[FRIAM] news is mass

[Nicholas Thompson]

I am late to this game, Glen, but I agree that just looking at "news are
real" is a strain.  So, then, why not take it as a very short poem.  A very
bad poem, perhaps, but a poem nonetheless.

That sense of being wracked by words is typical of poems.

N

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 9:55 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> 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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> σώσω.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University
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