[FRIAM] news is mass

[Prof David West]

you might find it interesting that the University of Minnesota just spent $15 million on a rebrand, with the slogan

Leave a Future.

davew


On Tue, Mar 24, 2026, at 10:54 AM, glen wrote:
> Since I'm on a roll spamming the list with AI slop, I figured I'd 
> describe another failure.
>
> I couldn't figure out the 2nd line in the attached picture of the TV 
> screen. I like to think I'm a pretty flexible thinker. But there's NO 
> WAY in hell I ever would have thought to say something like "News are 
> real". Even when Perplexity told me it says "News are real", I didn't 
> believe it. I've even had arguments with grammar nazis over whether or 
> not it's OK to write "data is ...". You'd think I'd have been prepared 
> to believe there exist victims of the grammar nazis who are so 
> traumatized they would put "News are real" on their virtue sign. So 
> cringe. But then again, how cringe is it that I can't even see what's 
> right in front of my face?
>
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