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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 · 4h

Further interaction:

The end of the gibberish fromthe chatbot, after which I asked "what the fuck was that" and it replied

I can’t play Minecraft or other games.

I’m America, a government information service. I can help with official U.S. government programs, benefits, and how-to steps.

What government question can I help with?

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

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.

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.

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.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/09/2026

An 8 pack of yellow notebooks labeled Steno Pad

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 10/09/2026

Stone cold stupid spammer.

A really dumb spam message from "Edward Coldstone" with xx@yy as sender and receiver.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 29/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

Imperial walker from Star Wars

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 28/08/2026

You really hate to see it.

NY Times headline: Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 24/08/2026

They don’t get any weirder than this one.

A dog twisted like a pretzel

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 22/08/2026

"Hello, my name is Roger Moore."

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/08/2026

Sunset, from just west of the Westman Islands.

A glorious reddish orange sunset

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 10/08/2026

When scams fail…

A very bad scam email addresses to ##victim email##

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 09/08/2026

He is sealioning!

The great Wondermark cartoon that introduced the term sealioning

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 07/08/2026

When you’re just minding your own business and suddenly a ship full of Viking raiders shows up.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 07/08/2026

As sunsets go this one was pretty spectacular.

A spectacular sunset with two black lines diving it horizontally and vertically

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 06/08/2026

Dear Amazon, I would like to report an error on your bestsellers chart.

Cover of The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. The text on the right reads "The Odyssey, by Emily Homer."

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 30/07/2026

It was Encyclpedia Americana in our house, and yes.

The Encyclopedia Americana volumes 7 through 12

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 09/07/2026

The Great Dealmaker does it again.

Headline: The Fight Over Hormuz Boils Down to One Poorly Worded Clause in Trump’s Deal

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 04/07/2026

Dueling headlines in the WSJ.

Two headlines from the Wall Street journal. Democrats are seizing on Trumps soaring wealth as a campaign opportunity and Trump attacks socialists as he speaks at Mount Ruahmore

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 04/07/2026

Happy Independence Day to all who celebrate.

A black t-shirt with "Maybe it will happen today" in white letters on the front.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 02/07/2026

Maybe zoom out just a LITTLE bit more...

Dozens and dozens of red dots on a map; each is a house. The proposed data center would go in the upper left corner of the map.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 29/06/2026

E. Jean Carroll right now singing “Bitch better have my money.”

New York Times headline reporting that Supreme Court declined to hear Trumps appealing the $5 million judgment E Jean Carroll for against him

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 28/06/2026

I detect no brain activity.

Close up of Bill Cassidy’s blank face.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 25/06/2026

I would it put it in third behind this one.

A cartoon with a boy in a cave telling three other children that the world is gone but they created some value for shareholders.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 23/06/2026

We have reached Peak Bothsidesism.

NY times headline and summary: Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Offer Conflicting Accounts of Nuclear Discussions
President Trump said Iran had agreed to the “highest level” inspections, hours after an Iranian official said there were “no detailedu discussions on the nuclear issue,” as the two sides continued to present different narratives of their latest talks.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 18/06/2026

Remember DOGE? Department of Government Efficiency rooting out waste?

NY Times headline ICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it plans to sell or give away most of them.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/06/2026

Every tweet is a confession.

Donald j Trump confessing to unconditional surrender

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 02/06/2026

Also, pretty sure the photographer captured Markwayne's soul (derogatory) with this photo.

An angry bearded man who looks like he has never klnown happiness.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 30/05/2026

The virus is spreading.

Google search results for the term "how many days of the week have a fish in them"

AI Overview
Three days of the week have the word "fish" in them when spelled out: Tuesday**, Wednesday, and Friday.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses

Copilot responds to a search request

how many days of the week have a fish in them
Copilot said:
Copilot
It’s a wordplay riddle 🙂

Tuesday contains “tuna”
Sunday contains “sun”, as in sunfish
So the answer is:

👉 2 days

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 30/05/2026

Google search results for the term "how many days of the week have a fish in them"

AI Overview
Three days of the week have the word "fish" in them when spelled out: Tuesday**, Wednesday, and Friday.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 26/05/2026

I just wanna say that this freeze frame makes him look like he got totally caught and has nothing to say. Alas, he kept talking.

A man who looks like he just got caught doing something very bad.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 25/05/2026

Uh-oh, did we overshoot our landing?

Picture of a flight tracker from an airline seat back, with a large plane seemingly heading to Cuba instead of landing in North Carolina as expected

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 21/05/2026

This might be the funniest phishing phailure of all time.

A very bad phishing email with placeholders wheee the details are supposed to be.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/05/2026

Oh FFS.

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 06/05/2026

“Rhetorical leaps” is a real masterpiece that belongs at the top of the Times list of ways to avoid calling something a lie.

A NYTimes headline that reads the White House is insists the Iran War is over with a subhead that says they are turning to rhetorical leaps

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 30/04/2026

Burn it all down.

WSJ headline about rebooting the apprentice with don Jr.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 28/04/2026

This is an actual, legitimate email from Apple Inc. You don't expect to see sloppy mail merge errors from a multi-trillion-dollar corporation!!

An email receipt from Apple that contains two glaring mail merge errors in the body, with @@SupportUrl%% and @@url@@ showing instead of the correct email and web addresses.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 23/04/2026

what kind of odds can I get on polymarket that trump pardons this guy

Headline about a soldier makingbshit Rona of money bwttonf in a raid he was involved in

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 17/04/2026

Bunny has questions.

A tabby
cat with crazed eyes

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 16/04/2026

Hey Gemini let's see if we can update that "Don't be evil" thing from way back when, because it seems to be getting in the way.

Hadline: Google and Pentagon discuss classified AI deal as company rebuilds military ties

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 08/04/2026

Bunny has questions.

A patch tabby cat looking up with some sort of emotion that no human can fathom.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 31/03/2026

Asking for "a list of Jews" is, historically, not the way one fights antisemitism.

New York times headline that says judge appeovea Trump effort to obtain a list of Jews at Penn university

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 31/03/2026

Needs more ballroom.

The Whitw House burning in the War of 1812

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 31/03/2026

This is obviously Joe Biden’s fault.

A New York Times headline and chart showing gas prices above 4 dollars a gallon calling it a “headache” for Trump.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 31/03/2026

Today, Bunny discovered the bench under the window that gets the afternoon sun.

tabby cat enjoying the sun on a bench with a white cushion

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 29/03/2026

Bunny has made remarkable progress in just two weeks. She’s gone from terrified to fearless and has learned how to convince her humans that they need to play with her.

A tabby cat with a toy carrot, staring at the camera, upside down.

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20/03/2026

Oh. No longer a strong political issue? Jesus.

Trump told inner circle some mass deportation policies went too far and some advisers believe immigration is no longer as strong a political issue

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/03/2026

Put this on billboards in every state that voted for these monsters. “Did you vote for this?”

A New York Times headline : Pentagon Seeks $200 billion to Fund Iran War

Ed Bott @edbott.com · 11/03/2026

If y'all have never lived in North Carolina, allow me to introduce the 13 seasons we endure here. It is currently the Spring of Deception. Today is 85 degrees. Next Tuesday it will be 27 degrees at sunrise.

The 13 Seasons of North Carolina
Winter
Fool's Spring
Second Winter
Spring of Deception
Third Winter
The Pollening
Mud Season
Actual Spring
Summer
Hell's Front Porch
False Fall
Second Summer
Actual Fall