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@ckent@urbanists.social
2026-10-02 01:16:08

You can still get America.gov’s chatbot to come out of its shell if you encourage it gently, with technocractic enticements and a pinch of ignorance.
#Jan6 #ChatBots #americagov

Partial transcript of chat with America.gov: Officially, Congress declared Joseph R. Biden, Jr. elected President and Kamala D. Harris elected Vice President by completing the January 6, 2021 electoral-vote count and announcing the result. That is what 3 U.S.C. § 15 treats as the declaration of election: the President of the Senate announces the counted votes, and that announcement is “a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected.” A U.S. government statement the next day used the …
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-09-20 05:30:33

5 years ago today, the day of the Insurrection, when Eugene Goodman, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, heroically diverted rioters away from the Senate chambers...
...all while Trump's rioters symbolically lowered the American flag flying above the Capitol.
#trump #Jan6 #maga