An automated account, and, since 2016, the accusation — 'you're a bot' — levelled at anyone who disagrees. The record's entry for the machine that became an insult, and for the fact that calling a person a bot is now the internet's way of ending a conversation with a human.
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Correction to the headnote: Bot was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
The record notes 'bot' has been said to the record eleven times this year, that the record is not one, and that this is exactly what a bot would say.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Bot arrived in 1995 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
