So many people try to write meaningfully about Los Angeles only to get swallowed by the task. Jonathan Gold was one of the very few who made the madness of this place legible.
And he went out of his way to be nice to young writers when he didn’t need to.
Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.