Johnny Damm
@johnnydamm.bsky.social
Abolitionist luddite cartoonist. Creator of Real-Life Horror Comics. Technocrat Tales out now.
Also: “I’m a Cop,” Monster Crime, Riot Comics, Failure Biographies, The Science of Things Familiar
johnnydamm.com
Also: “I’m a Cop,” Monster Crime, Riot Comics, Failure Biographies, The Science of Things Familiar
johnnydamm.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
How I depicted our governor in Monster Crime. Holds up!
October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How I depicted our governor in Monster Crime. Holds up!
Reposting my Jeff Bezos comic for "Prime Day." Don't support this maniac's plan to pollute the universe. Shop local and independent!
(Comic directly quotes Bezos speaking at the 2024 New York Times Deal Book Summit.)
(Comic directly quotes Bezos speaking at the 2024 New York Times Deal Book Summit.)
October 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reposting my Jeff Bezos comic for "Prime Day." Don't support this maniac's plan to pollute the universe. Shop local and independent!
(Comic directly quotes Bezos speaking at the 2024 New York Times Deal Book Summit.)
(Comic directly quotes Bezos speaking at the 2024 New York Times Deal Book Summit.)
The kicker?
So, yet again, higher education sells it souls, betrays its students, and utterly embarrasses itself. Their reward for Northwestern debasing itself so fully? The loss of $790m in funding.
So, yet again, higher education sells it souls, betrays its students, and utterly embarrasses itself. Their reward for Northwestern debasing itself so fully? The loss of $790m in funding.
September 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The kicker?
So, yet again, higher education sells it souls, betrays its students, and utterly embarrasses itself. Their reward for Northwestern debasing itself so fully? The loss of $790m in funding.
So, yet again, higher education sells it souls, betrays its students, and utterly embarrasses itself. Their reward for Northwestern debasing itself so fully? The loss of $790m in funding.
"The video also states that Israel was founded 'on British land' and refers to the occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria', the biblical name controversially used for the region by the Israeli government."
Students who didn't finish the propaganda training were blocked from class registration.
Students who didn't finish the propaganda training were blocked from class registration.
September 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"The video also states that Israel was founded 'on British land' and refers to the occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria', the biblical name controversially used for the region by the Israeli government."
Students who didn't finish the propaganda training were blocked from class registration.
Students who didn't finish the propaganda training were blocked from class registration.
At a time in which the international community has finally begun to acknowledge the Gaza genocide and isolate Israel, Northwestern forces its students to be "trained" by a group whose website uses this banner for their website:
September 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
At a time in which the international community has finally begun to acknowledge the Gaza genocide and isolate Israel, Northwestern forces its students to be "trained" by a group whose website uses this banner for their website:
Honestly, not giving up much here…
September 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Honestly, not giving up much here…
Apropos of nothing, I finished this stunner of a book by Gretchen Felker-Martin a couple days ago. Perfect ending!
September 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Apropos of nothing, I finished this stunner of a book by Gretchen Felker-Martin a couple days ago. Perfect ending!
I'll finish with Elon Musk, who I chose to depict as a figure that originally appears to be an alien. At the end, he takes off a mask and is revealed to be a rather sad-looking man. I might reveal my own useless fantasy here: that these evil bastards secretly hate themselves as much as we do.
August 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'll finish with Elon Musk, who I chose to depict as a figure that originally appears to be an alien. At the end, he takes off a mask and is revealed to be a rather sad-looking man. I might reveal my own useless fantasy here: that these evil bastards secretly hate themselves as much as we do.
For tech venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, the billionaire author of the fascist-inspired "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," I drew directly from his fantasies and depicted him as a threatening, nonsense-spouting robot.
August 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
For tech venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, the billionaire author of the fascist-inspired "Techno-Optimist Manifesto," I drew directly from his fantasies and depicted him as a threatening, nonsense-spouting robot.
To pair with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison describing his fantasy of an AI surveillance state, I found this amazing doppelganger with no eyes.
August 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
To pair with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison describing his fantasy of an AI surveillance state, I found this amazing doppelganger with no eyes.
For Silicon Valley's OG technofascist, Peter Thiel, I found this Vincent Price type to pair with his claim that Trump and his tech allies are the "ragtag Rebel Alliance" from Star Wars.
(No offense intended to the great Vincent Price.)
(No offense intended to the great Vincent Price.)
August 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For Silicon Valley's OG technofascist, Peter Thiel, I found this Vincent Price type to pair with his claim that Trump and his tech allies are the "ragtag Rebel Alliance" from Star Wars.
(No offense intended to the great Vincent Price.)
(No offense intended to the great Vincent Price.)
Turning to the another Google supervillain, here's Eric Schmidt. This is from a quote saying that AI usage will soon by "99%" of all energy usage in the U.S.
August 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Turning to the another Google supervillain, here's Eric Schmidt. This is from a quote saying that AI usage will soon by "99%" of all energy usage in the U.S.
For Google's Sergey Brin, I went for more of a vibe to pair with his quote from a memo telling employees that should be working "60 hours a week."
August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
For Google's Sergey Brin, I went for more of a vibe to pair with his quote from a memo telling employees that should be working "60 hours a week."
