6.28.2026

Syco

 From Sycophancy - What i hate most is false praise. Like Gemini finding me funny. Like Grok finding me funny. Like all others bots genuflecting. Obsequiousness.

What i learned from a WSJ article is that the bots imitate you way of talking, your conversation style. Howl do they do this with my bad and unorthographical English? Luckily they do not hear my accent on top of my sentence structure...they generally come from an use meaning follower. turns out sycophant comes from Greek where it meant showing the fig. the is made by putting the thumb between two fingers or into the mouth, with the intended effect of the modern gesture of "flipping the bird"

6.27.2026

Robert Escarpit

 After I wrote the previous post I decided to look for his bio. Quite amazing - he was an editor of the Canard Enchaine - my favorite publication. I also wanted to be capable  to write using cultural references and calembours. [ I spent several hours in a car with a French young lady. I told her that in my youth I dreamt to write for a  French paper and asked her to guess which. - she immediately said Le Canard Enchaine] So Escarpit was a communist, he wrote on humor and on communication. 

Rage...daily

 I have this colleague who publishes a post every day on his engineering blog. I like the person, and we have a friendly, professional relationship. However, I admire and totally hate his capacity to share something new, special, or meaningful every single day. It drives me crazy! When I was a teenager, I admired Robert Escarpit, who had one or two short paragraphs on politics every day in Le Monde. These were called billets. This is what I wanted to be able to do. I find impossible to have something meaningful to say every day. I just rage