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This is completly false. Rabbit shut down because they had no business model, were making no money whatsoever, and went bankrupt. What Rabbit did (host and stream remote-control virtual machines) is not inherently illegal by any means.

Hyperbeam is the exact same thing and I've been using it for years for perfectly legal activities -- you can display maps for d&d games, have youtube watch parties, play tag-team neopets, whatever you like. It has full access to the internet, so could someone do illegal things? Probably. But you could also do illegal things with your normal web browser. Not my problem.

Unlike Rabbit, Hyperbeam has a side-hustle (main-hustle?) offering more advanced virtual machines to businesses and schools, so they do actually make money and should stick around longer.

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This cylindrical container was made in Córdoba on the Iberian Peninsula in the tenth century from an elephant tusk. (Its lid might have been added later.) Not only was it made from a real elephant's tusk, it depicts a man seated on the back of an elephant. While the proportions are a little odd, the elephant is much more recognizable than depictions of elephants made around the same time in Northern Europe, even though elephants did not live on the Iberian Peninsula in this period, either. This might reflect the different trade links that the Umayyad rulers of al-Andalus had, or possibly surviving Roman models.

Ivory was still rare on the Iberian Peninsula as it was in the rest of Europe and the Mediterranean in this period. Earlier in the tenth century, the Baghdadi geographer al-Mas’udi complained that the large elephant tusks from East Africa ‘usually go to Oman, and from there are sent to China and India. This is the chief trade route, and if it were not so, ivory would be common in Muslim lands' (translated in G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, The East African coast. Select documents from the first to the earlier nineteenth century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), p. 15.) As a result, this sort of ivory box was often associated with caliphs and royals, The inscription on this box, very unusually, mentions a non-royal: Ziyad ibn Aflah, the sahib al-shurta (leader of the guards, sometimes translated as "prefect of police"). He must have been highly favored to have acquired or been given this ivory.

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