The Grim Truth

No, it's just ANGRY AS HELL! P.S.: It won't be "4000 A.D.", the robopocalypse is here now, chumps.

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can’t escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

Anyway, the pope’s encyclical is an impressive document, and I strongly suggest you read it, or at least read more about it. But it isn’t perfect. I say this with all due respect to the leader of the world’s largest religious organization: He missed some stuff. To truly teach big tech to put humanity first, it is necessary to catalog all the ways that big tech is currently putting humanity last. And because we are living in a time of historically unprecedented exasperation—a time in which many of us go through the day filled with a sort of half-repressed and unacknowledged fury that threatens to burst out every time the app we’re trying to use sends us to a website to log in, but the website won’t allow us to paste the password from our password manager, and clicking “forgot password” sends us back to the app, which immediately crashes—any account of tech’s antihuman tendencies must necessarily include a detailed breakdown of how its products are truly just a colossal goddamn pain in the ass.

The question I ask every damn day: Did you use your own platform before you launched it?

Testify, brother!! My righteous & entirely justified rage is not, however, "half-repressed and unacknowledged", but full-blown & ready to kill, or at the very least to destroy every circuit board on the planet.

How about the time a moronic robot at my credit union decided that my making a w/drawal at the same ATM I've been using for 16 fucking yrs. was "suspicious" & restricted my card? Dunno if I mentioned it here, but I'm still angry as hell.

Cell 'phones are bullshit too. First, make them ergonomic, not some flat slab that doesn't fit the human hand very well.

All that typed, remember it's pathetic excuses for human beings who design, manufacture & implement this bullshit & they must be held responsible. Preferably a facility where the only way to get food, toilet paper or anything else is to use Doordash or whatever but it never works.