This is not a blog post

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on December 16, 2018

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From the Twitter feed of my brilliant friend (and Usenet legend) Tim Pierce:

CAPTCHA: Click on all the squares that are not a pipe.

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1 1 Jeff S.
December 16, 2018 at 4:57 pm

“This is not a blog post.” (Ceci n’est pas un article de blog.) Philosophically, does that mean the text/image of the blog post is not the true blog post? Steve, I knew you were into ultimate ideal mathematical reality…
2 2 Roger
December 17, 2018 at 1:48 am

The object here is not to answer the question correctly, but to give an answer that more closely mimics other humans, than other bots.

If you think that the bots will answer correctly, then you may wish to answer incorrectly.
3 3 Henri Hein
December 17, 2018 at 4:04 pm

If the image really was offered as a CAPTCHA, I wonder how many people click no squares.
4 4 The Original CC
December 19, 2018 at 7:02 am

Can someone explain this to me? Why wouldn’t you just click on the “all tan” squares (i.e. the squares the don’t contain any part of the pipe)? Or is the problem that part of a pipe isn’t itself a pipe? I know I missed something deep here…
5 5 Harold
December 19, 2018 at 8:22 am

You have missed Rene Magritte “The treachery of Images”
6 6 The Original CC
December 19, 2018 at 8:50 pm

Ooooooh, thanks Harold!
7 7 iceman
December 21, 2018 at 2:12 pm

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H8ETs4kn4FA/UmEkx_zpUFI/AAAAAAAAAyM/_Yq7YJs4BFE/s1600/cosplay-The-Son-of-Man-by-Rene-Magritte-costume.jpg