[FRIAM] news is mass

[glen]

I laughed. Thanks. It woulda been better as "Leave the Future". I'd go to that school.

But they score pretty well here: https://kylesaunders.com/university-map/, up in quadrant I, as does my alma mater aTm (which embarrassingly just forbade a phil prof from teaching Plato 'cause it's too woke [sigh] <https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/>). So given that universities are dying, maybe the rebrand is wise even though it seems so silly?

I'm supposed to go to a conference at Evergreen this week, here in Oly. I may be too busy. But Evergreen scores in quadrant III, which is the worst. The only thing they're good at is revenue diversity ... but I guess that's out of necessity.


On 3/24/26 10:22 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> 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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