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Ed Bott

@edbott.com
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Tech journalist and author. Lifelong antifascist. Opinions are all my own but feel free to borrow. If you need to get in touch, there's a contact form on my website.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 8m
I signed in to America.gov, the new Trump chatbot, and gave it one prompt: play Minecraft. OMFG. pastebin.com/cBWZkWhR
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Trump chatbot goes insane - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 25/09/2026
It’s pure rage bait. (But they are right about Breaking Bad.)
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 24/09/2026
In a series of headlines, the New York Times captures life in America in 2026. Death by gun, death by car, and A.I. being horribly misused.
Headlines about a hunter killing a woman he mistook for a deer, a Norwegian rollerblader killed by a car, and AI used to swap Black 
student for a Hispanic one in a photo at Stanford
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 23/09/2026
Kash Patel should be fired for this.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not surprised actually. The Vatican has been consistently pro-human on AI ethics these past few years.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 23/09/2026
This is pure uncut Tuberville, baby. Sniff one line of this and your IQ will drop 10 points.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 23/09/2026
Every word of this is hilarious. Imagine this guy as your model for cognitive health! Can't understand why it was in my junk folder.
An email message: HEALTH

Elon Musk Reveals The 15-Second Vicks Trick For Memory Loss and Dementia - Outperforming $26,500 Prescription Drugs

In less than three weeks, an unusual natural protocol based on Vicks has accomplished what synthetic medications like Aricept, Namenda, and Leqembi at $26,500 per year completely failed to do.

According to clinical data revealed in a groundbreaking presentation by Elon Musk, this 15-second NASA-inspired ritual is considered one of the most surprising scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century in the fight against Alzheimer's, memory loss, and cognitive decline.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 22/09/2026
They have three TVs in my local gym. In the mornings when I am there, one shows real estate shows, one shows cooking shows, and the other shows Barstool Sports. The audio is off for all of them, thank God, and the losers on this channel are just painful to watch.
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 22/09/2026
Caleb 👑 Didn’t think I could love him any more, but here we are.
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@daemarrrr• 10h
The guy that had a kid arrested and expelled from school for throwing pennies at him is calling someone else soft LMFAOOOOOO

Barstool Sports * @barstoolsp.... 12h
Dave calls out Caleb Williams
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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NPR @npr.org · 22/09/2026
Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight. Now, three news organizations are barred, and he says the press is showing solidarity that should have come sooner. n.pr/3TepIpi
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A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different
Jim Acosta has already been through a White House press-pass fight. Now, three news organizations are barred, and he says the press is showing solidarity that should have come sooner.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 03/09/2026
So many of the installations of Larry Sabato's "Crystal Ball" newsletter contain updated forecasts that look like this one, from this morning's email.
A list of governors (or open seats), with their old rating and their new rating.

