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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 5h

Anyway, super intelligence, or as the president himself called it, "Sigh."

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 5h

Needs even more Whiskey

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 5h

And a partial explanation. The chatbot mashed this poem up with a bunch of its own instructions and the result was every bit as crazy as you might expect.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 5h

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?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 25/09/2026

Nothing that a few leeches can’t fix right up.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 25/09/2026

Prithee but I need to recover from this dispiriting ague first.

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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

This is one place where Reddit is surprisingly useful.

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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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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 22/09/2026

I came here to say this.

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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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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20/09/2026

Don’t put words in my mouth.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 20/09/2026

I respect both of y'all but Kevin is 100% right on this one. Jared has never been elected, appointed, or confirmed to any position and he deserves no official recognition at all.

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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.

cnbc.com

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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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/09/2026

Why are you caping so hard for an ad that clearly contains appalling racist imagery. Even if it was accidental, someone in the USA should have caught it before it went on the company’s global website and socials. Just stop.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/09/2026

"Per the Wayback Machine archive, an earlier, Aug. 22 version of Converse's U.S. page advertising the Karina and Chuck 70 X collaboration showed that the company had at one point used the image in question on its website."

yahoo.com

Fact Check: Converse apologized for ad that people compared to lynching, Ku Klux Klan imagery

In a statement, the footwear company said the image was "deeply unsettling."

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/09/2026

More from that post: Per the Wayback Machine archive, an earlier, Aug. 22 version of Converse's U.S. page advertising the Karina and Chuck 70 X collaboration showed that the company had at one point used the image in question on its website.

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 19/09/2026

Here's the archived image from Converse's Threads account: perma.cc/4CTJ-565G

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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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