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Uh that sounded quite interesting, but it seems to bury the lede from the title and go off on side-tracks right away. Didn't finish it because I got ultra-distracted by the inline recommendations of ... the same article.

It lists:

- BY THE SAME AUTHOR "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY GAVIN HAYNES

- SUGGESTED READING "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY GARETH ROBERTS

- SUGGESTED READING "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY DOUGLAS MURRAY

- SUGGESTED READING "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY ANTONIA SENIOR

- SUGGESTED READING "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY TITANIA MCGRATH

- SUGGESTED READING "How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral" BY GILES FRASER

I can't even begin to guess how stuff like that happens, must be some epic bug in their CMS, or some weird A/B attempt to ... fool people into reading the same article many times? And where does it get the author names, one wonders. AI-backed publishing system gone crayzay?



This is probably just a for loop where they've called for(it in suggestions) print(title) rather than for(it in suggestions) print(it.title).


For what it's worth, clicking on any of those links brings you back to the one by Gavin Haynes.


The other content on the site is somewhat specious as well.




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