Nostr notes by Zach Weinersmith

Not sure if this is a hot take, but the apparently frequent ...

2026-05-27T12:10:33Z

Not sure if this is a hot take, but the apparently frequent cheating or borderline cheating with Ai in University seems to me less about Ai and more about how sick the system has gotten.

Compare for example to learning from a teacher to graft trees. In that case, cheating would be absurd. Why?

Btw, if you want the opposite of an algorithmic ...

2026-05-19T11:34:27Z

Btw, if you want the opposite of an algorithmic personality-flattener? Read an old book. At least a century old. Everything will be different and strange and won't fit in any gentle groove you've worn for yourself. This is true even with a shitty, ephemeral book.

Favorite new thing learning French was encountering the phrase ...

2026-05-16T11:39:49Z

Favorite new thing learning French was encountering the phrase "un peu trop hexagonale" meaning "a bit too hexagonal" to mean "a bit too French" because France is roughly the shape of hexagon. I'd encountered "l'Hexagone" plenty of times, but didn't know one could be hexagonale.

Full proposal here: ...

2026-05-06T15:36:41Z

Full proposal here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/shenan...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/shenanigans ) #smbc #comics #philosophy #shenanigans
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I could really go for a political speech were someone just says ...

2026-03-31T11:34:51Z

I could really go for a political speech were someone just says they're NOT going to deport workers while raising taxes on imports while starting wars in the Middle East. No additional economic platform required.

Btw, if you are following the Anthropic debacle, and Minnesota is ...

2026-02-28T00:26:58Z

Btw, if you are following the Anthropic debacle, and Minnesota is fresh in your mind, consider the limits your government was not willing to budge on, according to the Anthropic CEO: [www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...](https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war )
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For anyone who read this comic we DID get to the bottom of it. ...

2026-02-26T00:12:09Z

For anyone who read this comic we DID get to the bottom of it. The answer was it was a racist pornographic drawing frequently xeroxed and otherwise duplicated in the 70s and 80s. Eyyyyyy [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-pa...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-painting )

[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cer...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-painting )

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not ...

2026-01-24T16:08:15Z

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

Used to be against moon landing conspiracy theorists, but now I ...

2025-12-11T14:26:12Z

Used to be against moon landing conspiracy theorists, but now I think ah, that was such a gentle, almost charming, kind of stupid. How lovely it all was.

Do you think there's a world, that didn't happen, in ...

2025-11-13T16:15:35Z

Do you think there's a world, that didn't happen, in which social media was built into an internet protocol?

So, meaning... individuals release comments, blogs, video, music, etc from a single source. And then social media acts as the feed, not the host. Similar to how RSS worked, and email works.

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math ...

2025-11-07T17:26:18Z

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commute-2 )
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For the record, Elizabeth talks like this too. It's how you ...

2025-10-24T11:44:25Z

For the record, Elizabeth talks like this too. It's how you know they're compatible.

Fan theory: Pride and Prejudice is the first autism romance.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o72ypk5c474zqklkukaphuy3/post/3m3shnlkhj22i

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Theory: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is grumpy because he was an analytic philosopher born several generations too early.
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Theory: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is grumpy because he was ...

2025-10-22T18:22:44Z

Theory: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is grumpy because he was an analytic philosopher born several generations too early.
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2025-10-16T20:08:33Z

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Hey avid gardeners? What's your self-explanation, if you have ...

2025-10-07T17:48:19Z

Hey avid gardeners? What's your self-explanation, if you have one, for wasting money to create expensive food? I realized for me, it's:

1) Collecting plants like I once collected Magic cards
2) Special versions of things
3) SOME stuff really is best ultra-fresh
4) It's fun to tend a thing

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are ...

2025-09-22T11:15:56Z

Good morning.

Immigration is good. Trade is good.

There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

So, today the 11 year old told me "sup" is a greeting ...

2025-08-13T23:48:32Z

So, today the 11 year old told me "sup" is a greeting like "hey" or "yo."

I told her it's derived from "what's up."

She looked at me like I was 700 years old and explaining that the word nickname comes from "eke name."

Feel like Gretchen McCulloch (npub1s4g…qcpn) should hear about this.

One claim I really don't understand about AI is the idea that ...

2025-07-19T15:09:04Z

One claim I really don't understand about AI is the idea that it'll go away because they're all losing money. Losing money while building a product is just normal company behavior? You borrow and lose money to try to make a thing and/or control the market, and then you angle for sustainable profit.

