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Sans Bullshit Sans

76 points by areski 11y ago

ericmo 11y ago
Doesn't work, I wrote "Meticulously hand crafted by PixelAmbacht" and all of it got through!
pascalmemories 11y ago
Sadly, "collaboratively re-envision the quantum paradigm on an ongoing basis" only had vision turned to "bullshit". I'd have though "paradigm" was way more likely than "vision" to score as useless bollocks to censor. There's a long way to go if vision is all it picked up ! I do like the concept though... A lot.
- erbo 11y ago
  "paradigm shift" gets turned into "BULLFUCKINGSHIT," so I guess you need the full phrase to trigger it.
- morganvachon 11y ago
  I noticed "synergistic" got a pass while "synergy" was converted. Also, phrases like "fully realize/realized" get a pass as well. Perhaps we all have different dialects of Corporate Bullshit Speak?
shogun21 11y ago
Tried Weird Al's Mission Statement. Only got ~10% of the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
- erbo 11y ago
  I did that too. In particular, it doesn't seem to distinguish capitalization right. It appropriately turned the line "We must monetize our assets" into "We must BULLSHIT our assets," but left the capitalized versions ("Monetize our assets") alone.
centizen 11y ago
The accompanying article by the developers has a really good explanation of how they pulled this off and font hacking in general. And if one was so inclined, it outlines all the steps necessary to add more buzzwords to the font. http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ Here's the git if you want to play around with it: https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans
- Roodgorf 11y ago
  The magicNumber entry of the "head" table caught my eye, but I'm unable to find anything about what it's there for beyond "Set to 0x5F0F3CF5." Does anyone know any more about what purpose this serves, or is it just some solution to something that is never really explained?
sixdimensional 11y ago
This reminds me of "BullFighter" which doesn't exist anymore - it was a BS-detector plugin for MS Word made by Deloitte (ironically). Here is archive.org's version of the old website: http://web.archive.org/web/20130827041102/http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp http://web.archive.org/web/20130827041102/http://www.fightth...
worik 11y ago
Functionality?
- Ysx 11y ago
  Criticism.
jfmercer 11y ago
This is magnificent.
LukeB_UK 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447
outworlder 11y ago
Tried 'innovation' and 'innovative'. Nothing happens. These are one of the world's biggest bs offenders nowadays. edit: 'innovate' works.
MarcScott 11y ago
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447
mathgenius 11y ago
I would like a reverse-bs plugin so that when i'm trying to write punchy copy and don't feel very enthused about it i can have the freedom of using some very cathartic verbiage instead.

76 points by areski 11y ago

Doesn't work, I wrote "Meticulously hand crafted by PixelAmbacht" and all of it got through!

Sadly, "collaboratively re-envision the quantum paradigm on an ongoing basis" only had vision turned to "bullshit". I'd have though "paradigm" was way more likely than "vision" to score as useless bollocks to censor. There's a long way to go if vision is all it picked up ! I do like the concept though... A lot.

erbo 11y ago
"paradigm shift" gets turned into "BULLFUCKINGSHIT," so I guess you need the full phrase to trigger it.
morganvachon 11y ago
I noticed "synergistic" got a pass while "synergy" was converted. Also, phrases like "fully realize/realized" get a pass as well. Perhaps we all have different dialects of Corporate Bullshit Speak?

shogun21 11y ago

Tried Weird Al's Mission Statement. Only got ~10% of the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

erbo 11y ago
I did that too. In particular, it doesn't seem to distinguish capitalization right. It appropriately turned the line "We must monetize our assets" into "We must BULLSHIT our assets," but left the capitalized versions ("Monetize our assets") alone.

centizen 11y ago

The accompanying article by the developers has a really good explanation of how they pulled this off and font hacking in general. And if one was so inclined, it outlines all the steps necessary to add more buzzwords to the font. http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ Here's the git if you want to play around with it: https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans

Roodgorf 11y ago
The magicNumber entry of the "head" table caught my eye, but I'm unable to find anything about what it's there for beyond "Set to 0x5F0F3CF5." Does anyone know any more about what purpose this serves, or is it just some solution to something that is never really explained?

sixdimensional 11y ago

This reminds me of "BullFighter" which doesn't exist anymore - it was a BS-detector plugin for MS Word made by Deloitte (ironically). Here is archive.org's version of the old website: http://web.archive.org/web/20130827041102/http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp http://web.archive.org/web/20130827041102/http://www.fightth...

worik 11y ago

Functionality?

Ysx 11y ago
Criticism.

jfmercer 11y ago

This is magnificent.

LukeB_UK 11y ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447

outworlder 11y ago

Tried 'innovation' and 'innovative'. Nothing happens. These are one of the world's biggest bs offenders nowadays. edit: 'innovate' works.

MarcScott 11y ago

Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447

mathgenius 11y ago

I would like a reverse-bs plugin so that when i'm trying to write punchy copy and don't feel very enthused about it i can have the freedom of using some very cathartic verbiage instead.