baffling comic strip, cryptic covid-19 allusion
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... 'Consentient'?
https://www.gocomics.com/compu-toon/2020/04/21
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I just feel like 'consentient' should be a word meaning something to you folks who have multivariable functions defining your body and personality counts.
baffling comic strip, cryptic covid-19 allusion
It actually says that... Huh. I had assumed the weird shading on the sign was because it was a bad Twitter edit or something... But it's just... Huh.
baffling comic strip, cryptic covid-19 allusion
@001zlnv Yeah! I admire the cartoonist's desire to help us through these trying times by being deeply confusing, though.
re: baffling comic strip, cryptic covid-19 allusion
@Austin_Dern @001zlnv I 'get' it. It's a sentient application which informs the user if it is 'safe' or not - if they have 'consent' - to hug someone. Because Corvid-19 has put the onus on the huggER for determining consent to be touched in advanced of just grabbing someone, which is so hard to do that you need an AI to do it for you. Or a global pandemic to modify your behaviour on threat of death, but even that may not be enough.
It is not, imo, a very *funny* joke. But it's internally self-consistent for certain worldviews.
Although it could be metacommentary on the technical field's efforts to solve interpersonal boundary issues with ML systems, which would be hilarious. But Poes Law applies.
Humour is a funny business...
re: baffling comic strip, cryptic covid-19 allusion
@Momentrabbit @001zlnv Oh, I agree the joke is meant to be about an app that says whether you have the huggee's consent, although explicitly naming a six-foot limit messes things up.
One of Compu-Toon's regular jokes is apps that somehow handle a social interaction. It's just ... there's something wonderfully sincere yet off about it.