By “taken down”, I mean the artist took it down from their website, not that it was taken down or modded on Lemmy at all. I’m not really sure why, but the artist has removed a few of his comics from the site without explanation.

Interesting to think about your comment in the context of another murder by ICE today in Minneapolis. Things are getting very heated, but it’s still easy to just go about your daily business for many people. Makes me wonder what sort of pictures people will be looking at in the commons in the future from around this time period that need context added like that.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The Los Angeles Times, which carries The Far Side, has taken umbrage with my cartoon on several occasions. (Apparently, someone there actually reads the comics beforehand.) These three, as I recall, created some conflicts with the “good taste” standards of that paper, and I believe all three were deleted from their comic page back in the early eighties.

The first two I suppose are subjective, although I don’t remember other papers censoring them. Their rejection of the elephant cartoon, however, had me baffled. I’ve always found it appalling that the demand for ivory has caused these magnificent animals to be continuously poached—but the ultimate act of contempt for the rights of wildlife has got to be represented by the elephant’s foot wastebasket. And that’s the point I was striving for in this cartoon—not that I was hoping to make a profound comment of any sort (the cartoon is really pretty inane, I think), but just who wouldn’t be upset to find out something like this had been done to a former part of their anatomy?

There’s no list that I know of, I had to go trawl through archive.org to find everything. Not really sure why it got taken down, other than that the author has said in interviews that he’s kind of a perfectionist and enjoys scrapping art that he’s already done if he thinks it isn’t good enough.

You can kind of see that with my other comment with the older version of this strip. He redid it at least once to add some subtle coloring to draw the viewer’s eye towards the background where they see the vulture and get the joke. Probably just a lot of that sort of thing.

Interesting to compare the coloring to an earlier version:

Yeah, they should be able to. It’d be good to ask them about mass-importing the data. OpenStreetMap allows for that sort of thing, though they want you to work with them first to make sure it turns out well.

I interpret it as bullethead being a highly-skilled artisan that used ketchup (or similar substance) to create art. Ketchuphead thinks he can recreate the art but is missing the skill to do so and just has the raw materials.

This community is for anything related to creative commons/public domain/etc. This is a great fit for the community! Posting pictures is one way of keeping the community active (and reminding myself to post), but discussion is heartily welcome.

There’s a few projects to replace Mapillary, but no clear winner yet. This is a recent one:

https://panoramax.fr/

My diet is pretty SAD. It’s probably higher quality than average, since I’ll avoid the cheapest possible foods that are chock full of artificial this or that, but it’s still not as good as eating real food.

This is an older look at some of the foundational work that went into today’s LLMs. It links to a tool that you can use to explore the associations:

https://lamyiowce.github.io/word2viz/

I think it’s hard to say that language models don’t “know” things based on even older results like this, even if they “know” things in a completely different way than humans do.

It’s a pun on desert/dessert. At first you think they’re in a desert and the character pronounced it wrong/author spelled it wrong, but the final panel reveals that it was accurate and they’re on top of a large dessert, which is possibly also a desert as well

That’s great! Did you make it yourself?

It’s been borrowed into graphic design as the Cicada Principle:

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2020/07/the-cicada-principle-revisited-with-css-variables/

Looks like the original link is dead, but there’s a newer examination of it. If you have a repeating pattern, you can maximize variation while minimizing file size by using multiple sequences with different prime lengths

Link to drawing:

https://xcancel.com/Exocomics/status/423662449506541569

I bet a lot of people over in !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz can relate

He’s being abducted by a UFO and wakes up inside of it to see random teens instead of aliens, is the joke as far as I can tell. I found the last panel online used elsewhere but it seems to be a common stock photo and not a meme or reference on its own.

Man, Google AI is the gift that keeps on giving (stupidity)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Reaction to this cartoon baffled me.

Although for the most part I think readers understood the “gag,” a few individuals accused me of having fun at the expense of hydrocephalics. Yep―that’s what they said.

I hope it’s obvious to most people that hydrocephalicus (I still can’t believe it) had nothing to do with the cartoon.

Singling out any tragic disease for ridicule would never fall within my own standards―let alone my editors.

So what do they think about Charlie Brown?

Yeah, I’d be fine with crossposting here, if that’s not seen as spammy or anything