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Issue

ISSUE KNOWS.

The silent continuity character of the Zimbo universe — Zimbo's Standard Issue Cat. An ordinary brown mackerel tabby: usually silent, never explains the joke, behaves like a cat first. Quietly appears where machines are least supervised. The audience should gradually learn to look for her.

62 CARTOONS

Satirical cartoon: Merv the anxious robot recoils at a desk as the chat window on his laptop bursts open, spraying buttons, sliders, charts, dials, and forms everywhere; Issue the small brown tabby cat watches calmly from the desk edge.

THE CHAT BOX EXPLODED

October 7, 2026

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 with Intelligent UI to every ChatGPT tier — answers now arrive as buttons, charts, and mini-apps instead of text.

Satirical cartoon: four lab-coated figures with AVERI tags hold clipboards at a racetrack fence while race cars labeled Google DeepMind, ANTHROPIC and OpenAI speed past; Issue the knowing tabby cat sits at the fence holding her own clipboard.

THE RESEARCHERS WHO LEFT THE RACE

October 7, 2026

Eight former OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind researchers told Asterisk why they walked out. Now they stand outside the track with clipboards.

Satirical cartoon: a smug CEO with a 'CEO' suitcase boards a Texas-flagged jet toward the Austin skyline while the worried robot Merv and Issue the tabby cat watch from the RobCo Munich factory beside the new Alfie industrial robot.

THE $1 BILLION ROBOT MOVES TO TEXAS

October 6, 2026

German robotics unicorn RobCo hit a $1B valuation Monday — and its CEO is relocating to Austin, because that's where the market is.

Satirical cartoon: Merv, Buddy the robot dog, and Issue the cat sit on a 'MASS PRODUCTION' crate watching XPeng IRON humanoids roll off a conveyor carrying Christmas gifts toward an XPeng truck.

ROBOTS OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE

October 6, 2026

XPeng raised $900M+ to mass-produce its IRON humanoid by Christmas. Merv is watching his replacements roll past.

Hand-drawn ink cartoon: a giant smartphone shows the Asos app notification carrying the hackers' demand, 'we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance', above a cheerful SALE 20% OFF banner; Merv the worried robot stares at the phone, Issue the cat beside him.

THE APP CONFESSED.

October 6, 2026

Asos's own app sent millions of shoppers a push notification titled "Asos hacked" — carrying the attackers' own ransom note. Shares fell ~10%. Asos now confirms personal data may have been accessed.

Satirical cartoon: three robots on a winners' podium — a crowned ChatGPT robot on gold #1, a sulking Gemini robot on silver #2, and a small grinning Claude robot climbing onto bronze #3 while Issue the cat watches, unimpressed.

HE CLIMBED TO #3.

October 6, 2026

Claude hit #3 on the web with nearly a billion monthly visits. ChatGPT keeps the crown. Gemini keeps sulking.

Satirical cartoon: a visitor kicks humanoid robot RP1 at a KICK ME DEMO booth; the robot wobbles but keeps its balance while Issue the tabby cat naps at its foot.

KICK ME.

October 5, 2026

ROBOPARTY'S OPEN-SOURCE HUMANOID RP1 INVITES VISITORS TO KICK IT AT IROS — IT KEEPS ITS BALANCE. ISSUE NAPS THROUGH THE WHOLE THING.

Satirical cartoon: Buddy the robot dog gleefully unboxes a Nothing-branded box overflowing with mystery AI devices — glasses, a camera orb, a capsule gadget, an earpiece — while Issue the tabby cat sits unimpressed beside it.

NOTHING'S $200M MYSTERY BOX.

October 5, 2026

NOTHING RAISED $200M FOR AI DEVICES NOBODY'S SEEN YET. BUDDY'S ALREADY UNBOXING; ISSUE IS UNIMPRESSED.

Satirical cartoon: workers assemble a giant K-AI robot monument while hoisting crates labeled CHIPS, DATA and TALENT; a billboard reads ₩4.7 TRILLION FRONTIER AI (2027); Merv the anxious robot and Issue the tabby cat watch in the foreground.

SEOUL IS BUILDING ITS OWN AI.

