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Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Conjurer. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's grinning head. There's an Amazon logo on his table, and another overhead. The cups from his cup-and-ball game have been replaced with inverted Amazon cartons. Every hand visible in the image has had numerous extra fingers painstakingly manually added to it in the hopes of goading a moralizing scold into complaining that this image is AI generated so that I can make fun of them. Image: Doc Searls (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/4863121221/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Conjurer. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's grinning head. There's an Amazon logo on his table, and another overhead. The cups from his cup-and-ball game have been replaced with inverted Amazon cartons. Every hand visible in the image has had numerous extra fingers painstakingly manually added to it in the hopes of goading a moralizing scold into complaining that this image is AI generated so that I can make fun of them. Image: Doc Searls (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/4863121221/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:12:02 JST Cory Doctorow
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Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly
I *love* this one. First of all, Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer' is a *great* visual representation of a slickster pulling a fast one on gawping yokels. But once I added Doc Searls' great shot of Jeff Bezos in mid-crazy-laugh to it (from a 2010 Techonomy Summit) it became perfectly trenchant.
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