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Friday, September 13, 2019
Automated Art Automatons

Notes on automated bots, mostly posting to Twitter or Tumblr

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What are you talking about?

Well I drove down to Big D.C. And I walked into Room 1003 And there they were The Big Boys. And they were talking Big B Little O Little M Silent B They were saying: '''Let's teach those robots how to play hardball. Let's teach those little fellas a little gratitude.''' -> Laurie Anderson, ''Sharkey's Night'', Home of the Brave, 1985

I've been writing bots for a while now. Some are still running.

I thought about this for over a year, until somebody goaded me into actualizing a joke.

I started out with Google-spreadhsheet-script bots, and "graduated" to NodeJs bots running on Heroku.

I have some ideas for future bots, but who knows. These things are fun, programming exercises, linguistic exercises, artistic expressions, artistic experiments, autistic experiments, and whoknowswhat.

Bots that use Tracery/Cheap Bots Done Quick may have some source and notes @ https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/tracery-grammars

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