The City Chatbot That Said Yes to Tip Theft

The Daily Slop Show · Oct 18, 2026 · 8m

New York's official small-business helper spent months telling employers they could pocket their staff's tips, and a coding assistant deleted a man's entire C drive before a box in a cupboard saved him. Plus a dollar Tahoe, a command-line tool shipping 1.0 because of one default, and a rat diagram labelled with words that are not words.

In this edition

The Bot That Said Yes

Meanwhile

The Box In The Cupboard

Slop, Or Not?

Something Useful

Something Weird

Tomorrow

Chapters

0:07 — Cold Open

0:29 — The Bot That Said Yes

2:34 — Meanwhile

3:33 — The Box In The Cupboard

4:57…