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

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/

Here's the git if you want to play around with it:

https://github.com/RoelN/SansBullshitSans

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?

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.

"paradigm shift" gets turned into "BULLFUCKINGSHIT," so I guess you need the full phrase to trigger it.

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?

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

Tried Weird Al's Mission Statement. Only got ~10% of the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

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.

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.fightth...

Previously on HN

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

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.

Tried 'innovation' and 'innovative'. Nothing happens.

These are one of the world's biggest bs offenders nowadays.

edit: 'innovate' works.

This is magnificent.

Functionality?

Criticism.

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