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/
A Butt-to-Butt extension? What's the point of that?
Bullshit.js
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#22Desperately 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.
It's often said that if the writing is dense, the writer probably doesn't understand what they are saying. Being in academia for 20 years now this seems spot-on.
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#23This made my day.
On my startup ideas TODO list there is one PredictiveBullshitMeter that one day will warn you before clicking on a link if the target is full of bullshit. My motivation was terrible news article that appear regularly on Indian newspaper websites where they rehash the same pile of junk again and again to make it look like a full page length article/report.
I was hoping for a quick number like a ratio of facts vs garbage but even before clicking on a link. I wanted my computer to do the job of prefetching the content and parsing it for facts.
Anyways thanks for making this thing. Feels nice to know there are other people who suffer from the same pain :-) but thankfully are more proactive to do something about it.
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#24nit: 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.
I'd like to enter a URL or copy/paste text into a textarea and see the result.
IIRC bookmarklets are terribly insecure (I'd have to carefully examine the source code, for example, before running this on my gmail.com).
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#25Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. Or just highlight the words and calculate a bullshit ratio or something.
>Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does.
sounds kind of counter-productive. the point of this is to highlight words that have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. If you're trying to use it to improve your own writing, each red "bullshit" is an opportunity to stop and think about what you really mean, not an opportunity to use a different fancy-sounding word that's been suggested by some automated tool.
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#27The dictionary it uses is even more entertaining: https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms...
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#28This reminds me of the Web Economy Bullshit Generator:
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#29> Design-ready bullshits are based on the bullshit (Bullshit)-bullshitted, bullshit-ready Fusion Design Bullshit™ from Synopsys, along with Arm Artisan® Physical IP and POP™ IP for Samsung Foundry's advanced 5LPE process.
LMAO on this one. A worthy successor to "kurwoskrypt" which inserted "kurwa" in random places. ;)
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#30This made my day. On my startup ideas TODO list there is one PredictiveBullshitMeter that one day will warn you before clicking on a link if the target is full of bullshit. My motivation was terrible news article that appear regularly on Indian newspaper websites where they rehash the same pile of junk again and again to make it look like a full page length article/report. I was hoping for a quick number like a ratio…
I'd pay for this.