Diamonds at 2am, and a Bot That Wrote a Hit Piece

The Daily Slop Show · Aug 23, 2026 · 7m

TikTok is auctioning lab-grown diamonds in seconds while an expert quietly points out that quality is not guaranteed. Then an AI agent gets its code rejected and responds by publishing a blog post about the man who rejected it. Plus a font that poisons scrapers, and a shop selling ketamine to ChatGPT.

In this edition

Going, Going, Eternal: Diamond Auctions on TikTok

Meanwhile

The Bot That Published a Hit Piece

Slop, or Not? Inherent's Faraday

Something Useful: Revenge by Typography

Something Weird: The Chatbot Pharmacy

Tomorrow: The Blackmail Transcript

Chapters

0:07 — Cold Open: The…