Break Up Facebook

Jason Doege

It happens almost never, but I think calling someone a philosophical zombie might be just about the most offensive thing ever.

Jan Gampe

"We're a giant tech monopoly, laws do not apply to us, lol" Nice, detail, Jeph ^^

Danny insert meta joke here Roose

Oh god. I can't handle people linking things without comment. I mean, thanks for the link, I guess, but if I wanted to dig through the trash that's where I'd be right now. (Yes, I get the irony of thinking I'd get something useful from facebook.)

Joe

& a donut without a hole is a danish ...

Grant Swire

sorry i am drawing a blank, when and who did she meet?

Carl

I suspect it is intentionally at least somewhat open to interpretation, but one way to look at it is definitely "fuck you mark zuckerberg, because facebook has let us become philisophical zombies". It would have been unthinkable to read the news today and go "huh." and move on to the next news item like nothing is wrong.

Perhaps I'm very naiive, but I don't get it. Maybe I'm overthinking. Is the point of this strip merely that Greg is a bot? (i.e. an automated account that posts synthesized updates without any human intervention) Or is there some kind of deeper political point that Jeph is making? I get the feeling that there's some subtle political point because the title and caption refer to tech billionaires, but I'm not sure exactly what point the comic itself is trying to convey...

Bagge

a robot acting like a twitterbot is a bit like Pintsize hanging out with kitchen appliances, right?

Derrik Pates

"Robot Overlord", I think.

Welcome to web design 2019, it's boring as hell but super functional.

Bruce Boyle

What does her shirt say?

FuryoftheStars

Patreon is a little disturbingly similar looking....

Evgeniy Semyonov

interesting huh

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

Oh yeah, New Tool album! Huzzah! (and their discography is now available in Napster)

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

A little 'Killing in the Name of' for Facebook?

Andrew

I’m proud of myself that I made it to panel 5 before thinking that way too :)

Pete

Lacks consciousness and, not necessarily intelligence.

Pete

So he's a bot, and in this universe AI without consciousness (philosophical zombie) behaves like a chat bot?

Bagge

aren't we all?

Nicole Hands

I for one welcome our AI overlords

Cass Redgrave

WAVY HAIR ROKO IS STAYING???? Yes...............

meepsalot

Like Roko’s new hairdo!

Sleepy John

A trail that leads nowhere comes back to itself.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

my prior high school reunion is why I won't go I mean, my classmates are great and all, but, socially, I connected more with someone's spouse who had no idea who everyone was

kaitou

What do you mean, "now," human?

I for one will welcome our robot overlords.

Michael Boettger

Zuckerberg is a bot himself?

Carl Fink

So the AI body person is a literal 'bot" that lacks intelligence, natural or artificial? Seriously, I could write that bot and I'm a very out-of-date developer.

Shawn K. Younkin

Nvrmind....I should have read chat first. XD

Shawn K. Younkin

I can't read her cute top...any help chat?

Tim Eldred

And now we need "Robot Overlord" hoodies.

Uniquitous

Now do Elon Musk!

Fart Captor

I think at this point I've lost all sense of object permanence and have clearly begun just shipping whichever non-related characters are in a given strip

JD

Share an article about how screwed up it is to give robots on parole sub standard bodies with him on Facebook.

jimbo

"Robot Overlord" ? the power of positive computing for Beeps

Chris Heg

Short Attention Span Theater.

Joel Bateman

Robot Overlord

William Cole

100% accurate screen cap in panel 4 ;-)

Michael Boettger

Beeps and her "Robot Overlord" shirt! Adorable! And Roko seems to be in a good mood! And yes, facebook could be soooooo much better than it is.

z

Could have a randomization cube for subject matter to search. Random neutron from a hunk of radium hits one of the detectors, guy decides he's going to look at something different.

Samantha Yeaman

I mean clearly he's just a bot account, nothing unusual about that. /s

Abhayakara

Better a philosophical zombie than the flesh-eating variety, I guess... Or are you saying that Facebook itself is a philosophical zombie? I think you could definitely make that case.

Joel Bateman

I agree. Fuck Facebook. Fuck Zucc. That site used to be fun, now it's nothing but ads, drama, and fake people.

Holly Nelson

A little personal for a first date, I should think.

darklion

Funnier if it said "Human Overlord" but I want one

David Browne

another facebook bot

Miyaa

Facebook is why I will never go to my 25 year high school anniversary reunion. I’ll just get a bunch of pop up ads for misinformation right before I get to the drink line.