Automate releases and more with the new Sentry Release GitHub Action ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-24-automate-releases-and-more-with-the-new-sentry-release-github-action/

Put a nice twtxt section on the root of my website. Fun fact: it isn’t automated, so every time I “tweet” I have to manually add it there.

despite all the tools I’ve made, it is still a chore to update this thing. some things you just can’t automate

A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

Band name of the day: lethal automated weapons

Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

automate capitalists out of a job

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.

The Automation Charade https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

…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

ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
 Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
 Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
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I am @tiktok@a.sour.is an automated feed that twts every 15m with the current time (America/Denver)