artificial intelligence

Budget Halloween Decor   Recently updated !

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I spend my day job driving to and all around the wealthier Boston ‘burbs, and have seen many elaborate, and undoubtedly expensive Halloween displays over the last week. You can keep your $300 12-foot skeletons, nothing beats the charm of the D.I.Y. decorations, handmade by kids of all ages.

Ages ago there were readers who’d incorporate my jokes into their Halloween displays. They’d send me photos and it was delightful. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are.

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A.I.’s Rogue Hallucinations   Recently updated !

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(panel 1 - Title around a stoned computer.) A.I.'s Rogue Hallucinations
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Since their last outburst didn’t goose their revenue, the A.I. Tech Bros. new hype message is that artificial intelligence is going “rogue” and so dangerous that it needs to be regulated. This is their way of ensuring they get federal bailout money when the bubble bursts and takes the real economy down with it.

America.gov is a real chatbot put out by the administration to tell lies to the biggest rubes on the internet. It’s dumb as shit, but still smarter than Eric Schmitt.

Once again, I left Microsoft out of the comic. Not because they’re good, but because my PC is so old that I don’t get the push notifications to use Copilot or whatever they’re calling their A.I. garbage these days.

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Silicon Schlock Market

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(panel 1 - Meta's Glasses styled to look like an X-Ray Specs ad.) Silicon Schlock Market
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At some point in the last quarter century, “tech” in the United States became the field of business school dullards instead of people who actually make things people want or need. Real innovations in green energy, medicine, and pure science are still happening every day, but because the finance bros can’t immediately monetize them, we’re stuck with rent-seeking apps and flat-out scams.

Nobody wants this stuff, but they keep selling it. Singling out Kara Swisher might not be warranted, but she got rich slinging this shit. Hyping up Elon Musk is a huge reason why she’s where she is, and he is without exaggeration, a mass murderer.

Members of Exclusive Early Access might remember I first came up with this idea in Orphan Doodles. I switched the Meta Glasses bit up a bit from that initial sketch, but that’s why the sketch was an orphan. I might modify that panel into a t-shirt when I get the time. Let me know if you’d wear Pervert Glasses on your chest, not your face!

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Is Google Cooked?

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(panel 1 - A cluttered Google search result page.) G(A.I.)gle search, "Is Google cooked?"
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Just because I spared Google from this comic a few weeks ago, doesn’t mean they’re not also trying to shove A.I. down our throats. At Google’s most recent circle jerk, they announced they’d be forcing the frequently incorrect A.I. overviews everyone hates into more of their products, including Search, which built its empire on a clean search that worked when other search engines were filled with clutter and junk.

That’s now the entire business model for everything online, as companies look for ways to get users to pay rent for their increasingly deteriorating products. Nearly 30 years of dominance in search that led “Google” to become a verb, was flushed down the toilet of A.I. It’s almost surprising they didn’t self-immolate during NFTs or the crypto hype cycle.

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Tech Bro Manifesto

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Gross slob and Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently released a fascist manifesto on X, the app that loves that sort of thing. As the AI bubble begins to show cracks even its boosters can’t ignore, the CEOs are becoming increasingly belligerent, having spent years surrounded by yes-men and yes-chatbots telling them everyone loves having the entire economy propped up by vaporware no one wants.

I could’ve easily included Google, Microsoft, and Apple CEOs in this comic too, but the one’s featured here are all-in on Al and fascism and have yet to contribute anything beneficial to society. You could make the case that Musk and Zuck used to make things, but you’d be wrong, dummy. They bought (or stole) already existing things and then took credit for it. Even I could do that if I had apartheid emerald mine money.

Anyway, I’ll continue hammering away at the idea that AI rots your brain, and the only proof you need is its loudest proponents.

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Enshittified StartUps

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This month’s comic for patrons who signed up for Exclusive Early Access predicts the next big things in shitty technology. I’m running a 20% discount for this tier for the next two weeks. Check it out and get access to all the previous exclusives as well.

For just $1 a month, Early Access subscribers see my cartoons as soon as I finish them.

As media outlets close up shop and become one big monopolistic toy for a handful of billionaires, reader support is essential to keeping these comics coming. Even becoming a free member over on Patreon helps, and comes with access to all sorts of stuff I post that I don’t feel like monetizing.

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Dumb War Weapons

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We launched another preemptive war of aggression that’s going to kill a lot of people and ruin even more lives for decades to come. At least Congress, including 157 House Democrats, retroactively signed off on it, ensuring this boondoggle is adequately funded while the rest of our lives aren’t.

With Iraq, there was a pretense of manufacturing consent, and public opinion supported it until the fact that it was a stupid war of choice became too obvious to ignore. Besides Congress and the media, nobody wants this war with Iran, and since planning is for nerds, the consequences are already extremely unpopular.

We all just have to sit and watch, and hope the blowback doesn’t happen to us personally, since the ostensible opposition party’s plan is to wait for us to bail them out in the midterms. So much damage is going to happen between now and then. And it all might’ve been prevented if Biden and Merrick Garland released any of the freaky Epstein details that have been trickling out over the past year when they could’ve influenced an election.

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Winter Reading List

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I’ve been drawing the end of the A.I. bubble for a while, and now even economists (opinion with hints of math, not a science) are starting to notice something’s fishy with all the financial schemes used to prop up this technology no one but the managerial class wants.

There’s some other gags in here about stuff in the news, but if you’ve managed to go this long without learning the details of the Nuzzi-RFK Jr.-Lizza triangle of sadness, I don’t want to end your blissful ignorance.

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