Endless fields of detritus blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s aerial composites – Colossal
“These photos may look like post-apocalyptic scenarios, but they could be our future,” the artist says in a statement. “We still have to learn that by throwing things away and taking them out of our sight, we don’t make them disappear. In fact, they keep existing somewhere else, outliving us most of the time.” Vasconcellos cuts out individual shipping containers, trucks, dumpsters, and piles of detritus in a meticulous and time-consuming digital process. He never repeats an element in a composition, and each piece is scaled and situated so that the shadows align with the directionality of the light. He then adds dust and dirt to the surfaces, simultaneously emphasizing the patina of time and an eerie sense of timelessness. -
Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? – The Verge
People hoarding “vanity domains” is a tale as old as the Internet itself. Just a few months ago, AI startup Friend spent $1.8 million on the domain friend.com after raising $2.5 million in funding. Having just raised $6.6 billion, OpenAI dropping more than $10 million —in cash or stock — is just a drop in the bucket. -
Not my problem – Noema
Elsewhere, the “new normal” world feels dangerous and confusing to many, a lot of whom find themselves still living in ever-growing city-sized refugee camps, unsure if they will ever be able to return home. Looking for a little comfort and distraction at a time when the traditional media and entertainment industries have all but collapsed, they find themselves turning to the abandoned generative art platforms and prompted content. Bixby Snyder rides again, his infamous catchphrase “I’ll buy that for a dollar” repurposed as a darkly humorous, self-deprecating refrain for the millions who find themselves falling into poverty and displacement. -
Practical betterments
Practical betterments is the silly name I came up with to describe one-off actions that result in continuous benifits. (also the dot com was available) Put another way — practical betterments are small ways to improve your life without the need for sustained willpower. -
Manual library online – Manualmachine.com
As a comprehensive repository for manuals, Manualmachine provides access to an extensive range of user guides and schematic diagrams. -
Trump win ‘awkward’ for critics in U.K., France, Australia governments – The Washington Post
After Trump declared victory in the election on Wednesday, Khan tweeted, without directly referring to Trump: “An important reminder today for Londoners: our city is — and will always be — for everyone. We will always be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.” -
All about the outcome – Archive Today: London Review of Books
Conventional wisdom holds that Labour tacks left after periods in government, when it prioritises socialist ideology, and then right after election defeats, which compel the party to reprioritise electoral strategy. A recent paper by Michael Jacobs and Andrew Hindmoor, from Sheffield’s Political Economy Research Institute, suggests that this is misguided: Labour moves right when the economy is doing well and there’s money to spend, then left when the economy looks to be in crisis and structural reform is needed. Structural reform is certainly needed today. Starmer and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will need to draw deeply from the reserve of new ideas to make the big changes necessary. Reeves has already made what the Financial Times called a ‘moderately radical’ move, indicating in advance of the budget that while she will ensure national debt falls, she’ll change the measure of debt she targets, allowing more government borrowing where it’s for investment rather than day-to-day spending. Labour’s first hundred days in office were dogged by controversies over ending the Winter Fuel Payment, the acceptance of gifts of clothes and glasses, and squabbles in No. 10. But the budget and next year’s spending review will show us what Starmer’s Labour Party is really made of. Barnier recalls that when he worked opposite him, Starmer was ‘always learning. He improved, day after day, year after year.’ Let’s hope so. -
Leon Eckert
Hallo! I am a German programmer, researcher and artist focusing on the critical discussion of technology and its impact on society. My work is inspired by the psychological, cultural and geopolitical processes at play in a time of large-scale data collection and analysis. -
3D Workers Island
3dwi.scr is a freeware screensaver. The full title is “3D Workers Island”, but most of us prefer to use its filename instead, pronounced “3D whisker.” In 3D Workers Island, six characters interact on a tiny island, with complex and unpredictable results. Every session tells a different story of the island. -
Christian Marclay: The Clock – MoMA
Due to limited seating capacity, entry to The Clock is not guaranteed. MoMA members receive priority access. Visitors may stay inside the exhibition as long as they like during open hours, but must rejoin the queue if they exit for any reason. Food and drink are not allowed, and we ask that visitors refrain from talking or using cell phones. The use of recording devices, including mobile phones, is strictly prohibited. -
Gamer role introduced in children’s hospital – BBC News
