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Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)

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12 years earlier, there was an iteration of this idea called "Bullfighter". It didn't use clever ligatures though.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/06/14/ole-deloitte-con...

https://bullfighter.software.informer.com/1.2/

The link about ligatures under the textbox leads to a page about selling annuities.

Looks like the host started returning errors after this version from 2018, and then in 2022 someone bought the domain or host and did not preserve any content.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180423125746/http://stateofweb...

(2015)

Wondering if the avalanche of buzzwords since has been added

Hm, guess not https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans

The blog post explaining the implementation[0] says the source of the buzzwords was a list “250 Buzzwords We Love To Hate” published on May 13, 2014[1].

[0] https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035753/http://www.ngenwo...

I was expecting blockchain to set it off, but no.

"Leveraging the synergy of ligatures" sets it off.

Synergy wasn't replaced.

It does in all-lower-case

Haha, synergy was my go-to first word too. I’m still not sure what it means.

It's Jem's holographic glam rock AI.

Also Greek for "working together". In corporate buzzspeak it means everybody aligned and working toward the same goal -- return on investment for our shareholders.

I pasted the lyrics for Mission Statement by Weird Al. I got ten bullshits (including synergy) and four bullfuckingshits, which were for: globalization, downsized, and paradigm shift (x2).

Video of Mission Statement by Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

Song info and lyrics: https://weirdal.fandom.com/wiki/Mission_Statement

I once attended an all-hands meeting at work. They literally had a lady there drawing those sort of whiteboard cartoons as seen in the Mission Statement video while the meeting went on -- and that was her entire job. Companies hire her to summarize meeting points with twee little cartoons on a (virtual at the time, because pandemic) whiteboard; and then an image is saved and made available to all attendees as part of the meeting minutes.

I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits

GPT autonomous generation sans human optimization? Paradigm shiftingly best-in-class next-gen deliverable!

That was the first word I tried and it was censored as expected. What was the sentence you used ‘synergy’ in?

I typed something in the box and...nothing happened. What am I missing? I tried with both Chrome and Firefox (latest versions).

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

>Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

Did you type words that are likely to be considered bullshit?

That was the problem. I typed "Leveraging cloud based infrastructure" which apparently wasn't bullshitty enough.

I wish Microsoft would set this as the default in outlook and teams...

‘New’ Teams might trigger the filter?

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534204 - May 2015 (16 comments)

Sans Bullshit Sans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111447 - Feb 2015 (97 comments)

Also reminds me of Scunthorpe Sans (2020 and 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23131559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692197

I have been using this bookmarklet which replaces all BS terminology with the word bullshit https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

Its fun to see when an article lights up top to bottom with this pink shade of bullshit.

Missing: batteries-included, lightweight, simple, rewritten in Rust

Also anything to do with 'Web 3.0'/cryptononsense and AI.

"Ideation" when not preceded by "suicidal" and especially when followed by "period," "stage" or "phase."

edit: This is a good case for including AI in a font. Maybe in the future all fonts will have AI that keeps people from saying things with them.

edit2: are we flagging for Rust slander now?

[bullshit] in a font.

…and “blue sky thinking” and anything to do with “synergies”.

Our lives have been bullshit sans sans bullshit sans.

I like how “startup” gets replaced with bullshit

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Needs "do the needful" for completion's sake.

Ugh I can’t stand that one. I know it’s unfair of me, plenty of Indians use it as a totally normal phrase, but it’s just comes off as so awkward and cringy to my ears, like a parent reminding a potty-training child to use the bathroom before they have an ‘accident.’

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