I just entered “author photo of a washed out, middle-aged white guy who has just kinda given up and is making that everyone else’s problem” into Dall-E.
Uncanny!
You laugh, but in one of his other columns he actively makes the case authoritarian rule was better and he yearns to be a serf, living his happy life with no troubling, unsettling possibility of any change in his station
I can't t tell you this guy's name but I can tell you I once made the mistake of clicking on his trash column in that trash paper and it's a mistake I won't be making again.
Machine learning image recognition still has a way to go, because this same headshot was flagged as "millennial monarchist and Turner Diaries fan fiction author" with 90% probability.
They put Philip Seymour Hoffman’s baby clone out in the sun and soaked him in booze for 9 months, while pumping him full of chicken grease, directly into his skin, and deprived his body of iron. And so, Matthew Walther.