ALT A village revel in a sleepy wood, with many Renaissance peasants having a debauch. In the background is a hulking mainframe computer.

ALT A shelf of thick scientific tomes, protected by a gridwork of foreboding, rusting bars.

ALT A 2009 portrait of Aaron Swartz. Image: Sage Ross https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_2_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

ALT The Disney Must Pay illo featuring a terrified, faceless, tiny writer with the sawtoothed shadow of a monstrous mouse looming over them.

ALT A brightly lit grocery aisle; at its terminus, looming out from behind the frame, is the upper torso and head of Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Children.' In the foreground is a dancing 'Rich Uncle Pennybags' from the game Monopoly; he is brandishing a grim reaper's scythe and his features are skull-like.

ALT Children playing on a climber. The colors of the climber and the foliage behind them has been oversaturated and shifted, making it surreal. The kids' heads have been replaced with the red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Standing in the foreground at rigid attention is a man in short-sleeved military garb, wearing aviator shades. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Jorge Royan (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munich_-_Two_boys_playing_in_a_park_-_7328.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- Noah Wulf (modified) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunderbirds_at_Attention_Next_to_Thunderbird_1_-_Aviation_Nation_2019.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

ALT A mountain of garbage beneath a sky of flames and smoke. Atop the garbage is a 'do not litter' icon of a human figure putting waste in a trashcan. The waste has been replaced by a glittering gold Bitcoin logo. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwshq/8598791096/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

ALT A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

ALT A homeless person's tent under a freeway underpass. From it emerges the bear from the California state flag. Image: Wonderlane (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/71401718@N00/34328251571 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

ALT A collage of works entering the public domain on January 1, 2024.

ALT A 'thin blue line' flag but instead of a blue line, you can see the top of a greasy pepperoni pizza. Image: Zack Middleton (modified) CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

ALT A vintage John Deere tractor whose wheel hubs have been replaced with HAL 9000 eyes, matted over a background of the cyber-waterfall image from The Matrix. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

ALT A picture postcard of a idyllic small town main street. Looming over the scene is a hypersaturated can of Spam. In the foreground is a sleeping German shepherd with Google logos over its eyes. It sports a dream-bubble with a lunging attack dog.

ALT A waiting room, draped with cobwebs. A skeleton sits in one of the chairs. A digital display board reads 'Now serving 53332.' An ogrish, top-hatted figure standing at a podium, yanking a dollar-sign shaped lever looms into the frame from the right. He holds a clock aloft disdainfully, pinched between the thumb and fingers of one white-gloved hand.

ALT The Adam Ruins Everything title card for 'The Hot Coffee Case.' It is a split panel with host Adam Conover on the left at a judge's bench, banging a gavel, and a confused Hamburgler on the right, in the witness box. They are separated by the center of the 'M' in the McDonald's 'Golden Arches' logo. Superimposed over this separator is the Geico lizard, who is limned is a halo of green light. Image: Adam Ruins Everything/College Humor (modified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DXSCpcz9E Fair use https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property Geico (modified) https://www.geico.com/ Fair use https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property

ALT The obverse of the Indian 2000 rupee note, with the Mangalyaan orbiter replaced by the Byju's logo.

ALT A heavily armed and armored figure with the head of a foolishly grinning 19th century newsie. He stands in the atrium of a pink, vintage mall.

ALT A demon from Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. It has a bulbous, tick-like body and the legs of a hoofed animal. Its ass is open, revealing a hollow space within, populated by other demons. A flag sprouts from its back. It has been altered so that its face is a Google 'G' logo and the flag bears a tiny Android logo. Its broad, flat hat is decorated the the 'shrug' ASCII art.

ALT A Victorian family tree template populated by tintypes of old-timey people. In the foreground stands a menacing, chainsaw-wielding figure, his face obscured by a hoodie. The blade of the chainsaw is poised to chop down the family tree. A Netflix 'N' logo has been superimposed over the man's face.

ALT Tweedledee and Tweedledum, standing at the bottom of Humpty Dumpty's wall. Dee and Dum have the logos for Google and Bing on their chests. Humpty is about to fall and is being held up by a motley collection of panicking businessmen." Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

ALT A mammoth drowning in tar, from the La Brea Tar Pits. Next to the sinking mammoth is a sinking Uber logo. In the opposite corner is a sinking business-man whose head has been replaced by a bag of money. Running diagonally across the whole image is a jagged, declining red line as from a stock-chart. Image: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LA_BREA_TAR_PITS,_LOS_ANGELES.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

ALT An IRS office, behind the glass doors are an impossible tangle of telephone wires. Image: Matthew G. Bisanz (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_IRS_office_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

ALT Mark Zuckerberg onstage, speaking in front of a large stock-report chart that shows a descending line, captioned with a Facebook 'Delete My Account' button.

ALT A basketball court. A giant in a business suit is leaning on the backboard, so tall his head is out of the shot. He is holding the basketball under one arm. Beneath the backboard are a woman and a man, looking up at the giant, angry expressions on their faces.

ALT A still from a Meta promotional video depicting Mark Zuckerberg meeting his VR avatar; a 2006-era bumper-sticker reading 'You looked better on Myspace' is superimposed over the background. Image: Beatrice Murch (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/181178654/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Meta (modified)

ALT A Cuecat scanner with a bundled cable and PS/2 adapter; it resembles a plastic cat and also, slightly, a sex toy. It is posed on a Matrix movie 'code waterfall' background and limned by a green 'supernova' light effect. Image: Jerry Whiting (modified) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CueCat_barcode_scanner.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

ALT A flier inviting ISEC grad students to attend an unadvertised 'listening session' with vice-provost David Luzzi. It is surmounted with a sensor that has been removed from beneath a desk and annotated in Sharpie to read: 'If found by David Luzzi suck it.'

ALT An image of a mobile phone playing the Chokepoint Capitalism audiobook, along with the title and subtitle of the book: 'Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back.'

ALT An altered cover of Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged.' Atlas has been replaced by Monopoly's Rich Uncle Pennybags, his face a skull-mask, dancing a jig. He is golden-colored. The rising sun has been replaced by a rising Earth, wreathed in flames. Image: Cristian Ibarra Santillan (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/cristian_ibarra_santillan/49595214931/ CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/