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You might enjoy Cory Doctorow's recent book "Radicalized": https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ T
by ansible 7y ago
You might enjoy Cory Doctorow's recent book "Radicalized":
https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/ https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/
The protagonist starts out by jail-breaking her toaster, which was designed on only toast authorized bread. However, the company that produced it went out of business (taken over by a hedge fund), and the authentication servers were shut down, so now the toaster couldn't toast anything.
- simonebrunozzi 7y agoThat's hilarious, if not sad.
- ansible 7y agoHilarious and sad describe much of Doctorow's work. Though I'd characterize "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" as superbly creepy.