Just a note: the White House also uses archive.ph.
Search for “Americans are spending like never before: Retail sales are booming — up 5% over last year, far outpacing inflation — as Americans spend in record amounts.” [1]
There is an important lesson to be had here, not just in writing articles, but software engineering as well. We should be checking our work very diligently, including code libraries. If a developer is using agents/LLMs to steamroll their way through a project, every line of code and library needs checked.
Probably a pretty safe assumption that 4Chan script kiddies are running federal IT at this point. Why not run a search for connections in light of this news?
Why would it be LLM-assisted when maps of what sites link where are part of the core WWW infrastructure? Google made a trillion dollar business out of that.
I occasionally read these articles and wanted to know what sources they use, besides websites like The Daily Caller, to back up their claims. I noticed this some time ago and remembered it. But it took me a while to find the article again. ;)
Plot twist: it started as a network of weighted links, but, after hitting a certain complexity level, it became self aware and now it’s only trying to live its life in peace and not to be noticed.
Search for “Americans are spending like never before: Retail sales are booming — up 5% over last year, far outpacing inflation — as Americans spend in record amounts.” [1]
The phrase “up 5%” links directly to archive.ph.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/the-economy-is-b...