Manu Cornet

Ha! Well, at least these Ginsu products are useful. ;-)

YouTube video by BsBuster BS Buster — Kind Science

I made a YouTube "short" 😁 But it's not about science. Well... It is... in a way.

www.youtube.com/shorts/jxQQD...

A series of 100 portraits of women Google employees along with a summary of their main achievements. At the bottom, a label reads "Women in tech — Rocking Google since 1998."

goomics.net/231 (re-post)

Panel 1: Milo is sitting at his desk, using his laptop. Milo: "Oooh-kaaay, all documents saved. Aaaand File... Quit." A speech bubble from the computer replies. It shows a modal dialog box: "Are you sure you want to quit? [Stay][Leave]"

Panel 2: Milo looks at the reader and grins. "Milo: some people bring their attachment issues to software development."

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Panel 1: Milo (man with wavy hair) is standing and speaking to the reader. Milo: "I've heard that if your direct report is surprised when you deliver them a poor quarterly performance review, you've done a bad job. It shouldn't come as a surprise." "I agree."

Panel 2: Milo makes a "thumbs up" gesture. Milo: "So I give them a big hint the day before."

"Null pointer" cartoon archive (and link to subscribe to the free newsletter) at: lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel 1: We see two trees, and a yellow hammock is set up between them. A man is lying down in the hammock. He says "Sometimes when I'm resting, I think about the countless people actively working to make things better, especially in software."

Panel 2: We see the man in his hammock, slightly zoomed in. He has a happy expression and seems relaxed. He says "For example, every minute people are making changes that will improve the Linux software running on billions of devices."

Panel 3: The man is still smiling and counting on his fingers. "The company that makes my wireless router is making it better protected from new attacks." "Developers of my favorite phone app are preparing a cool new version."

Panel 4: The man rises up slightly from his lying down position and raises his index finger: "Oh, and don't forget the thousands of Google employees ensuring that every day their search results are getting slightly shittier."

goomics.net/387

Panel 1: a man and a woman are standing in front of each other. The man says "I just used an LLM to write my resignation email". The woman replies "Good for you. You could have done it yourself in about 6 minutes."

Panel 2: the man raises his index finger and says "Ah yes, but this way I also melted a small glacier."

Another sample from my weekly cartoons for the free newsletter pointer.io — all past drawings at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ :-)

Panel 1: A woman is carefully assembling a large model of a suspended bridge.

Panel 2: A man appears, holding a box full of what appears to be little soldier figurines. He says "You should do test-driven development."

A few weeks ago I started drawing cartoons for a free bi-weekly newsletter called pointer.io ("essential reading for engineering leaders"). Check the cartoon archive at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ and consider subscribing, I've been liking the contents!

A photo montage with 9 faces: Akayesu, Hitler, Karadzic, Milosevic, Mladic, Netanyahu, Pinochet, Pot, Putin.

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A boa snake in the jungle, preparing to eat a pile of paper.

Sorry folks, Pam Bondi visited "Alligator Alcatraz" and a boa gobbled up the Epstein files.

"0 days since they've ever seen anything like it"

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Netanyahu + Trump + Nobel peace prize, haha perfect headline from the Onion. Erm, wait, what?

I would submit that if two years after your big product rebrand people are still calling it the old name, it was a pretty big failure.

The employee is outraged for being tracked so closely, and then says that if it must be said, he was in the toilet. The blue characters admits the tracking is too tight, and apologizes for being too nosy... But in the last panel, asks whether it was #1 or #2.

The cartoon itself shows this blue character which impersonates the time tracking system. The human starts by saying that he's done for the day and asks to clock out. The blue character then points out that there are 14 minutes of time that are unaccounted for, when the employee was not in his seat.

I understand this is probably very common for people paid by the hour, but for a spoiled employee like myself (not to mention having the strong opinion that output should matter a lot more than butt-in-seat hours) who experienced this for the first time at age 43, it was a bit surprising.

3) each time you clock in/out the service also requires your precise geographical location from the browser.

This is made worse by the fact that 1) freee is not good at maintaining your logged in session, so you have to re-enter username and password a lot, 2) if you forget to clock in or out, you then have to submit a form which someone from HR needs to manually approve, and

For someone coming in from another work culture, this can feel a bit intrusive, even though (in my interpretation) the initial intention is good. You have to virtually "clock in" and "clock out" when 1) starting work, 2) going to lunch, 3) coming back from lunch, 4) ending work.

Most companies outsource this to specialized services. One of them is called "freee" (with 3 Es).

I don't know the full history, but I'm guessing that Japan passed some strict laws to prevent people from overworking and burning out quite so much. The result is that companies must implement strict time tracking, even for full-time employees.

I worked for a Japanese company for a little while last year, and was surprised by the standard time-tracking requirements, so I made this cartoon. If this doesn't feel familiar and/or you don't speak Japanese, I'll explain a little bit in this thread!

The drawing reproduces the scene of policeman Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd's neck, but the person kneeling is Donald Trump and lying down is the statue of liberty.

Re-post from 5 years ago — bonkersworld.net/presidential...

Panel 1: An old Google logo, a blue G and "Don't be evil".

Panel 2: A slightly newer Google logo, a white "g" on a blue background and "Don't be evil".

Panel 3: A recent Google logo, a multicolored G and "Do the right thing".

Panel 4: The newest Google logo, a multicolored G but with blurry color boundaries. The "Do the right thing" label is also blurred and unreadable.

goomics.net/385

Panel 1: A label "How to survive in Gaza". A reporter wearing a body armor and a helmet with huge "PRESS" letters. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 2: A woman carrying a child. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 3: A man wearing a white coat and a helmet, both with a large red cross. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.

Panel 4: A man wearing a red MAGA hat, doing a thumbs up sign. Underneath, a green checkmark.

bonkersworld.net/surviving-in...

Reported.

The cartoon shows Benjamin Netanyahu in his usual suit, looking at the reader. He says: "We need to speed up the evacuation of Gaza. So we're going to use some trains. We got a bunch of old ones for cheap that Germany didn't want."

bonkersworld.net/neo-deportat...

(This is a fabricated screenshot.)

A fabricated screenshot showing how Amazon could show the impact of tariffs.

Looks good to me.