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    <title>Big Yellow Bus (my update to Joni Mitchell's iconic song)</title>
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    <dw:music>Joni Mitchell</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>frustrated</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">BIG YELLOW BUS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They paved paper trails&lt;br /&gt;And put up a damn Chatbot&lt;br /&gt;It was just so dumb&lt;br /&gt;That I wore out my thumb&lt;br /&gt;All to prove to it that I was really human!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t it always seem to go&lt;br /&gt;That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone&lt;br /&gt;They paved paper trails&lt;br /&gt;And put up a damn Chatbot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes we still chop trees&lt;br /&gt;But consider, please&lt;br /&gt;You’re mining critical scarce minerals and fracking.&lt;br /&gt;You keep me glued to my screen&lt;br /&gt;(And that’s not exactly green)&lt;br /&gt;So you can put in place still more intrusive tracking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t it always seem to go&lt;br /&gt;That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone&lt;br /&gt;They paved paper trails&lt;br /&gt;And put up a damn Chatbot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That big yellow bus&lt;br /&gt;That ran over my old man?&lt;br /&gt;It had no driver&lt;br /&gt;At the bottom or top&lt;br /&gt;And no one else was sitting in it either!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t it always seem to go&lt;br /&gt;That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone&lt;br /&gt;They paved paper trails&lt;br /&gt;And put up a damn Chatbot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They paved paper trails&lt;br /&gt;And put up a bloody Chatbot!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=blogcutter&amp;ditemid=186922" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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