Excuse me, sir or ma’am? Are you a robot?
⃞ Of course not. I pay taxes, and I can describe what sex is like.
⃞ 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100101 00111111?
Congrats, because no matter which way you answer my little Turing test it means you’ve never hacked a CAPTCHA. I know this because only humans pay taxes and know what sex is like (most of us, anyway), and no hacker bot would freely admit they read binary. Then again, as you’ll learn in this piece by Hussein Kesvani, CAPTCHAs are incredibly easy to hack — and bad at the one thing they’re designed to do, too.
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AUDIENCES: we like authentic, diverse stories
HOLLYWOOD: ok. Green Book is Best Picture
AUDIENCES: that's not really what—
HOLLYWOOD: FUCK YOU, WE'LL MAKE THE OSCARS EVEN WHITERhttps://t.co/AP2Pf4Y5jG
— Miles Klee (@MilesKlee) January 14, 2020
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Jeff Gross
Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.
