{"id":1936,"date":"2025-08-31T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:15:03","slug":"clippy-just-trying-to-be-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Clippy, just trying to be helpful!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w\">Louis Rossmann<\/a>, my spirit animal from the alternate reality where I don&#8217;t have a day job and kids, is again speaking some truths. He makes a great argument that we should be pining nostalgic for <em>Clippy<\/em><sup data-fn=\"885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599\" id=\"885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599-link\">1<\/a><\/sup>, the dancing paperclip everyone of a certain vintage hated for <em>being naively helpful<\/em>, as opposed to hating our industry mascots for <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@gettingfrankpodcast\/zuck-off-beauty-bots-how-facebook-weaponized-your-teen-selfie-insecurity-92ee008d235a\">monetizing your tears<\/a> or shaming you for <em>not<\/em> developing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/anduril-ceo-unveils-the-fury-unmanned-fighter-jet-60-minutes\/\">AI-powered weapons platform<\/a>. Just go have a watch (I&#8217;ll ignore the irony of hosting all of this on <em>Youtube<\/em> for the moment), and of course, change your profile picture to Clippy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reminded me to dredge up this <em>utter gem<\/em> of a Clippy meme animation from a past life. Ahem, it is entirely possible my MSWord was too old to actually have Clippy and I had to resort to my imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/clippy.gif\" alt=\"Clippy animation meme, Clippy helps the user through a trying data-loss event, offers a helpful suggestion, and is sent to the great GDI heap in the sky\" class=\"wp-image-1937\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Clippy is maligned for its helpful suggestion, as always<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Wait, a piece of software that let you keep using the old version you paid for, when you couldn&#8217;t afford the upgrade? Shock! Horror!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599\">Yes, technically Microsoft named the assistant <em>Clippit<\/em>, but nobody else actually called it that. <a href=\"#885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Rossmann, my spirit animal from the alternate reality where I don&#8217;t have a day job and kids, is again speaking some truths. He makes a great argument that we should be pining nostalgic for Clippy, the dancing paperclip everyone of a certain vintage hated for being naively helpful, as opposed to hating our industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":24,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Yes, technically Microsoft named the assistant <em>Clippit<\/em>, but nobody else actually called it that.\",\"id\":\"885456db-16a5-423d-8354-2fe68ec72599\"}]"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}