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? > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα σώσω. > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. > / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > Attachments: > * news-mass-noun-snap.jpg > * news-mass-noun.png .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
