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Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by bhauer » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

breck wrote: post #8

nit: instead of doing as a bookmarklet, could someone let me just put in a URL and have it fetch and run? I seriously want to use this on my own content, as someone when lazy I resort to buzz words.

Not sure I follow you since you can use a bookmarklet on any content, including your own.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by oceliker » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

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Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by _virtu » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

One of my favorite reads that has helped me navigate this post fact society is the short essay “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

It truly nails down the argument that bullshitting is far more dangerous than lying. With the current political climate it helps make a lot more sense of the craziness.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by bot1 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

Revealing the bullshit is really fun. Can you add a feature where it somehow tells you which word it replaced?

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by marmaduke » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

It'd be nice to be able to press Back and have it revert.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by o10449366 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

untilHellbanned wrote: post #5

Desperately need this in academia. The academic literature is full of hyped-up phrasing. Probably safe to say the more hyped-up something is presented, the less novel it actually is.

I used to think I wasn't smart enough to read academic articles. Then I realized that most of the authors are just terrible writers or deliberately make their papers as difficult to read as possible to obscure or exaggerate their findings.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by omarhaneef » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:32 PM UTC

There seems to be some kind of error: I ran this on my forthcoming study of cow manure and it translated the whole thing into business speak.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by modeless » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

In the same vein as the surprisingly funny classic Cloud-to-Butt extension, which I am surprised to find is over 5 years old now: https://theawesomer.com/cloud-to-butt/276065/

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by ahbyb » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Any good websites to try this on?

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by Nicksil » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

_virtu wrote: post #13

One of my favorite reads that has helped me navigate this post fact society is the short essay “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit It truly nails down the argument that bullshitting is far more dangerous than lying. With the current political climate it helps make a lot more sense of the craziness.

Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit