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Good Cop, Bad Cop
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Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore.
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OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just make it shame the user.
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5 months ago
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Big announcement in 12 days!
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I created The Oatmeal fifteen years ago.
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On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive.
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Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
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Godcat has a special message for you
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Happy family life, productive work life, and worldwide hegemony.
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Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
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In The Matrix, people need a fake paradise, but most humans would do it for about 1 percent of that.
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Look at what they tried to take from us
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release...
3 months ago
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release was not a long album: 14 tracks,
totaling 34:45. But the version I grew up with had 11 tracks,
totaling only 27:31.
Three tracks, all by Lennon, were omitted by Capitol
from the...
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Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense!
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This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers.
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Also, in this model, everything is flat and it's the same everywhere and eventually all the stars are dead!
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The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.
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Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should...
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Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should just be infinity.
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Hot damn an embarrassingly flattering review in Science.
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of...
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of people couldn't disagree without assuming Secret Motives.
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.
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Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
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9 months ago
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The good news about our society is everyone comes early.
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It gets even weirder when you realize God has been saving the brains, so the blogs are sapient.
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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3 months ago
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Eff y'all, excel is a perfectly acceptable transitive verb. Spread the word.
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After we get a perfected holodeck, there'll be a horrific amount of sexual unleashing, followed by the deep and movingly pathetic fantasies nobody was willing to express.
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Statistically, SOMEONE must've done this by accident by now.
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I think you could write a pretty good comedy novel about Lamarckian evolution, e.g. where parents find out about a secret tattoo when Junior is born with it.
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Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively...
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Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively his whole life became a football pull. I wonder if Lucy is watching from a distance.
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3 weeks ago
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Don't at me, history of international politics scholars!
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Another corner of Pennsylvania
[ Previously:
[1]
[2]
[3] ]
A couple of years back I wrote:
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so...
3 months ago
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[1]
[2]
[3] ]
A couple of years back I wrote:
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware triple point must be somewhere nearby. I sat up and got my phone so I could look at the map, and felt foolish.
As you can see, the triple...
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Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in places where the background is easy to draw.
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Thanks, geeks! Little reviews are beginning to trickle out into the universe, including this one by Marie Robinette...
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Okay, occasionally they are autobiographical.
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There's a newish Parfit biography out Edmonds that is excellent.
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This is actually the answer to most Zen koans.
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I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of...
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I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of you.
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Normally you don't get a flat price, but have to bid at an auction.
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When humans finally step into the Experience...
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When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking.
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Wishing Derek Parfit were still around to roll his eyes at this.
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On the other hand, when Jesus wanted to do a breakup he just became dead for a few days.
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Based on educating my 10 year old on the varieties of duhs.
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a year ago
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This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created.
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Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
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This is the right opportunity to remind you that...
8 months ago
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This is the right opportunity to remind you that every SMBC is available as a high-quality print to adorn your home or office.
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a year ago
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Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic sounds like it's going to become controversial and then goes all in on stupid.
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Final week!
The Universe of...
I DON'T KNOW
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when...
3 months ago
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or
even a work meeting. The game is:
If someone asks you a question, and you say
“I don't know”, you score a point.
That's it. ...
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I have never once had a popular platonism joke but I WILL NOT STOP
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No other creature gives itself Latin names. We are...
2 months ago
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No other creature gives itself Latin names. We are unique!
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Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and return a dividend later.
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Monday!
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a year ago
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At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics.
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Lasso Man 4
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6 months ago
The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
5 months ago
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11 months ago
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This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context.
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In running out of the room, he falls down some stairs and never stops falling.
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a week ago
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Suddenly wondering if THIS is the one that gets me that hatemail I've wanted all these years.
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If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder.
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Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think...
11 months ago
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Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard.
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Happy New Year,
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The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the...
a year ago
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The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the corn is *very* sweet.
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Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL...
10 months ago
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Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL humans, the notion of sadness ceases to have meaning, so it's all good.
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Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.
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6 months ago
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Try to get the feudal lord before he gets to...