Particularly proud of this figure I found for Jeff Bezos and his ranting about how we need space travel in order to begin polluting on other planets. Uncanny, right?
August 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Particularly proud of this figure I found for Jeff Bezos and his ranting about how we need space travel in order to begin polluting on other planets. Uncanny, right?
I chose to depict Sam Altman as this figure from a story on the Emperor of the Moon, who in the original story was scheming to destroy the earth by making it into a sun to power empire. Seemed appropriate...
August 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I chose to depict Sam Altman as this figure from a story on the Emperor of the Moon, who in the original story was scheming to destroy the earth by making it into a sun to power empire. Seemed appropriate...
Here's Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaking on why we need "a new Manhattan Project" to develop "AI for the battlefield." (I think I found the perfect figure, if I say so myself.)
August 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Here's Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaking on why we need "a new Manhattan Project" to develop "AI for the battlefield." (I think I found the perfect figure, if I say so myself.)
A thread of the various "characters" of Technocrat Tales, which pairs sci-fi comics with direct quotes from tech billionaires.
Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."
Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."
August 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A thread of the various "characters" of Technocrat Tales, which pairs sci-fi comics with direct quotes from tech billionaires.
Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."
Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."
I’ll finish with Elon Musk’s speaking on “civilizational suicidal empathy,” a deeply disturbing contention adopted by both technocrats and the Christian right. Musk explains this pseudo-intellectual justification for mass suffering and death to a worshipful Joe Rogan in a 2025 interview:
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’ll finish with Elon Musk’s speaking on “civilizational suicidal empathy,” a deeply disturbing contention adopted by both technocrats and the Christian right. Musk explains this pseudo-intellectual justification for mass suffering and death to a worshipful Joe Rogan in a 2025 interview:
Tellingly, one of the few examples I found of a technocrat emphasizing the importance of human life is this twisted logic from Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto, yet another argument against regulating AI:
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tellingly, one of the few examples I found of a technocrat emphasizing the importance of human life is this twisted logic from Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto, yet another argument against regulating AI:
This future vision, to be clear, is one of death. And in my study of the public statements of tech billionaires, I found the consistent presence of death throughout. Here is Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking in his 2025 book The Technological Republic:
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This future vision, to be clear, is one of death. And in my study of the public statements of tech billionaires, I found the consistent presence of death throughout. Here is Palantir CEO Alex Karp, speaking in his 2025 book The Technological Republic:
3) The Fundamental Anti-Humanity of Big Tech’s Race to “Digital Super-Intelligence.”
Despite the lack of evidence that AGI or artificial super-intelligence is imminent or even possible, Silicon Valley prioritizes a theoretical future digital intelligence over humans themselves.
As Musk puts it:
Despite the lack of evidence that AGI or artificial super-intelligence is imminent or even possible, Silicon Valley prioritizes a theoretical future digital intelligence over humans themselves.
As Musk puts it:
July 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
3) The Fundamental Anti-Humanity of Big Tech’s Race to “Digital Super-Intelligence.”
Despite the lack of evidence that AGI or artificial super-intelligence is imminent or even possible, Silicon Valley prioritizes a theoretical future digital intelligence over humans themselves.
As Musk puts it:
Despite the lack of evidence that AGI or artificial super-intelligence is imminent or even possible, Silicon Valley prioritizes a theoretical future digital intelligence over humans themselves.
As Musk puts it:
The claim that they see things on a macro rather than micro level (think video game world-building or Neo’s revelation of “the Matrix”) allows technocrats to justify their mass manipulation of what Sam Altman refers to in a 2024 interview as “the whole structure of society”:
July 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The claim that they see things on a macro rather than micro level (think video game world-building or Neo’s revelation of “the Matrix”) allows technocrats to justify their mass manipulation of what Sam Altman refers to in a 2024 interview as “the whole structure of society”:
Musk has been repeating the claim that we're all living in a video game simulation for about a decade. Using a similar sci-fi/ video game centered worldview, Peter Thiel describes the U.S. left as “the borg” (Star Trek), “NPC” (video games), and “the Empire” (Star Wars)—all in a single interview.
July 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Musk has been repeating the claim that we're all living in a video game simulation for about a decade. Using a similar sci-fi/ video game centered worldview, Peter Thiel describes the U.S. left as “the borg” (Star Trek), “NPC” (video games), and “the Empire” (Star Wars)—all in a single interview.
2) Silicon Valley’s Use of a Sci-Fi and Video Games Derived Framework to Justify This Death and Suffering
Where does the arrogance to play with the fate of the entire world (or the entire universe, in Bezos’s vision) come from? How could technocrats possibly think like this? Well, here's Elon Musk:
Where does the arrogance to play with the fate of the entire world (or the entire universe, in Bezos’s vision) come from? How could technocrats possibly think like this? Well, here's Elon Musk:
July 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
2) Silicon Valley’s Use of a Sci-Fi and Video Games Derived Framework to Justify This Death and Suffering
Where does the arrogance to play with the fate of the entire world (or the entire universe, in Bezos’s vision) come from? How could technocrats possibly think like this? Well, here's Elon Musk:
Where does the arrogance to play with the fate of the entire world (or the entire universe, in Bezos’s vision) come from? How could technocrats possibly think like this? Well, here's Elon Musk: