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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Tuesday, August 10th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Today, why are CAPTCHAs so frustrating and, in a way, so grim and disconcerting?

Plus, botanists have identified the first carnivorous plant in 20 years, but don't go calling it Audrey 3 just yet.

And a new development in the McFlurry Cold War. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

When was the last time you had to complete a captchaHA puzzle? Probably earlier today, maybe just a few minutes ago.

I think the last one I did was about an hour ago when I was trying to access pre-sale tickets for the Great Jackal Anandern Blaze, an annual display of over 7,000 pumpkins arranged in statues and creative structures near Sleepy Hollow in New York.

Fortunately, I think that was one of those no-capsha recaptias that just makes you tick the box

beside I'm not a robot, instead of having to painstakingly read some barely legible text

or decide whether that smudge of black counts as a truck, at least if it believes you

and doesn't trigger a follow-up test with just that. Even though we get that they're useful,

both in preventing bots and in training various forms of AI to perform better,

CAPTCHAs can still be pretty dang annoying. The science and tech journalist Clive Thompson recently wrote about

the depressing nature of CAPTC photos on his personal medium, and I thought he and his Twitter

followers had some intriguing insights. But first, a little background on CAPTC courtesy of a

wired piece from May. Quote, CAPTCHA stands for completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart.

The Turing test was created in 1950 by Alan Turing, a British mathematician considered a founding

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