Tue. 08/10 - A New Carnivorous Flower CAPTCHAs Its Prey

<p><strong><em>Why are CAPTCHA’s so frustrating and, in a way, so grim and disconcerting? Plus, botanists have identified the first carnivorous plant in twenty years, but don’t go calling it Audrey III just yet. And, a new development in the McFlurry Cold War.</em></strong></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing</a> (Clive Thompson)</li><li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/im-not-a-robot-why-captchas-hard-to-solve/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to Solve Captchas—and Why They've Gotten So Hard</a> (Wired)</li><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1026091196/this-sweet-white-flower-is-actually-a-sneaky-carnivore-scientists-discovered" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1st Carnivorous Plant Identified In 20 Years Grows Near Vancouver</a> (NPR)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/science/carnivorous-flower-plant.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This Flower Hides a Secret: It’s Actually a Carnivore</a> (New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/a-carnivorous-plant-has-been-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-n-1847450985" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight in North America Triantha occidentalis is picky</a> (Gizmodo) </li><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-mcflurry-machine-company-just-got-hit-with-a-mcrest-1847449236" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">McFlurry Machine Maker At the Center of Right-to-Repair Fight</a> (Gizmodo)</li><li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ymbp/why-the-mcflurry-machine-company-just-got-hit-with-a-restraining-order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining Order</a> (Motherboard)</li><li><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mc-restraining-order/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Did