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.
May 11, 2026 — 2:52 pm
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