The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech (Brian Philips for The Ringer. Hilarious read.)

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This was published on May 28, but I didn't see it then. Found it just tonight because someone I follow on Bluesky had reposted the second of the two Bluesky posts below, about the more serious ending. But please read all of it, because the jokes are very funny. Like the one in the excerpt just below the link to the article.

https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-tech-industry-problems

11. For the love of God—ad amorem Dei, as the liturgy would say—please figure out shipping status updates. Congratulations! Your package has shipped. Here’s a tracking code. Oh, clicking the tracking code and going to the shipper’s website suggests your package hasn’t shipped? Well, it has, but here’s the thing—it also hasn’t. Welcome to Schrödinger’s UPS Vortex, the quantum rift within which your box is on a truck passing through Memphis, in a warehouse in Topeka, or on the outer rim of the galaxy, where it’s being worshipped as a god by a species of semi-intelligent space protozoa. I once got a text from UPS saying they’d picked up my package the day after the package showed up on my porch. (This technically makes me immortal.)

And we are live!

Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

— Brian Phillips (@brianphillips.lol) 2026-05-28T14:25:40.082Z

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

— Brian Phillips (@brianphillips.lol) 2026-05-28T19:21:58.340Z

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