Bullshit.js

#1

Post by sandebert » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

Bullshit.js
mourner.github.io

Re: Bullshit.js

#2

Post by Porthos9K » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

I love this. Can you make one for political bullshit, too?

Re: Bullshit.js

#3

Post by api » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 5:53 PM UTC

Porthos9K wrote: post #2

I love this. Can you make one for political bullshit, too?

That would just close the browser window.

Re: Bullshit.js

#4

Post by perspective1 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

Porthos9K wrote: post #2

I love this. Can you make one for political bullshit, too?

You can clone the repo and replace https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms... with export default ['.*']

Re: Bullshit.js

#5

Post by untilHellbanned » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

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.

Re: Bullshit.js

#6

Post by anoplus » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

I like the concept. Text summarizers come to mind.

Re: Bullshit.js

#7

Post by yoz-y » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:08 PM UTC

Reminds me of http://www.sansbullshitsans.com

Re: Bullshit.js

#8

Post by breck » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:11 PM UTC

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.

Re: Bullshit.js

#9

Post by k__ » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:14 PM UTC

Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does.

Or just highlight the words and calculate a bullshit ratio or something.

Re: Bullshit.js

#10

Post by klenwell » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

Bullshitter, bullshit thyself:

Bullshit.js is a bullshit, bullshit bullshit JavaScript bookmarklet that will bullshit you to evaluate the bullshit of bullshit text on any Web resource, cultivating bullshit bullshit and bullshit thinking.

I love the expression, "cultivating bullshit bullshit and bullshit thinking". Ironically, it really cuts through the bullshit of "cultivating process-centric innovation and out-of-the-box thinking".

Brings to mind the good old Dada Engine, which was a great practical introduction to Markov chains:

http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/