Spambot @Horse_eBooks is actually a person

Those of you familiar with the Twitter feed Horse_eBooks may know it as a weird automatic spam account that occasionally produces entertaining results.

Turns out it's a long-running work of performance art (2).

Slashdot has a discussion.

Metaphysics question: what does it mean if a person deliberately fails the Turing test?

The #Iran and #Syria headlines that broke my brain.

Iran Icebreaker Set at UN.

Am I to understand that peace is breaking out between Iran and the United States in the wake of the Syria crisis?

Meanwhile the White House says that the Syrian government's disclosure of their WMDs is "surprisingly complete."

What the fuck?!?

Achievement unlocked

Now I know someone who won on "Jeopardy!" Congratulations, Neil!