Post #1480169
2026-04-20 05:17 UTC
Replies (23)
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@corse_pia@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-20 08:59
RE: https://ruby.social/@camertron/116435336506419667 @camertron Calvin et Hobbes : tellement vrai (comme d'habitude) Calvin and Hobbes : so true , as usual
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@clemensg@digitalcourage.social 2026-04-20 09:02
@camertron For "slowing down" we have in germany a typical german word: it's long, sounds harder and is very accurate: "Entschleunigung".
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@keoni@mastodon.nz 2026-04-20 10:07
@camertron wow, I've been thinking that exact thing with this AI stuff. Got more work done fast. But for who? We'll still have to work 9 to 5. We don't get to work less. Crazy that comic is so on point and more so today.
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@kappazeta@mastodon.bida.im 2026-04-20 10:20
@camertron so true!
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@jaze@mstdn.social 2026-04-20 10:52
@camertron #Thanks4Sharing! & #Thanks 2 #BillWatterson 4 making this (and all the other strips) in the first place! 🖖!
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@Phosphenes@glasgow.social 2026-04-20 10:59
@camertron We're all John Henry now.
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@locha@fediscience.org 2026-04-20 12:03
@camertron Less efficient, like a LLM? 🤡
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@StefanMuelller@lingo.lol 2026-04-20 12:05
@camertron You can use computers with Microsoft operating systems and software. But I guess you want everybody to be similarly inefficient.
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@ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-20 13:21
@camertron Watterson was/is a visionary. So many things on C&H were so on point. That's what makes it one of the greatest comic strips of all time.
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@lawyerjsd@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 14:04
@camertron Hmm. . .that does explain my cooking habits.
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@jhwgh1968@chaos.social 2026-04-20 14:16
@camertron it is no surprise to me that Bill Watterson not only retired near the top of his game at the "perfect" time to have a good legacy rather than "overstaying in the spotlight" But then *vanished off the face of the Earth* to some tiny fishing cabin on the ocean and only has e-mail with people he knew from before he was famous with rare exceptions This is the way (Source: my memory of when this happened: https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/bill-watterson-does-pearls-before-swine-the-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-emerged-from-retirement-to-work-with-stephan-pastis.html )
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@kasperd@westergaard.social 2026-04-20 15:53
For some reason that reminded me of https://m.xkcd.com/303/
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@lorenzleutgeb@academiccloud.social 2026-04-20 15:57
@camertron This is Jevons paradox, right?
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@draNgNon@hachyderm.io 2026-04-20 16:28
@camertron in tech, there's an xkcd for this concept: https://xkcd.com/303/
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@gilesgoat@toot.wales 2026-04-20 16:33
@camertron I like that one where Calvin 'invents a more efficient time use / way to do his homework" by using a kitchen timer and setting times around 1 minute to complete 'tasks' 😂
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@faraiwe@mstdn.social 2026-04-20 16:35
@camertron Watterson, American prophet and daydreamer extraordinaire.
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@axol_otleon@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 18:02
@camertron Our systems are already less efficient. Waiting on computer software becomes a larger part of the day each year, and software becomes more bloathed. Nowadays you cannot even easily find what is the hold up on windows systems, but still things are not moving. Seems we have passed the efficiency marker on this OS a good while ago. Adding more memory, bandwidth and horsepower is not keeping up with it anymore. To think we’ve put people on the moon with much less…
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@djsf@fosstodon.org 2026-04-20 20:00
@camertron Whoah is this really the original?
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@nantucketlit@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 05:01
@camertron Is this the reason I am surrounded by fountain pens and typewriters, and why I'm going to go see about a Linotype machine tomorrow?
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@Aepasek@scholar.social 2026-04-21 12:54
@camertron I am increasingly a devotee of Calvin's Dad Thought
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@bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar 2026-04-21 22:50
@camertron this is so REAL
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@lunarloony@dosgame.club 2026-04-22 05:30
@camertron There is *always* a relevant C&H
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@thatKomputerKat@oldbytes.space 2026-04-26 04:51
@camertron ngl, one of my favorite things about school computer lab time was when everyone was sending their print jobs to the two networked Apple Image Writer II printers at the back of the room and just sitting there watching the print dialog list off other students’ file names as their documents were printing before mine. Just doing nothing for a number of minutes at the end of class when everyone on one side of the room starts giggling at some naughty word someone used in their file name. 🖨️ 🖨️ :neocat_laptop: :neocat_laptop: :neocat_laptop_notice: :neocat_laptop_notice: :neocat_laptop_owo: :neocat_laptop_owo: :neocat_laptop: