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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Vendor Claims

Published Friday, 11 September 2026 · By Security.io

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic titled Circuit Chuckles — Vendor Claims. At a trade-show style booth, Rusty praises an AI automation box as fully autonomous while literally turning a crank on the back of it.

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Rusty demonstrates a vendor’s “fully autonomous” AI product by manually cranking the machine while insisting he is only assisting the automation.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Rusty: The vendor says it is fully autonomous.
  2. Panel 2 — Glitch: Why are you turning a crank?
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: I am only assisting the automation.
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: Premium tier.