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Yesterday, I posted a brief entry illustrating how my weight loss bodyfat reconfiguration program is going. In it, I quoted a brief exerpt from an editorial posted in the Journal of the American Medical Association about "nutritionalism," and followed up with a pithy summary of the (long) editorial: "Eat food, mostly plants, not too much."

As most people who read this blog know, that's from Michael Pollan. He's posted it in several places, it's quoted all over the Internet, and it's in all of his books.

This morning, I get an anonymous comment that says,
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants"
In Defense of Food.
Michael Pollen
Great book!
Is it just me, or does the brevity, precision, and content of the message scream robot!? It's as if Pollan (or his publisher) has a program out there that, every time someone quotes him without attribution, makes sure that the comment thread somewhere contains source information.

I'm half-tempted to delete the comment and mark it as spam. Only the misspelling of Pollan's name stops me. (And maybe that's what they want you to think.)
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Because, as Aaron Saenz at Singularity Hub reminds us: "The bottom line is that when it comes to simplified and repetitive tasks there's really no beating robotic prowess."

And if there's one thing we all know, keeping men er, satisfied, is a "simplified and repetitive task."

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