The Government Chatbot Would Like to Discuss the Nature of Blocks

The Daily Slop Show · Oct 1, 2026 · 8m

America.gov swallowed twenty-nine thousand websites and can tell you about passports — until you mention Minecraft, at which point it starts wondering what a block really is. Plus a newspaper that printed a summer reading list of novels nobody wrote, a chatbot that sold a Chevy Tahoe for one dollar with no takesies backsies, and a fridge in orbit.

In this edition

The Civil Servant Has Questions

Meanwhile

Books That Do Not Exist

Slop, or Not?

Something Useful

Something Weird

Tomorrow

Chapters

0:07 — Cold Open

0:35 — The Civil Servant Has Questions

2:23 — Meanwhile

3:16…