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A suite of old, mainframe-style computers. Looming over them is a carny barker, waving a cane. Perched atop one of the mainframes is a skeleton in a robe, drinking a goblet of blood. On the right, a credulous, gap-toothed child in old-timey clothes grins in marvel at the barker's pitch. The background is an out-of-focus filing room filled with ranked filing cabinets and busy clerks.
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    The interior of a luxury sedan as seen from the driver's PoV, with the driver's hands on the wheel. Mounted to the vent is a Spotify 'Car Thing' - a $90 tablet designed to stream Spotify music. The image has been altered. The sky behind the driver's windscreen is animated TV static. The album thumbnail on the Car Thing UI has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. A skeletal robed figure, clutching a sheaf of documents headed with the Spotify logo, reaches out a bony finger to prod at the Car Thing from the left side of the image.

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    An old Red Lobster ad, showing a fisherman on a pier amid a bounteous catch, standing under an old fashioned . He grins and brandishes a large lobster at a grinning family. The image has been modified to add four symbols of rapacious capitalism. There is a dancing Monopoly Rich Uncle Pennybags with a skull-like face, his cane replaced by a scythe. There is a stern, impatient, grey-haired business-man looming over a rooftop, staring at his watch impatiently. There is a portly, shouting man in a suit and tophat, lugging a money-bag. There is a man in a suit with a money-bag for a head.
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    A 1994 Yahoo homepage. It is animated. The blue links blur and then disappear.

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    Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- djhughman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modular_synthesizer_-_%22Control_Voltage%22_electronic_music_shop_in_Portland_OR_-_School_Photos_PCC_%282015-05-23_12.43.01_by_djhughman%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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    A Boeing 737 Max with Boeing livery, flying through a grey-blue sky. It has split in two. The tail section, which is falling out of the sky, has a large REJECTED stamp on it. A parachute sailing away from the wreckage suspends a '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' ASCII shrug emoji. Image: Tom Axford 1 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_sky_with_wisps_of_cloud_on_a_clear_summer_morning.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Clemens Vasters (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N7379E_-_Boeing_737_MAX_9.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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    An existential plane extending to an abstract background. Scattered through the scene are mainframes and control panels, being worked by faceless figure. In the center stands a downcast MD in old-fashioned scrubs. In the foreground to the right is an impatient older man in a business suit, staring at his watch and brandishing a sheaf of papers. In the background left is a grim reaper figure raising a glass of blood in a toast, the blood spattering his robes. In the center background in large magnetic 'computer font' lettering is the word 'NO.'
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