A cutaway of a rocky underground, with a cylindrical brick cistern. Trapped in the prison is a 16th century drudge seated before a wheel on which rest a series of books that rotate along with the wheel.

Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape. Image: Jakub Hałun (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Square,_New_York_City,_20231006_1916_2338.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en -- Myotus (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandal_dome_style_security_camera_in_parking_garage.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Lewis Clarke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiverton_,_CCTV_Camera_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7103690.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape. Image: Jakub Hałun (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Square,_New_York_City,_20231006_1916_2338.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en -- Myotus (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandal_dome_style_security_camera_in_parking_garage.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Lewis Clarke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiverton_,_CCTV_Camera_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7103690.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court. Image: Aude (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80th_floor_of_3_World_Trade_Center_-_OHNY.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

An anatomical drawing of a cross-section of a man's head. The eyeball has been replaced by an RSS logo. To the left of the face is a "code waterfall" effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movie. To the right are clouds of grey roiling clouds, infiltrating the brain as well.

Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -- Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -- Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en