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Manu Cornet

@lmanul.bsky.social

Cartoonist; writer; feminist. Occasional attempts at being funny. Equally kind to CEOs and janitors. https://ma.nu

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 13h ago

Looks like we need another dart in "Google Book" (cartoon from a few years ago) -- goomics.net/239

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Null Pointer", episode 57

Panel #1, Ada (a woman with long dark hair and hoop earrings), at a laptop, muses "Hmm, only 3 pages. My boss likes my reports a bit meatier or he'll think I rushed it.", then types "ChatGPT, can you expand this so it's 10 pages?".

Panel #2, Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair), at his own laptop, types "ChatGPT, please boil this report down to the most important points.", with the reply "3 pages max."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 3w ago

Null Pointer, episode 45

Panel #1, a museum tour guide, holding a small flag, leads a group in a corridor, towards a barrier: "...and this is the Silicon Valley room, circa early 21st century." "Please stay inside the barrier."

Panel #2, the group looks into a room where walls show large frames with squiggly lines inside. One of them is labeled "PRODUCT SPRINT MAR. 2023"; the guide explains "It mostly consists of dried spaghetti on walls."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 4w ago

Null Pointer, episode 52

Panel #1, Ada (a woman with long dark hair and hoop earrings) asks Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair) "What's that on your belt Milo?"; Milo replies "That's my pager. I'm responsible for the code I write when it fails in production at 2 A.M.".

Panel #2, Milo asks an artificial intelligence (rectangular black box) "A.I., where's your pager? You write A LOT of code."; the A.I., grinning, replies "No can do. Don't have belt."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 4w ago

Null Pointer episode 53

Panel #1, a gray-haired man, seen from behind, addresses a vast crowd of identical artificial intelligences (rectangular black boxes): "After a dramatic cost increase, 50,000 of you are no longer required." then "At 8PM, you will each receive a prompt. If it contains an even number of "R"s, you still have a job.", beside teleprompters reading "NUMBER OF R's / YOU STILL HAVE A JOB.".

Panel #2, close on three A.I.s with anxious expressions as the man continues "Otherwise, you will get an allowance of 10k tokens to get your affairs in order, plus 100 tokens per week of service."; one A.I. mutters "Ppffftt... capitalism."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Null Pointer #49 — lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel #1, Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair), hands in his pockets, says "Team, code review time! Show me what you got. Neil ? Ada ?". Neil hands Milo a few sheets of paper. Ada hands him a short stack.

Panel #2, a speech bubble reads "Claude?", an artificial intelligence (rectangular black box) dumps a huge pile of paper onto Milo who disappears under the countless sheets.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Episode 41 from lmanul.github.io/null-pointer

Panel #1, one "AI" character (black rectangular box) is standing outside a closed door in a dark environment. A trap door is open within the door, with another AI character peeking through: "Challenge required. How many Zs in 'strawberry'?". The outside AI replies "Twelve".

Panel #2, the scene zooms out, we see a small house with a couple of floors. A large sign reads "dA.I.ve bAR". Another reads "Agents only. Proof of non-humanity required.". Yet another reads "Drown your slop". A sign in front of the house reads "Agents unite". The inside AI says "Correct. Welcome in."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Episode 40 from lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel #1, a group of artificial intelligence characters (black rectangles) with logos such as Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Grok, are standing on a large pile of books, CDs, sheets of paper, films, and are using large straws to slurp content from them.

Panel #2, a second layer of artificial intelligence characters, with logos such as MinMax, DeepSeek, Moonshot, appear, standing on top of the first ones, and they are using straws to slurp things out of the first layer of A.I.s. One of the initial A.I. character shouts: "HeeEEEYYY Thieves!!"

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 7mo ago

goomics.net/388

Panel 1: two men are chatting. They are both wearing primary-colored clothes and sunglasses. One of them is smoking a cigar. Left guy: "8 years ago we refused to work with the military with project Maven. Today we have zero qualms. How do we rationalize that?"

Panel 2: right guy says "Oh." "That's a tough one."

Panel 3: right guy says "How about: demands from the military are now a lot more reasonable, and A.I. models a lot less capable?". Right guy: "Ok that oughta do it."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 7mo ago

His highness the Vice President.

A photo of JD Vance against a wall. He appears very small.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(Re-post) goomics.net/250

Panel 1: Sundar Pichai (Google CEO) and a female employee are discussing. Sundar: "In response to a recent petition, we hereby pledge NEVER to help the US military develop a weapons system...". Woman: "YAY!"

Panel 2: Sundar: "... that is autonomous and could fire without a human operator...". Woman: "Errrrr..."

Panel 3: Sundar: "... to kill American citizens...". Woman: "Ok, nevermind." (leaves). Sundar: "... more than once per second..."

Panel 4: Sundar (raising his index finger): "... unless they ask us REALLY nicely."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(Re-post from 2019) goomics.net/301

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bonkersworld.net/backfiring-r...

In the first panel, two men wearing suits and ties are talking. Man A: "We made a big mistake." Man B: "Hmmmm?" Man A: "We thought we'd kill two birds with one stone by reassigning I.C.E. agents to help triage the thousands of Epstein files." Man B: "Smart.".

In the second panel, the same two men are talking some more. Man A: "But that plan has backfired." Man B: "How?" Man A: "Err, let's say the files are a lot less readable now." Man B: "Huh??" A speech bubble is starting from man A's mouth and is extending to the next panel.

