phrwn, Another @pluralistic article that explains many things: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
I had no idea Popular Science had been PE'd to zombification. I wondered why I had started seeing them appear in search results again and just assumed they'd invested in their web presence, when the truth is much worse. A shame, because they were once a great publication.