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by patneedham 1512 days ago
Discovered by Eliza Callahan triggered by a poem in the middle of her novel. (Friend of a coworker) That poem can be found here: https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site/ - if viewing on mobile you have to Request Desktop Site for some reason, at least on Android it initially shows up as a Lorem Ipsum page
4 comments

As arguments for the thesis that the tech world needs to embrace the humanities go, an author discovering a bug in a google product by writing a poem is pretty good, if maybe a bit too on the nose.
Perhaps that is the missing link for why tech is so artificial and not humanly. we could use some more art than capitalistic efficiency in the Apple logo
I know you didn't write that poem, but I'm 99% certain the apostrophes in "I thought about my body. It's past. It's present." have no business being there :)
Might be intentional, simultaneously talking about the past and present of a body and also literally that it is past. It is present. It would not be weird to have that kind of wordplay in a poem.

But also this was from an early draft so it could be a mistake.

Seems like it could go either way.
it appears to be bugs all the way down
On iPhone Chrome it doesn’t show up either way.