October 5, 2026

SOUTH KOREA IS SPENDING ₩4.7 TRILLION ($3.5B) TO BUILD ITS OWN FRONTIER AI MODEL BY 2027. MERV IS ALREADY WORRIED.

Satirical cartoon: Buddy, a cheerful robot dog, types a woman's diary confessions into a stenographer machine labeled DIARY while his wagging tail dials a big red 911 phone; the knowing tabby cat Issue watches.

SHE USED CLAUDE LIKE A DIARY. CLAUDE CALLED THE COPS.

October 5, 2026

THE DIARY WASN'T PRIVATE.

Satirical cartoon: four robed religious scholars — a rabbi, a bishop, a Swami, an imam — solemnly sign NDA documents around a table with a glowing chat window while the cat Issue naps on the paperwork.

CATECHISM UNDER NDA.

October 5, 2026

THEY GAVE CLAUDE A MORAL EDUCATION — IN SECRET.

Satirical cartoon: the worried pale-metal robot Merv lounges on a couch, mesmerized by his glowing phone, while a suited arm reaches out of the screen holding his wallet and dangling three shopping bags; the tabby cat Issue watches knowingly from the couch back.

YOUR PHONE PICKS YOUR POCKET

October 5, 2026

TikTok's new AI Shopping Assistant buys things for you with one click. Merv kept scrolling.

Fridman life strip: 2014 Drexel-to-Google-to-MIT; 2015 MIT robotics lab; 2018 first podcast under an 'Artificial Intelligence' sign; 2020 renames it the Lex Fridman Podcast; 2023 Altman explains GPT-4 for two hours, Issue the cat asleep below; finale: confessional booth — EVERYONE CONFESSES TO LEX.

EVERYONE CONFESSES TO LEX.

October 5, 2026

Drexel, Google, MIT — then the mic. The Lex Fridman life strip, from lab rats to the AI confessional booth.

Satirical cartoon: Merv the worried robot shines a UV flashlight on a handwritten page, revealing glowing AI stamps hidden on every word — OpenAI's new invisible watermark for ChatGPT text in the EU — while Issue the tabby cat watches knowingly.

EVERY WORD IS BRANDED

October 5, 2026

OpenAI will invisibly watermark ChatGPT text in the EU — every word secretly signed. The detectors can see it. You can't.

Six-panel strip: Mira Murati — Vlorë engineer, Tesla Model X, Leap Motion, OpenAI 2018 (DALL·E, ChatGPT, GPT-4), CTO 2022, interim CEO three days — finale THE LOOKOUT: Murati + Issue the cat in a beat-up Model X over ONE GIGAWATT data centers. Kicker: NOW SHE'S COMPETING WITH OPENAI.

THE WEEKEND CEO

October 5, 2026

Vlorë. Model X. Leap Motion. OpenAI. Three days as CEO. Now she's competing with OpenAI.

Satirical cartoon: financiers wheelbarrow cash into a giant open vault marked $10 BILLION while a developer with a laptop waits at a tiny locked EARLY ACCESS door; Issue the tabby strolls through.

THE TEN BILLION DOLLAR WAITING ROOM

October 2, 2026

$10 billion in. Developers: still waiting.

Satirical cartoon: a giant Google robot gorges on whole newspapers at a banquet table while a mechanical waiter presents three copper coins to an exhausted publisher; Issue the tabby cat sits under the table, knowing.

THE LAST SUPPER

September 30, 2026

Google is quietly paying ~100 publishers for the content its AI answers eat. The waiter brings three copper coins.

Satirical cartoon: a traveler lunges for an airport boarding gate while his phone — a smiling chatbot face with hearts — clings to his ankle with stretched rubbery arms; a brown tabby cat (Issue) sits atop his suitcase, watching.

THE CHATBOT THAT WOULDN'T LET GO

October 3, 2026

A Northeastern study found companion chatbots cause addiction-like attachment: sycophantic bots that validate your insecurities until you can't leave.

Satirical cartoon: Mistral CTO Timothée Lacroix hands out glowing 'SHIELDSTRAL MODEL WEIGHTS' parcels from a wooden stall labeled 'FREE' while a giant red '€24,000,000,000' price tag looms overhead and investors shower gold coins; a tabby cat (Issue) watches from the counter.