A Scottish children’s hospital charity has introduced a gamer in residence for young patients in Glasgow. The new job involves visiting children to play video games with them, preventing boredom and providing some light relief. Steven Mair, who was appointed by the Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, says gaming has already provided huge benefits to the patients. He said that playing Mario Kart has improved the mobility of a patient’s hand and that it was also a useful tool in distracting the children during medical procedures. “One of my first sessions here at the hospital was a patient who was on a plasma exchange and that can be quite intrusive”, he added. “When I went in to play with that patient, it kept him distracted throughout the whole procedure.” Josephine, the mum of eight-year-old Laura Jayne, said her daughter had been in hospital for six months. She said: “It’s been really good just to pass the time. Sometimes it helps her to interact with the gamers. She really gets a lot out of it.” -
How counties are shifting in the 2024 presidential election – Washington Post
Most of the nation’s 3,000-plus counties swung rightward compared with 2020. The Republican shift appeared across rural border communities in Texas, the wealthy suburbs of Washington, D.C., and even reliably Democratic counties in New York City. Trump widened his margins in rural areas, while Harris underperformed compared with Biden in safely blue cities. This combination, and a rightward lurch in major suburbs and midsize metros, amounted to a Trump victory in every battleground state. -
Philip Rosedale Community Round Table, Nov 2024, with videos + Audio – Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld
Closing Comments: Is back at the Lab full time in the CTO role. Part of his focus is figuring out how to better communicate with everyone. Specifically as CTO is looking at what, how and why technologies changes should be made, and more broadly focused on strategy and product. Notes that of late, the comments from outside of SL have not been so much phrased in the past tense and in terms of acknowledging it is still going and available, and that this could be beneficial as LL starts marketing SL more. Expresses confidence that SL will start growing again, and reiterates that user can help in this. Does feel that in a time when technology and the Internet have done much to endanger democratic expression and the polarising of views, Second Life demonstrates there is a much more positive way for people to connect using technology, and how it can have a depolarising effect, allowing people who might not otherwise, become friends. In this, sees the opportunity to promote virtual worlds as beneficial environments for people to use, and which can be respected as such, and can help us face some of the broader challenges we face as a human society. -
10 takeaways from the night Trump marched back to the White House – The New York Times
Mr. Trump has praised the authoritarian leaders of China, North Korea and Russia while demeaning democratic American allies in Europe and Asia. Whether the United States remains part of NATO is a live question. Aid to Ukraine as it struggles to fight off Russia’s invasion is in peril. And the Mideast conflict will have a powerful, unpredictable new actor who has not demonstrated an interest in calming tensions. […]Mr. Trump’s Justice Department is likely to drop the federal charges against him in his classified documents and election interference cases. He has already said he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has led the federal investigations and prosecutions into the former president over the last two years. There is not much doubt that a Trump-appointed attorney general would drop the charges shortly after being confirmed.
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Google Keep FAB redesign makes new notes a two-step process – 9to5Google
Previously, the bottom portion of Google Keep had a bar with buttons for creating a new list, drawing, audio, and photo note. Then there’s the cutout for a new note floating action button at the right. Google Keeps’ Material You redesign in 2021 changed that FAB from a circle to a rounded square, with the cutout feeling pretty out of place in Material 3. -
Is the race for the White House ‘a real Armageddon election’? – The Guardian
Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill, said: “The approach of leaning into a toxic masculinity-themed campaign at a time when women’s rights are literally under assault in America is indicative of the absolute regressive and draconian worldview that Donald Trump brings to politics. They have doubled and tripled down on it, appealing to the worst instincts and lowest common denominator in the country.” -
After non-endorsement, 250,000 subscribers cancel The Washington Post – The Washington Post
[Bezos] also expressed regret about the timing of the announcement — just 11 days before the election — which has prompted speculation that he was seeking to curry favor with a possible second Trump administration, given his many business interests before the federal government. Bezos denied that, writing that there was “no quid pro quo of any kind” and that the decision “was made entirely internally.”
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