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The End of All Things by Maximilian Pirner (1887) pipedreamdragon.tumblr.com/post/716904634… Image
Train Station (1956) in Vierlingsbeek, the Netherlands, by Willem Kloos. Demolished in 2004. germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/716911775… Image
TRS 80 model III (1980) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/716913660… Image
“The Case of the Cancelled Philatelist” Stamped for Death by Emmett McDowell Ace D 329, 1958 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/716914288… Image
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The surface of Pluto, painted by James Hervat for Astronomy magazine in the 1970s dduane.tumblr.com/post/716920848… Image
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1961 Cutex ad gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/716926369… Image
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Cover Girl (1944) gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/716896181…
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New Book of Comics #2_Spring 1938 blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716902417… Image
Captain Science #1_November 1950_Walter Johnson cover art blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886369… Image
Red Seal Comics #18_October 1946_Paul Gattuso cover art blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886374… Image
Black Hood Comics #12_Fall 1944_Possibly Irv Novick cover art [GCD] blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886378… Image
Blue Bolt Comics #1_June 1940_Joe Simon cover art blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886384… Image
Marvel Mystery Comics #75_August 1946_Vince Alascia cover art blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886388… Image
Adventures Into The Unknown #42_April 1953_Ken Bald cover art blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886398… Image
National Comics #35_September 1943_Alex Kotzky blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716886431… Image
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Master Comics #15_June 1941_Possibly Mac Raboy cover art [GCD] blogginsgoldenageofcomics.tumblr.com/post/716889204… Image
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We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.

1/ Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
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Look, I'm not trying to say that new technologies *never* raise gnarly new legal questions. But what I *am* saying is that a lot of the time, the "new legal challenges" raised by technology are somewhere between 95-100% bullshit.

1/ A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.
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I have a weird fascination with early-stage Bill Gates, after his mother convinced a pal of hers - chairman of IBM's board of directors - to give her son the contract to provide the operating system for the new IBM PC.

1/ A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommon...
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Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:



1/ gizmodo.com/meta-learns-th…The classic Puck Magazine editorial cartoon entitled 'The King of All Commodities,' depicting John D Rockefeller as a man with grotesquely tiny body and a gigantic head, wearing a crown emblazoned with the names of the industrial concerns he owned. Rockefeller's head has been replaced with that of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The names of the industrial concerns have been replaced with the wordmarks for Scale AI, Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. The dollar-sign at the crown's pinnacle has been replaced with the Facebook 'f' logo. The chain around Rockefeller's neck sports the charm th...
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This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken *to reduce competition*, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.

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Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called *Who Censored Roger Rabbit?* which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*

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But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length sequels.

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