@futuristbot
There are a lot of futurists on twitter – or at least a lot of people who fancy themselves as futurists. Wikipedia defines them thus: Futurists or futurologists are scientists and social scientists whose specialty…
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Drunk George redacted
Parody accounts are one of the prevailing cultural forms of Twitter. The combination of lazy anonymity and the 140-characters-of-wit format make it the perfect place to assume a character and play it out to a…
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@nk_markov
North Korea recently published a list of 300 patriotic slogans, which read remarkably like Markov generated sentences. I’ve never been a huge fan of Markov chains for creating text, since the results can be somewhat…
Algoculture generative text twitterbots
@tldrlit
Reading is hard. It takes time. Time is difficult to come by when life is filled with tweeting and snapchatting. Yet often there’s that nagging feeling that one should be ‘better read’. There are numerous…
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@cosbot1
As we proceed through life, we build up our own reality tunnel of knowledge, opinions and expectations. Every now and then we are faced with a state of affairs to which we are unable to…
Algoculture generative text twitterbots
@factbot1
The internet is a massive repository of information, from the profound to the mundane. Far too much stuff for a single human to handle, so we prefer to get our facts chosen for us, by…
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Yeezus as Art
The recording artist Kanye West is a fascinating juxtaposition of signifiers which could only come together at this point in time. He is also widely acknowledged as being, at times, a terrible lyricist. I wondered…
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AlgoCameron
Last week it was revealed that The Conservative Party have attempted to erase their historical speeches from the internet. Understandably, this has caused much scorn, prompting a Streisand effect of drawing more attention to this…
Algoculture big data generative text
Machine Imagined Artworks (2013)
Taking another look at the Tate Data, the most interesting categories, for me, are the more subjective ones, the categories which feel like they’re furthest along the ‘I need a human to make this judgement’…
Algoculture big data generative text
autoserota
Another experiment with the Tate Collection big data. I’m still working on how best to navigate the huge collection, so I thought it might be nice if Nicholas Serota himself (or at least an automated…