11 months ago
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Try to get the feudal lord before he gets to plaguey.
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing,...
a year ago
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing, power, and retribution. Adults are the same, plus sex and immortality.
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a year ago
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It's time to open the SMBC foodgore channel. Who's in?
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a year ago
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It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow global warming, so everything is fine.
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No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new...
a year ago
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No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new band-name.
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If you wanted to get A City on Mars but the prices was a little high, WELL Barnes and Noble is doing a 3 day 25% discount on preorders.
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on this.
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The maximum size of brain a human can comprehend...
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The maximum size of brain a human can comprehend consists of 3 neurons.
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With heartfelt apologies to Gary Larson.
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With heartfelt apologies to Gary Larson.
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
a year ago
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it?
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Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral...
2 months ago
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Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral stalemate.
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With profound hope that the authors of the original...
2 weeks ago
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With profound hope that the authors of the original paper do not read this.
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Meanwhile, Steve can't even see who he's having sex...
a year ago
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Meanwhile, Steve can't even see who he's having sex with.
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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PSSST....
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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PSSST. Hey London!
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Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick...
a year ago
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Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing.
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It's time. It's time for a resurgence of T Rex...
a year ago
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It's time. It's time for a resurgence of T Rex arms-related humor.
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Enter to win a free copy of Bea Wolf!
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The really upsetting part is that he doesn't even...
a year ago
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The really upsetting part is that he doesn't even work here.
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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at...
2 months ago
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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at you!
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
4 months ago
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man.
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Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes...
a year ago
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Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes that only makes *me* laugh.
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If you want to hear me tell a weird science story...
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find...
a year ago
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find someone who reacts to something terrible by worrying about the impression a third party will get.
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09/24/21 PHD comic: '...Said No Academic Ever.'
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...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
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Cham
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"...Said No Academic Ever." - originally published
9/24/2021
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6 months ago
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I was once at a table of British people and asked why they mispronounce Latte even though they usually pronounce continental languages better than Americans, and they immediately agreed, without conferring, that it was to stick it...
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC...
9 months ago
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We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC compilation.
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a week ago
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Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility.
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We are assuming for the sake of argument that all...
a year ago
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We are assuming for the sake of argument that all bits of human are equivalent, which is basically correct.
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PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope'
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over a year ago
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Cham
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"James Webb Telescope" - originally published
7/12/2021
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I'm just saying, when the robots take over, if...
a year ago
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I'm just saying, when the robots take over, if you're an SMBC reader I think you'll get a little leeway.
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
6 months ago
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course.
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(sorry)
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(sorry)
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For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious....
a year ago
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For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious. I wonder if it's incorrect to think of attention span as a single parameter. Maybe we have attention spans for particular sense modalities or even particular activities.
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It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out...
10 months ago
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It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out for.
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The header of the second panel really should be...
11 months ago
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The header of the second panel really should be above most comic panels.
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Oh God, is it 2024? And I'm still doing these
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I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys...
7 months ago
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I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so.
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Yeah? Well it won't seem degrading when all the...
a year ago
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Yeah? Well it won't seem degrading when all the plumbers get replaced and you've got a head-start.
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Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the...
a year ago
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Patreon supporter Mudag points out this is the SECOND comic on this theme. A little math suggests I'll have a full collection some time in the 2040s.
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I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If...
7 months ago
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I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree.
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The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless...
a year ago
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The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless until you hear the footsteps fade away.
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This could be the greatest school play of all time...
a month ago
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This could be the greatest school play of all time if anyone out there had the guts to do it.
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping...
a year ago
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems?
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On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness...
2 weeks ago
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On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics.
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You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that...
6 months ago
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You ever imagine trying to convince an alien that there's a huge difference between various food traditions?
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
How my pets see me
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a year ago
I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch?
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The part of the impression that gets the most...
6 months ago
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The part of the impression that gets the most laughs is when the robot imitates living an entire life pursuing other people's dreams.
