You might ask, “What could be more American than someone whose parents moved from Mexico and met in LA, who went to MIT, worked as an engineer, got into politics in response to immigrant issues, and eventually got elected Senator?” And the answer is “Reactionary nativists and their henchmen.”
Here, I made a helpful graph to assist with current “Very large numbers of Americans live in big cities, that’s one of the main reasons why they are big, you see, it’s just, like, science man”, discourse, with real Census data and everything.
The long-sought pinnacle, the very apex, of a well-rounded education, the platonic ideal of the life of the mind, is to become a full-time fact-checker and nonsense-detector for devices that extrude plausible-sounding slop for the benefit of people who are trying to get away with something.
AI Slop “content” package (an advertising vehicle) appears in the Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere. Summer Reading list includes mostly real authors with mostly confabulated titles. Recipes include quotes from an imaginary food anthropologist at Cornell. Also an imaginary nutritionist and her imaginary book.