Bonus panel here: ...

2025-07-15T17:38:25Z

Bonus panel here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prompt](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/prompt )

#smbc
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The greatest bonus panel of my career is here: ...

2025-07-08T19:04:10Z

The greatest bonus panel of my career is here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crystals](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crystals )

#smbc
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Cursed Full comic here: ...

2025-06-27T19:03:29Z

Cursed
Full comic here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/matter](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/matter )

#smbc
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What's your view on the accuracy great stagnation theories? ...

2025-06-27T12:44:11Z

What's your view on the accuracy great stagnation theories? Meaning the idea that technological change, and improvement in life, have slowed from a breakneck pace achieved during something like 1870 to 1970.

To be clear, interested in whether you think it's true, not good one way or the other.

Utilitarianism is the objectively most funny ethical theory ...

2025-06-19T16:06:44Z

Utilitarianism is the objectively most funny ethical theory
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Do you you think there's a sort of... content creation ...

2025-06-12T12:07:07Z

Do you you think there's a sort of... content creation apocalypse coming? Like this sort of thing:

1) People have limited eyeball time. You can increase it marginally, but certainly not an order of magnitude above what it is now (people have to sleep!)

2) Media creation has gotten ever easier

If you agree with the statement, "a chess engine doesn't ...

2025-06-10T13:27:33Z

If you agree with the statement, "a chess engine doesn't actually understand chess" which statement is closest to your meaning:

Of all the weird tech speak, using “light cone” to refer to ...

2025-06-08T13:27:28Z

Of all the weird tech speak, using “light cone” to refer to “what might happen” is most odd to me. It’s as if you’re saying “all the stuff that might happen, and I wish to emphasize no faster than light speeds, time travel, or violations of relativity theory in general”

Important data. Bonus panel here: ...

2025-05-24T22:21:38Z

Important data.

Bonus panel here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sylph](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sylph )
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2025-05-23T15:13:52Z

[www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gently](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gently ) (click for bonus panel)

#smbc
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2025-05-10T20:17:49Z

Conversion
[www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conversion )
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2025-05-09T16:19:11Z

comicking
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There should be a superhero movie where the villain conquers the ...

2025-05-05T14:26:25Z

There should be a superhero movie where the villain conquers the universe, serves out his term, then 100 years later the galaxy transitions to a Republic, but there are controversies about how to teach the galactocides of Lord Doomheart to young people without damaging their sense of civic pride.

Consciousness defined Full comic here: ...

2025-04-27T18:29:22Z

Consciousness defined

Full comic here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-9 )
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Bonus panel here: ...

2025-04-10T15:34:32Z

Bonus panel here: [www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-r...](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-rights )
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Google has a new multimodal AI model and it can instantly ...

2025-03-13T12:28:08Z

Google has a new multimodal AI model and it can instantly generate SMBC comics that are way funnier than mine
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Anyone else married to someone who grocery shops like a college ...

2025-03-11T22:07:01Z

Anyone else married to someone who grocery shops like a college student who just got high for the first time?

Me: flour, butter, eggs, milk, fresh stuff, etc.

Her: dinosaur chicken nuggets, a tub of sour cream, a whole coconut, ice cream bars, and then she asks what I'm making for dinner.

I dunno the motivation with the "stick it to Canada" ...

2025-03-11T15:40:03Z

I dunno the motivation with the "stick it to Canada" bullshit, but I feel like the administration is making a parallel mistake to Putin, of thinking that by being big and aggressive you get what you want. But if the receiver of the aggression cares a LOT more, it makes a difference.

Bonus panel here: ...

2025-02-26T17:13:33Z

Bonus panel here: [smbc-comics.com/comic/biz](http://smbc-comics.com/comic/biz )
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So the new AI from Anthropic is really good at programming. In 2 ...

2025-02-24T20:32:56Z

So the new AI from Anthropic is really good at programming. In 2 prompts it made me a Sisyphus arcade game.

Ironically, due to some error, the ball keeps rolling around but you can never touch it.
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This article, by my old-school conservative older brother, was ...

2025-02-23T21:14:49Z

This article, by my old-school conservative older brother, was written ten years ago, and might be of interest in the present moment: [lawliberty.org/dont-run-gov...](https://lawliberty.org/dont-run-government-like-a-business-please/?utm_source=chatgpt.com )

[Don't Run Government Like a Bu...](https://lawliberty.org/dont-run-government-like-a-business-please/?utm_source=chatgpt.com )