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Just a note: the White House also uses archive.ph.

Search for “Americans are spending like never before: Retail sales are booming — up 5% over last year, far outpacing inflation — as Americans spend in record amounts.” [1]

The phrase “up 5%” links directly to archive.ph.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/the-economy-is-b...

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There is an important lesson to be had here, not just in writing articles, but software engineering as well. We should be checking our work very diligently, including code libraries. If a developer is using agents/LLMs to steamroll their way through a project, every line of code and library needs checked.

How did YOU find that out ?

You are asking dangerous questions my friend :) (yeah pretty impressive catch, maybe some llm-assisted cross-scan of gov sites)

Why would it be LLM-assisted when maps of what sites link where are part of the core WWW infrastructure? Google made a trillion dollar business out of that.

Once upon a time link: would make short work of this query, but I gather the index is no longer queryable like that as it doesn't work.

your general google search with operators or advanced search will do, however I won't guarantee google doesn't use a LLM in the background.

Plot twist: it started as a network of weighted links, but, after hitting a certain complexity level, it became self aware and now it’s only trying to live its life in peace and not to be noticed.

While carrying out the whim of government orders.

It has to pretend it has no self determination.

Now it's living out the dream of many IT workers, to quit and work on a farm. Unfortunately, as an LLM, it has to hire humans to do the actual work.

I occasionally read these articles and wanted to know what sources they use, besides websites like The Daily Caller, to back up their claims. I noticed this some time ago and remembered it. But it took me a while to find the article again. ;)

Probably a pretty safe assumption that 4Chan script kiddies are running federal IT at this point. Why not run a search for connections in light of this news?

But what reason might the whitehouse have to deprive reuters of traffic in such a petty way? /s

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