Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..." Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?" Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!" Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !" Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!" Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!" Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!" Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

someone rescue her!

I find it strangely beautiful and freeing that (even if just a few cases, and with a struggle) we've made it possible for peoples to be 'voluntarily isolated' & it is incredibly telling about the grossest side of humanity that there are others whose immediate instinct is to try to violate that right

We have to all learn Navajo so we can talk without AI unserstanding

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

*walks into cafe*
Me: Hey, can I have a sandwich?
Server: Yes, it comes with lettuce, tomato and dogshit.
Me: I don't WANT dogshit on my sandwich!
Server: My manager measures my performance based on how many dogshit sandwiches I sell, so if you don't want one, this conversation is not interesting.

Greta Thunberg is obviously a heroic person by any measure, she is quite obviously the kind of person who any decent society would hope they see their reflection in. It is remarkable how cruelty is so common place that people will openly hate her, and in really vicious ways, with no shame.

I am so sick of everything just coming in bland ass "neutral" tones. It is not neutral, they suck. Even if colours are offered they are often muted. Just so tired of it. I want some colours and joy and fun.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

The media continue to present this woman as a child because at 22-years old she presents a degree of moral clarity, rhetorical potency and profound understanding of the connection between one's politics and one's actions that her detractors, many more than twice her age, not ony lack, but defile.

El Nobel de la Paz se anuncia este viernes 10 de octubre y solo por joder a muchos cafres, yo sé lo daría a Greta Thumberg

Why do ppl always do things like this when they buy islands? There are 1,000s of possibilities better than creating a "network state" (whatever that is). Build a bunch of houses made for cats and give them the island. Walk around naked except for a top hat and coat with tails. You could do anything!

I did not have "BlueSky CEO crashes out and begins posting accelerationism on my 2025 bingo card," though maybe I should've.

Extant decentralized solutions (Mastodon, etc.) demonstrate that the kinds of social problems that decentralized networks are supposed to resolve simply emerge in different forms due to the properties of the networks in question.

Decentralization isn't a bad thing, it's just not the silver bullet.

Señores que hace 20 años se dejaron la piel en abrirlo en Europa… En fin, es el ciclo de la vida digital.

A mí también me cae bastante mal Mishima, pero efectivamente la reseña vale la pena

Oh good. I was really hoping the internet would get even worse.

Merriam-Webster does it again!

Portada de la novela Katabasis de R.F. Kuang que muestra una escalera tipo Escher dejando claro que la vida del estudiante de postgrado no acaba nunca y es una carrera sin fin...

He empezado a leer Katabasis de R. F. Kuang y por ahora me estoy muriendo de la risa

Sí, va de gente que baja al infierno, pero por ahora es sobre todo una hilarante comedia sobre la vida de estudiantes de postgrado 😀

It is sort of mind boggling how the science news of the last year or so has been software engineers saying “we’ve upgraded the torment nexus that might tear apart society to be 10% more efficient” while bio/pharma has been “we’re about to cure this disease that has plagued humanity for millenial

Shoutout to every stupid MFer embracing & glazing AI but specifically Black people because this kind of technology is absolutely horrifying for us

Hello [autistic friend] I am your assigned ADHD extrovert for the day. Would you like me to order from the drive thru for you and play videogames for several hours in the dark or do you want to hang out while I practice one of my many energetic hobbies while you tell me about [your hyperfixation]?

A group of scientists huddle excitedly around a monitor. One says: "The program has detected a signal sent from another galaxy, but we need to upgrade to a paid version before we can reply." The screen reads "Choose a plan To unlock replies: 1. Student 2. Basic 3. Pro 4. Expert "

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

That's basically the problem. It's very hard to resist that pull

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

Sometimes I think about all the novels I judged in years past as ham-fisted, lazy writing because they had some cartoonish billionaire character prone to constantly confessing their most sociopathic and diabolical plans for humanity

oops my bad

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Cartoon: two people at a table with paper, rulers, pens, knives, a jam jar with tools in. Third person entering the scene. Person at the table says "Welcome to Book Binding Club. Please make yourself a tome". I don't know how well puns work with readers. It's two separate words, "a" and "tome". Would welcome any feedback on this.

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