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Frankly I've been frustrated for weeks at this...
a year ago
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Frankly I've been frustrated for weeks at this point.
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Hey, if you're in Reston VA come see me tonight!
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead...
a year ago
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots!
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We're a best book of the year!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you...
a year ago
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you can.
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Therapy is now horrible
Intrusive thoughts and more.
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5 months ago
Intrusive thoughts and more.
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Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost...
a year ago
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Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost anything as long as it's presented as a scam?
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We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right...
5 months ago
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We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right into Justice.
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How did it become ethics month at SMBC?
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7 months ago
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How did it become ethics month at SMBC?
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On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is...
a year ago
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On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is highly appreciated.
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Please don't email - I am already filled with...
a year ago
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Please don't email - I am already filled with regret about the votey.
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That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
8 months ago
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That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool.
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The best one was actually Part 4 Part Two Part...
a month ago
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The best one was actually Part 4 Part Two Part Six.
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The weird thing is he uses the money to get a...
a year ago
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The weird thing is he uses the money to get a flight back south to buy more pens.
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Anyone who thinks AI endangers poets should first...
3 weeks ago
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Anyone who thinks AI endangers poets should first prove that there exists a poetry journal with more readers than contributors.
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Better make sure the wings of your airplane are...
a year ago
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Better make sure the wings of your airplane are shaped like a Bat. Also swing on ropes whenever possible.
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Freedom!
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a year ago
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Freedom!
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I propose that we consider AI sentient when you...
7 months ago
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I propose that we consider AI sentient when you feed it this comic and it is disappointed in you.
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Taking care
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12 months ago
This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Up
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots...
6 months ago
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots taking pot shots at creationists.
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The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid...
a month ago
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The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid transition to being an anime character.
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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a year ago
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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Do you smoke? Only the purest crack.
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a year ago
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Do you smoke? Only the purest crack.
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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a year ago
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the...
a year ago
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4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the techno-babble more accurate.
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If we all live by metaphors, all you have to pick...
2 months ago
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If we all live by metaphors, all you have to pick is the stupidest metaphor you can find.
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but...
11 months ago
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit.
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I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical...
a year ago
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I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical issue and then contributing nothing.
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Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like...
a year ago
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Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like that.
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few...
a month ago
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few extra to catch up.
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The weird part is how she's levitating 6 feet off...
10 months ago
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The weird part is how she's levitating 6 feet off the ground.
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It turns out if you switch to the one that...
a year ago
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It turns out if you switch to the one that definitely for sure has a ferrari you might be worse off because there is information embedded in...
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The only downside is you have to go in every six...
5 months ago
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The only downside is you have to go in every six months to get spun up.
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I really do yay like that, though.
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a year ago
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I really do yay like that, though.
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Watching movies with subtitles on
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over a year ago
A comic about watching movies with subtitles.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Together
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Ants find this comic exceptionally funny.
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9 months ago
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Ants find this comic exceptionally funny.
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Having enough support that you can insist on four...
a month ago
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Having enough support that you can insist on four years to research a topic before presenting a book is of course down to all of you over all these years. It is daily appreciated.
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Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published
Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper...
3 months ago
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published
Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper was
expensive and printing difficult and time-consuming. The type would
be inked, the sheet of paper laid on the press, the apprentices would
press the sheet, by turning a big screw....
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
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This time that's your excuse for yelling about...
a year ago
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This time that's your excuse for yelling about giant scrotum, but what about all the other times?
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Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men...
2 months ago
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Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men for being weak I wonder if I'm the only one who's being targeted.
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations...
2 weeks ago
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations to get access to more specific marketing categories.
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Really you ought to text before you initiate a...
a year ago
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Really you ought to text before you initiate a knock-knock joke.
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Patreon subscribers pointed out numerous objections...
10 months ago
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Patreon subscribers pointed out numerous objections but I think if I work hard I can find technical reasons I'm right and my supporters are wrong.
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Fortunately, by the time this all happened,...