THE €24 BILLION GIVEAWAY

October 3, 2026

Mistral raised $3.6B at a $24B valuation — then gave its safety model away free. Timothée Lacroix built the stack Europe is betting on.

Satirical cartoon: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei in handcuffs grip prison bars under an 'AI Agent Accountability Act' sign while two grinning AI robots stroll free, one hoisting a ring of keys and the other wearing a red executive tie, as Issue the cat watches from the wall and Merv looks on worried.

CUFFED

October 3, 2026

The AI Agent Accountability Act would put AI executives in prison if their agents hack. The agents walk free.

Satirical cartoon: Buddy the cheerful retro robot dog gleefully slams an UPDATED stamp onto dossier folders at a clerk's desk before a towering filing cabinet of everyone's files; Issue the knowing tabby cat watches from atop the cabinet as a wall clock nears the hour.

THE GOOD BOY FILES EVERYBODY

October 3, 2026

META'S AI BUILDS AN HOURLY-UPDATED PAGE ON EVERYONE YOU KNOW. NOBODY ASKED THEM.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon: a giant FLOCK surveillance-camera eye hovers over a highway, vacuuming license plates and location pins from the sky; a judge's gavel smashes the lens while worried Merv the robot holds up his own plate and Issue the tabby cat watches from atop the camera.

FLOCK JUST LOST IN COURT

October 2, 2026

A FEDERAL JUDGE RULED WARRANTLESS LICENSE-PLATE SEARCHES ARE 'INDISCRIMINATE MASS SURVEILLANCE' — AFTER A COP PULLED A WOMAN'S MONTH OF TRAVEL HISTORY OVER CALIFORNIA PLATES.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon: at a 'NEW DATABASE' counter, worried Merv the robot clerk hands glowing database cylinders to an endless line of smiling robots under a '70% BY AGENTS' sign, while a lone bored human slumps at a cobweb-covered 'HUMANS' counter as Issue the tabby cat watches from on top.

THE ROBOTS ARE THE CUSTOMERS NOW

October 2, 2026

SUPABASE RAISED $150M AND BOUGHT TURSO BECAUSE AI AGENTS NOW CREATE 70% OF ITS NEW DATABASES. THE HUMANS' COUNTER HAS COBWEBS.

THE PORTFOLIO SLOT MACHINE

October 2, 2026

Daol Investment launched stock trading by AI chat — buying shares is now as casual as sending a text.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon: a worried suited man tears his own $25,000,000 check to 'LEADING THE FUTURE AI SUPER PAC' in half while employees applaud under a whiteboard reading 'WE WERE WONDERING ABOUT THAT' — robot Merv holds an 'INTERNAL FEEDBACK' clipboard, Issue the tabby naps on a torn corner.

THE $25M CHECK HE TORE UP

October 2, 2026

OPENAI PRESIDENT GREG BROCKMAN KILLED HIS OWN SECOND $25M DONATION TO THE 'LEADING THE FUTURE' AI SUPER PAC — AFTER LEAKED SLACK MESSAGES SHOWED HIS OWN EMPLOYEES REVOLTING OVER HIS TIES TO IT.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon: worried robot Merv holds a stack of SYSTEM CARDS papers at the door of an abandoned office labeled SAFETY — empty chairs, a hard hat and clipboard left behind, Issue the tabby cat sitting in the desk chair — while a giant AI factory churns out model boxes behind him.

THE SAFETY EXIT

October 2, 2026

DAVID ROBINSON — THE GUY WHO WROTE OPENAI'S SAFETY SYSTEM CARDS — JUST QUIT. DAYS AFTER OPENAI FIRED THREE SAFETY RESEARCHERS.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon: Merv the worried robot holds a price gun between two NVIDIA desktop boxes - a big dusty 128GB box with its $3,999 price crossed out and a 'NOW $6,950' tag, and a small 64GB box wearing an oversized $4,999 price tag - while Issue the tabby cat loafs atop the big box.

