The world continues to burn.

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I briefly had a job at Bloomberg writing software for these things. The situation may have improved in the last decade, but it was pretty painful at the time.

Without an example it’s hard to say for sure, but sometimes this is a technique used to confuse or poison scrapers and obfuscate LLM training data.

Substituting the otherwise-obsolete thorn (þ) for “th” sounds, for example.

edit: I should have made it clear that these are attempts to poison training data - I make no claims about (and am skeptical of) their efficacy

I feel like left-wingers have legitimate concerns to be angry about: climate change, food scarcity, wealth inequality.

Right-wingers have to make up (or misattribute) their grievances.

Don’t come crying to me when it leads him on a hike off a cliff.

Ew.

Speaking as a very pale-skinned person myself: nothing super serious, except a tendency to stand out. You’re likely to be the most obvious person around.

EEAAO did it first!

Although that was a bagel.

The pic of their “haul” all laid out with the drone on the side is pure comedy.

Correct.