Grew up reading Dave's columns, and managed to get ahold of a copy of Big Trouble when I was in the 5th grade. I was probably too young to be reading about chickens being rubbed against women's bare chests and "sex pootie" (whatever that is), but the way we were being propagandized during the early Bush years, his was an extremely welcome voice of absurdity-tinged wisdom, alongside Aaron McGruder's and Gene Weingarten's. Very happy to see his name pop up and that he hasn't missed a beat. And that he's not dead. /Denzel
I also hope that the AI and Google duders understand that this is most people's experience with their products these days. They don't work, and they twist reality in ways that older methods didn't (couldn't, because of the procedural guardrails and direct human input and such). And no amount of spin is going to change this perception - of the stochastic parrots being fundamentally flawed - until they're... you know... not. The sentiment management campaigns aren't that strong just yet.
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