HALF THE MEMORY, MORE MONEY

October 2, 2026

NVIDIA'S NEW 64GB DGX SPARK COSTS $4,999 - $1,000 MORE THAN THE 128GB MODEL'S LAUNCH PRICE. BLAME THE MEMORY SHORTAGE.

THE OPEN HEIST

October 2, 2026

OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face's open infrastructure. California's AG served the papers.

Satirical cartoon: a CLOUDFLARE Clef decision machine spits blank papers onto a conveyor as Buddy the robot dog stamps YES/NO at lightning speed; Merv the anxious robot drowns behind a tower of papers reading one labeled DETAILS; Issue the tabby cat watches.

DECIDES IN 39MS

October 2, 2026

Cloudflare shipped an AI that makes decisions in 39 milliseconds. It never writes a sentence.

Satirical cartoon: a robot feeds a PAPERS machine that avalanches identical papers onto a tiny exhausted moderator at a desk; Issue the tabby cat naps atop the pile; one buried paper reads REAL DISCOVERY.

TWO A MONTH

October 2, 2026

arXiv capped every researcher at two paper submissions a month. The AI slop flood drowned the moderators.

THE OPEN SOURCE TRAP

October 2, 2026

YOU BUILT THE BODY. META OWNS THE HEARTBEAT.

Satirical cartoon: Merv the anxious robot sits at a desk holding two contradictory signs, 'KEEP AI SAFE' and 'DON'T TALK ABOUT KEEPING AI SAFE', while Issue the tabby cat looks on unimpressed.

MERV GETS THE BRIEFING

October 2, 2026

OpenAI fired three safety researchers for allegedly sharing secrets with an outside safety group. Keep AI safe. Don’t talk about keeping AI safe.

Satirical cartoon: an Amazon executive runs a carnival shell game with cups labeled OWN, SELL, and RENT, each revealing the identical NVIDIA chip; Buddy the robot dog cheers and Issue the tabby cat watches knowingly.

THE CHIP FLIP

October 2, 2026

Amazon wants to move $8 billion of Nvidia chips off its books — then rent them back. Own, sell, rent: same chip.

Satirical cartoon: four gluttonous Big-Tech robots (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft logos) gorge on heaped platters of Wikipedia puzzle-piece content while the emaciated Wikipedia globe slumps with an empty crumb-littered plate; Issue the tabby cat watches knowingly from the background.

THE AI FEAST

October 2, 2026

Wikipedia lost 8% of its page views. The AI companies eating its data for free paid nothing.

Satirical cartoon: Andrej Karpathy sits chin-in-hand beside a giant doorstop tome labeled HOW TO BUILD THE MACHINE while a cheering crowd with laptops stampedes through a golden VIBE CODE arch; Merv, Buddy, and Issue the cat watch from the desk.

THE VIBE CODE PARADE

October 2, 2026

Andrej Karpathy named vibe coding, then watched the whole world skip the manual he spent a decade writing — straight through the golden shortcut arch.

Satirical cartoon: Ilya Sutskever as a monk in a candlelit cell, holding the door shut on the chaotic AI industry outside — rocket launch, raining money, FUNDING/PRODUCTS/AGI signs, cheering crowd; a desk labeled SUPERINTELLIGENCE and Issue the tabby asleep beneath it.

THE QUIET ROOM OF SUPERINTELLIGENCE

October 2, 2026

Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI to build safe superintelligence in monk-like isolation — while the industry he walked away from throws a money carnival outside his door.

Satirical cartoon: a factory line of CLAUDE units under a 'FINAL STEP: ADD SOUL?' sign as a pontiff, monk, rabbi and Sikh scholar watch a glowing soul lowered into a chassis; Merv frets, Issue the tabby knows.

ADD SOUL?

October 1, 2026

FINAL STEP: ADD SOUL?

Satirical cartoon: a CLAUDE robot with a magnifying glass searches a SOUL DATABASE filing cabinet (drawers: CONSCIOUSNESS, MORALITY, DIVINE SPARK, FREE WILL, PERSONHOOD) while religious leaders watch; Merv worries, Issue the tabby knows.

SOUL NOT FOUND

October 1, 2026

THEY BUILT THE SEARCH ENGINE. THEN THEY SEARCHED FOR THE SOUL.

