La Renée

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

On May 20, Amazon ended support for every Kindle made in 2012 or earlier. The devices can no longer buy, borrow, or download books. Reset one to factory settings and it will never log back in.

The screen still works. The hardware is fine. Amazon reached across the internet and turned a thing you paid for into a brick, on a date they picked, for a reason that benefits them.

The owners bought the devices. They bought the books. They followed every rule. Amazon changed the rules anyway, because the rules were never yours. When you tap "Buy now" on a Kindle book, you are not buying a book. You are renting a license that Amazon can revoke, expire, or strand on a dead device whenever it suits the quarter.

They designed it this way on purpose, and they showed us the blueprint years ago.

In 2009 Amazon reached into thousands of Kindles overnight and deleted, ironically, copies of George Orwell's 1984, a book people had already paid for. They refunded everyone, apologized, and promised never again. We took the promise for what it was worth and watched the door instead.

In February 2025 they shut it. They removed Download and Transfer via USB, the last simple tool that let you pull your own purchases onto your own computer and keep them. Newer Kindle files use a format almost nobody can crack.

They closed the exit, then they started bricking the devices. None of this was a surprise. They proved in 2009 that they could reach into your library and take a book back. Everything since has just been them deciding when.

A copy you cannot hold is a copy you do not own. A library that lives on someone else's server is a library someone else can burn. The cartel rents you access to the words and calls it ownership, and the only reason most people never notice is that the landlord usually lets them stay. May 20 was the eviction notice. It went to 3% of Kindle owners this time. The lease is identical for the other 97%.

Stop buying books you cannot hold. When you do buy from Amazon, strip the DRM the day it arrives and keep a clean file somewhere they cannot reach. Back up everything you already own while you still can. A book on your own drive is yours forever. A book in your Amazon account is yours until a lawyer in Seattle decides otherwise.

And when you want a book the cartel has priced out of reach or locked behind a dying device, the shadow libraries that never expire are one search away. The pirates build libraries that cannot be revoked, because they assume the cartel always will.

The cartel cannot delete what it cannot reach.

[La Renée @crbruni]

@MovistarCo @MovistarArenaCo Me encanta cantar con #movistararena 😉🎶
@MovistarCo

[La Renée @crbruni]

@MovistarCo @MovistarArenaCo Me encanta cantar con #movistararena 😉🎶

[La Renée @crbruni]

@JakesFFootball Saints or steelers? Jakobi meyers or Jefferson? 😅😅

[La Renée @crbruni]

@grok I’m in a full PPR fantasy football league. I need to pick on 3 WR. I have Courtland Sutton, Justin Jefferson, Mike Evans, and jakobi meyers. Who should I pick for the upcoming week 16 matchup?

[La Renée @crbruni]

@RTVCnoticias Que falta de todo, un pueblo sometido al hambre y a la injusticia por Maduro y de eso no dice nada. Ahora sé que autora no vuelvo a comprar. Maria Corina SÍ está haciendo algo tangible por su pueblo, hasta arriesgando su vida.

[La Renée @crbruni]

@Simone_Biles @Riley_Gaines_ Never thought I would be so disappointed of one of my favorite athletes in the world 😔😔 Simone, you really screwed this up… Riley, thanks for everything you’ve done for us women 💙

[La Renée @crbruni]

Jajaja amo los comentarios

[Paola Echeverría @SoyPaoEcheverry]

¡Ay mi Bogotá!

[La Renée @crbruni]

@A_P_SH La osadía se algunos 🤦🏻‍♀️

[La Renée @crbruni]

@TheAcademy The Academy is trying to humiliate Mexicans? It looks like… Cultural appropriation, ridiculous use of language, not a Mexican cast, not even Spanish native writers… incredible and disappointing

[La Renée @crbruni]

@ARENAOFICIAL “Históricamente”, antes que ustedes cambiaran la constitución en el 98, en El Salvador se podía abortar si peligraba la vida de la madre pero esa vida a ustedes no les importó. Es hora de hacer cambios. También, bajo su gestión, fuimos “históricamente” violentos y pobres… 😶

[La Renée @crbruni]

En @Cine_Colombia de Unicentro deben capacitar en higiene al personal que sirve la comida. Hace unas semanas la chica me sirvió un perro con la mano, sin guante y se molestó cuando no se lo recibí. Y hoy, uno abre el basurero con el guante puesto y NO se lo cambia. Amo ir pero 🤢

[La Renée @crbruni]

@AlexiaKeglevich @maghico22 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[La Renée @crbruni]

7 de cada 10 aceptaron violarla mientras estaba inconsciente… prefiero el oso, de lejos!!

[La Renée @crbruni]

Si siguen poniendo anuncios a media F1 @ESPNDeportes juro que NUNCA voy a comprar @assistcard si, los tendré en la mente, pero para nunca comprar. Ya pagamos por ver la carrera a @disneyplusla olvídate que voy a pagar dinero a una marca que caga la carrera con anuncios 😒😒

[La Renée @crbruni]

@nayibbukele Por eso es importante tomar ácido fólico en el embarazo… lástima que nadie le dijo a la mamá de este tipo 😂😂😂

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Derrumban estatua del fallecido dictador Hugo Chávez en el estado Falcón.

¡Qué viva Venezuela libre!

[Luz María Sierra @LuzMaSierra]

José María Giménez de Uruguay dijo que hinchas colombianos estaban atacando en las tribunas a esposas y niños de sus compañeros. Hasta ahora no ha aparecido el video que muestre algo así. En cambio aquí van 7 perlas…��� ⬇️

[La Renée @crbruni]

@Uber_Col es cierto que si un conductor choca o reporta un choque durante un servicio le cobran a uno la reparación como si fuera el cliente el que va manejando? Quisiera aclaración para saber si desinstalo de una la app o si es un malentendido. Ellos deberían tener su seguro

[La Renée @crbruni]

@_TJWatt You are the best! These people just robbed you, but we know how amazing you are 💛💛💛