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Computer

Posted on January 19, 2022 by tabulacandida

When they finally figure out artificial intelligence, shopping for a new computer is going to get real awkward.

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Box

Posted on September 29, 2021 by tabulacandida
A: We have a really important decision to make.
B: Well, we could let people decide, but you know what people are like: biased, irrational, ignorant, totally unreliable and illogical. So instead of people, we could let the Mystery Box decide!
A: Huh. What's in the Mystery Box?
B: People.
Caption: I will never understand why anyone thinks algorithms can solve social problems

“Well, our algorithm is perfectly rational and unbiased–why, the suburban middle-class white male engineers from southern California who designed it told me so themselves!”

SARCASM
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Technology

Posted on August 11, 2021 by tabulacandida
A graph showing on the y-axis: How excited you are about a new technology, on thex-axis: When in your lifetime that technology became widely available. Before your birth = “The natural order of the world” Your childhood = “The standard modern conveniences” Your teens = “Hey, this is pretty neat!” Your twenties = “Wow! This is awesome!” Your thirties = “Wait, what is this for? Who even needs this?” Forty plus: “Fuckin' witchcraft”

Live long enough and everything is just f*ckin’ witchcraft.

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Philosophers

Posted on July 18, 2021 by tabulacandida
Two Greek philosophers at a symposium.
A: So, what if instead of a king we had like... a smart king!
B: Dude! We are totally disrupting the democracy industry here!
Caption: Philosophers are just ancient tech bros.

Go on, try and tell me “hyperloop” doesn’t sound like something Plato would come up with as a metaphor for the soul.

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Captcha

Posted on April 25, 2021 by tabulacandida
A captcha-style image of Rene Magritte's The Treachery of Images
Caption: To prove that you are not a surrealist, select all squares containing: A pipe
Stick that in your painting and smoke it.

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