ZachWeinersmith

ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to random

There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 months ago to random

Amazingly, I made this several years ago

ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to random

Have you noticed that people are taking weekends seriously? I used to be able to get responses on weekends and now I barely do. It's the greatest development in the history of email and we should never go back.

ZachWeinersmith, 10 months ago to random

AI
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright

ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to random

I'm sure there's a tendency to always view the past as better, but the social-media-ification of the Internet has really sucked a lot of the joy out of entertaining people. When it was peripheral to the broader Internet, you spent most of your time making stuff. Now you gotta learn 8 to 12 platforms that mostly want you to act like an employee of their algorithm.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 months ago to random

I guess on some deep level I don't understand why Mark Zuckerberg needs all of my personal data three separate times. It's starting to seem like an obsession.

ZachWeinersmith, 18 days ago to random

So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 months ago to random

Metrics
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics (click for full comic)
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ZachWeinersmith, 10 months ago to random

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/garfield

ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to comics

Escape
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/escape-2 (click for bonus panel)
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ZachWeinersmith, 1 year ago to random

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/llm
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ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to random

OK guys, A City on Mars is out.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449/a-city-on-mars-by-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith/

Heretofore I've had to hold back a bit on discussing it, but now the book is going out into the world, so Ask Me Anything about space settlement: science, politics, law, historiography, etc. I'll do my best to answer.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 months ago to random

Mans
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/mans-2

ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Boole: invented new logic, possibly accidentally killed by his wife making him sleep in cold wet sheets when he had pneumonia

Frege: invented new logic, late in life was shattered by a discovery of Russell's, wound up a sad angry anti-semite

Cantor: invented new logic, everyone hated him, severe depression, conspiracy theories

Turing; invented new logic, hounded by government, forced to take hormones against his will

Godel: Godel

Lesson: don't study logic

ZachWeinersmith, 5 months ago to random

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/that-thing

ZachWeinersmith, 9 months ago to comics

Pronounce
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
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ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to random

So, having mostly moved from twitter to mastodon, one thing I've discovered that I really like is feeding-the-trolls seems quite rare? Like, on posts I'll very occasional get someone behaving twitter-like (meaning a combination of assuming the worst and then speaking as if to a mob) and... here they're generally just ignored.

ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to comics

Ancient Times
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ancient-times
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ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to comics

Series
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/series
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ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to comics

Autocomplete

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/autocomplete-2

Early comic here: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h

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ZachWeinersmith, 7 months ago to random

Ohmygod. Ohmygod. We're in The Sun. We're in the British tabloid. And what is it about? Eating astronauts.

This is the absolute peak, ladies and gentlemen.

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/9577032/space-cannibalism-mars-journey-gone-wrong/

ZachWeinersmith, 5 months ago to comics

Meaning
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/meaning-4 (click for full comic)
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ZachWeinersmith, 9 months ago to random

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/stress-2

ZachWeinersmith, 13 days ago to random

Pro-tip: corporate AI can't do any sexy stuff, so if you want to be camouflaged to AI, just wear a suit with a pattern made entirely of huge dicks.

ZachWeinersmith, 2 months ago to comics

Coverage
Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/coverage-2
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