10 months ago
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Fortunately, by the time this all happened, everything was a form of branding, and there was nothing left to lament.
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The weird thing is you can't NOT do this.
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a year ago
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The weird thing is you can't NOT do this.
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Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday!
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will...
a year ago
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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To my intense horror, many of you have purchased the new book. And so, the bonus updates continue.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book
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Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded...
10 months ago
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Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded all expectations.
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Sometimes they just read our declarations of war and get giggle-fits.
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Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward...
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Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism.
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The really tough part is when the company...
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The really tough part is when the company consolidates and you have to do all the jobs at once.
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Hey geeks! You can enter to win a free copy of my new book here!
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Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to...
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Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use.
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Cooperation is when we hurt people...
a year ago
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Cooperation is when we hurt people together!
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Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a...
11 months ago
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Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a joke, but this is one is firmly at the intersection of listening to a sentimental podcast during the same period in which I was reading a few Karl Popper books.
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2...
5 months ago
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2 minutes.
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books?
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Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the...
a month ago
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the guy's coat.
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Insert the p-value joke over your choice.
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a year ago
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Hey geeks! A few of you have requested signed copies of the new book, Bea Wolf, and they are available here.
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There are actually several burger universes but He...
a year ago
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There are actually several burger universes but He only goes to this one because it's closer.
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Next "Abridged" book will be on cosmology.
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Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize...
11 months ago
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Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental.
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Really if you can use the automation to increase...
4 months ago
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Really if you can use the automation to increase productivity, you can just afford better city defenses.
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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3 months ago
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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Thank you!
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If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs.
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Wait, is fire even possible? Doesn't that violate conservation of fire?
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Another ruinously flattering review.
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Trying to write more realistic dialog these...
5 months ago
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Trying to write more realistic dialog these days.
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Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand
things better with examples. For...
3 months ago
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand
things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that
$$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$
Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes
and be taking off your shoes.
And let be
putting...
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Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ]
A few weeks ago I wrote
a...
3 months ago
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ]
A few weeks ago I wrote
a letter to my neighbors about why
I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our
neighborhood.
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024...
8 months ago
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024 all rights reserved.
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion.
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The weird shit is a new tiny book explaining...
a year ago
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The weird shit is a new tiny book explaining something.
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a year ago
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The weird thing is every last one of them is named Bruce.
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11 months ago
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This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin.
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
a year ago
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern.
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are.
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In case you missed it, I've been posting some old well-liked SMBCs to...
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I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just...
7 months ago
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I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just grant god an extra dimension?
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Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also...
a week ago
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Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also popular.
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an...
a year ago
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an investment.
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It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the...
a year ago
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It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the weird incest fantasy Freud branch of the multiverse.
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a year ago
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Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
8 months ago
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they...
a year ago
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Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they all work out eventually.
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Just 10 more days!
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I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...
5 days ago
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I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome.
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
How venting is supposed to feel
A comic about venting to others.
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over a year ago
A comic about venting to others.
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a year ago
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The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research.
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This is the most detailed background I've ever...
a year ago
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This is the most detailed background I've ever drawn.
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Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
a year ago
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Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart.
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It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
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Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like...
a year ago
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Sometimes I read my own comics and they seem like they were written by aliens.
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his...
11 months ago
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his delight, they refuse do tolerate.
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Lovely long review of A City on Mars here, by Cory Doctorow.
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful...
a year ago
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise.
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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a year ago
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C'monnnnnn hatemail.
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Panel 7 is the actual epitaph.
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4 months ago
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Panel 7 is the actual epitaph.
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The characters in the comic are, however,...
2 months ago
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The characters in the comic are, however, absolutely in a simulation.
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Now, realize there is no Self. Only insane monkey...
11 months ago
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Now, realize there is no Self. Only insane monkey who can't reach the breaks.
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
a year ago
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money.
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Speaking of vices, he's available to hang this...
4 months ago
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Speaking of vices, he's available to hang this morning.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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4 months ago
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked...
11 months ago
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Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked to change it by one boss, then to put it back the other way by another boss.
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