There was a small demonstration (about 20 people) in San Francisco
against the proposed state wealth tax. They carried signs that said
things like "Property Rights are Human Rights" and read from scripts
that sounded like they were written by AI.
I don't know whether it was intended as satire or not, but it succeeded.
John Sundman via Silklist wrote on 2/15/26 5:04 AM:
There was a DJ on a Boston rocknroll radio station in the 1980's who
sometimes had his young daughter, who was just learning to read, in
the broadcast studio with him. He would let her read some of the
advertisements, telling her, 'if you don't know how to read a word,
just mumble.' So she would read copy, like, for example, 'For two days
only, mmmbamsms on sale at svmmsms. . . ". She sounded adorable. It's
not clear how the advertisers who were paying to have their ads read
on the radio felt about this. (But I do remember that the DJ got fired
after not very long.)
jrs
On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 8:41 PM Bruce A. Metcalf via Silklist
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2/14/26 03:31, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 1:35 PM Deepa Mohan via Silklist wrote:
>
>> Sorry to say this, but the thread is becoming so full of technical
>> jargon as to leave me quite blissful, as I am quite ignorant about
>> all these phrases and catchwords!
>
> My personal response to terms that I don't understand is to look
> them up. Assuming I care enough about the thread to make the effort.
It has been my experience that when reading technical literature (or
more often, literature from a field in which I'm unfamiliar), you
generally get the same meaning if you simply omit those terms you don't
understand when reading.
Only if the resultant sentence is gibberish is it ever necessary to
look
up the terms. All else is just adjectives.
Cheers,
/ Bruce /
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