Huffing Boing Boing

BUT WE TRUSTED YOU, GARLIC!


If it will help my memory, I’ll ban anything.


::blink blink::


Well, at least Marceu won’t be talking on Fox News anymore.


Surprisingly, this is not the largest installation the Venice Biennale has seen.


Ralph Peters is a candy-apply hookah!

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Drug price-hiker Matrin Shkreli With a Gun


NB: not bots were involved with the huffing of this Boing

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AND THEN YOU GO AND LIKE ONLY THE BOT-PRODUCED ENTRY!!!

fine im going home

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Seems perfectly in line with the site :grin:

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Is this the first time somebody not-me has posted a bot post? I’m so proud!

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Here’s another good’n… First I was like HA! Then I was like “I feel like throwing up.”

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There is a large contingent of botteurs who would argue that bots should never meddle with such stuff. I’m on the fence.

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It’s just a stupid robot. Its brain is just text a human decided would construct simultaneously cromulent and comedically worthy sentences. It hasn’t the ability to understand the death of a loved one. It doesn’t understand the vagaries of a life. It’s just a set of rules acting on a dataset. I don’t blame the bot for its ignorance, and no human programmer could predict all the ways such a piece of software might impact the lives of its observers. The world is chaotic, and disinterested.

This bot is intentionally a bulwark against the bottomless despair of knowing the truth in this universe. That everything is finite. That the comforts of love and acceptance are at best temporary. And that all those we love will some day be gone from us. So it must be insensitive. So that we may laugh instead of cry.

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That’s arguable. We, as programmers or non-, can certainly envision bots that coldly calculate equations dealing with death destruction, images of swastikas, explosions, executions, &c. If we have a news-manipulating bot, should we keep the bot from manipulating these images? Should we bar it from using certain words that may show up organically, but in awkward contexts (n1**er1 or gay or whatever)?

I’ve used the wordfilter module on a few bots, I’ve also whitelisted some of the words.

See also: transphobic-joke-detection

Obviously, some people think about these things more than I do. I am ambivalent.

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WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE &c


The world’s smallest violin has a competitor:


seasons is so logical it’s PROGRAMMER LOGICAL


Turing-complete raccoon is SUPER PROGRAMMER LOGICAL

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About f*****g time.


Some of the dispense passwords, some call the fire department. Try to guess which ones!


More reasons to hate on Uber.


More reasons to WTF on Uber:


Yosemite Sarah Palin-quake!


The Horror, The Horror (yeah, yeah, yeah)

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Yo Dawg

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I also call them “Buffalo buffalo buffalos”. They’re often my favorite tweets. It’s from a bug in the algorithm, one I am loathe to fix.

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The secret? NASA’s space-snowshoes:


I saw the same banana for 98% off in Tesco’s last week.


Actually, I find that Viagra tends to distract from people trying to size up my pockets.


Oh, those wars! Always doing the pranky thing with the amusement!

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SIGN ME UP


Not surprised.


They’re just reselling something they bought on AliBaba for $1 billion

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Completely accurate.

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At last, a store item I’m truly interested in, at a bargain price:

DRUMPF ALL THE SHOOPS

Youth Culture Cleaned my Drain

#Too Late

Unicorn chaser

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