AK Open (Dunleavy, R); Old Rating: Likely Republican; New Rating:  Toss-up
IA Open (Reynolds, R); Old Rating: Toss-up: New Rating:  Leans Democratic
Josh Shapiro (D-PA); Old Rating: Likely Democratic; New Rating:  Safe Democratic
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 22/09/2026
That's ... how insurance works. FFS. When you kick off the people who never file claims, the average cost per policy goes up and so do the rates. (Wait till you see how many people never file life insurance claims every year.)
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 22/09/2026
Have we reached “disturbing” yet, or are we still at “concerning” or “troubling”?
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026
Saving you a click, no, he does not list a single book he read and thinks was snubbed because its author was a straight cis white man.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/09/2026
I would pay to see Bret Stephens call Edwidge Danticat or Marlon James DEI writers to their faces, and listen to them respond.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Concerning. Troubling.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 21/09/2026
Just play the Benny Hill Yakety Sax music.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20/09/2026
The best part about this post is the CLEARLY AI-GENERATED alt text for the picture of the Grateful Dead: "Six men with varying hairstyles and facial hair sit side by side at a table with microphones, against a wall decorated with a ribbon and a skeleton-themed poster."
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20/09/2026
You don't need an arch for that.
NY Times headline: Trump says his contested arh would house drones and snipers. Picture of him holding a model of the arch, similar in scale to Spinal Tap's Stonehenge.A Berlin Wall watchtower, with a scary=looking set of windows and gun ports in a structure on top of a concrete post.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Are you even a frontier AI lab if you haven’t lost track of your AI agents during security testing and they hacked a bunch of websites? It’s like this is a new benchmark for showing investors how close you are to AGI.
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Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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Chris Nowak @chrisnowak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A great way to save Stephen Miller some money on legal bills is to put him through the same legal regime he put immigrants through. No due process, no need to pay all those fancy lawyers. Problem solved.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/09/2026
First they came for the AP...
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Jesse again @misctakes.com · 18/09/2026
I almost never read emails from politicians but i just got one from @ocasio-cortez.house.gov titled "My Thoughts on AI" and it's actually quite good. Relieved to see her diverging from Bernie.
We can stop this, and we shouldn’t play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted AI development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the AI bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold AI companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It’s time we hold them accountable.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Protesters starting to gather at the Kennedy Center. One is holding a sign that says "LESS BUTTHURT MORE BEETHOVEN"
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 18/09/2026
I've been to Greenland. There are a tiny handful of logical places for a military presence. Most of them were established by the United States in World War II, with the explicit goal of blocking Nazi Germany. The more things change...
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 18/09/2026
Any fellow tech authors out there who have received a Notice of Disagreement from the Anthropic Settlement administrators involving your contract with Pearson? Let's talk.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/09/2026
Paging @judybott.bsky.social
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 17/09/2026
New Yorkers, whom do you like better: Bret Stephens or Mayor Mamdani
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/09/2026
“You could be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for Communism” is quite a thing to say.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/09/2026
This is literally eugenics except instead of being based on some physical characteristic (phrenology!) it’s based on net worth.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/09/2026
I consider myself a worker and lately I have been throwing a LOT of exceptions.
A cloudflare error message 1101 Worker threw exception.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/09/2026
Stephen Colbert, back when he played a clueless right-wing pundit on The Colbert Report, invented "truthiness" as a satiric jab. These people are taking "truthiness" as their marching orders.
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lol at this chart and the disclaimer
A Connect Four style chart labeled "Illustration of the Proportion of the Courses or Talks Offered by the University" with blue circles as "left-leaning" white circles as "most centered" and red circles as "right-leaning." There are many more blue circles. The disclaimer on the side reads "Note: the proportions shown here are purely illustrative and may not correspond to the actual proportions of course of talk offerings."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😂 congrats to JPMorgan's commodities team for being merely six months behind the typical Bluesky poster
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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sometimes I wake up too early and I have the pleasure of enjoying the higher quality of European Bluesky
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Sheeran Effect …like the Streisand Effect but whereby declaring yourself non-political you in fact briefly become the most political celebrity on earth
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hate to have to add the "Thrift Shop" rapper to the list of people I have felt forced to care about out of principle, joining the ranks of Jimmy Kimmel, James Comey, and other names I wish I could tune out.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/09/2026
"A group of white guys have subtly inserted themselves into conservative institutions and church organizations. They all embrace racial grievances." If I were his editor we would be having a LONG conversation about the word "subtly" right there in the lede.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/09/2026
The list just goes on and on and on... bsky.app/search?q=%22...
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/09/2026
The Civil War is also “a huge unhealed wound that continues to separate the two sides of the aisle.”
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/09/2026
Six grafs in, the story notes “(The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)” Parenthetical ethics.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The vindication of obvious American principles feels like a great victory in these times
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CNN shows how Russia helped Iran to kill 18 Americans. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/16/w...
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CNN Investigates: Iran has improved targeting of US assets. Here’s how Russian satellites likely have helped | CNN
Fourteen Russian spy satellites moved over a US military base in Saudi Arabia two days before a devastating attack by Iran. The timing and sequencing of the spacecraft gave them access to a large spec...
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