By Selwyn Duke

It’s a new product being rolled out just in time for Christmas, I guess, but the question is: Do you get it when you’re naughty or nice?

The gift is an electronic thought-police bot going by the name “Themis.” Intended for classrooms and social settings, the device is designed to detect and interrupt “offensive” remarks.

No, you didn’t accidentally log on to the Babylon Bee. This is not satire, though it is often hard to tell in today’s world. Themis, named after the Greek goddess of justice and social order, is an actual product invented by an actual person who, it appears, markets it with an actual straight face.

“The thought police have arrived,” writes the Telegraph, reporting on the behavior bot, though, thankfully, Themis doesn’t vaporize misbehaving humans with a disintegrator ray (at least not yet) like the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Instead, it relies on “extremely bothersome alarms” that last “approximately two minutes,” as the Telegraph also relates, that are intended to warn the transgressor and provoke discussion.

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