Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)(velvetshark.com) |
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)(velvetshark.com) |
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"A man and a woman making love in a park," the man replies.
The psychiatrist holds up the second picture and asks the man what he sees.
"A man and a woman making love in a boat."
He holds up the third picture.
"A man and a woman making love at the beach."
This goes on for the rest of the set of pictures; the man says he sees a man and a woman making love in every one of the pictures. At the end of the test, the psychiatrist looks over his notes and says, "It looks like you have a preoccupation with sex."
And the man replies, "Well, you're the one with the dirty pictures."
Dead bird on road? Better lick it, not to miss its cloaka!
[1]https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/programmers-sell-ox-not...
Slop rhymes with plop.
Naomi Klein in her book No Logo interprets it as a form of abstraction away from the passé and less profitable business of whatever concrete task those industries used to do, and towards outsourcing, branding, and financialization as an end in itself.
I think this is peak millennialism because the design is supposed to be as inoffensive as possible and therefore shows absolutely nothing.
I don’t see the gradient, their logo is black and white. Where’s the gradient? Was this written by an AI hallucinating?
“…but that’s really all a butthole is, an aperture” - Louis CK
We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead
The mental model of the superintelligence, to a true believer, is much more like a thing that consumes our world (hopefully for the better) rather than a thing that exists within the world and "produces stuff" in it.
> right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands
Ironic missing space right there...
In the past year(s) I have noticed a few icons in my Android phone turning into the same thing.
For a long time there was Uber, white on black. And then others thought white on black was the cool thing to join in on, making the reduced icons of the following look the same : Uber, Soundcloud (they kept their sigil at least), Swile, Qobuz, myNoise. I'm sure if I installed more junk I'd have seen more.
Even myNoise who goes against tech grain! To their credit, they added an orange circle background to it sometime this spring. Soundcloud execs woke up and went back to their trademark orange. But, heck.
Of course this is a uniquely american problem. The world uses android
IIRC, circular maNDalas as per Jung draw your attention towards its center, which is the most important part of the maNDala. For Jung, the circular maNDala represented the self - the totality of the psyche - with the center representing its organizing principle. I've noticed how this pattern naturally arises in circular flowers, with the petals serving to draw the bee in to the center where the reproductive structures and nectar are located.
I realize that I am not really helping matters much, but thought would mention this anyway.
But now I can't unsee it.
But again, if someone is looking for assholes, they will find them.
The new logo: basically identical to Claude's current one but blue. The new name: Spark. Conveys: absolutely nothing, the blank slate business, our executives don't actually know what we do.
This is my experience as well, people drawn to leadership in our present time often have absolutely no idea about anything except the -idea- of business. Which of course makes things vaguely "professional" seeming while they effectively destroy businesses/organisations.
What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.
[1] Quoted from "Infantile Sexuality," in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, trans. James Strachey, Basic Books, 2000, pp. 52-3.
