Just to be sure, she asked the fridge for headlines about Boulangism, and there it was, their cloud had burst in the night. She could wash dishes in the sink but how the hell was she supposed to make toast-over a candle? The toaster wasn’t the first appliance to go (that honor went to the dishwasher, which stopped being able to validate third-party dishes the week before when Disher went under), but it was the last straw. It rang seventeen times and disconnected.

There was a touchscreen option on the toaster to call support, but that wasn’t working, so she used the fridge to look up the number and call it. But these were the steps that you took when the electronics stopped working, so you could call the 800 number and say, “I’ve turned it off and on, I’ve unplugged it, I’ve reset it to factory defaults and…” Long before she got to that point, she’d grown certain that it was a lost cause. Then she menued through the screens until she found RESET TO FACTORY DEFAULT, waited three minutes, and punched her Wi-Fi password in again. Then she unplugged it, counted to ten, and plugged it in. She held the slice in front of it and waited for the screen to show her a thumbs-up emoji, but instead, it showed her the head-scratching face and made a soft brrt. The way Salima found out that Boulangism had gone bankrupt: her toaster wouldn’t accept her bread. It appears below with permission from the author. 'Unauthorized Bread' is also in development for television with Topic, parentĬompany of The Intercept and for a graphic novel adaptation by First Second Books, in collaboration with the artist and comics creator JR Doyle. 'Unauthorized Bread'-a tale of jailbreaking refugees versus IoTĪppliances-is the lead novella in author Cory Doctorow's Radicalized, which has just been named a finalist for the Canadianīroadcasting Corporation's national book award, the Canada Reads prize.

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