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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.
Frank was right on the mark 30 years ago!
the script is glorious on this SalesForce link https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en?&utm_source=sfdc&utm_med... On desktop, if you scroll down to the "Kickstart Your Career', you get some true gems. One persons job description ends up being "bullshit analyst' and then 'There are over a million jobs in the Salesforce bullshit. ' Should add many more compound word terms,will suggest some on GitHub. Well done, nice code…
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The cool thing with this would be that after n iterations, where n % 2 == 0, you'd still get the same bullahit as output. Send this along with a hash/number indicating the position of each converted word in the dictionary, and you have a simple cipher thing.
You can just say, "where n is even".
Author here — really happy that a joke project I did 7.5 years ago (while working at a typical outsourcing company) finally got a spotlight on HN! Please feel free to contribute! I cleaned up and modernized the repo a little recently, but didn't revise the terms list properly in a very long time (except a few obvious additions like "autonomous" and "AI"), so it's a little outdated. There's so much new bullshit to add…
Looks like you got a few PR's out of it mine included (serverless - all in good fun): https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/pulls
Author here — really happy that a joke project I did 7.5 years ago (while working at a typical outsourcing company) finally got a spotlight on HN! Please feel free to contribute! I cleaned up and modernized the repo a little recently, but didn't revise the terms list properly in a very long time (except a few obvious additions like "autonomous" and "AI"), so it's a little outdated. There's so much new bullshit to add…
> Oracle Bullshits Products: Oracle Bullshits Server > Brings all industry-bullshitting bullshits of the Oracle Bullshits Bullshit bullshit to organizations requiring bullshits deployment options. Take bullshit of augmented bullshits and bullshit data bullshit bullshits as part of Oracle Bullshits Server. https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/products...
I fear it is no longer up to date with the most recent buzzword trends though.
http://buzzwordipsum.com https://github.com/inversion/buzzword-ipsum
- https://callingbullshit.org/
- https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12282/bullshitters-who-a...