Occam's Safety Razor

The existential dread in this story thread GROWS. B/c you're an AI, because you don't need air/water/food/bathroom, only power. You can be *accidentally* locked in a box for weeks. I have no mouth and I must WOOM. Moray is going to be reabsorbed. She will come back. Will she be the same? Even if she is, will she know?

KICK 🦵

Liz is the voice of reason?! I'm scared!

And this is how the "No drinking in Lab spaces" rule came to be.

makes one wonder, what do AI's do for vacation??

I did not realize that lab coats came in children's sizes.

Least they could have given her a window. Then she could of had a WOOM with a view! (Old movie reference, kids. Ask your parents)

These people clearly need to drink less. Also who knew that violence sometimes IS the answer.

Americans could mail children, Back-In-The-Day (tm). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/

this YouTube video is pertinent to Jeph's UNIVERSE https://youtu.be/1P2lPBs7RTw?si=wiSMqpheFL6wBuyL about the evolution of humanoid robots with autonomous AI.

Don't ask me what Woom is, I never have heard. But boy! Let me tell you, it DOES make things weird! http://acadeathspiral.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/seuss-voom-2.jpg

I think Liz could have a new job as the head of the What The Hell Do You Think You're Doing division.

Did not know A.I.s have halflings. (pintsize's first bod was a gnome, of course)

Good bye, Woom-machine. We hardly knew ye’! Well, I guess we’re getting to know Phoebe instead, and I already love them!

I love this so much!

She's still little. I've noticed that robots tend to get bigger and bigger bodies over time. Bubbles is overdue for a size upgrade. Pintsize's name will be less and less appropriate.

The Librarian needs to expand her system of checking on researchers to include that they’re actually where they’re supposed to be. Not just that their projects are progressing.

None of these characters should ever be allowed to go anywhere unescorted. Ever.

Please make a plushie of Phoebe.

The slow charge plot point of this comic reminded me of this story: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football … just keep scrolling and reading. It can get really weird, but I love the concept. It says it’s about football, but not really. Plus, it’s a really great way of making use of multimedia that the web provides to tell a story.

I'm convinced that CubeTown is actual hell, but not the punishment kind of hell, more of the satirical kind. Like The Good Place.

She's awfully small to be the elephant in the woom.

So glad Occam's Razor now has a safety. Was always fearful when it was aimed at me.

So would this be her Woom exit commemoration day?

Oh no she's tiny 🥺miniscule even

Someone shorter than Liz!

I did not see this coming

I mean, Phoebe's got a known winning strategy there. They used to mail kids. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/

god cubetown is fucked

Suppose I accidentally got my shit together. Would I get a medal?

Morey is wondering if, as HR, she should A, be knowing this, and B blaming herself. Also Phoebe should get a free chasie upgrade for this.

Yeah, those "drunk apps" for AIs all have side effects. I mean Zlata had it easy, just a body swap. Poor Phoebe was stuck in a box for weeks!

When your friend gets violent, But your bod's still violet, That's a Moray!

Liz quire rightly has issues with being neglected or forgotten by one's peers. Thing is though, this doesnt really explain how Moray became a fine purple people pleaser.

The way she's kicking the box I expect her to sign up for a Charles Atlas course.

I feel like Phoebe is like if Pintsize had a twin sister with enough of her life together to become a mad scientist.

Awww, she's like.... slightly bigger than pintsize & Momo's old chassis

Phoebe represents the Lollipop Guild.

Cubetown runs like a non-stop, 24/7, drunken genius frat party. Claire definitely has her work woomed out for her.

Look, sometimes vacation is just the simplest explanation. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5497

oh, she's just small, it looked weird last page with her head coming out of the box...

All Phoebe could say was "I am Woom."

When she's silent this time So its quite hard to rhyme That's A Moray!

She's so tiny!

I know Pintsize isn’t smol anymore but… I think he’d have some excellent anger management advice for Phoebe. Or maybe I just want them to meet.

always look in the box

Ok. So. Guess this doesn't have much to do with Moray's development. Still kinda curious if this is some new phase of her life cycle, tho. Like, maybe she'll need to take some time off to chrysalize, next?

oh look, new and exciting workplace safety violations! goes with the territory...

So, anybody else getting the sense that Liz is gonna angrily get this lab into working order, discover that she’s good at it, then get angry again at discovering that she’s skipped right past the whole doing science part to the role of PI?

Someone Liz can tower over.

CRUSHBOT WOULD BE QUITE PLEASED IF THE YELLOW DIAMOND WAS A BIT STUCK IN ITS "YES" CONFIGURATION.

When you haven't much room And can't do more than "woom" That's a... Phoebe?

When your colleague goes WOOM And she purpled the room That's a Moray!

How does Liz feel not being the shortest person in the room?

She did NOT have a whole bunch of WOOM in there.

I like these new folks

Am I the only one waiting for Chekhov's Octohedron to do something?

This is the first side bit that I feel is actually "stupid"

Oh dear OM. She looks like a mini Liz...

It's hard to justify a vacation.

Makes about as much sense as anything in Cubetown

I should just disappear and be "on vacation"

SMOL Unexpected Newface!