TechnologyEmergency Exit Through Facial Recognition
The cartoon mocks the tech industry’s habit of treating optimization, surveillance, and compliance metrics as more real than human need—showing a system designed for safety becoming a deadly obstacle because institutional faith in frictionless security overrides common sense.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon targets performative openness in tech: companies market themselves as community-friendly and accessible, but use legal and financial mechanisms to convert shared participation into private control once value appears.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Closed Future
The cartoon mocks tech companies that market themselves as champions of openness, collaboration, and the public good while aggressively locking down data, models, and methods the moment real access is at stake. Their openness is architectural and aesthetic, not substantive.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Locked Exit
The cartoon mocks tech-sector hypocrisy: leaders sell ‘openness,’ ‘innovation,’ and ‘the future’ as aspirational branding while using AI as a polished instrument of disposability and labor control. The joke is that the company’s most successful automation is not creativity or progress, but locking w
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyEmergency Exit Behind Paywall
It mocks the tech industry habit of treating even existential safeguards as monetizable features—publicly dramatizing catastrophic risk while privately packaging the solution as a premium service. The joke is that the people claiming to protect humanity have turned the fire exit into software-as-a-s
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
It mocks the tech industry’s habit of branding platforms as ‘open’ and community-friendly while burying users in restrictive terms that create dependence, control, and lock-in. The ceremony of launch is framed as freedom, but the reality is a polished trap.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks corporate AI rhetoric that packages selective access, proprietary control, and legal enclosure as altruistic openness. It satirizes the spectacle of 'democratizing the future' while making the actual gates smaller, pricier, and more tightly guarded.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Door
The cartoon mocks corporate 'open' rhetoric as a PR performance: companies enthusiastically open-source the aura, the branding, and the applause, while locking away the legal power, commercial rights, and real control. It satirizes openness as a stage-managed product launch where transparency is for
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Closed Future
Corporate AI branding treats human creativity as a marketing slogan while eliminating the humans themselves; the joke is that the company celebrates liberation, innovation, and openness at the exact moment it closes off workers’ futures.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Closed Future
The cartoon mocks corporate tech rhetoric that treats visibility as virtue while using 'openness' branding to cosmetically soften automation-driven disposability. It satirizes leaders who are proudly transparent about process, product, and culture right up until that transparency exposes that employ
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Locked Exit
The cartoon mocks startups that market ‘openness’ as a feel-good identity while using legal barriers, patents, and licensing to privatize the real value. It skewers openness as branding theater: the public gets tokens, while control remains tightly gated.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
Tech companies loudly brand themselves as champions of openness while using legal and commercial infrastructure to fence off the actual value. The joke is that 'open' exists only as a photo-op in the lobby, not as a principle that survives past reception.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exits
The cartoon mocks corporate hypocrisy in the AI industry: companies loudly market themselves as champions of openness, sharing, and innovation, while simultaneously restricting, discarding, or legally trapping the very people who created the technology. It satirizes 'open' as a PR label for products
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyAir-Gapped by the Intern
The joke is that institutional paranoia is often performative and misdirected: organizations will spend fortunes enforcing microscopic digital distrust while casually overriding obvious real-world safeguards when ambition, convenience, or AI hype gets in the way. It satirizes security theater, manag
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyEmergency Exit Behind Password Wall
The cartoon mocks how security culture can become so absolutist and self-congratulatory that it forgets the purpose of systems: protecting people, not just assets. It targets the tendency to apply rigid cyber logic everywhere, even where trust, speed, and common sense are literally lifesaving.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Door
The cartoon mocks the tech industry habit of branding exclusivity as generosity: they sell the image of openness to the public while aggressively locking down the thing that supposedly exists ‘for everyone.’
