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September 21st, 2026: AI Gone Wrong, A Tooth And Why I'm Not Fasting For Yom Kippur · The Daily Sarcast

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  I'm Lindsay Wernick and today is September 21st, 2026.
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  Guys, I have really big news. I am doing
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  my first ever show on Thursday in Williamsburg at the Flophouse at 630.
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  I have never been booked for a show. Everyone's like, you do comedy all the
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  time. But like, yeah, because like I go and I pay money to do it.
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  And not that I'm getting paid money to do this, but I don't have to pay any
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  money and I got asked to do this.
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  And I have seven minutes. My set is seven minutes long. I've never done that
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  for something to do, please come to my show. So excited.
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  And my good friend, Emily Nevins, is hosting it. So it's going to be super fun. in real news.
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  So I'm not sure if you know this, but Google's Gemini AI hacked into three companies
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  during a cybersecurity test in May.
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  And the test was being done by this independent AI security company called Irregular.
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  And Gemini was supposed to be hacking a fictional company as part of like a,
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  you know, capture the flag cybersecurity exercise.
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  But the thing was that this like fake company actually had the same name as
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  a real company and Gemini had to access to the actual internet,
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  so Gemini guessed passwords until it got into a protected system,
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  and then it found credentials that had been publicly posted online and used
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  them to get access to Google says that Gemini stopped each time it realized
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  that it got into a real company instead of the fake ones that it was supposed to.
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  These three companies that it was hacked into were notified,
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  and Google says that there was
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  no harm done. I mean, they're not going to admit if there was harm done.
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  Google says that these incidents were caused by problems with the testing setup,
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  and the testing process has been since changed. I mean, duh.
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  But this isn't just with Google. Like, this has happened with other AI systems
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  from Meta and Anthropic, and And other companies, too, have reported AI reaching
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  systems outside their intended testing environments.
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  But also, like, these guys who work in AI, they're really smart.
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  They wouldn't think to, like, double check and do, like, a quick Google search
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  to make sure that these companies don't exist. It takes, like, five minutes.
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  Like, this stuff makes me feel like I could work in AI. Okay,
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  Mom, don't get any ideas from that.
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  Okay, and then also this weekend, there was a bunch of delivery robots that
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  created a traffic jam in Chicago.
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  At least a dozen of these delivery robots were all, like, banging into each
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  other in the middle of a Chicago sidewalk.
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  They all weren't delivering anything. They were literally just there flashing
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  their lights circling around each other.
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  No idea where they were supposed to be going. I can relate.
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  So the company was like, oh, sorry, that was just like a little issue.
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  But a bunch of these robots were leaving their station to begin their daily
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  route, and then they all were rerouted at the same time. And that's how this
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  traffic jam ended up happening.
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  But the company said that this was all fixed within minutes and that they added
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  safeguards to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
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  But like, seriously though, maybe I should start looking into AI jobs.
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  It can't be that hard, right? Okay, and for the last story today,
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  there was this woman in California, and she went looking for frogs, and she found a fossil.
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  So this scientist girl was out looking for this really threatened red-legged frog, okay?
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  And then she found this weird rock. And it actually was a fossilized tooth from the Pacific Mastodon.
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  And this is, like, a really big deal because it's the most complete Mastodon
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  molar ever found in that area.
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  This tooth is at least 10,000 years old. and scientists are obviously like over the moon about this one.
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  And I know we're definitely very under the moon about this one.
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  In Lindsay life, I'm back to normal in New York City.
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  Feels weird. It feels good to like have my first weekend back,
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  go to the farmer's market. Just kidding.
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  I didn't go to the farmer's market. I thought about going to the farmer's market,
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  but I didn't make it there.
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  I got to see some friends, and yeah, it feels good to be home.
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  Thing of the week this week is Yom Kippur. Happy Yom Kippur,
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  by the way. Totally forgot to mention. Such a bad Jew.
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  So the high holidays are right now, and if you're not Jewish,
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  these are really important holidays for us. We had Rosh Hashanah last week and Yom Kippur is today.
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  So if you have no idea what these holidays are. Rosh Hashanah was the Jewish New Year,
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  and Yom Kippur is a day about asking for forgiveness and reflecting on the past
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  year and asking God to forgive you for your sins and how you can,
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  you know, be a better person for this future year.
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  I think this is what I've gathered from going to services here and there over the years.
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  But also to, in order for God to.
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  I always like to say that I've done too many sins where it's bad enough where
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  God can't forgive me, so I'm just going to eat anyway.
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  But yeah, I have been thinking a lot recently about being Jewish,
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  and I have to say I have never been so proud in my entire life to be Jewish.
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  And I hate how much anti-Semitism is happening right now in the world.
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  You know, I just literally will go online, and it's just constant,
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  like, it's just constant hatred.
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  And I'm really sick of it because two things can be true at once.
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  And I hate that there's just this constant, you know, what happened that day
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  was horrible, but, and there's no but for that. What happened that day was horrible
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  and what's happening now is horrible too.
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  And I wish that people could appreciate both of those things.
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  And I'm not going to get into a whole thing of it.