[FRIAM] news is mass

[Marcus Daniels]

This characterizes how I feel about the local NIMBYs, MAGA, etc.  Please leave mine.  

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 11:02 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] news is mass

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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