Oh, no – it’s becoming self aware
In case you can’t read that, it says:
Scrolling through that massive blogroll with over 100 links from Zombie Reagan to XKCD, I felt like I was back in the early 2000s internet.
Zombie Reagan is the first link in the left sidebar, XKCD is the last. BUT it stopped before the archive links. So it’s identified the blogroll (and knows what a blogroll is), has repeated the first and last links and possibly recognized it’s all early 2000s stuff (though that might be a lucky hit).
It’s here to advertise a game called Fruit Ninja, apparently, but making a fairly good imitation of an actual reader. Most spam we’re getting (oh, yes – we’re still getting tons daily) is of the old, dumb variety (no lack of buttsex offers, thenkyouverymuch). A few of them are like this, smelling of a specialist AI.
I’ve always said we’d be in trouble when spammers bothered to spellcheck. This is worse.
Posted: May 11th, 2026 under personal.
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Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: May 11, 2026, 4:19 pm
Kinda only sorta somewhat tangentially not too far point, I have an iPhone with an AT&T spam filter. It just popped up with a new message after a called which my filter identified as Spam:
“iPhone has asked the called to identify himself and give a reason for calling”
There was no message left, nor did the caller identify himself.
Dueling A.I. systems anybody?
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Beware: more than one link in a comment is apt to earn you a trip to the spam filter, where you will remain -- cold, frightened and alone -- until I remember to clean the trap. But, hey, without Akismet, we'd be up to our asses in...well, ass porn, mostly.<< carry me back to ol' virginny