http://projects.metafilter.com/4743/Corbyn-Headlines/ Comments on MetaFilter Projects post Corbyn Headlines en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://projects.metafilter.com/4743/Corbyn-Headlines I got a bit fed up of the lazy attack journalism on the recently elected Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. So I did what you should always do when you see something lazy and formulaic, I made a twitter bot. Made, and hosted by, Cheapbotsdonequick.com<br /><br />It's very rough and doesn't do much in the way of advanced expressions, it's really just a remix of some headlines with a few confounding random words thrown in.<br /><br />The downside is that of course hack journalists don't tend to be the most inclusive of people so it will occasionally throw in stuff that I would choose not to say.<br />I thought about leaving out the xenophobic bits, but decided on balance to leave them in, as a reflection of the kind of crap these papers write.<br /><br />The biggest success so far has been the bot g<a href="https://twitter.com/CorbynHeadlines/status/649587351606333441">enerating a story before the news reported it</a> (entirely down to my wife, who wanted some Irn-Bru when I asked her for a contribution to the #GoodThings# tab. post:projects.metafilter.com,2015:site.4743 Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:53:23 -0800 Just this guy, y'know