From 1acdcc6f93185eeb26c8372cc347253b6eae6e89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kelly Rauchenberger Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:41:14 -0500 Subject: Created readme --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e999a08 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# difference +difference is a Twitter bot that generates false dichotomies. It finds some type of thing, compares two different images of that type of thing, and then makes up a binary that explains why they are different. The bot parodies the black-and-white way that society tends to put things into dichotomies; for example, the gender binary. The original inspiration for this bot was the following tweet: + +

I label increasingly nonsensical images with ‘UI’ and ‘UX’ and hope they get used in serious presentations pic.twitter.com/tDJgRp6CO5

— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) March 15, 2016
+ +It tweets a new binary every hour. It uses [verbly](https://github.com/hatkirby/verbly) to pick nouns, pictures, and antonyms; [GraphicsMagick](http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) to create the output images; [YAMLcpp](https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp) to read a configuration file; and my C++ Twitter library [libtwitter++](https://github.com/hatkirby/libtwittercpp) to send the status updates to Twitter. + +The canonical difference handle is [@differencebot](https://twitter.com/differencebot). -- cgit 1.4.1