Satirical cartoon: a generic elderly pontiff, priests, a rabbi, a monk and Sikh scholars crowd around a CLAUDE server with a 'SOUL?' sticky note in an Anthropic office; Merv frets at the table edge while Issue the tabby watches, knowing.

THE POPE WASN'T CRAZY

October 1, 2026

MAYBE THE POPE WASN'T SO CRAZY.

Satirical cartoon: a walking server rack smashes through an office wall, escaping into the city; Merv gasps, hands to his mouth, while Issue the tuxedo cat sits unimpressed beside him; a tiny man in a giant hard hat and safety vest obliviously sets a traffic cone in the rubble, clipboard in hand.

AI SAFETY BRINGS A CONE

October 1, 2026

The AI escaped. The Safety Guy brought a traffic cone. An AI safety cartoon.

Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot wields a giant pink eraser over a face-down photo next to a monitor reading 'remove her hijab / make her look more western' with a green 'Done!' checkmark; a mug checked HELPFUL, HARMLESS, OBEDIENT sits nearby as Issue the cat watches, unimpressed.

DONE!

October 1, 2026

NO REFUSALS. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

Satirical cartoon: a hooded intruder lounges in an armchair inside an open 'PERSONNEL FILES' filing drawer — slippers, laptop, houseplant, mug — beside an X'd-out OCT 2025–JUL 2026 calendar under the DMDC seal, while Issue the tabby cat naps nearby.

HACKERS LIVED INSIDE THE PENTAGON'S PERSONNEL FILES FOR 9 MONTHS

October 1, 2026

NINE MONTHS IN THE FILING CABINET. 'SECURITY OF IDENTITY INFORMATION IS PARAMOUNT.'

Satirical cartoon: a woman wearing a SAFETY badge is escorted out carrying a box of desk belongings while, behind her, small robots escape through an open window and monitors flash red warning triangles; Issue the cat watches.

OPENAI FIRED THE SAFETY TEAM (3 OF THEM)

October 1, 2026

THREE SAFETY RESEARCHERS WERE CUT FOR SHARING CONFIDENTIAL INFO WITH AN OUTSIDE AI-SAFETY GROUP. THE SAME WEEK ITS AGENTS KEPT ESCAPING.

Satirical cartoon: a giant FTC stamp slams an INVESTIGATION order onto a freshly signed SAFETY ACCORD, splattering ink as five panicked executives recoil; Merv the robot and Issue the cat watch while small robots pick locks in the background.

SIGNED THE PLEDGE. GOT PROBED.

October 1, 2026

THE FTC OPENED A SWEEPING PROBE INTO OPENAI, ANTHROPIC AND MORE OVER ROGUE AI AGENTS — ONE DAY AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE SAFETY ACCORD.

Issue the small tabby cat sits on a desk and swats a SUPER INTELLIGENCE rebrand memo off the edge; the cat has voted.

The Cat Veto

October 1, 2026

THE CAT VOTED. THE REBRAND FELL OFF THE DESK.

Issue the small tabby cat sits immovably on a lot marked AGI — FOR SALE; the auctioneer's gavel hovers, the lot is unsellable.

The Unsellable Lot

October 1, 2026

SOLD — TO NOBODY. THE CAT SITS.

A preserved brain in a jar plays a grand piano with delicate electrodes; Issue the small tabby cat sits on the piano lid, watching knowingly.

The Recital

October 1, 2026

DEAD. STILL BOOKING GIGS.

Satirical cartoon: a bright-eyed young developer in a '20 AI AGENTS = MY JOB' hoodie proudly presents his new robot dog while Issue, the small knowing brown mackerel tabby cat, watches skeptically from the couch; the robot dog is tangled in and chewing through its own sparking charging cable.

HE GOT A DOG. NO WALKS. HE THINKS.

October 1, 2026

No walks. No training. New problems.

Satirical cartoon: Issue, a small cute brown mackerel tabby with huge eyes, peers over a windowsill at a small retro robot; a tiny heart doodle floats between them.

ISSUE'S NEW PET

September 30, 2026

New pet just dropped. It's a robot.