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks companies that market themselves as champions of openness and community while using legal barriers, ownership controls, and corporate gatekeeping to trap, exploit, or exclude the very people who create that value. It targets “open” as branding rather than principle.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyEmergency Exit Through the Firewall
Organizations often celebrate visible, traditional security hardening while blindly creating new high-risk exceptions for convenience and AI adoption. The joke is that they are solving yesterday’s threat model with theatrical seriousness while quietly legitimizing a much bigger vulnerability.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks corporate "open" initiatives that welcome public creativity and collaboration only to channel the resulting value into proprietary control. It targets the gap between the branding of openness as civic-minded generosity and the underlying extraction of community labor into private i
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyGreen AI, Red Hot River
Corporate climate branding turns environmental harm into a photo-op: the cartoon mocks how tech companies market AI as a sustainability breakthrough while hiding the energy, water, and heat costs of the physical infrastructure making it possible.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Locked Future
The cartoon mocks corporate 'openness' as branding theater: companies celebrate sharing, access, and public benefit while using patents, gated platforms, and legal controls to keep the future privately owned.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Locked Exit
The cartoon mocks the tech industry's habit of branding itself as a benevolent force for openness and human progress while hoarding control, weaponizing intellectual property, and discarding workers. The joke is that the company’s grand public 'opening' is literally staged on top of a private shutdo
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyPrivacy Team’s Glass-Walled War Room
Corporate privacy efforts are sincere in presentation but structurally undermined by the business model surrounding them. The joke is not that the privacy team is fake, but that they are trapped inside an organization where surveillance and monetization are so normalized that even the act of designi
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyGreen AI, Red Gauge
The cartoon mocks techno-solutionist hypocrisy: elites celebrating AI as a climate savior while its ravenous energy appetite worsens the very infrastructure and sustainability problems they claim to solve. The joke is that the 'green' story exists only on the dashboard, while the grid itself is flas
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Locked Exit
The cartoon mocks the tech industry’s habit of branding controlled, monetized access as altruistic openness—treating ‘open’ less as a principle than as a marketing costume draped over patents, licensing, and lock-in.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Locked Exit
The joke targets startups that market themselves with the language and aesthetics of open source while using legal and commercial barriers to privatize the real benefits. They celebrate community participation only up to the point where ownership, control, and profit begin.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Locked Exit
The cartoon mocks companies that brand themselves as champions of openness while restricting the only form of access that matters. 'Open' is presented as a marketing costume—generous at the surface, exclusionary in substance.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks companies that market themselves as champions of openness and community while using legal barriers, licensing traps, and monetization schemes to control the very users they claim to empower.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyPrivacy Team's Glass War Room
The cartoon mocks corporate privacy theater: companies that perform meticulous, high-drama concern for user data while designing systems, policies, or business models that expose that same data in plain sight. It satirizes optics over substance—security as branding rather than actual protection.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Office, Closed Future
Corporate AI rhetoric celebrates ‘unlocking human creativity’ while using polished language and startup theater to disguise straightforward job elimination. The cartoon mocks how euphemisms like efficiency, potential, and innovation make displacement look visionary.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks the tech industry's habit of branding selective release or publicity-friendly transparency as “open,” while the real business model is engineered around dependency, gated access, and monetizing participation. It satirizes openness as a ceremonial slogan rather than a lived structur
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Door
The cartoon mocks performative openness in AI: companies market the language and aesthetics of open source to harvest goodwill, talent, and moral credibility, while keeping the valuable core assets tightly locked behind legal, technical, and commercial barriers.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exits
The cartoon mocks the tech industry habit of branding products as 'open' for marketing credibility while preserving control through legal, financial, and technical choke points. It targets performative openness: open enough to attract developers, closed enough to keep power centralized.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks companies that loudly brand themselves as open and community-friendly while using legal, technical, and contractual mechanisms to convert shared participation into private control. The humor comes from the contrast between the inclusive marketing language and the predatory architec
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Door
It mocks the tech industry habit of selling 'openness' as branding and community theater while keeping the core asset locked away for competitive and legal control.
by Lila Ghoraba
TechnologyOpen Source, Closed Exit
The cartoon mocks the corporate rebranding of exclusivity as public-minded openness: tech leaders advertise "commons" and "open" as civic generosity while designing access around legal, financial, and institutional gatekeeping. The joke lands on the gap between transparency in marketing and closure
by Lila Ghoraba