By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026That's a 50+ year period that started with a trip to visit my snowbird grandparents in Florida when I was six months old. 25/ 11135
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026The entire support service for US Customs and Immigration has been replaced with a DOGE chatbot that repeatedly emails and texts links to the form, no matter what question you ask, and no matter whether you call, email or use the website's chat interface: pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/d... 26/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Luxury Kafka (06 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 415229
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026Many DOGE kids were monsters. The most chilling DOGE story I've heard was the anonymous testimony of NIH officials who begged the DOGE children who were dismantling their work to spare some long-running cancer research projects whose great promise would be vaporized if they were interrupted. 27/ 434275
themeteoriteman.bsky.social @themeteoriteman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026...and this is why I pray for a real person when I have to get online in a help/info menu 000
ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This has been my experience with customer service chatbots everywhere. At a time when AI tech bros are crowing about the awesome intellect of their models, customer service chatbots just keep getting dumber and dumber, and better at better at blocking customers from getting anything useful. 1428
