Wijze, ware woorden. 'Mijd onlineplatforms die te weinig modereren: Facebook, X, Instagram en toch ook YouTube. Leer je kinderen hoe propaganda werkt. Verruil WhatsApp voor Signal – niet omdat je iets te verbergen, maar iets te beschermen hebt.' www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

The drones have no balls.

Trump can slap his name on the building, but he can’t force artists to show up and clap. The Trump-branded Kennedy Center is bleeding artists. The Cookers, a veteran all-star jazz septet, just pulled their NYE shows.

Inauguration?

MAGA folks and their dreams of dictatorship are so boring. But I guess it shows how desperate they're getting, and how much they know they're losing.

The worst part is when he bursts into his parents' apartment during a swingers party for child-free adults. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/super-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

The "naive" play is just another way of saying "I am not responsible" and that is despicable for someone who has been in power for so long.

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

I do wholeheartedly believe people can change. If I wouldn't, what would be the point of civil society? But I also believe in proving that change, and that proof needs to correspond to the harm caused. So yes, MTG can change, but she needs to work her ass off for years until I believe her.

The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading 🗣️🤖💬🫢 www.vice.com/en/article/a...

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Come back after about a decade of good selfless works outside the limelights. Maybe then I'll listen. For now, fuck the hell off.

Mahná mahná

I love that a common thread throughout the history of textual transmission is how often a piece will survive because someone did the equivalent of screenshotting it to hatepost on it

The kind of person who talks in that upbeat optimistic tone at a party and everyone mutters "prat" as soon as he moves away from them.

It’s not just “we decided to name our company after the personification of evil.” It’s also “we decided to name our home security company after the personification of evil who was so vainly proud of his vigilance that he let his home get invaded in the most catastrophic way possible.”

Amsterdam continues to be an absolutely gorgeous city ❤️

Again,

I prefer being the disinterested third party in most arguments and that's why all social media companies have put out a hit on me.

The succeeding in question

This thread gives a nice view of how destructive AI video tech is. It destroys any trust in what is posted online. Is it AI? Is it real? That bleeds over into reporting, and leads to a general alienation from facts. The Stasi used it and called it Zersetzung. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetz...

Non government and thus non-accountable pricks at the table for a discussion about a war that impacts the whole world.

Yes, I am explicitly calling anyone not using Alt Text on their images a lazy bastard. Because you are.

I once again point out that adding Alt Text to your images is not only the right thing to do for all your readers, it's also very easy.

So, is he saying that "heritage Americans" are the experts at fleecing the government?

The GOP has really leaned in to singling out Somalis for very explicit racism. Ron Johnson and the rest of the party are just loathsome, un-American people.

LeMonde said, not on our watch

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

They even lost touch with business owners now. The regime is now completely untethered from reality.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The World is Not Enough: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic The View to a Kill from Nowhere Dr No: Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics

There will never be a time I hate this image.

"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions." This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam. (Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)

This thread gives a nice view of how destructive AI video tech is. It destroys any trust in what is posted online. Is it AI? Is it real? That bleeds over into reporting, and leads to a general alienation from facts. The Stasi used it and called it Zersetzung. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetz...

"The Trump Kennedy Center is a true bipartisan institution that welcomes artists and patrons from all backgrounds - even if we have to force them to perform!"

neurodivergent people: have big butts and cannot lie

The thing about right-wing reactionaries that one must understand is they are not arguing from a place of moral reasoning. They have a picture of their ideal world in their head—a cultural aesthetic—and they want to impose that on us, without taking any responsibility for themselves. They're sick.

All should follow my snack based method of explaining stuff.

I once showed up at an interview where I needed to explain how a something works, and did so using a transparent box of Rochers. I advise anyone who does explainers to do so using Rochers as a prop if you can, because interviewers will love you.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Het openlijke racisme dat tijdens Fortuyn ‘on-Hollands’ werd genoemd, is nu mainstream, ziet columnist @nadiabouras.bsky.social: Nederland moet afkicken van zijn etnische obsessie om nog meer morele afstomping te voorkomen. ’Houd geen debat over de ‘veranderde buurt’, maar over betaalbare woningen.'

Amsterdam Light Festival had some pretty cool art works this year

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

The progenitor of Go and UTF-8 would like a word:

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Enjoy your muscles spasming from the cold when sitting in the Kennedy Center.

My favorite part about this joke is that an actual artist had to go out of their way to draw this. They didn't take the easy way out and actually use an AI generated image, they had an actual artist make a parody of AI art. And the joke is way better because of it.

This is easily the best one of the lot.