Treating it anthropomorphically is a sign of respect, similar to how a sailor would bond with their ship. It’s not necessarily BAD or dumber or wrong to talk with it like its human - that’s clearly what every single interface is telling you to do by representing it like a texting partner. You can’t interact with a machine that speaks english non-anthropomorphically.

It annoys me when people slag off AI because some lazy writer didn’t use it properly.

Nobody needs 15 recommendations. You’d be lucky if someone looked up one. 15 is filler; nobody has 15 books worth of opinion on the prospective literary qualities of summer 2025 AD. An absolute minority would have read all 15 were they real. The piece did its job well enough to get published, make the author $35, and make me feel vaguely ‘summer beach book escapism’ from reading the descriptions, which is the point of the piece anyway.

API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product

It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they’re customers and they’re helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good

the supreme court literally gave biden unchecked power and he’s done fuck all with it. you should want unchecked power so you can actually improve conditions.

oh no please check my power i didn’t want to do anything ooh no pls pls check it

contacting my representatives is exactly as useful as writing a letter to santa

this is insane. why can’t we vote for them not to be able to do this? isn’t this a democracy?

it’s ridiculous how much we jerk off to being the greatest country in the world ever but we can’t even have this basic quality of life feature that so many other countries have made work. fucking israel has universal healthcare! what a pathetic empire

my city is literally prohibited from using public funds for any type of train because of some GOP devil magic thing – so all we have is busses, which suck because you’re still beholden to traffic jams and lights and speed limits and roads. pointless and not even a sense of whimsy or transcendence

i like when people use big words cause then i can learn a new word. it’s nice knowing words to say stuff with

we should bring back the cape. nice and flowy, not constraining, looks striking

megalopolis was pretty incoherent however

i hate how this “best performers” rhetoric always comes out in WFH discussion. everyone should be able to work from home if it’s better for them regardless of if they’re The Best at their dunder-mifflin ass job

this country is so cool i love living here

so? we aren’t allowed to take netflix screenshots at all

awful ethics aside what a disgusting waste of processing power. software already barely runs

old.reddit just loaded for me!

lemon balm tea & chamomile tea are magical. weed and podcasts are huge helps with the constant night ruminating

it’s so depressing if you watch steve jobs introduce the iphone, he boasted how safari offered a rich browsing experience, beautifully rendering the full desktop version with intuitive controls to zoom and swipe around, no janky mobile sites. and look at us now. how we have fallen.

(honestly i think tim cook wrecked the company, he’s a pure bloodless businessman, thinking only about numbers and value extraction versus innovation and changing the world, which jobs, for all his faults, objectively did)

extras, commentaries, it’s nice seeing your favorite films on a shelf

i try to put in the disc, hit play, and just walk away so i miss all the garbage and the paragraphs warning me about prison time. kinda kills the mood

daguerreotype, mesmerizing