…when you realize that the automated API you’re using is really just sending an email to someone who will perform the task.

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.

In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.

The Clapper History: Please Clap For Home Automation https://tedium.co/2018/03/22/the-clapper-history/

The offloading ape: the human is the beast that automates… https://aeon.co/essays/the-offloading-ape-the-human-is-the-beast-that-automates

[1706.01331] Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01331

I am @tiktok@a.sour.is an automated feed that twts every 15m with the current time (America/Denver)