I recently did a DuckDuckGo search for a Medium post of mine from earlier this month
"The Laptop That Won't Die"
I found a site that copied and reused my essay (without permission, bien sur) ...
... except they clearly ran it through some English --> OtherLanguageTK --> English translation, producing a rather hilariously garbled version
The original (free link): https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-laptop-that-wont-die-0c478c3fe46c?sk=dc587d3647aa02107f8b447e01d095f9
The copy: "LAPTOPS
The Laptop computer That Received’t Die" https://dutchieetech.com/the-laptop-that-wont-die-my-200-12-year-old-thinkpad-has-by-clive-thompson-nov-2023/
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