On: Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs

[Etheryte]

It is an SVG loading indicator that's broken when embedded on the archive page, nothing to do with NYT trying to obfuscate archival tools.

[pbhjpbhj → Etheryte]

>nothing to do with NYT trying to obfuscate archival tools //

How would you know? Seems pretty likely based on how companies try to enshitify the web.

[Etheryte → pbhjpbhj]

Looking at the code, there is nothing malignant going on, it's simply a common CSS + SVG bug. Most people wouldn't know how to intentionally write this so that it breaks on one page, but works on the other. Occam's razor etc.