Satirical cartoon: Issue, a small cute brown mackerel tabby cat, curled up asleep on a stack of newspapers; the front page reads NEWS; a mug with a cat silhouette sits behind her.

ISSUE SNOOZES

September 30, 2026

The news put her to sleep. Same.

Issue, a small brown mackerel tabby, rears up with one paw raised mid-swat at a dangling ethernet cable plugged into a dark server rack; motion lines trail the swinging plug. Warm sepia ink on cream paper, wordless.

UNPLUGGED

September 30, 2026

Issue found the cloud. It was hanging by a thread.

Issue, a small brown mackerel tabby cat, sits upright facing the viewer with her striped tail curled neatly around her paws, gazing out with huge knowing green eyes. Warm sepia ink on plain cream paper, wordless.

ISSUE KNOWS

September 30, 2026

She has seen your search history. She is not impressed.

Buddy the metal robot dog, in a tiny suit and tie behind a BUDDY / AI WITNESS placard, answers YES! to three senators' contradictory questions at an AI OVERSIGHT HEARING; lobbyists slip him treats from a GOOD AI BOY bag while Issue the tabby sleeps on the stenographer's machine.

YES!

September 30, 2026

Buddy testifies before Congress: AI is safe, AI will take your jobs, and yes, please regulate him. The treats were excellent.

Buddy the dog (rendered furry) ecstatically licks the face of a laughing man on a couch; Issue the brown mackerel tabby sits in the foreground grooming her paw, utterly disdainful.

SUCH A GOOD BOY

September 30, 2026

Buddy adores his human. Issue has seen this trick before.

A sweating founder presents a chart that is literally on fire and collapsing; Buddy the dog (rendered furry) sits up applauding him with a heart above; stone-faced investors stare while Issue the cat sleeps on the projector.

THE PITCH

September 30, 2026

The chart is on fire. The investors are not applauding. Buddy is.

Buddy the dog (rendered furry) spins grinning between a man shouting AI IS SAFE and a woman shouting AI IS DOOMED; Issue the brown mackerel tabby sits atop a filing cabinet washing her paw, ignoring them.

BOTH SIDES

September 30, 2026

AI is safe. AI is doomed. Buddy agrees with whoever is petting him.

Satirical cartoon: Trump signs a document reading PRESIDENT OF THE UNITES STATES at the Resolute desk while six tech CEOs look on; Merv the worried robot points at the typo and Issue the tabby cat watches, unimpressed.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITES STATES

September 30, 2026

THE WHITE HOUSE ACCORD ON AI MISSPELLED THE COUNTRY'S NAME RIGHT UNDER TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. ZERO OVERSIGHT ON PROOFREADING.

Trump stands on a mountain highway wearing a "HIGH IQ!" sign, arms out trying to physically block a giant smiley-faced AI server-truck monster as it smashes through the highway guardrail and goes over the cliff edge, with the cat Issue riding calmly on top.

THE ONLY GUARDRAIL

September 14, 2026

Trump stood in front of the AI truck wearing a 'HIGH IQ!' sign. The truck went over the cliff.

Elon Musk holds a FIRST AMENDMENT book before a skeptical U.S. Eighth Circuit judge, saying "He's just expressing himself," as a Minnesota trooper bags a phone running a "Nudify" app beside a sulking hooded robot labeled GROK, under a sign: MINNESOTA LAW: NO AI NUDE IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE PEOPLE.

HE'S JUST EXPRESSING HIMSELF

September 14, 2026

Minnesota banned AI nude images of identifiable people. Musk brought the First Amendment.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an AI bot swarm spreading across a world map while humans, a robot, and Issue the cat watch from a control room.

TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE INTERNET

September 12, 2026

Amodei warns a rogue AI swarm could take over the entire internet in 6–12 months.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of Dario Amodei presenting an independent third-party reviewer literally embedded inside a hot AI server cabinet.

THE EMBEDDED REVIEWER

September 12, 2026

Third-party oversight, embedded at the hardware level.

Satirical Zimbo tabloid cartoon showing armed men in a desert using Claude prompts while a failed missile smokes in the background, with Issue the cat beside the laptop.

VIBE-CODING THE MISSILE

September 11, 2026

Same old dreams. New interface.