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 <[email protected]> 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/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson https://substack.com/@monist
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