Btw, this reminds me the red hot logo, which is a ass hole too.
That was a really good read.
Interesting perspective, but, as with most writing, it seems to say more about the author of the article than the actual subject. Yes, I do get that that butthole is a way to capture attention of the reader and even with knowledge it does not help that you really, really want to see it ( with one exception ) for the analogy to work. Even if it is just a device ( and it does not appear to be ), it feels forced.
Yikes.
With a bit of education one would know that manus is Latin for hand. That's where "manual" comes from.
And their logo is, lo and behold ... a hand!
So it is the Ancient Romans who were obsessed with butts. Got it.
There are more English words that end in -ass than Latin words that end in -anus, so who's really obsessed?
Canonically it was winged penises, but yes.
but where has that hand BEEN? And we are back at -anus again.
Since it's an AI company, and not actually doing anything by hand, it wouldn't surprise me if they came up with the name "manus" because it has "anus" in it, and then designed the hand logo due to the Latin meaning of the name. [this is a sarcasm, in case that was not clear]