Cory Doctorow once gave the hypothetical example of a phone company doing a deal with Domino’s so that every time you called a rival pizzeria, you got “press 1 to be connected to Domino’s or wait 30 seconds to be put through to the number you dialled”

He printed and distributed the Tsarist-era antisemitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the US, as well as a book of his own writing titled The International Jew.

The “new” one looks 1970s or so, from before widespread adoption of CAD systems that could do curved surfaces easily.

Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.

In early-20th-century America, they called these interurbans. You could get (slowly) from New York to the Midwest using only a chain of them.

Surely that’s when humanity has forgotten how to be selfish and the state withers away, leaving a utopia of fully actualised workers for whom work and play are indistinguishable, both being ways of joyously participating in society.

Godwin’s Law was an artefact of a time when we knew that Nazis were as extinct as Vikings and Mongol hordesmen, and comparing someone to one was dramatic hyperbole. It, of course, no longer applies.

Ariana was a brand name used by a Chinese manufacturer of cheap luggage of the sort you’d find in neighbourhoods with working-class immigrant populations. I once had a backpack of theirs which was the maximum airline carry-on size, which is to say, muy grande.

Isn’t that Donald Trump’s phone background?

Was the video made in Australia or New Zealand by any chance? There are two Microbees (Z80-based computers from New Zealand, virtually unheard of in the northern hemisphere) in the photo,

He’s probably all for it. More persecution of Jews abroad = more emigration to Israel = more IDF troops and settlers for newly conquered lands. Everyone’s a winner!

I’m sure they just wanted them to wish them all a happy Hanukkah. Right?

Isn’t she some kind of right-wing influencer? The crazy was probably a plus.

America! Fuck yeah!

Pros for Saab: Sweden has neither the means nor the intention to threaten Canada

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

In Ottoman Turkey, burglars would set a tortoise with a lighted candle on its back loose in a house they were planning to rob, to check if there was anyone home.

So, sort of like the segment-laying part of tunnel-boring machines, only flipped and scaled up?

That sounds really… economically anxious

Correction: Adams’ cause of death was not prostate cancer as earlier reported, but autoerotic asphyxiation.

Update: the pornographic material found at the scene has been confirmed to be AI-generated Shrek mpreg.