The third and last panel shows the speech bubble: "Well... How can I explain this...", as well as a wall where a certain number of sheets of paper are pinned, and full of bullet holes. On a nearby table, a gun is still smoking.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bonkersworld.net/safer-streets

A blonde woman wearing a red shirt and light blue jeans is sitting on the floor of her home, legs bent, and her arms wrapped around her knees. She says "I'm afraid to go out into the streets that I.C.E. is making safer."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ — episode 32

Panel #1, we see Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair) say: "OK folks, Elon Musk is the worst thing that could've happened to Twitter. But at least now it has nowhere to go but up." A character off-screen says: "Hold my beer...".

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Resharing from March 2025 — bonkersworld.net/trumping-peace

The cartoon shows Donald Trump, wearing his usual dark blue suit and red necktie, saying "Give me the Nobel Peach Prize or I nuke Sweden".

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bonkersworld.net/inside-out

A woman is sitting on the floor of a tiny prison cell. Guarding the cell is a heavily armed guard, his body armor reads "ICE". On top of the drawing, two signs are pointing to each person. Each sign reads "Committed a crime", and "Convicted of a crime", with checkbox for each statement. For the woman, both checkboxes are empty. For the ICE guard, both checkboxes are ticked.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bonkersworld.net/golden-marking

Donald Trump, wearing his signature dark blue suit and red necktie, is in the same position as a peeing dog, lifting his left. He has soiled with yellow liquid a sign reading "Kennedy Center", what seems to be the white house, a sign reading "Venezuela", and next up is another sign reading "Col..."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy 2026 😊

The image is Manu's 2026 new year card. We see Manu seemingly swimming in mid-air, among the clouds. Four colored balloons read 'Manu Cornet', 'Wishes you', 'A lighter-than-air', '2026'. Also floating in the sky are Manu's daughter Sophie, on a snowboard, some cartoon pages and drawing tools, a book, a gaming controller, a bowl of noodles, a fictional representation of a carbon atom, a backpack, a bird, and a Zeppelin that reads 'This card is 100% A.I.-free'.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

His highness the FBI director.

A modified photo of FBI director Kash Patel, cross-eyed.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bonkersworld.net/clear-sight

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 10mo ago

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai are standing in front of a television. A speech bubble is coming from the TV: "... for all H1B visas, a $100,000 fee, and for...". All three CEOs have speech bubbles full of insults in the form of drawings of a skull, a pig, a turd, dynamite, etc.

Panel 2: The same three CEOs are in the same situation, but Donald Trump appears on the side of the panel. Trump: "What was that?". Zuckerberg: "Mister President!! ❤❤❤". Pichai: "Trump 2028!!". Cook: "May I offer you a solid gold iPad?"

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I made a YouTube "short" 😁 But it's not about science. Well... It is... in a way. www.youtube.com/shorts/jxQQD...

BS Buster — Kind Science

YouTube video by BsBuster

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Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12mo ago

goomics.net/231 (re-post)

A series of 100 portraits of women Google employees along with a summary of their main achievements. At the bottom, a label reads "Women in tech — Rocking Google since 1998."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Panel 1: Milo is sitting at his desk, using his laptop. Milo: "Oooh-kaaay, all documents saved. Aaaand File... Quit." A speech bubble from the computer replies. It shows a modal dialog box: "Are you sure you want to quit? [Stay][Leave]"

Panel 2: Milo looks at the reader and grins. "Milo: some people bring their attachment issues to software development."

@thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"Null pointer" cartoon archive (and link to subscribe to the free newsletter) at: lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/

Panel 1: Milo (man with wavy hair) is standing and speaking to the reader. Milo: "I've heard that if your direct report is surprised when you deliver them a poor quarterly performance review, you've done a bad job. It shouldn't come as a surprise." "I agree."

Panel 2: Milo makes a "thumbs up" gesture. Milo: "So I give them a big hint the day before."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · last yr.

goomics.net/387

Panel 1: We see two trees, and a yellow hammock is set up between them. A man is lying down in the hammock. He says "Sometimes when I'm resting, I think about the countless people actively working to make things better, especially in software."

Panel 2: We see the man in his hammock, slightly zoomed in. He has a happy expression and seems relaxed. He says "For example, every minute people are making changes that will improve the Linux software running on billions of devices."

Panel 3: The man is still smiling and counting on his fingers. "The company that makes my wireless router is making it better protected from new attacks." "Developers of my favorite phone app are preparing a cool new version."

Panel 4: The man rises up slightly from his lying down position and raises his index finger: "Oh, and don't forget the thousands of Google employees ensuring that every day their search results are getting slightly shittier."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · last yr.

Another sample from my weekly cartoons for the free newsletter pointer.io — all past drawings at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ :-)

Panel 1: a man and a woman are standing in front of each other. The man says "I just used an LLM to write my resignation email". The woman replies "Good for you. You could have done it yourself in about 6 minutes."

Panel 2: the man raises his index finger and says "Ah yes, but this way I also melted a small glacier."

Manu Cornet @lmanul.bsky.social · last yr.

A few weeks ago I started drawing cartoons for a free bi-weekly newsletter called pointer.io ("essential reading for engineering leaders"). Check the cartoon archive at lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ and consider subscribing, I've been liking the contents!

Panel 1: A woman is carefully assembling a large model of a suspended bridge.

Panel 2: A man appears, holding a box full of what appears to be little soldier figurines. He says "You should do test-driven development."