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It's gotten ridiculous. I get it if they have a login wall. I've had a Twitter account for years for occasional reasons. But suddenly it thinks I'm a bot and wants me to scan some QR code, download an app on my phone separately, and take photos of my hand. For whatever reason, that didn't work on my phone, maybe cause it's a Samsung A16 (not to be confused with a16z) they decided is too poor to generate ad money.

Maybe they have legit reasons for all that, but it's not my problem. It's not worthwhile to me to view stuff on there anymore.

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Photos of your hand?

What is next? Run some arbitrary command? Make photos of your feet?

We really ought to think what is an acceptable way to verify that someone is an actual human.

"We reserve the right to retain your security feet pics indefinitely, but won't use them for advertising purposes. We may use them for other business purposes, subject to change at any time without notification."

--new TOS

Then, a few months later x.ai announces a new SOTA frontier model, FeetGrok.

They'd use it for AI training purposes <:S

The prospect of going to a website I've never visited before, getting a captcha, and it saying "we don't think those are YOUR feet, access denied" is a little TOO believable.

You know, as a television personality, Jeremy Clarkson is a pretty polarising figure. The gammons see him as all that's wrong with Britain with his pro-EU views, the cartoon student lefties are whining about "oh it's all just about him zoomzoomzooming about dangerously in fast cars", some people actually like him.

But whatever your views, you cannot deny that without his blend of journalistic acumen, wit and humour, and sheer talent, the world would be a poorer place.

Because, quite simply, it would be a world without the "Oh no! Anyway..." meme in it.

And every time I see a link about Twitter losing users or blocking some third-party client, guess what I think?

> And every time I see a link about Twitter losing users or blocking some third-party client, guess what I think?

All we know is, he's called the Stig

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