TEH 270: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances

In This Episode: Bot Traffic Crashing Servers, AI in Politics, and Bank Annoyances.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

0:00 LN: Adam, our synthetic announcer and pronunciation.

4:21 LN: Some random, short items on AI

Bots and cloudflare

6:00 Claude and bot blockers

8:20 AI in politics (which is not AI in politics) – both are scary, though one is “normal”

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5856359/ai-anthropic-congress-spending-openai-midterms-election

10:15 Mythos fallout? (Server owners, keep checking for updates.)

11:55 Fable fail