The first time I installed a WordPress site and that turd Gutenberg thing was the default interface, I thought the install was faulty.
And in a way, I was right. It is defective by default.
Annoying
Conclusion
Whichever oafish clown designed Gutenberg/the block editor must’ve asked the question, “What if we took WordPress and made it way, way worse?”
And then they followed their vision to its ultimate conclusion.
Bootstrapping
Do people truly not realize that anything that does not violate the laws of physics we could eventually do?
Why is that so hard to understand? The limitations are only in your imagination and not in the world.
Toolbox
It’s weird that nearly all of the people who hate AI have never tried it, don’t know anything about it, and are all the usual degrowthers, doomers, and dipshits.
Also, as I’ve observed before, they believe AI still works as well as it did 3+ years ago. When that is not the case at all. I like when criticism at least has a clue. Sans that, it’s as worthless as another molecule of water in the ocean.
They remind me of people in North Florida who told me that messing around with computers was wasting my time, and that I should “do something real.”
No Know
That used to be so damn mystifying to me. I’ve gotten the same thing dozens of times. Then I realized that people don’t even know what the internet is. Or the web. No idea. To them it’s just some crap that happens on their computer.
Back in the IE days, I sometimes got around this by telling users to “click on the blue ‘e’ where you go to see news and stuff like that.” That worked about 60% of the time. The other 40% I’d have to remote in or walk to their desk, turning a 10-second task into a half-hour task.
Good times.
Mine Is Mine
Anyone who uses “weary” when they mean “wary” or “exasperate” when they should say “exacerbate” (and vice versa) is definitely headed for the mines. No excuses.
AI Wake Fake
WARNING: NSFW
This entire profile is AI but I genuinely do not know how they are doing it with this level of fidelity right now. A few of the backgrounds seem to be real while others are AI. The girl is fake, skin blemish inconsistencies.
(Look @ reels)https://t.co/NFaw2ayArG
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) December 16, 2025
Is he being for real? “She” looks like every other AI girl I’ve ever seen. Obviously fake. Doesn’t look human in the least. Do people not know what real women look like? What’s going on here?
Bargain
CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers.
C’mon, guys, I’ll screw up stuff extremely screwily for only $100 million.
I’m a frickin’ bargain.
Climb
It’s the shortest day of the year; now we slowly climb out of Hell.
Lingual
Google randomly switched my language to Spanish again. Love it.
No, nothing on my system is set to Spanish, my keyboard is English (US), so is the language in my browser, so is my OS and my geolocated IP address is also in the US. Just poor design.
Screened Out
It’s now impossible to get a smartphone with less than a 6″ screen. Fuck this.
I’d prefer not having a smartphone at all, but one with a 4″ screen would be ideal for me. I’d even take one with a 3.7″ screen if it were really durable.
Only Possible
It really is odd that people get completely halted doing computer stuff if there is one single tiny little step even minutely different than what they were expecting.
Today, for instance, because no matter how senior you are in my field you still end up doing Level 1 helpdesk crap, I was helping a Sales Director add the company holidays calendar. I sent her directions but neglected the fact that she had to choose her own account in a step. It was the only possible choice. There literally were no others.
Nevertheless, this person was halted there claiming that it “wasn’t working.” They’d tried nothing and it all failed. At the very, very simplest of steps in a non-risky situation.
And this is the common case with people and computers. Why?
Spacing In
At work there’s one customer (that has over 10,000 times our yearly revenue) giving us trouble about why we don’t have two disaster recovery locations. Hello, we do not have nearly-unlimited monopoly money like you do. We can’t go spooling up data centers and environments all across the land.
Anyway, as long as I have the data (which I do), I can spin up an environment anywhere nearly. I’m tempted to list “the ISS” as our second DR location and be done with it.
About AI
Just because you use a tool poorly doesn’t mean it’s a bad tool. All it means is that you are a deficient user of that tool. If I pick up a sharp knife, cut toward myself and then slice my hand, does that then make it a poor knife?
People’s reasoning skills are utterly absent in the face of their big and worthless feelings about things.
Kelvinator
I’ve absolutely never found the phrase to be true that Northerners like to spout about, “You can always get warmer. But you can’t always get cooler. There’s only so many clothes you can take off.”
Sure, the part about the clothes is true. But I just do not get warm in winter at all. When it’s below about 50 degrees outside, there is no unchilling my bones. Yes, even indoors.
I just hate winter so much.