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ansible on May 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019

You might enjoy Cory Doctorow's recent book "Radicalized":

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 on May 10, 2019 [–]

That's hilarious, if not sad.

ansible on May 10, 2019 | [–]

Hilarious and sad describe much of Doctorow's work.

Though I'd characterize "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" as superbly creepy.

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